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Show : which, to Join scores already there, white-clothe- d figures, like a horde of ghouls, poured onto the Mopletgh" flush deck; and, as a ehot heavenward, illuminating the scene to daylight brightness, the naked steel ef the-- krls flickered : in- its downward sweep, and dark, grimacing features showed, and out of the features In a horribly Incredible way the eyes glithe tered. And here and there-upodeck forms law sprawled and prone as fire-flam- e - Uo IMPOSTOR . they had fallen.waiien ripped open a box or car-fridges with his thumb nail, and let them tumble loose Into his pocket, as he stared over the weather-dotWhat was left of the Monlelgn'a crew was already driven back on the lad ders leading to the boat deck. Bam Gulab Singh was making short work of - h. By FRANK L PACKARD It (Coprrteht) CHAPTER - IS Laynton, still on the bridge, was al ternately bawling Into the engine room tube and Jamming the engine telegraph hysterically backward and forward. A weird, uncanny chorus of exultant shrieks, as of devils In unholy revel, came from across the water, and the sound: was close now.,.t Wallen swept his hands across bis eyes. He could make out the other vessel plainly now, gilding like a shad ow down upon them like a shadow, save when the gun's flame burst through the blackness, angry red. And now < behind, him showed an other flame. A curious sight t The steam pouring in immense volumes from the engine room hatch was streaked, as it swirled upward, with darts of yellow and bright red. There was Are below I A Chinaman, one of the coal pass ers, naked to. the waist, blackened, burned, yelling in torment, demented, appeared suddenly upon the deck, ran by him and leaped headlong from the rail overboard. The bridge, useless now for naviga tion, was deserted. Laynton rushed down the ladder and into his room; the quartermaster, who had been at the wheel, came tumbling after the captain, and, like the mates, swung the forward ladder to. the foredeck. The Monleigh rolled with a sudden, heavy lurch. Wallen moved instantly back along the deck. Was she sink "lng? He halted at the lounging room door for a final glance. The steam, roaring from the engine room hatch, was streaked now with deeper yellow, deeper red. And now there came the crackle of small arms from the crew forward! the answer demoniacal from close aboard, and, it seemed, a thousand tiny flashes as the fire was returned. They were close alongside now be heard the swish of the other's screw going astern to stop the way. They were preparing to board ! Why t Why not stand off and sink the Monleigh? the Monleigh was probably sinking now. Yes, he knew why. They were afraid that ..what .Mott had. suggested might be true that he In the darkness might escape In a boat He laughed suddenly. What was it Gunga had said : "A fight, sahib, that I would to Allah I might see again before I diet" Well, Gunga had not prayed to Allah In vain. Gunga would have his fight They were going to board. God, how they lined the decks and rails out there they were in their mob-screa- m -- hundreds! It was light now, like the play of 'lightning with the volleying of the Aye, Gunga would have his fight ! He laughed again wildly and then terror came. It seemed to freeze his soul with horror, unnerving him, unmanning him for an instant What of her I And then Wall en's face drew into set rigid lines, and there came into his eyes a look that was not good to see and he turned and dashed below. "Open, Gunga, quick !" he shouted. And as the door swung back: "Miss MacKay both of you this way I" They ran out to meet htm, and be caught her suddenly, steadying her as there came a violent shock and with the shock a hideous, louder outburst of . yelling. It was Ram Gulab Singh alongside v;1 Half n'al striding her, 'carrying-nerWallen, with Gunga behind, gained the top of the companionway, ran out onto the deck through the starboard door of the lounging room and, protected . on this- aide by tti deck houses, rushed forward toward the bridge. small-arm- 1 V - was a last stand that was all ultimately the same as though they had remained below, except that here they could die fighting and not as rats In a trap, Ue and Gunga could hold the bridge ladders until the Monleigh went down, or nntll at least every other part of the ship was in the hands of Ram Gulab Singh; and the cbarthouse would serve as a protection for her until until his brain went sick again with fear at thought of her and it did not seem to be his voice that was shouting so reassuringly over the hor.lt-- . - rible babel around hlin. "Up you go. Miss MacKay t That's It t Splendldl Now Into the chart-rooI" He pushed her almost forcibly Inside and swung toward Gunga. "Gunga, take the starboard ladder I'll take the port" Around-,- ' him "wm anftifernoT screams, shrieks, yells and cries, the shrill hiss of escaping steam, the sharp crackle of a flume leaping' upward through the englueroom .hatch, the fire filled crash and rattle of small-ar- m the"au Below on the forward s though hell Itself were great looming shape of ,asulut the Monlelgh's .'; ., ,. : deck It was loosed. The a ve.wl lay bow, from i as he must ! 7 ' With the Monleigh afire, even if tbe fire were still amidships, It was a precarious thing for that other vessel to lay there alongside! That was Laynton and two of the crew oa the starboard ladder fighting like demons J and directly below him, on the lower port ladder, were Mott and Larsen and VP others no, there were only Larsen and . two of the crew Mott had pitched downward Into the sweep of a krls, seeming most curiously to meet the glint of it In mid air. Six left! What wa the matter below there now? What was that infuriated, triumphant yell of the 'Malays, louder than any than had gone before? They were swarming up both ladders Layn ton and ' Larsen -- from each side had given way they were hidden under the bridge now, and he could not see, - 1 and ': Gunga's voice rang out: ."Sahib, they corner In a flash Wallen swung about and dropped down full length on the bridge at the head of the port ladder, shout lng to Gunga to do the same. He could understand now the sudden retreat from the low ladders. The Malays had got aft somehow and were now sweeping along the deck, screaming as they came, to take the Monlelgh'a men in the rear. . And now the fight raged at the foot of his own ladder. Larsen and one man gained it and Larsen toppled In a heap. The seaman, battling like madman, made the first step of the ladder, the second, another and then a form, leaping from the ruck below, pulled the man backward and crashed down himself beside his victim, as Wa lien's revolver streamed fire down the ladderway. : The last of the Monlelgh'a men was . gone I And then they came ,' howling. screaming, mad with tbe blood-luthat was upon them, sweeping upward one after another and on? after the other went down before Wgllen's fire, ' THE BEAYEK COUNTY TVTi:KLYRESS. BEAVER, UTAH the ngtneroom batch, and tits time the other reeled back as th Mow went tome, Bat the next instant the man behind Rata Gulab Singh on , the ladder reached forward between nl leader's legs and Jerked Wallen's feet from beneath, him. There was a scream of triumph from Ram Gulab Singh ; and as Wallen, losing his balance, pitched forward, be caught the flash of the . whirling krt's coming down upon him. And then, in the fraction of a sec ond that followed, even as he fell, the brain, stimulated a thousandfold, ab sorbing details, registered them upon bis consciousness. v; The blade, within an inch of his head, seemed to fly off into the air as though torn from the other's hands; a revolver roared behind him, the hdt breath of It on his face, and Ram Gulab Singh flung up his hands; her voice was calling his name again and again and then be had smashed his fists full into Ram Gulab Singh. Mechanically his arms locked around the other; and hurtling downward over the sprawled bodies on the ladder-steps, bowling those behind over like ninepins, Wallen spun, twisting and turning in the air, a dead man Clutched in his embrace, and crashed upon the deck, and his arms relaxed, and he lay still. : When be opened his eyes he was in Gunga's arms, and Helen MacKay was binding something about his head ; and there was a strange stillness about him strange because the roar of the flames was stillness where it seemed there Should MTshduttT&iiaWM and demoniacal screams anu the clash of arms and the shrieks of dying men. He staggered up to his feet Sailors in naval uniform were run ning about the decks, and a young officer was peering into his face. Wal len tried to place the other, and failed at first because his head was. swim ming so dizzily ; and then he remera bered that it was Lieutenant Damon, of the gunboat York, who had crossed with him once In the Tokamara. "A narrow squeak, old chap!" Damon was saying, with a grip on Wal len's hand. '"The old York's chasing those devils out there now hear the guns! We got the whole story from Miss MacKay two days ago. The com mander sent fne off with a couple of boats' crews in the hope that we'd find some of you alive ; and he sent me be cause I'd know you, Wallen, my boy If you were really Wallen.' "I I don't understand," said Wal len weakly. "No I dare say not!" Damon laughed cheerily. "And there. Isn't much time now to explain; we've got to take to the boat- But in a word. Miss MacKay here wirelessed your servant's story to Singapore and asked for help for herself, giving a nautical position that she said she had succeed ed in getting from the second officer. You had a day's start of us, but you must bare been averaging over twelve knots, or we'd have come up sooner. "They didn't know what to make of Sam's murthat story of Drink-Hous- e der as your servant told it but they rounded up the "Chinese and Malays that he accused; and two of them con fessed, implicating the others. That clears you, old man. Here steady ! Don't wabble like thatl 111 get couple of my men to carry you to the boat" He turned away, hurrying along " the deck. . wallen's hand, raised to sweep across his eyes, touched tbe hand that not so deftly now', a little tremblingly now, was still making a pretense at knotting the bandage. "You you sent the atory my story," he said eagerly. "Then you believed me all the time P . She shook her head. "I I wanted to believe oh, I wanted to," she. said wistfully. "Only m m m s r f u mw -- v i. . i It 'r'.-av.jli- In-i- i I If II I III I . . I lIMtl ..AUui'" 1 M V bw in. .kr. rXT. in (T .tr.. ver; 5 .!'" AUt. i'ftx !ir't 1 U SHERMAN. American knows By JOHN DICKINSON VEltY good fiTiia w W BJIUUIU KIIUW are indebted for Uiltl II. IB ThutkPtiv-In- g ' day, one of Urn most enjoyable holidays of the y year. So at this time we pause In the mad rush of the twentieth century to give thought to them. Next year the tercentenary of their landing will be celebrated with considerable pomp and ceremony In the United States, England and Holland. Every American schoolboy of course occa-lonll- knows that the'rilgrlm Fathers cially landed on Plymouth Rock, offi- and that the famous rock Is at Plymouth, Mass. . But there are comparatively few Americans- who know that the first landing of the ' Pilgrims was at Provlncetown, Mass, and are familiar with their doings during the month The Mayflower lay In the quiet har comprising the nucleus of the colony 1 quaint account of the' landing of the bor Inside Cape Cod. , . hired Pilgrims at Provlncetown: and seven were servants There was no Provlncetown there, workmen. The seven remaining adult "Wednesday, the sixth of September of course. In 1C20, but Cape Cod was males were either too 111 to sign (they (1620), the wind coming East North there and Its name was Cape, Cod. all soon died) or else the list Is Im- East a fine small gale, we loosed from In 1002 Bartholomew Gosnold, the ex perfect. In this- compact lies the germ Pllraouth, having been kindly enterplorer, had visited the region and had of tbe Declaration of Independence. tained and courteously used by divers ' found codfish so plentiful that he had It Is as follows: friends their dwelling, and after many -- I.;" ' name or )ust naturally called the God. Anieu. We; difficulties in bbysterlus stonnes, at "nn the neck of land Cape Cod. Ever since whose names are underwritten, the length by God's providence upon ' the there has been any Provlncetown, loyal subjects of our dread sovereign, ninth of November following, by breake j however. Its people have been sensl Lord King James, by the grace of God, of the day we espied land which we tive on the subject of its claims to first of Great Britain, France and Irelund, esteemed to be Cape Cod. and so it honors. That's why Provlncetown King Defender of the faith, etc.. hav- proved. And the appearunre of It much now has a monument on High Pole ing undertaken for tbe glory of God comforted us, esjecially on seeing so hilt Many years were required to and the advancement of the Christian goodly a land, .ond woodded to the raise the money for Its erection. faith and. the honor of our king and brink of. the wa, It caused us to The landing of the Pilgrims at Ply country, a voyage to plant the first together and praise God that He mouth was a slow Job. The congre- colony in the northern part of Vir- had given It to us once Rgalne to see gation of John Robinson at Leyden ginia; do by. these presepts solemnly land. And thus we made our course procured from the London company and mutually In the presence of God South South West purposing to go to for Virginia a patent of land and made and one another, covenant and com- a JUver ten Leagues to the South of financial arrangements, for the sailing bine ourselves together into a civic the Cape, but at nlghte, the wind' beof a part of their number. The Speed body politic for our better ordering ing contrary, we put rounde againe well of ,60 tons, was purchased in Hol- and preservation, and f utterance of for the Bay of Cape Cod, and upon land, and In July 1620 it sailed to the ends aforesaid, and by virtue here- the 11 we came to an anchor In the There the of do enact constitute and frame such Bay, which is a good Harbour and a Southampton. England. Ttnr rfwnf . . . . . . .. . . wiiinit ... - " . . In Mayflower of 180 tons wa awaiting JuHt and equal laws, ordinances, acts, nlrtinnnt I " , rlrplwl It The two ships with about tl'O pas- constitutions and officers, from time to the entrance, which la about four miles to sea In Auguht The time, as- shall be thought most meet over from Jand to land, compassed And then her head bent lower, very sengers putwas soon reported leaking and convenient for the general good about to the very Sea with Okes, Pines, Speedwell close to his, and her cheek brushed his and both . , I T 0 , .1 In at Dartmouth. of the colony, unto which we promise jumiit-rships put sweei sowainu anu oiner and It was wet with tears. At sea again, the Speedwell was a eec-- all our submission and obedience. In wood ; It hai a one "wherein harbotjr "Helen 1" he whispered. ond time reported leaking and return witness whereof we have hereunto thousand salle of ships may safely "Come on 1". called Damon, return- was made to Plymouth. It wars not subscribed our names at Cape Cod ride, there we reielved ourselves with ing. "Well have to rumble into the discovered until later that the alarm the eleventh of November, In the wood and water, and refreshed our Ram Gulab Singhl" He Cried. Itoat The commander said I was to ever the. Speedwell was due to Its mas- year of tbe reign of our. sovereign. people, while our shallop was fitted to take you ashore and wait for the York ter's trickery. The Speedwell was Lord King JUmes of England, France emixf ttiA Tlnf tn ftAVrh tnr a inh1t. and the ladder steps grew cluttered, to get back r but there's a fellow out abnhdoned at . Pjymouth and the. size and.. IrebuxL - the- - elghtewnth - end - of and Wallen laughed aloud. lie .could tlony there' wns the greatest" store of a 'come' but of the, reduced. The Mayflower Scotland the hold that ladder ngalnst a thousand of there8cotsman--whd,Anno Domini, fowle that ever we sew." party from shore In a big proa that I passed left Plymouth alone early to geptem- them against an hell t A madness, i. ,Tbe,.inigrims had "bard time the' I aa we came aboard, sod that'll be bet ' wasDer. ; Americans should understand and first winter at Plymouth, but In 1021 laughed ter than a three-mil- e ftmiy," pult "nine-we- ek It sighted the shore appreciate the difference between the "determined to nave a again. He could hear Gunga singing period of rec"He can't come alongside, of course of Cod. far out of their Pilgrims and the Puritans; rite .pil- reation, combined with thanksgiving In a strange, croonlike way as he Being Qnpe too risky a maneuver with the headcoupee the Pilgrims beaded south'. "But grims- were few ; they were Separa- for. their many mercies." The govfought the fire's made aft but he's wait- I hours later tbe course wa again tists; they withdrew from the estab- ernor therennon sent out four bnnts- Another rush t He fired, fired once way tiv In us. the word I had with ing for changed- - for the nearest shore. -- Sat" lished Clrurch of England; they came men who In one day secured enough more and- - then the-.- hammer only him T whenT iold'hliri to" stand, by, 'he urday. November 11 (21 N. S.), 1020. to America to secure freedom of clicked as he pulled the trigger. Tbe seemed wor; gamft.fpr,.tbe purpose.,. Mjua&U,.4he. to know you the- - MnyfloweF rounded Cape "Cod-a-nd sTiIpTfliey" carM'not'how" other'men Indlnn chief was lnvltel to partlclnte magaxlna. was empty And then, as though to corroborate found harbor. worshiped; they did little colonizing, in this first thanksgiving, He snatched at bis pocket for car-- Damon's lie acceptwords, across the water came This radical "change of destination their Influence upon the. nation was ed and brought 00 people-wit- h him. mages, as tne great iorm or a man, a hall In a strong, big voice. A Introduced a complication. Sme of small as compared with the Puritans. The celebration lasted three diijf. tall and gaunt with distorted face, "Aboard there! Wallen I "TU Mae the hired laborers threatened to break The Puritans came over In thouThe first Thanksgiving day obnerved swept through the screaming mass be Knight o Arm. Wallen! lion, is ft loose from their engagements on land sands, beginning with 1G30; they re- by all the states of the Union was reclow and sprang up tbe ladder. . i lng. because of the loss of the author tained their membership in the Church ommended by proclamation of conThere was no time to load the man well wl yer And Wallen lifted his head at .the ity delegated In the patent from the of England; they brought the church was almost at the top, with, a dozen gress after the surrender of Burgoyne was-faland dlzry, and f ery Virginia company. The neeenWty of with them to reform It; .they Intended In 1777 aud was fixed for followers behind him. Wallen leaped cry. He Thursday. to his feet and with clubbed revolver weak ; but the flames were lighting up some form of civil government to unite to worship as they pleased and to those brown, and to restrain the muke everyone else worship the same until 1784 congress continued to receyes, and the lunged forward. the eyes were smiling Into hi. insurgent was Imperative. . Sou the fa way; "they fell first upon their knees ommend A day for Thanksclvliui. the And then suddenly the great white "Yes! he cried, and his voice rang mous Mayflower or Provlncetown com and then upon the aborigines;" beam of a searchlight from seaward they several Mates accepting the date. Then and buoyant out Into the dark- pact was drawn up and signed before colonized widely and effectively; from for a time the glad an over for observance was left Instant the hrldpe ness, odt to played MacKolgbt pf Arm. "All's the first voyager landed. Of the 41 them the Amerlcnn people got whot to the states. and in the while Hunt Wallen looked The day had Its wholly well, MacKnlght ! All's well nlgners to thU compact, wblrh is often j Is known as the "Puritan conscience." ups and downs. - I'resldent Uncola into the eyes of Rnm Gulab Singh THE EXD.J In the famous book entitled "Mourt's naflonollzed It eulogized as the flrrt written const!-- ' and knew it was Ram Gulab Singh, be by proclamation tn tutlon In the world, 81 were the adults Relation" ono will find he following 18(53, cause the hand that clutched at the g Irt China. i. ladder's side rope was fingtrleaa, save ' " Foreign missionaries in Chefoo. for the forefinger, The unprotected condition of the coast ONE WAY. "Ram Gulab Singh P he cried, and Shanghai. -Foochow Atnoy and Swa-towas brought to the nation's attention motor speeders arrpnfpdJt have Introduced lace making Many struck with all his might and missed, lu , 4he Wat, oaf-- . IMtemrat.-IVmnrthe Cblne women, and tonsKfc yil'town;vUn.le'J5nH' ""The whir rtn Whom arts' sang In amoag planned the fortifications of the whole erable been lace "No. There used bai be. but we netexported from his ear as he flung himself aldewUe to seohoanl. as wll as synlrms of Im- tled them fellers all rlcht. Hain't beeo time to time. Silk, linen and cotton avoid the blow. Among the namee of distinguished provement for Internal waterways and hnrdly an arrest In six months." . thread are used in Chefoo, and linen "You have your father's face, you and The government spent 15 "How did you mamipe Itf cnf:on In the other places. The Frenchmen who have served the Uni- canals. rat !" the man shrieked, and lifted tbe lace Is made more ted States Is that of Gen. Simon Ber years 4n this work, of which Fort Mon"Wal, we J'f fixed the uped limit than Is poscheaply blade to swing agnln.. sible eluewhere because of the low hard of the French engineers under roe, In Virginia, Is the principal visible at "5 .miles an hour,-enoVrnwt " The white Heht was gone search reniluder. . 'em kin It. b'p.sh ! Napoleon. General Bernard was wages putd In China, but a lack of lston of the the length ing along ship. Again in changing patterns to meet by 1he United States governTranscrlpl. Wnllen strtirk In the light of the changing tastes and fashions of fortification All the is not ment to suierlutend gold that pays a abroad per flimics now that were burning, angry, the Atlantic coast. With Napoleon In cent dividend and calls for a 12 per Girls. If singleness la bllsn. 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