The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-17
BY P. 2. BLACK.


outside the door had disturbed their
sleep. Voices. in the corridor, loud
hoarse, furious voices of dreadful
strangeness, were raised in a din of
rage. Chairs and tables were being up
set and banged about Heavy feet
were rushing and crushing desperately.
The suddenness of their awakening aud
the buzzy, dizzy brains of the IaAs
made the boys stupid and hindered
them from realizing that, whOsever
the quarrel was, it was not theirs.
''Fire!" Rod Gasped.
Burglars" Frank choked
These were the only two alarms
they could imagine as occurring n q
decent house. They. stumbled, In night
attire, to the door, which was IN
locked, and then across the hall The
door of another room was half open,
and they halted at the entrance-ut-
terly amazed, dumbstricken and horri-
fed Inside were three men who were
all too busy to notice the would-be sail
ors. They were the causes of the dis
turbance. There were the table, over
turned, and the chairs, one hoDelessIY
smashed, which had been banged about.
But the most dreadful thing, to the
mind of the boys, was the sight of their
friend. He looked no more ike the
faithful, honest. bluff old Heckles Of
the enhancing story book. He looked,
instead, personified diabolism. His rosy
cheeks were livid white; his humorous
eyes glared like those of d panther; his
pleasant tongue was Keeling out most
terrifying curses, and his big, tarry
fists were hammering hard at the face
of a most dilaDidated stranger.
You swindle me! Robbaire! Fief!
Crimpl You ave take my money! Give
me my money! All, tr-raitOr-frOm be
hind! Fight fair! Ur-r-rh!" So scream
ed the stranger.
The boys, now wide awake, called out
Indignantly as the strange man scream
ed, for all their sense of fair play was
outraged. The third man, whom they
recognized as a waiter in the dining
room below, had rushed on the victim
from behind. and feIled him with a
stick.
"Ur-r-rh!" gurgled the man hideous-
ly, and lay still and bleeding.
At the cries of the boys, the Heck
les man turned on them. His fury, fed
by fighting, was beyond control. He
ran madly at the innocent young lads
from the country, and they were too
astonished at his transpOsitiOn to resist.
Bling bing-Frank and Rod got them
In rapid succession on the ears, and
landed in the hall, after smashing up
/ against the doorposts bruisefully.
/ ''Who gave you kids permission to
leave your bed, hey?" cried the man.
!
I babies again-the others settled for
an hour or two anyway, if he amt
! killed outright. Hustle EN- down to
! the carriage. Lively, now!"
A glass was placed to each of the
! boys mouths, and they were forced to
drink. In second they were again
asleep.
And at that time, although it was
/ late at night, Mr.. and Mrs. Noble were
/ sitting in the parlOr of the farm and
the mother was crying.
| Il can't help it," she sObbed. They
/ were never from home so long before.
! Something must have happened to
/ them. I've no heart to go on fixing
( things. What use would a Thanksgtv-
ing dinner be without the boys to eat
! it,"
Nonsense, they'll eat it, wife; they'll
I turn up"
I'm afraid-I'm afraid. They've
never been away before. and-and
/ loved them so. OH Do you think they
| can have done it, and gone away to
| sea? They were always talking Of the
| sea"
Hope not-hoDe not" said the far
/ mer. IF they have, they'll mighty soon
wish themselves back. Listen. No,
| thought twas steps in the lane
] While these good hearts waited and
| watched and feared and hoped, Rod had
/ a, dream that he was in a rOWbOat and
the stranger who had been knocked dOwI
/ was lying beside him under the seats
/ The dream was so real that he noticed
the clOuded moon high over his face, ana
/ the ripple of water and the plash Of oars
/ and saw the face OF 'HeckleS' in the
| stern, steering. But he was so sure j
was a dream that he went more sOundly
( to sleep. When he awOke it was still
! dark. and what had walked him was tht
/ hurt from tumbling out OF an evil smell
ing berth in vessel which seemed Il
be sailing altogether on the ribs OF on,
! side. He sat up on the floor and founC
/ Frank sitting up beside him, rubbing hi
eyes and yawning.
Jimmy said Frank. 4 fell out o
bed. Is it breakfast? HallOa, This ain
our room. Where are we2'
A fierce voice from across the dirt!
doghOle answered him
We're? 1 tell you we're, You is kid
naped, hey? Shanghaied? Same like me
Me also I am shanghaied. ley dar
shaD@hai MarSeiIles Pete. You will see
We're are you? I tell you. I raicOnize z
tirty hole. I tell you. Eet ees re Ma
riner,' Captain Weisenberg-and Get ee
renfer, and he is the daivel. Eef yOl
go ashore alive after a voyage wiz him
you aiTe VARY lucky! Mel keel hin
first or he keel me"
Below, there! Are you dead Uns com
TO life again.
The boys sat still, sick and gaspin
and too palsied with amazement to move
They noted, however, with a stupid
nightmarish glance at each other. tina
they were dressed in very shabby, salt
Jerseys and greasy trousers, and wer
changing their clothes. They were quit
unable to do ought but stare at eac
othe--. They voice came, again;
Tumble up f,,. No -, shirker aII love
or my bOOts'H quicken you
Then came another voice, and the boy
I shiVeTed- 1t was not the cordial vOic
( of the boy CommodOre's'' Heckles. /
I was the voice of the savage riOter of tn
boarding house the night before.
Go below and kick out these blaste
kids, They wanted the sea. Now Civ
EN- a taste of it! Lazy little farmers
Lend EN- your toe. Is that FrenChma
] not alive yet Club him up on decI
Look alivei All hand make saiI,'
| The bloodstained face of the Frenc
| sailor who had been robbed and shang
haied that night was horrible to look al
/ as he rose to his feet with a ghastI
show of teeth and said to the lads:
'tFollCw me, zen! We will see who dare
shanghai Marseilles Pete
Still dazed, the boys followed him. an
| of the ship, the same man who had de
| coyed them to the house of the Grimm
the same man who had attacked Mar
| settles Pete, that same man was in CON
mand of the vessel. All the affected col
! dtal-ty and amiable manner was gOn,
| They saw before them in the faint ligh
| of dawn a big, brutal tyrant of the seas
a man whose name was so well known fC
a brute in many ports that he could nC
I get a Tull crew by 1alr means, and Ia
| 10 shanghai drunken sailors and delud
. / likely lads. He sDat out some angr
| Oaths when he saw them, for the shi
was just clearing the haTbor, the sal
| needed quick attention. he was Sti
shOrthanded, and he was in a hurry.
Lively. you slObst Get a move on Vol
. you brats from the farm You there. yO
| MaTseilles Pete, you lOng-nosed knife
. lively about III show you whom your
| Skinned With