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TREASURE OP THE SEA BY (^yLTaM KAIL xn iron thus rm totter keto* adrift tor ton lift aa a mm. Dick totaa to picked at kj ? cut aalltof Tend to tkc Carlkkeaa m m ccptoto -to toned Taca, aa aes-toaktof toll-kreed. Dick reakxee toil to to mead nea whs are uuli toaea tkaa pirates. He toTcato a storr * same smagpled Jewels, to fato ttou. ?a tells Taca that these Jewels are attached to a doat aaar the saakea steamer. Oa the war to the area where toe .learner tics, they sight a derelict tchceasr. Taca chaases toe leant to meet it. srhea they caaae close to She drifting Teasel, a maa appears aw toe deck sad shoots to then to a CHAPTER III "Crazy!" muttered Captain Tucu. "Left alone, an' gone czgzy. Pull ?way!" he added, addressing the Caribs at the oars. . The boat started in the direction af the schooner, but it hadn't cov ered a quarter of the distance when another figure appeared on the deck. If the sight of the old man bad surprised the boarding crew, the second apparition?for it seemed like an apparition to many, cer tainly to Dick Jordan on the deck of the lugger?created amazement and consternation. The newcomer was a woman, lightly clad, and with her hair streaming down her shoulders and back, half way to her waist. She bad the appearance of one who has been interrupted in the midst of her toilet, rushing on deck to ascertain the meaning of the commotion. She glanced in the direction of the lug ger, shading her eyes with one hand, and then back at the old man on the deck. She spoke to him In a low voice, which he heeded, for he withdrew from sight, and permitted her to do the talking. "What boat is that?" she asked hi a clear, bell-like voice. Tucu hesitated for a moment be fore replying; then in his most per suasive voice, he informed her: "The San Miguel, Of Limon." The girl or young woman?it was difficult to estimate her age at the distance, but to Dick she seemed young and comely ? seemed in doubt, hesitating before replying; hut her eyes were busy studying (be boat's crew and the lines of the lugger. Finally, as if she had made op her mind, she retorted in a sharp, peremptory way: "Well, what do you want? You can't come' aboard!" Captain Tucu smiled a bit craft By. "We took her for a derelict? abandoned." "You can see now she isn't," replied the girl quickly. Then, as if anxious to pacify them, she add ed in a pleasanter voice: "Thank you for coming; but we don't need any help. We can manage." Tucu was a little nonplussed, but the grin hadn't left his ugly facer "Y'can't get into port with that wreck. We'll help y'ter rig her up." "No, thank you," was the cool retort. "We can manage." The small boat had been drifting aearer all the time, and as if alarmed by this the girl added sharper than before: "Keep away, please! You'll get tangled in the wreckage." Tucu turned to his mate and ex changed a few words with him, and then addressed the girl again: "Who's that old man aboard?" She drew herself up and frowned. "You mean my father. Captain Bed lord?" "Is he cap'n?" There was a smile pf derision on his face, which the girl caught. Resenting it, she nod ded curtly, and said: "Yes! Now if you have no fur ther business here, go back to your own ship." "I'd like to speak to the cap'n," was the cool retort, motioning to the Caribs to dip their oars again. "You can't!" was the frightened reply. "He's not well, and has gone below." Dick Goes to Aid Of a Brave Girl Dick caught the note of alarm hi the voice. He gave a start and glanced around him. The handful of Caribs left on the lugger were grouped forward, intently interest ed in the schooner and the conver sation going on between the skip per and the girl. No one paid the least attention to him. "If Tucu goes aboard," he mut tered under his breath. "I'll go too.tf After more talk Tucu and his crew made fast to the schooner and prepared to climb aboard. "Stop!" dw cried. "I forbid you coming ?board!" "My father's not responsible for what he says," she cut in sharply. "I'm in command here, and I for bid-" Dick didn't hear, the finish ot the sentence. He had quietly dfopped aver the stern of the lugger, and was once more battling with his aid enemy?the sea. Swimming slowly, with his head low down in the water, and making a wide detour around the stern of the derelict, Dick rsezhed it with out attracting attention. Nobody ao the lugger had noticed his de parture, and those aboard the schooner were too interested in their prize to give heed to anything else. Dick climbed up the rigging hang hag over the side opposite the lug - dlS A ? - I 111 h hi ger, and secured a firm grip on the deck rait with both hands. Tucu and his men were still forward, ar guing with the girl. Dick could hear her high-pitched voice raised in remonstrance. "If you put a foot on this deck, I'll shoot!" she was saying. "The law allows it. You're boarding my ship against my will." Dick thrust his head above the rail. The men hadn't reached the deck yet, but were hanging over the side, with heads in view. The girl was facing them, with a defiant glitter in her eyes, and an ugly looking automatic in one hand. Tucu saw it and hesitated. Ordi narily he would break a woman with as little compunction as he would a dog, and ride roughshod over her opposition; but the one facing him was no ordinary crea ture. She was cool and collected, pointing a gun at his heart with a hand that did not tremble. "Y'father asked us aboard, lady," Tucu replied after a pause, an insinuating pleasantry in his voice, "an' we come because o' that. Where's he gone?" "I told you I was In command here," was the short, curt reply. "That's sufficient. Now get back!" Tucu glanced aft and then for ward. "Where's the crew?" he asked, smiling. Then, as it drawn bj common impulse, they turned and cased at eaeh other. The girl woman paled slightly through her tan, but answered un hesitatingly: "There's no crew aboard. No one but father and me. Now you know the truth." It was a bold challenge, deliv ered in a voice that never quavered. Dick smiled his admiration. She was capable of handling the situa tion. He made a bet with himself that she would force the men back through sheer will power and bra vado. But neither the girl nor Dick had figured upon the craftiness of old Tucu. Anticipating some such hold up, the half breed had been playing for time until two of his men could work unobserved along the side of the schooner and climb up the rig ging back of the girl. Neither of them was aware of this until her father, the demented skipper of the schooner, suddenly turned up again and announced his presence with glee. He had seen the two Caribs crawling up and instead of repelling them he rushed to offer assistance. Captain Bedford Babbles Too Much "Come aboard, mates!" he cried. "I'll help ye. It's a great prise I've picked up?so much money that I don't know what to do with it. Come aboard, an' I'll show ye." The game was up. The girl turned a horrified gaze at her father, and then swung back again just in time to see Tucu make a leap for the deck. As if determined to punish him for his audacity, she opened fire at short range. With a growl of pain, the half breed dropped to the deck, with one arm limp and use leas. ?n._. n 1_ ? ?. L/auui uci. oicu acr necs, Burley!" he growled. But Black Burley had no inten tion of facing the gun pointed at him now. He dropped out of eight be hind the bulwark, crowding thoee back of him into the water. She would have driven them into their boat at the point of her gun if the two, helped on deck by the old skipper, had not attacked in the rear. When the taw them running toward her the gave a little cry of alarm, and for the fir it time teemed to lose her nerve. Tucu raised his voice at the two Caribs, urging them to the flank attack. The crash of the pistol had evidently stunned Captain Bed ford, for he stood helpless and amazed with mouth wide open. Dick at this Juncture decided to cast his lot in with the girl. The two Caribs had to pass cloae to him. When the first came abreast of his hiding place, he shot out a leg and tripped him. The second partly stumbled over the first. Quick as a flash Dick landed a blow with his fist on the point of the man's Jaw, and completed the fall. Both were armed with long curved knives that' lor ugliness ottcrrc . a , could not be beaten. Before either could recover from hi* surprise, he relieved them of their weaptfas. Then giving the first one a kick ha ran in the direction of the girl, who, with Tucu, had been watching him with amazement. "Keep them covered!" Dick called. 'Til take care of these two. Shoot the first head that bobs up." Encouraged by the assistance that had so micraculoualy come to her, the captain's daughter turned more fiercely than ever upon the leader. "Fll give you ten seconds to get over that rail," she said in a men acing voice. "If you're not gone by that time. 111 kill you like I would a dog." Black Burley thrust a head above the bulwark. A bullet buried itself in the woodwork so near that he dropped out of sight again. "One!" began the girl. "Two!" Tucu growled and showed his teeth; but his eyes were upon Dick, whose interference had aroused him to furious hatred. 'Til cut y'heart out, y'traitor!" he breathed thickly. "TKena? wt.1 1 VIU . VUlUlkCU MIC gill. At the seventh count, Tucu picked himself up, slowly and painfully, and made his way over the side. Dick returned to the disarmed Caribs, and with their own knives as weap ons drove them into the sea. When they had disappeared, leaving the deck cleared of all enemies, he hur ried to the girl's assistance. She was peering over the side of the schooner to see if the crew were leaving in their boat. "Keep back!" Dick warned. "They may shoot!" She nodded and stepped cautious ly behind the bulwark for protec tion. Dick glanced around for some weapon. A loose spar, as heavy as a man, and twenty feet long, at tracted his attention. Picking it up, he carried it to the side of the schooner, and with a heave threw it outward so that it just grazed the top of the rail. It rolled over with a clatter, car rying everything with it. There was a growl and scream below that in formed Mm his ruse had succeeded. In its descent the long spar had knocked three Caribs into the sea, and falling on the lugger's small boat nearly smashed the bottom out of it. Captain Tucu evidently decided that retreat, until he could reorgan ize his forces and plan a new at tack, was the better part of wisdom. He bellowed a command to his men to pull away from the schooner, and a few moments later Dick and Captain Bedford's daughter saw the boat returning to the lugger. They remained motionless and si lent watching until the boat had drawn off beyond pistol shot. Then, as if drawn by common impulse, they turned and gazed at each other. The girl was quiet and sober, her eyes regarding him inquiringly, al most suspiciously. There was no hint of a smile on her face. The events had tested her courage to the breaking point, and the strain was apparent in the fine lines drawn around the lips and in the heavy circles under her eyes. Tucu Will Return, Dick Predicts "We've got rid of them tor a time," Dick said, glancing in the direction of the lugger, "but they'll return." She nodded, following his eyes; then turning to him again, she asked: "Were you with them?" "Yea," he admitted, "but not of them." She frowned and raised her eyes inquiringly. "They picked me up a few hours age," be explained. "1 was about dead?bean in-the water for four days and nights. " When they rescued me," he added, smil ing at the recollection of it, "I wasn't in a mood to inquire for credentials. I was glad to get any help. Later I found out what they were." "What are ti>ey?" she asked quietly. "Carib fishermen, beachcombers, sea scavengers, pirates ? almost anything and everything." "I see," she murmured thought fully. "Then you think they want to steal this schooner?" "They took M for an abandoned derelict at first," he replied truth fully, "and, of course, as such it was their legitimate prize. They were surprised and disappointed when they saw you and your father aboard it." SST tk.s ?? _U_ 1 CBU UUUCIIWIU UHIV, ?IC IC* plied, "but when ? when I ordered them away, they didn't act aa if?if ?" She stopped and frowned again. "But you said they were sea scaven gers and pirates," she added, nod ding. "I suppose that means they intend to take the schooner any way, lawfully or unlawfully." "I'm afraid sa. Captain Tucu, I imagine, isn't the kind to be easily discouraged. If he's decided the schooner's worth it he'll return lat er. Besides," soberly, "be has an other reason for making a second attempt." ? "What is that?" she asked. Be laughed and shrugged bis shoulders. "For one thing he'll want to get even with me for interfer ing, and second to get hold of those . jewels I told him about." (TO bz coarruruiD) 1 *mmk"W'd IMPROVED "U ' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUWDQUBT. D D ag Lesson for November 24 l?ctirHJLdlbw??rl?hUd8C b^^nteraaUoniU Cwmgfl of Rjgtmw Education; umd by PAUL IN ATHZN8 AND CORINTH LESSON TEXT?Acts lfM-Ma; ISild: I Corinthian* 1:B-S. MEMORY SELECTION ? For other loun datlon can no man lay than that to told, which la Isous Christ-?I Corinthians 1:1L History repeats itself, in spiritual things as well as in secular events. The experiences of Paul at Athens and Corinth are peculiarly applica ble to our day, for here he encoun tered tha very problems which face (and have apparently stopped) the church today. The cities were not far apart in miles, and they were both pagan, but they differed widely in their cul tural and commercial development. Athens was the home of a godless culture. Corinth was a prosperous commercial center known through out the world for grossly licentious living. What did the gospel accomplish in such cities? We shall soon see. I. Godless Intellectuality Meets the Gospel (Acts 17:22-28a). Paul was alone in Athens. Ho bad been separated from his com panions Silas and Timothy (Acts 17: 14), and was to await them at Ath ens. While he waited he looked the city over and found it wholly given to idolatry (v. 16). This was no idle observation of a scientific mind, for it caused Paul's spirit to stir in him. It is a bad sign when a pro- , fessed Christian can live in the pres- , ence of sin and false worship and not be deeply moved by it. Paul did something about itl Ha went into the great daily gatherings of philosophers and gave them some solid Christian philosophy to work on. They were curious to know more, and when the opportunity arose, Paul preached the sermon on Mars Hill. He found them superstitiously re ligious, but religion does not save. They even feared lest they had for gotten some god, so one altar was "to the unknown God" (v. 23). This ! gave Paul his opportunity, for he declared the one true God?unknown to them?as the answer to their question. The intellectual felt superior and had an idea that God needed him, a kind of snobbery which is as cur rent in 1$46 as it was in Paul's day. How effectively he disposed of that attitude appears in verses >4 and 25. They needed God, and without him they could not draw a breath! Moreover, the pagan intellectual then as now would swell with pride as he thought of the race and people to whom he belonged. They were superior?a master race. Paul declares God's truth that all men are of one blood, and that the na tions are in his hands (v. 26). What they had to do, and what the godless intellectuals of our day need to do, is to seek God in humble repentance and faith; then lives can become fine and noble and useful (w. 27, 32-34). II. Sophisticated Immorality Meets the Gospel (Acts 18:1-4). To Corinth Paul came (evidently still alone) without friends or funds. Like all well-bred Jewish boys, he knew a trade. He was a sail mak er and tent maker. Rather than have the ungodly men of Corinth hinder his preaching by the criti cism that he was doing it for mon ey, he supported himself. The minister who is eager for rich financial return, and who. is willing to accept the gifts of the ungodly that . his. work may prosper, has closed the door for bis testimony to many who do not believe. In fact, one wonders whether be has any real testimony to give. , In this wicked city, given over to vice and fleshly pleasure, Paul made his way to the synagogue and began to preach Christ. He rea soned and persuaded and won some for the Lord as he continued with them for a year and a half (Acts 18:11). Paul's letter to the Corinthians reveals the struggle of the believers at Corinth to maintain moral stand ards and spiritual warmth in such a city, but it also clearly indicates that the gospel of Christ is "the power of God unto salvation to ev eryone that believeth" (Rom. 1:16), evgn in the midst of sin and cor ruption. til. iac unpti iinia so?ana is Victorious' (I. Cor. 1:22-25). The wisdom of this world?for which Athens stood in a special way ?becomes foolish in the eyes of men, as it is already in the sight of God, when it stands up against the gospel (read w. 18-21). The preaching of the cross, which looks foolish to the worldling (v. 23), is the wisdom and the power of God, and by it men are saved. Whether Jew or Gentile, whether seeking signs or wisdom, whether "up-and-out" by way of pagan intellectualiam or "down-and-out" by way of immorality?no matter what man's race, or his problem? the answer is in the gospel which we are privileged to teach and preach, for it (s the gospel of "Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God" to all who are called by him. Ik+Jlome *1oMn | fiefwit&i L WASHINGTON ? By Walter Stood I WNVCmeMM WMU Wmkimgtm Bmrimm MM If* *. W. ! 'Valltjr Aatborittes' Fiiini By Sbcritary af Interior Krn{ Repercussions of the speech delivered in Seattle recently by J. A. (Cap) Kru(, secretary oiJhe interior, in which he boldly advocat ed passage of the Columbia Valley authority bill, creating an autono mous regional authority independent of the interior department, (or de velopment of the. Columbia river valley, are being felt here in Wash ington. They are being felt par ticularly by the die-hards within the department itself. Harold Ickes, long-time predeces sor of Krug as boss of the interior department, found such valley au thorities distasteful and sought by every means to keep within his de partment all the power possible over extension of reclamation, flood control, power manufacture and oth er public land development. In so doing, he made the bureau of reclamation the largest manu facturer of electric power in the world. Paradoxically, we do not hear the fervid objections to this government manufacture of power, from utility and other opposition in terests, that are expressed against TV A, which manufactures electric power on a much smaller scale. Bet Secretary Krug has knocked Into a cocked hat any idea that ha would follow in the Ickes traditions when he told the Public Ownership league In the state eI Washington that "there has been extensive, bit ter and confused controversy over the best method of attaining the most efficient and effective federal government support and encourage ment for that sorely needed eco nomic development. That contro versy focused oet the Columbia Val ley authority bill which my good friend, Sea. Hugh Mitchell, intro duced late the last session aI con gress. "Thi iHpg nf that hill vbi intmH the principles were right, the ob jective was not only desirable, but, in my opinion, essential to the rapid development of this region. I wi$b to endorse the idea, principles and objective." Rmady to Fight Thus equalling his predecessor in plain-spoken bluntness. Secretary Krug has thrown down the gaunt let for another bitter fight in the 80th congress over passage of this bill, and also, although he did not mention it, the bill creating a Mis souri Valley authority for the same purposes in the Missouri river basin. Both these bills follow the pattern of the Tennessee Valley authority, and one of the reasons why the two bills, the Columbia river and the Missouri bills, did not get out of committee in the last congress was the veiled opposition by Secretary Ickes, who was reluctant to give up his authority over the projects. With Krug it is different. "I would like," he said, "to give up some of my power and authority exer cised at Washington and see it ex ercised here." Krug gave some pointed replies to what he termed "misconceptions" arising about such a regional river basin development body. First, such a body would not in crease federal power in this area. Bes?il. it would not create a "su per federal government," but mere ly relocate the focus point of cer tain federal powers and functions already in existence. Third, it would not replace the fed eral agencies performing functions in this area which are clearly but a part of a general national program. Fearth, such a body would not interfere with the rights of existing water users. Fifth, power would not displace Irrigation as the prime responsi bility of the federal government. Sixth, such a body would not in terfere with states' rights. D Cm All u ciitfit iw n it "The only honest complaint I've heard about set tiny up an authority in the Columbia valley re (ion is that it would spread low-cost pub lic power more rapidly and more widely, would develop land and min eral resources of the area more quickly and fully, and would with greater success provide the econom ic basis for a substantial increase In population and living standards." Whether Secretary Krug also will champion the Missouri Valley au thority bill, introduced by Senator Murray of Montana, is not known. His influence in behalf of the Co lumbia river bill will most certainly put the measure in a position to re ceive more generous congressional consideration than was given the Missouri valley measure. 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