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For tickets and full information applj- to E W CARTER, Ag’t. J. H WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, Asheville, N C. T #iw MYSTERY. Continued from Page 3 CHAPTER II. HE falling of dusk on .Tune the 3d found tired eyes aboard the Wolverine. Every officer in her complement had kept a private and personal lookout all day for some explanation of the previous night’s phenomenon. All that reward ed them were a sky filmed with lofty clouds and the holiday parade of the epauletted v/aves. Nor did evening bring a repetition of that strange glow. Midnight found the late stayers still deep In the dis cussion. “One tiling is certain,” said Ives; “it wasn’t volcanic.” “Why so?” asked the paymaster, ^‘Because volcanoes are mostly sta tionary, and we headed due for that light.” “Yes, but did we keep headed?” said Barnett, who was navigating officer as well as ordnance officer, in a queer Yoice. “What do you mean, sir?” asked Ed wards eagerly. “After the light disappeared the com pass kept on vai-ying. The stars were bidden. There is no telling just where we were headed for some time.” “Then we might be fifty miles from the spot we aimed at.” “Hardly that,” said the navigator. “We could guide her to some extent by the direction of wind and waves. If it was volcanic we ought certainly to have sighted it by now.” “Always some electricity in volcanic eruptions,” said Trendon. “Makes com pass cut didoes. Seen it before.” “Where?” queried Carter. “Off Martinique. Pelee eruption. Keedle chased its tail like a kitten.” “Are there many volcanoes here abouts?” somebody asked. “We’re in 1G2 west. 31 north, about,” Kaid P.arnett. “No telling whether there are or not. There weren’t at last accounts, but that's no evidence that there aren’t some since. They come ■op in the night, these volcanic islands.” “Just cast an eye on the charts,” said Billy Edwards. “Full of E. D.’s and P. D.’s all over the shop. Every one of 'em volcanic.” “E. D.’s and P. D.’s?” queried the paymaster. “Existence doubtful and position doubtful,” explained the ensign. “Ev ery time the skipper of one of these wandering trade ships gets a speck in liis eye he rei^orts an island. If he really does bump into a rock he cuts to an arithmetic book for his latitude »nd longitude and lets it go at that. Tfhat’s how the chart makers make a living, getting out new editions every few months.” "But it’s fact that these seas are constantly changing,” said Barnett. “They’re so little traveled that no one happens to be around to see an island born. I don’t suppose there’s a part on the earth’s surface more liable to seismic disturbances than this re gion.” “Seismic!” cried Billy Edwards. “1 should say it was seismic! Why. when a native of one of these island groups sets his heart on a particular loaf of bread up his breadfruit tree he doesn’t bother to climb after it. Just waits (or some earthquake to happen along and shake it down to him.” “Good boy, Billy!” said Dr. Trendon approvingly. “Do another.” “It’s a fact” said the ensign heated ly. “Why, a couple of years back there was a trader here stocked up with a lot of belly mixture in bottles. Thought he was going to make his pile because there’d been a colic epi demic in the islands the season before. Bottles were labeled ‘Do not shake.’ That settled the business. Might as well have marked ’em ‘Keep frozen’ In this part of the world. Fellow went broke.” “In any case,” said Barnett “such a glow as that we sighted last night I’ve never seen from any volcano.” “Nor I,” said Trendon. “Don’t prove it mightn’t have been.” “I’ll just bet the best dinner in San Fraficisco that It isn’t” said Edwards. “You’re on,” said Carter. “Let me in,” suggested Ives. “And I’ll take one of it” said Mc Guire. “Come one, come all,” said Edwards cheerily. “I’ll live high on the col lective bad judgment of this outfit.” “Tonight isn’t likely to settle it any how,” said Ives. “I move we turn in.” Expectant minds do not lend them selves to sound slumber. All night the officers of the Wolverine slept on the verge of waking, but it was not until dawn that the cry of “Sail ho!” sent them all hurrying to their clothes. Ordinarily officers of the United States navy do not scuttle on deck ‘like a crowd of curious schoolgirls, but all hands had been keyed to a high pitch over the elusive light and the bet with Edwards now served as an excuse for the betrayal of unusual eagerness; hence the quarter deck was soon alive .with,men who. were wont to be deep in dreams at that hour. Tliey. found: Carter, whose watch on -deck it was, ^eprlm^uding the lookout. “No, slr,’^ ‘ the man was insisting, “she didn’t show no light, sir. I’d ’a’ sighted her an hour ago, sir, if she had.” “We shall see,” said Carter grimly. “Who’s your relief?” “Senuett.” “Let him take your place. Go aloft Sennett.” As the lookout crestfallen and surly, went below Barnett said in subdued tones: “Upon my word, I shouldn’t be sur prised if the man was right Certain ly there's something queer about that hooker. Look how she handles her self!” The vessel was some three miles to windward. She was a schooner of the common two masted Pacific type, but she was comporting herself in a man ner uncommon on the Pacific or any other ocean. Even as Barnett spoke she heeled well over aud came rush ing up into the wind, where she stood with all sails shaking. Slowly she paid of^ again, bearing away from them. Now she gathered full head way, yet edged little by little to wind ward again. “Mighty queer tactics,” muttered Ed wards. “I think she’s steering her self.” “Good thing she carries a weather helm,” commented Ives, who was an expert on sailing rigs. “Most of that type do. Otherwise she’d have jibed her masts out running loose that way.” Captain Parkinson appeared on deck and turned his glasses for a full min ute on the strange schooner. “Aloft there!” he hailed the crow’s nest “Do you make out any one aboard?” “No, sir!” came the answer. “Mr. Carter, have the chief quarter master report on deck with the signal flags.” “Y^es, sir.” “Aren’t we going to run up to her?” asked McGuire, turning in surprise to Edwards. “And take the risk of getting a hole punched in our pretty paint with her running amuck that way? Not much!” Up came the signal quartermaster to get his orders, and there ensued a one sided conversation in the pregnant lan guage of the sea. “What ship is that?” No answer. “Are you in trouble?” asked the cruiser and waited. The schooner showed a bare and silent main peak. “Heave to.” Now Uncle Sam was giving orders. But the other paid no heed. “We’ll make that a little more em phatic,” said Captain Parkinson. A moment later there was the sharp crash of a gun, and a shot w’ent across the bows of the sailing vessel. Has tened by a flaw of wind that veered from the normal direction of the breeze the stranger made sharply to wind ward. as if to obey. “Ah. there she comes!” ran the com ment along the cruiser’s quarterdeck. But the schooner, after standing for a moment all flapping, answered an other flaw and went wide about on the opposite tack. ^ “Derelict” remarked Captain Parkin son. “She seems to be in good shape, too, Dr. Trendon.” “Yes, sir.” The surgeon went to the captain, and the others could hear his deep, abrupt utterance in reply to some question too low for their ears. “Might be, sir. Beriberi, maybe. More likely smallpiox' if anything of that kind. But some of ’em would be on deck.” “Whew! A plague ship.^’ said Billy Edwards. “Just my luck to be order ed to board her.”. He shivered slightly, “Scared, Billy?” said Ives. Edwards had a record for daring which made this joke obvious enough to be safe. “I wouldn’t want to have my pecul iar style of beauty spoiled by smallpox marks,” said the ensign, wuth a smile on his homely, winning face. “And I’ve a hunch that that ship is not a lucky find for this ship.” “Then I’ve a hunch that your hunch is a WTong one,” said Ives. “How long would you guess that craft to be?” They were now within a mile of the schooner. Edwards scrutinized her calculatingly. “Eighty to ninety feet.” “Say 150 tons. And she’s a two masted schooner, isn’t she?” continued Ives insinuatingly. “She certainly is.” “Well, I’ve a hunch that that ship is a lucky find for any ship, but partic ularly for this ship.” “Great Caesar!” cried the ensign ex citedly. “Do you think it’s her?’* • A buzz of electric Interest went around the group. Every glass was raised. Every eye strained toward her stem to read the name as she veered into the wind again. About she came. A sharp sigh of excited disappointment exhaled from the spectators. The name had been painted out. “No go.” breathed Edwards. “But I’ll bet another dinner”— “Mr. Edwards,” called the captain. “You will take the second cutter, board that schooner and make a full investigation.” “Yes. sir.” “Take your time. Don’t come along side until she is in the wind. Leave enough men aboard to handle her.” “Yes, sir.” The schooner steamed to within half a mile of the aimless traveler, aud the small boat put out Not one of his fellows but envied the 3’oung ensign as he left the ship, steered by Tim mins, a veteran bo’s’u’s mate, wise In all the Ins and outs of sea ways. They saw him board, neatly running the small boat under the schooner's coun ter. They saw the foresheet eased off and the ship run up into the wind. Then the foresail dropped and the wheel lashed so that she would stand so. They awaited the reappearance of Edwards and the bo’s’n’s mate when they had vanished below decks, and with an intensity of eagerness they followed the return of the small boat. Billy Edwards’ face as he came on deck was a study. It was alight with excitement. Yet betw’een the eyes two deep wrinkles of puzzlement quivered. Such a face the mathematician bends above his paper when some obstructive factor arises between him and his so lution. “Well, sir?” There w’as a hint of effort at restraint in the captain’s voice. “She’s the Laughing Lass, sir. Ev erything shipshape, but not a soul aboard.” “Come below, Mr. Edwards,” said the captain. And they went, leaving behind them a boiling caldron of theory and conjecture. B CHAPTER III. ILLY EDW'ARDS came on deck with a line of irritation right angling the furrows between his eyes. “Go ahead,” the quarter deck bade him, seeing him afiush v/ith informa tion. “The captain won’t believe me,” blurted out Edwards. “Is it as bad as that?” asked Bar nett, smiling. “It certainly Is,” replied the younger man seriously. “I don’t know* that I blame him. I’d hardly believe it my self if I hadn’t”— “Oh, go on! Out with it! Give us the facts. Never mind your credibil ity.” “The facts are that there lies the Laughing Lass a little weather worn, but sound as a dollar, and not a living being aboard of her. Her boats are all there. Everything’s in good condition, though none too orderly. Pitcher half full of fresh water in the rack. Sails all O. K. Ashes of the galley fire still warm. I tell you, gentlemen, that ship hasn’t been deserted more than a cou ple of days at the outside.” “Are you sure all the boats are there?” asked Ives. “Dory, dingey and tw’o surfboats. Isn’t that enough?” “Plenty.” “Been over her, inside and out No sign of collision. No leak. No any thing, except that the starboard side is blistered a bit. No evidence of fire anyw’here else. I tell you,” said Billy Edwards pathetically, “It’s given me a headache.” “Perhaps it’s one of those cases of panic that Forsythe spoke of the other night” said Ives. “The crew got frightened at something and ran away, with the devil after them.” “But crews don’t just step out and run around the corner and hide W’hen they’re scared,” objected Barnett “That’s true, too,” assented Ives. “Well, perhaps that volcanic eruption jarred them so that they jumped for it” “Pretty wild theory, that” said Ed wards. “No wilder than the facts, as you give them,” was the retort “That’s so,” admitted the ensign gloomily. “But how about pestilence?” suggest ed Barnett. “Maybe they died fast, and the last survivor, after the bodies^ of the rest were overboard, got delirious and jumped after them.” “Not if the galley fire was hot” said Dr. Trendon briefly. “No; pestilence doesn’t work that way.” FREE Ask to see this Machine, hear it -'lay and learn full particulars. 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