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

Toward Singapore, out of the sunset
glare, q long, slashing schooner came
spanking in before the southwest mon
soon at a pace which procured for her
from prahn, lorcha and sampang an I'M
commonly wide berth. on Pulo Pan
Jan, however, the stranger put his helm
down, got in his square canvas and
went away, close hauled, west by. north
along the coast.
"See that, Sam?'' and Prodigy of
Proddy g. Newman let his cheroot 90
ont as he gaped after the flying schooner.
Proddy had been v to Bintang, and
Sam was skipper of his little steam
yacht.
AYE, sir, / see that, and I see the rea-
SON of 1T, too" and Sam pointed to q
streaming wisp Of yellow at the top of
. headless palm ON Panjan point
Schooner hauled her wind the instant
that bit o. bunting went aloft"
Private signal. eh? And quarantine
colors tool Devilish oddl Don't concern
as. thought" and Prodigy, the pot bel
lied, lit another Manila.
Over the domestic establishment of
Simon Proddy, ESQ, presided a lady
who rejoiced in o stearine complexion,
a velvety eye and hair for length and
blackness like unto a horses tail, but
who, despite French habiliments and an
English education, was a China woman
pure and simple.
"a wonderful woman, sirl' would
Prodigy say. Worth any half 10 dozen
white women ] ever knewl And the
best of it is that her sisters and her
cousins and her aunts r God knows
wherel Couldn't quite stand them, you
.knowp'
But, all unknown to Prodigy, his
brevet wife possessed a father-a sophis-
ticated old sinner, who dabbled with
dubious irons in mysterious fires and
carried about as much ~rascality to the
square inch as any in Singapore. And
little thought Prodigy, when he one day
ordered off his premises a doddering,
old, specialized Chow, that into that
astute brain Of Mrs. Proddy's respected
parent there had that very moment been
born a scheme for the conversion into q
valuable security of his. Proddy's. sab
stantial person.
Well, up the old Singapore strait the
schooner had let go her
anchor. In here, between the back OF
the island and tho mainland, the son.
wester came but family, and the Ra-
phael ii. Semmes, under lee of Taniong
Beiu, lay s~tirless and silent upon an ink
mirror. Her forestry showed no riding
light, nor through the tarpaulin blind
I'D skylight could come any glimmer
from below, where lounged a frock coat
I'd and pot hated little N of slender
build and mild, reflective eye. There
wasn't much to indicate the most reck-
less desperate the archipelago had ever
seen-a deserter from the famous Ala
bama during her visit to the strait in
1868. Crocky Dixon had sinoesaileds slap
through many q law of many enation,
ind, though report perhaps exaggerat-
I'd in asserting that he ought long ago
% have adorned q yardarm, il was car
ain that he hadn't acquired his pleas
ng a~ppellation for nothing. But now
he Crocodile, with q black trichinopoly
n its jaws and q bottle of Madeira at
to elbow, appeared "a gentle beast
and of an excellent conscience,
fact which, to those who knew the
best. BODIED very i'll for some
,ody.
AT here, master, now come. Very
,reat thing to want TO settle at now
Iuick.
Away among the Jungle, toward the
Jack OF the island, Proddy had o gam
Ter plantation, the overseer whereof
vas Whang Lo, and Whang Los Eng
ish, as above presented, Prodigy under
TODD we'll enough. But what he didn't
lnderstand-as he told the lemon tint
d Mrs. Proddy-was what the devil IL
ould be that required his presence I'm
uch o hurryi IL IL was another cody
labbed by . tiger, he'd wake the an
horities mp to some purposei The brutes
we're breeding ON the island like rab-
its, and the reward wasn't quarter big
noughi
About an hour after Prodigy, growl-
NJ sA0ns AWA NOHdA1tUA 1AbU bu0 uMNA-
less, Mrs Prodigy. idly turning over
Los screed, discovered ON the
ack thereof three tiny Chinese charac-
ers. of which-so far had English dis
laced her hereditary language-she nm
erstood but M That one, however,
vas enough--it signifed ''danger"-
nd in three minutes Mrs. Prodigy was
ri her way 30 the nearest police tnnaah.
do not comet translated the old
ayani sergeans-"Dangeri-th oroco-
ilel The true word, this, ON backPs me
dded promptly. bad men make he
vrite the other-this when nobody look,
o put, % Missa Prodigy nocomei" And
hen, with Mrs. Freddy. the acute old
sent on i peoil to the central once.
Esre she had d short interview with the
uperintendent who, In turn, had, 20
later, q short interview with
be lieutenant commanding her males
W. gunboat Ticker.
sOh. that rnfian Dixoni' Lieutenant
lawson said. Why, we're getting
team up now to 20 around and sec what