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THE MYSTERY
Bg STEWART EDWARD WHITE
And SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
COPYRIGHT. 1907
BY McCLURE. PHILLIPS & CO.
was a byproduct, a utilization of what
life offered me. I had set sail pos-
sessed by the sole idea of ferreting
,out Dr. Schermerhorn's investigations,
but the gradual development of affairs
'had ended by absorbing my every fac-
ulty. Now, cast into an eddy by my
change of fortunes, the original idea
regained its force. I was out of the
active government of affairs, with
leisure on my hands, and my thoughts
naturally turned with curiosity again
to the laboratory in the valley.
Darrow's "devil fires" were again
pal"' Ing the sky. I had noticed them
Yr, a time to time, always with in-
ce :ng wonder. The men accepted
'tleasily as only one of the unex-
p: r tl phenomena of a sailor's experi-
•et' e, but I had not as yet hit on a
h3l�,.„thesis that suited me. They were
nt�kt allied to the aurora. They differed
radically from the ordinary volcanic
,emanations and scarcely resembled
:any electrical displays I had ever seen.
The night was cool. The stars bright.
I resolved to investigate.
Without further delay I arose to my
feet and set off into the darkness. Im-
mediately one of the group detached
'himself from the fire and joined me.
"Going for a little walk, sir?” asked
Handy Solomon sweetly. "That's quite
right and proper. Nothin' like a little
walk to get you fit and right for your
bunk."
He held close to my elbow. We got
just as far as the stockade in the bed
-of the arroyo. The lights we could
make out now across the zenith, but
owing to the precipitance of the cliffs
and the rise of the arroyo bed it was
impossible to see more. Handy Solo-
mon felt the defenses carefully.
' "A man would think, sir, It was a
cannibal island," he observed. "All so
tight and tidylike here. It would take
l a ship's guns to batter her down. A
. - man might dig under these here two
'gate logs If no one was against him.
Like to try it, sir?"
"No," I answered gruffly.
From that time on I was virtually a
prisoner, yet so carefully was my sur-
veillance accomplished that I could
;place my finger on nothing definite.
Some one always accompanied me on
my walks, and in the evening I was
'herded as closely as any cattle.
Handy Solomon took the direction of
'affairs off my hands. You may be sure
be set no very heavy tasks. The men
.cut a little silood, carried up a few
pails of water. That was all.
Lacking incentive to stir about, they
Name to spend 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 deStroy-
'ing 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 they became
irritable toward one another. Each
:suspected the other of doing less than
he should. You who know men will
realize what this meant.
The atmosphere of our camp became
:surly. I'recognized the precursor of its
becoming dangerous. One day on a
walk in the hills I came on Thrackles
and Pulz lying on their stomachs gaz-
ing down fixedly at Dr. Schermer -
horn's camp. This was nothing ex-
traordinary, but they started guiltily
to their feet when they saw me and
made off, growling under their breaths.
All this that I have told you so brief-
ly took time. It was the eating
-through of men's spirits by that worst
of corrosives, idleness. I conceive it
unnecessary to weary you with the de-
tails.
r The situation was as yet uneasy,
but not alarming. One evening I
overheard the beginning of an absurd
plot to gala entrance to the valley.
That vas es far as detail went. I be-
came convinced at last that I should
lh some way warn Percy Darrow.
That seems a simple enough propo-
sition, doeS it not? But if you will
'Operating as
r a Cure for Piles
stop to think one moment of the dif-
ficulties of my position you will see
that it was not as easy as at first it
appears. Darrow still visited us in
the evening. The men never allowed
me even the chance of private com-
munication while he was with us. One
or two took pains to stretch out be-
tween us. Twice I arose when the as-
sistant did, resolved to accompany him
Part way back. Both times men reso-
lutely escorted us and as resolutely
separated us from the opportunity of
a single word apart, The crew never
threatened me by word or look. But
we understood each other.
I was not permitted to row out to
the Laughing Lass 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 period
seems to me to be one of merely po-
tential trouble. The men had not tak-
en the pains to crystallize their ideas.
I really think their compelling emo•
tion was that of curiosity. They want
ed to see. It needed a definite im,
pulse to change that desire to one of
greed.
Vie impulse carne from Percy Dar
row and his idle talk of voodoos. At
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
anything you want them to." Pulz
chuckled in his throat. "You don't 13e -
Have, it?" drawled the assistant, turn-
ing to him. "Well, It's so. You know
that heavy box we are so careful of?
Well, that's got a tame voodoo in it."
The others laughed.
"What he like?" asked the nigger
gravely.
"Ire's a fine voodoo, with wavery
arms and green eyes and red glows."
Watching narrowly its effect he swung
off into one of the genuine old croon-
ing voodoo songs, once ski common
down south, now so rarely heard. No
one knows what the words mean—they
are generally held to be charm words
only—a magic gibberish. But the nig-
ger sprang across the fire like light-
ning, his face altered by terror, to
seize Darrow by the shoulders.
"Doan you! Doan you!" he gasped,
shaking the assistant ,violently back
and forth. "Dat he King Voodoo song!
Dat call him all de voodoo—all!"
He stared wildly about In the dark-
ness as though expecting to see the
night thronged. There was a moment
of confusion. Eager for any chance I
hissed under my breath: "Danger!
Look out!"
I could not tell whether or not Dar-
row heard me. He left soon after.
The mention of the chest bad focused
the men's interest.
"Well," Pulz began, "we've been
here on this spot for a long time."
"A year and five months," reckoned
Thrackles.
"A man can do a lot in that time."
"If he's busy."
"They've been busy."
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kles voiced approximately the general
attitude.
"Philosopher's stone or not, some-
thing's up. The old boy took too good
care of that box, and he's spending too
much money to be doing it for his
health."
"You know w'at I t'ink?" smiled Per -
dopa. "Ile mak' di'mon's. He say
dat."
The nigger had entered one of his
black, brooding moods from which
these men expected oracles.
"Get him ches'," he muttered. "I see
hint full—full of di'mon's."
They listened to him with vast re-
spect and were visibly impressed. So
deep was the sense of awe that IIandy
Solomon uubent enough to whisper to
me:
"I don't take any stock in the nig-
ger's talk ordinarily. He's a fool nig-
ger. But when his eye looks like that
then you want to listen close. lie sees
things then. Lots of times he's seen
things. Even last year—the Oyama--
he told about her three days ahead.
That's why we were so ready for her,"
lee chuckled.
Nothing more developed for a long
time except a savage fight between
Pulz and Perdosa. I hunted sheep,
fished, wandered about, always with
an escort tired to death before he
started. The thought came to the to
kill this man and so to escape and
stake cause with the scientists. My
common sense forbade me. I begin
to think that common sense is a very
foolish faculty indeed.
It taught me the obvious—that all
this idle, vaporing talk was common
enough among then of this class, so
common that it would hardly justify a
murder, would hardly explain an un-
warranted intrusion on those who em-
ployed me. How would It look for
me to go to them 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 me excessive, so I killed
oue of them, and here I am."
And who are you?" they could ask.
"I am a reporter," would be my only
truthful reply.
You can see the false difficulties of
my position. I do not defend my at-
titude. Undoubtedly a born leader of
men, like Captain Selover at his best,
would have known how to act with
the proper decision both now and in
the inception of the first mutiny. At
heart I never doubted the reality of
the crisis.
Even Percy Darrow saw the sur-
liness of the men's attitudes and with
his usual good sense divined the cause:
"You chaps are getting lazy," said
he. "Why don't you do something?
Where's the captain?"
"Wonder what they've done?"
There was no answer to this, and
the sea lawyer took a new trek.
"I suppose we're all getting double
wages?"
"That's so."
"And that's say four hunder' for us
and Mr. Eagen here. I suppose the old
man don't let the schooner go for noth-
ing."
"Two hundred and fifty a month,"
said I and then would have had the
words back.
They cried out in prolonged aston-
ishment.
"Seventeen months," pursued the lo-
gician after a few moments. He scratch-
ed with a stub of lead. "That makes
over $11,000 since we've been out. How
much do you suppose his outfit stands
him?" he appealed to me.
"I'm sure I can't tell you," I replied
shortly.
"Well, it's a pile of money anyway."
Nobody said anything for some time.
"Wonder What they've done?" Pule
asked again.
"Something that pays big." Thrac-
kles supplied the desired answer.
"Dat chis' "— suggested Perdosa.
"Voodoo"— muttered the nigger.
"That's to scare us out" said Handy
Solomon, with vast contempt. "That's
what makes me sure it is the chest"
Pulz Muttered some of the jargon of
alchemy.
"That's it," approved Handy Solo-
mon. "If etre could get"--
"\r4e wouldn't know how to use it,"
interrupted Puts.
"The book"— said Thrackles.
"Well, the book"-- asserted Pule
pugnaciously. "How do you know
What it Will be? It may be the philos-
opher's stone and it may be one of
these other things. And then Where'd
we be?"
It was astounding to hear thls non-
sense bandied about so seriously. And
yet they more than half believed, for
they were deep sea oxen of the old
They growled something about there
being nothing to do and explained that
the captain preferred to live aboard.
"Don't blame him," said Darrow.
"but he might give us a little of his
squeaky company occasionally. Boys,
I'll tell you something about seals.
The old bull seals have long, stiff
whiskers—a foot long. Do you know
there's a market for those whiskers?
Well, there is. The Chinese mount
them in gold and use them for clean-
ers for their long pipes. Each whisker
is worth from six bits to a dollar and
a quarter. Why don't you Lill a few
bull seals for the 'trimmings'?"
"Nothiu' to do with a voodoo?"
grunted Handy Solomon.
Darrow laughed amusedly. "No, this
is the truth," he assured. "I'll tell you
what: I'll give you boys six bits apiece
for the whisker hairs and four bits for
the galls. I expect to sell them at a
profit."
Next morning they shook off their
lethargy and went seal hunting.
I was practically commanded to at-
tend. This attitude had been growing
of late. Now it began to take a defi-
nite form.
"Mr. Eagen, don't you want to go
hunting?" or "Mr. Eagen, I guess I'll
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just go along with you to stretch my
legs" had given way to, "We're going •
fishing. 'You'd better come along."
I had known for a long time that I
had lost any real control of them,
and that perhaps humiliated me a lit-
tle. However, my inexperience at
handling such men and the anomalous
character of my position to some ex-
tent consoled me. In the filaments
brushed across the face of my under-
standing I could discover none so
strong as to support an overt act on
my part. I cannot doubt that had the
affair come to a focus I should have
warned the scientists even at the risk
of my life. In fact, as I shall have oc-
casion to show you, I did my best.
But at the moment in all policy I could
see my way to little besides acquies-
cence.
We killed seals by sequestrating the
bulls, surrounding them and clubbing
them at a certain point of the fore-
head. It was surprising to see how
hard they fought and how quickly
they succumbed to a blow properly di-
rected. Then we stripped the mask
with its bristle of long whiskers, took
the gall and dragged the carcass into
the surf, where it was devoured by
fish. At first the men, pleased by the
novelty, stripped the skins. The blub-
ber, often two or three inches in thick-
ness, had then to be cut away from
the pelt, cube by cube. It was a long,
an oily and odoriferous job. We stunk
mightily of seal ell. Our garments
were shiny with it. The very pores
of our skins seemed to ooze it. And
even after the pelt was fairly well
cleared it had still to be tanned. Percy
Darrow suggested the method, but the
process was long and generally unsat-
isfactory. With the acquisition of the
fifth greasy, heavy and ill smelling
piece 'of fur the men's Interest in pelt -
dos waned. They confined themselves
in all strictness to the "trimmings."
Percy Darrow showed us how to
clean the whiskers. The process was
evil. The masks were quite simply to
be advanced so far in the way of pu-
trefaction that the bristles would part
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arm of his shirt. Suddenly he looked
up at me with a humorous twinkle.
"You're afraid of us!" he accused.
I was silent, not knowing just hoW
to meet so direct an attack.
"No need to be," he continued.
I said nothing.
He looked at me shrewdly, then
stood off on another tack,
"Well, sir, I didn't mean just that.
I didn't mean you was really scared
of us, But we're gettin' to know each
other, livin' here on this old island,
brothers -like. There ain't no officers
and men ashore—is there, now, sir?
When we gets back to the old Laugh-
ing Lass, then we drops back into our
dooty again all right and proper. You
can kiss the book on that. Old Scrubs,
he knows that. He don't want no
shore in his. Ile knows enough to
stay aboard, where we'd all rather
be."
He stopped abruptly, spat and look-
ed at me. I wondered whither this
devious diplomacy led us.
"Still, in one way, an officer's an
officer, and a) seaman's a seaman,
thinks you, and discipline must be
held up among mates ashore or afloat,
thinks you. Quite proper, sir. And I
can see you think that the arms is
for the afterguard except in case of
trouble. Quite proper. You can do
the shooting, and you can keep the
cartridges always by you. Just for
discipline, sir."
The man's boldness in so fully arm-
ing me was astonishing, and his care-
lessness in allowing me aboard with
Captain Selover astonished me still
more. Nevertheless I promised to go
for the desired cartridges, fully re-
solved to make an appeal.
A further consideration of the ele-
ments of the game convinced me, how-
ever, of the fellow's shrewdness. It
was no more dangerous to allow me a
rifle—under direct surveillance—for the
purposes of hunting than to leave me
my sawed off revolver, which I still
retained. The arguments he had used
against my shooting Perdosa were
quite as cogent now. As to the sec-
ond point, I, finding the sun unex-
pectedly strong, returned from the
cove for my hat and so overheard the
following between Thrackles and his
leader:
"What's to keep him from staying
aboard?" cried Thrackles, protesting.
"Well, he might," acknowledged
Handy Solomon, "and then are we the
worse off? You ain't going to make
a boat attack against Old Scrubs, are
you?"
Thrackles hesitated.
"You can kiss the book on it you
ain't," went on Handy Solomon easily.
"Nor me nor Pulz nor the greaser nor
the nigger nor none of us all together.
We've had our dose of that. Well, if
he goes aboard and stays where are
we the worse oft? I asks you that.
But be won't. This is w'at's goin' to
happen. Says he to Old Scrubs, 'Sir,
the men needs you to bash in their
heads.' 'Bash 'em in yourself,' says
be; 'that's w'at you're for.' And if he
should come ashore w'at could he do?
I asks you that. We ain't disobeyed
no orders dooly delivered. We're ready
to pull halliards at the word. No, let
him go aboard, and if he peaches to
the old man, why, all the better, for
it just gets the old man down on him.
"How about Old Scrubs"—
"Don't you believe none in luck?"
asked Handy Solomon.
"Aye."
"Well, so do I, with w'at that law
crimp used to call joodicious assist-
ance."
I rowed out to the Laughing Lass
very thoughtful and a little shaken by
the plausible argument. Captain Sel-
over was lying dead drunk across the
cabin table. I did my best to waken
him, but failed, took a score of car-
tridges—no more—and departed sadly.
Nothing could be gained by staying
aboard. Every chance might be lost.
Besides, an opening to escape in the
direction of the laboratory might of-
fer. I as well as they believed in luck
judiciously assisted.
In the ensuing days I learned much
of the habits of seals. We sneaked
along the cliff tops until over the rook-
eries; then lay flat on our stomachs
and peered cautiously down on our
quarry. The seals had become very
wary. A slight jar, the fall of a peb-
ble, sometimes even sounds unnoticed
by ourselves, were enough to send
them into the water. There they lined
up just outside the surf, their sleek
heads glossy with the wet, their calm,
soft eyes fixed unblinkingly on us.
It was useless to shoot them in the
water. They sank at once.
When, however, we succeeded in
gaining an advantageous position it
was necessary to shoot with extreme
accuracy. A bullet directly through
the back of the head would kill clean-
ly. A chit anywhere else was practical-
ly useless, for even in death the ani-
mals seemed to retain enough blind,
instinctive vitality to flop them into the
water. There they were lost.
Each rookery consisted of one tre-
mendous bull who officiated apparent-
ly as the standing army, a number of
smaller bulls, his direct descendants;
the cows and pups. The big bull held
his position by force of amts. Occa-
sioually other unattached bulls would
come swlntming by. On arriving op-
posite the rookery the stranger would
titter a peculiar challenge. It was
never refused by the resident cham-
pion, who promptly slid into the sea
and engaged battle. If he conquered,
the stranger went on his way. If,
however, the stranger won, the big
bull immediately struck out to sea,
abandoning his rookery, while the
newcomer swam in and attempted to
make his title good with all the young-
er bulls. 1 have seen some fleree com-
bats out there in the blue Water. They
gashed each other deep.
You tan see by this hon' our hunt-
ing was ()ever et an end. On Tuesday
we would kill the boss bull of a cel'-
(To be tlontineed,),
We killed seals by clubbing them on the
forehead&
batch the sten hung out on a line. A
few moments later we heard a mighty
squawking and rushed dat to find the
Island ravens snaking oft with the en-
tire catch. Protection of netting had
to be rigged. We caught seals far a
month or so. There was novelty in it,
and it satisfied the lust for killing. As
tithe Went on the bulls grew warier.
'then we made expeditions to outlying
rocks.
Later Handy Solosnon approached
me on another diplomatic errand.
"The seals is getting shy. sit," said
he.
"They are," said 1.
"The only way to do
them," said be.
"Quite like," 1 agreed.
A pause ensued.
"We've got no cartridges," be insinu-
ated.
".fall you've taken charge of nig rt•
tie." 1 pointed out.
"OIs, not n bit. sir," be cried. - Thrac-
kles, lie Just tool: it to ('lean it. Von
can have it whenever you want It.
sir."
"I have no cartridges, as you have
observed," said 1.
'"There's plenty aboard." be suggest,
ell.
"And they're in very good hands
there," said 1.
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Yon lent a hand to a fallen one,
A lift of kindness given;
It saved a soul when help was none,
And won a heart for heaven;
And so for the help you proffered
there
You'll reap a joy some time -some-
where.
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THE MAN THAT IS WANTED.
More than 100 Chicago girls, pretty,
vivacious and fairly well to do, want -
husbands—that is if they can find the
right ones. The responses of these
young women, describing their ideal
man, were read at the Halstead Street
Institutional Church by the Rev. D. D.
Vaughan, pastor of the congregation,
during the course of a sermon on "The
Model Husband."
A majority of the young women:
writers surprised both the pastor and
audience by stating positively that they
wanted their husbands to be the real
"boss." They also declared it was not
necessary that he be handsome, wealthy,
talented or a "swell dresser." But it
was insisted in every case that he be a
man who was capable of real love. The
word "love" was undersoored in most
of the letters.
The feminine candidates for matri-
monial honors also practically agreed.
that their future better "helves" must
he "good-hearted. kind and affeotionate."
Business or professional men were not
preferred by most of the young women,
but "olean, honest men who make clean
money" were desired,—Ex.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM
I.O.O.F. EXCURSION
ON
Saturday, Aug. 14
\1inerva Encampment, No. 47, I. 0. 0. F., \Vingham, have completed.
arrangements with the Grand Trunk Railway System
to run t) big Excursion to
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From the following places, on Saturday, August 14th, 1909.
returning Monday, Aug. 10, at the following. low fares :
Kincardine 5.40 a.m.
Ripley... ........ 5.55
Lucknow . 6,10
Whiterhurelt 6.23
Wingham 6.4(1
$2.311 lielgrave 6.54 a.m. $1.65
2.20 Myth 7.08 1.00
Londesboro 7.16 100
2,(4; Clinton 7.50 1 (10
2.011 Brucefteld 8.12 1.335
190 Ripper' .8.1).3 135
Children over 5 and under 12 years - Half Fare.
Returning. Special train will leave Sarnia Monday, Aug. 3(3. at 10 p.m.
.Arrangements have also been grade with the White Star Steamship
Line to convey passengers from
DETROIT
SARNIA to
per )naguifieent Steamer "Taslunoo; Ott Saturday, leaving Sarnia at
4.50 p.m., at the low return fare of 75c. Tickets good returning on
any White Star Line bot up to and including 2.30 p.m., Monday,
August 10. This will afford an excellent opting and an oppor-
tunity for excursionists to spend Sunday in Detroit.
Everyone Come and Enjoy a Pleasant Outing I
c'OM r1ITT13E
1I, I3, ELLIOPD, T. W. DODI.).