Walkerton Independent, Volume 49, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 August 1923 — Page 6

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CHAPTER Xll—Continued. —l7— “Why, Go’ bless my soul, she’s anchored!" cried Satan. "Derellc’ and anchored. The people must have got away In a boat or suthin’. There's not a sign of them. Port—hard —port —as you were—steady—so!" He ran to let go the halyards. Another anchor had been bent on to some spare chain. It was heaved over, and the Sarah came up to It, swinging less than fifty yards from the stranger. She was a picture, a forty-ton fishing yawl, white painted, gracile as a fish, dismasted, abandoned, and swinging to a taut anchor chain ; beyond her and the emerald of the lagoon lay the great stretch of sands, running due south, blanketing to the heat and showing ponds of aquamarine anti storms of gulls. The anchor down. Satan stood with , his eyes fixed on the prey; Jude too. ' They seemed considering her as a \ butcher might consider a carcass be- j fore he cut It up. "Aren't you going to board her?" asked Ratcliffe. "Have you ever seen a dead b'ar?” asked Satan. "Sometimes a b'ar Isn't as dead as he looks, and sometimes a । derellc’ Isn't as empty as it looks. It’s a common thing for men on the Flor- , Ida coast to hide in a driftin’ canoe ; and rise up and laugh at them that > come out to collect It. I can't make j out that anchor chain bein’ down, and I’ll just give them one hour whiles we have dinner." When they came on deck again after the meal, they dropped the ding- I hy, and the three of them put off for the derelict. She must have been dismasted out- j side the sands, for not n spar lay In the water alongside—dismasted and driven over by a big wave, her crew clinging to her. On the bow was her name, Hallotls. They tied up and । scrambled on board. The deck ran flush fore and aft. The wheel looked all right, but was Jammed and Immovable; the binnacle glass was smashed. Satan stood, whistling and looking about him. Then he dived below, followed by the others. The cabin had been left In good order. It was a bit over-gilded and decorated for a plain man’s taste, but everything was of I the best, and a hanging lamp of solid brass still swung over the center table. The walls were of bird'seye I maple, the cushions of the best blue rloth, and the fitting of the tiny sleeping cabins to match. There was plenty of stuff lying auout —books, clothes, boots. The people had evidently put off In a hurry, not caring much what the; took as long as they got away. Perhaps they had taken advantage of a passing steamer. Ratcliffe picked up a book, a volume of O. Henry* There was a name In it —J. Sellgmann. Jude, delving in the starboard aftercabin, came out holding up something. It was a pair of boots, women's, patent leather with white suede tops and heels three inches high. “Look at them things!” said Jude with a burst of suppressed laughter. "A girl's boot,” »ald Ratcliffe. "Try them on, Jude.” "If I wore them things," said Jude, "I’d have to walk on my hands. ' There’s dead loads more of stuff, and the place smells as If a polecat had been living there." Ratcliffe stuck his head Into the little cabin. It reeked of California poj>ipy and cosmetic scents. Clothes were IW,' 1, , g®l 'Look at Them Things!” Said Jude With a Burst of Suppressed Laughter. lying about In disorder; a woman’s white yachting cap, de-’r shoes, lingerie, bursting like froth out of a i cabin trunk, gave added touch to the hysterical distraction of the scene. One could see her, the woman, rushing about saving or collecting her valuables, leaving everything else, I and calling on the gods to witness that she would never set foot again on another small yacht for a pleasure cruise among the islands. Jude picked out a frilled garment from the lingerie box, looked at it, rolled it up, and cast It with a chuckle into the bunk, then she reached up and opened the little port. Ratcliffe left her pursuing her Investigations. attracted by the whoops of Satan, who seemed pursuing things about the deck. Satan, with his hair wild and his eyes ablaze, had rapidly sampled his treasure. Everything he wanted had been left. Had he found the Nombre

de Dios with gold to her hatches, it is । doubtful if his excitement would have been as Intense. "Look at that 1” cried he, pointing to the mast winch. "Wantin’ it—should think I had been I Come along and see!” He led the way to a heap of raffle and broken spars forward. "Look at them gaff jaws, galvanized an’ covered with hide, and me with old wooden ones creakin' like an old shoe! There’s a mainsheet buffer too! Camper Nlcholsen's rubber —cringles —come to the sail room 1” They went to the sail room, then to the galley—everywhere finds, glorious finds, with this rough sum total: In the sail room, sixty fathoms of new manila rope, an eighty-foot otter trawl, harpoons and grains and a seine net, a trysail, square sails, two Jibs; in the galley, cooking gear, an Atkey cooking stove to burn coal or coke; in addition to all this some rplendid blocks with patent sheaves with ball bearings which run so much better than dummies, a lower mainsheet block and two quarter-blocks, fathoms of galvanized chain, and two Nicholson's patent anchors. Other things included lamps, a pair of binoculars, a sextant and a chronometer, charts, and lastly, glorious but useless, in a little engine room the auxiliary, a 1315 horsepower petrol-paraffin Kelvin engine, two-cylinder, with the shaft running out through the quarter, and a spare Bergins propeller, which shuts up and opens out automatically when In motion. When they came on deck again niter a rapid glance at these things a brain- | wave came to Ratcliffe. "Look here!" said he. "Why not tow her back to Havana and claim salvage? She's worth a lot and she's derelict,” "Not me,” said Satan. "Have you ever claimed salvage? First there's the tow, and were unu rhanded. Then there's the lawyers. What's to i stop this Sellgmann whoever he Is poppin’ up an' swearin’ against me. 1 He'd say he left her with the anchor down In harbor; it amounts to that, though she's derellc’ right enough. Not me! I'll take what 1 want without no lawyers to help me. She's my meat, by all the laws of the sea, and that’s the end of It.” Appeared Jude from the cabin hatch, carrying as a trophy a g<>ashore hat she had unearthed from I somewhere, a crushed strawberry- I colored straw hat—or was it a bon I net? It had long strings and a ruse j stuck on one side of it. "Look what that catawampus has left behind her!" cried Jude. “Quit your foulin','’ cried Satan, "and come along and lend a hand. Here, hint these things Into the I dinghy I” Jude flung the hat down the open : skylight, and the rank burglary of the llaliotis began. CHAPTER XIII A Secret of the Sand. It seemed to Ratcliffe in the days that followed that he had never ■ known what work meant before. That he, a wealthy and respected memtier of the British upper, upper-middle classes, an ex-Christ Church man, and a member of Boodles, was assisting ■ Satan Tyler in "tearing the tripes” j out of another man’s yacht, also oc- ; curred to him sometimes as a fact, a distorted sort of fact, blurred and dimmed by the blazing and brilliant atmosphere In which they were workIng, the absolute and shocking lone- ' liness that hemmed them in, Satan's I personality, and Jude's companionship. By all the laws of the sea, according to Satan, these things were the ! property of the first finder. That was all very well according to Satan, and indeed according to what seemed common-sense; still, sea law was for all he could tell not quite the same tiling as the laws of the sea, according to Satam Though belonging to a great ship-owning family, he knew nothing of the rights of the matter; > but the business they were engaged ; on seemed to him sometimes, when he cared to think, most tremendously ■ like larceny—larceny excused Ly a lot |of considerations and made pic- | turesque b.' environment; still, a busl- , ness that in the unpicturesque suri roundings of the London sessions i would undoubtedly have appealed to j a judge in the voice of Larceny. Sometimes he imagined a warship, । one of those prying, officious little । cruisers that do police work, closing ; up with the cay and sending a boat into the lagoon. Sometimes lie fell to wondering what Seligmann was like —an American surely, <pe of the Gulf haunters, belonging, most probably, to one of the numerous clubs on the Florida coast, and Mrs. Seligmann—or was it Miss —or not even that? One thing was certain, Seligmann was rich. They were not robbing a poor man. At the end of the third day Jude

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A Romance of the Bahamas

gave out, not from weariness, but I from distaste. "Lord! haven’t you had enough of this old truck?” said Jude. "I don’t feel's if I ever wanted to see a len’th of rope nor a cringle again.” Ratcliffe felt pretty much the same. I "I’ll finish the business myself,” said Satan. “You can knock off If you like. Go’n hunt for turkles’ eggs." | "I'm going," said Jude. “I’ll come along, too,” said Ratcliffe. Satan ferried them over to the | sands. It was about two hours before sundown, and an easterly breeze was blowing fresh and cool, shivering up the lagoon water and whispering among the sand-grains. Jude walked despondently as they trudged along close to the sea edge and discovering nothing. "D'you know," said Ratcliffe, “we’ve never even started to hunt for a sign of the Nombre de Dios? I wonder if she's sunk, really, anywhere near here?" "1 dunno,” said Jude; "don’t care, nuther. Satan's so full of his pesky I old fittings he’s no time to think of anything else.” “Cheer up, Jude." "I’m all right.” "No, you’re not. What’s wrong?” “Lots of things.” “When we get back to Havana —" began Ratcliffe. She cut him short. "I don’t want to go back to Havana.” said she. "Ain’t going." She sat down on the sands plump, nursed her knees, and stare' over the LJ - ‘ a'*'"' d : I, s^^ Drawing a Little Closer to Her, He Put His Arm Round Her Waist. sea, cast.ng tier hat beside her. He stood for a moment, then he sat down. He knew at once, knew what had been working In her mind for days. "You’re bothering about what Sellers said, dirty scoundrel! I’d have punched his head, only the whole i thing happened so quick and you landed him with that mop—don't | worry.” No reply. “What’s the good?” went on Rat- : cliffe; then cautiously and feeling that he was treading on dangerous ground, ! “see here, there’s no harm in being a girl, no more than there is in being a man." No reply. A laughing gull passed and jeered at them. Jude followed It with her eyes. She seemed almost unconscious of his presence and not to ha e heard Ids words. He watched her profile against the sky, noticed the eyelashes which seemed longei and more curved up than ever, the nice shape of the head, free of the old panama. Then she turned, leaned on her elbow, and looked up at him—then she looked down. “What made yot think I was botherin’ about Sellers?” asked Jude. “I don't know," said Ratcliffe, “I just thought it. I've been thinking a lot about you—l care for you a lot, that's about it.” She looked up at him again, full in the eyes, and with a new expression he had never seen before, 'a puzzled, half-startled look, like that of a person suddenly awakened in strange surroundings. Then her eyes fell away from him. She took a handful of sand and let the grains fail between her fingers. “Just that.” said Ratcliffe. She was still playing with the saua, letting it fall between her fingers carefully as though trying to count the grains. Then she threw the stuff away, brushed the palm of her hand clean, and sat up. Drawing a little closer to her, he put his hand round her waist. Just as lie had done when they were on the sandspit, and just as on the sandspit, she let it rett there —for a moment. Then, with a j queer little laugh, she removed the I hand and struggled to her feet. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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