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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH and baa blm or ber, b treats tbe women the same as the men lashad te a tree, and flogs away till tha poor By ELLERY II. CLARK' TORY FROM Ceprrlfht THE START la ths small Niw Jsrssy villas of Straltsmouth, In tho y f Richard Llndaajr, who tsll tho otory, flvts an oshlbltlon of bla markmanohlp hoforo oomo villagers and a atrangor, with whom thsy aftarward dlna at Tha convocation tha tavarn. turna on a notorious plrata, whoaa ahlp, tha Utack 1'anthar, la thought to bo In tha vicinity. Nait morning Llndaay, aftar wild ducks, la alttlng In a "blind" whan thraa atrangara land on tha baach naar him. Tby bury a chaat and than ona of tbam, Bur-forroeognliad by Llndaay aa tba man ha talked with tha day bafora, kllla ona of hla com pan Iona. Llndaay'a praaanca la dla covarad. Tha third man la Cap tain Barclay of tha black Ran thar. Tha thraa go aboard. Lind aay meata there a youth to whom ha baara a ramarkabla reaem blanca, Robert McAlllatar, whom Barclay captured on hla way to hla uncle'a plantation In Jamaica. Barclay haa aworn to kill tha elder McAlltater. Hob la aakad to act aa a apy In hla uncle'a houae hold. Ha refuaea. 1741, hr Bnbh-lIrrU- WNU Servk. I Cs most with hi first word I wa to learn the truth, and, aa he apnke, I perceived, further, that Barclay himself had also come on deck, and stood by the weather-rai- l nonchalantly the receding land. "The captain wishei speech with you," said Burford. and added, not unkindly, "Do whut he asks, no mutter what It !. I know hlin well; I know hi mood. If you cross him now, you die before an hour 1 past. And" he added significantly, "you will not die a speedily as the other lad; you will pray for death t score of times before It cornea to you." I felt my heart sink at hla words. "Then McAllister" I cried, and did not complete the question. Ill nod was autflclent answer, and without more word he led the way. We were standing out to sea, and tho schooner, well heeled over, wn howling along at a great rate. The captain, back to us, stood leaning against the roll, gazing out at the broad expanse of sea and sky. lie turned at our approach, with one gesture dismissed Burford, and with another bade me take my pluce at his side. "You are learning," he said, some- g d, CHAPTER III 1174 . Continued s Tha captain gazed at hltn grltuly. "You would dig first I The gnawer came like an echo. "I would die first." There fell etlence. Instinctively my cyea eought liurclay'g face, and I aeented to read there, not only Inflexible resolve, but something besides resentment, perhnps, at meeting au ad versa ry as steadfast as himself, and yet, withal, a reluctance to force a crisis. And when at length he epoke, It was evident that my conjectures were correct, for he did what wae for him almost unheard of he chose deliberately to repeat himself, and thus to make his meaning crystal dear. "Once again," he said, I assure you, on my honor as a gentleman, that Andrew McAllister is unworthy of consideration at your hands. For any fate that may befall him, he has but himself to blame. You need waste no pity, no sympathy, no act of upon him. And once more I repeat that If you choose to disbelieve me, and to cast your lot with your uncle, then for you that means but one thing high-pitche- d l, 1 2 plot-makin- g 3 6 fr ."The Captain Wiahes Speech With You." thing of Fate's revenges; something of the tangled thread that make up the pattern of life. Doubtless you conman' life of great Importance sider a sacred thing. Perhaps It Is In your village; but here" and he Indicated with a sweep Of hi hand the ship and the eea and the sky "a man's life Is no more precious than a flea's. Take yourself, You are nothing to gave for a me less than nothing, chance Resemblance, you would this Instant be snugly tucked away on the sand spit yonder, with a great hole In your forehead,, and sand for your blanket, and the ooze of the tide for your bed ; sleeping for all eternity" In spite of myself, I shuddered at the picture, for though no scholar, this swaggering captain had a marvelous knack of using words. Presently he "And young McAllister continued: was nothing to me. You have the proof of that. And you aee what happens to stubborn young men. I am You doubtless think warning you. there Is right In the world and wrong In the world, and that you must do what la right But I tel! you that on this schooner there ts no right or wrong except my word. What I wish Is right ; what I do not wish Is wrong. You are not I think, an over-brigyoung man, but I hope that at least you can aee that" Now' I did not take this conclusion kindly, for though the world In general has, I fear, seemed to share that Idea of my abilities which the captain had Just expressed, I myself have always felt that I was brighter than supKsed, barring perhaps, as I admit, a certain slowness at times In grasping a situation quickly. Yet mindful of what Burford had said to me, I kept my temper and answered quietly enough, Yea, I understand that" lie looked at me with that curious gleam In his eyes which was often there, and which I hated a kind of amused, contemptuous glance that made you feel his delight in his cleverness and hla acorn for your stupidity and then all at once he said: "Well, Mr. McAllister " He stopped with these words, aa If to aee if he could catch me napping, but for once he did not, for though I own that for an Instant I thought he had made a slip, the next second I perceived first that he was too clever a man to do that, and secondly that If It was not a slip there was a purpose In It And what that purpose was It was not hard to guess. And so, to surprise him, and to show him that he had underrated me, I answered roundly, as he paused: "Yes, Captain, tbnt's my name. And Indeed he was surprised. CHAPTER IV At first I think he could not believe the quickness I hud shown, but presently, Another Mans Shoes Presently, as I stood gazing blank- perhupg from a smile which I could ly forth over the blue waters, I felt a not restrain, he saw that I understood band upon my arm, and wheeling him, for he laughed and fetched me abont with a start, I found Burford at a clap on the back, crying, "Well, mr elbow. Instantly I searched his well, I thought you were simple, and here 1 find that you are deep and subace for some sign of what had happened, only to find that his expression tle yes, a d d dangerous rogue." Now. although this should not bavs Jres as Inscrutable as ever. Yet al- half-tolera- GdUt 5 death!" half-Amuse- d jyOrv 4 t, As lie finished speaking, I glanced quickly at McAllister and Instantly hope died In my heart, ror ho sat gazing at the captain without the tremor f an eyelid, and with an air of contempt, as If this pirate, lesplte his power and force of character, were far removed from the other's world. lie did not even deign to speak; a faint, shake of his head was his only reply. The result was Immediate, for he could not, 1 think, have chosen surer means to antagonize and enrage the captain. Like a flash Barclay was on hie feet, his face livid with wrath, and turning to me, he uttered the curt command, "Go on deck I" I rose slowly to my feet; then paused, Irresolute, striving desperately to thtnk of some expedient by which I might aid McAllister. Yet the case eemed hopeless. We were two strip-llug- s without weapons; our captors were picked fighting men. In the prime of life, and not merely Immensely our superiors In strength, but slayers by profession, and armed to the teeth. Again my eyes sought McAllister's, and he seemed Instantly to divine what was passing In my mind, for once more he shook his head, aud with his hand made the slightest possible gesture toward the companion-way- . There was no time for more, for our Interchange, brief as It was, had not escaped the captain. Ills fuce, as he glared at me, was like a storm cloud, and I perceived that his hand had dropped, threateningly, below the level of the table, lie snarled, rather than spoke the words, "On deck I" Wholly against my will, therefore, I yielded, and reluctantly ascended the companion, step by step. But at the top, moved by an Impulse that I could not resist, I turned and enst one final glance below. In these few moments the whole scene had changed ; Captain Barclay had lost no time. The door leading forward from the cabin was pen, and from my outlook the space beyond loomed like a dungeon, black as night. Through this door McAllister was In the act of passing, hut whether of his own free will, or whether. as It appeared to me, through the compulsion of Burford and the captain, I could not say. Then, realizing that I was powerless, I turned once more and regained the dock. Yet In the moment that I stood there, without moving, I heard, or seemed to hear, the scuflllng sounds of a struggle, and scream. then one shrill, For an Instant I think my senses actually deserted me, for when I became once more conscious of my surroundings, I stood gripping the after-raigazing fixedly at our fonmlng wake. And for the first time In my life I realized that I was talking aloud to myself. "You heard no scream," I was "You heard 6aying, half angrily. nothing. Nothing at all." f nigger's back atreaua blood, Whether so or not he doesn't die care, long they aa he haa his fun. He's a coward at heart ; h wouldn't meet you In a fair fight; but be's brave aa a lion with pleased me, I own that It did, and those poor defenseless blacks. A misafter a little he went on, "Now then, went to Shively once, and aa man to man" aud I own that I sionary him to treat tbe slaves with begged liked this too "I am going to tell you more to give th. ra some consideration," CL my whole plan. There Is that blacksJtne hours for time to learn hearted Andrew McAllister, rich and recreation andreligion, And what was play. prosperoua with the treasure that wa answer? That bs had his Shively's haa hulf mine and what be done? He master's Interests to look out for, that has bought a great plantation on the and recreation paid no divisouthern const of Jamulca, and there religion dends, that wiser men than hs had he la raising sugar cans and growing It out, and that It waa cheaper richer still. Where does Ills lubor figured In the end to drive slave to death In come from? Why, It's slave labor, of a few years and then fill their places course. And be doesn't have to buy with new ones than to let them live hla slaves from others; he ha a ship When you trade-i- n your used car for a out their allotted span In health and that dues nothing but trade, back and some kind of happiness. Treats them new car, you are after all making a purforth, In a kind of circle, and every like brutes, yod may say. Why. tbe port she touches makes blm richer. meanest brut that ever skulked and chase, not a sale. You are simply apply Look now, while I rnuke It plain to cowered In the depths of the Jungle Is you. Two vessels he has ; one a briging your present car as a credit toward a king beside those poor black slaves." antine, the Shark, that lulls the CaribI Certainly, as he put the matter, the purchase price of the new car. bean, a plrute out and out But It's felt a hearty hatred for both these the other that bis steady, respectable master and the men the trader; she's the bark Ashantee. That hrtital mate and the Your used car has only one fundamental captain, doubtburk he loads In Jamulca with sugar bad he the less Impression perceiving and mnlusses, and up the coast she basis of value; i. e., what the dealer who mndc, hastened to drive It home. goes to New England. What happens "Well, enough of Shively," he conto that sugar and molasses? It's made accepts it in trade can get for it in the Into rum the best New England rum. tinued. "Let me tell you something used car market. And where does thut rum go? It goes more about McAllister. You Imagine, out to Bonny and Culabar. And of course, that he Uvea on his plantatYour used car has seemingly different what Is loaded In exchange for that ion. But he doesnt Ills conscience rum? Some. gold and some Ivory, but Is too Mack for that. He's picked the values because competitive dealers are mostly niggers prime niggers, worth spot where he lives on purpose. The fifty pounds a lieud; and back cornea plantation borders on a beautiful rivbidding to sell you a new car. the bark to Jamaica, and the slaves er, with a narrow outlet to the sea. a but little ways Inland the river are landed at Andrew McAllisters The largest allowance is not necessarily plantation, and they raise more sugar broadens into a kind of lagoon, and In and molasses, and that makes more the middle of It Is an Island, and on the best deal for you. Sometimes it is; the Island McAllister haa built bis rum, that bring more slaves to Jaas almost house, say, or, you might maica again. Around and around In sometimes it is not. a circle ; can you Improve on that for his fort for that' what It really Is. a damnable way of getting rich? Isn't lie has a garrison, I understand, a An excessive allowance may mean that that a game to muke the devil rub hla dozen men, good fighters, and there the old fox Uvea, never stirring from bands and laugh?" you are paying an excessive price for I could only nod assent. And I could hla den unless he has to. And there not help thinking what my father he hoards and plans and adds to hla the new car in comparison with its real would say if he could bear of this treasure. A coward, a skulker" and too he made a gesture of contempt wicked trade. Of the horrors of the value. "middle passage" I had heard him tell, deep for words. of the deud bodies flung over to the There fell alienee, while be gazed First judge the merits of the new car in sharks; aye, and sometimes, when over the rail Into the sunshine with a winds baffled and food and water ran fierce and enger gleam In hla eyes. It comparison with its price, including all low, of live men burled to their deaths was some time before he turned to me under the shadow of the n night aky, again. "I called you McAllister Just delivery and finance charges. Then with no one to know of tltelr murder now," he snld, "and you understood my weigh any difference in allowance and avenge It. Surely, as the captain reason. That young man was true to said, this sailing In an evil circle was his uncle; you cannot blame him; offered on your used car. he did not know what Andrew McAllisa game to mnke the devil laugh. ter renlly Is. And so you become So vividly, Indeed, did he present the picture to my mind, that I must Robert McAllister. We hove the chests the moment I did not see with his clothing and all his effects; own that the incongruous side of a man of hU we have the letters from his uncle ; profession thus condemning McAllis- we are bound to make a success of our ter ; for It was a case of the pot call- plan. No one on the Island has ever A car for every purse and purpose ing the kettle black, and while the seen you; no one had ever seen him; captain's fine show of Indignation and the resemblance between you Is so CHEVROLET PONTIAC OLDSMOBILB OAKLAND would have come well enough from the strong that if we could bring back BUICK LASALLE CADILLAC mouth of another, It fell oddly from young McAllister from the dead, and take a wise dress you alike, it the Ups of a professed pirate, a murGENERAL MOTORS TRUCKS YELLOW CABS AND COACHES derer, and a plunderer of the sens. man to tell you apart. Ive given you FRIGIDAIRETkt tlectric nfrigtrator Yet, as I have said before and as I the outline of the scheme ; now for the home; may say again, Capt. Francis Barclay details. I land you near-hiwas the strangest mixture of a man I you make your way to that cursed have ever known at oue and the same mate, and make yourself Between Cirle A Cinch time, though It sounds, and doubtless known, and he brings you to the island. All you have to do ts to play Is, Incredible, a rascal and a gentle"AU men are liars." Bill How did yon ever break your man, a murderer and a philosopher, a the dutiful nephew, to get McAllister's "That makes them Interesting." Mike "Oh, easy. I engagement?" cruel sneering brute and a man who confidence, to find out all you can Louisville Courier-Journa- l. told her my salary." could yet charm you, with his subtle about the Island and Its garrison, to speech, Into thinking that black was find out, above all, where he keeps It Is so much easier to forget a faIf a man delights In something that white. And so now, as doubtless he his treasure. Then, In a fortnight, vor than it is to forgive an Injury. is his, have tact enough to praise It Intended, he managed to fill me with you will meet me again, and we shall resentment against Andrew McAllister talk things over. What will happen next depends on what you have and hla nefarious trade. Undoubtedly, Indeed, he could see by learned. It may be better to storm my face, which I am told too openly the Island, or It may be that you will reveals my emotions, that I waa Justly have to kill him yourself. But no" he Indignant, for he continued, "And who broke off suddenly, and much to my runs hla plantation for him? That relief "that wouldnt do unless it was spawn of Satan, Jack the only way! I want to have his Shively, hla precious mate. Which Is skinny throat between my hands. But we can settle that later. There's only Rhe worse of the two, you ask me" though I bad not asked blm at all, and one thing to do now, and that la for bad not studied hard enough at school yon to give roe your solemn word of to appreciate hla rhetorical skill honor that yon will be faithful to me; "Well, that's hard to aay. But I'd an- and that you will undertake this venswer you this way. Give me McAllisture aa I suggest. If you refuse" he ter for wholesale villainy, for working turned squarely toward me, and hla out schemes on a big scale. But for tone was hard as steel "then much But Flyosan downright petty cruelty theres no one as I regret It, I'll have you stripped to beat Shively. Fve seen him torture and tied to the foremast before five will him too! . a prisoner to death, and laugh while minutes are gone, and Ill rouse my he was doing It. And hes the man, gentle darlings from their d d drunkif you can Imagine It, who has full en sleep and have them pe!t you with BEEN burying flies Here Is the right insecticide charge of McAllisters great plantaempty rum bottles till theyve let out and mosquitoes by the In So a blood It's veins. of for each inseett of tion. Why, boy, your very kingdom every drop millions. make your choice, once and for all. the damned. There's only one rule FLYOSAN, Liquid Spray kills the rule of the whip and whether he Will you die like a dog or live like I Flyosan floats through your room, flies and mosquitoes. haa cause for It or not, whenever the man?" killing every single fly and mosPETERMANS ANT whim take him he singles out a slave quito getting into corners and (TO BE CONTINUED.) ants. crevice you could never see. PETERMANS DISCOVERY, XXXX4XXX4XX4XXXXXXXXXXXXX'XXXX4 But use Flyosan Itself the first Liquid exterminates bedbugs, liquid insect spray on the market PETERMANS ROACH FOOD not Flyosan only exterminates that cockroach kills every Cy and mosquito in your army. house, liut also kills the millions "Just Jealous," says Mr. Gush, dropId like to have you meet Mr. Gush. disease-hearin- g of MOTH FOOD-prot- ects PETERMANS deadly, germs Into hla dime with the Mr. Gush la a salesman. ping pocket on the body of each. , against moths. At any rate, that la what Mr. Gush the other one where It can make more And "swatting" onty scatters these tells people and that la what he noise. Boston Globe. You must have a specific insectirewrote at the top of his Income-tagerms into tbe air you and your cide for each insect. No single inturn. family breathe. secticide will exterminate them Real Toy Town Mrs. thinks Gush I Just know that alL We have had nearly 50 years The real toy towu of Britain Is LonPetermans has her husband la a big business man. don. Wooden We know that is true. as rocking-horse- s such experience. the insecttoys right She's heard blm confess as much ao come In thouand icide fo each many times. sands from factories In south London. insect. On sals Mr. Gush haa a fine address. As he In the old wooden toys were wherever drugs days ays, so many salesmen arent good mostly made by home workers, each sold. are talkers. lie might easily have gone of whom devoted his or ber time to 200 Fifth Ave.,N.Y.C. He haa In for after-dinnspeaking. the production of one particular arJust that effect on you. ticle. But the pay was poor, and the No one caa ever say that Mr. Gush Increasing competition from Germany la refused the gauntlet. He always practically killed this sort of work. ready to do battle with the biggest customer In hi territory. "They can't Unproductive Land bluff me and the bigger they are, the Helps Business Girls to Look Their Best marshes form a part of the Pontine he so harder they fall," originally puts In Italy as the Cara known district The regular use of Cuticura Soap, assisted by touchea of It Mr. Gush has found It difficult to pagna 11 Roma, which Is situated hs Cudcura Ointment when required, keeps the complexion Rome and the coast. Efforts get an attractive arrangement; you tween fresh and free horn blemishes, the hair know what the rest of ua call a good have been made to drain the district, live and glossy, and the hands soft and Job. Speaking before the Happy Hour but without much success, and at the smooth. Cuticura Talcum ts fragrant alIs the used time district club the other day, he announced, The present and refreshing, an Ideal toilet powder. as most a In exclusively grazing I Is ground have trouble letting greatest for cattle. 0oP8e. Ointment B end 6fa. Talccm Be. Mold every my boss keep up with me." where. Sample each free. Aildreee; "Ovttevft Leber A willful group of men have petiMoris, Dept BJ. Meldea, Hue " IWP Cuticura Shaving Stick 25c not Is of tba head the It season an on Just such always tioned for open babies aa Mr. Gush. family that foots the bill GENERAL MOTORS s bald-heade- d , bald-heade- Bugvilles Richest Gtizen d get FOOD-ex-termi- Introducing Mr. Gush, the Great Salesman ). x doll-hous- CUTICURA nates |