Show CHAPTER IX but this was not nil all As they drifted in a swarthy shock headed bended man came cama out of the cabin holding in his grimy paws a divers helmet and ns as toms wild glare fastened upon this headgear he discovered that the front of it was shattered tile the man holding it a portuguese looked at tom and gave a sort of despairing bleat look a dere wll he mailed bhatta 1 in two leaps tom was aboard the yawl and feverishly dragging out the astounding story mike alike had left friendship early in the evening on a hurry call to do a diving job for the doctor on whale island whose launch or something of that sort had find sunk fearing that he had figured too closely on the requisite gas ens mike alike put into new harbor after more to be on the sare safe side A frenchman he met there had bad asbeil for a ride around to bris tol with which request mike alike obligingly had complied he now believed the man to be a crook and fugitive from justice A little way out from new harbor they had been followed by a launch whereat the passenger had seemed very frightened lie ile had taken the wheel and given their pursuer the slip in the foo fog then offered mike ive five dollars to take him back to new harbor again mike alike compiled glad to be rid of his suspicious passenger and now on his arrival when starting to overhaul ills his gear he had bad discovered what looked like sabotage though utterly unable to conceive of any motive for such tin an act the mysterious frenchman had been friendly and agreeable lie ile claimed to be the owner of a nova scotia hall that had been driven down by a gale and put in to caulk her leaking seam sent rii why smash the helmet TO BE CONTINUED |