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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Three Trial of Perfume fbf YourOwriTest THE QREEtt. PEA PIRATE f By PETER B. KYNE cAuthor of "WEBSTEK MANS MAN, "THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS, ETC Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne GUN RUNNING. Synopsis. Captain Phineas P. has grown up around the Scragg-docks of San Francisco, and from mess boy on a river steamer, risen to the ownership of the steamer Siftce each annual inMaggie. spection promised to be the last of the old weathemeaten vessel, Scraggs naturally has some difficulty in securing a crew. When the story opens, Adelbert P. likable, but erratic, a man whom nobody but Scraggs would hire, is the skipper, Neils Halvor-sea solemn Swede, constitutes the forecastle hands, and Bart McGuffey, a wastrel of the Gibney type, reigns in the engine room. 'With this motley crew and his ancient vessel. Captain Scraggs Is in engaged freighting garden truck from Halfmoon bay to San Francisco The inevitable happens, the Maggie goes ashore in a fog. A passing vessel hailing the wreck, Mr Gibney gets word to a towing company in San Francisco that the ship ashore is the Yankee Prince, with promise of a rich salvage. Two tugs succeed in pulling the Maggie into deep water, and she slips her tow lines and gets away in the fog. Furious at the deception practiced on them, Captains Hicks and Flaherty, commanding the two tugboats, ascertain the identity of the Yankee Prince and, fearing ridicule should the facts become known along the water front, determine on persoral vengeance Their hostile vi&it to the Maggie results in Captain Scraggs promising to get a new boiler and make needed repairs to the steamer. Scraggs refuses to fulfill bis promises and G.bney and With marvelstrike McGuffey ous luck, Scraggs sh.ps a fresh crew At the end of a few days of wild conviviality Gibney and McGuffey are stranded and seek their old positions on the Maggie. They are hostilely received, but re-- I main. On their way to San Fran-c.sc- o they sight a derelict and Gibney and McGuffey swim to it The derelict proves to be the Chesapeake, richly laden, its entire crew stricken with scurvy Scraggs at-- j tempts to tow her in, but the Mag- -' gie is unequal to the task and Gib- ney and McGuffey, alone, sail the ship to San Francisco, their salvage money amounting to $1,000 His crew having deserted apiece him, Captain Scraggs induces them to return At an old horse sale the three purchase two mysterious boxes which they believe to conOriental goods n tain smuggled They find instead, two dead Chinamen. Scraggs seeks to double cross his two associates, but Mr. Gibney outwits him and makes a financial settlement satisfactory with the Chinese company to whom the bodies have been consigned, leaving Scraggs out in the Gib-ne- y, n, cold CHAPTER IX. Even after allow ing for the expenditures on the engine weighing heavily an Captain Scraggs, that individual continued morose and more than ever inclined to be sarcastic. Mr. Gibney onmiented on the fact to Mr. McGuffey. He's troubled financially, Gib. Well, you know who troubled him, dont you, Bart? I mean about the cost o' them repairs in the engine room. Unless he can come through in thix-tdays with the balance he owes, the boiler people are goin' to libel the Maggie to protect their claim. Mr. Gibney arched his bushy he deHow do you know? manded. He was me, Mr. McGuffey , admitted weakly. Mr. me. Weil, he Wasn't Gibneys tones were ominous; he -- glared at his friend suspiciously as froui 'the Maggie's cabin issued forth Scraggsys voice raised In song. Hello! The old boys thermometer's gone up, Bart. Listen at him. 'Ever o thee hes fondly dreaminV Somethins busted the spell an Ill He bet a cooky it was ready cash. menaced Mr.- - McGuffey with a rigid Index finger. Bart, he demanded, did you loan Scraggsy some money? The honest McGuffey hung his head. he replied childishly, A little bit, c. hat d'ye call a little bit? lliree hundred dollars, Gib. Secured? Ha gimme his note at eight per cent. The savins bank only pajs four. Is the note secured by endorsement or collateral? No. ! Strange you didn't say nothin' to me about this till I hnd , to pry it out o you, Bart, We!!, Scraggsy was feelin so dog- Umu-m-- goneil blue "The truth, Mr. Gibney insisted the truth, Bart. flml.v. Well, Scraggsy asked me not to say anyth'n to you about it. Sure. He knew Id kill the deaf. JLo knew botteru to try to nick me for (hive inndrei' bucks on his danged, worthless note. Bart, whyd you do ft? Oh. h II, Gib. be a good feller, Dont be poor IIcGnffcy pleaded. too hard on ol Scraggsy. c;e discussin rou, Bart. Pears to mg j ou'v e sort o lost confidence In jour old shipmate, aint you? I cm s that w ay to m when you act pnoa'tv like. McGciffey "A jus. i bridled, "x aint a mxeak. any other named be Mr. Gibney quoted. by r,esweet. as You poor, misguided simp. If you ever see that three hundred dollars again youll be a lot oldern you are now. However, that aint none o my business. The fact remains, Bart, thnt you conspired with Scraggsy to keep things away from me, which shows you aint the man I thought you were, so from now on you go your way an Ill go mine. I got a right to do as I blasted deplease with my money, McGuffey I aint no child to be fended hotly. lectured to. the fact that you Considerin wouldnt have had the money to lend if it hqdnt been for me, I allow Im insulted when you use the said money to give aid an comfort to my enemy. Im through. McGuffey, smothered in guilt, felt neveitheless that he had to stand by his guns, so to speak. Stay through, if you feel like it, he retorted. Where dye get that chatter? Aint I fiee, year old? white, an twenty-on- e You Mr. Gibney was reu..y hurt. Its the poor booh, he murmured. old game o settin a beggar on horseback-an seein him ride to the devil, or slippin a gold ring in a pigs nose. war, whereupon the Maggie turned her blunt nose riverward and for a biief period essayed some towing and general freighting on the Sacramento and San Joaquin. It was unprofitable, however, and at last Captain Scraggs was forced to lay his darling little Maggie up and take a" job ns chief officer of the ferry steamer Encinal, plying between San Francisco and Oakland. In the meantime, Mr. McGuffey, after two barren months on the beach, landed a job as second assistant on a Standard Oil tanker running to the west coast, while thrifty Neils Halvorsen invested the savings of ten years in a bay scow known as the Willie and Annie, arrogated to himself the title of captain, and proceeded to freight hay, grain xjnd paving stones sneakin em into Mexico well spend the rest of our lives In a federal penitentiary for bustin the neutrality laws. All them rifles an the ammunition Is cased an in my basement at the present moment and the government agents knows theyre there. But that aint troubling me. I rent the saloon next door an Ill cut a hole through the wall from my cellar into the saloon cellar, carry em through the saloon into the backyard, an out into the alley half a block away. Im watched, but I got the watcher spotted only he dont know it. Our only trouble is a ship. How about the Maggie? Id have to spend about two thousand dollars on her to put her in condition for the voyage, Scruggs replied. Can do, Scab Johnny answered him briefly, and Senor Lopez nodded acYou discharge on a lightquiescence. er at Descanso bay about twenty miles below Ensenada. Whatll it cost us? Ten thousand dollars, in addition to fixin up the Maggie. Half down and half on delivery. Im riskin my hide an my ticket aif I got to be well paid for it. What Again Senor Lopez nodded. did he care? It wasnt his money. Ill furnish you with our own crew just before you sail, Scab Johnny con- Petaluma. The old joyous days of the green-pe- a trade w ere gone forever, and many a night, as Captain Scraggs paced the deck of the ferryboat, watching the ferry tower loom into view, or the scattered lights along the .Alameda shore, he thought longingly of the old Maggie, laid away, perhaps forever, and slowly rotting in the muddy waters of the Sacramento, And he thought of An I figured you was my friend Mr. Gibney, too, away off under the life Well, aint I? tropic stars, leading the care-fre- e Tooey! Tooey! Dont talk to me. of a real sailor at last, and of Bar- tinued. . ! Youd sell out your own mother. , Gib, you tryin to pick a fight with me? No, but I would if I thought I wouldn't git a footrace instead, Gibney rejoined scathingly. Cripes what a double-crossiI been handed! Honest, Bart, when it comes to that sort o work Scraggs is in his Infancy. You sure lake the cake. I aint got the heart to clout you an make jou eat them words, Mr. McGuffey declared, sorrowfully. You mean you aint got the guts, Mr. Gibney corrected him. Bart, I got your number. Goodbye. Mr. McGuffey had a wild impulse to cast himself upon the Gibney neck and weep, but hisjionor forbade any such weakness. So he invited Mr. Gibney to betake himself to a region several degrees hotter than the Maggies .engine room ; then, because he feared to linger and develop a sentimental weakness, he turned his back abruptly and descended to the said engine room. On his part, Adelbert P. Gibney entered the cabin and glared long and Ill menacingly at Captain Scraggs. have my time, he growled presently. Give it to me an give it quick. The very Intonation of his voice warned Scraggs that the present was not a time for argument or trifling. Silently he paid Mr. Gibney the money g due him ; in equal silence the officer went to the pilot house, unscrewed his framed certificate from the wail packed it with his few belongings, and departed for Scab Johnnys boarding house. Hello, Scab Johnny saluted him at his entiance. Quit the Maggie? Mr. Gibney nodded. Want a trip to the dark blue? Lead me to it, mumbled Mr. Gibney. Itll cost you twenty dollars, Gib. Chief mate on the Bose of Sharon, bound for the Galapagos islands sealing. Ill take it, Johnny. "Mr. Gibney threw over a twei.ty-dolla- r bill, jvent to his room, packed all of his belongings, paid his bill to Scab Johnny, and within the hour was aboard the schooner Rose of Sharon. Two hours later they towed out with the tide. Poor McGuffey was stunned when he heard the news that night from Scab Johnny. When he retailed the intormation to Scraggs next morning, He Scraggs was equally perturbed. guessed that McGuffey and Gibney had quarreled and he had the poor judgment to ask McGuffey the cause of tlie row. Instantly, McGuffey Infoi xned him that that was none of his business and the incident was closed. The three months that followed were the most harrowing of McGuffeys life. Captain Scraggs knew his engineer would not resign w hile he, Scraggs, owed him three hundred dollars; wherefore he was not too particular to put a bridle on his tongue when things appeared to go wrong. McGuffey longed to bill him, but dared not. When, eventually, the railroad had been extended sufficiently far down the coast to enable the farmers to haul their gods to the railroad in trucks,' the Maggie automatically went out of the grecn-pe- a trade; simultaneously, Captain Scraggs note to McGuffey fell due and the engineer demanded payment. Sciaggs demurred, pleading poverty, but Mr. McGuffey assumed such a threatening attitude that reluctantly Scraggs paid him a hundred and fifty dollars on account, and McGuffey extended the balance one year and quit. See that you got that hundred and fifty an the interest in your Jeans the next time we meet, he warned Scraggs as he went overside. Time passed. For a month the Mag' gie plied regularly between Bodega Francisco in an endeavor and Sin bay to work up some business in farm and dairy produce, but a gasoline scammer cut in on tin! run and declared a rate n tholomew McGuffey, imbibing pulque in the cantina of some disreputable cafe. Captain Scraggs never knew how badly he was going to miss them both until they were gone,, and he had nobody to fight with except Mrs. Scraggs and when Mrs. Scraggs f to quote Captain Scraggs) slipped her cable in her ferty-thir- d year Captain Scraggs felt singularly lonesome and in a mood to accept eagerly any deviltry thnt might offer. Upon a night, which happened to he Scraggs night off, and when he was particularly lonely and inclined to drown his sorrows In the Bowheail saloon, he was approached by Scab Johnny, and invited to repair to the latters dingy office for the purpose of discussing what Scab Johnny guardedly referred to as a proposition. Upon arrival at the office, Captain Scraggs was introduced to a small, g gentleman of tropical appearance, who owned Jo the' name of fierce-lookln- Don Manuel Garcia Lopez. Scab Johnny first pledged Captain Scraggs tp dad-fetch- Get busy. Gimme a thousand for preliminary After expenses, Scraggs demanded. that Speed is my middle name. The charming Senor Lopez produced the money in crisp new bills and, perfect gentleman that he was, demanded no receipt As a matter of fact, Scrnggs would not have given him one. The two weeks that followed were The busy ones for Captain Scraggs. day after his interview with Seal) Johnny and Don Manuel he engaged an engineer and a deck hand and went up the Sacramento to bring the Maggie down to San Francisco. Upon her arrival she was hauled out on the marine ways at Oakland creek, cleaned, caulked, and some new copper sheathing put on her bottom. She was also given a dash of black paint, had her engines and boilers thoroughly overhauled and repaired, and shipped a new propeller that would add at least a knot to her speed. Also, she had her stern rebuilt. And when everything was ready, she slipped down to the Black Diamond coal bunkers and took on enough fuel to carry her to San Pedro; after which she steamed across the bay. to San Francisco and tied up at Fremont street wharf. The cargo came down in boxes, variThere were agriculously labeled. tural implements, . a cream separator, a windmill, and half a dozen in addition to a considerable number of kegs alleged to contain nails. Most of it came down after five o'clock in the afternoon after the vvhaifinger had left the dock, and as nothing but a disordered brain would have suspected the steamer Maggie of an attenxpt to break the neutrality laws; the entire cargo was gotten aboard safely and without a Jot of suspicion attaching to the vessel. When all was in readiness. Captain Scraggs incontinently fired his deckhand and engineer and inducted aboard a new crew, carefully selected for their filibuster virtues by Scab Johnny himself. Then while the new engineer got up steam. Captain Scraggs went up to Scab Johnnys office for his final instructions and the balance of the first instalment due him. Briefly, ills instructions were as follows: Upon arrival off Point Dume on the southern California coast, he was to stand in close to Dume cove under cover of darkness and show two green lights on tlie masthead. A man would come alongside presently In a small boat, and climb aboard. Tills man would be the supercargo and the confidential envoy of the insurrecto Junta In Los Angeles. Captain Scraggs was to look to this man and to obey him implicitly, as upon this depended the success of tlie expedition. This agent of the insurrecto forces would pay him the balance of five thousand dollars due him immediately upon discharge of the cargo at Descanso bay. There was a body of Insurrecto troops encamped at Megano xancho. a mile from the beach, and they would have a barge and snail hoots in readiness to lighter the cargo. Scab Johnny explained that he hnd promised tlie crew double wages and a bonus of a hundred dollars each for the trip. Dou Manuel Garcia Lopez paid over the requisite amount of cash, and half an hour later the Maggie was steaming down the bay on her perilous sejving-machine- navi-gitin- The Job'That Confronts Us Is to Get These Munitions Friends in Mexico. Down to Our absolute secrecy, and made him swear by the honor of his mother and the bones of his father not to divulge a word of what he was rbmit to tell him. Scab Johnny was short and to the lie stated that, as Captain point. Scraggs was doubtless aware, if hr perused tlie daily papers at all. there -- s, s was a revolution aging in Mexico. His friend, Senor Lopez, represented in the disturbance, and tlie under-dog- s was anxious to secure a ship and .1 sea captain to land a shipment of arms in Lower California. It appeared that at a sale of condemned army goods held at the arsenal at Beniera, Senor Lopez had, through Scab Johnny, purchased two thousand single-sho- t Springfield riilos that hail been retired when the militia regiments took up the Kiag. The Krag in turn having been replaced by the modern mission. Tlie sun was setting as they passed magazine Springfield, the old singleshot Sprlngfields, with one hundred out the Golden gate and swung down thousand rounds of ball cart- the south channel, and with the wind ridges, had been sold to the highest on her beam, the aged Maggie did nine bidder. In addition to the small arms, Late in the afternoon of the Lopez hnd at present in a warehouse foUowing day she was off the Santa Barbara channel, and about midnight three, machine guns and four breech-loadin- g pieces of field artillery she ran in under the lee of Point Dume (the kind of guns generally designated and lay to. The mate hung out the as a jackass baitery, for the reason green signal lights, and in about an that they can be taken down and trans- hour Captain Scraggs heard the sound ported over rough country on mules) of oars grating in rowlocks. A few together with a supply of ammuni- minutes later a stentorian voice hailed tion for same. them out of the darkness. Captain Now. then, Scab Johnny continuScraggs had a Jacobs ladder slung ed-, the job that confronts us is to over the side and the mate and two get these munitions down to our deckhands hung over the rail with lanfr.ends in Mexico. If were caught terns, lighting up the surrounding sea 1 nex-v- 43-7- 0 feebly for the benefit of the lone adventurer who sat muffled in a great coat in the stem of a small boat rowed by two men. There was a very slight sea running, and presently the men in the small boat, watching thqir oppor- tunity by the ghostly light of the lanterns, ran their frail craft In under the lee of the Maggie. The figure in the stern sheets leaped on the instant, caught the Jacobs ladder, climbed nimbly over the side, and swore heartily in very good English as his feet struck the deck. Whats the name of this floating coffin? he demanded in a chain-lockvoice. It was quite evident that even in the darkness, where her many defects were mercifully hidden, the Maggie did not suit the special envoy of' the Mexican insurrectos. American steamer Maggie," , said the skipper frigidly. Scraggs Is my name, sir. And if you dont like my vessel roared the special envoy. Scraggsy, for a thousand ! And the old Maggie of all boats ! Scraggsy, old tarpot, your flnl Duke me, you doggoned old salamander!" Gib, my dear boy I shrieked Captain Scraggs and cast himself Into Mr. Gibneys arms In a transport of joy. Mr. Gibney, for it was Indeed he, pounded Captain Scraggs on the back with one great hand while with the other he crushed the skippers Angers to a pulp, the while he called on all the powers of darkness to witness that never In all his life had he received such a pleasant surprise. It was indeed a happy moment. All the old animosities and differences were swallowed up in the glad handclasp with which Mr. Gibney greeted his old . shipmate of the green-pe- a trade. Scraggs took him below at once and they pledged each others health. and Well, Ill be said Captain Scraggs, producing & box of cigars and handing it to Mr. Gibney Gib, my dear boy, wherever have you been these last three years? Everywhere, replied Mr. Gibney. I have been all over, mostly in Panama and the Gold coast. For two years Ive been navigatin officer on the Colombian gunboat Bogota. When I was a young feller I did a hitch in the navy and become a first-clagunner, and then I went to sea in the merchant marine, and got my mates license, and when I flashed my credentials on the president of the United States of Colombia he give me a job at dos clentl pesos oro per. Thats Spanish fof two hundred bucks gold a month. Ive been through two wars and I got a medal for sinkin a flshin smack. I talk Spanish just liKe a'natlve, I dont drink no more to speak of, and Ive Scraggsy! keel-haule- d Besom Christmas try this fascinating method of determining the real value of different perfumes.' ' Let us send you three miniature! Vials of perfume with instructions for duplicating the famous inter- -' Inational perfume test. You can' 'then choose for yourself the ' 'special perfume which will you with that individual atmosphere of fragrance that so 'delightfully portrays your personality. 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Ill pull ten thousand Win football games single handed and who have sought an opportunity to out of this job. Mr. Gibney whistled shrilly through make home runs at crucial moments hi teeth. in school baseball series, have found Thats the ticket for soup, he said out what rot has been handed them I tell this In fiction. They know that boys simadmiringly. soldier of fortune business may be all ply dont do such things not as frosh," anyway. right, but it dont amount to much The school hero still maintains, but compared to being a sailor of fortune, eh, Scraggsy? Just as soon rs I heard he is traveling at a slower pace. there v, as a revolution in Mexico I quit Prexy does not kowtow to the gifted my job in the Colombian navy and youth as suddenly as in the heyday, tome north for the pickins. . . . of such fiction. Librarians say that No, 1 aint been In their rotten little the big Improvement in school fiction array. . . . Dye think I want to has come through saner plots and go around killin people? , . . There more careful work In. characterizaaint no pleasure gettln killed in the tion. The author must really show mere shank of a bright and prosper- his own Interest In a school charactei ous life a dead hero dont If he is going to get the hero over." no Reads all Arthur Chapman In the New York moss, Scraggsy. gather right in books, but it dont appeal Tribune. none to me. Im for peace every time, so right away as soon as I heard of ASPIRIN INTRODUCED the trouble, says I to myself: Things BY has been pretty quiet in Mexico for BAYER IN 1900 twenty years, and theyre due to shift tilings around pretty much. What Look for Name Bayer on the Tab them peons need is a man with an lets, Then You Need imagination to help em out,, and if Never Worry. theyve got the money, Adelbert P. Gibney can supply the brains. So I comes If you want the true, s porth to Los Angeles, shows the in- Aspirin, as prescribed by physicians surrecto Junta ray medal and my lion for over twenty-on- e years, you must orable discharges from every ship' Id ask for Bayer Tablets of .Aspirin." ever been in, includin the gunbont BoThe name Bayer is stamped on gota, and 1 talked big and swelled each tablet and appears on each packaround, and told em to run in some age for your protection against imitaarms and got busy. I framed up tions. Advertisement. for this filibuster trip youre on, Scraggsy, only I never did hear that Sometimes the voice of conscience theyd picked on you. I told that seeins to sound as if It came from rat of a Lopez man to the neighbors. hunt up Scab Johnny and hed set him right, but if anybody had old pie you If a man knows a great deal, he is had the nerve to run the Maggie Id sn bound to tell It, either vocally or with this deal, Scraggsy, Id a called hrn a the pen. , liar. Scragrt, youre mucho-btienthat is, youre ail right. Im so ued A man trusts to luck when he cant to talkin Spanish I forge- myself. trust himself. Still, theres one end of this little deal that I aint exactly explained to till Have Strong, Health hands. If Id they was charterin the Maggie, Id have blocked tha Eye. If they Tire, ltd Smarter Burn, if Sor game. rvArC Irritated. Inflamed . JuR LYtO Granulated, useMurir often. Soothes. Refreshes. Safe f Infant or Adult. At all Druggists. Write ft Free Eye Book. Hartal Ej Imtij Co.. Ckla ... world-famou- coffee-- colored -- (TO BB CONTjWUEBQ W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 51-1- |