The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-11-30

he's about at the back Of the islandI
What dye make Of this Proddy busi-
ness20
Case of ransom, ] take It'll This
Dixon's brought or something of che
kind before up Penang way. They've
nabbed old Prodigy at his plantation by
this time. 4 expect, and. If they can,
they'll run him over tosoms den ON the
Bornean coast and keep him till gov
eminent or the merchants come down
with something handsome. The 90 called
Mrs. Proddy's father is about the big
gest scoundrel i'm Singapore, and I fancy
he's in this job with Crocky. III 50, the
negotiations would be made through
him-but. meantime, it's your own part
to burst up this pleasing little arrange
mentI'
Old Proddy-for all his stomach7-de-
Tended himself like a paladin and had
to be knocked ON the head with q boat
stretcher, SO that he knew no more un-
I'll. peeping through q port at break of
day, he saw q misty shore slide slowly
past him. as before a gentle air the
schooner stood eastward under every
stitch she could spread.
THAT shore, Proddy, Esq, is Obin
island, from which little suckumstance
you'll jedge that we're a-standin to the
eastward ont Of this here hell trap OF q
strait Of yours. An, as to what we're
a-takin You, Prodigy, ESQ .,-that you'll
find out before you're a powerful deal
olderi''
% You'll have the Ticker after you
before you're much olderr' snorted the
astounded Proddy.
Hardly tibet. Prodigy, ESQ. Yoursee
there won't be no muss made about You
before this evenin, and, as we'll catch
the monsoon strong again i'm the ofin
your footys little smoke pot of a Tickler
will Jest hey the hull universal ocean
to overhaul for us by tomor- Great
Jeffersonl' and down went Crocky's
jaw, as, glancing through the port, O
slender trail of smoke led down his eye
TO q little white hull just rounding
Franklin point.
In three seconds Crocky was ON deck
rapid, resolute and cool. CHASED
sooner than we expected, ladsl No get
away now with Prodigy, Esq.-but,
without him, I guess Wen fix iti Get
the dingy over the side-smart, nowi
Wen send his friends ON a little excur-
sion TO rescoo him from o wat-tery
gre-avei"
Within three minutes the dingy was
adrift, with q bit of canvas set for ard,
and Proddy-lest he should dowse it
dashed to q ringbolt in the stern sheets.
The ~resourceful Crocky, bringing the
wind upon his port quarter, stood away
due north, between Obin and Tukang.
Aboard the gunboat there was no
hesitation. Reluctantly a course was
shaped for the little wait, scarce visible
now against the sunrise, as faster and
faster the freshening wind drove her out
to sea, SO that by the time the drenched
and stiffened Prodigy had been hoisted
aboard the Ticker the namesake of the
Alabama's captain was being warped
into winding offshoot of the Johore
river, wherein, with topmasts housed,
she lay snug till dark. Then, with the
ebb, she dropped down again + sea, and
sunrise found her well away into the
gulf of Siam.
Mrs. Prodigy had her reward in two
installments. The first when before high
heaven the grateful Proddy confirmed
her wifely status; the second when, by
the orders Of the secret society Of which
her estimable parent was an ornament,
her cook, a member also Of the "hoey,"
mixed something with her morning COT
Zee that speedily made OF Proddy the in
consolable widower he is to this day
Alexander Montgomery in Sydney Bull
letin.