Show r r t tr THE PROMOTION O OF F FAN THE ADMIRAL U M Li AN AND EN OTHER H E k SE SEA COMEDIES DES DESBy By Morley Roberts Author of The Colossus The Fugitives Fugitive Copyright 1902 1903 1908 1908 by bV Th The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright t gh t. t 1908 1903 b ly by V L L. L O. O Page A b 00 Company V In Incorporated corp 0 ra led j Continued And Cartwright nodded The crew of the California put It j j down to him at once i I dont don't know that it was necessary 4 him said Cartwright pensively 1 though he has the worst name hes he's U I no worse than the others For my myown myown own part I reckon the Sheeny Sheeny-he's Sheeny he's hes a ar r Jew boy of course course Is Is a deal tougher I. I than than Smith And just then Selwyn who knew the chief of police was on board put his head into the admirals admiral's cabin J Could I speak to you a moment Sir Richard I I And Dicky Dunn went outside I I thought as you had this Cartwright Cartwright Cart Cart- wright with you sir said Selwyn that I ought to tell you a queer yarn that has just been brought me by one of the q quartermasters It seems that I one of the men has a story that you once had a fight with Shanghai Smith and hurt him badly It was In Australia Australia Aus Aus- I believe in believe in Melbourne r Stay a minute said the admiral I let me think Yes by Jove I did I h have have have-a e ea a row on Sandridge Pier years f. f ag ago and I broke the man up so that 4 he had had to go to a hospital And his name yes name yes name yes It was Smith Thanks Selwyn Ill I'll see If this man ever was In Australia He went back to Cartwright I Now as as as' to the Sheeny admiral said Cartwright who was beginning to feel comfortable Never mind the Sheeny Mr Cartt Cartwright Cart Cart- t wright s said id his host do you know Smiths Smith's record Where did he co come from H He came from Melbourne replied y the chief And nd the admiral slapped his leg That's the man I believe il Why Never mind why said Dunn But supposing it was could we prove it against him I doubt it said Cartwright artwright cheer- cheer a l lill i Your plan Is excellent fully tully Probably no one would know It but his runner And Bill Haines would perjure himself as easy as drink lager But if we did prove it be an appeal and so on said eald the chief He Indicated large and generous delay delay delay de de- lay on the part of the merciful AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican law by a wave of his hand You see we couldn't prove anyhow anyhow anyhow any any- how that he knew you was you said Cartwright and if I 1 know my own business it would come down to a matter of assault and so BO many dollars dollars dol dol- lars what I imagined said sald the admiral So I proposed to take the matter In hand myself and relieve you you of it For though Smith or the thereal thereal thereal real man man might come off at easily if if I have it made an al business some one will have to I pay who is not guilty likely enough said Cartwright Cartwright Cart Cart- wright uneasily On Ox the whole admiral admiral ad ad- miral Id I'd rather you took the job on yourself provided it was put through quietly What do you propose Dunn put his hands in his pockets and quarter quarter decked decked his c cabin I want to be sure its it's Smith- Smith morally sure How can I be made sure Ill I'll tell you now what I know about him He repeated what Selwyn had said and told him the story of his having fought a man on Sandridge Pier at Melbourne fifteen years before His name was Smith It fits as neat as a pair of handcuffs handcuffs hand hand- cuffs cuts said the chief of police Ill think it over and let you know Stay sirree sirree Ive I've got it now Look here admiral now you mark me This I is a scheme It'll work or my names name's 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 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 away that a warrant Is being made out And next day Ill I'll have all the runners of all the chief boarding houses arrested Do you see No I dont don't said the admiral Oh c come me cried Cartwright the theman theman theman man we dont don't arrest will be the theman man who done doneit It it Yes but butWell but but- I understood understood understood under under- Well said Cartwright stood you didn't particularly hanker to catch the under Ah said the admiral of course course I see You mean mean mean- I mean the boarding house boss bosl will shove the the runner runner that did It out of sight And then you'll know him him by reason of the of-the the very means he t takes kes not to be given away For of course hed he'd reckon that the runner on being h held ld would squeal Its a good plan said the ad ad- miral And when I know what kind of punishment would Mr Dir Smith like 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 poison poison and and she sails in three days would days would have a picnic to recollect all his life 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 favorite of mine and at the same time it will look as if I gave him the straight ht racket anyhow He sent an agent down to the water waterfront waterfront waterfront front that very very night The man dropped casual hints at the boarding boardinghouses boardinghouses boardinghouses houses and he dropped them on barren barren barren bar bar- ren ground everywhere but at Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shang Shang- hai Smiths said Smith so that's the game 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 been up most of the night before enticing off ot a Liverpool ship just t to keep his hand in he was was was' wasas as fast asleep as a bear on ori Christmas day and he was mighty sulky when Smith shook him out of sleep by the simple process of yanking his pillow from under his head Aint a man to get no sleep that works for you he demanded up now H J i Hell Is up and fizzling replied Smith Ive had word from rom Peter Cartwright that you'll be arrested in inthe inthe inthe the mornin if you do dont don't t skin out Its It's the admiral I wish Id I'd never set eyes on him Come dress 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 o 0 such thing as real gratitude left on earth Billy rose and shuffled into his clothes sullenly enough And where am I to skip 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 up with Grant or Sullivan in Portland till I let you know the coast is clear And heres here's twenty dollars go easy with it it itHe He sighed to part with the money And in the morning when Smith heard that ten runners at least had been urgently invited to interview Mr I I IP I P I IY Y W at up no now Peter Cartwright he was glad to be beable beable beable able to declare that Billy was not on hand hand Hes gone East to see his old man he said And as his father is a millionaire and lives in the Fifth avenue N York he couldn't afford to disregard gard his desire to lo to see him You are are a daisy Smith said the police pollee 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 up and pickled him in a cask cask he said with a wink And Ive I've shipped him to the British ambassador at Washington C C. O. O D D. D. D Youre as close cose as a clam aint you Smith l' l But I tell teli you Peter is havin a picnic This admirals admiral's game was 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 I had bad n to todo todo todo do with it Yes I x I can tell him said the police pollee officer And he did tell him As Asa a result the chief of police pollee wrote t to the admiral Sir Sir I 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 considering what you said to me I I am am II inclined to wait walt developments If you will inform me what you wish me to todo todo todo do I shall be glad to accommodate you in any way Yours truly Peter Cartwright P S. S If S.-If If you could write me a le letter let let- ter saying you are quite satisfied with the steps steps I have taken to bring the offender to justice I should be obliged P S SIf S.-Ir If If you wish to meet Mr John P. P Sant captain of the Harvester Harves Harves- ter now lying In the bay and sailing the day after to-morrow to I can can arrange arrange arrange ar ar- range range it Dicky Dunn on receiving Peters Peter's' letter called in his flag lieutenant When they shanghaied sl me they v d' d wJ- wJ I j Jf J t P. P f. f t Jf 11 J v J M knocked you about rather badly didn't dIdn they Selwyn Selwyn instinctively put his bis hand to the back of his head Yes Sir Richard They sandbagged sandbagged sandbagged sand sand- bagged me e as they call it and kicked me too Im pretty sure I know who did did it said the admiral and Im I'm proposing proposing proposing pro pro- posing to get even with the man my my- self I like getting even In my own fashion What would you do If I could I tell you who it was that laid the plot against us that night I Id I'd Id I'd punch his head sir The admiral nodded I believe I did punch his head years ago Selwyn But he was looking looking look look- ing for a fight and found it and It-and and ought to have been satisfied Between you you and me and no one else the chief o of police here and I have fixed this matter matter mat mat- ter ler up between us H He says that he has no evidence and the e only man man who might have given the affair away 1 f i ihas has been shipped off somewhere Im I'm going to show Mr Dir Smith tl that at he didn't male a bucko mate of me for 1 nothing And I want you to help Ive I've got a scheme He unfolded it to Selwyn and the young lieutenant chuckled He used to be a seaman said the j f admiral but for twelve years hes he's been living comfortably on shore shor j i sucking the blood of sailors And if I r I know anything about American ships j and and I d do hell he'll find three months in hi in inthe j the of this Harvester worse worse than three years in a jail Now were we're I going to invade the United St States States tes F quite unofficially with the connivance connivance rA rAHe I of the police He lay back and laughed h Oh Ob I tell you said the admiral he ran against something not laid down in his chart when he fell in with r You ashore with met me menow me can come me j now and well we'll see this Cartwright i A American ways suit me after all t 4 k X Then I understand Mr Dir CartWright Cartwright Cart Cart- wright said the admiral an hour hours i. i 41 later that there wont won't be a police police- f 1 1 t man man anywhere within hail of this this this' 1 Smiths Smith's' house to tomorrow morrow morrow night j Ive got other business for them J said Peter A d dAnd And I can see Mr Sant here this this this' I afternoon f ern on J Ill undertake to ha have hae e him here If 1 you you call along at three To be continued OLD FAMILY RECORD BIBLES J JI I Not Sold to the Same Extent Extent Extent-as as Formerly Formerly For For- merly erly but Still In Demand Do we still sell the old fashioned J family Bible with pages in it for the thel t i record of births deaths and marriages marriages mar mar- Oh yes said the bookseller f but not so many of them as we once did x There are more Bibles sold now i v taking them altogether than ever before before before be be- I fore and and the Bible is issued now in an f almost endless variety of forms and h Y t styles but the demand for it in this particular form is now now I should say I I not more than third one-third what it once rI was f 1 Still we keep these record Bibles t to-day to in a a dozen styles ranging in price from 5 5 to 20 The blank record record record rec rec- ord pages these often orten Illuminated are bound In between the two Testaments In some of these Bibles there is a blank presentation page upon which X may be written the name oi ot the person person per per- son to whom the Bible is presented with the name of the giver and In ea some of them is contained a blank marriage certificate and in some t there are bound in with the pages for forthe forthe Y the record of births d deaths and marriages marriages mar mar- p pages for the record of temper temperance ance ante pledges These Bibles are more likely to be bought nowadays by country people and it might it-might might be by people of the Geiman German Ger German Ger- Ger J i man race and by Irish Protestants all likely to be substantial people of comfortable comfortable com com- means conservative people who cling still to time-honored time cus cus- j toms So while the old time old time family record rec l' l lord li i ord Bible with pages for the record of r f births deaths and marriages has gone somewhat out of fashion and is not not j sold flold to the extent to which it once was yet it is still sold and the demand de de- mand for it is still considerable J i |