Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-04-28
Copyright, 1897, by D. Appleton & Co All
rights reserved)
BY cHAUNcY c. HoTcHKIss
SYNOPSIS.

Chapter L-Donald Thorndyke, as cap
tain of the schooner Phantom, leaves Nor
folk for New London with cargo of lead
for continental armies. His mate. John
Lounsbury. proves treacherous after they
get to sea and threatens to reveal the char
acter Of the captain and cargo to British
could not escape. Thorndyke strikes him
and renders him insensible. apparently
dead. One of the other two members Of
bests him and throws him into the sea.
The other. a negro, he scares into silence.
He determ mine to impersonate the APP
that he has taken the ship as prize and
has killed the captain and all of the crew
' cha 1s an T neSF1 the boatis boarded he
tells his story. which Is believed by the
naval lieutenant but is doubted by a
While Thorndyke is proving his tale,
Lounsbury shows signs of returning con-
seriousness. Thorndyke is taken to the
British vessel to repeat his story to the
Chapter 1II.--The Phantom is taken to
New. York and there turned over to the
escape through the lines and deliver his
nGfahr apsr to Mssh!agten mike. in sh
at an inn with young naval officer and
Chapter v-scammell enters during the
progress of the row and asks to take q
hand by relieving the naval officer of
Thorndyke. Belden. the naval officer dis
looking for for clinton. and stops the fight.
after which challenge still stands be-
Ghaper Vfeaatnodn sesmms the
terview with Thorndyke for a day, and
In the meantime gives him papers which
in New York harbor, and go to Newport
with dispatches to the British general at
that place.
Chapter vII.-During great fire in New
"a "a SCI lot ,.io 49,
cape ape, "a. and from him he gets the name of
chaper Xsla EoR as
the identity of Thorndyke and comes to ar
rest him as a spy. He is armed only with
g, pistol. and into the printing pan of this
Thorndyke manages to throw water, then
overcoming Scammell, Thorndyke escapes
and makes his way to Clinton's hea6quar-
tiers. where his real identity is not yet
Chapter IX.-Clinton gives Thorndyke
his instructions and pass through the
lines Before leaving. girl. Gertrude King,
enters and demands Of Clinton that she
pc allowed to see her brother. Clinton In
forms her that her brother was condemned
as spy. and while waiting for execution
was burned to death in the fire of the day
before. She then demands a pass outside
Inc Inc INES, proclaiming at the same time
Ton. mistress. enters with the announce
ment that the brother. Instead of being
opGehh apte has sseerRsa orders Tborndvke
to arrest the girl, which he refuses to do.
put put instead lS1e proelaims his own identity.
while he holds Clinton until She ESCAPES
He follows her and makes his way to the
picket lines, where he strikes and pre-
qGha apterk ilf aT fss6tTyd stops at the
Dove tavern for refreshments. The waiter
taxes thees an unusual interest In him. While
sharper. whom he had met in town a few
days before, come in. He remains in the
ans not as aafef enters The
ern and tells the cavalryman of a girl he
ne mas IS seen IN the woods to the north. The
caValryman leaves to find her. Thorndyke
is seen by the sharper and fight ensues.
IN which the Quaker kills the sharper as
a., BODY OF cavalrymen approach. allowing
Nv uo tha ypa, .ims enough to be concealed
fSas1fh s@fS and the Quaker
ment known to the patriots. Here they
meet Miss King and Thorndyke finds his
Quaker friend, Ames, is the girls half
otG9ha ape rhs e Hp 81 their
from the British:
they slip down the river In boat to where
guard and take to the sea. o Fog assists sas
Ghatert hsN eg the rea Nnt tbe pban
tom in safety and find Scammell and Louns-
bury on board, the guard having gone
the cabin and the schooner cut loose and
alllS9Swed to drift through the fog to the sea.
Chapter HV11.-They are detected by men
on, British warship. but the fog again
hides them, and they escape for the time
into the omen sea
Chapter XV!TL--They are pursued by a
vessel they take to be the Sprite. Capture
seems certain when the wind suddenly dies
away.
Chapter XIX.-A boat is sent from the
warship, but is beaten Off. Then three
come and the schooner is boarded In
the fight that ensues Ames is shot and the
l,nIi ,,1
me schooner has been overturned by a shot
from the war vessel, and. as a last resort,
Ihorndyke dives into the sea and comes
up beneath the dingv.
Chapter XX.-From the dingy Thorndyke
hears the plans made for the sailing of the
schooner into port with Lounsbury in
charge He also hears that Ames is not
dead. and a surgeon is sent to care for him
The girl Is not found
Chapter ,NXT.--Thorndyke succeeds in
reaching the deck of the Phantom and i'm
prisoning, the three men of the crew He
has fight with Lounsbury and kills him
The surgeon accepts parole and agrees to
care for Ames- who is stu alive.