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r,w, -tip- tfr " "--"..,'.'." f '1 , ., .. i, , MM W.st JL - A w- .. -4 , . Cy SUV.IST LEM'I WHITE ar.d KCrNS n.1I. ; Illustrations by WK1 Crawford. " b : rove l 1 - 'y ' could pet " ,'t Kii v lunv to u.-e it," "1 ' CHAP ATE R X. CHANGES OP MASTERS. The naxt flay we continuea our plorations by land, and so for a week after that. I thought It- best not to relinquish all authority, so I organized regular expeditions, and ordered their direction. The men did riot object It -was all good enough tun to them. " - The net result were that we found a nesting place of sea birds too late in the aeason for eggs; a hot spring near enough camp to be useful; and that was about all. The sheep were the only animal on the island, al though there were several sorts of birds. In general, the country was as I hav described it -either volcanic or overlaid with fertile earth, In .any caae it wa canon and hill. Wa on grew tired of climbing and turned our attention to tha sea. ' With, the surf boat wa skirted the coast. It waa impregnable except in three places: our own beach, that near the seal rookery, and on the south side of the island. We landed at each one of these places. But returning clone to the toast we happened upon a cave mouth more or less guarded by an otitlrinr rock. Tha day was calm, so we ventured In.'' At first 1 thought it merely a arorge in the rock, but even while peer ing for the end wall we slipped under the ardhway and iound ourselves in a vast room. - Our eyes wera dazzled so we could make out Httle at flrit. But through th Mill, clear water the light filtered i raaly from below, showing the bottom as through a sea glass. We saw the flab, near the entrance, and coral and ra grotha of marvelous vldldneas. They waved alowly as In a draugh of air. The medium in. which they floated was absolutely invisible, for. of course, there were no reflections from its surface. We seemed to be suspended In mld-alr. and only when the dipping oars made rings could we ' rehfe that anything sustained us. Suddenly the place let loose in pan demonium. The most fiendish cries, r.oans. shrieks, broke out, confusing ' themselves so thoroughly with their own echoes that the volume of sound waa continuous. Heavy splashes shook tha water. Tha boat rocked. The in visible surface was broken into facets, We shrank, terrified. From all about Us glowed hundreds of eyes lllr Altf nt flrfwtn a iAVf,l with nil above us, almost over our heads. Two by two the coals ne ex tinguished. Below us the bottom was clouded a school of minnows beneath 4 boat. They darkened the coral and the sands and the glistening sea growths Just aa a cloud temporarily darkens theJand uvine onlv the occupations and brightening succeed each other much more swiftly. . W stared stuplfied, our thinking power blurred by the Incessant whirl of motion and noise. Suddenly Thrackles laughed aloud "Seals!" he shouted through his trumpeted hands. Our eyes were extending to the twi light, We could make out the arch of .the room.'its shelves, and hollows, and lches. Lying on them we could dis rern the seals, hundreds and hundreds of them, all staring at us, all barking and bellowing. As we approached, they scrambled from their elevation, and, diving to the bottom, scurried to the entrance of ,th cave. We lay on our oars for ten minutes. . Then silence fell. There persisted a tiny drip, drip, drip from wme point in the darkness. It merely Accentu ated the hush Suddenly from far In . the interior of (he hill there came a Jong, hollow boo-o-o-m! It reverber ated, roaring. The surge that had 11ft- - d our boat some minutes before thust reacnea us journey w ewi. The chamber whs very lofty. As "we rowed cautiously in, it lost nothing of Its height, but something In width, . Jt was marveloualy colored, like all t he . - volcanic rocks of this island. In ad- dttion some chemical drip had thrown ACrona Its v1v1.1t.amm Inner irnwj.v at rait tri er of white. We rowed In ax far as tha faintest daylight lasted us. The ' . occasional reverheratlng boom of the , surges seemed as distant as ever. This was beyond the seal rookery V on the beach. Below It we entered an open cleft nf some sIxa to another wiuarer cave. It was now high tide; the water extended a scant ten fath m to end on an Interior shale thoach. .The cave was a perfectly straight pas sage, following the line of the cleft. " How far In it reached we could not de termine, for It, ton. wan full of seals, and after we had driven them back a hundred feet or so their fiery eyM noa'-rtd is out. We illd not care to put :" them at bay. The next day I mwd out to the . Laughing Lass and got a rifle. 1 fnun 1 the captain asleep In his bunk, and 1 did not dtstnrh him TW.l,,,,,, ..,i i with infinite pains, tracked and ftalk d the sheep, of which 1 killed one. We found the mutton excellent, Th.i hunting was difficult, and the iuarry, s time -went on, more and more sus f'lclous. but henceforward ,ve did no; , lack for fresh meat. Furthermore we ' BOOn discovered that flm. r,AUn , to be had outside the reef. We rlggei . e sail for the fxtra dory, and ncit tnuch of our tune et thu sport, i d ) ' no kwm thp nsmiii of iht fish. They , wrcie Ty tf,my inneco, ana ran from Jive to an Indelennlnat number of '' tjoundi in we!f;til. At'tve fifty pounds our tigm ia-nie parted, mo ive ha i tin ' moans of knowing how laie they may have been. Thus we s-pent very ipleAwmtly the rrearer pari or two we. i - nd f that time I md up my m'.nd inai n woum oe just as wen to get oh.ck uj iiunnii. accoroiiiK y i cai en Perdon and directed him to sort and riter or runt me eaivared chain rahle. . iioiiiy. i i.vuiv tt pipji in. ward hiir.. He drew his knlf and ' raesea away. "PerdoKa." said I firmly, "put nn " hst knife," No," said he. f I pulled the aw-barrcllt'd t'olt's 41 nd raised H slowly to a level with , Jjls ftresat, , . "Perdosa," I repeated, "drop that knife." The crisis had come, but my resolu tion was fully prepared for It. I TIIVMIW ItMK liaTB,! UftlU lK'Aly II ' J. 44 - had had td shoot the man as I cer 1 tflinly should have done had he dis obeyed, There would then have been n less w dead with In the final ac . counting, which, strangely enough t ow for a moment never doubled ' would come. had hot before aimed tk a man's life, ao you can see to whai tensity the battling mystery had strung me. ,, v i ) perdosa hesitated a fraction of an JnUin.t I reaily think "he might have rhancad Jt. but Handy ftolomon, who ' h4 been watching tn closely, growled at him. ... - "inoi !fc-ytt fooH''- ft miA; porfosa let rail tha knife. manded, still at white heat. I stool over him until ha was well at wor.t, then turned back to set tasks for tin other men, Handy Solomon met mo halfway. ' Begging your pardon, Mr. Eagen," said he. "I want a word with you." , "I have nothing to say to you," I snapped, still excited. "H ain't reasonable . not to hear a man's say," he advised in, his most conciliatory manner. "I'm talking hr aU of us." He paused a moment took my si lence for consent, and went ahead. "Begging your pardon. Mr. Eagen." said he. "wa ain't going to do any more useless work. There ain't no laziness about us, but wo ain't jroing to be busy at nothing. All the camp work and the haulm and cuttln' and cleanln and the rest of It, we'll do gladly. But we ain't goln' to pound any more cable, and you can kiss tho Book on that." , "Tou mean to mutiny?" I atkert. Ha made a deprecatory gesture. "Put ua aboard ship, air, and let us hear the Old Man give his orders, and you'll find no munity In ua.4Vut hera ashore it's different. Did the Old Man give orders to pound the cable?" 1 represent the captain, I stam mered.' He caught the evasion. "I thought so. Well'. If you got any kick on us, please, sir, go get the Old Man, If he says to our face, pound cable, why pound cable it Is. Ain't that right, boys?" z They murmured something. Per- dosa deliberately dropped his hammer and joined the group. My hand strayed again toward the sawed-off Colt's 45. "I wouldn't do that." said Handy Solomon, almost fllndly. "Tou couldn't kill us al. And wat good would it do? 1 asks you that. I can cut down a chicken with my knife "at twenty feet. Tou must surely see, sir, that I could have killed you too easy while you were covering Pancho there. This ain't got to be a war, Mr. Eagen, Just because we don't want to work with out any sense to It." There was more of the same sort I had plenty of time to see my dilem ma. Either I would have to abandon my attempt to keep the wen busy, or J would have to invoke the authority of Captain Selovef. To do the latter would be to destroy it. The master had become a stuffed figure, a bogle -with which to frighten, an empty yladder that a prick would collapse. With what grace I could muster, I had to give in. "You'll have to have It .your own way, I suppose," I snapped. Thraekles grinned, and Puht started to say something, but Handy Solomon with a peremptory gesture, and black scowl, stopped him short. "Now that's what I calls right prop er and handome!" he cried admiring' ly. "We reely had no right to ea pect that, boys, a aeamen, from uur first officer! Tau can kiss the Book on it, that very few crews have sue! kind masters. Mr. Eagen has tha right, and we signed to it all straight. to work us a he pleases; and w'at does he do? Why, he up and gives us a week shore leave, and then gives us light watches, and all the time our pay goes on just tha same. Now that "s iw'at I calls right proper and hand some conduct, or the devil's a preach er, and 1 ventures with all respect to propose three t'heers for Mr. Eagen," They gave them, grinning broadly. The villain stood looking, at me, a sardonic gleam In the back of hla eye. Then he gave a little hitch to his re J head covering, and sauntered a war humming belwee hla teeth. I stood watching him, choked nvith rage and Indecision. The humming broke into words. " 'Oh, quarter, oh, quarter!' the Jolly pirates cried. Blow high, blowlow! What care we? But the quarter that we gave them was to sink them in the sea. Down on the coast of the high Bar- bare-e-e," . "Here, you swab." he cried to Thraekles, "and you, Fancho!e get some wood, lvely! AndPuiis, bring ua a pall of water, Doctor, let's have duff to celebrate on." The men fell to work with alacrity. CHAPTER XI. "Now , get at , that cable," I com That evening I smoked In a splendid Relation while the men whispers 1 apart. I had nothing to do but smoke, and to chaw my cud, whtrh was bit ter. There could be no doubt, how ever I may have saved my face, that command had been taken from mp oy that, raacal, Handy Solomon. I win In two minds as to whether or on: I should attempt to Warm Drtrrnv or the doctor. Yet what could I say? and against whom should I warn them? The men had grumbled, aa men always do grumble In ldlenea. and had perhaps talked a little wildly; but that waa nothing, The only indisputable fact I could fuiiitice was that I had slowed my hu ilnrity to slip through my flngerx. And adequately to excuse, thit, I should have to confess that I wai a writer and no handler of men. I abandoned the unpleasant train of thought with a snort of disgust, but It had led me to another, In tho ,1uy and uncertainly of living I had pv.JC leally lost sight of the reaion for my coming. With me It had always heen more the adventure than lit- at'try; my writing wa a by-product, a utilt' atlon of what lift offered me. I had set khII potesed by the sole Idea e At the I ferreting out I)r, Srhremerhorn s In- veatlgatlona, but the gradual deVj'ip ment of affair had ended bv brb Ing my every faculty, Now, v'ast into an eddy by my change of tors-ine, the original Idea regained its foroa. I was out of the active government if affairs, with leisure, on my hand, and my thoughts naturally turned with 'urloHity again to the lttbot j;ory In the valley. , narrow's "devil fires were again painting the skk. I had noticed them from time to lime, away with increas ing wonderl. The men accepted them eiisly as only one of the unerplalncd phenomena of a sailor's experlenc,, but I had not as yet hit on ft hyps thesis that wilted me. They were not allied to the aurora: they differed rad ically from the ordinary volcanic em anations; and scarcely resembled any electrical displays I had ever seen. The night was cool; tha etars bright! 1 re- solved to Investigate. Without further delay I trof 3 to m feet and st off Into the da knriu. Im mediately te of the gr cj-j de'jmJ himself from the fire and lolnu l in. "doing lor a little Hr?" asked Handy Solomon sweetly, "That's titiU right and proper. Kotnlfl' liki a ;rtle walk to got yott fit and righ for yw bunk." , H held ciu to my eltow. We trot just as far-artha wtnd1n a of the arroyo, Tho light we could '.make out now across the genlth; but owing to the precipitance ot the cliffs, and the rise of the arroyo bed, it was Impossible to see more. Handy Solo mon felt the defences carefully, "A man would think, sir. it was a eannibal island." he observed. All so tieht and .tldy-Uke here. It wouia we a shin's guns to batter her down. A man might dig under these nere gate logs, if no one was agajnst him. Like to try it, sir?" "No," I answered grumy. From that time on I waa virtually Prisoner: vet so carefully 1 was my surveillance accomplished that I'could olace mv fln;er on nothing dennlte. Someone always accompanied me on my walks; and in the evening I iwaa herded a closely as any cattle. Handy Solomon took the airccuon of affairs off my hands. Tou mav be sure he set no very heavy tasks. The men cut a little wood, carried up a few palls of waterthat was all. Lacking incentive to stir about, tney came to Fpend most of their time lying on their backs watching the sky. This In turn bred a languor which is .the sickest, most soul- and temper-destroying affair Invented by the devil. They could, not muster up energy enough to walk down the beach and back, and yet they were wearied to death of the inaction.. After a little theyj became irritable toward one an other. Each auspected the other of doing lest than he should. ' Tou who know men -will realise what Utla meant. Tha atmosphere dt our camp be came eurly. I recognised the precur sor Of it becoming dangerous. One day on a walk In the hills I came on Thraekles and Pula lying on their stomachs gazing down fixedly at Dr. Schermerhorn's camp. This was noth ing extraordinary, but they started guiltily to their feet when they saw me, and made Off, growling under their breaths. All this that 1 have told you so briefly, took time. It waa the eating through of men's spirit by that worst of corrosives, idleness. I conceive it unnecessary to weary you iwith the details i The situation was as yet uneasy but not alarming. One evening I over heard the beglnnlg of an absurd plot to gain entrance to the Valley that was os far a detail went. I became convinced at last that I should in some way warn Percy Parrow. That seems a simple enough propo sltion, does it not? But if you will stop to think one moment of the dif fleultle of my position, you will see that it as not as easy as at first it appears, parrow still visited us In the evening. The men never allowed me even the chance of private com munlcatlon while he was with us. One or two took pains to stretch out be tween ua. Twice I arose when tho as sistant did, resolved to accompany him part way back. oBth times men resolutely escorted us, and as reso lutely separated us from the oppor tunity of a single word apart. The erew never threatened me by word or took. But we understood each other. I was not permitted to row out to the 'Laughing La without escort. Therefore I never attempted to visit her again. The men were not anxious to do so; their awe of the captain made them only too glad to escape his notice. That empty shell of a past reputation was my only hope, It shielded the arms and ammunition. As I look back on It now, the pe riod seems to me to be one of merely potential trouble. The men had not taken the pains to crystallz their Ideas. I really think their compelling emotion was that of curiosity. They (wanted to see. It needed a definite Impulse to change that desire to one of greed. The impulse came from Percy Dar rpw and hla idle talk of voodoos. As usual he was directing his remarks to the sullen Nigger. "Voodoos?" he said. "Of course there are. Don't fool yourself for a minute on that. There are good ones and bad ones. You can tame them If you know how, and they will do any thing you want them to." Puiz chuckled In his throat. "Tou don't believe it?" drawled the assistant turn ing to him. "Well. It's so. Tou know that heavy box we are careful of? Well that's gut a tame voodoo in It." The others laughed. "What he like?" aiked the Nigger If rave i y. e s a nno voouoo, with wavery arms and green eyea. and red elnwn" Watching narrowly tts effect he swung" on into one or the genuine old croon- ing voodoo songs, once so common dawn South, now so rarely heard. No one Knows what tho words mean they are generally held to be charm worns owy -a magic glwberjsh. But the Nigger sprang across the fire like ugntnmg, his face altered by terror to sense narrow ny the shoulder. ioan you I Doan you!" he gasped snaking the aasistant violently back and fourth. "Pat he King voodoo f ngi uat cnii him all do voodoo aiir He stared wildly about in the dark ness as tnotign expecting to sfw the night thronged. There waa a moment of confusion. Eager for any chance i nisseo under my breath; "Danger! Look out!" I could not tell whether or noi Dar r.w heard me. Ho luft soon after. l no mention of the chept hod focuss- ea ire men's interest. 'Well," Pula beBaffrsJWv t,0- hero on thia apot o'hell for a lonar time." T:i t "ssld Thravkl " ell, t! book " asserted Pulz pusnaclou.-iy. "How do you know what it will be? It may be the Philoso pher's Stone and it may be, one of thc.' other damn things. And then where'd we be?" 1 It was attounding to hear this non sense bandied about so seriously. And yet they more than half believed, for they were deep-sea men of the old school, and thia was in print. Thraek les voiced approximately the general attitude. "Philosopher's stone or not,, some thing up. The old boy took too good care of that box, and he t spend- iuv jnuvn inuiicj, iu i,c o v, hold of too much hell anoat to be doing it for hla health." Tou know w'al I t'ink? . amlled Perdosa. "Ha mak' dl'mon's. He ay dat." ' . The Nigger had entered one of hi black, . brooding moods from . whlph these men expected oracles. ' uet nlm ches '," he muttered, ' I aee him full full of dl'mon's!' . - , They listened to him with vast res pect, and were visibly impressed.. So deep was tho sense of awe that Handy Solomon unbent enough to whisper to ie: t . "I don't take and stock in the JClg- ger's; talk ordinarily. - He's a hell ot a tool nigger. . But when his eye look ilke that, then you want to listen close. He sees things then. Lots of times he seen things. Even lost yearthe Oyamar he told about her three "days ahead. " That's why we were bo ready for her," he chuckled. " Nothing more developed for a long time except a savage fight between Puns and Perdosa, J "hunted sheep. fished, wandered about always with an escort tired to death before he started. . The thought came to me to kill this man and ao to escaoe and make .cause with the scientists. My common sense forbade me. . I begin to think that common sense Is a very fooiisn faculty indeed It taught me the obvious that all thl Idle, vapouring talk was common enougn among men of this class, so common that it would hardly Justify a muraer, would hardly explain an un warranted intrusion for me those who employed me. JjjDw would it look for ma to go to mem with these words in my mouth: , ', , , "The captain has taken to drinking to dull . the monotony. The crew think you are an alchemist and are making diamonds. Their Interest in this fact seemed to he excessive, so I Kiuea one of them, and here I am And who are you?" they could ask. i am a reporter," would , b my oniy trumiui reoiv. Tou can. ace tha false difficulties! of my position. I do not defend mv at tltude! Undoubtedly a born leader of men. like captain Selover ait h,ls best, would have known how to feet' wrtth the proper derision both now and In tne inception of the first mutiny. At heart I never doubted the reality of ie vrims. ... Even Percy Dnrrow saw tho mirti ness of tho men's attitudes, and with nis usual good sense divined the cause lou, chaps are getting !raa;y," said ' 'wny dont i'ou dQ something? Where's the aaptaln?" i Ihey growled aomethlnr abmut thera being nothing to do. rjid exnlalniert that the captain preferred to liv aboard. "Dtm't blame lllm " sslM rtarmn. "but he might give us a little of his squeaky company occasionally. Boys. i u ieii you someth nar about aei Th old hull seals have long, stiff whiskers t w inj, (u7a Know tncre a market for those whiskers? Well, there is. The Chinese mount them in gold and use thm for cleaners for their long pipe. Each whisker is worth fr-om aix bits to a dollar and a in vi'T t 1 I "li.- ie'a r, -a al. ,r " 1 ge-H .1. "Ard thfy'r there," said L- He ruminated a momnt, po!i;hlnqr the steel of hi"? hook a-ainst the other arm of his shirt. tsudtU-nly he looked up at me with a humorous twinkle. , "You're afraid of ua!" he accused. ' I silent, jnot knowing Ju?t how to meet so. direct an attack. , - "No need to be," he continued, , I said nothing. Ho looked at me shrewdly; . then stood off on another tack, a ' v "Well. sir. I didn't mean Just that. I didn't mean youi waa really scared of us. But we're gottln' to know each other, Hvln'i here on this old island. brothers-like. There aint no bnlma and men ashore Is there, now, air? When we get back to the old Laugh ing Lass, then we drops back into our At V e : a 1 x I f i.tj ;.'. Mil uj.u'f, a f... al , of, Charley's, who waa'touujl tl have 1.1m et away with the title of ch-i'iu'lon of the world, got so f'ser t...U he pulled a tix-siiouicr on me. I couldn't reach hitn with a clout, rs bo was outaide of the ring and If I d Jumped over the ropes to luin I'd lost, the figUt. So 1 t-pat in his eye to Like his mind eft hia gun. It wasn't a nice, thing to do, and I am ahsamed to tll about It, but truth did always have fiction faded. It was all I had time for Just then, for Mitchell kept me bujy, paddling around after him through the mud. ' , Durln tho 60-rounda cfiase after Mitchell there was a chance that the hot sport with the gun would let his sentiments' get away with him, and he'd try to ventilate me. He . would V?!rL?r 5," . gni w - k Charley kept one on the lope after him he knows that. He xlon't want no J Miu, M fh finish atoaitnir a. dra.w." shore In hi. He knows.enough to stay . hfm tha WrtT,-h tn nut me and aboard, where we d all rather be." Mitchell in tail for 15 davs to rest up. He stopped abruptly spat, and look-TT rt1,l,,, An h im urtiat when I ed at me. I wondered whtther ttua ae-a nn4 -iv, wa- mnnv in , his vious diplomacy lel us. ...-, DOcket. "Still, in on way. an officer an of- Say, if . they had moving pictwre fleer, anda neaman' a seaman, think In those days, Views of some of those you, ano iaiscipnne .musi i wingnu .n, inc iuri wouiu uu "um among mate ashore 6r "afloat, thinka J things on the side beside towel wav- you. Quite proper, sir. Ana i car see ing ana aiviamg me money. you think that the arm is tor tne ai i wax uju iNKv&K iiul,u.u a sua tn.,A In Anno nf teniihlp I ' ' : TV THF, ' nnitA tifwner. Yn fun do itha ehoot- I . Paddy. Rvan used to say. "If SulU ing, and you can keep the cartridges j van evef hjta another man a tiard a always by you. Just for discipline,,! he hJt ape; he'll kill hJim." I hit a 6ir: . 1 ' not r men as hard a i nu paaay, out The man's boldness In so fully arm- I aian t xm. any or tnam, 'oecause uey in ma. wk aatomishlna. and his care- were all giants in ibulld, sound In every leasness In allowing me aboard with) way,' built to. take a lot of, rough Captlan Selover aetontehed 'me stni wora Detorei. going to sierp. iw, more Nevert he-leas. I promised to go were the very best men, "physically, in for the desired , cartridges, -fully re- the world, for when Sullivan wa Sul- solved to make an appeal. wvan no man aarea to go againai me A further cowri deration of tn eie- uniess uibukui ihiusci. mnf of the garni convinced me, haw. 1 was. They were all tepunky sports, ever, of v tha- fellow ahrowdncs It too, and they never had any back talk .... -r Biiiw me after the Job was dohe. a rifle under direct surveillance--ior i -inero nv ueeu Bm mumibs n the. purpose of htmtln;, than to leave ring, tout there might not have been my sawed-off revolver. . which I any u xno vrcums oiun i wu iu still retained. The argumwta ne no mi wero nvi sjbuubu .hui .; used against -my - ahooWng peraoea tnese men waa f,,1"1- r ll ' ..... -.Hi. - a .. tho most of them would be alive to-day m.A mImI X T AnTtW.tHft mm ' llfl. I U liB KI117U II W Avail V VMd,' WW expectwlly trong, returned from the fciordan.,- In Byracuee,. Kid Lavlgn put tor mv hat. snd so ovwheard tha an end to the career of, Andy Bowen, 1 a 1 following between Thrackle and hi perar Gardner finished George Stout Header: - ' ,n voiumous, um, u imm , ui ... V .. ...-.,' m-,. ..nlmtlntf I UOf 11 HUntU. UtlltTI 1UI1C iAMMU cv. s .wSr- Thmck es Droteatg A lot of hollering-ha been done abd.? ?r!e4JF.W!.sj:,.?.f!ir5; over these accident, but there Isn't worse off? Tou eJn't going to make a as so few toJWM . .ii.ni. n.ini riM Mntihn- ore. l,"'"e J"- T" r . UJ yOU t.. ..A 01 l.'.Jl iiat would tins aiihwer be pftiu,.cJr.ed one ct i.-iom; ! through the crouoh? It was day's wont far rv, ; n I, auno i he lost In the end it. was more o.' .v viUory for him tnan U rt!,' be iisan who loo.il l.e a coi.t . rump steaks and hot lo when tua balloon went up. . . ' If 1 held the championship after a mauling like that from a man 53 pounus lighter taan myself, , you -wouldn't make me think I was much of a champion, not If you put It to mn a' stack of Blcles as high a the Bunker Hill Monument. - IT'S BACK TO THE FARM ' FOR HIM, NOT TET BUT SOON. - - It's back to the farm (for your truly ".In .a couple of year to raise gete, squabs tand a - few . fighting -cocks on the .side to keep up the in terest I'm going to live to bo 100 years old, and tnat'Il beat Methuse-i lah who lived to be several hundred. ut the years Aver only three month long in his time. We can all live to be a century if we get away from the hustle of the cities and go to Crop ping grass and. drinking out of tlje creek, . , , - Alot of my pals hav missed it by not chasing, themselves-onto, ft farm, instead of letting. the ponies get their, time and money, or going broke and foolish trying to keep the bait going for a mob of leeches. 'It., took me sn tlma Jto fall to the simple life., . but it's sure the thing. , ? What' most of ua want la to tak , few leson from the animal. It'. . you give a horse something to eat or drink . that make him eick . ne r won't touch it again, and. if you try to force him to take it he will trv to kick , your brains out. . But grown men win go on guusllng Muff in tne ;, way of fo6d and drink they knoV will . i put. inem on ine Dum. . we eat ana i -drink too much, and the more we get the longer our reach for what we ' don't need. Chop out the .high life crab, nass '. up the rainbow boore and all the : tuff you don't need, save oma of . your com ror duck who are in hard luck and there'll be less glcknes and ;" hammer throwing and the good won't ui su young as , tney re , 'going on; nowadays, Bays I, v Toura truly, - , ' v , - . JOHN L..SUIXIVAN.,- you 7" Thraekles hesitated. "Tou can .Kiss the Book on it,- you ain't," went on Handy Solomon easily, "nor me,' nor Pula, nor the tiresurer, nor tho Nigger,, nor none of us all to geljher. We've had our dose of that Well, tf he goes abroad and etays, where are we-the worse off? I ask you that. But ho won't. This Is w'aita go in' to happen. "Says he to Old Scrubs, 'Sir, the men need you to bash in their heads.' . 'Bash 'em in youroelf,' says he, 'that's w'at you're for.' And if he should come, ashore, wat could ho do? I asks you that.- -we ami disobeyed no order dooly delivered. We're ready tq pull halliards at the word. No, let him go aboard, and if he peaches to the Old Man, why all the better, for Jt Just gets the Old Man down on him." v . MOW U.UUUH U1U dcium ; I Art OnK' ''Don't you "believe none In luck? rrk , f askad Handy Solomon. intr strains! the kerosene arts, for in stance, dt leave the manly jrt so far to -the stood' thatv.lt looks about as gentle a a game of "button,, button, who's aot th price." THINKS HK'OOIJLfl HAVE DONE JKirp TV THAN TEN ROUNDS I think I could have beaten Jeffries Inside of ten rounds, under London prise r!na; rules, if we could have met when woth.ot Us were, ai our uks Thi is .mo uiDe, Jeff. I a good man but ho'a never had a mix-up such a we used to have on the tun in ram and with mud SDlkes. His .crouch means a weak stomach and a couple of Rlaps in the short no wouia wcaw en nun u . - . . when voti nature It oul what has Jeffries -done? Ho went 20 rounds with mi htm jmd. although Gua was scared , stiff and trait Jim dldn' put htm down for the count. Monroe last- two noun-da, , nut n wa Joke. Corbett, lighter : ana weaaer. held out for 23 rounds. Sharkey "Aye.' f0Uffht Jeff. 45 Tound and never took "Well, so do I. with w'at that law- ;2"KI..Jv th- . sailor's friend crimp used to. call Joodlclous w,t- Lwor6 the decWon ahould have been ance." , d- raw. no stronuer for Jeff. Fit. I rowed out to tho Laughing Li8 1 was put out clean toy Jim, but Fit, very thoughtful, and . little shaken never naa any license to go Kp91 by the plausible argument. . captain gj, , raUch . beer. Jim wa Selover was lying dead drunk across 16B. difference 55 Tpounds ' rhet cabin table. I did, my best to All the good men jennes i" waken him, but failed, took a score or except 'lt. were worn i i j jl iAitarTci tin4 Aiir nnr vnn Kim iuu sadly.' Nothing could bo gained by mind that I think Jim ha all . their staying aboard; every chance magnt goats, dui aa be lost. Besides, an rnng to es- way of atorlna : them .away tant much l ik. a tv.. iQluiralATV I What I TT1 eettlUK HI in lll mo uv l-ilJI! Ill IHD uiicwiuii vi i. r " 4 hAa tr might offer- , a well a they, boiiev- er pounaer eel m iuck juaiciousiy -u. , a if he In the ensuing day I learneq mucn wam ", .rr "u 'l of the habiu of seal W sneaked had been in the ring ;at the time when quarter. Why don't you kill a few! Selover was lying dead drunk across h 65; -difference 65 Tpounds ouu eeai ior ine trimmings' 7" VNothdng to do with a voodoo?" grunted Handy Solomon. Darrow launhwi amuspdly. "No, this; la the truth," he assured. "I'll tell you whaJt: I'll give you boy aix bits apiece for the whisker hairs, and four bit for tho galls. I expect to sell them at a profit." Next morning they shook off their letharev nnrl vnni oil.lnin. I waa practically commanded to at- along the cliff tops until ovor the rook- the public expected to 8e! "n"n5 tend,- This attitude had been grow- ther May flat on our atomach Instead of romping, and deaf and 1dnoU'BnW U btVan t0 takG a nd fToVo'rFitTgol wlTh'johns in n mrrv tir Kfn.iM infill wtvui "Mr. Eagan. don't you want to go wary. A alight Jar. the fall of hunting? or "Mr. Kaaran, I aruess I'll ki. MiiimM even ou,nds un just go along with you to stretch my bv 'ourselves, were Enough ' to Bend Klve?, way t0, "We,r so- them into the water. There they lined .,vUsHiiiwr vuifw-iong.'.- lUD lust . 0Utfld:' tnft un, inair mti i rum anown ior a long time that I YifAB glossy with the wet, thelf calm, had lost any real control of them; md Uofr eves fixel unblinkingly on ua. tnat perhajis humiliated mo a little, Tt was useless to shoot them In the " 'xpenre ax nanoung u-ateft they sank-at once suc-h men, and the anomalous char. .... ' Z. - acter ot my pos t on to aome extent . ; ' l00,uuu. neies m umww .."-V a-alnint an advantageous poaltio-n, kit. ' , i-ir- jirawn.hv himself. ing 1 couifl discover nono o strong a r"'r.f.' ,Vu"k wni M,n. A cut over one support an overt act on mv nart. 1 r . . ," . . stircnes v viuoc, cannot doubt, that had thu affnl Phiia.ieinVila. That don't count m HlTZ. HAD PUT y.fc 1 fU.Nn THROUGH THAT CROUCH Jeftrles own up that Fit., ven with tho beef handicap, gave ninv an afnl fhnnnlha before the end came, and he also say ha wouldn't take another lickln like - Ruby Robert Wanrte.i him. not for as many Here tna oniciai wariu v a cut under the ; i".i vr on my pan. , . ... onvurhorm lRA nractl- ' ...v n,.n,h.r of wS! W F .ln deth "htS? th. otheT ey" also rToulred . a .u. ..... . . d, k mi 1 KwrnM m raiaiu ciwurii u.iiiwu. nia nose . wm c yrn uw naa ot my r; , oll) tn fif them into m"uc - itv. h rt of me. in iact, as I snail have occasion "-"' -r " ' ": , "4 maanea " " come to a focus, I should baVe warn- to show vou. T dirt mv heat. Put t tno water. the moment. In all policy I could see my way to little, hewde aeoulosconce We, killed seal by seouestratlnjfcthe buns, surrounding them at a certain There they, were lost. needlework, his nose . wa almnat IaV his .ace, and an nis teem ww. i" A year and five month." Mrifd Thracktes. " A mart can do a lot In that time" "If he' ntifly.' - t ' "They've been busy," "Tes," "Wonder what they've done?" There was no answer to thia the sea lawyer took a new taew I sunpos we're all areti!n dAnhi. "That's so." "And that's aav four hnndor' e and Mr. Eairen here. T .llnM.. Old Man don't let the schooner go for Two hundred and flrtv ,nii. and I, and then would have had the words back. They cried out in nmirtn.i iniuriejil, , , tieventcon months " hm-ux i. . logician after a fow moments tt scratched with a.atub of lead. "That manes over eleven thousand dollars since we've been out. How much do UVVyrv in- ,ouuu tana him? no appealed lo me, - - hoi'S "" 1 Cn't M rm" 1 r,,lei "Well, ifag pile; of money, any- way," . " '" ;. '-, K " , " Nobody ald mything ' tor , pome time. ' 1 - . , , "Wondef what they've done?" Pula asked again. - - '3omctHlngthat pay big Thrack-' M! auppr.eo tne desired answer. , "Dat chl, ' u8-geted Perdosa. Voodoo-"- uttered th Klsrger; That' to eer u;out" ald Hah- dy Solomon, . frith . vcat eentempt , PJach rookery consisted of one tre- Mln 'yoU) Jen-. owni) up to all tills, mendous bull who officiated apparent- tnere lsn.t fcny guessing about it. ' hr n tha .Lft.nriinat sftny: a number ... iV, i -Pf nsralnst it Is A klCK v RMiutpi.ritj.!nat. inn i v ..:. ., i.ii trnxv -k .. them and clubbing K na!1r buIIJ1 1 "Y; that the floor sagged under point of the 1 "ta: the cowa, and th pup. . The big . head. It was aurprlalng to, see f "f1 Vu Pw ntthod hu laltlrely out of my reacn. , - hard they fought, and how ucKly umy sucicumnen to a nrow proper y a -"r:.- t ram oar hla assistant wera engaged i ' reeled. , Than we stripped the mask ln perimr!t of ow very with Itk bristle of ion whiskers, took cwuW 1 iaSorant. Alo 1 war likely t r . " . , ' .' 1 ' .. Inn 1.111 1 . . ( ' : . ' Ment Shackletou to- Make King Ed" wara v u. iana Hts Base. : New Tork Suh. , , J The British Antarctic . expedition preparing to nedecupy that field of ex- ploratlon. Llut. E. H. Shackleton of '' the British navy, with twenty-eight meI in Hi party, will atart on the y long voyage . about the end of July The Newfoundland aeallng' steamer Kim TrA rtt 9tLt Af rAMna wa.. ii h jl - mm ..'V. 'v.','; ,. addition to all supplies, was purchas ed for the expedition. The little ves sel will reach Lyttelton, New .Zea- ' land, about the middle of October. ' All voyage made to the part of the Antarctic south ot New Zealand, wni m i mm-. 1 ai I'nvnrw . siv rtQiiTini j. : wn n . t. spending two years 'at, Victoria Land. 6nowea mat tne ice conditions are more favorable lata in' the Antarctic " summer: The Nlmrod, therefore, will ' not leave NewvZealand until the first;'. rind the pack ice far couth dispersed -by the end of that month. - About ' tne nrst 01 je eDruary, next year, it is hoped to reach King Edward VII. -Land, which will be the winter head quarters of the expedition. " The selection of King Edward VII. Land a a base is an Important change . from Shackleton's programme aa first turn to hi old stamping ground at Victoria Land and endeavor to rMeh the South Pole by a ledge Journoy across ita mighty icecap. He' has ' finally decided to make hi base camp . . Via. Mn,4 V1T akanl inA miles, to the east. - Hi decision will ' be heartily approved by polar student -because the land itself is almost un- ' known and there la a chance for a large amount of geographical disco v- ' . ery in inai legiuu. 1 " King . Kdward vii. Lana waa brought into view by the Discovery', expedition in 1902. No one has land- ' ed on it, and no wea has seen lormea of it extent. Its existence wa be trayed, long before It wa een, by tho soundings that betokened tne.neign borhood of land. . Thn tha jexplorera saw a coast line stretching unknown 1 mile away plain running far in- land to the base of range of hills and snow covered ridge interspersed with sharp peak 2.000 or 3,000 feet high. Here Scott Baw the largest Iceberg he metabout seven miles- long and 200 faet high. The fragment of volcanlo , boring Iceberg indicate that the land Is partly Of volcanic andpartly of oon- , tinentftl origin. . 1 Only twelve men will be put ashore on thl unknown land, and then tha Nimrod will steam away to engage for , eight or nine month in a magnetld ; snrvev batween Australia and Africa.. The camp of the explorer will be about, 750 nautical' mile from the aonth nole. and ShackletOn ' will try to reach it aesicies ma picitea aog. from the far northwest of Canada he will land twelve Siberian pontes ana a the, gall, and dragged the carcass Into " "f T.A l':! ;Pmaln o. The me sun wnere ir waa oevourco nv nan i v t.v . waa to nrecaution ' taken a prom'Ptjy buo nw v: ' ,v th men were At first th men-'nlmimd v tha i,nv. "ea. and engaged nwiue. n flrairwt me. A it an ollv. and odoriterou Job. We stunk new-comer awam in n . - -, TrfinA(v s??- ? ws- ;aeTrUgT woV th wg vsz ra eas. had then i h . i iVaw fVm bull Immediately struck out to r-r- ow, ' - ' -------- - - - -j i.i . . si . i. hi . MAnirAMf jv wvii it' Tina t t:iiii iv iiiawifiv-' ----- . . -,, 1, the pelt, cube !v cube. It was a long, aoanxiomna; '?ZVL.ZLZa ; hfM-. bv the mn. I might a wen isiiiu,jvu, no Blum. - - -- ........ .ti ,1.. ...... u )fli immii in ijunwii mightily seal -oalt our garment maka nw tiue gooa M t0 TOy first purpose in were uniny win iu in very pores ni w. . , v, , rt,t, this adverutura i naa evoivcu our skin seemed to oor. It. And even bat out there In the blufa water. They tms therefore wa. content. I - - . .... . - t UA aanl. AtVuA flgm ymiM ws aii iuw was idun i,v writ uivhtvu, " - - - j-"--... hd each othr deer. - nn m wyage it had still to ba tanned. Percy. Dar- " You Cn aee by t nwn5 "K nothing iravened, 1 -would row suggested the method, but thfl Jirtgr was i?eye as an '".M . nnitory to'Percy Darrow, arm process wb-i long, and generally unsat- w ,"'1 . n Thnv. at throw myself on hi mercy, ne r Isfactory, With the acquisition of tl ta n . lA.S??' M sulfa of the experiment would pmb- firtn ' . ... .. - -- ... . , . . .. mk. 4.utaMnM, AM- MAAI Illll UIVJV w y "... ... J tries waned. They confined themsMve in m"e w. '" eould ee, why I should not get n in it wtrirtne in the trimmiriir. anneal to me-particularly, because it couia ee. y t Tercv Darrow showed u how to soemeo v in "'",'' Certainly my tnnceriity mvouia oo clmut th whisker. The process wff n animal for without question; end I hoped that evil. The mask were, o.ulte simply; K waa a w" "5T?1?,f 11 yilri lor'more of ervtc such as I to be advanced so far in the way. of ena, aio 'J; "'l had rendered would tickle wr. that the brlstlea' would lying neuyoown n "'Vr:!': horn'g sense of hi own : nart rcadilv from hlr aocaets. The tw grass over tno uiks.iu u..ur. M ftrt -nnaU Aid itlhls pla first batch the mon hung ouit on a r eky. wa e xtremeiy pinm wnt. Lh t'r av, u0 thought on the eubject. lino. A few Vnomenta later wa hrard I White awaiting the return of hW . . te oft th)e ftnrtro, a mighty squawking, and rushed out bull often ,thlJ?K I was not again permUtted to board th to find the laland ravens making off watch the others at -Jiti Laughing Las. Captain Selover I with the entlr catch. Protection of ana I'-T-'vVmw twice at a dktoace. Borj times netttn had to be rlggd.- We caught wa struck with thrtr "'mw ""nr1 M -ecmod to be rahe uncertain. The eal, for a month or so. There wa nteiiigenwu. , ' TC" men . did not remark It- The days noveltv in It. and it' satisfied tho lust Kl earn mner, aim v "" went tv: I relapsed Into that slate o. for killing.- Alme went on. th bull rleved7 AinaaA nmon wvMl known to-ou all, wh Later Handy Solomon apprwu-hed There the 'm,w ,v . Zi Und wthlch deutlwed. never to have when one eem grow warier Then we made exj)dl- , The men ,""euwr' caught in the meshes of a dream ex- tios to outlying rock. - ' - matlvM the narrow, dry cave, i whcn hm m wrtn, "The U Siting hv -t- .aid Jgg- -flfstlffih,S B! jfc "They are." seld I. ! ' teen the boll .5. fi7e The only way to do la.ta hoot them," wild h. "Quite like," i sgree-d. T"ntn 1tJ(f,-- "We've got no cartridges," ha Iiuln uatod, , hhem. The- cavfl waa QUjr -aarit. Tmfrtrd In our town affairs thu t"he davs, wwkfc and month wM bv, Bvit hd aliftoad beyond mv control. I had embarked on Journalistic em terprJaa, and rww that purpose waa en- om to hunt seals, and fish, and hfvttives from the rock at low tide and build fire, and talk and al ternate between suspicion and aecurl- ty, between tha oanger or aoamon ana the insanity of men without defined purpo.se,' world without win roreveT. ' (TO BE CONTINUED.) .. aneclally constructed automobile. think of using a motor car in uch terrible ice a Peary encountered in th Arctic, but that 1 not tha kind of Ice that fthackletpn expect to meet The northern coast of King Edward VII, Land irlghtr in line with the. Great Ice Barrier,1 which J tne rront of a vast expanse of level glacier ice afloat $t grounden in the shallow sea,,. It ' seems in fub : iihiai m ihtbi m h floor,, except In the neighborhood of land, Scott crossed, it to tne soutn- ward for nunarea oi mues, ana no one ha any idea of it limit, per haps it lead to the pole itself:' at any . rate t extends tar south, and on its level surface Shackle ton may be able to make hla automobile useful. , Flala found that ; Siberian Dome may be utilised to nome extent In the AvMie. where their i hardiness - and strength were turned to good account. The larger leaiurea oi me wora win be the Journey to or toward the outh nni unit tha effort to discover the na ture of King Edward VII. Land. . It may be an island or a part or tna continental 'mass, perhaps a long coast line bending tar to tne aoum connect it with Victoria Land.' . tii.. ttt.lr llnnui t London Opinion 'Two duelists were taking the early train for Fontalnebleau,' their placa of meeting.," ' , "A jreturh ticket," said -tha. first "Single for me," aid the olhr man quietly. ' ' J - "Aha," blustered the other, "you are afraid you won't come back, are you? Aa for me, I always take a re. turn." i ' "I never do." said the second man. Ttlwayr take." my- return half from th dead tnena pocket"
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