The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-05-06

copra bags until you come back, Ell?
BY Jove. old chap, that beats my
ghost-haunted assure all hollow.
Well call that settled. i guess we've
covered everything likely TO come up
before you get back. Now. what day
shall look for your"
This Is Sunday. the 10th. I'll get
away from here by Tuesday morning
at the latest-the 21st. Two weeks
from that would be May 5-and four
daysmoreP You can look for the steam
er on Orote Saturday morning. May
0, about sunrise. And be mighty care
full you don't let anyone suspect she's
coming before the middle of July; not
even Senorita Dorotea. BY the way,
what are you going to do about that
young lady?"
For iDstance?"
"Oh. shucks, Harry! don't beat about
the bush. If that girl continues to help
you as she has. and keeps her mouth
\shut, she's trump. Are you going TO
Dsail away and leave her at the end OF
the world with merely a conventional
promise 10 call IL you ever happen to be
In Spain when she's living there?"
mo, I'm not, old one. When the
Countess Of Devon change owners, IL Is
possible that 6enorita Dorotea may
have an interest in her. My mind has
been pretty well occupied with this
speculation of ours for the past two
weeks. but-well--- How's Gracia?"
you'll see for yourself when we go
below for breakfast. She thinks good
deal of Senior Enriquito-tells me all
the time that don't half appreciate his
friendship for me; SO you're welcome
TO be as brotherly or cousinly as you
please with her, especially as she's likely
TO sail with us on the Hong Kong voy-
age"
Really? Good! The girls ought 10
be very chummy together. But, / say,
suppose anything should happen 10 me-
or. through some unforeseen misfor-
tune. | should lose the stuff? II you'd
contracted TO buy the ship, and support
wife In the bargain, you'd be In good
deal OF a hole. After all, Dick, it's a
frightful big gamble. And don't know
thatyou're justified in taking chances
"Oh, boshl I'd like TO know what
chances I've taken, or am likely 10
take, compared with yours. I've got
$4,000 in gold, right here on this table,
10 do with as see fit; could get mar
ried and skip with even that much,
couldn't /? And I'm likely to sit up
nights worrying about a partner who
\ went under water for me in mid -ocean,
I bottled up in diving suit, who tumbled
off a submarine precipice and man
a. -,
proving about with ghosts and skele-
tons, and who hit an island, $50 miles
away, with a proa, as plumb as IL he'd
had IL fast to cable; amt IL Why,
man. you've got more lives than Kill
kenny catl i reckon / can stand the
chances il you can"
"Well, well do our level best and hope
that everything'll come out all right
I'm not particularly interested in zap,
so I'll start back in an hour or two
and get down TO business"
mot much you won't. 1t was pretty
good navigating TO make the island as
you did, running before the wind; but
going back Is another matter. You'd
have TO make reach Of 400 miles nor
nor'-wes' before you could put about
Cor Guajan, and you couldn't go as
hours without sleep. OF course, you
could get the sun and figure about
where you were; but IL might take a
week, standing of and on; and we can I
afford either the risk or the time. As il
happens, there are two Pouynipete
Spaniards aboard who want TO reach
Agana this voyage; but under the cir
cumstances I'D run you up there re-
gardless of consequences. reckon that
letters from Sebastiano and DE Garma
will smooth over the Irregularities OF
this trip. and when we own the Count
ess can do as please with her"
Here the conversation was drowned
by the whistle. as we slgnaled for a
pilot oil Tomil bay; and by six bells
we were anchored opposite Rul. inside
the reefs. The cura Juan was almost
|. paralyzed when | shook hands with
him. How my presence on the steamer
was possible, when he had last seen me
rowing ashore at Apra, he simply could
not understand; and when Diaz told
him OF my being picked up at sea, he
crossed himself several times. That
the natives sailed from one island 10
another, in the Carolines. he knew, but
the trips were seldom long ones, and
very rarely beyond sight Of land.
CHAPTER XIII.
The next three days passed very pleas
antly. The time had not yet arrived for
explanations To either Mcpherson OF
Senorita Gracia; but we gave him 80
of the doubloons AS an evidence OF the
progress we we're making, and dis
cussed various plans for the future with
both, on the way back TO Guajan.
We were all very anxious that the
padre -or. rather. his eminence the
bishop--shoud have no opportunity
20 come aboard at Apra. So. as the
two passengers had but little luggage,
Il was arranged that we should be
dropped in the proa somewhere of
Cocos island, the steamer then head.
ing for Mazila without further loss OF
time. This arrangement was carried