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John barges right rlgbt into his bis yarn without witbout any prellmlnarlcs preliminaries preliminaries.t-"WeU preliminaries.tWeU preliminaries.t preliminariest "WeU WeU . - "Well Well 'We1I We1I " ' , , " ' he be sa says sai ) s , "it it " was back in 1914 I was discharged from theFifteenth the theI theFifteenth Fifteenth Fifteentb United Uwted States infantry mfantry at Tientsin , China Chma , and got a Job Jobwith jobwith jobwith I } with the Chinese Chmese Maritime l\hntlmc l hntlmc \ Customs in that port port"My portMy . " 'My My "My ' " ' duties dutles were to search all ships slups , , coining commg coming and going gomg , , for smuggled smuggledids smuggledxis smuggledids ids xis and and.t's : -.t's .ts .t's ts - . 's s ' not as pleasant a job as you might nught think t1unk , because it entaIlsfWl1ng entailsiwlmg entails entailsWling fWl1ng iwlmg Wling into mto all sorts of ot odd corners and out of ot the way places durIngtcourse duringI duringcourse during during'course I 'course course ' of your search " . tcourse ' " Customs Officers Ordered to Search the King K1l1g S1l1g Sing Sing.There SingThere . There you've youve ' got the whole picture m in a l : nutshell The picture , that IS1he islie is isthe the 1he lie average working day But there's theres ' ' always alwnys hable l1able liable to be a day that's thats ' ake ale a ate te ke le different difrerent from the average and it's its ' ' just such a one that John Lynchomg ) Lynch L'I1cb LI1cb Lynchomg ' : iomg L'I1cbiomg ; ( omg to teU tell us about nowIt now nowi i It was in 1916 , two years after he be had entered the customservlce customsservice customs customsi i crvice ervlce service . John came to work one morning mornlDg : and took tooJ . his Instruc instruc- instructions Instructions - . tions tlons from the bulletin board . , . "Officers Officers " \ IVIitchcll l\litcbell l litcbell Mitchell , Galvm Galvin andLyncb andLynch and andi andLynch i Lynch Lyncb , " read a notice on that tbat board , "will will HWIll " search S . S . King Kmg Smgelore Stagstore Sing Smg Stag SingI Singbefore I before elore store departure " Sit It twas was allm all in the day'sork day's days ' \ work \\ork ork stork , and there was nothing notlung in m that order thated that thated thatsnised ed any excitement Mitchell and Galvm arrived a few Inmutesr minutestr minutes Inmutes minutesJ tr : * r , ' * , and the three of them began getting gettmg together their thell ' overalls and andlps andps ands J lps ps . The King Kmg Sing was due to leave in m half halt an hour , so they had to tofast tofast fast . . They went out to the ship and John began searching the fo'cslei fo'cslecrew's fo'csle focsle fo'csleEref's ' rei'S reiS crew's crews { / ' ' quarters while whlle Mitchell and Galvm Galvin worked amidships and aft aftJohn . . i John Goes Sleuthing Into Anchor Chain Locker Locker.shn Lockershn . Eref/'s Eref 's s ohn prowled and nnd poked poJ.ed poJed . around the crew's crews ' quarters , but he didn't didnt ' finding find findIng . ing Then he began looking lookmg for other hiding rudmg places m in the fore partI part I e ; ship He spottcc spotte spotter ' a manhole that led down to the anchor chain cham locker , . tthat that struck him as a likely llkely place to hide contraband , so he l lifted ted ther the . ? r and crawled down mSlde inside insidej [ / : The anchor was down , and with it ft the fathoms of heavy bcavy anclOr anclOrChain anchorchain anchor } - chain , so the locker locl.er locler . was empty . . But John Jolm noticed something somethmg that/ that thatf thatr that thatlooked f r / looked ooked suspicions SUSpICIOUS . Footprmts-qUltc Footprmts qUltc Footprints-quite Footprints quite Footprints - quite a bunch of them-on them on them - - on the floorr floorf floor floorft ft r f the locker . g gow ow w the anchor chain cham locker isn't isnt ' such a popular poplliar place aboard a slupt shipt ship slup shipgiark t . giark ark , rnd nd stuffy , and little frequented except by the anchor cham chain chain'yre's chainyres . . ' ' ro's ros re's res ' something domg doing down here , " John said to himself , and he began begangg begang gg g around in the darkness to see what he could collid findi find i ' y J JShanghaied ; Shanghaied m 111 in the Bottom of the Ship ! fhen en-he en he - he found It it . . In the floor was another manhole leading leadmg to theof theof the theiSn iSn | . of the ship He opened that andent and \ went \\ent ent down In the compartment 1 I 0 0r r i ia it 524313 2192 a t John Picked Up One of the Boxes to Open It . , iI iiI iIwere i . were several se\eral se eral seseral \ small " wooden "ooden ooden boxes John picked one up and startedk started startedak | ak k it open , when suddenly suddenIy he heard the rattle ratue of chain cham above bunew hims him bun s ew were pulling pullrng pulsing m in the anchor and the chain cham was pouring pourmg into mto theoverhead the the'Overhead "overhead.John overhead.John overheadJohn " ( 'Overhead Overhead ' overhead . . bf John picked up his lamp and started up the ladder . It was no noft 9 ' ft : ; : Already , a ton or more of heavy chain cham was lying IYlllg on top ol 01 of the themg thelag thepnlng mg lag . . He Be yelled yelleti ycileu for ror help until hs his ! throat was hoarse boarse , but the thesy thesy - sy sy rattle of chain deadened all aU other sound . The ship got underr undery underG6 under G6 y , and there was John , in lD that stuffy bole hole , facing laemg a journey of ofdays ofs ' days and nights to Shanghai Shanghu : , " with , th no lood-no lood no food-no food food - no water-and water and water - and dog dogDe dogr dogne dogie r De ne little uttle air . , draggedto b bfirst 'first first " ' 'first first ' first , , he nearly went crazy ThenIs Then , : as the hours and days dragged draggedgot draggedgot to togot got so he didn't didnt ' care . . The foul toul air drugged him wm into mto a sort of aHunger a af 30 f Hunger pams pains gnawed him h1m mside Inside , but he knew that wasn't wasnt ' the thet theiA theit iA iAt t of his worries The big problem was water John would have haveill 1 11 u his savings savmgs for tor just one big long drink of it in those dark hours . . id 4 , 4FIve i ? Five Days in an Opium Smuggling Smugglmg Cache ! std stdr cr r a wh while e , hunger and thirst roused him from his stupor and helook heI he hefco I G fco look around the compartment he was m In He hoped he might mlght findti find findntion finday ti " ay of gettmg getting ow out . , but he was disappomted disappointed Then , Idly , he turned turnednt10n turnedt'i t'i ti t'iration ' ntion nt10n ration to the boxes on the thc floor He broke one open and-It and It and - it was full fullHIs fulln } ] t tHis . His hunch about those footprints bad had been right fIght There WAS WASg WASing g going gomg on The opium in those boxes bo\.es bo.es bo .es es ' \ . was worth a fortune fortuneFive fortuneFive fortuneTivc . Five days da ) s and five nights . . Then they reached Shanghai . . Overhe Overp Over- Over Overfd - p . fd be he could bear hear the thc anchor chain snaking snaIung out of the locker . lsly Kdy ely able to navigate , John climbed the . ladder b.dder bdder . s _ fn n he came to the second ladder , he almost tainted tamted fainted from weakness5t weakness ' yrst 5t st Helas He \ vas \las las was all In when he tumbled out on deck decy . . The first mate1m matezR mate zR zRtin 1m tin lymg lying ly g there and took him bun to his room ' When the customs launchohn launchtl launch launchTohn tl tlohn Tohn ohn told his ws story of the thc opium oplUm cache , and then be he was sent ashorepital ashorer1 ashore ashoreypital r1 ypital pital for tor a much needed going over over.r overr . . "And And " ) , < I T i- i iA . - -A A - , ' i--- i ii - - - _ i _ - . . . - - - , - . _ _ . . . . . . . haven't havent been in a cham chain locker alone .ince ince since . then , " be beik ik ikIts . "It's Its " t's ts Its ! ' not so bad when whcn you have company . " 4 4WNU , 0 0WNV 0-WNU 0 WNU - -WNU WNU - -WNV WNV - 8er Service Ben-Ico Ben Ico - 1co J |