, 1891-01-16


the next question
ueherai eargo-dry goods ana so
oh.
why Snt your name on tho reg
lsteri
III 1t nowt Wen, l guess 1t must
De because TINS Is new snip. We can't
put our name On the register by tele-
graph ihlsIeri
JUST uell your men 10 knock OH the
Matches. want nave look at your
cargo.
Inc SKIPPER shook ms head
I've Deeh delayea long enough, ="
sld ne ana have lost a great part of
the only wine We've had in this darned
latitude Tor a week
IN do 1t myself. then!' cried
ohlIey.
Not now, sir; not with six men
while have fifteen. You have no
right to search the hold Of a respect
able merchantnan II disturb her car
60. DO you take me for a SLAYER, OF
whatf III you must have the matches
up send back to your man-of-war for a
larger crew, so as to overpower me, you
understand, and you may do it with
pleasure. But | guess therell be a
complaint lodged at Washington, and
-yeu=felks-iH-Lond Hgi1-haYe to pay
for 1t. That's all, mister. Ionly want
things fair and square within my treaty
rights.
And having delivered himself OF
this long speech, the Yankee skipper
turned on ms heel
Ot course ORlley could only return
TO the Petrol and report all this TO his
commander, I'm convinced she is a
SLAYER sur said he in conclusion.
But You have no evidence Of it,
and you say the papers were all in or
DER.
apparently they were sir.
The I'm afraid can do nothing, -
said the commander. And TO the deep
disgust OF the whole ships crew, the
order was given for the Petrol to re-
turn TO her course.
an mat night however Commander
Neville was haunted by a doubt
whetller ne hau not better have run
'he I'sh OF complaint ahd a repri-
mnnd rather than iorego h overhaul
ing o. 50 suspicious looking a craft,
aiu III 'he morning a rumor reached
''S eals 'no' tne eoAswain' VINO had
Mn hley 70 the Black
swan, Il hotleed something about
ie' Vi Il uouotiuI nature The man
sent LOT ana questioned and he
SUI ,"h. WHO the lieutenant was on
U'"u rue Doat OF Wnlch ne was In
ma p iittle way astern,
atiu that ne ma tneh hotlced that the
'iie OF tne SesSei a pee recently
plIiteu out, uut nat last TWO let
,els were u,stiiictly visible n these
letters were LIE, not AN.
Inc scouhdrel sad she was a new
Up, ef'ou '"e cohlihhhder' Bont
NV
POs'S c"'eh her up,
ar -, net'e,,ouiG ury'S'
,aon" N NioT 'nn'l MR.. nraoazoh'
a5I'- mere nus peeh
- r's N"lu' anu we Know the
49, s"s S'eernlS' Sie could NOT
III "sl'i' 80 III an Prooa
- up 70 'i"' course by
Ns proper uno""iceS we may IN
MI In ooA'inceu oiHr
p,aa% Speo asann elcounterlhg the
- 800 was caused
nH" III our niue world
u"y PNS'eu without our s'ghtlhg a
- ~neh inc morning
10" Draoa]on was ioreed 10
~ /" ooners JuuBuheht
80 ots1r man ms own by
st. gu iueN We mao mt upon
sl. lnere, rlght IN 'front.'
uS, was tie Ahherlcah schooner' her
''iS AMY mapping against her masts.
run, speed alead' ana stand oy!'
shouted me captain down the engine
r"oih tuoe'
signal 10 her TO heave to, n II
she docs not OBEY hre a shot right
lcross her pows' MIR. okiley, contln-
ued the commander Mr.. Brabazon,
you take n boat and thirty men well
armed. Board her, and have her
matches of at once. IouU stand no
nonsense, l know
IAN right, sir" cried the lieutenant,
active, somewhat imperious officer,
of the Civis Romanus sum type. He
had been unusually disguised at his
commanders decision to leave the
Black Swan without searching her, and
he was delighted that n more active
policy had been begun.
Il say, Brabazon," whispered the
TO him, as he was going
Oyer thp siln lyon EuoNy I'm stapnip1