| Show 16 Ao Io iI The e Mutiny of the atro s by WYNDHAN WYNDHAM MARTYN IN TUB TruC D. D 8 L S rr e t. t CHAPTER XI Continued XI-Continued Continued 13 15 Slivers Silvers was 01 at first Ort Inclined to be bel disappointed l at the mildness of the punishment meted out to his hll enemy Tile The tarpaulin was removed from the thet t I sixteen foot cutter cutler stepped on davits dulls outside the rail roll and the cook lifted with difficulty and onel dumped Into It Then the covering was replaced and the boat swung again over the rail mil This Tills Is an Interesting sort of or game Augustus remarked arid and your jour port part In It It so far tor has hu been worth orth Ort fifty dollars to you Do 10 o you want to earn more Is Ii each of or them guys KUfS worth Ort fifty bones Metzger Is III worth a hundred I want wont them one at nt a time How lIow can con you get Iet Metzger here a pipe said Bold Augustus his hili eyes glistening lieu Hell want wont to know where the cook Is Ill I'll say hes he's up here with the Jane Jono hes he's stuck on and that youve you've got the other All right said Mid Wellington A hundred dollars It If you work It right Slivers Silvers found Metzger sleeping It was 1188 fas easy to make enough noise to awoken him He lie sat eat up with an oath and demanded that the cook be sent In with something to eat Slivers Silvers sly Illy smile mile angered lingered him lie Ill seized the boys boy's arm orm and ond spun him round What are you ou grinning for for he cried The bo boy ed edged 1 toward the door I was just how haw rooks cooks put pul one over on you oU otter after all While youve you've been hlen him him on and amid the 1 Doc Ioe 0 lane has been showing the skirts a good time Ume on deck With a n bellow Metzger drew his knife and ond rushed II up the In of ot ro rage e such as these thise he cart cared nothing for tor lie He had hadlIe lIe been a tool foul to spare Ipare the handsome doctor so 80 long The handsome doctor dropped droppel the th r noose accurately tely over or his neck Ilk a and lilt j choked him Into ludo submission Andi And i 2 Met ger glI gigged gagged ld and bound hound was dropped by the time cooks cook's side a hundred and fifty said Slivers Silvers happily Slivers Sitters tell teil Kenzle Kenzie 1 I want wont to sP see s him for tor a minute ordered Diluting Blinking the engineer came corne Into lh the e bright light Do Io 10 you suppose Wellington began I that when this tills cruise Is over you'll ever get the chance to work on a craft like this thus again Kenzle Kenzie shook his head hend sadly lie would end his days duys s patching up marine ma marine rine junk he hI supposed ll This voyage was the purple patch In his gray life There never I be e another Listen LIten to me sold said I i think If In my scheme Is successful that tha t Mrs will retain you OU per All I wont you jou ou to do Is t to keep steam up and Join In no raid I against me II I 11 I said sold Kenzle Kenzie easy What do I 1 want wont to join In an any scraps for tor They may make you think Its It's necessary r ell essary r If Is la It II a n promise r Kenzle thrust out an on oily paw pow wrung II It heartily Of Ot althe all al I the men on board he to thought alone had a face to be lie trusted had hod witnessed I the two t encounters encounters en counters and wanted to know who what t was coming Was It possible le that Todd had been wrong wron In his estl esti estimate mate of the doctor Wellington would tell him nothing Instead he ho changed the course of ot th the vessel Well run for New r York h he e said We shall have ha favoring winds wind C Cand and It wont won't take tape much noet longer 11 He e felt certain that there would be Ill n no o trouble with the gamblers gambit for man many y hours fly Ity that time some new pla plan pion n could be evolved for tor their overthrow ove v a alie lie He was rather concern concerned Id I'd for tor him bite self elf In the fight tight with Sum Slim he ha had luul d been badly bruised and nd now the greal grey t exertion of lifting the time two o I men int Into o the boat agonized him When he ha had d sent Slivers Silvers below and cautioned him hair Li Lito to report any new development ha he e stretched himself on the couch Im going to tr try to get H II little littlerest e rest rest he told Hob Wake me me- If ne necessary ne- ne c essary and let Itt no one come on deck dec ck k but Slivers Silvers Those men In III the cutter cutler t cant can't get iet adrift Hob Bob tor forgot ot the perks perils which h hedged hedge d him and his about In this new ne found d I joy of ot guiding a big bout Full ull steam p ahead WI was Indicated on the sauce gauge an and mI he was bending for hone home Crash Crosh Crosby y land hael told him that the lime only t explanation 1 tion Uon of ot the doctors doctor's change of ot heart If It were genuine and oDd borne out b by y deeds was deeds was the hope of or winning a t pardon lie Ile had Insisted thou that a II doubt double e murderer would have hesitation n In to adding another to lo his score scar re If tr It seemed necessary slat Todd Tod d would not believe that Onne Orne a as Ii he e called d him always In speaking to 10 Mm Mr d. d Hallway land had repented Th 11 u I wet were e bound for tor a foreign port and win when e n they were no longer under the Jurisdiction Juris es s diction of ot the American ring Jag an tg could coull happen In hl his moments of or lie de- d e Crus Crosby by Todd thought u u easily of ot what would happen to blDr hI bl lihu Ill w. 1 Dr r. r Andrew Audrew Orme Orate had looked at hl him man with an expression that thai did not nol speak k r of ot mercy Todd experienced bitter moments of ot 11 bier liler t tI's It others ollif Ift gnes ed ed nothing 1 He Ill e had allowed himself to be tooled footed b by Graumann over the wireless l a and d bad had lost ost the opportunity to send messages tint that might have hue raved paved them It seemed nece necessary lIry for tor the common good to refuse to listen to any 1101 of ot Mrs specula speculations lion about the pos pos- possibility po that the doctor was their sincere sin cere sere friend Mary made common cause with her fiance flance against Wellington What s a brave and steadfast child slue she was Willi thought the elder woman lere at the threshold of ot a new and anti fuller life lite she was likely to be he stayed by y deal death h. h For Por her own part life lite held hell no fun more pr prospects And like Mary she ton too was WitS to be halted on the time For r a 8 few glorious moments mo mu ments menta she ahe halt hail been conscious of ot her and now she ahe knew they were only moments of oC self Women Wom Worn en In had Iund always envied her for beauty wealth and position None had bad ever envied her ber for tor her happiness Happiness Happi ness was broadly speaking the common com moo mon lot She had been given every every- thing else There was no morbidity In dwelling on the fate that was wo enwrapping her Iler She could not have bave lived so long and seen Slen so much without being belol aware of ot the lawlessness of mens men's desires She thought of ot Metzger's Metzger burning yes eyes Sam Sum was gone but her menace remained And perhaps this strange man whom she knew now nov to be Andrew Andrew An An- drew Orme One escaped convict on and twice a murderer loved her In her heart she he was convinced of ot It Never r never would she clue let any human being belog know that she slue too had loved him a murderer I A noun man for tor whom not even ho time most toast splendid of ot heroism could win wIll pardon A man for ever eer without the he pale C e s e e e e Those elements of ot lawlessness Inthe In he time Individuals of ot the crew which Clements by hy his adroitness and the terror error he Jle Inspired had hod contrived to keep In subjection were not long tolie to tole lie Ill le dormant Already unaccustomed ease list and freedom from duties dulles had land awakened In men lumen to whom all honest work ork WO was abhorrent the desire for tor fora tora a n e of these romantic con con con- dl The four tour In the time forecastle expert expert- need much ranch of ot the feeling fellIng that tint Aladdin Alad Alad- din must have known when his bis lamp lump proved prove so obedient a servant It was with a certain timidity covered b by an anair anair air of ot bravado that they first made demands mond on Ott Slivers for food and drink Th They ordered he obeyed They Thep sent se-nt him for Railways Railway's famous clears cigars rs Silvers brought a humidor tilled Oiled with filth theta them Mike lIke suggested champagne The genie geule they had known as liS Slivers eri delivered It to them the was chicken hearted He Ill believed that his arrest at ot some time or other r was certain And there were liters lifers In at least Ie two of ot those convict con stet vict establishments to which he be might be sent who had threatened to kill him And they would succeed He lie had been a trusty end ho he land had been beena a n stool pigeon n. n Alone of the time men he h. had hada a profound distrust of ot Wellington lie He thought the time surgeon was going to try to help Mrs Railway Hallway and so 80 save san his skin Two could play lloy at nt that game If It he so stirred up the three plastic men 11 before him that him that they at forked Metzger and sad and killed them theta and and he felt this would b be the result result-ho result he could be hurrying to the doctor with will the news and ond Implore him to mote mete out Justice to tn the till slayers It was 1111 a 0 pretty scheme and his expression ex annoyed d What hilt are lire you jou OU grinning tor for ho hI snarled What make IJ jou Ou so d n d-n n happy I 1 win wua II Hamner returned how haw good goad 01 and sin them thew dagi da- da gi be If It we WI wt went nt aft urt and turned em out if of the Moss Hoss' quarters and made them m come came here where the they he be Ion lung long There they sit alt and w wall till we get t to 10 Imn Dimon They speak the lingo we dont They'll h 1 speak spank us Into iota Jail Jull before we know It Vei Yost know what them Central American prisons lire are Nothing wont won't ever get tt U us out We wont won't even know what were we're In fur for a rack aek Mike agreed I Iwas 1 w was ns p in one Ill In lu and I 1 dont don't know yet jet et why hr unless It 1 was vas ItS for throwing a 11 bull hull off uIT the limp dock clock If It we wo had bad to 10 shout shoot em lm said wed 81 say It was because e they tried to get gel at ot the lima women folk tolk That'd listen good at lit home lose lIes Hes got gut a head OB un him Mike alike sold said with shim 1111 genuine admiration That Thai stun stuff gets gels over o every tints time believe ate me Brave seamen save soe the women an and children first Iced Hell Mike lIke was one of those drunk drunk- arils ants w who hu after afler a amount of poison lose the mare mure obvious l b us marks narks of or Intoxication Whore the other three slept he tie was lent kept awake by the proving growing ferocity he ht felt toward mid and It was one about seven o'clock when he lie roused hl his reluctant comrades It from their slumbers They awaked sober ober but butsavage OO savage I. I li It was urn not hunt hard to bring hying them to lo their last nights night's mood moll of ot nn vengeance The fht bottles battles on no the table helped them to that It II was os decided they Ihen and there to hunt hUlit tar for time the traitors stateroom state room coos and storeroom stateroom WR was nas drawn blank The two iwo must be on the upper deck deckwith with their crun crony the surgeon That would make three against t four tl r Graumann was II chosen chose to ask uk leave to speak with the autocratic navigator and while speaking locate the missing men Wellington listened to Graumann's story when he be had hat given permission slon through Slivers for him to come on deck lie He entertained a profound mistrust mistrust mis mis- trust of ot the manWell man Well Rell Wellington said Bald seeing him gazing about hIm What Is la It II I was Will wondering If the cook was up here he sir We aint seen u him InthA In Inthe Inthe the thA galley nor Mr Ir Metzger neither Do no tile they look to be bl here Graumann glanced toward the wireless wire less house It was their only possible hiding place Wellington watched him hlOi sidle up to lo It Are they there the surgeon asked as 81 If It Interested In their dl ap- ap Graumann took this as an Invitation to Investigate I guess gues they're below he said laid touching his hI cap Ills news new added to the wrath wroth of at tim the e tricked four tour It was plain they could coul d c t What Makes You 80 D n D-n n Happy only be In the fore tore part of ot the ship Immediately above aboe the forecastle where the men were now sitting There they are arc the time da do goes said eating and drinking drink ing log with the women while anything legood Is le good enough for us It If 1 I was as as you boys I 1 wouldn't stand It It no not for one minute Just overhead over over- overhead head they are a at the monkeys they've the made of us We ought to break In Graumann here he knows how haw to open all any klester kiesler ever made It wont won't take him long to do dothe dothe the time trick Mike Alike battered the table tahle with his Iron fists No by G G-d G d d he shouted not the time way WItY 1 I work Well We'll hatter batter the thedoor thedoor door down With bars of Iron Mike made his first savage onslaught The lime noise In Inthe Inthe the quarters of ot the time people deafening Mary Mury clung to lo Crosh Crosby She saw Mrs take the auto nUlo matic During Daring Intervals of this hatt tl y could hear the time must horrible hor rude oaths hurled as the they believed at themselves alone To Mrs Irs ny It meant that the time doctor had hall been as she had feared cured trick tricked Ill I'll Into helplessness This Timis was till the end s JJ LL n Wellington on en bearing the tte nary rack racket ran to tb the bead of ot the companion Time The shouts of ot Mike and his hll friends warned him tl s grave gruve dan dan- ger get Mike Graumann and Krause were trying to batter their way to ta the women there was wai no other Ion Uon ti Stop he shouted Ills III voice olce arrested them for tor a mo mo- moment ment meat We want Metzger er and and Pereira they theT told him They Ther are art not In la there cried Bet Bet- Then where are the they hiding biding Graumann snarled gnarled The doctors doctor's to answer promptly seemed direct proof that he was lying Krause pulled palled out his revolver revolver revolver re re- volver and took aim it at Wellington shouting obscene abuse as he be did so It U was no moment for tor hesitation Wellington net Bet lington shot first Drat Krause spun round rounda a a bullet had bad gone through the hand that held the weapon Another gun IUn spat out and Graumann fell teU shot abot through the heart bearL Wellington glanced round and saw Hamner's smoking barrel Saved your lour life lite them Doc said heartily It was treachery which sta staggered Mike and made him fall an easy victim to arrest arlest Wellington slipped a clove cloe hitch over his wrist Mike was led to the chain locker and pushed flushed In tit hough he was betraying be joy at the result of ot the fray tray knew In his hla heart that until Mike was wu dead he was In hourly peril Hamner cursed his Inaccuracy of at aim lie He had hod meant to kill Mike and by a jerky nervous pull on the trigger had slain Graumann Graumann be he could have managed nut Hut Mike Mikel I I Silvers Slivers had hud brought Kenzle Kenzie up from his en engines The boy had become panic stricken lie could not understand under stand how It was Hamner had emerged with so stainless a 8 tiou was engaged in the necessary business of ot cleaning up No r longer filled tilled with visions of ot vengeance |
