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Secret Voyage
By JOSEPH L. CHADWICK
CHAPTER ELEVEN
JIM MALLORY watched Lois walk away in her fury. Knowing that she was walking out of y his life, he strangely felt no rearets. Mary Larsen stood at the railing the sun bright on her coppery hair. She turned and faced him, smiled and said, “Well, Jim?” He halted. His face was stiff. He said, “So you didn’t go to New York as Eric Forbes’ secretary.” “No. I didn’t intend to. Do you remember what you said to me when I came aboard the Aurora back at the Landing, Jih?” “I remember.” “Well, it does interest me. And I no longer care about the So-
nora.” “I know, I know. I'm the fairhaired boy now. I've got the Sonora right in my hand. You play the game safe, don’t you?” ! “What do you mean by that? Her smile was gone now, and hurt was in her eyes. “I'm trying to tell you that I was a fool to talk of the Sonora that day, right after « you had kissed me. I should have known it would make you groundlessly suspicious.” : “What I mean is,” he said, “that « you put your money on the man who looks like a winner, now I look like a winner, to you. A short time ago it was Eric Forbes, and before Forbes that : other fellow.” = ” =
JIM'S VOICE ran on, cold and hard with ange:. “You handed me
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lost at sea, and all the while you knew he was merely hiding out and working on this Sonora thing. And you were working with him.” “I didn’t know he was alive until I found that cigaret case, Jim.” she said miserably. “I swear it.”| “All right, all right. Stick to your | story.” Jim, believe me—please.” ’ “Sure. Sure, I believe you. You ‘didn’t know Halloran was trying to bribe me, and threatening me. You didn’t know that he was working with Forbes, and you don’t know what's so valuable aboard the Sonora. “And you didn’t break with Halloran and Forbes and make a play for me, right now, because I beat them to the punch. Sure, I believe your story. Go on with it. Tell me
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you're in love with me—so long as you think I'm in the money.” She looked as though she had) been slapped. There were tears in| her eyes. | Finally she said, “All right, Jim.*| He went “over the side and dropped into the Aurora’s boat. He sat in the sterm and didn't look back at the yacht as the seaman pulled for the salvage ship. Aboard the Aurora, he went to his cabin. Curly came in and found him pacing back and forth like a caged tiger. Curly Bates lighted his pipe and patiently waited. “Curly, I'm the world’s champion fool,” Jim finally said. “I fall in love with a girl who isn't worth a mans second look.” “I knew that girl meant trouble when she first came aboard the Ajs tug, Jim.’ “She made a play for me, because she thinks the Sonora is making me rich. What a laugh!” “What are we going to do about the Sonora, Jim?” “We're going to go through her from stem to stern. There's no manganese aboard, but theres something else. I've a hunch its something in the first mate's cabin.”
Toe GOT INTO diving suits € next morning and were lowered through
hull With the ship lying on its side they had difficulty reaching deck in its vertical position. The crew above maneuvered their booms, swinging the divers so they finally managed to reach the wrecked bridge. Lamps had been sent down. The light showed a shell had
damaged the cabin beyond it
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which must have veen the first mate's. They worked for a time, moving loose timbers with the pincers at the ends of the diving suits’ metal arms, staying below as long as they could. They didnt get into the
He wasn’t yet over his love for Mary Larsen. Just before dusk that evening one of the crew sighted a ship. Jim watched it through a pair of glasses, It was the Cuban schooner. It came tly for the Aurora's position, and it kept coming until Jit was within three miles and there it stood by. Jim could count eight men on the
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FOR ALL OCCASIONS...
BrEATHES WITH SOUL SO DEAD, WHO NEVER TO HIMSELF, HATH SAID
native land!”—Sir Walter Scott.
and the complete darkness was a bit of luck. The schooner couldn't observe the Aurora's activity. Jim got into a rubber suit so that he oould enter the sunken ship's cabins. He stood on the Jacob's ladder waiting for Curly to place his heimet when Blacksheep came
to the railing. The Cayman's face|!
wore an uneasy grin, a sheepish look.
“Spike, suh, I done got a confession to make. I done somethin’ you won't like, no suh!” Curly said, “Scram, Blackie!” And eased the iron helmet down on Jim’s shoulders, bolted it fast. He found the stuff -in the first mate's room, several wooden cases of it, and when he pried open one case he understood a lot. He understood everything. The cases contained gold bars. There was no doubt of it. Those dully glinting yellow metal bars were. gold. Jim said, into his phone, “Curly! I've found it! Send down' a line
to haul it up!”
He got no answer. The wire was dead. And suddenly chill terror got hold of Jim Mallory. He choked. He couldn't get his turned his lamp on his air hose; the hose seemed intact, but it was as dead as the telephone. No air was being pumped down to him. (Te Be Continued)
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