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THE_YIYSTERY
Bp STEWART EDWARD WHITE
And SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
COPYRIGHT. 1907 BY MCCLURE. PHILLIPS Ac CO.
•°'The bairn lald aloft, aloft laid he,
Blow high, blow low, what care we!
'There's a ship upon the wind'ard, a
wreck upon the lee,'
Down on the coast of the high Bar -
bare -e -o."
We had entered the trades and were
making good time, I was content to
stay on deck, even in my watch be-
low. The wind was strong, the waves
dashing, the sky very bine. From un-
der our forefoot the flying flsh sped;
the monsters pursued them. A. tingle
of spray was in the air. It wad all
ver;- pleasant. The red handkerchief
art 'id Solomon's head made a pretty
sr of color against the blue of the
nd the darker blue of the sea.
'etted over the flawless white of
ti.. •.ackhouse was the sullen, polished
pr,- :ie of the nigger. Beneath me the
shit, swerved and Ieaped, yielded and
recovered. I breathed deep and saw
cutlasses in harmless shadows. It was
two years ago. I was young then,
At the mess hour I stood in doubt.
However, I was informed by the cap-
'tain's falsetto that I was to eat in the
cabin. As the only other officer, I ate
'alone, after the others had finished,
'helping myself from the dishes left on
•the table. It was a handsome cabin,
well kept, with white woodwork spot-
lessly clean, leather cushions -much
better than one would expect. I after-
ward found that the neatness of this
cabin and of the three staterooms was
maintained by the nigger -at the peril
of his neck. A rack held a dozen rifles,
five revolvers and, at last, my cutlass-
es. I examined the lot with interest.
They were modern weapons -the; new
high power 80-40 box magazine rifle,
shooting government ammunition -and
had been used. The revolvers • were of
course the old 45s. This was an ex-
traordinary armament for a peaceable
schooner of 150 tons burden.
The rest of the cabin's fittings were
not remarkable. By the configuration
of the ship I guessed that two of the
staterooms must be rather large. I
-could make out voices within.
On deck I talked with Captain Sel-
over.
"She's a snug craft," I approached
him.
He nodded.
"You have armed her well."
He muttered something of pirates
and the China seas.
I laughed.
"You have arms .enough to give your
crew about two magazine rifles apiece,
unless you filled all your berths for-
ward."
Captain Selover looked me direct in
r,y the eye.
'Talk straight, Mr. Hagen," said he,
"What is this ship and where is she
baundr I asked, with equal simplic-
ity.
He considered.
"As for the ship," he replied at
Iength, "I don't mind saying. You're
my first officer, and on you I depend if
It comes to -well, the small arms be -
`low. If the ship's a little under the
,shade, why, so are you. She's by way
of being called a manner of hard
names by some people. I do not sue it
myself. It is a matter of conscience.
If you would ask some interested,
they would call her a smuggler, a
thief, a wrecker and. all the other evil
titles in the catalogue. She has taken
in Chinks by way of Santa Crus is-
land, If that is smuggling. The coun-
try is free, and a Chink is a man. Be-
sides, it paid $10 a head for the land-
ing. She has carried in a cargo or so
-of junk. It was lying on the bench
where a fool master had piled it, and
I took what I found. I couldn't keep
'track of the underwriters' intentions."
"But the room forward"- I broke in.
"Well, you see, last season we were
pearl fishing."
"But you needed only your diver
and your crew," I objected.
"There was the matter of a Japanese
gunboat or so," be explained.,
"Poaching!" I cried.
"So some call it. The shells are
IliteIation of the
'Lverand Kidneys
tau notions such that each suffers when
the other is deranged.
Whets the liver becomes sluggish and
•torpid in action, or ii given too mueh
work by over-eatiag, the kidneys have
to help out with the work of Mtn -
tion. When the liver fails the kidneys
have all this work tri do.
The beginning is biliousneed;, indigen-
e tiot"i and Constipation and after a time
the kidneys begin to be affected and
there Comes backache, utinaty dei'ango-
, meets and finally kidney disease.
Dr. Chaoe'd Hitleey-Liver pillet aro
the rational cure for kidney disease,
just as they are the most successful, be-
eause they get at the cause of trouble
and e+rert a combined (tad direct iniiu-
•once on liver, kid}ley$ and bowels.
They liromptlyr and thoroughly
cleanse the'bowels or intestines and by.
awakening the action of the liver take
the burden off the kideteys. Then by
their direct action en the kidneys bring
about the statural Mid Healthful work-
ing of these omits,
Dr. Chase's kidney -Liver Pills, (rte
pill a anise, 25 center a bolt, it all deal•
Itar,Y or Zdmst os,, 8atcil Tvi'asta.
there. The islands tire not inhabited,
I do not see how men claim property
beyond the tidewater. I have heard it
argued" -
"Hold on!" I cried. "There was a
trouble last year in the Ishigaki Jima.
islands, where a poacher beat off the
Oyama. It was a desperate fight."
Captain Selover's eye lit up.
"I've commanded a black brigantine,
name of the Petrel," he admitted sim-
ply. "She was a brigantine aloft, but
alow she had much the same lines as
the Laughing Lass." He whirled on
his heel to roll to one of the covered
yacht's cannon. "Looks like a harm,
less little toy to burn black powder,
don't she?" be remarked. He stripped
off the tarpaulin and the false brass
muzzle to display as pretty a little
3laxim as you would care to see,
"Now you know all about it," he maid.
"Look here, Captain Selover," I de-
manded, "don't you know that I could
blow your whole shooting match high-
er than Gilderoy's kite? How do you
know I won't do it when I get back?
How do you know I won't inform the
doctor at once what kind of an outfit
he has tied to?"
He planted far apart his thee': legs in
their soiled blue trousers, pushed back
his greasy linen boating hat and stared
at tae with some amusement.
"IIow do you know I won't blow on
Lieutenant or Ensign EnIph Slade, 11.
S. N., when I get back?" he demanded.
I blessed that illusion anyway. "Be-
sides, I know my man. You won't do
anything of the sort." He walked to
the rail and spat carefully over the
side.
"As for the doctor," he went on, "he
knows all about it. He told me all
about myself and everything I had
ever done from the time I'd licked
Buck Jones until last season's little
diversion. Then he told me that was
why he wanted me to ship for this
cruise." The captain eyed me quiz-
zically.
I threw out my hand in a comic ges-
ture of surrender.
"Well, where are we bound, any-
way?"
The dirty, unkempt, disheveled figure
stinened.
"Mr, Eagen," its falsetto shrilled,
"you are mate of this vessel. Your
duty is to see that my orders as to
sailing are carried out. Beyond` that
you do not go. As to navigation and
latitude and longitude and where we
are, that is outside your line of duty.
As to where we are bound, you are
getting double wages not to get too
curious. Remember to earn your
wages, Mr. Dagen."
He turned away to the binnacle. In
spite of his personal filth, in spite of
the lawless, almost piratical character
of the man, in that moment I could not
but admire him. If Percy Darrow was
ignorant of the purposes of this expedi-
tion, how muchmore so Captain Sel-
over. Yet he accepted his trust blind-
ly, and as far as I could then see in-
tended to fulfill it faithfully. I liked
him none the worse for snubbing me.
It indicated a streak in bis moral na-
ture akin to and quite as curious as
his excessive neatness regarding his
immediate surroundings.
CHAPTER XI,
URING the next few days the
crew discussed our destination.
Discipline, while maintained
strictly, .was .not coneentionaL
During the dog watches often every
man aboard would be below, for at
that period Captain, Selover loved to
take the wheel in person, a thick eigar
between his lips, the dingy checked
shirt wide open to expose his hairy
chest to the breese', In the twilight of
the forecastle we had some great sea
lawyer's talks --I say "we " though X
took little part in them. Generally I
lay across my bunk snioktng my pipe
wkile Hedy Solomon held forth, hili
speech punctuated by surly specula-
tions from the nigger, with hesitating
sleep sea wisdom from the hairy Three-
kies or with voluminous hennas of
fractured English from Perdosa. Pub:
bad nothing to offer, but watched from
his pale green eyes. The light shifted
and wavered from one to the other as
the ship swayed; garmente swung; the
etnpty berths yawned cavernous,
could imagine the forecastle filled with
the desperate men who bed beaten off
the Oyama. The story is told that they
had awept the gunboat's decks with
her own rapid fires;turned in.
No one knew where we were going
nor why. The doctot ISurttled them
nd the quantity, of 'his belongings.
"it (thn't pearls," said Handy Solo-
mon. "You enn kiss,the book On that,
for we ain't a iver among' us. It ain't
Chinks, for at ere cruising sou -'sou' -
west. Likely lyes 1.....1 ---trade down its
the islands."• t
We 'were all befog. The captain
himseit bind the wheel, Discipline,
While strict, was not conventional.
"Contraba(udist t," ttuftterbi> tiffs Mex-
ican, "tor dat he gee, ns double pay,"
"We d(n't get her for nothing,"
Agreed '1`itracklety "Pouble pay ,alto
duff on Wedndaday generally ratans
get your head broke!
"Net trade," Oki the nigger *Moro -
lay.
'they turned to hint with, ate itece dl.
"Why not?" demanded Pule, break-
ing Isis silence,
"No trade," repeated the nigger.
"Ain't you got a reason, doctor?"
asked Handy Solomon.
"No trade," insisted the nigger.
An uneasy silence fell. I could not
but observe that the others held the.
uigger's statements in a respect not
taue them as mere opinions. Subse-
quentiy I understood a little more of
the reputation he possessed, He was
believed to see things hidden, es their
phrase went.
Nobody Bald anything for some time.
Nobody stirred except that Handy Son
onion, his steel claw removed froth its
socket, wkiittied and tested, screwed
and turned, trying to fix the hook rho
that, in accordance with the advice of
Percy Darrow, it would turn either
way.
"What is it, then, doctor?" he asked
sent at last.
' .old," said the nigger shortly.
"Uold--treasure,"
"That's what I said at first]" cried
Bandy Solomon triumphantly. It was
extraordinary, the unquestioning and
entire faith with which they accepted
as gospel fact the negro's dictum.
There followed much talk of the na-
ture of this treasure, whether it was
to be sought or conveyed, bought, stolen
or t'avishell in fair fight. No further
soothsaying could they elicit from the
Digger. They followed their own ideas,
which led them nowhere. Some ode
lit the forecastle lamp. They settled
themselves. Pulz read aloud.
This was the programme every day
during the dog watch. Sometimes the
watch on deck was absent, leaving
only Ilandy, Solomon, the nigger and
Pulz, but the order of the day was not
;in that account varied. They talked,
they lit the lamp, they read. Always
'he talk was of the treasure.
As to the reading, it was of the sort
'Isual to seamen, cowboys, lumbermen
and miners. Thrackles had a number
of volumes of very cheap love stories.
Pulz had brought some extraordinary
garish detective stories. The others
contributed sensational literature with
paper covers adorned lithographically.
By the usual incongruity a fragment
of "The Marble Faun" was included in
the collection. The nigger had his
:opy of "Duvall on Alchemy." I
haven't the slightest idea where he
could have got it.
While Pulz read, Handy ttolomon
worked on the alteration of his claw.
He could never get 1t to hold, and I
remember as an undertone to Pulz's
reading the rumble of strange, exas-
perated oaths, Whatever the even-
ing's lecture, it always ended with the
book on alchemy. These men had no
perspective by which to judge such
things. They accepted Its speculation')
i tt theonfee et their face value.
tremely laughable were the discus•
slogs that followed. I often wished
the shade of old Duvall could be per-
mitted to see these, his last disciples,
spelling out dimly his teachings, mis-
pronouncinghis grave utterances, but
believing utterly.
Dr. Schermerhorn appeared on deck
seldom. When he did, often his fingers
held a pen which be had forgotteu to
lay aside. I imagined him preoccu-
pied by some calculation of his own,
but the forecastle, more picturesquely,
saw him as guarding constantly the
heavy casket he had himself carried
aboard. He breathed the air, walked
briskly, turned with the German mili-
tary precision at the end of his score
of strides and re-entered his cabin at
the lapse of the half hour. After he
had gone, remained Percy Darrow
leaning indolently against the tai rail,
his graceful figure swaying with the
ship's motion, smoking always the
corn husk Mexican cigarettes which he
rolled with one hand. He seethed from
that farthest point aft to hold in re-
view the appliances, the fabric, the
actions, yes. even the very thoughts,
of the entire. ship. From them he se-
lected that on which he should com-
ment or with which he should play, al-
ways with a sardonic, half serious,
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quite wearied and indifferent manner.
His inner knowledge, viewed by the
light of this manner or mannerism,
was sometimes uncanny, though per-
haps the sources of his information
were commonplace enough after all.
Certainly he always viewed with
amusement his victim's wonder.
Thus one evening at the close of our
day watch on deck he approached
Handy Solomon. It was at the end of
ten days, on no one of which the sea-
man failed to tinker away at his steel
claw. Darrow balanced in front of
him with a thin smile.
"Too bad it doesn't work, my amia-
ble pirate," said he. "It would be so
handy for fighting- See here," he
suddenly continued, pulling some ob-
ject from his pocket, "here's a pipe;
present to me. I don't smoke 'em.
Twist her halfway, like that, she
comes out. Twist her halfway, like
this, she goes in. That's your princi-
ple. Give her back to me when you
get through."
13e thrust the brier pipe into the
wait's hand and turned away without
waiting for a reply. The seaman
looked after him is open amazement.
That evening he worked on the socket
of the steel hook, and in two days he
bad the job finished. Then he return-
ed the pipe to Darrow with some
growling of thanks,
"That's all right," said the young
man, smiling full at hien. "Now, what
are you going to fight?"
C
CHAPTER XII.
APTAIN SELOVER received as
his due the meal' absolute and
implicit obedience imaginable.
When he condescended to give
an order in bis own person, the men
fairly jumped to execute it. The mat-
ter bad evidently been thrashed out
long ago. They did not Iove him, not
they, but they feared him with a
mighty fear and did not hesitate to
say so vividly and often when in the
privacy of the forecastle. The pre-
vailing spirit was that of the wild
beast cowed but 'snarling still. Pule
u(1 Thrackles in especial had a great
deal to say of what they were or were
not going to do, but I noticed that
their resolution always began to run
out of them when first foot was set to
the companion lander.
One duty we were loafing along, ev-
erything drawing well and everybody
but the doctor ou deck to enjoy the
sun. 1 was in the crow's nest for my
pleasure. Below me on the deck Cap-
tain Selover roamed here and there,
as was his custom, his eye cocked out
like a housewife's for disorder. He
found it, again in the evidence of ex-
pectoration, and as Perdosa happened
to be handiest fell on the unfortunate
M exican.
Perdosa protested that he had had
nothing to do with it, but Captain Sel-
over, enraged as always when his
precious deck was soiled, would not
listen. Finally the Mexican grew sul-
ky and turned away as though refus-
ing to hear more. The captain there-
upon felled him to the deck and began
brutally to kick him in the face and
head.
Perdosa writhed and begged, but
without avail. The other members
of the crew gathered near. After a
moment they began to murmur. Final-
ly Thrackles ventured most respectful-
ly to intervene.
"You'll kill him, sir," ire interposed.
"He's had enough."
"Had enough, has .he?" screeched
the captain. "Well, you take what's
left."
He marked Thrackles over the eye.
There was a breathless pause, and
then Thrackles, Pulz, the uigger and
Perdosa attaeked at once.
They caught the master unawares
and bore him to the deck. I dropped
at once to the ratlines and commenced
toy descent. Before 1 bad reached the
deck. however. Selover was afoot
again. the four hanging to him like
dogs In a moment more he had shak-
en them off. and before 1 could inter -
vette he had seized a belaying pin in
either hand and was hazing theta up
and down the deck.
"Mutiny, would you?" he shrilled.
"You poor :?webs! Forget who was
your captain. did ye? Well, it's Cap-
tain Ezra ielover, and you can lily to
that: it would need about eight fa-
deout of stuff? like you to tie me down."
Ile chased them forward, and he
simnel them aft, held every time the
pins reit brood renewed. !slimily they
dived like rabbits into the foreeasth'
hatch. t'nptain Selover lemma down
after them.
"Now tie yoursels'ee tip," 110 mit teed
-and there come nu sleek and clear ur
after voursetves!" file turned to oleo
"Mr, Eagen, tura, out the crew to clean
decks."
I descended to the forecastle, follow
ed immediately by Handy Solomon,
The latter had taken no part in the
affair. We found the men in horrible
shape, what with the bruises and outs,
and bleeding freely.
"Now, you're a uice looking Sunday
schooll" observed Ilandy Solomon,
eying them sarilonlr'aliy, "Tackle Old
Scrubs, will ye? Well, some needs a
bale of cotton to fall on 'em afore
they learns anything. Enjoyed your
little diversions, mates? And w'at do
you expect to gain? I asks you that
uow. You poor little infants! Ain't
you ?lever tackled ltim afore? Don't
remember a little brigantine, name of
the Petrel! My eye, but you are a pae1;
of fools!"
To this he received no reply. The
men sullenly assisted eaeh other. Then
they went immediately on deck and to
w
After this taste of his quality Cap-
tain Selover enjoyed a quiet ship. We
made good time, but for a long while
nothing happened. Finally the mo-
notony was brokeu by an incident.
One evening before the nigbt winds
I sat in the shadow of the extra dory
Selover was afoot again, the four hang-
ing to him like dogs.
on top of the deckhouse. The moon
was but just beyond the full, so I sup-
pose I must have been practically in-
visible. Certainly the nigger did not
know of my presence, for he came and
stood within three feet of me without
giving any sign. The companion was
open. In a moment some door below
was.opened also, and a scrap of con-
versation came up to us very clearly.
"You haf dem finished?" the doc-
tor's voice inquired. "So, that ins
well." Papers rustled for a few mo-
ments. "And the r -result -ah -exactly
-it iss that exactly. Percy, mein son,
that maigs the experiment exact. We
haf the process" --
"I don't see, sir, quite," replied the
voice of Percy Darrow, with a tinge
of excitement. "I can follow the logic
of the experiment, of course; so can I
follow the logic of a trip to the moon.
But when you come to apply it how
do you get your re -agent? There's no
known method" -
Dr. Schermerhorn broke in: "Ach, it
iss that I haf perfected. Pardon me,
my boy; it iss the first I haf worked
from you apart. It iss for a surprise.
I haf made in small quantities the
missing ingredient. It will form a per-
fect interruption to the current. Now
we go" -
"Do you mean to say," almost shout-
ed Darrow, "that you have succeeded
in freeing it in the metal?"
"Yes," replied the doctor simply.
I could hear a chair overturned.
"Why, with that you can" -
"I can do efferything," broke in the
doctor. "The possibilities are enor-
mous."
"And you can really produce it in
quantity?"
"I think so, It iss for us to discov-
er."
A pause ensued.
"Why!" came the voice of Percy
Darrow, awestricken. "With fifty
centigrams only you could -you could
transmute any substance - why, you
could make anything you pleased al-
most! You could make enough dia-
monds to fill that chest! It is the
philosopher's stone!"
"Diamonds -yes -it is possible," in-
terrupted the doctor impatiently, "if
it was worth while. But you should
see the real importance" -
The ship Careened to a chance swell,
A door slammed. The voices were cut
off. I looked up. The nigger's head
was thrust forward fairly into the
glow from the companionway. The
mask of his sullenness had fallen. His
eyes fairly rolled in excitement. iiia
thick lips were drawn back to expose
his teeth. His powerful figure was
gathered with the tensity of a bow.
When the door slammed he turned si-
lently to glide away, At that instant
the watch Was changed, and in a me.
meat I found myself in my bunk.
Ten seconds later the nigger, de -
twined by Captain Selover for some
trifihtg duty, burst Into the forecastle.
Ile was possessed of the wildest ex.
citement, This in itself was enough
to gain the attention of the men, but
his first words were startling.
"I found de treasure!" he altttost
shouted, "1 know where he kept!"
They leaped et him-Ilandy Solo-
mon and Pule -and fairly shook out of
Mtn what be thotight he knew. Ile
babbled in the forgotten terms of al-
chemy, dressing modern. faets in the
garnyents of mediaeval thought 'until
they were seareely to be reeogni -ed,
"And so he say dat he tine hint, de
philosopher stoma. And he keep bins in
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Cold tea is excellent for washing
contract painted surfaces.
In warm weather put eggs in cold
water add they will froth better.
When a recipe calls for a cupful of
snything, It means a half -pint -an or-
dinary cup filled level.
Old hot water bags, split open and cut
into circular pieces, are good to make
mats for house plats.
Try serving macaroni with a simple
cream sauce, as one would aeparagns
or cauliflowers. It is delioions.
When next (crambling eggs, add just
a few slices of eweet green pepper,
chopped fine, and nook in a little bat-
ter.
Half e. lemon, egneezed into a glass
of warm water and drunk before
breakfast, is said to be good for the
complexion.
Vegetables like beets and green oorn,
that contain sugar do not keep well,
and should be eaten as soon as pots
Bible.
When making a solid blank chocolate
oake it is well to take it from the oven
a moment before it seems done. .A few
minutes' too much heat dries out the
oake, and it loses much of the savor.
Green mayonnaise is a tempting nov-
elty to serve with e,oid-boiled white
fish or vegetable salads. It is made in
the usual way, tinted with scalded and
chopped parsley, and with a few olives
mixed in.
To remove ink stains from a waist
put the stained part into sweet mills* and
let it remain until the milk sours. Hang
the waist up and let it dry. Then brueh
off the dried milk and rinse with cold
water.
When books become badly soiled, if
not gilt edger], close the boots tightly,
then erase the marks with an ink er-
aser. This will out off all rontih edges,
all soil marks, and leave the books very
Olean.
A box of skinned sardines, beckon and
mixed with a can of shrimps and nerved
on a bed of shredded heart loaves of
lettuce, with French dressing, to which.
has been added a tablespoonful u£ onion
juice, makes a delicious salad.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM
SONS OF SCOTLAND
EXCUTRSIO
KINCARDINE
ON
Friday, July 30th
X909
(l;unp Caledonia, Sons of acotiand, Winghasn, has mane ar'ran!t;etirente
with the G. T. R. to run a special train as follows
Leave Time
Adult Child's
a.r(.
' l 1
I Fare
Palmerston.. 8.00 a.m. $1.15 .00
(xowanstown . 8.16 1.15 .60
Listowel 8.80 1,10 .55
Atwood. 8.42 1.05 .55
Ilenfryn8.50 1.04) .50
Ethel 8.50 .05 .50
Leave 'rime Adult Child's
Rare fare
13russels 9.07 a.m.
Illnevaie+ 9.20
WinghamD.82
Whiteehts'ch9 44
l.ueknow 0 G9
Ripley ......10.15
.85 .45
.80 .40
70 .:35
.65 .35
.55 .:40
,40 .0
Arrive Rincardine 10.35. TR.etn'nittg, leave 'Kincardine 8.00'p.m.
Everyone is invited to come and enjoy a holiday at the
lake. The Scotchmen of Kincardine are arranging a
splendid list of Caledonian Games, and a good tinge
is in stare for all who attend. The Kitties' Band
will furnish music for the occasion. Highland>
Dancing, Piping, etc., will be in order.
D. E. McDONALD, 14. B. ELLWOTT,
CHIEF. iiitelll'1'l'AUTC,.