Show t- t v 1 3 1 low Ye m n and Gouverneur Gour Metes By s sr r Author o of oj THE VOICE IN THE RICE RILL l Copyright 1910 b by tho the company Copyright ht 1911 1011 b by Dodd Doad Mend Co sr S1 SYNOPSIS or Ol tn PRECEDING O cnA i Jim h tb the narrator n a writer with willi m more re URn than success n and not Iron n has been living In San Metro Intro coil anil C contracting debts Ills Ill hi big bis n rent In JolI Jolly d u 1 I fa Carrol Patti h le I I told lie 1 I. I golus gOlu blind and ond must bandoo hi hll work sad nud Ih- Ih lire In the Ibe open p n ft n year r or more moM I Ill Aren il OD on bl bM way home b be finds findl a II 1 man lire life Ju Jut t la In 1 a pull lib b be behind be- be bind hind Parrish l low Th The pur purpose ono O of ot the I la I not nol clear but Is directed In the few te words the victim can ean utter r. r where to fled ft n w wallet the murderers were t Carrol Car Cn- rot rol apparently happens along hut but h keeps keep the 1 secret lie He tied rind the wallet Inter tad and nd It show how the murdered mun man was wan Hoy an sail and bo bel hind had a 0 document telling thOI n- n of oe the skeleton of the I Santo 8 lIto a 11 rich Spanish h treasure ship of oe f lout loot lo t near Dear the th straps lIs 10 b h toils t the hI secret to 10 Carrol who that t I they h with some pome friends friend who hue hare hueI secured a ft r the Calliope RO IrO In lI search of or the treasure never su MM- MM I that Carrel Carrol wa was Wall s 's murderer egrets s. el On mil nod and lily his 1 id set get It posse C lon slon of r the piper paper found In Cunningham's Cunninghams wallet and andrus rus In San co hell h con eloi ue he hI finds lt In the hold bold of ue a 1 ship at et CR ca He lie had been h bw n n left there to mother to lD death but the Chino Chinese crew him bun end bring bum ck with U Be Ie le an girl with a n hl history tory nn an and her son lion are arc owners O of ot tie cn tot yd tho the bound boun for tor Peru rn ou A I. coast COut coa t trip In r hl hU hi presence lne on the ship h be he lel tells Besle of finding till the Cunningham I the essential contents of which ho can r t I Continued from Yesterday CHAPTER X TITO 10 Side of oC n a Rescue I been wholly white he HAD t nu t have been outrageously spoiled but tho the thousands of generations gen gen- of courteous courteous' nd polite that th lay Y behind him on tho the one side were not easily to be shunted ot oft off I Ima Imay Imay ma may say sar 1 think for a Chinese child ho he was spoiled but as white children go he was an nn angel anSol Always Al there waito was wai to be bc found one of the Shantung Shi comI company company com com- pany In a playful mood rend ready to carte potatoes Into dragons ra to make male an and fly n a kite off the stern to ride him md and wrestle pick a or to roll loll with him upon the tho d deck ck Or he might might I If he Ire liked hiked go aloft In a n wicker basket hasket for all nil the tho world like a bright ht little fat a tilt little tic bird In lit a ca cage e In a word where his word was law w never sulked and In a position to command had his way war mo most t often otten either b by circuitous or h by bythe bythe the most direct frank and nd engaging begging The Tho bowels of or those yellow the child and I must men ed over believe that the parts of or him that were n Beadle the Bessie sl the rollicking Infectious lau laugh h the sudden wistfulness tho sturdy fearlessness ss had drawn Wit them a JI Ulo from their own civilization toward ours There was man many a burst of gaiety l a aboard oard the Shantung man many a kind and thou thoughtful deed many a wail w ll engineered surprise party pirty with the giving gf ing lag of pleasure for fOl Its object and man many manya u I Y a U merry r jour O joke w a is passed CU for lur t II ne sa ui e u ILof of or joking 1 ha have hase se seen 11 better moralists moralists moral moral- who were less kind richer men who were less generous ministers of ot the gospel ospel who take them for all In n nall all have c seemed emed to mo less Ices Christian And Ind n I am quite sure that I have never been thrown among among- men who ho were so sa clean to so o zealous to tub tuh so o Indefatigable able with the tooth brush h As Ap for little c. c when ho lie was ts not dressed sed like a fairy stor story h he he- was naked Hiked as a n cherub now snowy with lather and now i i streaming with For m my part I began beg as Be Bessie said to flesh Iesh up to develop elop a latent distinct distinct dis dis- If It awkward celerity and to grow Irow strong tron In tho the muscles If It only for that I blessed the woman but hut I had stronger strong strong- er or reasons to ta bless bloss her for her for a newer franker honester outlook upon Ulon lIfo life for forr a n strengthening of heart hearl and moral moral moral mor mor- I al courage Indeed a as tho the saying Is Is I was Wll bv hy way 8 of becoming a new man the air looked no longor longer like torn and dirty cUrty lace to tired eyes oyes Ies the sea w water wa wa- ator a- a tor ter washed tho the tired lines JInes out of ot m my face and the strong trong fresh wind from the west blew color Into my cheeks checks I learned to wrestle a little HUla to get Jet a little wa way up a n swinging rope and to balance a broom upon m my chin a afine afine atine fine tine e exercise b by tho the wa way In a rolling sea To keep the mind on edge I he began nn to pick at Chinese and thanks hanks to a 8 prodigious prodigious pro pro- power for remembering was wa soon loon on terms of equality with with Beyond that however I discovered th the road rand Into the celestial tongue to bo 00 thorny thorn steep and abounding In blind alloys But the formidable efforts that I made got ot me Into bettor better liking an and put me upon terms of at real friendliness with m my teachers En English though re remained remained re- re the tho chief medium of Intercourse for tor as Jill courteously remarked You think Chinaman no good talked me think you OU pollee dam bad Chinaman talle e. e It was not till we wore off oft the Isthmus stewing In a kind of unexpected unexpected doldrums that the Shantung company called a n meeting to which Iwa I Iwas was wa not Invited and at which so 80 BesIe Bessie Bessie Bes Bes- sie Ie hinted to me as sho silo went wont forward with the others the matter of the treasure treasure treas treas- ure was wa to be he seriously considered I 1 Iwas was sent lent for or after about an hour and asked to repeat repeal as much touch of the tho famous paper as I could coull remember the It Items ms of treasure and as much AB ate possible of the note at nt the end After Arter the naming of ot each Item Item and and I had the most of ot them pretty pat pat pat- Bessie translated Into Chinese but non none of the men Interrupted or commented commented commented com com- In an any ana a way vay When I had finished with the Items I and with the tho note at the end I was wasa a asked for for m my own personal beliefs In to Inthe Inthe the mutter matter heard without comment and ud sent aft I had more th the f feelings of one whose veracity Is at nt stake slake than of one whose personal fortunes hang upon up-on a l hair Yet anxiety upon the latter point kept me moving Impelled me to affect a Q calmness that I was far from enJoying en- en to examine with sudden Interest Interest Interest Inter Inter- est the spokes of the wheel to test tut with a finger nail the rl rigidity of the sun softened pitch between the deck planks and to scan from tram time to time the westward weather for signs of at a returning wind To sn say that the tho Shantung Shantung- was without without without with with- out motion and the sea smooth an as a alake alake lake would not be true strictly yet what way a she sho had was by the tho storn stern and so broad so roundly and slow going were tho the ocean swells that you ou could not have said I to the moment when the schooner finished riding and b bt began gln gan to fall The damp scorching at atmosphere at- at was and su suggested though there there- W was vas nowhere to bo be seen an any thickening along the eastern horizon horizon horizon hori hori- zon that ht havo have been land the of ot Panama with Its hammerIng hammering hammering hammer hammer- ing sun Run and Its tumultuous ve vegetation Twice In New York City I have ha felt a similar wet burning heat once In tho hot room room of a n Turkish bath and once as ar a little child In Trinity church of An Easter morning Upon that latter occasion moistly clasping a n little palm branch I had fainted away to my fathers father's Intense mortification And now looking over over the tho storn stern and seeing an actual palm branch flouting floating In the tho water water wa wa- n ter tho the whole scene was waa recalled to tom m with the vividness of ota a a view v e thrown suddenly upon a It blank sheet by a icon I remembered too too- with a c certain how my father from the vivid heights of a health that was almost al- al most gross had used to cut at my puniness with his hie sharp ready ever tongue Yet hero here was I I. I whom the doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor had so 90 often given I en up a picture of no so much health as Is consistent with leanness and there therl In old TrinH Trinity I graveyard dead before the prime primo of ot life lay the corpse of or m my father who had thought to bow t tide whole world I by sheer strength of or mind and bod body and ancl to live JI a hundred years I remember i I ber he used to plant corns acorns that hu hla old ago age might be solaced with tho the I. I majesty of ot oaks and andt yot t at this writing the tallest tallen of or these thes trees Is no hl higher her than n tho grave is deep The Shantung Impelled b by a deeper current perhaps leisurely overhauled the palm branch ax as It t passed slowly forward almost grazing her side The thing It itself elf must have havo seemed seemed desirable desirable desir desir- able t to o and Its an irresistible Ir Irresistible Irresistible Ir- Ir resistible temptation Tho rho bright 1 4 t flashing of the childs child's gla gray jacks jacket d l. l seen with alth tho the tall tail of oC an nn eye ce hud had broken n nm m my revl 1 looked up In time to see se him lint jab cumbersomely at tho the branch with an nn boat hook and his round face tace solemn surprise rather r than fear feal topple slowly o over or r thelow the tho tholow low lots rail Into tho sea son I II I 1 ran for the spot pot with no l very definite Idea 1 I should do o w when on I got there stubbed one ono naked foot crucH cruelly against t a ring bolt oH and t b by a dive ho as clean clan as It was vas entered the water almost nn on lop top of oC the tle struggling tu child My I left band I Inc Indeed ell ed trust Oust have hn passed under his 1113 jacket or become become- entangled with himIn him In some seine WU way n l anyhow how I dragged him under with me and our reappearance rt-aJ rt together hind had all the tho marks hall of or a abona abona abona bona fide Ulle rescue i I Yet all was S not well The child was unconscious we wore a n dozen feat e t from the schooners schooner's side my left arm wrenched backward a against the Impetus of ot the dive JI by br the resistance of l' l stationary weight was waR useless Indeed half full tull of sea water and conete na- na tion I must If It left letl to myself Mare havo gone down with the bo boy Yet Yet help was ivas near for tor m my sound arm alm In its thrashing In fell feU suddenly with Jarring violence u upon on on the boat bont hook and that straws straw's w worth th of additional buoyancy preserved us Ul A second more and tho the half o of the he company compon were around us us swimming like yellow faced seals cals and completing the 1 work I of rescue which I had n a l- l dentally begun t The Incident and the praise tr with th which I was overwhelmed were tho ho more distasteful from tram the tho fact that If I had not tripped I ml might ht have havo real reached from the tho schooners schooner's deck eck and rescued him neatly without co so muchas much muchas I Ia a as wetting m my shirtsleeves I tried re religiously re- re re- re I lI i to defend myself from pralo pral e c. c explained the whole i affair to ne Bessie sl again nn and a again aln at the top of or my voice but all to no purpose I could coul no more havo per pcr those grateful hearts that J I was not the sever saver and rost restorer to them of or their thel mascot than that I was the emperor of or China Chinn In lil disguise disguise- A Added to their gratitude was for forthe the tho pre presence ence of mind that In the midst of peril In the vcr very Jaws I as it of oC sharks and sea seL devils e had not omitted to rescue eo so o Insignificant an object us as a boat hook hool But the thA th true Importance of the Incident Incident Inci Inci- dent to this narrative o Is that It served to make up tap u the Shantung company's compans mr mind d about t the treasure Uc As a a. mere Inore favor or said thc they would now pace have gone one for me through a R. thousand thousand hells As 8 for he was not long com com- In lag Ing to to and having thrown up the sea soa seawater water eater which he had swallowed signified signified signi signi- fied that If It ho he ml might ht become the tho undivided un un- divided pO possessor of a knife clasp such uh u as aM grown growls rown nen men use ho he would think fa- fa Ii continuing to exist Otherwise Otherwise Otherwise Other Other- of wise VO wo ao might as well look forward farward i ito to the worst Continued Tomorrow |