Show Iii r f t f- f THE PROMOTION OF O F FM FE THE ADMIRAL II Li S EN M DES By Morley Roberts Author of The Tho Coloa Colossus us Tho The Fugitives Copyright 1002 1908 08 by The Curtis Curth Publishing Company Copyright laos oy bV Z L. L C 0 O. O Page J d' Company Incorporated Continued And Cartwright nodded The Tho crew of the California put it down to him at once I dont don't know that it was necessary K him said Cartwright pensively though he has the worst name hes he's hesy y no worse than the others others For myown my myown myown own part I reckon the Sheeny Sheeny-he's Sheeny he's hes a Jew boy of course course is is a deal tougher than Smith And Just then Selwyn who knew the chief of police was on board put his head into the admirals admiral's cabin Could I speak to you a moment Sir Richard f And Dicky Dunn went outside I thought as you had this Cartwright Carth Cartwright Cart Cart- h wright with you sir sir- said Selwyn that I J ou ought ht to tell you a queer yarn that has has' just been brought me by one oner r of the quartermasters It seems that one of the men men has hasa a story that you t- t once had a fight with Shanghai Smith and hurt f him badly It was iri iii Australia Australla Australia Aus Aus- I believe believe in in Melbourne Stay a minute said the admiral let me e think Yes by Jove I did have a a row on Sandridge Pier years ago and I broke broke- the man up so that he had to go to a hospital And his name name yes yes it was Smith Thanks Selwyn Ill I'll see if this man ever was In Australia Australla He went back back to Cartwright Cartwright- Now as as as' to the Sheeny admiral said Cartwright who was beginning to feel comfortable Never mind the Sheeny Mr Dir Cartwright Cartwright Cartwright Cart Cart- wright wrights wright s said id his host do you know Smiths Smith's record Where did he come from He came came- from Melbourne replied th the chief I And the admiral slapped his leg ci- ci Qt the man I believe r Why Never mind why said Dunn But supposing it was could we prove It against him I doubt it it said Cartwright cheer cheer- cheer cheer- Your plan Is s ex excellent fully Probably no one would know it but his runner And Bill Haines would perjure perjure himself as easy as drink lager But If we did prove it Ther d be an appeal and so on said the chief He Indicated large and generous delay delay de de- lay lay ay on the part of the merciful American American Amer Amer- ican law by a wave of his hand You see we couldn't prove anyhow anyhow any any- anyhow how that he knew you was you said Cartwright and If I know my own business It would come down to a matter of assault and so many dol do- lars what I imagined said the I admiral So I proposed to take the matter in hand myself and relieve YOU you of It For though Smith or or orth the thereal thereal real man roan might come off easily If I choose t to have It made an n. n t. t al ai business some one will have to pay who is not guilty likely enough said Cartwright Cartwright Cart- Cart Cartwright wright uneasily O On the whole admiral admiral ad ad- miral Id I'd rather you took the job o on n yourself pr provided it was put through h quietly What do do you yo propose Dunn put his hands In Jn his pockets and quarter decked d his c cabin I want want to be sure its it's Smith morally sure How can I be made mad e sure Ill I'll tell you now what I know about him He repeated what Selwyn had haa said and told him the story of his bis havin having g fought a man on Sandridge Pier at Melbourne fifteen years before befort His name was Smith It fits as neat as a p pair ir of handcuffs handcuffs handcuffs hand hand- cuffs said the chief of police Ill think it over and let you know Stay I sirree Ive I've got it now Look here admiral now you mark me This Is hi a scheme It'll work or my names name's Dennis Dennis Ill I'll have it put about in the right quarter that though there aint evidence to touch the real man who WilO worked the the racket racket on you it is known who actually corralled you and shoved you on the California Ill I'll get the proper man to give it it away that a warrant Is being made out And next day Ill I'll have all the runners of all aU the chief boarding houses arrested 6 Do you see No I dont don't said the admiral admira Oh come cried Cartwright t the theman theman theman man we dont don't arrest will be be the man who done it It Yes but butWell but but- j i jWell Well Well said Cartwright I understood understood under under- stood you didn't particularly hanker to catch the under Ah Ali said the admiral of course I see Y You u mean mean I mean the boarding house bouse boss bas will shove th the runner that did it out of sight And t then you'll know him by reason very means he takes not to be given away For of course hed he'd reckon that the runner on being held would squeal Its a good plan said said the ad ad- miral And when I know what kind of punishment would Mr Smith like Uke least of all Provided you remember hes he's an American citizen I dont don't care what you do replied the chief But if you asked me I should get him served the way hes he's served you Shanghai Smith among a crowd of in an American ship such as the Harvester and the skipper of the Harvester hates him like Uke poison and poison and she sails In three days would days would have a picnic to recollect all his life Ufe For you see they know him Ill think it over said the ad ad- miral Your plan is excellent So it Is said Cartwright as he was rowed ashore for Smith aint no nog I favorite of mine and at the same time it will look as if I gave him the straight racket anyhow anyhow He sent an agent down to the waterfront water waterfront waterfront front that very night The man dropped casual hints at the boarding houses and he dropped them on barren barren bar bar- ren ground everywhere but at Shanghai Shang Shang- hai Smiths said Smith so that's the game Peter Cartwright had in his own language reckoned him up to rights for the very first move that Smith played was to make a break for Billys Billy's room As the runner had bad been up most of the night before enticing off a Liverpool ship Just t to keep his hand in he was as fast asleep as as a bear on on Christmas day and he was mighty sulky when Smith shook him out out of sleep by the simple process of yanking his big pillow from under his head Aint a man to get no sleep that works for you he demanded up up- now iJ 0 J 1 t r r Hell is up and fizzling replied Smith Ive had bad word from rom Peter Cartwright that you'll be arrested In Inthe inthe inthe the mornin if you dont don't skin out Its It's the admiral admira I wish Id I'd never set eyes on him Come dress and skip and skip do for you to be jailed they'd hold you on some charge till you forgot forgot for for- got all you owe to me There aint I o a such thing as as real real gratitude gratitude left on onI I earth Billy Emy rose and shuffled Into his clothes sullenly enough And where am I to skip to toTo to- to To Portland said Smith the Mendocino leaves in the mornin for Crescent City and Astoria dont don't she Well then go with her and lie Ue up with Grant or Sullivan n in Portland till I let you know kno the coast is clear And heres here's twenty dollars go easy with it it itHe He sighed to part with the money o And in the morning when Smith heard that ten runners at least had been urgently invited to interview Mr r 1 T up now Peter Cartwright he was glad to be beable beable beable able to declare that Billy was not riot on hand Hes gone East to see his old man he said And as his father is a millionaire and nd lives in the Fifth avenue N York he couldn't afford to disregard rd his d desire sire to to se see see him You are a daisy Smith said the police officer who had come for Billy Between you and me what have you done with him Smith shook his head I shot him last night and cut him himI I up and pickled him in a cask he hes s said ld with a a wink And Ive I've shipped him to the British ambassador at Washington C C. C O. O D. D Youre Your as as a clam aint you Smith But I tell you Peter Is bavin havin a picnic This admirals admiral's g game game me was pl it low down on Peter Peter whoever did it There are times when a man cant can't help his friends Smith lied freely You can tell Peter PeterI I had to todo todo todo do with it Yes I can tell him said th the police pollee officer An And he did tell him As Asa a result the chief of police vr wrote te t to the admiral Sir I Sir I have Interrogated all the runners but one belonging to the chief boarding houses and have succeeded In obtaining no clue The one man missing was running to Mr William Smith commonly known as Shanghai Smith Under the circumstances and c considering what considering what Y you U said to me I am m Inclined to wait dev developments If y you u will Inform me what yOU you wish me to todo todo todo do I shall be glad to accommodate date you in any way 11 Yours truly Peter P ter C Cartwright P S. S S.-If S. If you could write me a letter letter let let- ter saying you are quite satisfied with the steps I have taken to bring the v offender to Justice I should bo be obliged P S. S S.-If S. If you wish to meet Mr Dir J John hn P. P Sant captain of the Harvester Harvester Harves Harves- ter now lying in the bay and sailing the day after to morrow I I. can arrange arrange arrange ar ar- range It J a Dicky Dunn on receiving Peters Peter's letter called In hi his flag lieutenant When they s sN me they p knocked you about rather ba badly ly dl didn't nt they Selwyn 1 Selwyn Instinctively put his hand f f to the back of his head r r s. s Yes Sir Richard Tf y sandr r ri t 1 bagged me as they call it and kicked kicked t tf t me too Hr HrIm IL tt it Im pretty sure I know who did it it said the admiral and Im I'm fake proposing pro b J 1 posing to get even with the ma man my my- self I like getting even In my my own own f fashion What would you do if I co could could could- i. i b 5 f. f tell you who it was that laid the plot f against us that night I Id I'd Id I'd punch his head bead sir i t. t The admiral nodded 1 I believe I did punch hl his big head years ago Selwyn But he was looking looking look look- ing for a fight and found it and ought f to have be been m satisfied Between you 1 and me and no else the of one chief r i police police here and I have fixed t this is matLer matler matter mat- mat ler ter up between us He says that he has no evidence and the only man man i who might have given the affair a away way has bas been shipped off oft somewhere Im I'm Im C going n to show Mr Smith that tha he didn't mal male make e a bucko mate of m me me fo for foi nothing And I wa want t you to hel help Ive I've got a scheme f. f He unfolded it to tiie Celwyn Selwyn and the young lieutenant chuckled y 1 He used to be be bea a a seaman said the admiral but for twelve years hes he's F been living comfortably on shore t sucking the blood lood of sailors And if I r I 1 s' s t know anything about American ships and and I do hell he'll hell he'll find three months inthe in 44 1 the of this Harvester worse vorse than three years in a Jail Now were we're going to invade the United States States quite unofficially with the connivance oJ of the police S He lay back and laughed Oh I tell y you you u said the a admiral y sY he ran against something not riot laid down in his chart when he fell in with t me You c can n come ashore with me menow menow now and well we'll se see this Cartwright Cartwright- Cartwright American ways suit me after all I IThen a aThen Then I 1 understand Mr Air Cartwright Cart Cart- Cart i 4 wright said the Abe a admiral miral an t hour later that there wont won't be a a policeman police police- t man anywhere within hail of this t 1 Smiths Smith's h house l to morrow to-morrow us morrow night i Ive got Ive got other business for them them said Peter i 1 And I can see Mr Sant h here re this this' afternoon Ill undertake to have him here if if f you call at you along three To be continued OLD FAMILY RECORD BIBLES Not Sold to the Same Extent as Formerly Formerly For For- Formerly merly but Still in Demand Do we still sell the old family Bible with pages in it for the for the the record of births deaths and m mar marriages marriages mar mar- r Oh yes said the bookseller but not so many of them as we once did There are more Bibles sold now taking them them altogether than ever b before before be be- fore and the Bible is issued now in an an almost endless variety of forms and styles but the demand for it in this' this particular form form is is now I should say not more mare than third one-third what it once once o was Still we keep these record Bibles to-day to in ina a dozen 7 4 a styles ranging in in price from 5 to 20 The blank record rec rec- KV S K- K 6 ord pages these often illuminated are are V bound in between the two Testaments In some of these Bibles there is a a. a blank presentation page upon which which- r-a r may maybe be e written the ot of J f NI be name the person per per- peri person i f 5 to wh whom the son m Bible is presented J Jv with the name of the giver and In v some of them is contained a blank n j marriage certificate and in some y there are bound in In with the pages for forthe forthe forthe the record of births deaths and marriages mar mar- 4 pages for the record of temperance temper temper- y J ance ante i pledges t These Bibles are are more likely to tobe be r. r Y bought nowadays by country people Jr and it might be by people of the German Ger German Ger 1 man race and by Irish Protestants all I. I likely to be substantial people of comfortable comfortable com com- j t means conservative people J i iii Z who ho cling still to time-honored time cusSo cus cus- toms l. l So while the time old-time fa family ily record record rec rec- ord Bible with pages for the record of r births deaths and marriages has gone t somewhat out of fashion and is is' not s I sold Old to the extent to which it once was yet It At Is still sold and the demand de de- mat mand matt t for o f It U i is is still considerable r t f fi |