Show moll mutiny wida the Al batron SS by TUB U IL carylee CHAPTER XI continued 13 slivers silvern was at first inclined to tile be disappointed appointed Is tit at the mildness of the punishment meted out to hla his enemy the tarpaulin was removed from the sixteen foot cutter stopped on davits outside the rail and tile the cook lifted with difficulty and dumped into it then the covering wag replaced replace il and the boat swung attain again over the rull rail this Is nn an interesting sort of game augustus I lettington remarked and your part in it so far lifts lias been worth fifty dollars to you do you want to earn cam more Is each of thera them guys worth efty bones Is worth a hundred I 1 want them one at a time how can you get metzger hero here a pipe sold augustus his eyes glistening IT hell lell want to know where tile tho cook Is ill say ties lies up here with the th lane jane hes stuck on and that clot youva got the other all right said bald bettington A hundred dollars if t you work it right silvers found metzger merger sleeping Ble it was easy eaby to make enough noise to awaken 11 him im lie ile sat up with nn an oath and demanded that tho the cook be sent it la with something to eat fill vers oly ely smile angered him lid ild seized tin tile boys arm aria and spun him round what are you grinning for or he cried the boy edged toward tile the door 1 I was just th chinkin inkin how cooks put one over on you after all while youve been slee sleeping sleep pin ln him and tile tho doc has been showing tile the skirts a 8 good time on deck with a bellow metzger drew tits hla knife and rustle rushed up the stalls stairs in moments of rage such as these he cared nothing for caution cout lon ile he had been a foot fool to spare tile the handsome doctor so eo long the handsome doctor dropped tile the noose accurately over ills his nerk neck and choked him into submission and gagged find and bound was dropped by the cooks cooka side a hu hundred tidied and fifty said 1111 olivers vers happily slivers silvers tell kenzle I 1 want to see lira for it a minute bettington ordered blinking the engineer came into the bright light do you suppose bettington began bega 1 that when tills this cruise la is over bouti 1 ever get the chanco chance to work on a craft like this again kenzie shook life his head sadly ile ho would end hla his pays patching up marine a to junk ho he 1 jup up posed this voya voyage go was the purple patch in tits gray life there would never be another listen to me bettington said 1 I 1 think it if my scheme la is successful that mrs radway will retain you permanently manent ly all I 1 want you to do Is to keep team up and join in no ra raid id against me 11 I 1 said kenzie bats easy what mat do I 1 want to join in n any scraps for they anay make you think its necessary Is it a promise kenzie thrust out an oily pow paw Bett higton wrung it heartily of all tile the men on board ho he thought kenzie kenite alone had a face to be trusted bob had witnessed the two encounters and wanted to know what was coming coining was it possible that todd hod had been wrong in his estimate of tile the doctor bettington would tell him nothing instead he be changed tile the course of the vessel well run for new york he said bald we shall have favor favoring lug winds and it wont take much longer lie he felt certain that there would be no trouble with the gamblers for dittly nanny hours dy by that time some new plan could be evolved for or their overthrow lie he was rather concerned for him self elf IQ in the fight with sam he had been badly bruised and now the great exertion of lifting the two men into the boat agonized him aim when he had ment ent slivers belo wand cautioned him to report any new development lie he stretched himself on tile the couch tra im going to iry try to get a little rest he told nob bob wake me it if hei bee essary and let no one come on leek deck but slivers silvers those men in the cutter cant get adrift hob bob forgot the perils which hedged heda ged him and tits his about in ti this its newfound joy of guiding a big boat full steam ahead was indicated on tile the gauge and ile he aris bending for home crosby had bad told him that the only ex plana tion of the doctors change of heart it if tt it were genuine find and borne out by deeds was the hope of winning a pardon lie had insisted that a double murderer would have tittle little hesitation in adding another victim to tits his score if it seemed necessary but todd tod would not believe that orme as he h called him alway in speaking to pra lira rt radway adway find repented they thay were wen bound for a n foreign port and when they were no longer under the jurls diction of tho the Artie american rican flag fing anything could happen in his moments of de da lort crosby todd thought un easily of what would happen to him dr andrew orme onne had looked loo ltd at him with an expression that did not speak of mercy todd experienced bitter of 0 mothr brues ed n lip 11 had allowed himself to be fooled by graumann Or aumann over the wireless and had lost the opportunity to send messages that might have saved them it seemed necessary for the common good to refuse to listen to any of mrs lire Rad roadways ways speculations about the possibility lity that the doctor was their sincere f friend dead mary made common cause with her lance flance aganet what a brave and steadfast child she acis waal thought the elber elder woman here at the threshold of a now new and fuller life she was lakel likely to be stayed by for jerown part life held tio no more prospects and like mary slip she too was to ile he halted on the for a few glorious moments site she had been conscious of her destiny and now nov she knew they were only moments of self deception n women had always envied her for beauty wealth arin and position none had ever envied tier her for her s happiness was broadly speaking the common lot site she had been given everything else there was no morbidity In dwelling on the fate that was en wrapping tier her she could not have lived so an long unit and seen so much without being aware of the lawlessness of 0 mens desires she thought of Metz gers burning eyes pam was vas gone but tier her menace remained sed and perhaps this strange man whom she knew now to be ba andrew ornie onne escaped convict and twice a murderer loved tier her in her heart silo she was convinced of it i i never never would slie silo let any human being know that site she too had loved him a 1 murderers murder erl l A man for whon whom not even tile roost lost splendid of heroism could win pardon A man for ever without tile the pale those elements of lawlessness in the individuals of the crew which clements by his adroitness and tile the terror lie inspired had contrived to keep in subjection were not long to lie dormant already unaccustomed ease and freedom from duties had awakened lu in men to whom all honest work was abhorrent the desire for a continuance of these romantic conditions dit ions the four in tile the experienced much of the feeling that aladdin must have known when his lamp proved so BO obedient a servant it was with it timidity covered fly by an 11 air ir of bravado tant they first made deni demands finds on silvers for food and drink they ordered he obeyed they sent him for railways famous cigars slivers brought a humidor filled with them mike alike suggested champagne the genie they had known as silvers delivered it to them hattner was chickenhearted chicken hearted lie ile believed that ills arrest at some time or other was certain and there were liters lifers in tit nt least two of those convict vict t establishments to which he might he bi sent who had find threatened to kill him and they would succeed ile he had been a trusty end he had been it a stool pigeon alone of the men he had a profound distrust of bettington ile ie thought thou lit tile the surgeon burgeon was going to try to help mrs It find and so save his skin akin two could play at that idame game if he so stirred up the three plastic men before him that they at tacked metzger and Ier Iler elra and killed 1 them and lie he folt felt this would be the result ho could be hurrying to the doctor with till the news and implore him to mete out justice to the slayers li it wits was a pretty scheme and his ex pres slon annoyed graumann Graun iann wint what are you grinning for he anar snarled led abat makes you so eo d n happy I 1 1 I was th chinkin inkIn hamner returned how low good and surprised them do da goedd be it if we went aft and turned lent cm out of the boss quarters and made them come here where they belong there they sit and walt wall till we get to limon they speak the lingo wo we dont speak us into jail before we know it you know what them central centra american prisons ure are nothing wont ever get us tie out we wont even know what were in for a tack fack mike alike agreed 1 I was in one in buhla and I 1 dont know yet why unless it was for throwing a ball off the dock it if wo we had to shoot era em said hamner wed say it wast was because they tried to get nt at tile the women folk listen good at home lies iles got et a head on him film mike said auld with genuine admiration that stuff sets gets over every vale time believe me brave seamen save the women and children I 1 arst tied silke alike was waa one of those drunkards who after a sulli sufficient clent amount of poison lose the more obvious marks of intoxication where tile the other three slept he was kept awake by the growing ferocity he felt fell toward and Iler cerela elro it was about seven welock shen lie he roused his reluctant comrades from their slumbers they awaked sober but savage it was not hard to lit bring them to their last nights night mood of vengeance the bottles en the lite table helped them to that it wits was decided then and there to tc hunt for the traitors U every very stateroom and nd storeroom was drawn blank the two must be on the upper deck with their crony the tha that thai would maka ahr hryc apman t f was chosen to ask leave to speak with the autocratic navigator and while speaking locate locale the missing tuen men bettington listened to story when he had given permission through slivers silvers for film to come on leek deck ile he entertained a profound mistrust of the tuan nan well weil bettington said seeing him gazing about him what to la it 1 I was mas wondering if the cook was up here sir air we aint seen him in tup the galley nor mr air metzger neither do they look to bo be litre here glanced toward the wireless house it was their only possible hitting hiding place bettington watched him sidle up to it are they there the surgeon it ked as if interested in their disappearance pe arance Grau milan took this as an invitation to 1 I 1 guess below he said touching hla his cap ills news added to the wrath of ti the tricked four it was plain they coulle could it h what makes make you so 80 D n happy only on ly be in the fore part of the ship immediately above the forecastle whore where the men were now sitting there they are the st inkin its da goes said Ha hamner niner eating and drinking with tile women while anything Is good enough for us if I 1 was wag aai as strong as you boys I 1 stand it no not for one minute just overhead they are a laughon laugh ln tn at the monkeys made of us we ought to break tit in Gratin iann here tie ha knows how to open any klester ever made it wont take him long to do tile the trick mike battered tiie the table with ills his iron fists no by G it lie he shouted not the way I 1 work well batter the door down with bars of iron mike made ills his first savage onslaught the noise in the quarters of the prisoner people was deafening deafen ings mary alary clung to crosby she saw mrs take the auto dut during ing intervals of thas but bat bering they could licar bear the most horrible oaths hurled as they believed at themselves olide to mra mis railway it meant that the doctor had been as she had feared tricked into helplessness this was the end on hearing the nary racket ran to the head of the companion pun lon the shouts of alike anil and hla his friends warned him of grave danger alike and crouse were trying to batter their way to the women there was waa no other explanation possible stop he shouted th ills voice arrested them for a mo meat we want metzger and pereira they to told d him they are not in there cried bettington det ting ton then where are they hiding graumann snarled th the doe doctors rs to answer promptly seemed direct proof that he was wai lying krause pullet pulled out his revolt volver er and took aim at bettington Bettl shouting obscene abuse as he did so it was no moment for hesitation bettington shot first krause spun round a bullet tin had aone through the hand that held the weapon another gun spat out and graumann Graun iann fell shot through the heart bettington glanced round and saw Ilan iners smoking barrel saved saed your ufa life them doc said flummer heartily it was Ham hambers ners treachery which staggered mike alike anil and made him full fall an easy victim to artest anest bettington slipped a clove hitch over oer his wrist alike wits was led to the tha chain locker and pushed in hamner II amner although he be was betraying joy at the result of the fray knevin his heart that until mile alike was lead dead lie he was in hourly peril hamner cursed his frine inaccuracy curacy of aim ile he had meant to kill mike and by a jerky nervous pull on the trigger had slain Graur graumann minn graumann lie he could have managed manage but alakel slivers had brought brou glit kinzie kenzle up from tits his engines tile the boy had become panic stricken lie he could not understand how it was hamner had emerged with so stainless a reputation ilama r was engaged in tile the necessary business of cleaning up no longer tilled filled with visions of vengeance krause followed follow pd betting Bettt ton to the doctors room vi where here his wound wits was dressed lie he did not venture to pro test when he was locked in a small room things were going rather well for II amner but lie he stilt still was in some perplexity as to where metzger and Ier elra might be thinking it over and hearing bearing in mind andrew ormes justly earned reputation for violence what was more likely than they had bad been done away with and dumped into the ocean hamner was evolving a story where by he enacted the role of sir galahad and providence together in the bild it would be seen that tha t but for him the voyage would have finished in utter disaster lie determined to attach himself to mrs railway kaday ne ile had find been formerly a specialist in those hardluck hard luck stories whose success depended upon feminine sympathy CHAPTER XII the treachery of friends frienda after the first amazing clamor was stilled and crosby todd had whispered some comforting phrases to mary two shots rang out then came krausel Kr auses yell of agony after that there was a silence of half an hour but the three waiting as they expected tor for death made no move out of the silence came three staccato double raps the signal by which the doctor was known dont opeal said todd hoarsely its a trick 1 I must must know mrs ira railway said and unbolted the door bettington stood there lie he was pale find and unsmiling im afraid you have been very much frightened le ile began im sorry hut but it has turned out fortunate after ull lill I 1 control the boat at last lait and nd you iou are tree free to use the upper deck when you want to do you roean mean the dreadful dunger danger has passed lie he looked down at her and amlien ameled just for a moment 1 I think so I 1 shull shall want todd up there at once todd wa well V dont go but on deat and these quarters rm of UM I 1 hays very good reasons he bowed to mrs ila way and went out N happened bob aage eagerly when he was relieved at the w wheel bi |