Show i SALT OLD TALES By CAPTAIN IRA PERKINS t s 1 I I II I II J JI Jt J- J t ii II oJ I r r rL rI I I I I I L I z r I I 1 When the President Passed President w was ns Ill Captain Ira Era had begun un a n tale of at Central America with those words The ten boys bos of or the Skippers Club sat listen listen- in ing On went the stor story Not ninny many outside the Presidents President's mansion knew that Hutt he was m. m Few In Inthe the time house Itself knew the gravity athis of at I his sickness And this was as well I for tor all of us there or things timings might aught have had a n different ending Yesterday the time President hud had called In his three loyal cabinet ministers Of the three The Gray Head Hend was paid to he be the craftiest To him was given hen credit for tor a n large sharp share of ot whatever sunup success the Presidents President's administration had grad ha won Into his hla hands s the President now put the duty of defending dIn the nations nation's capitol against t the rebel armies Back of this rebellion against the tho President was u a net of ot Intrigue and petty bickering which would have done dODe credit to the time Court of ot the King of France In time the days of the De Medici It was through one of ot these plots that time the men of m my ship had been drawn Into the present affair Our boat was the property of an nn American company Un which had and bought certain trade rig rights from roam the time President These rights Included a n monopoly of a n number num ber of very profitable Items and our our I business was flourishing nourishing Tine The money paid for th these se rights I however had gone Into the personal hunk bank ank account of the President The state had received none of ot It Our rights were valid ani only so long ns as the President stayed ed In power Let hImbe him himbe himbe be overthrown o and we were through The boat bont on which I sailed had made port loaded with a mixed cargo It was Just at nt this stage that the rebellion rebellion rebellion rebel rebel- lion broke out Our problem was to pick the thc winning side If It we stayed and th time the rebels succeeded the they would at nt once confiscate all nil our goods as contraband of war while If It the President President President dent won then our position would be stronger than thun ever ewer Well stick It out saId sold our skip skIp- per And we did That's the part Im I'm coming to The Tire rebellion Itself Itsel was headed heade IJ by bythe bythe the vice president From what I could find out he was a n man of at better type titan than most of ot the time others a 0 planter an and not a politician But for the cunning canning cun can ning and deceit of the time President the vice president would long lung before have been put In full power The people I loved him Pay alone hel held the Presidents President's Presidents President's Pres I. I dents dent's followers to his cause I But we were little concerned In Inthe Inthe inthe I the merits of ot the thing Our Interest lay In our own affairs and In the property we were dut duty bound to guard Our captain offered the services services sen ices of his entire crew to the time Presidents President's Presidents President's dents dent's representative The Gray Head accepted To each ench of us a n dut duty was given One morning the rebel army tt with m the vice president In command move moved forward and occupied the town just outside e the walls of or the mansion A Afew Afew Afew few scattered shots w were re fired but It was rus plain to see that neither faction took nn any great heart In their work and It seemed a pitched battle might yet ct be kept nw away from There was wn more than a little r pl parleying back and nud forth I Then the talking stopped The only wa way to settle ettle It appeared to be with bullets We got rea ready The attack might come corne at nt any minute There was US n deal deul of scampering to tor r and nd tro fro When hen i I sn saw the rolls Q oj 41 fresh bandy es which l were made r ready u y nn and whIch I was emp employed to I carry Into the time surgeons quarters n m n heart lost a n bit o or ot Its buo buoyancy It had raised my spirits spirits- to think of at a battle battle being fought t hero before m my ny nye y e eyes eyes- s 's But this sight sigh t of bandages es brought ht up sympathetic pains In all nil po parts of ot m my body All at nt once a u gr great ut silence settled over o er e everything Theta Then a n whispering g crept about the time place Men Ien ran rapIdly rap rap- rapIdly Idly to and fru fro A soldier clambered to the roof and und lowered the flag flag- to half In the till town there way was a n mixed sound of cheering and lament lament- lag Ing The rime gates gutes' to the court courtyard ard were lung flung wide open olen In clime the rebel army and not n a shot almot sh t was fired Time The vice president entered the mansion ns as th victor Ictor lie qs was the new new- dent The old President was |