Show j M k f r 47 1 I 1 9 A M jo 7 coq dav II 11 I 1 the mystery A ua I 1 of the buena vista q S I 1 I 1 1 11 by herbert russell I 1 1 a V I 1 a 0 11 L JL am icom 1 1897 by herbert ku juneil acu SYNOPSIS 1 chis torr atory if arja t ly by ll 11 L O ilie ild I chief iia of 0 the bork k E emily aud 0 I 1 fur incato L fee the A N 1 iddles donal 1 ill K X la I 1 aig cure the P buena V 1 nta bu of I 1 I 1 1 I IN capt piar pi cr ri end K IKI i i in A named d on dh Z g to ml 11 roe la asni 0 o c ill brit lare hr i I 1 lull laaen but abak lie 1 I 1 no A rr ir 1 A l A ohla I 1 V ahr bcd A ar ae ino ill 1 1111 aitho m akin ml nil 0 o ih 1 3 1 1 1 to ow el za s si it choto rabion alc Z I 1 to I 1 u 1 t our tini on a board red to bring her jai to y rt it A kl U I 1 returning to ih jhio boduy y f r the tailors ant lers 1 ft ime mo t up oka I 1 k boat he he h all 1 1 I 1 l ed 1 l to asu ullo of ill 11 alk 1 crow crew liall Holi tork akl 12 ofle ell him to PLAY nw on oil 2 airl oi ad rl and he will w g to ill an mailer title I 1 wt with th the caplinn I 1 ra ant ieli 11 i ile he touched its ills ca cap P and went aft to the u beef m hillst I 1 a list I 1 got into the boat again hero I 1 tho he othor other seaman mat alting for or me wo ave pulled d back k to pulls ak a 1 the Er emily ally a b ic h s etall if 11 I 1 lay ay u lah her topsail to th ta c mant I 1 climbed oni on L board and nd capt richardson chardson Hl met ML me in the gundru a y ili T this going to ho be it A rood good haul baul for Us mr me Bol Bo batok natal bald he h pointing I 1 i with his big thumb backward over hla his I 1 t shoulder Bh at ill ahr in bi ig iff I 1 replied that I 1 believed bellr ved there aln re would I 1 be money in ii the jc of tiff 11 hp e voc ver pei unit anil gave him such particulars ss as I 1 hila bad noted lie then asked ul nether lether I 1 thought I 1 could contrive to carry the brig home fill tour four hands anti and I 1 replied r that it might be done and I 1 was mai bullo ready to venture un it so I 1 dived ived wow below and rot got tog ther such auch kit air I 1 reckoned I 1 should need and m hen 1 returned on deck like other three men were here in to the boat m malting 0 ting for TOO I 1 rung out u t for A sea chest to be I 1 I 1 bred along and then we shoed on oft I 1 asly farat business on taking charge of ft i the b bile ig nom bal to kd get sail trimmed anti and pet abst course cobrae for bristol this was a lonk long job f for I 1 our limited cart crew W and ill iho edip emily had dwindled into a mete toy lay thi th E time me me fl aure cre sliding through the Z a ater t r a gain I 1 alloh led my tilt little e crew into two so telling them they must tie be prepared for a frequent i 11 rail it of all hand they were good I 1 y platform sall and worked well doubtless kithil illa t adb by of a liberal jeward w ar d at the end of the aoki age T the he d doy uy clipped aw away ay quietly enough I 1 ioas b leuw in t be cabin at about 8 hat ee beening ning making a aupp supper 21 I 1 I 1 on olt IL a bit of salt meat and some it was very dark outside and the glass ti or the he skylight gleamed boch the ici 31 action 11 of the cabin lamp A woman n named sievers was walk at the m beel and a nother named was as keeping a a 1 lookout upon the forecastle there WHA was in a trine lillis more m vilett a ight in t the he mind ind and I 1 the ship plain roue rose and fell mith lah long lone buoyant I 1 ant plunges chilak I 1 sal rat munching i away upon the tough birtt beer I 1 heard it a sound round of hurried talking on deck anti and I 1 11 a minute later the square of the iho hatch fra framed in ed the pale outline of it a man alan a face below there railed called the bolce 0 fee ot of i cobb bb our foul in h hand hollia Ho lloa W tt A va the matter milter matter enough air I 1 never reck lonea nea when I 1 rh shipped ippeI tor for this crula elhat hat I 1 should bt be expected to keep corn com m any with olih ghosts 11 what dyo dv mean cobb said bald 1 I vv you S v ra a a no 0 bar fr but this brig I 1 boun haunted ted I 1 jr til all that as you may satisfy your ll 11 if men atef alone as tar far mi as ill ih anle le Is a full or 0 vote volsci sr sar I 1 ate ale usual a superstitious e I 1 g u VIA d the tha in order to keep IT little c crew m in food humor I 1 should I 1 wd to 00 with tact so instead of 0 ewh h the allow fellow I 1 said I 1 it ight cobb I 1 hlll tit go you oil MI ascended the ladder mand and accod a lad film to the forecastle it t afook aa a wooden ell cave of 0 a place dimly illume aw ell by a owing lamp from I 1 alth beams ANJil williams larris stood mood drung ad from ate ly under the hatch with one 11 foot upon n t artlie bottom runs rung ot of the ladder rt c rup j usra ready to bolt boat up it I 1 at an n it 4 a warning t well shuts this his aarn arn about the jB hosl L 1 I said raid 1 I have you heard beard any I 11 9 fea ay an theres a sound of 0 strange voices 1 r be heard plain enough do dow A there all I 1 e what it in IH air thim here essell gaind ont elan k il for not hing you may akker 19 1 ov r the ill inge and tle tie y aided noted with a vague feeling 0 f it A ems WM kae ginning to come upon me out 0 strange of ill ahe e 1 aft ink born m out ut as it 1 waa as by I 1 i 1 w ir annj and go nii ral clr I 1 or tho the abc e tIA 1011 of cobb I 1 should not i 90 c at latched murli much significance to LO lie be na mn mail flow nerves had been 0 let 1 l alay auay by of scam coast hard drink 0 slid and I 1 should hai have re fan fancied ciell ft a aluff 5 V nion I 1 ken of liquor in his narrative r but ninna I 1 stake iva 11 a sleaty going trual arthy eky iranian ralan and him that tha f braff hiyi not cat abandoned abandon Mi fo for ping ma like revelation in fil its y alo by the light of ELL tho ti an annya Y a V which aich rtuh ao u now I 1 hinted eat at johb bb folio fullow a ud m 4 into the I 1 01 aitho th t ree of us stood blood tallent client for 1 le 11 in in th ILL me e thing of 0 team hiim W if a y fr on th ill R hearing ahe 1 cui water wa WAT nall audible alth till JB 0 hollow thud lid 0 of I 1 a small a e striking tha th bows no N harr II 11 f it broke the bush liuch during the lony long I 1 ivf iff I 1 ants in which tile ue me stood flood hearken 1 i tk cal alway the way Frum blvd wll wit I bof ill a when youre mantlik a of a I 1 F alo to happen it takes take precious tin I 1 fe for to keep los p you so I 1 faced not ask aali vi alioth I I 1 LI abt 1 than dont you ralpha have imru lt n I 1 of n I 1 inquired 0 nr of air cherva s no cull calt for LW u ak aak I 1 ald cobb I 1 I 1 AA whore here did the mounds seem to lo conic from on nal what hat were vere they like C cobb la was a about to answer rat me when williams rn raised his hand in a posture lure to colon 1 d silence and hoarsely alu fiut I 1 la red ilia h dye hear that jhc thc then n sir oil hear it II I 1 most nasu assuredly tit did and startling enough I 1 found U id it ired 1 even as I 1 hid had been or oi iho elie thin the toun I 1 1 MOM AN that of 01 ca a thin andl vole prolee as an I 1 imagined out lot of if the very bowels bearch of theta thenh it tp p anything L an I 1 9 more mala ghostly and no weird C rd titan than t that feeble inarticulate murmuring I 1 co could u III not h have a ve conceived it vas juPt the nery semblance ot of what I 1 the ile calling pry cry af of a spirit ought to be like heard nar afar in the ley icy stillness silliness ot of a moonlight night D did I 1 al you hear it sir said cobb 00 looking oo ILI left half atai tat tied and half triumphant at williams no cabout that thai I 1 allow why wil lla vat y strange my lads sure hure anoll h said I 1 slow lowly ly not wishing M itic a ze lo 10 t to percele 11 how really staggered I 1 was mas since bance ho homeier howe weier cr the allely al tely might eventually tic bo explained uway away no good was to come ot of a panic what tie alo you itchon it can bi bt my lad what do you reckon ll it can bo be dew if 1 A I I 1 I 1 IP what do you mean blean cobb P banded cobb mith falth a 0 ot I 1 brusqueness that vas mail c in the he I 1 face ce ol of bla big appi elien aled well tile hie olce sot sounded like a human one I 1 suppose I 1 continued gazing gaza I 1 a ag front from oni one blaman to tile the mothr that iii one amongst senoble men like our ft laca I 1 1 foolish enough to bellame in ghosts 9 I 1 dunno nothing about ghosto sir air pu said III williams Wll llAnis alth tit an alance lal around lad him S such U ell things aint for or me T to pretend pre iten to understand an anthina thing all about ou I 1 lie loll 1011 1 I ILL have AV e heard me hay as lie hon I 1 here quite quite en enough urh arlt ell in the ba bible ble to make a titan man in ghosts but its is here arre says I 1 should like ti know what that there voice might be put two on two together bar and ask yourself chy by should a sound taut phlp like this be deserted in mid ocean ilia rude seafaring logic lode mail not to be very readily ansu ca ed yet I 1 tell felt the ot of putting a bold face upon the mutter matter too now see bee here said paid 1 I what can call this belot belet us argue reasonably allowing the th voice to be hum human an and it cannot possibly bo be anything an thing else elre me u e have only to find out whence hen it pro reeds and 11 the e ll 11 mystery Is 14 holved pon elble otte one ot of the the crew of the 1110 might have gt g t ian ort ln I 1 otake lirose off for the faint strange sound u of shouting shooting again became audible nothing more unearthly than that eerie indeterminable faraway voice could be imagined it was an hn nan s ihlo to tell whence thi the sound came e the trap leading into the iho immediately under the floor of the th fork forecastle castle stood open the ghostly hul hat louing certainly did not come from these beyond the stout bulkhead which w parti partitioned tined off the inter interior lor in which we lie stood blood lay MY tile the hold 0 of the 11 11 11 A 4 t I 1 I 1 1 A A I 1 I 1 1 J I 1 ial at I 1 f 0 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 t I 1 J 3 0 kt I 1 the q not come from there I 1 11 b brik r ig no doubt flush up to th hatches m with I 1 it cargo land and at any ratio no hiding alike pi lace for ia a man to impi lun himself in the tit ing was bewildering enough in all conscience that thai the olce was a human one 1 would not have t swear notwithstanding tile the reft on rig of my common a henne ense th the e 9 u A ds were no an ghostlike an AM to furnish I 1 1 plenty of t grounds for or the notion ili at they were not the utterances of 0 any living being unless indeed they should be tile the inai ticks ti culat late ravings of sa maal ae I 1 am of a practical and us turn of mind uh ell anything savoring of the improbable comes along alone and this his quality stood ma in good t e ad on the occasion of tahe this singular e x I 1 am fully persuaded that any exhibition of canoot consternation on an my y port part 1 have c M ain d a panic in th iho minds of the he illiterate superstitious seamen and add c caucci 0 d them pa chaps t hen anti and tarro tarra t to a hoist out hie elie lya boc which w alch we had stowed on top A at I 1 ih he booms and nhan aban don dnn the ship chip if so I 1 talked m with ill them chent liffe in A reassuring fashion and finding them strongly to occupy I 1 tile the for castle until T the th mystery tied been cleared up I 1 told ahm lint I 1 there as a room for all hed handa of 1 took in the aban cabin bit att and bade them thel I 1 conn aloni along und drink a glamm of eroff croft wf we were not troubled fly by thi the mys rious at the after end of I 1 allu 1 brig and the th rout rest of tile thi night tong away aay quietly enough I 1 wa olds on IN the at t duri ngum of the hours or nf dark 1 air par for vf V ner i a shorthanded short handed still N nd altho gh in my y bailers acio all K nd ise orono wt elc d rank lj comm lent an dpn e n I 1 gilld 1 not r ll 11 pr 0 to lo turn in all and the cvikel love en entirely t acly in their chirke charge then again my mind a alti 1 1 ell eaf reamed in ili it ving 11 ayar hadnet account for r th the incident of the cenen the only resolution all my sucu lallas and me to arrive a r ni at 1 ana sit a deler nation I 1 ot 1 I vr ia tu B olve the ampster mystery Y TO BK C |