The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-22

and the second launch glided around a
/ bend short distance down stream.
voices hailed the newcomers and they
We're soon alongside the dhow. Birney
| leaned over the bulwark and made
brief explanation to his brother officer,
Lieutenant Nell. The latter was prop
erly envious and could not help show
ing it.
Yes. you struck it rich" he grum-
bled. LAS for me- I've had the DEVILS
own luck. I stopped and boarded d
/ dhow mile or so down, and hanged if
, it had any cargo but a pair of young
! lions in cages
'Lions?' shouted Quin.
That's right. The Arabs said they
were taking the brutes to Portuguese
vessel up the coast, so I had to let
them co.
Was there a Portuguese on board?"
If there was I didn't see him.
Quin turned TO Lieutenant Birney.
There's time TO overhaul the rascalsr'
he cried Don't let them get away,
You shan't lose by it if you help me to
recover the lionsl What do you say,
MANI"
Further pleading was required on
GUMS part. but the upshot of it all
was that he and Ali found themselves
five minutes later gliding swiftly down
the Cuba in the second launch. Lieu
tenant Nell, having learned the facts,
had consented to do all in his power to
thwart Antonio Silva's evil designs.
Birney and his crew stayed behind
with their prize.
How the chase turned out may be
told briefly. The sudden dropping of
the wind promised success, but six
miles were left behind and the river
bar was very near, when a big sail
doomed in sight around a curve. And
as the sailors pulled closer, recklessly
showing themselves in the moonlight.
they discovered that fate had played
the game into their hands.
By jove. the Arabs have stuck fastr'
exclaimed Lieutenant Nell ITS
treacherous channel hereaboutsI"
Then we've got Them cried Quin,
his hand tightening on his cutlass.
1T looks that way. Let go hard,
men"
The oars bent under the strain, and
the launch covered half the distance in
rapid squirt. Then an outcry was
heard from the dhow. which was in
deed fast on the bottom and badly
keeled over.
They're jumping" groaned Quin;
and as he spoke half a dozen black fig
ures scrambled over the bulwarks and
splashed into the water. In all prob
ability the Portuguese had recognized
Quln by the moonlight and realized
that the game was up
Give way. men; give wayr' shouted
the lieutenant
n briet but exciting chase followed
The Arabs had goodish stretch to
swim TO shore, and the last man was
still sDlashing through the shadows
when the boats prov cut into the beach
close alongside of him. He was seized
by couple of sailors, and the rest OF
the crew dashed after the fugitives.
Quin was the first man out of the
launch. and he kept the lead. He saw
Antonio Silva 20 feet ahead of him. and
just on the verge of the timber. after
overhauling and passing several of the
Arabs, ne came up with his enemy
The Portuguese wheeled around with
n snariins cry and a curse, pistol in
hand. Quin lifted his cutlass. but Silva !
was too quick for him. There was
fash and report, and the plucky lit |
tie man went down in a heap.
Dawn was breaking wher Quin came !
to his senses on board the stranded |
CHOW to learn that his lions were safe; |
that the bullet had done no more than |
pillow an ugly fUrrow alongside his head, |
and that Antonio Silva had escaped.
So the end of the nights adventure |
was that Quin received his stolen prop |
erty, and that Birney'S crew had a l
cargo Of slaves and a dhow TO send in /
to the prize court. 1t was useless to /
search Cor Silva, but from one of the |
ARAB prisoners taken a true version of 1
the trick was CLEANED by bits. The |
Portuguese, knowing himself that the |
lions were coming from the interior |
bad met the caravan several hours af- |
ter Quin. Learning what had happened |
and where the Englishman was en-
camDed, he went in haste to the Arab /
CHEF Samaru, with whom he had FORM /
erly had some shady dealings in slaves, |
and whose hiding place was in a near
by creek
Tie arrangement made between the |
two was to have been of mutual beae- |
fit. The Arab knew that the ma2-of- |
war suspected him, and had a boat !
watching the mouth OF the river. So he !
intended to give the boat a short chase |
after the dhow containing the stolen |
lions, and thus get it out of the way |
and give the other dhOw a chance TO !
slip I'D the coast with her cargo OF
slaves; the lines were to have been pat |
on a Portuguese ship that lay a few |
miles north of the Cuba. That the cum |
ming plap- failed was due in part to |
GUMS canoe trip, but mainly because !
the maS-of-war had sent two boats !
outfand these had pushed up the river
instead of lurking at the mouth.
GUMS wound was not serious enough
to cause him any inconvenience. All
padded him uD to camp in the canoe /
and an hour after they reached there
Menzies' steamer came along and took
the whole party on board The lions
were lifted from the dhow on the wa-r
down, and were transferred to the En-
glish ship in Mombasa harbor that
night.
A fortnight later Quin was on his way
up country with the returning cara
van, the chief of which had agreed to
procure him a lot Of wild beasts in the
interior. But he did not forget Antonio
Silva and he was to learn in the
future that Silva had by no means for
gotten him.
(The end.)