Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-05-11
CHAPTER VI.

The next morning there arrived at
the house very early a dark-visaged,
heavily-whiskered and somewhat
rough-looking parsonage, whom Hen
bricks called 1.-THE captain" They ate
their breakfast together and then set
out on horseback in a southwesterly
direction. They were armed with re-
volvers and carried on their saddles a
luncheon which the servant had pre-
pared for them.
The moment they were alone Hen
bricks said:
"Well. you are on time. Have you
succeeded?"
Eyes, sir" said the captain, who
spoke in a deep, husky voice and
stopped at intervals to expectorate,
rub his hand across his mouth and
pull down his jet-black whiskers
which had an inclination TO turn uI
ruf-like in front.
eyes, sir; the boat is in the bayou,
or will be by the time we get there
She is loaded with green lumber.
left New Orleans on the 10th, and the
party is made up. 1t is understood that
we are going tarpon fishing off the
coast o. Florida
"What men have you got?'
There's your own list. | followed
1t. There's thirty OF 'em; with the
men we pick up at the coast therell be
fifty in all. 1t isn't enough"
Perhaps not" said Hendricks, "but
1T isn't men we need if we get those
guns off all right"
"Well, let me tell you bout the
guns. 1t took thirty men and g
lighter two days to lift 'em ahoat
The men understood that l was acting
for the Venezuelan government.
took the trouble to get them at Pana
ma"
''But you had tug"
''Of course I had tug, but / sent
her back before got through. Shed
like to have seen what | was up to
The id tub with the guns Is
hauled up in cove on the little coral
island of St. John. The other stuff is
on the coast"
81 understood the vessel to be a sea-
going schooner. She will have the
trade wind and she has got to be in the
exact spot on the 25th by dead reckon
ing" said Hendricks.
"Barrin' accidents and elements,
replied the captain, she'll be there. =
On the morning Of the 25th, the
handsome steamer San Pedro which
had been lying at the levee in New
Orleans, took aboard party of gentle
men and went down the river and out
to sea for a weeks tarpon fishing. The
moment she was in the gulf, she
headed south by west and on the after
noon of the 25th encountered q
schooner from which she received the
guns that had been picked up on the
Bahiata bank.
On the 2sth, she was off point or
the Georgia coast known as the Piney
Stretch and sent boat ashore in the
night. An hour later she pulled into
a bay In the most deserted spot of thai
coast and was loaded with a moderate
! amount of munitions of war On the
morning of the 30th she touched at st
Augustine guardedly and there Hen
bricks received u message from New
York in cipher. 1t read thus:
Inc OOllntnlHn Sails dG Six IT, III VI
the 3D.; three millions in gold; men al
taken passage.
What occurred after this can be bes
told with the subsequent narration
and confessions in view.
The English steamer Corinthian
when three days out, sighted at min
| o'clock of a clear, calm morning
small steamer laying to with steam uI
two miles off her port bow. Capt
Jamison, an Englishman and an ex
perienced sailor, who was on the bridg
at the time, thought the vessel was
large yacht and imagined from he
position that she was disabled an
wished to speak him. A moment late
puff of smoke came from her sid
and shot whistled across his bow.
what in h is the ID fool try
ing TO do?" exclaimed the captain i
amazement. docs he know that w
carry her Brittanic majesty's mailsP"
'rm afraid, SIR" said the second oi
ficer, who put his glass down an