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Show yja "t- - ' THW PTOT THE (Qjl&EEN . rOTTWTVNFS PANDQTPH UTAH PEA PIRATES B. KYNE By PETER ' ' t MANS MAN, cAuthor of "WEBSTER Copyright, by Peter Q. Kyat "THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS, SPECIAL RUSH SERVICE secured if yo mention this paper when writing firms below. THAT GIFT YOU MUST GIVE snrgestt jfiftts that last,which are sold by us. Just the dependable. Reasonable prices ease tho x. way. ETC. BOYD PARK , JEWELERS Despite his ticket there was none so foolish as to trust him with one a condition of affairs which, ha tended to sour a disposition not naturally sweet. The yearning to command a steamboat gradually had deResult veloped into an obsession. the fast and commodious S. S. Maggie, as the United States marshal had had the audacity to advertise her. In the beginning, Captain Scraggs had planned to do bay and river towAlas! The ing with the .Maggie. Arst time the unfortunate Scraggs attempted to tow. a heavily laden barge up river, a light fog had come down, necessitating the frequent' blowing of the whistle. Following the sixth long blast, Mr. McGuffey had whistled bowler; Scraggs on the engine-rooswearing horribly, he had demanded to be informed why in this and that the skipper didnt leave that dod-gaed whistle alone. It was using up his steam faster than he could manufacture it Thereafter, Scraggs had used a patent foghorn, and when the hon-rs- t McGuffey had once more- - succeeded ta conserving sufficient steam . to crawi up river, the tide had turned and the Maggie could not buck the ebb, McGuffey declared a few new tubes in the boiler would do the trick, but on the other hand,' Mr. Gibney pointed out that the old craft was practically punk aft and a stiff tow would jerk the tall off the old girl. In despair, therefore Captain Scraggs had abandoned bay and river towing and was prepared to jump overboard and end all, when an opportunity offered for the fre'ehting of garden truck and dairy produce from Half' moon bay to San Francisco. But now a difficulty arose. The new run was an outside one salt water all the way. Under the ruling of the inspectors, the Maggie would be running coastwise the instant she enand string-bea-n gaged in the green-pe- a trade, and Captain Scraggs license provided for no such contingency. His ticket entitled him to act as master on the waters of San Franjisco bay and the waters tributary thereto, and c although Scraggs argued that the ocean constituted waters tributary thereto. if he understood the' English language, the inspectors were obdurate. What if the distance was less than twenty Ave miles? they pointed out. The voyage was undeniably coastwise and carried with It all the risk of wind and wave. And in order to Impress upon --Captain Scraggs the weight of their authority, the Inspectors for six suspended months Captain Scraggs bay and river license for having dared to negotiate two coastwise vovages without consulting them. Furthermore, they warned him that the next time he did it they would condemn the fast and craft. , Green Pea Pirates is a combination of sea and land narrative told in the inimitable style which has given the ter B. Kyne stories such a strong pull with the reading public. It is jolly, even rollicking and has thrill, romance and punch. CHAPTER I. livered, nevertheless. Impersonally. He t v 1 e closed the door furiously They had seen the fog rolling down behind him and started for the galley, the coast shortly after the Maggie Some bright day Im goin to had rounded Pilar Point at sunset and tired o hearin you cuss my proxy,git readed north. Captain Scraggs had Mr. Glbney bawled after him, an ,been steamboating too many unprofit- when that fatal time arrives Ill scatable years on San Francisco bay, the ter a can o a over you an the Sulsun and San Pablo sloughs and shippin worldll know you no more. dogholes and the Sacramento river to Oh, go to glory, you polbe deceived as to the character of isher, tossed back Captain that fog, and he remarked as much to at him over his Scraggs shoulder and honor Mr. Glbney. Wed better turn back was satisfied. In the lee of the pilot to Halfmoon bay and tie up at the house Captain Scraggs paused, set his ' dock, he added. infamous old brown derby hat on the Calamity howler I retorted Mr. deck and leaped furlo.usly upon it Glbney and gave the wheel a spoke or with both feet. Six times he did this ; two. Scraggsy, youre enough to then with a blow of his Ast he make a real f sailor sick at the knocked the ruin back Into a sem' stomach. blance of its original and ImBut I tell you shes a tule fog, Gib. mediately felt better. shape She rises up In the marshes of the If I was you, Id hold my Sacramento and San Joaquin, drifts temper until I skipper, to port ; then Id got down to the bay and out the Golden git jingled an forgit my troubles ingate and Just naturally blocks the expensively, somebody advised him. commerce lasts. while wheels of she Scraggs turned. In a little square Why, Ive known the ferry boats be- hatch tlje head ahd shoulders of Mr. tween San Francisco and Oakland to Bartholomew chief enMcGuffey, e twenty-min-nton lost hours their for get gineer ; Arst, second and third asrun and all along of a blasted sistant engineer, oiler, wiper, water-tende- r, tule fog." and of the Maggie, I dont doubt your word a mite, He was standing on the appeared. t ferry-boaScraggsy. I never did see a steel ladder that led up from his skipper that knew shucks about stuffy engine room and had evidently the Glbney sailorlzlng, imperturbable come up, like a whale, for a breath of Me, Ill smell my way fresh responded. The way you ruin them air. home In any tule fog. bonnets o youm sure is a scandal, Maybe you can an maybe you Mr. McGuffey concluded. If I had a cant, Gib, although far be It from me temper as nasty as yourn Id take to question your ability. Ill take It soothin sirup or somethin for it. pilot-hous- v - Kill-Fle- pig-iro- n ' coal-pass- er - for granted. Nevertheless, I aint to run the risk o you havin catarrh o the nose an confusin your smells tonight. You aint got nothin at stake but your Job, whepeas if I lose the Maggie I lose my hull for- - tune. Bring her about, Gib, an lets hustle back." Dont be an old woman," Mr. Glbney pleaded.. Scraggs, you Just aint got enough works Inside you to fill a . . wrist watch. I aint to poke around In the dark an a tule fog, feelin for the Golden gate, Captain Scraggs shrilled peevishly. H ls bells an panther tracks ! Ive got my old courses, an If I toiler them we cant help gettin home Captain Scraggs laid his hand on Mr. Gibneys great arm and tried to smile paternally. Gib, my dear boy, he pleaded, control yourself. Dont argue with me, Gib. Tm master here an youre mate. Do I make myself dear? . "You do, Scraggsy. But It wont avail you nothin. Youre only master becuz of a gentlemans agreement be- tween us two, an because Pm man enough to Agger theres certain rights due you as owner o the Maggie. But dont you forget that aecordin to the records o the Inspectors office, Im master of the Maggie, an the way I Agger It, whenever theres any call to - show a little real seamanship, that gentlemans agreement dont stand. But this aint one o them times, Before proceeding further with this narrative, due respect for the readers curiosity directs that we diverge for a period sufficient to present a brief history of the steamer Maggie and her peculiar crew. We will begin with the , Maggie. She had been built on Puget sound back in the eighties, and was one hundred and six feet over all, twenty-si- x feet beam and seven feet draft. Driven by a little steeple compound engine, in the pride of her youth she could make ten knots. However, what with old age and boiler scale, the best she could do now was six, and had Mr. McGuffey paid the slightest head to the limitations Imposed upon his steam gauge by the supervising inspector of boilers at San Francisco, she would have been limited to Ave. Each annual Inspection threatened to be her last, and Captain Scraggs, her sole owner, lived in perpetual fear that eventually the day must arrive when, to save the lives of himself and his crew, he would be forced to ship a new boiler and renew the rotten timbers around her deadwood. She had come into Captain Scraggs pos- -- Gib." . Youre whistlin it Is. If we run from this here fog, Its skid's to battleships we dont get into Ban Francisco bay an discharged before six oclock tomorrow night By the time weve taken on coal an water an' what-al- l, itll be eight or nine oclock, with me an McGuffey entitled to mebbe three dollars overtime an havin to argue an scrap with, you to git it not to speak o havin to put to sea the same night sos to be backMn Halfmoon bay to load bright an early next mornin. Scraggsy, I aint no night bird on this run. Do you mean to defy me, Gib? Captain Scraggs little green eyes gleamed balefully. Mr. Gibney looked down upon him with tolerance, as a Great Dane gazes upon a fox terrier. - I certainly do, Scraggsy, old pepperWhatre you pot, he replied calmly. The ghost of a goinf to do about it? smile lighted his Jovial countenance. rn helpless, CapNothin' now. tain Scraggs answered with deadly I Certainly Do, Scraggsy, Old Peppercalm. "But the minute we hit the He Replied Calmly. -Pot," dock you an me parts company. "I dont know whether we will or session at public auction conducted , - not Scraggsy. I aint heeled right by the United States marshal, followAnancially to hit the beach on such ing her capture as she sneaked into ' San Francisco bay one dark night short notice." ' remove to the you, with a load of Chinamen and opium police Ill get blistered Scraggs from Ensenada. She had cost him pirate, you Afteen hundred dollars. screamed, now quite beside himself. to Scraggs Phineas P. Scraggs, Yes? Well, the minute they let go employ his full name was precisely o me Ill come back to the S. S. Magman one might expect to gie and tear her apart Just to see the k'nd of - what makes her go. He leaned out own and operate the Maggie. snaggle-toothee ahd furtive, window and sniffed. the ' Still, with a low cunning that sometimes Tule fog, all right, Scraggs. that aint no reason why the ships passed for great Intelligence, Scraggs company should fast. Is it? Quit bick- character Is best described in a homeerin with me, little one, an see if you ly American word, He was ornery. can't wrastle up some ham an eggs. A native of San Francisco, he had grown up around the docks and had I want my eggs sunny side up. Sensing the futility of further argu- developed from messboy on a river ment, Captain Scraggs sought solace steamer to master of bay and river In a stream of adjectival opprobrium, steamboats, although it is not of recever commanded such a plainly meant for Mr. Glbney but de ord that he hard-earne- d Rat-face- pilot-hous- d 1 st that McGuffeys he was worried. The fog, if anything, was thicker than ever, t Time passed. Suddenly Mr. Gibney thrilled electrically to a shrill yip from Job on the Maggie was the Arst he had had in six months and he treasured it accordingly. For this reason he and Gibney had been inclined to take considerable slack from Captain Scraggs until McGuffey discovered that, in all probability, no engineer in the world, except himself, would have the courage to trust himself within range of the Maggies boilers, and, consequently,, he had Captain Scraggs more or less at his mercy. Upon imparting this suspicion to Mr. Gibney, the latter decided that it would be a cold day, indeed, when his ticlet would not constitute a club y therewith to make Scraggs, as expressed it, mind his Ps and Captain Gib. you been on this run long enough to know that the surf dont sound like nothin else in life but breakers? Glbney retorted wrathfully. I aint certain, Gib. Instantly Gibney signaled McGuffey for half speed ahead. Breakers on the starboard bow, yelled Captain Scraggs. Port bow, The Squarehead corrected him. Ohi my great patience!" Mr. Gibney groaned. Theyre on both bows Qs. It will be seen, therefore, that mutual necessity held this queerly assorted trio together, and, though they quarreled furiously, nevertheless, with the passage of time their own weaknesses and those of the Maggie had aroused in each for the other a curi- an ous affection. While Captain Scraggs frequently pulled" a monumental bluff and threatened to dismiss both Gibney and McGuffey and, in" fact, occasionally went so far as to order them off his ship, on their part Gibney and McGuffey were wont to work the same racket and resign. With the subsidence of their anger and the return to reason, however, the trio had a habit of meeting accidentally in the Bowhead saloon, where, sooner or later, they were certain to bury their .trudge in a foaming beaker of steam beer, and return joyfully to the MagOf all the little ships companv, Neils Halvorsen, colloquially desigwas the nated as The Squarehead, only individual who was, in truth and in fact, his own man. Neils was steady, industrious, faithful, capable, and reliable; any one of a hundred deckhand jobs were ever open to Neils, yet, for some reason best known to himself, he preferred to stick by the Maggie. In his dull way it Is probable that he was fascinated by the agile intelligence of Mr. Gibney, the vitriolic tongue of Captain Scraggs, and the elephantine wit and grizzly bear courage of Mr. McGuffey. At any rate, he delighted in hearing them snarl and wrangle. However, to return to the Maggie which we left entering the tule fog a few miles north of Pilar point: II. Captain Scraggs and The Square-heapartook Arst of the ham and eggs, coffee and bread, which the skipper prepared. Scraggs then prepared a similar meal for Mr. Gibney and McGuffey, set it in the .oven to keep warm, and descended to the engine room to relieve McGuffey for dinner. Neils qt the same time took the course from Mr. Gibney and relieved the latter at the wheel. By this time, darkness had descended upon the world, and the Maggie had entered the fog ; following her custom she proceeded in absolute silence, although as a partial offset to the extreme liability to collision with other coastwise craft, due to the rule aboard the Maggie, Mr. Gibney had laid a course half a mile Inside the usual steamer lanes, albeit due to his overwhelming desire for peace he had neglected to inform his owner of this ; the honest fellow proceeded upon the hypothesis that what people do not know is not apt to trouble them. Captain Scraggs read the log and reported the mileage to Mr. Gibney, who Agured with the stub of a pencil on the pilot house wall, wagged his Better head, and appeared satisAed. he ordered, an help The go t'ord, Squarehead on the lookout. At eight oclock we ought to be right under the lee o Point San Pedro; when I whistle we ought to catch the echo thrown back by the cliff. Listen for It. Promptly at eight oclock Mr. McGuffey was horrIAed to see his steam gauge drop half a pound as the Maggies siren sounded. Mr. Gibney stuck his ingenious head out of the phot house and listened, but no answering echo reached his ears. Hear anything? he bawled. Heard the Maggies siren, Captain Scraggs retorted venomously. Mr. Gibney leaped out on deck, selected a small head of cabbage from a broken crate and hurled it forward. Then he sprang back into the pilot bouse, and straightened the Maggie on her course again. He leaned over the binnacle, with the cuff of his watch-coa- t wiping away the moisture on the glass, and studied the instrument careI dont trust the danged thing, fully. lie muttered. Guess I'll haul her off d y d . were headed straight for the beach. Heres where we all go to the devil together, and he yanked wildly at the signal wdre that led to the engine room, -- with the Intention of giving McGuffey four bells the signal Distributor. 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Gib-ue- CHAPTER 166 MAIN STREET ENGRAVED WEDDING STATIONERY Announcements Invitations Calling Cards. Your printer is our representative and lias complete samples and prices Jennings-Gottscha- li Engraving Go. ' Aint commodious Maggie. In this extremity. Fate had sent to Captain Scraggs imposing, capable, but socially indifferent person who responded to the name of Adelbert P. Gibney. Mr. Gibney had spent part of an adventurous life in the United States navy, where he had applied himself and acquired a fair smattering of navigation. Prior to entering the navy he had been a foremast hand in clipper ships and had held a second mates herth. Following his discharge from the navy he had sailed coastwise on steam schooners, and after attending a navigation schqol for two months, had procured a license as chief mate of steam, any ocean and any tonnage. Unfortunately for Mr. Gibney, he had a faling. Most of us have. The most genial fellow in the world, he was cursed with too much bra'ns and imagination and a thirst which required quenching around pav dav Also, he had that beastlv habit of command which is Inseparable from a bom leader; when he held a Arst mate's herth. he was wont to trv. to run the ship and, on ocens-onsIndie out suggestions to his sk'pper. Thus! ejn. time, he nequired a reputation fof heing unreliable and a wind-bai With 'thes result that skippers were chary of engaging him Not to be too prolix, at the time Captain Scraggs made the dsheartentng discovery (hat he had to have a skpper for Maggie, Mr. Gihnev found himself reduced to the alternative of longshore work or a focastle berth in a wihdiammer bound for blue wafer With alacrity, therefore, Mr. Gibney had accepted Scraggs offer of seventy Ave dollars a month "and found to skipper the Maggie on her coastwise", run. As a Arst rffate of steam he had no difficulty inducing the inspectors to grant him a license to skipper such an abandoned craft as .the Maggie, and accordingly he hung up his ticket in her pilot house a coupler points an try the whistle and was registered as her master, al- again. He did. Still no echo. He was Inbeit, under (a gentlemans agreement with Scraggs he was not to claim the clined to believe that Captain Scraggs title of captain and was known to bad not read the taffrail log correctly, he tried the the world as the Maggies Arst mate, and when at eight-thirtwhistle again he was still without resecond mate, third mate, quartermaster, purser and freight clerk. One sults in the way of an echo from the Nells Halvorsen, a solemn Suede with cliff, albeit the engine room howler in ought him several of a profuse charconstia placid, bovine disposft'on tuted the foens'le hands u Idle Rart acter from the perspiring McGuffey. Weve passed Pedro," Mr. Gibney McGuffey, a wastrel of the Oihre e .mcd su- decided. He ground his cud and muttype but slower-uittetered ugly things to himself, for his h' preme in the engine room case resemh'ed that of r it in jead reckoning had gone astray and g r Scraggs. Whats that? Mr. Gibney bawled. I dunno. Sounds like the surf, ?OYD PARK BLDG TIRE REPAIRING VULCANIZINGTRETREINQuahty service. Standard and Tire Works, 361 So. Stat CHRISTMAS CARDS ORDER YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS From He can furnish Service your local printer. and Quality. BARBER COLLEGES MOLER BARBER COLLEGE. Qualify as ban ber in few weeks. 43 S. West Temple Street. FIXTURES AND SHOW CA8ES are .manufacturers of Bank, Office and Store Fixtures. Art in Fixtures n ouj Salt Lake Cabinet & Fixture Co Business We BEAUTY PARLORS CURLS, SWITCHES. Transformations from $1 93 up. Only human hair used Fast prepaid mail service. Walkers (Dept.) Beauty Parlor, But No Answering Echo Reached Ears. Hit aboard the Maggie astern. At the second Jerk the wire broke, but not until two bells had sounded in the engine room the signal for full speed ahead. The efficient McGuffey promptly kicked her wide open, and the Fates decreed that, having done so, Mr. McGuffey should forthwith climb the ladder and thrust his head out on deck for a breath of fresh air. Instantly a chorus of shrieks up on the focastle head attracted his attention to such a degree that he failed to hear the engine room howler as Mr. Gibney blew frantically into- - INFORMATION DEPARTMENT Commercial inquiries answered and information gladly furnished withfor full speed out cost. Address any firm above. it Miners Cradle. The cradle is a simple appliance for treating , pay dirt, earth and It congravel containing gold-dus- t. sists essentially of a box, mounted on lockers, and provided with a perforated bottom of sheet iron in which the pay dirt is placed. Water is poured on the dirt, and the rocking motion imparted to the cradle causes the finer particles to pass through the perforated bottom onto a canvas screen, and thence to the base of the accumucradle, where the gold-dulates on tranverse bars of wood called st Presently, out of the hubbub forward, Mr. McGuffey heard Captain Scraggs wail frantically: Stop her! For the love of heaven, stop her I Instantly the engineer dropped back into the engine room and set the Maggie full speed astern ; then he grasped the howler and held it to his ear. Stop her ! he heard Gibney shriek. Why in blazes dont you stop her? Shes set astern, Gib. Shell ease up in a minute. You know It!" Gibney answered signiOcantly. The Maggie climbed lazily to the crest of a long oily roller, slid recklessly down the other side, and took the following sea over her taffrail. She still had some head on, but very little not quite sufficient to give her decent steerage way, as Mr. Gibney discovered when, having at length communicated his desires to McGuffey, he spun the wheel frantically In a belated effort to swing the Maggies dirty nose out to sea. Shell Nothing doin, he snarled. have to come to a complete stop before she begins to walk backward and get steerage way on again. ' Shell bump as sure as death an taxes. Shell bump death an taxes. a riffles. g Valuable Device. useful invention is the buoy. Its Inventor sought to devise some means of getting a line from ship to shore, and the buoy was the result. When released from the ship, .If the wind Is in the right direction, it blows steadily toward the shore, the line unwinding behind it as it goes, until finally the buoy is dragged out of the surf with the line Intact. 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