The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-11-24
out of the way in an easy going, money
 getting Canadian cifv

out of the way in an easy going, money getting Canadian city.
 Somehow or other, everything seemed to go wrong with Captain Pierpoint's car goes He was always losing a scow laden with best fall wheat from Chicago for Buffalo or running a lumber vessel ashore on the shoals of Lake Erie: or getting four-master damned in the ice packs on the St. Clair river; and though the insurance companies continually de clared that Captain Pierpoin, had got the better of them, the captain himself vas wont 10 complain that no insurance could possibly cover the losses he sustained by the oarelessness of his subordinates, or the constant perversity of winds and waters. He was obliged to take his own ships down, he would have it, because nobody could take them safely for him ; and though he met with quite as many accidents himself as many of his deputies did, he continued 10 convey his grain in person, hoping, as he said, that luck would turn some day, and that good speculation would finally enable him honorably to retrieve his shattered for tunes.
 However this might be, it happened curiously enough that, in spite of all his losses, Captain Pierpoint seemed to grow richer and richer, visibly to the naked eye, with each reverse of his trading ef- forts. He took a handsome house, set up carriage and pair, and made love to the pIettiest and sweetest girl in all Sar- nla. The pre,tlest and sweetest girl was not proof against Captain Pierpoint's sauve tongue and handsome house; and she married hum in very good faith. hon. estly believing him. as good woman will in a scoundrel, and clinging to him fervently with all her heart and soul. No happier and more loving pair in all Sar- mia than Captain and Mrs. Pierpoin,.
 Some months after the marriage. Cap tain Plerpoint arranged to take down a scow or fat-bottomed boat, laden with grain, from Milwaukee for the Erie canal. He took up the soow himself, and before he started for the voyage it was curious fact that he went in person down into the hold, bored eight large holes through the bottom, and filled each up as he drew out the auser with a caulked plug made exactly to flt II, and hammered firmly into place with wooden mallet. There was ring in each plug, by which it could be pulled out again without much difficulty and the whole eigh, were all placed along the gangway of the hold, where no cargo would lie on top of them. The scow's name was the Fortuna "Sit faustuln omen ct felix murmured Cap tain herpolnt to himself for among his other accomplishments he had not wholly neglected nor entirely forgotten the class ical languages.
 IL took only two men and the skipper to navigate the scow, for lake craft lowed by steam propellers are always very lightly manned; and when Captain Pierpoint reached Milwaukee. where he was to take in cargo, he dismissed the two sailors who had come with him from Sarnia, and engaged two fresh hands al the har- bor. Rough. miner-looking men they were, with very little of the sailor abou, them but Captain rierpoint's sharp eye soon told him they were the right sort of men for hls purpose, and he engaged them on the spot without moments hesitation. Pete and Hiram had had some difficulty in tracking him. for they never thought he would return to the lakes, but they had tracked him al last. and were ready now 10 take their revenge
 They had disguised themselves as we'll
 
 knavery they though, they had completely deceived the captain. But almost from the moment the captain saw them, he knew who they were, and he took his measures accordingly. Stupid louts," he said 10 himself, with the fine contempt of an educated scoundrel for the unso- phisticated natural ruffian heres a fine chance of killing two birds with one 4cfR Av&l k,. ,t< word killing he said II Tn his own mind with delicate sinister emphasis which meant business.
 The scow was duly loaded. and with a heavy cargo of grain aboard she pro- ceeded to make her way slowly. by the aid of tug, out of Milwaukee harbor.
 As soon as she was once clear of the wharf, and while the busy shipping of the great port still surrounded them on every side, Captain lierpoint calmly drew his revolver, and took his stand beside the hatches. l'ete and Hiram he said quietly to his two assistants. :" want 10 have little serious talk with you two be- fore We go any further"
 If he had fired upon them outright in- stead of merely calling them by their own names, the two common conspirators could not have started more unfeignedly or looked more unspeakably cnwed than they did at that moment Their tirs, impulse was to draw their own revolvers in return, but they saw in second that the captain was beforehand with them, and that they had better no, try to shoot him before the very eyes of all Milwau- kee.
 Now, boys, the captain wen, on steadily. with his finger on the trigger and his eye fixed straight on the mems faces. we three quite understand one another. took your savings for reasons ot my own. and you have shipped here to-day to mu,der me on the voyage But recognized you before engaged you and have lett word at Milwaukee that , ii anything happens to me on this jour- ! ney. you two have d grudge against ne.