Show 01 0 1 1 aw ja IZ PORTO 10 N OLD ARTHUR D HOWDEN SMITH copyright by 4 HOWDEN am ITH from froin last week it ha be I 1 a sound of now that mat I 1 meant it at the time 1 I purpose nothing of unit that ort sort tor for you jou answered my my great ancle uncle and while I 1 am UM teMPt tid to t arne you ont out or f a position founded upon a falee false ethical I 1 shall content with the observation that you voird 0 eo o well to hold jour your tempa r in leash until you iou find ft a need for tte its employ ament he glanced override 1 I ew see wa ere are under way I 1 meet must k oil to excuse me for the present arl att nobert nobort I 1 am constrained to as t allot lie raised his little silver whistle and its shrill call etched fetched several of or the crew aft arl aye aye captain it wa bones your wish eart air have this hta poor fellows feliz ow marray Murray gestured td toward Corta Corl ere aers recumbent form fonn carried to one of the stateroom use him bid the irish borwhat bov boy what hie his name camet oh bid bla barbi fend tend him and ad fetch him what he this gentleman he berehe rehe andt indicated c mei weis me we I Is my yeat neph nephew evil maager mas lat r bones 3 iftner ii liar on me in eq of pf the royal 11 jine james so ome fd day sy e although he ig Is not with v us pf his hit own oum baish MS its yet tie ie Is to havo complete coin freedom trw lin exempt ie be undertake 11 to adieme ni to our dis enss tha trie i ord tn to me nien if you bluite 14 queer tay toy groi fronted sled 1 la a iw lie menil wend or enwia 1 an ent question replied paled my y creot incle we may call hira an u who Is I 1 to be treated as nearly as poRs itile 1 as a nia eted if I 1 we see any sense in IV it affirmed koae but wila tover you says captain Ez exactly attly mid said ray great uncle stir your stumps ye lousy swabs roared boada to his h men hitch on ta to this here land ebale ray my lights and gizzard it I 1 ever aee see such 0 monstrous roone fou heap a human flechl wed augot to taie him to the south aaa seas aad sad ell him to the canney bals that all bc h x rood for come on y aung gentleman you may be the cap tatna levvy or by blow or whatever wha teTer two he called ye re but works on this ship lend a hali I 1 olyen him in telen lenc ct chilis he be and ana the othera others cursed and nd blasphemed with a fluency defying description what a company t except tn in murray rays pre presence kence tb v owned no deffet pline accepted no to restraint palpably they hated as well as a feared him and I 1 found myself wondering hor how secure a hold he had upon poll their lone let them once cast off ON the spoil spell of hia tits and wickedness edness and they would be rome so many agents of lust and destruction I 1 shuddered eh and wa was clad glad or of the howled cabin lamp as an we towed stowed peters reter limp body into the constricted space of a bunk gladder still when her they tramped away and left me alone with the dutchman through a porthole the light lights of new york winked farewell to tv me I 1 was aa as frightened as a child by for the first time in the dark CHAPTER V aboard th the briz riff I 1 woke ke with ft ray of sunshine streaming across my face through the thick greenish creen tall glass 0 ot a deadlight end and an odd feeling of contentment content nent there wai a soothing a oh of ft 1 I tided waters and the this brig berneil was swaying easily in rt it following tea sea corlzer was sleeping the sleep of utter exhaustion and I 1 was wits at pains not to him as I 1 clipped to the floor boor opened the doi and find entered the main cabin this waa was deserted cl cae sae for the boy darby who wa was curled up on the sent under the stem window windows peering out at the brigs creame wake he lie heard the door close after me and sniveled a round at once landing lightly on hie big feet as an 1 had been to sea ben for years och mister howl bob hare he be 1 I thourl t aed ed nr wake up ah ali its the tile grand nd grand day and do t ra slite te brine hi in the aarl alra it makes the thee aes of ol sour two act dince m whether 3 a P u will ill no troth it does tt to nourish resentment cadent against 0 tiff P boyf boyford for hie his of Us inq as a n naturally lawless lawlers and yemeni ne as a young gisolf but I 1 could coald not resist a jeer nt chiq recent and how doe does it to be a pirate darby oh elnel sure I 1 always knew I 1 evasn t intended for a bond boy to run errands and rind carry balei balm ah ali ifa its the grand life master bobi they tell me himself he jerked his tits thumb toward the door of a stateroom orP opposite that in which peter and I 1 were berthed Is own uncle to ye and some day if Is e choose ye can be as great as him faith raith and I 1 know my choice would bet bel Is it your idea that pirates never borki I 1 inquired IHs his face fell a trifle och theres work everywhere ye go 90 bad cess eess to kt it I 1 but I 1 im ru to have my own cutlass end and two pistols for my belt and they say rm good luck good luckl luck flows thair sure its my afir I 1 think flint him that tills this crew salt sail with by usual he has a liking for a red headed lad such as its brings him luck so they swear and long jolln john chor long lone jorn mister silver oliver to be eure sure him with the one leg ue talked to by the shore yesterday he says go far with flint I 1 had bad to lauh labh at try own bemuse ment at the picture remark called up Yester yesterday dav morning at this hour I 1 had been laboring indus trio Irlo caly in tie via counting room in pear direct street and how much had bad happened since dhent I 1 harked hack back to my setting forth the bris tot to packet the casual conversation with the one legged marine how skillfully he had me and annexed darby to his plot I 1 the en counter with the ilish maid with thia tills I 1 curbed my recollections thought of moira odonnell was unpleasant pleasant ur for I 1 could not rbt ril my mind of the suspicion that se must be bound up in vay way in tl tt 0 k schemes tier father worked at in alx operation with thy grea great uncle but there I 1 I 1 aund lound relief in to this reflection berte R her father could be no worse than my relative and here it was as 1 I innocent of any art or part in burras devlyne devi onit bloys yet tossed into 11 r grip of their mechanism aa as fin a if my life depended tipi his and it did 10 what more natural rin tural then th bin thin in that she equally innocent Inn went aye from the tha he two ina I 1 had overl overheard icard the ellit wore 1 if abal aha phe ahe nex wee |