| Show I NEAL NEAL OF THE NAVY I II I By William Hamilton Osborne A Author ut h or 0 of f R Red e d M Mouse Mose tI R Running Fi Fight 1 g h t J tI BI Blue blue ue B Buckle uc kI e 5 E Etc tc Novelized From the Photoplay of the Same Name Produced by Pathe Exchange Inc Copyright 1915 1916 by Willia Osborne Oborne Y You Yu u understand then said Hernandez Her Her- flandez that tha when this cargo of cocaine cocaine co co- co caine Is old sold your share will be many hundred a dollars dollars a thousand thousand over over a I thousand I I 1 unc understand said Bill Its all all all' understood And now sf it you passengers passengers gers gelS will shake a Je leg well we'll load our I cargo and our crew I Two morning later a sailor lying in his bunk against a a bulkhead in inthe inthe inthe the hold kept wake wakeful CuI by his battered battered bat bat- face face a gift from Bill the burly mate noted mate noted something strange There was a knot hole in the bulkhead bulkhead bulk bulk- head to which several times before he had applied his eye but without without with out Result It was apparent that on the other side of ot the bulkhead there were no rib sleeping quarters but merely merely mere mere- ly a pile of freight On this particular lar morning however the unusual thing that attracted his attention was wasa a quantity of fine white powder that sifted through the knot hole Baking powder maybe he lie suggested sug to himself or possibly rat poison polson He wet his finger and applied it to the powder that had bad sifted through He was about to place the finger upon his tongue when the I man on n the he other end Is Giving everybody every every- body a good morning Corning She took ok off arC the wireless apparatus and t stepped out upon the deck It It is a e good d morning isn't t It IU she said d CHAPTER Mutiny n. n Next day something happened Bill the mate gave Snooks an order that Snooks declined to fill Bill was accustomed to being disobeyed and arid for every ill he had a remedy He seized a capstan bar and aimed it at Snooks' Snooks head but there was a aglitter agUtter aglitter glitter gUtter in Snooks' Snooks eye that Bill did not understand Snooks leaped for tor him and wrestled with him like Uke a wildcat He forced Bill panting up against the rail raU bellowing meanwhile meanwhile mean mean- while like a mad bull Bill felt for tor fora tora a belaying pin found it clutched it raised it high in the air all and brought it crashing down upon Snooks' Snooks der del It broke a collarbone but it might have been a feather for tor all Snooks cared Mates cried Sn Snooks you aint going to se see me licked 1 Come one and all They came Some game sprang down from the shrouds some appeared from companion companionways ways some came hurrying along the decks They were men battered and broken but all had one uncanny characteristic characteristic- their eyes glittered glittered gUttered fearfully fear tear I fully and fearlessly Bill sprang a away way from the clutching clutch clutch- 1 ling ing grasp of ot Snooks and drew his hisgun gun 1 Capt Peter Handy he roared Mutiny I And mutiny there was a mu mutiny h y based not so much upon the ill treatment treatment treat treat- ment of Bill BUl the mate as as' upon the effect of tho the trickling white powder The captain responded to the call so did one or two others of the un un- drugged crew so did the engineer the second mate But the rest stood a wild eyed haggard disheveled mob uttering loud curses and ready for a rush A ringleader stepped out and the rush came The four booked passengers heard the riot it could have been heard halt half a mile away They rushed on deck and watched Annette who had inherited quickness of at mind saw what was happening and turned to Mrs Hardin You and Irene she said go into the wireless roo room Let us all go even go even Joe Just as she said it a mutineer rushed past her stopped leered into her face and grasped her by the hand With a sudden wrench he lie closed the door of the wireless shutting shut shutting ting the three e people inside Welch inside Welcher Welch Welch- er and anel the two other women women and and then with a glare into Annette's eyes he drew her toward him and crushed her struggling form against his breast To be continued tomorrow |
