Arizona republican., 1899-02-19
CHAPTER WIT.

 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY: THE
 DOCTOR - THE JOLLY-BOAT'S LAST
 TRIP.
 This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the little ga,lipot of boat that we were in was gravely overloaded Five grown men, and three Of them-TreIawney ReGruth and the caqtain--over six feet high. was already more than she was meant to carry. Add to that the pow der. pork and the bread-bags- The gunwa!e was Tipping astcrn. Several times we shipped little water, and my brooches and the tails of my coal were all soaking wet before we had gone 100 yards.
 The captain made us trim the boat, and we got her to lie little more even- ly. All the same, we were afraid to breathe.
 In the second place, the ebb was now making-a strong ripping current rum ming westward through the basin, and then south'ard and seaward down the straits by which We had entered in the morning. Even the ripples were dan- ger to our overloaded craft; but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course, and away from our proper landing-place behind the point. If we let the current have it's way we should come ashore beside the gigs, where the pirates might appear at any moment.
 ''I cannot keep her head for the stockaGe, sir" said I to the captain. l was steering. while he and Redruth, two fresh men, were at the oars. '"The tide keeps washing her down. Could you pull little stronger?''
 ''Not without swamping the boat" said he. 'You must bear up, sir, if you p,ease-bear up until you see you're gaining"
 tried, and found by experiment that the tide kept sweeping us westward un- til had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.
 "Wen never get ashore at this rate" said I.
 If it's the only course that we can lie, sir, we must even lie it." returned the captain. ''We must keep upstream. You see, sir" he went on. ''if once we dropped to leeward of the landing place, it's hard to say where we should get ashore, besides the chance of be ing bearded by the gigs; whereas. the way we go the current must slacken. and then we can dodge back along the shore''
 The currents less already, sir" said the man Gray. who was sitting in the fore-sheets; you can ease her off a bit"
 Thank you, my man. said I. quite as if nothing lad happened; for we had all quietly made up our minds to treat him ike one Of ourselves.
 Suddenly the captain spoke up again, and 1 thought his voice was a little changed.
 The gun!" said he.
 q have thought of that" said I. for made sure he was thinking of bonn bardment of the fort. They could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through the woods"
 Lock astern, doctor" replied the captain.
 We lad entirely forgotten the long nine; and there, to our hcrrcr, were the five rogues busy about her. getting off her jacket, as they called the stout tarpauln cover under which she sailed. Not only that. but 1t flashed into my mind at the same moment that the round shot and the powder for the gun had been left behind, and q stroke with an ax would put it all into the posses ] sion of the evil ones aboard.
 Israel was Flint's gunner" said 1 Gray, hoarscly. At any risk, we put the boats head direct for the landing place. By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we l;cpt steerage i way even at our necessarily gentle rate | of rowing, and could keep her steady | for the goal. But the worst of it was that, with the course I now held, we turned our broadsiGe instead of our