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Show "the PROMOTION OF'I THE ADMIRAL &&D&g&f Dy Morley Roberta Author of "Tho Colon. ns." "Tho Fuilltl vti." Copyright, itot, ltos, by Thi Ourtti VubtltMng Company, Copyright, ltos, by L, 0, Pag fi Company, (Ineorporatid.) MmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmammjmmmmmmimBammmmmnmmmm (Continued.) The Seiilement Wiih Shanghai Smith It Is easy to understand that thero was something moro than n flutter In shipping circles In San Francisco, to nay nothing of tho sailors' boarding-houses, boarding-houses, when a telegram renrhed that city from Now York which was expanded ex-panded as follows: "Admiral Sir Richard Dunn, whose mysterious disappearance In San Francisco throe months ago caused such great excitement, has armed nt New York In command of the ship California. Ho was, It appears, assaulted as-saulted and drugged, nnd put on board that vessel, and owing to a sorlcs of exciting Incidents during tho passngo, finally took charge vf hor. The admiral is In good health. Ho states that ho has no Idea who was rcsponslblo for tho outrage." The bartender at Shanghai Smith's house was tho first to spot this cable. He put his hand on tho bar and vaulted It. "Say, Hilly, see this." Ho shook up tho runner who was taking a caulk on a hard bench, having hav-ing beon engaged between four and six In getting three drunkon men on board the Wanderer. He was very tired and Bulky. "Well, wo'd'B up now?" ho grunted. "Hell Is up, and flamln'," said Tom. "You ain't forgot tho admiral by any chance, now?" Billy woke as suddenly ns if ho had beon sleeping on tho lookout and had been found hard and fast by tho mate. "Eh, what, has tho California turned turn-ed up?" "You bet sho has," Bald Tom. And ho burst Into laughter. "What d'yo reckon- ho wob on board of her when sho camo to N' York?" ' "Cook's mate?" "No, captain, captain I Think of that. And ho Hays he don't know who laid him out and put him aboard of hor." Billy roso. "Hero, glmmo tho paper. You to drunk." Ho rcal tho telegram with protruding protrud-ing eyes. 'By tho holy frost, but he must bo a dandy. Say, Smith must know this." Ho marched to Smith's bedroom and Induced his boss to sit up and hoar tho nows, after Smith had used more bad language with his eyca shut than most mon in San Francisco could lay tholr tongues to when wldo awake. "Don't I toll you it's about tho admiral," ad-miral," expostulated Billy; "it's about Dunn, as you shoved on tho California." Califor-nia." But now Shanghai was wldo awake. Ho looked at Billy with wicked oyes. "As I shoved in tho California, eh? Say that again and I'll get up and knock tho corners off of you. You miserable Tarhead, If I hear you whisper whis-per that I hud the last Joint of tho llttlo llt-tlo finger of my left hnnd in '0 game, I'll murder you." Rilly fell back from tho bod in alarm. Though ho looked big enough to hnvo caton Shanghai Smith, ho lacked tho "devil" which had made his boss what ho was the terror of tho "const" nnd of sallormeu, and a political power In his quarter of tho city. "Oh, very well then, Mr. Smith, but who dono It?" "Understand thnt no ono knows who dono It, you dog," Bald Smith, reaching for what ho called his "pants," "but if nny ono dona it, it was you. Anil don't you forget It. I hlro you to do tho work, and I'll see you does it." And Billy wont back to Tom. "He's fair luny, that's what ho Is. I TfI Now 8hanghal was wide awake. But if he reckons I'm gofn' to tho cala-liooso cala-liooso for him, he'll run up ngln a snag." And presently Smith camo out to breakfast with a face as black as a noar cyclono. Billy nnd Tom Jumped when ho Bpoko, and all those men in his houso who wero In a locshoro, as rogards dollars, got away from him and adorned n neighboring fence. "Whnt's wrong wlv Shang'at?" asked n Londoner; " 'cs n black 'un, but I never soed Mm bo rorty as this!" And no ono answered him. Thoy wero a Blck crowd nt nny tlmo, nnd now, when tholr Blnvo-ownor roared, their hearts wore In tholr boots. But Smith was only trying to keep up his own co'iragc. Not onco, tut uiMy tlmeH since ho had got ovon with tho man who had given him a thrashing, ho had regretted his method meth-od of rovongo. "I'd best hnvo bashed him and left him laying on the Front," said Smith, "nnd hero's Tom nnd Bill know tho whole rnckot. I've hnlr a mind to havo them put out of the way. In such a placo as this, who can n man trust? Bnh, it sickens me, it docs. It fair sickens mo." How In the nnmo of all that was holy and unholy hnd tho ndmlrnl managed man-aged to rise from tho foc'sle to tho command of tho California? "And I thought Bluker and Simpson was both men!" said Smith with disgust. dis-gust. "Thoro ain't nny trustln' to appearances, ap-pearances, nor to reputation neither. But how could the swine havo dono It?" An early evening paper hnd tho whole story, and as Shanghai was still up town, all his crowd of crimps and slaves roared over tho yarn. "Ho fo'to tho mato and was glvo Is billot," said ono. "I say, but old Blakcr was n sport. That's real old Western Ocean packet law. And then Blaker wont luny with psalm singing nnd the hndmlral locked 'lm up. 'Strowth, but It must 'avo bin a picnic! pic-nic! I'd nvo glvo a month's wngos to sco tho show. But oo was It sbang'aled a hadmlral?" He spoko with bated breath. "Who'd It bo but Smith?" asked the speaker's mate sulkily. "He's a devil, a notorious dovll, as wo know. Ho'd shanghai his father (or a quarter, If he was dry. And n month back my own brother that Hhlppcd lit tho Cyrus F. Brown told mo as Shanghai had a down on this very man." "Then I wouldn't bo Smith for all 'is money. Thls'll bo a government business." It would havo been if tho admiral had been nny other kind of man. But Admiral Sir Richard Dunn was ono of those, and they get rnror every day, who prefer handling their own nffatrs. Ho had a gift of humor, too, and was mightily pleased with himself. "Whoever It was that laid for me, ho never meant to mako mo master or tho California," ho snld, as ho camo west on tho cars. "And whoovor ho wub, I will flx him. Tho mato waB pretty certain It was this Shanghai Smith. If it was " If It was, It seemed a hoalthy thing for Mr. Smith to leavo San Francisco and hide somewhere In tho islands. But all his Interests kopt him where ho was, oven when II. M. S. Triumphant Trium-phant camo down again from Esqvt mault and lay waiting for tho admlr off Goat Island. , Tho crow of the Triumphant, bolng very proud of their own special admiral, ad-miral, wero in so furious a rage against any ono connected with crimping crimp-ing in tho city, that no "liberty" was granted to nny ono of them. "It's hnll very fine," said tho Trl-umphants, Trl-umphants, unanimously, "but theso 'ere Americans aro too smart by alf. Them and hus'U part brass-rags ono of theso flno days. But ain't It flno to think that Dicky went to sea as a man beforo tho stick, and como out right on top?" They chortled with exceeding pleasure pleas-ure with plcasuro founded on his achievements and on the unexpected experiences he had had of son life. "To think of Dicky bunking It nmong a crowd of merchant Jacks," said tho crow. "We'd glvo a lot to 'avo scon him shinning up aloft for dear life." But all tho samo, thoy loved him dearly, and when ho camo ulongsldo five dnys later, not nil their senso of discipline prevented tholr breaking Into a storm of cheers that rang out across tho bay and wns almost hoard at Oakland. Hard ob Dicky Dunn was, ho went to his cnbln rather In n hurry. For onco In his llfo ho could hardly trust himself to speak. But ho received tho congratulations of tho enptaln and ofllcora, Including young Solwyn, who had beon with him whon ho bad been kldnapod, with tho groat-est groat-est calm. "Yes, I'vo had Bomo oxporlence," ho Bttld, "and I don't know that it has dono mo nny hnrm. I know moro of tho conditions on board merchant vessels ves-sels than I did beforo." "And what do you proposo to do, Sir Richard?" asked Solwyn nn hour Inter. "Tho authorities and tho pollco seomed very anxious to do what thoy could." Tho admiral lighted ono of his own cigars, and found It moro to his taste than tho ship's tobacco or tho California. Cali-fornia. "I don't proposo to troublo tho pollco," po-llco," ho Bald, "nor need thero bo nny lutoi Atonal corrospondenco bo far as I'm concornod. I'll piny my own game. I think, Solwyn, that I know who laid for us that night. And from what I learnt In tho California (I learnt a lot, by tho wny), I'vo a notion no-tion that ordinary Justlco would nover got hold of tho man, nt least not in San Francisco, not oven If I paid for It." "Then what " But Dicky Dunn interrupted him. "I'vo a notion," ho said significantly. And thnt nfternoon ho sont Solwyn nshoro with a vory pollto nolo to tho chief of tho Snn Francisco pollco, Haying Hay-ing that Rear Admiral Sir Richard Dunn would be vory glad to boo that gentleman on board tho Triumphant Into that ovonlng, If ho could mako It tonvonlont to como. "Let tho bnnd bfgln to play I" Bald 7 Mr. Poter Cartwrlght: "It looks as B I I'd bettor fnco the music. I wond&r I if ho has any klnkle us to tho man who did it? H's more than I havo, , unless it wns Smith, or Sullivan." Ho looked with n gronn at tho pile I of correspondence which hnd accumulated accum-ulated since tho admiral's disappearance. "And hcro'B the British consul wnntB to sco mo to-morrow I " ho cried. "Thoy'll cinch mo If they can get no ono ol80." And he went on bonrd the Triumphant Trium-phant feeling as If he was out of a Job. Tho admiral received him courteously, courte-ously, nnd was alone. "This has been n bad builnoss, admiral, ad-miral, sir," Bald Mr. Cartwrlght, "and ns chief of police of this city I foel It ns a personal slur. Your request to soo mo anticipated mo by no moro than twclvo hours. I proposed to scok an Intorvlow with you to-morrow morning." "I am obliged to you," said tho admiral. ad-miral. "Will i you huvo anything to drink?" "It wns rather cold on tho wator," replied Cartwrlght. And when tho chief of pollco had n tumbler of hot whiskey nnd water In both hands, the admiral opened up. "I'Yo sent for you, Mr. Cartwrlght," ho began, "to tell you that I don't "Yes, I've had some experience." want any proceedings taken about this matter." Cartwrlght opened his mouth and stared at tho admiral In Biirprlso. Then ho began to Imnglno bo understood. under-stood. Sir Richard Dunn had evidently evident-ly been ttumewhero on the night of his disappearance which would not suit him to havo known. "Ah, I boo," said Cartwrlght, with a subtle smile. "I'vo my own notions as to the brand of Justlco dispensed In this state, Mr. Cartwrlght. It Is considerably consider-ably milder than tho natlvo liquors. I want your assistance In doing without with-out tho law, and In administering Jui-. tlco myself. Have you any notion of . tho' gontlefcan who shipped mo In tho California?" "It was probably a boardlng-houso master," said Cartwrlght. "Of course." "It might hnvo been Sulllvari, or tho Sheonoy, or Willlnms, or Smith." "Is that tho scoundrel they .now horo as Shanghai Smith?" asked the admiral. (To bo contlnuod.) |