Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-20
4 MAN OF PREY.

soon at q pace which procured for he1 from prahu, lorcha and sampang an un- commonly wide berth. Of Pulo Pan jan, however, the stranger put his helm down. got in his square canvas and wont away, close hauled, west by north along the coast.
 .'Sce that, sam and Freddy of Freddy t5 Newman let his chcrCOt go ont as he gapcd aft.r the flying schooner. Freddy had been over to Bintang, and sam was skipper of his little steam yacht.
 Ave, sir. sec that. and see the req son of it, too. and sam pointed to a streaming wi>p of yellow at the top of q hcadl,>S palm on Panjan point. '.Schoumrr hauled her wind the instant that lit O bunting went alOft. ."
 ''PTivatc signal. oh: And quarantine color> too! D,vilish odd. Don't concern Us. tlouchr' and Freddy, the pot bel lied, lit another Manila.
 Over the domestic establishment of Simon Freddy, Esq, presided lady who rvjuiccd in a stcarinc complexion, vclvcty eye and hair for length and bIaCkncSs like unto horses tail, but who, despite French habiliments and an English cducation, was China woman pure and simple.
 "A wonderful woman, sir"' would Freddy say. Worth any half a dozen white women I ever knew. And the best If II Z, that her sisters and her cousins and her auuts are God knows where! Couldn't quite stand them, you kuCw,'
 But, all unknown to Freddy, his br,vet wife possessed q father-a sophis ticatcd old sinner. who dabblcd with dubious irons iu mysterious fires and carried about aS much raScality tO the square inch aS any i'll Singapore. And E;tl" thought Freddy, when he one day ordered off his premises doddcring, old. <ptctaclvd Chow, that into that a>tutc brain Ct Mrs. PrOddy's respected par.ut there had that very moment been born a scheme for the conversion into q valuable security of his, Proddy's, sub stan;ial person.
 Well, up the old Singapore strait the my<t,riou> Schoon,r had let go her anchor. Ill here. between the back of the island and the r.I.nIand. the son. w,-Ster canr but fA.uriy. and the Ra- phacl H. S,mmrs. uu Ter l-, If Tanjong BcIu. l.v ~JIrlc>s and silent upon an ink III Hl 4'.L Lr ~l4'lNtNA llO 4lN4Al= light. u,r th~ .u-A the tarpaulin blind ,d >kvl:-i.. could come any glimmer 1T .l:i i-,Iuw. where loumyed frOcl coat D.. ..ud pot halted little man of slender buIlG and mild. reflective eye. There wa-n much tu inlicate the most rcck- It's d,.>p, rado the archipelago had ever sCcu-a q, >crtcr from the famous Ala bama during her visit to the strait i'll 1865. Cruckv Dixon had since sailed slap through nlauy law of many a nation. and. though report perhaps exaggcrat- c,l i'll asserting that he ought long ago tn have adorned a yardarm. it was cCr- tain that he hadn't acquired his pleas 1 ing aDpcllati0u for nothing. But now tine Crocodile. with Illck triChinOpOlv in il, jav$ and q bottle of Madeira at 1 is clL,.w. appeared ''a gentle beast enough and of au excellent conscience, v fact which. to those who knew the reptile L'>t. bOdcd very ill for some l body.
 1 At h. rc. master, now come. Very l great thing to want to settle at now quick.
 Away among the jungle, toward the | back uf Llc island, Freddy had a gam l bier plantation. th" ovcrScer whereof 1 was Whan. Ln. and Whang Los Eng | fish. a. aluvv pr, >cntcd, Freddy under 1 stos5d ", T ,iluuch. BUt what he didn | undcr>tArl-a> hc told the lemon tint cd Mr. PTo,idy-wa~ what the devil it l could b., that required his presence in such d hurry, Ii II was another COoly nabbcd bv :l tiger. he'd wake the au- thoritics up to some purpose! The brutes were breeding on the island like rab- bits, and the reward wasn' quarter big enough,
 About an hour after Freddy, growl. ing thus, had departed into the dark, ness, Mrs. Freddy, idly turning over Whang Los screed. discovered on the back thereof thre, tiny Chinese charac tcrS. of which-so far had English dis placed her hereditary langlIage-she un. derstood hut Cuc. That oue, however, was cnousn-it signified danger and i'll three m.utes Mrs. Freddy Wa: on her way to the nearest police tannah.
 Do not come.' translated the old Jayani scrgeant-''D 'Dangcr,-the crOco diIe, The true word, this, on back"' ht added promptly. Bad men make ht write th,. other-this when nobody look he put. % Mi>Sa Freddy no come!" AnC then. with Mrs. Freddy, the acute Ol( man sent of pe ln to the central office Here she had a short interview" with thu superintendent, who, i'll turn, had, 2( : minutes later, short interview witt the lieutenant commanding her majes tvs gunboat Tickler.
 "Oh, that ruffian Eixon!" Lieutenan Dawson said. Why, we're getting steam up now to go around and sec wha'
 he's about at the back of the island
 What dye make of this Freddy bus
 ness"
 Case of ransom. I take it, Thi
 Dixon's brought of something of tn
 kind before up Penang way. They'y V
 nabbed old Freddy at his plantation b
 this time, l expect. and. if they caI
 they'll run him over to some den on tE
 BOrnean coast and keep hiEl till gov !, ernment or the merchants come dow
 with something handsome. The so calle
 Mrs. Proddy's father is about the bil gest scoundrel i'll Singapore, and I fanc he's in this job with Crocky. If so, Il
 negotiations would be made throug
 him-but meantime, it's your own pa ?. to burst up this pleasing little arrang = mentr'
 | Old Proddy-for all his stomach-d '' tended himself like paladin and Ina
 to be knocked on the head with a bo
 stretcher, so that he knew no more ul
 til, peeping through a port at break
 day, he saw misty shore slide slow past him. as before a gentle air tl schooner stood eastward under evei
 stitch she could spread.