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Show PAGE TRUE! JOURNAL. LOGAN. U f AH Thursday, April 16, 1908. THE MYS T S T E W A i'1T And 8 A M U E L By . E ers contributed sensational literature r with pa-1- , ' By the j per covers adorned .lithographically. v usual incongruity a fragment of. The, Marble Faun, was included in the collection. The nigger had his copy of DuYall on Alchemy. RY GREAT A EVENt-T- HE FIRST I havent Jbe slightest idea where he could have got it. . While Pulz read, IDandy Solomon worked on the alteration of his claw. lie- could never get it to hold, and I remember as an undertone to Pulfcs reading the rumble of strange, exasperated oaths. Whatever the evenings lecture. if" always ended with the book on alchemy-These men had no perspective by which to judge such things. They accepted its speculaExtions and theories at their face value. tremely laughable were the discussions that followed. I often wished the shade of old Duvall could be permitted to see these, his last disciples, spelling out dimly- his 'teachings, mispronouncing his grave utterances, but EDWARD WHITE H PAGE THREE OPKINS ADAMS ROBIN. - BY McCLURE. 19 07, COPYRIGHT, CHAPTER XI. c. ? rest of the cabins fittings were not remarkable By the configuration, of the ship I guessed that two of the staterooms must be rather large. I could make out voices within. On deck I talked with Captain Selover. Shes a spug craft, I approached him. lie nodded., You have armed her well. He muttered something of pirates and the The China seas. I laughed. .... JjYou have arms enough to give your crew about two magazine rifles apiece, unless you filled all your berths forward. Captain Selover looked me direct in the eye. Talk straight, Mr. Egan, said he. What is thishijand where is she bound? I asked, with equal simplicity. He considered. I As for the ship, he replied at length, and first officer, dont mind say in. Youre my on you I depend if it comes 'to well, the small arms below. If the ships a little. under the shade, why, so are you. Shes by way of being called a manner of hard names by some people. I do not see it myself. It is a matter of conscience. If you would ask some inter-- 1 ested, they would call her a smuggler, a thief, a wrecker and all the other evil titles in the catalogue. She has taken in Chinks by way of Santa Cruz island, if that is smuggling." The country is free, and a Chink is a man. Besides, it paid $10 a head for the landing. She has carried in a: cargo or so of junk. It was lying on the bench where a fool master had piled it, and I took what I found. X couldnt keep track of the underwriters' intentions. But the room forward I broke in. Well, you see, last season we were pearl PHILLIPS C & 0. He turned away to the binnacle. In spite of his personal filth, in spite of the lawless, almost piratical character of the man, in that moment I coulS not hut admire him. If Percy Barrow was ignorant of the purposes of this expedition, how much more so Captain Selover. Yet he accepted his trust blindly, and as far as I could. then see intended to fulfill it faithfully. I liked him none the worse for snubbing me. It indicated a streak in his moral nature akin to and quite aS curious as his Dr. excessive neatness regarding his immediate When surroundings. which . 1 " fishing. But you needed only your diver and your crew, I objected , . . t, There was the matter of a Japanese or so, he, explained. I cried. Poaching! So some call it. The shells are' there. The islands are not inhabited. I do not see how men claim property beyond the tidewater. I gun-hoa- 1 heard it argued There was a trouble I cried. last year in the Ishigaki Jima islands, where a poacher l?eat off the Oyama. It was a deshave Hold onl During the next few days the $rew discussed our destination. Discipline, while maintained strictly," was not conventional. During the dog watches often every man aboard would he elow, for at that period Captain Selover loved o take the wheel in person, a thick cigar his lips, the dingy checked shirt wide to open expose his hairy chest to the breeze. In the twilight of the forecastle we had some great sea lawyers talks I say we, though tobk little part in them. Generally I lay across my bunk smoking my pipe while Handy Solomon held forth, his speech punctuated by g surly speculations from the nigger, with Thrac-kle- s from the sea wisdom deep hairy or with voluminous hursts of fractured English from Perdosa. Pulz had nothing to offer, but watched from his pale green eyes. The light shifted and wavered from one to the other as the ship swayed; garments swung; the empty berths yawned cavernous. I could imagine the forecastle filled with, the desperate men who had beaten off the Oyama. The story if told that they had swept the gunboats decks with her own rapid fires turned in. No one knew where we were going nor why. The. doctor puzzled them and the quantity of Sis belongings. said Handy Solomon It aint pearls, on that," for we aint book the You can kiss a diver among us. It aint Chinks, for we-a-- Likelyits -- trade cruising trade down in the islands. We were all below. The captoin himself had not the wheel. Discipline,' while strict,-wa- s , conventional. , the muttered Meixican, Co'ntrabandista, for dat he geev us double pay. We ddnt get her for nothing, agreed " WeJne-on dnff Double pay and Thraekles. day generally means get your head broke. No trade, said the nigger gloomily. They turned' to him with one accord. . Why not? demanded. .Pulz, breaking lis silence. he-wee- n hesi-stin- re ou-sQu-west. s - be-lievi- ng Cleveland Plain Daalar. ir. Donahty utterly. Schermerhorn appeared on deck seldom. he did, often his fingers held a pen he had forgotten to lay aside. I imagined him preoccupied by some calculation of , his own, but the forecastle, more picturesque43 43 ly, saw him as guarding constantly the heavy . . . Nursing baby? casket he had himself carried aboard. He breathed the air, walked birskly, turned with Its a heavy strain on mother. the German military precision at the end of his cabiqat his. score of strides and the lapse of the half hour. After he had gone, ; remained Percy- Darrow leaning, indolently against the taffrail, his graceful figure swayships motion, smoking always the ing with-thbe easily taken up by mother's system corn husk Mexican cigarettes which he rolled is needed.. with one hand. He seemed from that farthest O" contains the point aft to hold in review the appliances, the Jit even the thoughts very the actions, yes, fabric, greatest possible amount of nourishof the entire ship. From them he selected that ment in easily digested forin. on which he should comment or with which he should play, always with a sardonic, half seriMother and baby are wonderfully ous,, quite wearied and indifferent manner. its use. by helped of the viewed light His inner knowledge, by , ' i this manner or mannerism, was sometimes unAND 1.00 DRUGGISTS. 60c. ALL canny, though- perhaps the sources of his infor- . mation were commonplace enough after all. Certainly he always, viewed with amusement t his victims wonder. Thus one evening at the close of our day watch. on deck he approached Handy Solomon. YES, It was at the end of ten days, on no one of ,WE COLLECT which the seaman failed to tinker away at his steel claw Darrow balanced in front of him MONEY' with a thin smile. EVERYWHERE Too bad it doesnt work, my amiable pi' IfYvouMbe so handy" for rate, said he. We can collect your claims, no he continued, See suddenly here, fighting where "(contracted or matter a fromhis heres some pocket object pulling where the parties noiV live. pipe, present to me. I dont smoke em. Twist We collect honest debt all over her halfway, like that; she comes out. Twist " the world.,, . ' her halfway, like this, she goes in. Thats your principle. Give her .beck to me when you Write or see ns. get through. He thrust the brier pipe into the mans hand and turned away without waiting for a reply. The seaman looked after him in open amazement. That evening he worked on the socket of the steel hook, and in two days he had the SCIENTIFIC COLLECTORS OF HONEST DEBTS. job finished. Then he, returned the pipe to Seven Rooms, Fifth Floor Commercial National Bank Bldg. of thanks. Da r re said the young man, all Thats Some People Dont Like Us Frauds 0. Luke, Genl Mgr. right, smiling full at him,. Now, what are you go' 31: u , ?,u. i., ing to fight! o O - O oo O - Scott sEmul on --- A O ? f 5 , - " " . perate fight. u. Captain Selover s eye lib up. Ive commanded a black brigantine, name of the Petrel, he admitted simply. She was a brigantine aloft, but alow she had much the No trade, repeated the nigger: same lines as the Laughing Aint you got a reason, doctor? asked on his heel to roll to one of the covered yachts cannon. Looks like a harmless little toy to Handy Solomon. X" trade," insited the nigger. burn black powder, dont she! he remarked, An uneasy silence feU. I could not but obHe stripped off the tarpaulin and the false brass muzzle, as pretty-- a little Max serve that the others held the niggers stat To B Continued in a respectnot due th emasme r e b pin ments im as know see. would Now to eare you you ioi'S. Subsequently I understood a little more all about it, he said. .The merchant who expects much from his bewas He he the of possessed. reputation Look here, Captain Selpver, I demanded, advertising should give much adequate atas their see to lieved phrase hidden, things whole dont you know that I could. blow your tention, adequate expenditure, adequate newswent. shooting match higher than Gilderoys kite! paper space. NoHow do you know I, wont .do it .when I get Nobpdy said anything for some time. back? How do yon know I wont inform the body stirred except that Handy Solomon, his Piecing out an income .is not al ways doctor . at once what kind' of an outfit be has steel claw removed from its socket, whittled hard..' g a furnished room is one of fix to and screwed turned, and trying tied to! tested, the. easiest ways if a classified ad. is used. advice with the accordance lie planted for apart his thick legs in their the hook so that in soiled blue trousers, pushed baek his greasy of Percy Darrow it would turn either way. If a wanted, is busy in your behalf, YOU asked he doctor? is softly can do less fussing. Hnen What it, then, boating bat and stared at me with koine at last. . amusement. , . . ; Gold-trea- sure. said the nigger shortly. IIow do you know I wont blow on Lieu Gold, tenant or Ensign Ralph Slade, U. S. N., when , , THE LURE OF THE I said- qt first! cried Handy I get back! what blessed .Thats that he demanded. I . STORES illusion anyway. .Besides, I know my man. Solomon triumphantly. It was extraordinary, . You wont do anything of the sort. He walk- the unquestioning find entire faith with which fact The negros diced to the rail and: spat carefully over the side. they accepted as gospel As for the doctor, he went on, he knows tum. calling. . Just now the stores are all about it. He told me all about' myself and There "followed much talk of the nature of seasons. of the the or he to was merging Its sought everything I had ever done from the time Id this treasure, whether it and Its good-by-e to the licked Buck Jones until last seasons little di- conveyed, bought, stolen or ravished in fair almost-things to the version. Then he told me that was why he fight. No further soothsaying could they elicit and the own buyers take their profits The cap- from the nigger. They followed their Wanted me to ship for this cruise. when the linger of Urgency is laid tain eyed me quizzically. ideas, which led them nowhere. Some one lit , upon the merchant. The advertise I threw out my hand in a comic gesture of the forecastle lamp. They settled themselves. x ments spokesmen for all - merchants ' Pulz read aloud. surrender. who have any message for you, br inThis 'was the programme every day during Well, where are we hound, anyway! vitation to extend to you are filled The dirty, unkempt, disheveled figure stif- the dog watch. Sometimes the wateh on deck ' ' ' with information, with . persuasion, was absent, leaving only Handy Solomon, the fened. j f facts. If you can with friend-makin- g Mr. Eagen, its falsetto shrilled, you are nigger and Pulz, but the order of the day was after reading the ads., willingly stay mate of this vessel. Your duty is to see that not on that account varied. They talked, they was the talk read. the away from the stores these days lit Always Tamp, they tty orders as to sailing are earned out. , then you must be immune from-th- e0 treasure. you do not gor As to navigation and of the and the beckoning lure of As to the reading, it was of the sort usual latitude and longitude and where we are, that of smile lumbermen miners. and is outside opportunity. -your line of duty. As to where we iq seamen, cowboys, xs volumes a of had of Thraekles very not Bre hound, pumber double wages are you getting exget too curious. Remember to earn your aheap love stories.' Pulz had brought some othtraordinary garish detective stories. The 4 ages, Mr. Eagen. , MerchantsProtectiveAssociation t , wwitb-some-growli- ng ! f -- y . " Sub-lettin- . 3 , ? ? t S I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 t' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 '0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 good-morni- ks ng - 0 f eelf-inter- et "... 000000000000000 0 0 0 0 r . 't i e ? j i I d i A 4 1 4 y I 1, xW ' I LOGAN POSTOFFICE. 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