OCR Text |
Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH zinc then I deduct that this bod two cases dont contain even so much gives It back to you. Now, quit yer and tolted the door, lifted the J of snatchln crate of the Scraggs the back from Great top the o' alL or flap It whinin', as a smell o ginseng after by the tad the boardin "Theyre us, Gib. Oriental goods and displayed may be that they are really Oriental Sacred Bull, Fll lock you up all night has arranged with yon fat Chin, dead Chinaman. Also he goods. What I want distinctly under- In th cabin along o them two defunct face of the on man to relieve us o the unwelcome pointed to the Chinese characters stood Is this : no matter whats Inside, Celestials. crate. presence of his defunct friends. Rej we share equally In the profits, even Captain Scraggs shut np prompt- the wooden lid of the scratches gone an hunted up the relatives an hen these does What If they turn out to be losses. Thats ly, and contented himself with glowermade em, come across thats what mate eat demanded Tim mean? Scraggs. Mr. It?" an understood ing at Gibney. agreed to, aint done. The dirty, low, schemin' hes and This man is named Ah Ghow Captain Scraggs and McGuffey Indi- down on the hatch coaming, lit his of all the foxes In granddaddy meditato cated that It was. he belongs to the Hop Sing tong. pipe, and gave himself up ! fish around an see what Ill end at the here?" o about element tion for Theres a mystery fully five minutes, How about his pal figger Scraggs him, and Mr these two boxes, continued Mr. Gib- of which time McGuffey was aware That man Is evidently Ng Chong Glbney stepped charged to the rail to meet to was about me. sets his man. that fascinates that They a imagination ney, Is Sing also He KYNE Hop B. Yip. Wy PETER Gin Seng, for it was Indeed he. an joggles come to the front once more. wrote it down. All my Imagination Sow-seScraggs sow-seCaptain Mr much "Well, gentlemen, (again McGuf- right, up all my sportin Instincts. Now, he said cheerily; saluted the Chinaman In a Gibney Author of a an add just to make It Interestin fey nodded approvingly) I bet I get obliged. Now, what I want to know facetious attempt to talk the lattera spice t th grand openin, Im willin my twenty bucks back outer them two Is what the Hop Sing tong means by "Webster Mans Man, Hello, there, John China, language. to bet again my own best judgment Chinks, lie announced presently. the departed brethren by man. Hows your liver? shipping "The Valley of the McGufCaptain he an lay you even money, Scraggsy, em Howll yer do It? Inquired freight? They go to work an fix alle same get tired; he no waltee. Etc. Oriental It but em that aint ginseng, Giants, fey politely. nice sos theyll keep, packs Whas mallah, John. Too long time oods." Howll I do It? Easy as failin up In a zinc coffin. Inside a nice you no come. You away heap lazy all time. five Ill go you dollars, Just through an open hatch. Im Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne plain wood box, labels em Oriental Gin Seng smiled his bland, inscrutaIn boxes th stiffs them t two Gin Scraggs ducks, responded Captain keep an consigns em to the ble Chinese smile. "You ketchum twe to take goods, heartily. "McGuffey to hold the stakes until dark, an then I'm company, 714 Dupont street, San China boy in box? he queried. Seng around an decide the bet. their em out, bend a rope Francisco. Now, why are these two We have, boomed McGuffey, an1 Q Done, replied Mr. Glbney. The middle, drop em overboard an anchor countrymen o yours shipped by freight beautiful specimens they be. ORIENTAL GOODS." money was placed In McGuffeys em there all night I see th lad we where, by the way, they goes astray, No no China boy, Gibnej money, beaua a moment a with had 1 In has and No. case hands, later, opens up for some reason that I dont know Synopsis. Captain Phlneas P. mighty effort, Mr. Glbney pried off tiful job of embalmin done on him, nothin about, an I buys em up at a added firmly, Money have got. Too muchee monScraggs has grown up around the the lid of the crate. Captain Scraggs but If I let them soak all night, like old horse sale? docks of San Francisco, and from ey you wantee. No can do. Me a had fifth of box inside look his a head an' the limber a mackerel, theyll up mess boy on a river steamer, risen Gin Seng shrugged his shoulders and two hundred dollah. Five hundred paj second later. to the ownership of the steamer kinder fresh. Then first thing In th that he didnt understand. Since each annual inheap muchee. No have got. Maggie. Sealed zinc box Inside, he an- mornin Ill telephone th coroner an replied You lie," snarled Captain Scraggs. of to be the last "Nothin doin, John. Five hundred spection promised can opener, Gib, my tell him I found two floaters out In Get nounced. a the old weatherbeaten vessel, You savey all right, you fat old Idol, dollars an not a penny less. Put up boy. th bay an for him to come an get Scraggs naturally has some diffIts because if the railroad comiculty in securing a crew. When Ginseng, for a thousand, mourned em. I been along the waterfront long you knew these two boxes contained the dough or heat it. Gin Seng pany the story opens, Adelbert P. lied, evaded, Mr. Gibney. Scraggsy, youre five enough t know that th lad that picks dead the rela- and all but expostulated, corpses theyd likable, but erratic, a man but Mr. Glbney was dolGin- up a floater gets a reward o ten wept, to dollars of the good. my money whom nobody but Scraggs would tives, which is you, one full fare each obdurate and eventually the China lars from th city. You can bet that from seng always comes packed in hire. Is the skipper, Nells Halvor-sewherever these two dead ones man paid over the money and departed a solemn Swede, constitutes boxes. Adelbert P. Gibney breaks even on th comes from, just the same as though with the remains of his countrymen the forecastle hands, and Bart McHe produced a can opener from the deal, all right was alive an well. But you has I knew hed come 'through, Bart, a the of wastrel Glbney Guffey, they cabin locker and fell to his work on a Gib, my dear boy, said Captain type, reigns In the engine room. em shipped by freight, an aims to Mr. Glbney declared. They got to corner of the hermetically sealed box. Scraggs admiringly. "I apologize for With this motley crew and his ana dollar an thirty cents each spend to rest along, them to stiffs China cient vessel. Captain Scraggs is As he drove In the point of the can my actions of a few minutes ago. I em Oriental ship on em, by markin In Dutch in freighting or ancestors be side garden their engaged In o hammer mate th he still hand, was unstrung. Youre opener, paused, Helluva way to treat a rela- with the truck from Halfmoon bay to San goods. o the departed for and sperrits and as at an steamer such, American Scraggs solemnly gazed Maggie, Francisco. The inevitable happens, tion. Now, looky here, you bloody ever after. the Maggie goes ashore In a fog. McGuffey. welcome to th ship. All I ask is that heathen. Itll cost you just five hunDo we have to split this swag with A passing vessel hailing the wreck, McGuffey you nail up your property, Gib, an Gentlemen, (again recover these two that to dollars dred Mr. Glbney gets word to a towing do you know remove It from th' dlnto room table. nodded dirty Scraggs? McGuffey wanted approvingly) an close my mouth. If you to know. company In San Francisco that the stiffs, Seein as how he tried to what a vacuum is? I want to remind you, however, Gib, ship ashore is the Yankee Prince, come through Ill make a belch us the double cross with promise of a rich salvage. I know, replied the Imperturbable that as shipmates me an McGuffey tdont give th newspapers an theyll keel haul Two tugs succeed In pulling the Well fix Scraggsy all A vacuum Is an empty dont stand for you shoulderin any McGuffey. an th Chinese Six Compa- - an she into and skulldrag Maggie deep water, It. In hole legal sos he wont have no comthat aint got nothin loss on them two cases o Oriental slips 'her tow lines and gets away eback. Correct, said Mr. Gibney. "My goods. We was t share th gains, if in the fog. Furious at the deception practiced on them, Captains They had not long to wait Upon head Is a vacuum. Me talkin about any, an likewise th losses. Hicks and Flaherty, commanding his waarrival at Gin Sengs place of busmust have I ginseng root! Why, Thats right, said McGuffey, fair the two tugboats, ascertain the iness be between Captain Scraggs had been inter on' the brain! No an Ginseng bellyachin square. identity of the Yankee Prince" formed that Gin Seng had gone out Its opium! and, fearing ridicule should the shipmates. Me an Scraggs each owns facts become known along the waan to forced was twenty minutes before, and further ino them diseased Chinks, grab Captain Scraggs ter front, determine on personal o th loss, the seat of his chair in order to keep we each stands quiry revealed that he had departed Their hostile visit to vengeance. In an express wagon. Consumed with himself from jumping up and clasp- If any. the Maggie results In Captain Mr. new neck. to a no misgivings of disaster, Scraggs reloss, proget But there wont be Scraggs promising Gibney around the ing boiler and make needed repairs to turned to the Maggie as fast as the a he dollars Mr. gasped. tested pound, Forty Gibney. the steamer. Scraggs refuses to cable car and his legs could carry him. Gib Gib, my dear boy youve made Drayage charges, Gib, drayage fulfill his promises and Glbney and In the cabin he found Mr. Gibney and to us dollar a man wealthy charges. We give a McGuffey strike." With marvelous luck, Scraggs ships a fresh McGuffey playing cribbage. They laid Quickly Mr. Glbney ran the can tow em down t th ship. crew. At the end of a few days down their hands as Scraggs entered. opener around the edges of one corner Forget It, answered Mr. Glbney of wild conviviality Glbney and To Mr. Gibney began at once: of claws of an zinc the Inserted over the box, magnanimously, an lets go McGuffey are stranded and seek this is, world show you what a funny the hammer into the opening, and get a drink. Im all shook up. their old positions on the Maggie. deck on resettin an me Aare Barts but while bent with a quick, melodramatic twist, -hostilely received, They main. On their way to San Franfor you to come back, along back the angle 'thus formed. VIII. CHAPTER Glbcisco they sight a derelict and a Mr. fat old Chinaman In an exa to first was breezes the get Gi(bney to it. The ney and McGuffey swim inside. to be the Chesaderelict proves peep press wagon an offers to buy them two Had either Mr. Glbney or McGuffey cases of Oriental goods. He makes mo peake, richly laden, Its entire crew Great snakes! he yelled, and fell been watching Captain Scraggs after stricken with scurvy. Scraggs atA hoarse he had left them they would have an Mac what we considers a fait back against the cabin wall. tempts to tow her in, but the Magfrom Lemme see, now, ne continued, broke offer. scream and of horror rage been much puzzled to account for that gie Is unequal to the task and Glband got out a stub of lead pencil with ney and McGuffey, alone, sail the Captain Scraggs. In his eagerness he worthys actions. First he dodged ship to San Francisco, their salwhich he commenced figuring on the had driven his head so deep into the around the block into Drumm street, We paid vage money amounting to $1,000 of and then ran down Drumm to Califor an inch came box within he white oilcloth table cover. that apiece. His crew having deserted derelicts two them twenty dollars for kissing what the box contained which nia, where he climbed aboard a cable him, Captain Scraggs induces them twenty-onThats ies3 nor more Arto return. At an "old horse sale dollar an a towage. car and rode up into Chinatown. happened to be nothing twenty-ono the three purchase two mysterious a third an Mr. McGufChinaman! a dead dollars, than he alighted riving at Dupont street boxes which they believe to conis seven, an seven dollars from fey, always slow and unimaginative, and walked up that interesting thortain smuggled "Oriental goods." five leaves eighteen dollars comin shouldered the skipper aside, and oughfare until he came to No. 714. to you. Heres your eighteen dollars, calmly surveyed the ghastly appari- He glanced at a sign over the door and all tion. Scraggsy, you lucky old vagabond no was aware that he stood before the CHAPTER VII Continued, work, neat a on will the clear days you, 7 profit Twig yellow beggar, entrance to the offices of the Chinese expense, no investment, no For an hour Mr. Glbney sat on the Gib? said McGuffey; one eye half Six Companies, so he climbed upstairs Interest charges or overhead, an stern bltts and ruminated over a few open for all the world like he was and Inquired for Gin Seng, who. presWeil fix Scraggsy. out at your own Agger. an th us sold at winkin joke. enjoyin ently made his appearance. advantageous plans that had occurred Not a muscle twitched in McGuthe an the Scraggs face was a studyin nies Captain Chinathrough Hop to him for the Investment of his share Sing tong Gin Seng, a very nice, fat He countenance. In Hibernian conflicting emotions as he raked ffeys, f the deal should Scraggs and man, arrayed in a flowing silk gown, courts for evadin th laws o th interThanks, Gib, as a for head his scratched the moment, an make commerce eighteen dollars. In state commission, succeed landing what Mr. begged, in pidgin English, to know in em look like monkeys generally. An he said frigidly. Sibney termed the loot. About eleven a sort f first aid to memory, then what manner he could be of service. "Me an Gibs goto ashore for lunch Me heap big captain, allee same then th policell get wind of It. Savey, oclock an express wagon drove In on turned and handed Mr. Gibney ten dol anOn policee-mayou fat old murderer? at the Marigold cafe, McGuffey the dock, and the mates dreams were lars. Scraggs. ship, Captain began break to order in nounced presently, You win, Gib. Its Oriental goods, board pleasantly Interrupted by a gleeful ship two China boys have got. Th price Im askin Is cheap, Charley. horrible silence that followed shout from Captain Scraggs. on the sure enough. (Here Captain Scraggs winked know- How do I know but what these two the Im willRobber! shrieked Captain Scraggs, ingly.) China boy no speak Eng- poor boys has been murdered in cold Scraggsys crushing defeat ookout forward with the driver. on the blood? Theres somethin rotten in in to spend some o my profits with a sat on top of the two cases and flew at Mr. Glbneys throat. The lish lunch to a with his legs dangling over the end sight reminded McGuffey of a terrier ' That being the case, Interposed Denmark, my bully boy, an youll deal an blow you Red thrown In. o Mr. mastiff. a small bottle Dago Nevertheless, an an save trouble time I worrying by money was He Gin Seng, I presume that you and the picture of of the wagon. How about it, Scraggs T Glbney was still so unnerved at the understand each other, so lets cut diggin up five hundred dollars. contentment. contents of horrible the of Im on. Scraggs sought to throw Gin out the pidgin English. Do I underMr. Gibney hurried forward, threw discovery Seng said he would go back to the box that, despite his gigantic pro- stand that you are engaged In evading Chinatown and consult with his com- off his gloom and appear sprightly. out the gangplank, and assisted two cadavers h helpless. pany. For reasons of his own he was Whatd you peddle them In carrying both crates aboard portions. he was the immigration laws? he yelled. . McGuffey, you swab, for, Gib? the Maggie and into her little cabin "Exactly, Captain Scraggs managed badly frightened. but o off my outlaw maritime broadly, this Pluck Mr. grinned he had Scarce before Glbney the departed to gasp, ns soon as he could recover Taptaln Scraggs thereupon dismissed tils gr n out ihe expressman, and all three part neck. Hes tearln my windpipe from his astonishment. "They showed watchful eye of Captain Scraggs ob- not answer. In effect was non that roots. me your name an address, an they served Mr. Glbney and McGuffey In formed Scraggs that lers gathered around the dining room by th choked Captain Scraggs and Scraggs business McGuffey the a latters block the When offing, the em boxes which rested. away. I got they able, upon at ony r Mr. Glbney, wont leave th ship, where let Well, he go until reluctantly hint. locked up In my cabin, until you come came aboard they found Captain stmilated the Well, Scraggsy, old pal, old scout caball three fled from the soaked him, an take em away. Couple o rela- Scraggs on top of the house, seated on Gib, whatever you ld socks, I see youve delivered the whereupon a and from as gathered, tives of in pestilence, an upturned fire bucket, smoking pen- a mighty good sale an" I congra ?oods, said Mr. Glbney, batting the yours, I should Imagine. out and group, an disappointed think mebbe I might ha angry Gin Seng smiled his bland Chinese sively and gazing across the bay with you. I skipper across the cabin with an but then on deck. smile. He had frequent dealings with an assumption of lamblike Innocence a little better myself, slap on the shoulder. can tu feller a jeered Captain Scruggs, Opium on his fox face. aint every day I did, said Scraggs and cursed In the masters dangership engaged Ginvoice. trick on a cyPMcG He soon departed, but Mr. Glbney elghteen-dolla- r demonstrativeness. with tears of rage in his ilr. ous. though lucrative, trade of smugGlbneys You nnd with us? you imagination, lunch your to Cornin seng! was Hes' got his l'nes suspicious. Heres the bill o sale all regular. Chinese Into the United States, gling off Get lout, you my ship, . un swine, you and while he had not received advice fast somewhere you can bank on fey demanded. tlcGuffey has the change. That bunch or Ill murder you. i Sure. Wait a minute tin was his comment While we that, he decided ) Israelites run th price up to $10.00 f this a shipment, is particular head. his lines Mr. Gibney hung If the ach on these two crates o ginseng, to go with Captain Scraggs to Jackson was away he rigged up some kind of forward an see an you, too, McGuffey of the ca out Scraggsy He a Bart. to stepped It stands deal, reason determined see were wer9 when it could If he iut see street they bulkhead and one Imre on is I got to admit that this and McGuffey Gibney a was presently too. mighty profitable :o haw em an aint interested In deal, he some not of his use countrymen. to Adelbert P. Gibney. I I of a rapid succe. d 8t nothin else, they lets em go to us. As Captain Scraggs and his Chinese My Imagination may be, a bit off the conscious w shrilled him, hear Captain Oh, course at times, Bart but in general. thuds on the deck. Gibney the wharf UcGuffey, my dear boy, whatever are the companion approached two on him One on Its If theres a dead whale floatin around McGuffey. there stnmlin around Scraggs. 70U . I skipper glanced warily about. He had ragpicker. you you. Nother new hat gone to n ,muf the ship I can smell It. mouth? in Mcor vlth your teeth Skip your small that either Gibney fear that other case contains mured McGuffey. What do you make out o Jown Into th engine room and bring suppose If there aint another Guffey would show up for an hour, for Chinaman cruisin down the that fat too! opium, a col chisel. Well an bulkhead a hammer had Mr. knew money that Gibney jp dead corpse In No. 2 case I hope my he in his possession. However, he decided in an express wagon an another Chinajpen her up an inspect th swag. overboard. teeth drop may "The job that confrontdo man settin up on the bridge with Upon McGuffeys return, Mr. Gibney Mr. Gibney. in to take no chances, and scouted the bellowed Shut up! to get these munition, it him? McGuffey demanded. Seems ;ook charge. He drove the chisel What howl have vicinity thoroughly before venturing a towering rage. our friend in Mexico. to me bows nearest to and cornin, for on, crate, the lid the of theyre the These actions aboard the Maggie. Chinacornin? my Theyre got the respect of Maggie." prepared to pry it loose. Suddenly yu men. aint they? 1 paid for em like served but to increase (TO BE CONTINUED.) They tell me to deduct somethin, le paused. A thought had occurred a man. didnt I? All right, then. Ill Gin Seng for the master of the Maggie a minute Walt till we see belief Bart that if ro him. his has them two Chinamen. You two and confirmed him in As for the girl who Gentlemen," he said (McGuffey keep out a cent yet, an ns for this the Maggie was a smuggler. theyre cornin aboard. If tbey are her expect to make a landin, lived in a flat, why housework Ingoto visitor codded his head approvingly), "this aint I wins off his Theyre took Captain Scraggs Scraggs, Its blood five know everything about Gib. world Is full o sorrers an disappointIt Is, an' I hereby side the little cabin, carefully locked what thats money; ments an It may well be that these CThe Qreen Pea Pirates Chris-tendo- e. fr e, hun-ga- y, in in dol-la- 1 Gib-ne- y, air-tig- n, ht ship-shap- e dog-gone- d! one-thir- d one-thir- d , e e twenty-- j back-break-I- n Mc-Suff- n, , y Mc-3uff- well-nig- affee-donat- e ! ! I bloody-hande- un-j- d er yt-U- , |