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TREASURE OF THE SEA by vuulzam* m stoat nui ru: Dick JcrCca. urvtvvr at a rtbkmvr koucd (ran soutk America lo the U ali ve States, comet apaa a SiUttes sebooa cr. Only others aboard arc the *a meaCod captain, and hit daakhtar. Beta. A crew el pirates aadtr Taca attack the vessel, hat after a fraltleta search far traasare they leave becaase a storm la browias, capcala Bedford recovers aad thej tall the schooner to aa Is land There Dick discovers that Taca aad bis craw are aa ma other aide bat Has a (reap at white mam. Dick secaret same aatomatlcs at the ship aad re taras. The whlu mea root the black pf ralea. Dick saves Pettlf raw from Taca, bat aadaaacrs himself. CHAPTER XI Dick tripped on a stone. With an exultant animal cry. the half-breed took advantage of the accident. Dick made a fruitless effort to wrig gle away from him; but the uplift ed knife followed until it was poised directly over his throat. The near report of a gun did not seem to be connected with his dan ger, and its echo in his ears made no appreciable impression on his mind. Even when the giant half breed shivered, and began toppling over, he could not associate the act with the pistol crash. But the knife did not descend. It dropped from the nerveless hand of the Carib and fell with a thud to the beach. Tucu, like a giant forest tree whose base had been shattered by lightning, swayed a moment uncer tainly and then without a moan or sigh fell with a crash, sprawling on top of his adversary and pinning him to the ground. "Dick! Dick, are you hurtT" Out of the strange apathy that had numbed his mind, Dick heard -the voice, and came to his senses as Rose rushed to his side. She grasped his shoulders and pulled him from under the inert body of the dead half-breed. "Are you hurt?" she repeated anxiously. He smiled and shook his head, his eyes on her as if unable to com prehend. "I Was afraid I'd be too late," she murmured, tears close to the surface, "or miss him." "You shot him?" he asked in a dazed voice. "Yes"?shuddering and turning away from Tucu?"I?I had to, or he'd killed you." In the excitement of the conflict and the relief that followed their deliverance from Tucu, neither Dick nor Rose noticed Hen Petti grew, who had watched the proceed ings at close range, and who now sat staring at them in evident sur prise and bewilderment. Although weak and dazed by his own wounds, the man was fully conscious of all that had been going on, and when Dick finally glanced up and caught his eye he started with a grunt. "Jordan!" lie said thickly. Dick's face flushed an instant and then paled. Rose glanced from one to the oiher, and asked; "Who is he? Is he a friend?" Dick gulped and nodded, but made no articulate sound with his lips. Despite the pain of his wounds, Hetr Pettigrew grinned. "Sure! We were both on the City of Bahia before she went to the bot tom. So your boat wasn't swamped, Jordan? You were lucky. Ours top pled over, and all went to the bot tom except those who swam to this island." How Dick's Ruse Made Complications Dick sat up and faced the situa tion bravely. In saying Hen's life, he had unwittingly made his own exposure a certhinty. There was no need for further subterfuge; Rose would have to know all. "I was lucky," he replied, "but not the rest. They were all lost. I dung to a raft for days and nights until Tucu here picked me up on the lugger, and then?" He glanced at Rose, and added: "Ask her. She'll tell you the rest." But Rose's sympathy for Petti grew was unexpectedly aroused to action. Hen's strength, that had been restored for a time by the ex citement, showed signs of waning; he grew deadly pale, and began sink ing typidly. His eyes closed and the head sagged forward until it touched the ground. "Oh!" she exclaimed, jumping to her feet. "He's dying! We must get help. Dick." The rest of the party arrived in time to give Hen all the human aid that was possible. He was serious ly but not dangerously wounded, and after staunching the flow of blood and binding up the ugly holes the bullets had made in his side and shoulders, he recovered from his faint, and smiled grimly. "I'll -pull through?need rest? , that's all." The story of how the handful of sailors had battled through the surf and reached the island on the night of the shipwreck, aad how for days and nights they had existed an shell fish and a few birds they managed to kill, while they watched and wait ed hopefully for a sail, was told dra matically by the different survivors.. When the lugger appeared they had hailed It joyfully, but later they had reasons to dread Captain Tucu and las crew more than their lonely tsoUtkxi on the island. The old pirate, wnen he found the ship ed to rob them of what few posses sions they had carried away from the steamer, and when they objected the inevitable conflict had been pre cipitated. "He had a crazy idea we knew something about smuggled jewels that he said were aboard the steam er," Hen Pettigrew explained lat er. "Don't know where he got the idea. Must have dreamt it." "No," replied Dick, smiling. "I told him." - Hen and the others looked at him inquiringly. Dick chuckled ruefully at the thought of how his ruse had com plicated the situation so that others, perfectly innocent of any attempt at deception, had been drawn into the net. His invention had nearly cost the jives of a dozen.men in cluding that of his old enemy, and tor a moment he grew grave and serious; then, recalling the various sequences of events that had ended so satisfactorily, he laughed again. "I guess, after all, that was the best story I ever invented," he add ed. "Anyway, it seems to have worked." Briefly as he could he outlined this part of his adventure. The oth ers listened and nodded their heads with grinning approval. When he was through Hen glanced keenly at him. "I could almost believe you were a smuggler, Jordan, If I didn't know you weren't." Dick flushed. "Perhaps I am," ,he retorted challengingly. "How do you know I'm not? You know my record." "Yes," slowly, "I know your rec ord." The sudden gravity of their faces, and the challenging light in their eyes, disturbed Rose, who glanced from one to the other. She began suddenly to distrust the man they had saved. "Dick's record," she said slowly, thrusting an arm into one of his, "is clean. Whatever it might have been in the past, it's been wiped out now." There was a silent pause, an awk ward period in which the two men exchanged glances that none of the others could interpret; but there was evident hostility between them based upon something in the past. Rose pulled Dick gently away. "Come. There's so irtuch to do. We must help the wounded, even if they are Caribs and our enemies." Captain Bedford had already as sumed charge of the situation, and the seamen willingly took orders from him. The dead Caribs were buried on the beach, and the wound ed cared for. Then with the small boats they made a visit to the lug ger, which had been rolling lazily at anchor in the cove. Captain Bedford overhauled the craft, and finally sniffed his scorn. "She ain't worth sailin' into port. She'8 a stinkin' hulk that ought to have gone to the bottom long ago. We'll leave her." "But, Cap'n," protested one of the seamen, "she's good enough to carry us home. We ain't figgerin' on staying here longer'n we have to. We're_a -bit homesick." "Sure!" was the grinning retort. "But the Betty's worth a dozen sich luggers. I Agger we can patch her up in less'n a week an' sail home. We'll have a full crew now. Wait'll ye see her." A visit to the Betty on the oppo site side of the island put new heart in the castaways, and under Cap tain Bedford's direction they began to work cleaning up the decks and restoring the schooner to her old time condition. The lugger was used to tow her around the island where, anchored in the quiet cove, repairs could be made without fear of another storm wrecking her. rettiprew Jells nose All Abo# Dich 1 As the busy days passed. Hen Pettigrew recovered from his wounds, and once more became the masterful man that had distin guished him as an officer of the law. Two days before they were ready to depart, the Betty having re ceived a new set of sails that were sufficient to carry her home. Hen Pettigrew emerged from his cabin, and seeing Dick forward beckoned to him. "Jordan," he said, "I want to talk with you." Dick nodded and followed him to the cabin. Something told him that the hour had come when he had to face the crisis. This intuition was strengthened when he found Rose below waiting for them. She smiled gently when he entered the cabin, but made no remark. Hen Pettigrew closed-and locked the door. Then turning to Dick he said: "Jordan, I've told your story to Rose. I thought she was entitled to know it." Dick started violently, frowned, and then caught his breath to calm his nerves. "I expected you'd do it before this," he replied. "I was waiting for H." He kept his eyes on Hen, refusing to notice Rose's pleading look. "When we parted on the steamer," he added, "you sa d you'd pinch me if we met on land again. "Well," smiling and ?bragging his shoulders, "you've got me. I won't attempt to break away." "Too knew Td arrest yon, Jor dan," I^tttgi ew nid after a pause. "Then why'd you save my UfeT Tucu had me." "Ye?, but I had to get Tucu," Dick replied. "I wanted to aettle an old score with him. I guess that was it." "And leave the score with me openT" smiled Hen. Then frowning, he added: "Jordan, you got me guessing at times. You're a con tradiction in character?weak and strong, simple or foolish and shrewd, bfave in soma things and cowardly?" Dick's hand clenched. "If you think I'm surrendering because I'm afraid of you, Hen," he began trucu lently, "get it out of your mind. I?" "There you go again?off on a tangent," was the quiet interrup tion. "Now, listen!" he added, rais ing, a hand. "TU prove to you that I'm right. I'll make an even bet you'U contradict any reasonable man's guess what you'd do under the circumstances. I'll put you to the test." He paused an Instant, his eyes twinkling with amusement. "Jordan, you can have your choice of return ing with me to answer that old charge, or going scot free. No, you won't be hounded by the law. I'll report you went down with the City of Bahia. That will close the case. Your name will be eliminated from our books. You'U be a free man to choose your own life." "You mean?" stammered Dick, his eyes lighting"with hope. He plopped and glanced from his old enemy to Rose. Her face and eyes were strangely noncommittal. He would have his freedom, able to look every man fearlessly in the eye, and not dream of nights that the shadow of the law was pursuing and ready to close about him. A great burden slipped from his mind. "I?" he muttered, beginning again, and stopping abruptly. Rose would not have a part with him in that new life of freedom; he would lose her either way. He turned suddenly to Hen, his mind made up. j "I hate to disappoint you on that bet with yourself. Hen" he said easily, grinning, "but I'U go with you. I said I would, and I haven't changed my mind." "Consider carefully, Jordan," warned the other. "If you can't prove your innocence of that theft it means five years for you." "Sure! Don't I know that?" "You beUeve you can prove your innocence?" "No! If I had I'd never have run away." "You were guilty?" "Hell! No! I've told you that a thousand times. "Then why'd you leave? Didn't you know that would brand you as a criminal?" Dick Throws Away Chance for Freedom "Sure! But the cards were stacked against me. Didn't I know that? They'd convicted me on cir cumstantial evidence, and sent me to prison. I hadn't a leg to stand on, without money or influence. You can't get justice without them?not when some piker's doctored the books and laid his plans so any jury would convict without leaving the room. There was only one other chance left me, and I took it. But I'll go back with you and face the music. That's all." "That's final?" Dick nodded and turned his face to the window. He was not aware that either of the others had moved until a hand touched his arm. He swung arouhd, and found himself alone in the cabin with Rose. "Dick," she said softly, "I know all about it. Mr. Pettigrew told me ?told me more than he's told you. There Is a chance if you go back. New evidences have been discov ered, he says, and he doesn't be lieve you're guilty. With a good lawyer now, you can establish your innocence, and?" "Rose," he replied, smiling gent ly into her upturned face, "there's no money to pay for a good lawyer ?or any other kind of lawyer. I have nothing. I didn't decide to go back with Hen because I thought there was a chance of clearing my name. There isn't a chance! Pm going?going?" "Why?" she asked when he paused. , "Because?because?of you!" " Her face flushed with happiness and shy emotion. "Then we'll go together," she breathed softly. "Not" he answered sharply. "I didn't mean that. I won't drag you into it. If I did I'd despise myself. I love you too much for that. Rose, and you know it." "Yes, I do know it," she replied, pursing her lips in an assumed pout. "That's why I arranged with Mr. Pettigrew to?to?hire the best law yer money could buy. You see that treasure we found on the subma rine belongs to all three of us, but you and Father won't touch any of it Then I'm going to use it any way I please. I might spend it for new dresses and Jewelry, and?and ?lots of things?but I won't I I don't want them I But I do want you, Dick, and"?flashing him a look that made him tingle?"I'm going to have you if I have to buy you j with that treasure." (THE END) ? ' l Improved m 1 uniform international Sunday i chool Lesson By BAAOU) L. LUNDQUI8T. D. D Of The Moody Bibl* Inatltut* of Chktf*. fUl??Md by WoaUra N*?kmpn Uoloo. Lass on for January 19 Umor ?ubfacU and Scripture testa se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. J?SUS INTERVIEWED BY NI CO DEM US LESSON TEXT?John 3:1-11. IS. 11. MEMORY SELECTION?Except a men be born again, he cennot pee the kingdom of God.?John 3:1 How does one become ? Chris. tianT This was the question of Nico demus, and it is the question in the hearts and minds of thousands In every generation. The answer is clear and definite. The only entrance into the Chris tian life it by the door of the new - birth. Regeneration la the act of God whereby the divine nature is imparted to the believing sinner and he becomes the child of God. He who has not entered by this way has not entered at all. He is still dead in trespasses and sins, with out God and without hope (Eph. 1:1, 12). The Pharisees who looked for the coming of the Messiah as a sec ular conqueror wondered at this new spiritual leader. It was prob ably as much on their behalf as his own that Nicodemua came to in quire of Jesus. In answering his questions Jesus reveals the neces sity, the nature, and the method of regeneration. I. The New Birth?a Necessity (w. 1-7). Our Lord's visitor was a man of distinction and standing in the com munity, but Jesus was not unduly impressed by the dignity and high station of his visitor, nor by the vis itor's courteous almowledgment of his own position as a great teacher. With decisive boldness _ Jesus de clares that this man, a cultured and distinguished ruler of the Jews, must be bom again, if he is to see the kingdom of God. God is no respecter of persons. The doctor of divinity must be bora again Just as much as the illiterate fisherman. D. L. Moody once said that he was thankful it was to such a man as Nicodemus that Jesus presented the necessity of the new birth, or men Would have said ihat only the d own-and-outer needed to be saved. Two reasons are given by our Lord for the "must" of verse 7: (1) The Kingdom of God is a spirit ual Kingdom and cannot be en tered by way of our human nature; yand (2) "that which is born of the flesh is flesh" and is radically and essentially bad. To learn why that is true read Jeremiah 13:23 and Galatians 9:19-21. Scripture on this point is almost diametrically opposed to much of the teachings in our schools and colleges. But GocTa Word is right; let us follow it. II. The New Birth?a Mystery (w. 8-11). God has graciously revealed to us "all things that pertain unto life ' and godliness, through the knowl edge" of Christ (II Pet. 1:3). But it is true?and we say quite appro priately true ? that he has some things hidden in his own blessed counsels. We know the experience of the new birth. We see the blessed results of regeneration. But what actually takes place is a divine mystery, not fathomable by human reason. Those who insist that all spiritual truth be put through the little norm of their intelligence will never understand It or receive its blessing (1 Cor. 2:14). The striking illustration of the life-giving and energizing wind used by our Lord is most illuminat ing. Wind is unseen, but the re sults of its movement are evident. Even so the spiriual rebirth of men is an enigma to the worldly man, but even he can see its results in godly living. We know that regeneration is not only a possibility, but an actuality, a fact; in truth, the greatest of all facts. IU. The New Birth?a Reality (w. 18, 17). Just as there was healing and life in a look at the uplifted serpent j in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), so there is life for a look at the Cruci fled One. Faith receives God's per- j feet provision for sin. Verse 18 may well be regarded as the greatest sentence in the greatest Book in the world. It presents the whole plan of salva tion?its source, its ground, its re cipients, its condition, and its re sult. This glorious salvation is for all men ?"whosoever"?but some re ject It. Notice that God does not condemn them. Their own evil works and desires condemn them (w. 17-20). God In his grace is ready and willing to save, but men love "darkness rather than light," for their works are evil. Our tender, loving heavenly Fath er has no desire to condemn any one. The man or woman who falls under his condemnation of sin dues so by choice. God's desire is that all should be saved. Will you. unbeliever who reads these Unas, respond now to his gra cious invitation! I A Revie^o^JM6 Looking back over IMS, it was a year you wouldn't believe if you had seen.it in the movies. President Tru man want down in a submarine, the general public went up in a free bal loon and John L, Lewis at last got into a battle in which he didn't get at least a tie. It was a great year for Ingrid Bergman, the St. Louis Cards, the Republican party and Assault United Nations started the year in the Bronx with a cafeteria lunch and finished on Manhattan island with (8.500,000 in choice real estate, thus nosing out Leo Durocher, "The Egg and I," and the Elliott Roose velts for profitable seasons. Navy 'almost beat Army, Henry Wal lace picked one of the easiest of those sixty million jobs, Abie's Irish Rose at last got into pictures. ? Joe Louis, Stymie and Yale had good years in the world of sports and the international high jump was won by Bernard Baruch, who went from a park bench to the rarefied atmosphere of the atomic bomb from a sitting start. . . . Frankie Sinatra gave Ms bobby soxers back to the Indians. ? Ted Williams, Billy Cora, Ches ter Bowles, Harold Ickes, Bilbo and the, Boston Red Sax Bad a bad 12th maqth: The Nagmsndie, OP A. the New peal and Joe Stalin's recol lectosr vof what be promised at Yalta were junked. The radio quiz industry gave away all bat $11.39 worth-of all the $3ft^K.l*7,87?.4M 25 merchandise produced in America since V Day. The horse meat from the country made good In the ham burgers of the city. General Elec tric announced a not too satisfactory year, but found a way to produce snow artificially and promised a lib eral allowance on old snowflakes. Mr*. Eleanor Eoooerett went *o far left of renter that the fefi asleep and collided with another antomohile on the Sawmill riy ar highway. .A stone to mark the apot where she once slept was duly erected. This seemed qnite a reflection en the Seeee velts op to the time two passen f er airplanes bennd in the same directioo collided ores Mary land. ' There were strikes all over Amer- j lea, with the newsreel cameramen getting some of their best all-time battle shots. An unknown bettor tore up a $2,100 daily double ticket at Garden State. The oldest living Elk died in 37 states. Russel C rouse of the theatrical firm of Lindsey and Crouse was injured badly when a day's receipts fell on him. Ex Mayor LaGuardia of New York was extricated from UNRRA before starting another global war. The Democrats lost an election in large number*. Thirty-five million and six hundred and seventy-eight thou sand Americans bought an egg. pre sented a dollar bill, got two cents in change and asked "1 wonder if there is any danger of inflation?" ? The year closed on a touching note. EioreOo LaGuardia opened a Sunday program with a tender testi monial to the Christmas spirit of goodwill to all men and exclaimed. "Oh. bow wonderful it would be d we could adhere to the kree-thy oeighbor precept all the year around." He then attacked newspa pers, real estate owners, congress, the state legislature, a firm of architects and divers others as "thieves," "crooks." "big bums." "corrupt cowards," "hooligans." "mutts," "tin horns," "puaks" and all around polecats. ? ? ? A BUNCH or Glim ON A NEW TOU BUS Na windows open. The heat an Ml tilt. No wander the driver And passengers wilt. They snarl and sneese And Jostle and cess And wish for a trolley Instead of a baa. ?Margaret Pish back. ? ? ? Km ttia new ii hriefieg tart *# <tt pre imtiaa Uaa pretty fast. There it ma gmattioa ever (here at la which gttt tlatrad free hs, (he p? aJarliaa liar ar (he ftUata who trial ta Sid a maairy wreerh iata (he wirleniim. ? ? ? UNFINISHED BUSINESS "Here. I Insist, this drink's en ma," The gay will fairly sheat. Bat 'thoagh be reaches far his cash He aever gets It sal. ?We*. a a a "United States Facea Deficit of $1,900,000,000 Headline . ?e "la that as good as Bit Demo crats hoped?" asks Iraa Dodo. ? ? ? British Broadcasting company has prohibited hypnotism by radio. 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