Show three I 1 airee men and a maid SAM IN acison aril mr horace alfnett Hlf 1419 nett worm world famous writer on theosophy author of 0 the rho spreading light ale arte rte arrives la in ne new w york on a loc lecturing turing tour eu eustace her son on Is fig with her wandlea Wind lea ancestral home of 0 the Hig la Is his so 0 o her life is in largely devoted to keeping him unmarried enter hr her nep nephew liew sam son of 0 sir mallaby Sl arlowe the eminent london lawyer it Is arranged arjang ed that sam and eustace shall sail to geaber ether on the atlantic the next day enter dream bream mortimer american son of a friend of an insufferable american named bennett abo ho has been pestering mrs harnett to lease brown brein informs her that wll wil delmira bennett Is in waiting tor for eustace at the little church round the corner brearn bream himself Is in love with mrs birs hignett marches oft off to eustace s room the scene shifts to the atlantic at her pier sam heading for or the rang plan k meets meet a glorious glor loua redheaded red headed girl with whom he instantly falls in love her dog bites him eustace E us race appears heartbroken heart broken it that his mother had pin pinched clied his trousers and delayed the ceremony whereupon wilhelm ina had declared the wedding oft off 11 CHAPTER I II 11 continued 1 samuel marlowe was not one of those who lie pass aloofly by when thare 1 is excitement toward to dash to the ali krall and shove a fat man in a tweed cap te tc one side was with him the work of a moment ile he had thus tn cn t n excellent view of what was going on a view which he improved the next instant by climbing up and kneeling on the rail there was a man in the water a nan inan whose upper section the only one visible risible was clad in a blue jersey ile he wore a derby hat bat and from time to time as he battled with the waves he would put up a hald and adjust this more firmly on ills his head bead A dressy 0 scarcely had he in this spectacle when marlowe marloe became aware of the girl lie had met on the dock she was standing a few feet away leaning out over the rail wu wilb wide eyes and parted lips like everybody else sir she was staring into the th water As sam looked at her the thought crossed his mind that here was a wonderful chance of making the most tremendous impression on tills this girl what would she not think of a man who reckless of his own safety dived in and went boldly to the rescue and there were men no doubt who would be chumps enough to do it he thought as s he be prepared to shift back to a position of greater safety at this moment the fat man in the tweed cap incensed at having baring been jostled out of the front row made his charge ho ha had but been crouching the better to spring now he be sprang ills his full wight weight took sam squarely in the spine there was an instant in which that young man hung as it were between sea and sky ky then he shot hot down over the rail to join the man la in the blue jersey who had just discovered that his hat was not on straight and had paused to adjust it once more bilth a few fitful touches of the finger nethe antl ws in the brief arle 41 of ti alm which marlowe had bad spent in the stateroom chatting with eustace about the latter bruised sow sou some soma rather curious things had beer bee happening above not extraordinary perhaps but curious these must cor be related A story 1 tt Is to trip grip the reader should I 1 am aware abart go always forward it should march it should leap from crag to crag like the chamois of the alps if there Is one thing I 1 hate bate it Is a novel which gets you interested in the hero tn in chapter one and then cuts back in chapter two to tell you all about his grandfather nevertheless at this point we must go back a space we must return to the moment when having deposited her pekinese pekingese Pe kinese dog in her stateroom the girl with the red hair came out again on deck this happened just about the time when eustace hignett was beginning his narrative by now the bustle which precedes the departure of an ocean liner was at its height hoarse voices were crying all for the shore sli ore the gangway as thronged thron ged with friends of cifers returning to land the crowd on the pier waved flags and handkerchiefs ant ni th unintelligibly members of the crew alertly by the gangplank ready to arr w it in as soon as the last seer seep off had crossed it the girl went to the rail and gazed earnestly at the shore share there was an anxious expression on her face she had the li air of one who was waiting for someone to her demeanor as that of at the bloated grange ue ile bomea not I 1 she seemed to be b saying sha sh glanced at tier her wrist watch then scanned the dock fawe vione more there ws was a rattle as the gangplank gang plank moved loved inboard and was deposited on the deck eck the gl gi 1 1 I uttered a little cry of dismay then suddenly tier lier lace face brightened and she began to wave her firm arm to attract the attention of an elderly roan with a red ired face made redder by exertion who tied had just forced his hi way to the edge of the dock and was wah ferine up at the passenger lined airall the boat had now begun to move slowly lowly ut at of its slip backing into the river ropes had bad been cast rs ff and an widening strip of water appeared bem the vessel teasel and the it was iru A awn thu that the th man on oa by P G copyright by george georfe ff doran donn co the dock sighted the girl she gesticulated at him he gesticulated at her she appeared helpless and bail baffled led but lie showed himself a person of re source of the stuff of which great gen brals are made fochts is just like that abat a bird at changing preconceived plans to suit the exigencies of the moment the man on the dock took from hit his pocket a pleasantly rotund wad ol of currency bills ile he produced a hand kerchief swiftly tied up the bills in lt it backed to give himself room and then with all the strength of ills his arm he hurled burled the bills in the direction ol of the deck the action was greeted by cheers from a warmhearted warm hearted populace your new york crowd loves a liberal provi provider deir one sayo that the man hurled the bills in the direction of the deck and that m was as exactly what he did but the years year s had robbed his pitching arm ann of the limber strength which forty summers back had made him the terror of opposing hoys boys lin baseball teams he still retained a fair control but he lacked steam the handkerchief with its precious contents shot in a graceful are arc toward the deck fell short by a good six feet find and dropped into the water where it unfolded like a illy sending dollar bills ten dollar bills live five dollar bills and in art assortment of ones floating over the wave lets the cheers of the citizenry changed to cries of horror the girl uttered a plaintive shriek the boat moved on it was at this moment that mr oscar swenson one of the thriftiest thrift iest souls who ever came out of sweden perceived that the chance of a lifetime had arrived for adding substantially to his little savings by profession he was one of those men who eke out a precarious livelihood by rowing dreamily about the waterfront in skins skiffs ue he I 1 ki A moment later he H had risen to the surface and wat was gathering up money with both hands hand was doing so now and as he sat meditatively tat ively in his big skiff having done his best to give the liner a good send off by paddling round her in circles the pleading face of a twenty dollar bill peered up at him mr swenson was not the man to resist the appeal he uttered a sharp bark of ecstasy pressed his derby hat bat firmly upon his brow and dived in A moment later he had risen to the surface and was gathering up money with both hands bands he was still busy with this congenial task when a tremendous splash at his side sent him under again and rising for a second time he be observed with not a little chagrin that he had bad been joined by a young man in a blue flannel suit with an invisible stripe Svens kl exclaimed mr swenson Swe ngon or whatever it Is that natives of sw sweden exclaim in moments of justifiable annoyance ile he resented the advent of this ne newcomer becomer comer lie he had been getting along fine and had bad had the situation well in hand to him sam marlowe represented represent id competition and mr swenson desired no competitors in his treasure seeking enterprise ile he travels thought mr air swenson the fastest who travels alone sam marlowe bad a touch of the philosopher in him ile he had bad the ability to adapt himself to circumstances it had been no part of his plans to come whizzing down doan oft the rail into this singularly soup like ilke water which tasted in equal parts of oil and dead rats but now that lie he was herri her he be was prepared to make the best of the situation swimming it happened was one of the things be did best and somewhere among ills fits belongings at home was a tarnished pewter cup which lie he had won at school in the saving life competition lie he knew exactly what to do you get behind the victim and grab him firmly under fits arms and then you start swimming on bour our back A moment later the astonished mr swenson who being practically amphibious had not anticipated that anyone would have the cool impertinence to try and save him from drowning found himself seized from behind and towed vigorously away from a ten dollar bill which be had bad almost succeeded in grasping the spiritual agony caused by this assault rendered him mercifully dumb though even had he be ton eon to utter the rich swedish oaths which occurred to him Us hi rei aarli could scarcely have been heard for the crowd on the dock was cheering as one man they had often paid good money to see less gripping sights in the movies they roared applause the liner meanwhile continued to move stodgily out into lul driver tile the only drawback to these aliese alf lifesaving competitions nt at school considered from the standpoint of fitting the competitors for the problems of afterlife Is that the object saved on such occasions Is a leather dummy and of all things in this world a leather dummy Is perhaps the most placid and phlegmatic it differs in many respects from an emotional swedish gentleman six foot high and constructed throughout of steel and india rubber who Is being lugged away from cash which he has been regarding in the light of a legacy indeed it would not be hard to find a respect in which it does not differ so far from lying inert in sams arms and allowing himself to be saved in a quiet and orderly manner mr swenson betrayed all the symptoms of one who feels that lie he has fins fullen fallen among murderers I 1 mr dr swenson much as he disliked competition was ready to put up with it provided that it was fair competition this buning your rival away from the loot so that you could grab it yourself thus shockingly had bad the man misinterpreted sams motives was waa another thing altogether and his stout soul would have none of it 11 lie ile began immediately med lately to struggle with all the violence at ills his disposal ills large hairy hands came out of the water and swung hopefully in the direction where he assumed his assailants face to be saw was not unprepared for this display ills his researches in the art of lifesaving life saving had taught him that your drowning roan man frequently struggled against his best interests in which case cruel to be kind one simply stunned the blighter ue lie decided to stun mr Sn enson though it if he had known that gentleman more intimately and had been av an are that he be had the reputation of possessing the cho thickest head on the waterfront water front he would have realized the magnitude of the task friends of mr swenson svenson la in convivial moments had frequently endeavored to stun tun him with bottles boots and bits of lead piping and had gono gone awny away depressed by failure sam ignorant of this attempted to do the job with clenched fist which he be brought down as smartly as s possible on the crown of the others other derby hat bat it was the worst thing he could have hare done mr thought highly of his big hat and this brutal attack upon it confirmed his gloomiest gloo apprehensions now thoroughly convinced that the only thing to do was to sell his life dearly lie wrenched himself round seized his assailant by the neck twined his big arms about his middle and accompanied him below the surface by the time he had si swallowed allowed his first pint and was beginning on his second sam was reluctantly compelled to come to the conclusion that this was the end the thought irritated him unspeakably this he felt was just the silly contrary way things always happened why should it be he who aho was perishing like this why not ustace eustace hignett now there was as a fellow whom this sort of thing would just have suited gutted brokenhearted broken hearted eustace Ilig signett clignett nett would have looked on all tills this as a merciful release lie ile paused in ills his reflections to try to disentangle the more prominent of mr Swen sons limbs from about him by this time he was sure that he be had never met anyone he disliked so intensely as sir mr swenson not even hla his aunt Adel adeline lne the man was a human octopus sam could count seven distinct legs twined round him and at least as many arms it seemed to him that he was being done to death in his prime by a solid platoon of swedes ile he put his whole soul into one last effort something seemed to give he be was free pausing only to try to klek kick mr swenson in the OYes yetter Yett sir lr youre wet wets weft the word all right face sam shot to the surface something hard and sharp prodded him in the head then something caught the collar of his big coat and finally spouting like a whale lie found himself dragged upward and over the side aide of a boat 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 the time which sam had spent with mr swenson below the surface had been bea brief but it had been long enough to ble the th floating population of the north norm river to conver converge ge on tho in scows skiffs launches tugs and other oilier vessels the fact that the voter sater in that vicinity was crested with currency had not escaped the notice of these theae navigators bud they bad gone to it fig n one man first in the race came the me tug steuben 3 watson tin the skipper of which following a famous precedent had find taken his little daughter to bear him company it was waa to this fact that marlowe giarlo e really owed lilg ble rescue women hune hac often a vein of sentiment in them where men can only see the hard business side of a situation and it was the skipp ra daugh ter who insisted that the family boat hook then in use as a harpoon for spearing dollar bills should be d de voted to the less profitable but hu bu maner end of extricating the young man from a batery watery grave the skipper had grumbled a bit at first but had given way he always spoiled the girl with the result that sam found himself sitting on the deck of the tug engaged in the complicated process of ct restoring his faculties to the normal 1 in 11 1 a sort of dream he perceived mr swen on rise rile to the sur face some feet awny adjust his derby hat and after one long look of 0 dislike in his big direction swim off rapidly to ta intercept a five which was floating under the stern of a nearby skiff sam sat on the deck and pant panted ed lie ile played on the boards like a public bubli c fountain at the back of his mind tb there e re w was as a flickering thought that he be wanted to do something a vague feeling that he had some sort of an appointment which he be must keep but he was unable to think what it was meanwhile lie ile conducted tentative experiments peri ments with his breath it was so le long ong since he had last breathed that 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