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S SERVICE f W THE STORY Floyd Unwin and lid Howard take dinner with an anold anold 0 old college e chum Alfred Altred Gibbon financial magnate magnat Unwin produce pro duce a written pledge taken by bythe bythe the three at college collee to help each aeb other In explaining that he h. n. n need 4 financial ante anre to educate hi hI Ion eon Dob lob an and daughter Mary Gibbon scone corr at the legality of the pledge but agree to make a place for ter forthe forthe the daughter In hll hl Wary Diary Unwin 1 stenographer to toa toa toa a wealthy debauch debauchee Edgar flag way Calling at Gibbons Gibbons' office omee a ma arranged Mary I Is I. asked ak to betray her br employer secret erat and refuses plan an ocean voyage yoya to 10 recover from the ef ef ef- feet fecU of Mary le t. to togo togo togo go u a. secretary her hn brother to accompany her CHAPTER III Continued III-Continued Continued 3 Prove It he commanded Draw something 1 Bettington hesitated for a moment lie He was not a man who went the better bet ter for being driven nut But It occurred to him that here was a solitary who was Wal me mentally unbalanced He lIe sketched in a few skillful strokes a portrait of ot the man standing t there hI his I gun balanced bal In the crook of his arm Jonathan GIbbs looked at It In si 1 1 len lence lenee It Is III good rood good he ho sald deliberately Whatever else you IOU may be you IOU are a a a- draftsman Why should I be bo anything than I pretend prete Youve never Then me before Gibbs GILlis d demanded Never said a little Irritably Ir lr and I 1 shall pass a contented contented existence ul If It I never ne see see you again i What sort of ot a Maine fisherman asherman are you ou to behave like this GIbbs put down Ids his gun and assumed as as- a more friendly air Ive been threatened be said Bald I rather vaguely Ive made enemies hereabout I have to be careful I Iwa Iwas Iwas was wa startled I You certainly startled me said the theother other I hoped to be at able le to pass the nl night ht here bere and dry my clothes You surely con said Bald Jonathan GIbbs Ill boll the water and make you yon some lome coffee corree I guess youre you're hun bun gam gamIt gry rry It was after aner the meal meat that Bettington Retting Betting ton asked him Why should anyone threaten you here Jealousy said eald Gibbs after aCter a 0 pause Im not a state of ot Maine man and I dont don't mix with anyone anone around The They dont don't understand that Plainly the man h had ld something to 1 conceal After After all Bettington told lf It f wai none of or his business He Ile had bad often otten met queer Ingrown I characters He lIe could not go out Into the black night now made doubly impassable Ira Ira- passable by the deluge delue of ot rain Gibbs made up the fire tire by hy packing lacking a huge armful of ot wood Into It Bettington was awakened b by the aroma of coffee corree Gibbs was holding Bettington's shoes up Dried stiff as boards boards he announced an an- iced need to be greased before you yon can cao get Inti em and your pants are torn pretty bad Ill I'll lend you ou an outfit and you can get what you rou want waat down to Blackport Thu seas sea's calm now and you IOU can cnn row ro across the bay In half halt an hour The summer sun Bun had tanned Bettington Pet net to a rich brown In hIs bis sea sea- boots the boots the only ones Gibbs bad had to tend lend his his faded blue sweater and khaki shirt he looked the sort of ot fishing type he be had often onen painted At the dock he took a ten toot rowboat rowboat row row- boat and set out to the v village lIe lIe He bad had gone perhaps half bait the distance when a fast motor boat overhauled him slackened speed as It passed and then swung round and waited walled In the path paths he be was taking There were two men In It ft One was a It vastly broad cheated man with witha a trim sweater and nud white canvas caD trousers lie He had thy th look of ot a yacht sailor Bailor The other who was steering the boat bont bad had no physical peculiarities other than that general aIr of ot following follow ing the sea tea Weve had an accident said the cheated broad man and pointed to something at the bottom of the launch Bettington clung to the side of the drifting motor boat and stood up There on the bottom of the other craft cran was a man lying immobile And Andas as the artist stooped over him the recumbent sailor ga gave gae e a tremendous half bal dim rm jab which caught on the tile point of ot The Tho other two grabbed him aa as his had bend fell Cell forward for tor ward and hauled him on board where unconscious he lie too took k t toe tIe Ie place of ot his 8 assailant who rose grinning The TIle broad brond man ruan who was called Sam clapped him blui on the back In approval he cried And nd that rock pre presents ems anyone anone seeing sei-Ing us IS from the village Sam hm bunt bent ewer ever the I form and anci neatly trussed It up with rope The Th floss Boss no s will be tickled to 0 death over this Stove In tn that rowboat row row- boat oit one of ot you A man with a boat book hook In n some bottom boards board and Jonathan GIbbs' GIbbs dinghy II slowly owl filled died with water Then the launch put out of the bay past the buoys and beaded headed north for flat Dar Harbor had recovered from the knockout out within live five minutes He lie could see lee from the brightly polished and mahogany that he was wasn In n a yachts yacht's launch lIe He knew that the hum of the motor would make any call for tor help useless lIe He had bad been heen neatly knocked out and was wal now to tobe toe be e expeditiously shanghaied It was Incredible Then the rent real meaning of ot the thing flashed on him He rte was mistaken for Jonathan Gibbs lie He was rowing Gibbs' Gibbs boat bont and wearing I GIbbs' GIbbs clothes With a two days' days growth of be beard and a face tace burned I with the sun he ml might ht easily pass for forthe forthe forthe the fisherman This Is all said a mistake he be addressing himself to Sam You Tou think Im I'm Jonathan GIbbs I 1 know v d d-d d d youre you're not said maid Sam without animus The thing was Inexplicable They knew him for tor himself and knowing It t they were carrying him off bound with ropes to the open sea Ilea There was seemingly no DO sort of ot personal per per- lIonal grudge In this hl high handed h mat mat- ter CT fhe The three men were carrying currying out orders Listen bo said Sam weve got orders orders' not to say a thing to you till the Moss noss sees you it It wont won't do you no good asking why why- we did It or who we are We had gad to gc you alive and unharmed and we did the nest est we knew kne how It was dark when the lights of liar ar Harbor came In to sight WAS WB carried up the gangway across a deck deckand deckand deckand and then pia placed red tn In a small all cabin lighted with a single porthole Sam untied the knots and watched I the he victim stretch his stiff and cramped limbs Just a n word of ot warning Sam remarked re re- marked You cant can't get Iet out of oC that porthole ole and you en cant can't nt get out ont of this cabin If you IOU did It wouldn't help you If youre you're wise you'll wait walt till the he Boss Ross sends for tor you au Sam turned the keys In the door and left teft him prisoner As he be examined his dungeon he heard the throbbing of machinery From rom the porthole he could see the boat bont was moving He Ue pulled off ocr t the he Ilea heavy y sea sen boots of Jonathan GIbbs and Hung flung himself on the berth In many adventures Bettington net Bet had learned that fretting and fuming were handicaps that men In danger should not take upon themselves them them- selves Presently he fell teU asleep and was awakened ened by Sam You it It worrying said Sam grinning They tell me you IOU always had your nerve with you ou You wont won't be able to see lee the Boss noss tonight lIes lIe's hitting the pipe and Its It's as much as asa asa asa a mans man's life liCe Is worth to go In now 1 I haven't no authority to let you out till he gives I the word so Ill I'll bring you youa a bite to eat here bere It Sam waddled out Bettington was still puzzled by his apparent nes ness ass As a physical specimen of ot humanity hu hu- inanity manity Sam did not awaken dence On his broad Hilt Hat face were written lust and brute courage e. e lie He would be a bad man to cross Rut nut why should he regard Howard painter of oC seascapes and man Dlan of ot In ha- Integrity with such an air of ot comradeship comradeship comrade comrade- ship Where are orp we ve bound for tor tort he hl asked of at Sam iam when a tray of food was brought In Noo 01 York said Sam Cant I 1 go 0 on deck derk 1 Bettington asked I t 1 cant can't escape Sum Sain shook his head Not ot till the toss gives I the word Who Is the floss The captain The fhe captain 1 There was scorn In Sams Sam's tone Him I l I II-I H I no You an im-an the owner Sams Sam's scorn of oC the owner was just justas as emphatic lie He may think hes he's the boss and Hallett ma may think he Is Is but they dont don't know know yet yet Sam rose to go Just one bit of advice bo ho dont don't make a noise If It you ou do you'll go to Noo York ga gagged led S e e e Bettington had not been ben pone gone on his errand to Blackport a half hour when hn Jonathan Gibbs In his tIIs motor dory went nt out to his hili lobster pots He lIe was returning when he saw a S smaller II I boat Its Us gunwales 11 awash h almost across Ms lils bow He lie knew It II Instantly for Cor his bis own P In Investigation showed that some of or the plunking planking had bad been n staved In He Ile supposed that one olle of ot the needle rocks must have h-e done clone tt It He Ile blamed himself for Cor allowing the stranger to cro cross s the bay buy Almost certain death would await any man wan dressed u as had bad been In n such urh current currents as u these GIbbs went to his bl shack hack with an uneasy mind The whole episode spelled publicity to him but he be cheered himself with the hope that his guest might have been rescued In that case be he would soon lIoon be back at the shack Hut by midnight Bettington did not return and Ibbs Gibbs went carefully through the things which were In the torn tom coat There was a gold watch with the Initial Initials 11 H. H 11 U. on It A wallet contained almost four tour hundred dollars There were ere no DO letters But there was wasa a reference on a memorandum of repairs repairs repairs re re- pairs to the skylight of a studio at a given address addre l and a receipt for tor the rental of ot It to the end of ot the current year Jear And there was s a bunch of keys For or almost an hour GIbbs sat lat mo mo- Then he rue rose to his feet put a kettle on the oil all stove and presently pres sally shaved himself carefully and trimmed his hi hair lIe He rubbed the grease which Bettington had applied to hI his shoes so 10 carefully Into the leather that It tt became at length flexible flexible flex neXt ible and he was able to put them on Hasty repairs to the torn trousers and coat enabled him to wear them With an Iron which had been blen little used of ot late he pressed them Int Into something of their former shape Dawn was 81 breaking when Jonathan GIbbs DOW now a new man bade bode farewell to the shack he had Inhabited for six years Jeara None saw him as he be made his e II Further Search Revealed Sugar and Coffee way Inland to A sleepy ticket agent gave ga him a ticket to Port lort Portland land and forgot the occurrence instantly In in- In Portland he spent only a few Cew hours New fork York received him with witha a thousand others at the Grand Central Cen Cen- trod and he walked eight blocks down downto to a brown stone stolle house opposite an nn armory name was on a plate over oer a letter box A key on the bunch fitted It and he drew out some and walked having met not a soul to the top of ot the house Then after a moments moment's pause he lie opened I Ithe the studio door and found himself In Ina Ina Ina a haven hn so secure that he could hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly believe It had boon been attained so easily Ills His eyes es brightened when he saw that the former occupant had cans of ot milk soup and fish ash In ab ance There were at least two pounds of oC ten tea Further urther search revealed I sugar sugar ga and coffee corree He lie could live for tor a week on what he found arid and ne er never venture outside the door During the day he must be careful not to be bo seen Hut But at nt night New York was his own Those wh who had known the dour suspicious fisherman would not nut have recognized In the alert housebreaker the same man Jonathan Gibbs was gone dead and burled And this too In a sense be he did not know Other fishermen had found his waterlog waterlogged pd rowboat And when he be was as not seen In his familiar L haunts and had bad not Dot called at the village store to exchange his eggs for groceries a search was wa made Ills His home bome was found unoccupied his bis chickens famished Plainly Jonathan Jonathan Jona Jona- than GIbbs had been drowned and his body swirled out to sea lea In the undertow At first the New York Gibbs ventured ventured ven vent out ont only at night within a short radius of his sanctuary There bad had been no mall maiL There had been Leen no prying Janitor He Ue bad almost four hundred bundred dollars and almost four months months' rent paid He lie felt assured that ton was dead It was on the third evening of his occupancy that this calm and pleasurable pleasurable pleas pleas- optimism was swept away He lIe had gone gon to the subway entrance to buy an evening e paper As AI he stood on the steps before the front door feeling for Cor his latchkey he was conscious conscious conscious con con- that a policeman across the street by the armory was looking at him Although It W was l dark he felt stricken with the certainty that the officer at him alone From the front windows of at his un un- lighted ro rooms ms he had hod an unobstructed view The officer was now speaking to a smaller man who seemed to be pointing directly at the windows through which Jonathan GIbbs gazed The coincidence was as food for tor somber thought As Aa though concerting some plot aimed at GIbbs the two two slowly crossed the street treet Then his bell rang three times s. s Gibbs opened the thedoor the thedoor door to the landing silently and lis lis- tend He lie heard the front door open and steps advance along the flagged passage Then he heard the footsteps begin the ascent Softly he be locked the door and stood a few tew feet back from It To To the knock he returned no DO answer lie He looked about him wildly Trapped 1 l Ibe be he groaned After nil all these years rears to tobe tobe tobe be caught I l Fear roused him from Inaction Before Before Be Re- fore Core lon long t they JI k i would burst In la the thedoor door The fire escape at the rear was his sole hope hone It was pitch dark but he dared risk no light or make the he descent slowly He lIe had gone but half halt a flight ht when he trod upon a flower flowerpot pot placed there In violation of ot all all the city's Ore fire ordinances He lIe clutched about him wildly and found only a piece of rotting rope For a moment It promised to to stay his fall then he felt the old strands giving T The e p paved Td yard to which he crashed was fifty feet ft-et below They had bad not been wrong In Blackport who wha assumed that the man they called Jonathan Gibbs was dead CHAPTER IV IVAn IVAn IVAn An Amazing Adventure During the long hours Bettington spent a prisoner he thought over and rejected as ns Impractical several schemes for escape When all was said and done escape from his cabin to the larger prison of the ship at sea sen offered little betterment of his condition He lie pondered over Sams Sam's command that he |