Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-07-05

CHAPTER VI.


xhe next morning there arrived al
tAs house very early dark-visaged,
hssvily-wMskered and somewhat
rpugh-looking parsonage, whom Hen
dricks called 1.-THE captain" They ate
their breakfast together and then set
ont on horseback In q southwesterly
direction. They were armed with re-
volvers and carried on their saddles
luncheon which the servant had pre-
pared for them.
The moment they we're alone Hen
bricks said:
well. you are on time. Have you
suoceeded?"
"Yss, SIR" said the captain, who
spoke In = deep, husky voice and
stopped at intervals to expectoratc
rub his hand across his mouth and
pull down his jet-black whiskers,
which had an inclination to turn up
ru6.llkc In front.
"Ycs, sir; tho boat Is in the bayou,
Of will DO by the time we get there.
She IL loaded with green lumber. |
loft New Orleans on the 10th, and the
party 10 made up 1t Is understood TINT
No are going tarpon fishing of tho
coast Of Florida"
"Whst men have You got?"
There's your own list. followed
II. There's thirty OF EN-; with the
men we pick up ut the coast there'll DO
fifty In al. 1t isn't enough"
Perhaps not" said Hendricks, but
II isn't men we need II we get those
guns of all right"
"Well, lot me tell you bout the
gums 1t took thirty men md
lighter two days to lit en- niioat
The men understood that | was acting
for the Venezuelan government. !
took the trouble TO get them at Pana.
ma"
"llut you had q ting"
"0f course | had tug. but sent
her back before ! got through. She'd
like to have seen what was up to
The id tub with the guns Is
hauled up In cove Oh the little coral |
island Of II. John. The other stuff Is
on the coast"
~ understood the vessel to bc sca-
going schooner. She will have The
trade wind and she has got to be In the
exact spot on the a5th by dead reckon
Ing" snil Hendricks
"llurrin' accidents md elements"
replied the cnptain, shell be there"
On the morning Of the sjth, the
handsome steamer San Pedro which
had been lying nj the lcvcc in New
Orleans, took aboarl party ofgcntlc-
men and went down the river and out
10 sea for weeks tarpon fishing. The
moment she was In the gulf she
headed south by west and on the after
noon Of the o5th encountered n
schooner from which she received the
runs that had been picked up on the
llahiata bank.
On tho 2Sth, she was of n point on
The Georgia coast known as the Piney
Stretch and sent a boat ashore In the
night An hour later she pulled into
bay In the most deserted spot Of that
,oast and was loaded with q moderate
amount Of munitions Of war; On the
morning Of the 8Oth she touched at st.
Augustine guardedly and there Hen
tricks received message from New
York In cipher. II read thus:
1.-THE Corinthian sails at six a. IN. on
The 3d. three millions In gold; men all
taken passage"
What occurred after this can be best
told with the subsequent variations
and confessions in view.
The English steamer Corlnthian,
when three days out, sighted ut nine
o'clock Of q clear, calm morning a
small steamer laying to with steam up,
two miles of her port bow. Capt.
Jamison, an Englishman and an ex.
pericnced sailor, who was on the bridge
Ut the time, thought the vessel was n
large yacht and imagined from her
position that she was disabled and
wished to speak him. A moment later
puff Of smoke came from her side
and shot whistled across his bow.
"What In h Is the id fool try
Ing to do9" exclaimed the captain in
docs he know that we
carry her Brittanic majesty's mailsP"
I'm afraid, sir" said the second Of
acer, who put his glass down and