Show COUNT L LUCKNER U C abaner THE SEA DEVIL aby 21 v loevell Lob sell thomas thomaj copy copyright richt by double dorm doran a co elin and d tile comP linkIns take tak poll ue me go OB vai wl at 1 I walters with wili tb abir me idea fig tt when rha it put to eo they b 9 orad fey by th dw Bri before ih vf 1 ml I sells aa uio failed at t suva fill fiji islands A admire to la get ft informs inform mw aroon ram CHAPTER XVI continued 22 tell me bie count where your ter lr Is IL I 1 was in i a tight hole I 1 must strike a blow for my comrades out there on copella Mn Mo pella the elements I 1 had to work upon lay la in the fact art that the diar which hail had been found men mentioned tinned mere IT that we had put stores aboard A Ain ll opella 01 ol told fold of file lie capture of 0 tin tile manila and nil said nothing of the file nit that we had sunk that ship then also the truth Is rarely believed I 1 proceeded to skate very tory near the truth the Se eadler endler I 1 replied was wa lost now bow was it 11 lost we got on the coral reef ree at mo pella we tried our best to get gel oft off put our stores ashore to tighten lle liten the hie ship cut but it was no use what did you do then we went event aboard the manila tile four masted schooner Man manila lla 7 yes we captured her and took look her alons with us where Is the manila nowr now she Is walling waiting for me off copella my men are having a good vacation on tire the island until I 1 come back 1 I say fount we japanese Jap linese are ni not such fools you had tile four master manila and you stilled sailed from copplin to the in a 9 small boot boat yes I 1 replied there was not room enough for all of us aboard lie hie manlio the admiral looked at me with a sly oriental smile fine I 1 thought I 1 had find figured out their minds correctly they had ni not set straight str night out for Mn bl pella opella in spite of their knowing that thai we hall landed lani leil stores there because it seemed wilda impossible that I 1 with r my nv live five ineil ann hall hail soiled from copella to tile the flais in ao an open oien boat bat count exclaimed the admiral 1 I 1 will fell you where your crew Is you it did not leure leave a four binsted schooner and oil sail twenty fuenty three oliree hundred miles in a lifeboat il you ton sailed here in the manila find having got here yon pin pill out in fit bour ur to capture tin n oilier it a nearby harbor barber you tell ifal lie aw your crew Is HI at Al opella hup hop ing I 1 will go gel up tip go hurring burrins for a few miles tin nn a wild prose goose chase and leav lenac mein in the manila Is in these vito vitolis pis in fur fiur dais your crew win lit be my pris mers lie me file too much to think that 1 wt would buhrl ever ghe he my crew away tip he knew I 1 would try to throw him bin on oil tile scent his fig object was to alil vie me to get my story anti and rend between flip thies very good admiral adin fral I 1 thought let lei use see linw bow it will work out we parted tire the best of friends he was an all excellent fellow out our meet ing lind hull heni been tine one ot lit mut mutual debeir with ills fles aliat no nit gent lennin ifould tel fell it id orilin ordinary airy times now tire were quite arvi list ii ruses auses of 0 war tile thi ironical tiling thing nus chill my men wlm who under lite hie command tit nt kling were still ihley like lords ill at fil copi lielia lia tre ere deb destined lined to hove have mail niu I 1 heller betler lurk in a hill than all ni little patty hall had bud through all ou terrible hardships they caught a tireless message oar inday of if our capture su beur ins ing that their own whereabouts inight toon stion he they bastil ha stil began to build a trial hiat tri al to still sil away in but eulth tire materials finif tit nl their disposal irbey hey were unable to construct atif aily thing like a chart capable of currying carrying that whole acrond then dume dame fortune smiled on thela A french ilare sebo onel sighted 11 tile island slid and the file wreck 0 of the I 1 See Zee adlei 1 VY l y joe exclaimed the captain we passed here heie six ago bribri there aaa nil wreck herel here we mi fira find Casta castaways ways on tile island lt it looks ns ng though vie e was may find a rood good grobi tor too you vou we eee a gets a third ol of tile value u of un any reek strip or ceiri ci cargo iri that it lif baves the schooner veered toward the island it II was a sunday morning nio oo on the island the itie men were armind clothes writing diaries unit so BO oil art the chrt chet wn was for r da luner then aben the cry still alloy klimik took out a with a 0 party the digest men hi lind find some of nl thew theio the lite champ lol A As they tile the schooner lite die capiali over tit rull avid and t pil down to in them ilont row diw BO at hard boys we wll wl i collie fur for you iu our sailors lir ned aboard ills ilg tul tot out UPI up tin till 1 recognized the muo elleu des de Allej I 1 turn ot off lily iny course to u sale eue ays I 1 lint callin red by tile the mini dieu 1 file I he was not big engligh ennitt ti our nor lilt hud fill both bolli lite I 1 hi germans and tile 1 lir primio ot rii kling decided lit in liny file rit A 1110 lir crew chev ol 01 ill I 1 tic st nn the tairi iiii lir be mig ii orlu lile pil ask afien liu 1141 aub wu a week or so out tie lie would send a wireless that klinl would bring ships to their rescue so file lie whole of was wa given over to the prisoners and the schooner stilled sailed away slie site was named the lutece Li ilece lui but my men discovered that site she had licen been tire lie german Gerni iiD ship me fortuna Fortu nii she had own been seized by the frech during the or so slie she got her old name bock back she rite was ger man inao again ti a fennan auxiliary cruls er cr for kling fully intended to go e right on three days after he fortuna sailed galled our former prisoners saw a cloud of smoke on nn the horizon steaming at full speed her funnels be belc lebing liin smoke coohe the japanese se cruiser jusuina steered to the island on tier her bridge tire the ad maral swore in ily fly joe llie file count fouled fooled in oie e all right lie he told fold we me the truth there Is tire the wreck anil and there are his men aver tiling except tire lie hinnie ile he tricked me iab the file tale abo nhoun Z i tile the sl manila atilla the found only men ot of the a allied nal lAlis where are tire germans ini im sorry replied lite lie french cup cap tain tun bill they sailed awny away three do da ago in my ship the lutece tire japanese admiral was thorough ly disgusted nl at that but bill of course he took file lie crowd aboard and took them buk to the file fidis it was of no use to go raring racing about llie lite immense splices spaces of nf tile the pacific looking fur for a sol gitary sailing square rigged sell schooner I 1 ner tat plan ns to silt sall around the horn into the atlantic sink a few ships there and I 1 then lien try to steal through file I 1 lie blockade and get bick back home tits his course took him to eisler easier 1 land island a small remote possession of C chile lille where there was oo no wire wireless loss station there he intended to over bout file be ship which was lo in bad coo COD and take aboard supplies and fresh water on october 4 they sight ed tire the island but bul while sailing into the harbor struck an uncharted sunk en rock the fortuna was old nod orin norm eaten tire crushed crashed rl right ht through tier her planks the strip ship bozi pound ed and quickly broke up the men tin had d to in sim for it IL the lives of some ot of them at least were sned in a curious way by two to pigs these anlin als we hall brought from germany aboard the llie Se eadler to serve as fresh pork they soon be came pots pets however and ae kept them theia they were quite companion little and romped around tile the decks with ettli rise lie men kling had them liebi aboard the fortuna when the ship sunk sank the suin imers including the two pigs found alit adiong sharks these seemed lo in prefer pork to human flesh they seized the two pigs and begun began to fight over then them among themselves you bet the men in the water fiam as hard as abey could they were quickly likker up by netlie canoes that hat hud had pit put till out as soon sono as tile the wreck ing of the file ship had bad been seen from shore tile cargo ot of the fortuna consI consistent stet ot Par parisian islan liberles nn lin erles silk Aings und and handkerchiefs sols veir rits shoes scented soaps perfumes and stich it had lieen been destined tow foi hie file nashes nalles ol of the south seas to glinin the file french brink a 11 truly parisian elegance lo in th breaking tit up it the ship manji ninn cases tilled with these swanky trappings trap pinKS ol of ii iliin remal tied the na da gov aged them and prilly sot sota sono a it tried us it rhe lie whole har been on a shopping lour four through valli tind fold visited lie ch calelly lelly or llie file Ga lafayette men anti and tt osino alike arrayed theli their luky selves in ull till nin tiner of silk and nd lin lingerie geriel I 1 the ly was tie de lighted kling und find his men WL ere re the ali Ivring erp of if tills this treasure they gra clouspy vion sly told tile hie natives they boulo have anything they found and la in re turn lurn they wt arre re granted all the hoepf bailly lailly ine ishino could muster th ahr chilean lil leini go governor an excellent fellow solaced a house ill at the file disposal of the while the fire sailors were sough lifter after by the hie natives as ag guese lu in their huts buts they remained on the island too toi nearly two iwo months enjoying life slid the strange there huge that tell ell ot of tin nn ancient forgotten civilization ut of peu peo pie vho aho lio lung long since have pits sed into oblivion on OD november 25 2 a chilean ste steamer alner that made regular trips to lo lite wand hove in sight when aln D it II raised team for its it return voyage our ur ruen were aboard the Cliff eau authorities on nn the mainland received thein with friendly hospitality regarding them as shipwrecked sailors and therefore not Int interning emins them they lived as guests of german colonists colonl sta lo in chile from rom weal on 00 until the end of the war CHAPTER the ile escape from new zealand the thought though ot 0 every prig prisoner J tier lo it escape I 1 vint tint was what w we a thought about by joe and what we dreamed about occasionally id woke wake up with a start dr dreaming earning we were still to in our small boat and about to be dashed ag against ainest that coral reef usually my sleep was not troubled with such nightmares nut but I 1 often dreamed of bettin betting ting away capturing another ship and continuing our cruise tills did finally come collie about but not for many months no opportunity of escape presented itself during our stay of at suva which was not long and I 1 were shipped hipped from froin the flais to a little isle olt oft the const coast of the north island of new zealand right near dear the entrance to auckland harti hartier or the other tour four went to the island of somes where they had a hard little under a bad camp commander a major blatt lils no chance to escape come came their way but with KIrch elss and me it was daffe dil Terent rent we had bad a highly exciting time little and thus were spared the genf mental and physical stagnation that Is th the lot of of the average prisoner of war tire the public of new zealand was inflamed against us os when we arrived there was a great outcry and demand that ne e be shot eliot this amazed as but we ne dise discovered tile the reason a few days day later you see ece the inhabitants of these islands thought that we bad sunk the big new zealand passenger steamer Wal Wai runa runn with all on board As aa a matter of fact we know knew nothing of the aud and even heard of 0 tier later it developed that she h bad ad been captured by our fast auxiliary cruiser wolf sister ship of the and her crew taken aboard as prisoners the rage nige of the hie public was bueb that the authorities had to bide us duay ay in their naval barracks hir racks at at the devonport torpedo yard and then transfer us ua secretly to a prison comp camp on the island of hin tuffil nearby Alean hile the populace clamored for us to be turned over to them so they could lynch us the little island of Mo Motul tuffil lil a beau alful strip of land had long been the internment place of many germans who hall had been captured when the british seized our possessions in samoa aud and in other oilier parts of the south seas rhey were all civilians from ten to seventy ienus of age traders planta tion owners and officials they greeted us with pride and affection but more particularly with anxiety they said ue e ere eie sure to be shot I 1 laughed at tills this by joe who aunts to kill us on what grounds could mere inere prisoners of war be shot down in captivity I 1 asked but things looked a little less rosy when forty eight hours later we were raften by bout boat to auckland and then abeto whisked by automobile under cover of bullit ul lit through th rih volley valley mid and forest to a frel glit train pulled up in a wild reroute remote place abey locked us up in a freight cur car where there were two beds they told us it was to protect us u nga irist the public tire the train pulled out and after an all night journey sto stopped plied near dear the outskirts of the city of the capital of tire the Is lands lamia thul that com comprise new zealand here they put us into another anether auto ui mobile and rushed us to the he danish barracks bar rucks in wellington an old jail a relic tit ot the terrible days when new was a convict settlement A keeper who led us as a cor rador aldor tugged at my lily cost coal and pointed into a cell there were my boys krauss ane Erdi nann they were in chains we were evere all to stand trial together we spohn to tine one another tor for a minute air und then Kirch elss and I 1 were led to our ur cells on file he following day Kirch elss and I 1 were taken shourd un an old cruiser in the harbor and ushered into the so sa loon here there were annul about a dozen men who wore black coots coals and four cornered cornel ed caps calls ith cassels tassels out our foin at boys were standing lo in a corner I 1 wax wait holling nod mad tills I 1 bald anil Is becoming ridiculously why are we pit put in fit lull jail like this ills and some of my hov boy in chains Is thul that for primmer ners 40 4 il 0 war and what man of you Is I 1 hilr till to lo judge of our ur warfare you vou lire are rl el vil frins are we to he judged by h cl Illa I 1 nil answer only to naval urn men just then sir hull rh thompson ompson wit sit onval con 1111 let in new writers cattle came down the stairway turned to illin him TO BE |