| Show The e Mutiny of the Albatross by WYNDHAM MARTYN I COPYRIGHT I IN THE U So nerrie CHAPTER Continued XI-Continued XI Continued 13 13 Slivers was nt at first Inclined to be disappointed at the mildness of the punIshment meted out to his enemy The was as remo removed d from the sixteen foot cutter stepped on clasps Its outsIde the rail mil and ant the cook lOO with and anti dumped clumped Into Inlo It Then the covering was as replaced and the boat swung slung un s n ng ln over OHr the rill nil This Tills I Is Ie nn an sting sort or of game Augustus u Bett II cd ed arid and and your part In It so 0 far fur has lias bean belli north orth fifty to you OU Do you OU want to earn eun more Is each pach of them SU guys s worth north orth n fifty bones Is worth north a hundred I want them one at fit a n time How low can you pet get Metzger letzer hero here Tints Tint's a n pipe said Au Augustus hl eyes glistening Hell lie II ss ant to know where here the cook Is I III II s siv my he lies hes s up here with the lane he hes s stuck on an and J dint you ic se e sot pot the other oilier All right slid call nl A hundred dollars If you ou work orb It right Silvers found Metzger steeping sleeping It was easy to make enough Dough noise to awaken him He lie sat up tip Ith an un and ndell dm that Hut the cook be sent sentIe I Ie ss Ith something to eat Ih en el s sly smile angered him lie the boy s arm and ant spun him round hat hat are you ou grinning for forr ort he cried fhe fie boy hoy edged eded ed ed to toa toward a rd the door I i was wis lS just how ho cool cook cooks s put pUI one o er on you after all hile you ou se e been him and the Doc hits hns been sho ing the lie skirts a good bood time on deck lith Ith a bellow Metzger drew dress his hb knife and rushed up the In of or ra rage e such as th these e he cared carell nothing for or caution He lie had L teen een a fool Cool to spire spare the handsome doctor so long The 1 tie he handsome doctor dropped the noose accurately 0 over oser er his neck and chol ed cd him Into submission slon And Metzger gigged gagged and bound hound as dropped bv by the cooks cool cook s side That Thal Thais s a hundred and lift firt fifty said ers Sliters happily Slivers tell I want to see a fi m a n n ton ordered in ing the engineer came into the bright light Do Do you suppose nett Bettington begin began that that when hen this cruise Is b 0 over oser er you ou II C eser er get et the chance cliance to work pork orl on a craft like lIbe this thus Kenzle I enzle shook his hib head sadly lie He Hew Ie w would uld end his Ills days das patching up lip mt m minne rine rille Junk he lie suppo supposed ed Tills this 1 his soy voy 0 le leUS US the purple patch In his Ills brig iny bM life there would never ne be another listen i isten to me Bettington s lid did I 1 think thin It If my scheme Is successful that Mrs Irs nad Radway ay will III retain you ou per per permanently All I want scant you OU to do Is to keep steam up and join In ID no raid against me Il II-I II 1 said cald Kenzle Kenzie What do I want swat to Join In any scraps for 1 hey he m mike ike I you JOu think It 11 s I nee necessary e 3 essary Siry Is It a promise Kenzle thrust out an oily p pW W uv wrung rung It hu heartily Of or all the men on board d he thou thought ht le Ken atone alone hid Ind a face uce to be trusted Bob Hob had witnessed f 11 the 1 two 10 0 en enCounters Counters and w wanted to know knots shat hat was wac coming w as as It Il possible that 1 odd hid h been ss wrong rong In his etI estl mate male of time the doctor ton would tell him nothing III instead tend he lie changed the course of the these se sel ell l II run for ew 1 ew ork 1 orl ork he said sold e e shall lime base and It wont won't take tale much longer lie eIt that there would he no trouble with pith the gamblers for many hours n Bs tint thit time some new pl n pl n be bit IH f evolved for Cor their overthrow o lIe He was sus rather ther concerned for him himself himself self In the fight with Ith Sim S hf he li had been badly bruised and now the great gnat c of or lifting the two tso mOt men Into the boat agonized him lien hn tie lie had sent below helow and cautioned him to report any new nes des de development he stretch stretched himself on the couch h Im I m going to try to gl git t a n little littlerest littlerest littlerest rest he lie told Bob nob ake eke e me If and let no one on deck but Silvers Those Thoe men then In then Iter i her c iti t get et adrift 7 Iob for forgot ot the perils which he him him and his about 11 lp Ip this neU foun joy of guiding u a big Jig boat hoat I ul uli steam ahead wis sas Indicated on the e and lie was as heading for tor home Crosh Crosby hid h told him that the only ilina e e ill ina lion of the doctor doctors s e of lie he If It were sere genuine and borne out by dEeds was was the hope of winning n a abard aP bard rd in 10 n lIe He h li id III In Insisted r that a double mUr murderer would could hose have little lItt hl lt ration Illon In adding another victim to his hib Store score Ii If It seemed nece uy Put I odd could uld not I 1 dlee cues dle e a that Orme as us he culled him alsus U nl 5 In speaking peaking to Mrs Irs IrsHad Had my 1 iv h hid I ad repented l 1 sere ere hound bound for a fOI foreign port end ind tI nd the slue e no longer under the lie jurl jurls jurisdiction diction of the nn Ili nil nn anything could coull huppen happen In Ills his moments of de delre lre lo loa Crosby Todd lodd thought un on easily c vint shit would happen h to him Dr And w s Orme had loot 1001 ed at nt him with nn an a lon that did not speak of mercy 1 Todd experienced bitter moments of o the othEr othern He lie Iet t had allowed himself elf to be fooled by Graumann over oser 0 er the wireless Irele s and had the opportunity to send messages that might hose have saved eased C a them It seemed r necess iry for till the common good to reu refuse e to lI listen ten to any of Mrs Irs a Radway s speculations about the pos possibility po that the doctor was fiS their sin sincere sincere sincere cere friend Mary Iary mide common cause CHuse with Ith her tier fiance nance against Bettington hat hat hal a brave bra and steadfast child she was tho thought light the elder here lIere at the threshold of a new ness and fuller life she he was III ely ety to be lie stayed lIy by denim th I or her own p pirt life held no more pro prospects And like Mary lary she too s l is to be lie on the threshold lor or a few ew glorious mo moments ments she slie had hall been conscious of her destiny n and nil now noss she knew they were ere only moments of self deception Rom Romen om omen en had always ays envied em led her for beauty wealth and position one ISone had hind e eser eer er erell ended ell led her for her ess ness was Us broadly log ing the corn com common cornmon cornmon mon lot She hind had been hh cn e eer every everything er thing else There was ns no morbidity In dwelling d on the fate Cate that was 13 eD ripping her herShe herShe herShe She could not have hate used lived so long and seen so much without being aware of the lawlessness la of men wens s desires She thought of ot Met gers s burning e eyes es Sam was gone but her tier menace remained And perhaps this strange man whom horn she slie knew now no noto to be An Andre Andrew Andrew drew Orme Orrne pe escaped convict COO let and t twice tIce Ice Icea a murderer loved hosed 10 ed her In her she was as com convinced of ot It serer e 1 er ne neer er would she slie let any human being know tint she too hat had loved lo him a murderer I A man for Cor whom hom not even the most moot splendid of oC heroism could coult win in pardon A man for Cor ever eser e cr without time the pale 0 I Those ho hose e elements clements of lawlessness inthe In Inthe Inthe the ho of the crew cre which Clements by his Ills and the terror he Inspired h hid contrived ed to toI I 1 In subjection were ere not long tolie to tolie tolie lie dorm tnt Already unaccustomed ease and freedom from duties had ha awakened In men to whom hom all nil honest work was as abhorrent the desire for tor torn fora fora n a continuance of ot these romantic con conditions The four in the forecastle e perl e e perl encell much of the feeling that din mu must t have base ha e known n when his lamp pro ed so obedient a servant sen ant It was as with a certain timidity covered ered by an anair anair anair air of bravado that they First made demands on Slivers ers for or food and drink drill Times The ordered he obeyed They sent him for Cor Radway a s furious Cigars Slivers Sih ers brought a humidor tilled with them Mike suggested champagne The genie the they had known n as Slivers Silvers delivered ered It to them was tins chicken hearted lie He belie ed that his Ills arrest at some time or other was as certain And there were ere lIers In at least leist two t of those con convict 5 met est to s which lich he lie might be sent ss who ho had threatened to 10 kill 1111 him And they would succeed lie Ill had been a trusty end lie he hid h been heen beena J a stool pl pigeon on Alone of the men he had a profound distrust of lie thought the surgeon was nas going to try to Mrs rs Had Radway and ant so co sate sa his skin I Two 0 could pia play at that game If It he so stirred up the three men before that him him they at ed Metzger and r ereira and killed them and and he felt Celt this tills would be the I he lie could be burning hurn Ing to the doctor with Ith the news and Implore him to mete out justice to the sin slayers en It was as a pretty prell scheme and his et ee annoyed Graumann hit t ate e you ou grinning for he lie smiled sn smiled liat hat makes mabes you OU so n d-n d n happy h I 1 wis thin in II returned how good an and surprised them da be If It we e went aft and turned em out of the Boss qu and made them come here where thebe the be- be belong be belong long 1 There here they tile sit and wait all till we e eget get to Limon They 1 hey speak b time the linbo o we e don t They limey 1 hey II 11 speak pea us Into Jail before we e know It Itou ou ou know shut hut them Central American prisons are nothing on wont t ever eser get us out We won t even know w ss hat liat w e a re In for Cor flints flint's a n tick frock Mike agreed I Iwas Iwas was as in one In Balila Bauma and I don dOll t know yet why h unless It was for throw log Ing loga Inga a bull oft off time tile dock If we e had to shoot em cm said ald Hamner wed C d say It was as because lUse the tried to get et at the women numen folk foIl r I flint hat d listen good at home Ilke him Hes III s got a head on en said ald with genuine admiration That stuff gets over oser 0 er l every csery ery time lime belle believe bellese e me save sale time the women and children first Red fed Mike was one of those drunk drunkards drunkards drunkards ards who ho after a 1 amount of poison polson lose the time more ob obvious lous rh m of Intoxication here here the other three slept stel he was as I 1 ept awake a uhe II by bi the growing gro Ing ferocity he lie felt toward n rd Met ger and erel ra It wis about seven o 0 clock he roused Ws reluctant comrades from rom their They 1 hey anul ed cd sober cober but butsavage age sa Ita It was sas a not riot bird hird to bring them to their last nights nielli s mood of I the he bottles on the table helped them to that Its It ss wis s as decided then and there to hurt hunt for the traitors Csery ery state stateroom stateroom stateroom room and storeroom was as drawn n blank blunk Zhe Ille t two 0 must be on the upper deck deckwith deckwith with their crony the surgeon would make Clake three against four Graumann was aJ chosen to ask lease e to speak with Ith the autocratic na und and while speaking locate the missing Bettington ton listened to Graumann s story hen he had gh given en permission through Sih Silvers ers for him trim to come on deck dech He lie entertained a profound mis mistrust mistrust trust of the man manell ell ell ld c seeing him g about him hat hint Is It I I was as wondering If the cook was as lip imp here sir sire Ir e e a alit ain t seen him In inthe Inthe the galley balle nor Mr Ir Metzger er neither Do Do they look 1001 to be mere here 7 Graumann glanced toward the wire wire- wireless wireless wireless less house It was as their only possible hidIng place Bettington snatched him sidle up to It Are re they there the surgeon asked as If Interested In their Graumann took tool this as an 10 to 10 Investigate I I guess time the they re below he be said touching his dp CIp Ills His news added to the wrath of ot the tricked four our It was plain they could c 1 1 Y What Makes Make You So n D-n D n Happy only be In the fore tore part of ot time the ship Immediately abo above abose e the forecastle where here the men were now sitting silting There they are the da goes said Hamner eating and drink drinkIng drinking drinkIng Ing with the women omen while anything Is good enough for or us If It I was as as strong as you ou boys bO 1 I wouldn t stand It no not for or one ODe minute Just 0 oser er head hend they are a at the mon e s they se e made of ot us e 1 e ought to break breal In Graum inn here he knows s hoto how ho to open any e eser eer er ermade made It won wont t take tabe him long to do dothe dothe the trick Mike battered the table cable with his Iron fists so o by d G-d G d lie he shouted that hats s snot not the way a I work 11 ell e a ii 11 batter the thedoor thedoor thedoor door down don do n w Ith ah bars of ot Iron Mike like made his first sa fight lime Hie noise In Inthe inthe Inthe the quarters of the people was as deafening Mary clung to Crosby She he saw sa Mrs firs ay tal tale e a time the auto automatic automatic matic During Intervals of this tills but they could hear the most hor horrible horrible horrible oaths hurled as they belle ell at themselves es alone To lo Mrs Mis R It t ideas n It meant that the doctor hid had been lIeen as she hud hind rell fe tricked Into helplessness s This was as the end Bettington on on hearing tte he extraordinary extraordinary nary rr racket ran to the head hend o of the companion The shoats of Mike Ilbe and his friends warned varned him rf sl gra grave grase e dun dunger dunger danger ger Mike Graum nn and Krause were tr trying Ing to batter their way to the omen there was no other ion po possible Stop SlOP he tic shouted His ills voice olce arrested them for tor a 8 mo moment meat ment Ile e e want Metzger and Pereira they told him They are not In there cried net Bet Bettington Bettington on Then ss where here are they hiding snarled The doctor doctors s to answer promptly seemed direct proof tint lilt he was ns I lying Ing krause pulled out his r re- re re revolver vol volver voler er and took aim at Bettington shouting obscene abuse e as he did so co coIt It was ns no moment for Cor hesitation net Bet Bettington Bettington shot hot first Krause spun round rounda a a bullet had one gone through the hand that held the weapon Another gun spat out and Graumann fell Cell shot through the time Bettington B glanced round and saw Hamner s 3 smoking barrel Saved your life them Doc said heartily It was as H limners 3 s treachery tre which sta staggered Mike lIle and made him him fill f an easy victim to arrest anest Bettington slipped a clo clove close e hitch over o his wrist Mike lIbe was ns led lell to the chain locker and pushed In hammer Hamner although he was as Ing joy at the result of the time tray fray In his heart henrt that until Mike lI was dead heas he lie was as In hourly peril Hamner curc cursed rl his Ills Inaccuracy of ot aim lIe had meant to kill 1111 Mike l and by a jerky y nen nervous ous pull on the trl trigger ger hid h slain Graumann Graumann he could h hire 1 e managed But nut Mike MIkel I ISih Sih Silvers ers had brought up from his engines The boy had hall become ante stricken He lIe could not under 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