The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-07-03

said to Kettle. THAT rock on which
she's settled astcrn has made hole In
her you could drive cart through"
"WellW
"Didnt you hear the report they've
just sung of from the boats? oh, |
forgot; you don't understand Italian.
We'll, the news is that the rocks split
hole In the bottom Of the strong room.
and those gold boxes have toppled
through"
And buried themselves In the slimeY'
That's II. And Lord knows how
many feet they've sunk. It's dreadful
stun to dig among; slides in on you AZ
soon as you start to dig and levels up.
They'll have to brattce as they work.
ltll be n big job"
All that day Kettle watched the sen
with an anxious eye. From below the
mud came up in white pillows. and out
} beyond, in and among the reefs and
along the distant shore. swung ana
! shimmcrcd in the heat haze hungry
| dhows prowling like carrion birds tenn.
! porarily driven away from prey.
) TazZuchi and the chief engineer bus.
led themselves in binding together
fragments of fire bars with iron wire
The Italian shipmaster had n great no.
tion of the damage his signal guns
could do against n dhow II they were
provided with orthodox solid shot. AS
soon as the second night came down
and the darkness became fairly fixed
In hue there began to cracklc out OF
! the distance u desultory rifle fire from
| every quarter of tic compass 1t was
not very heavy. At the outside there
were not Il score of weapons firing, but
1t was annoying for all that and as
the markSIncn and their vessels were
completely swallowed up by the black.
ness OF the night it was Impossible to
repay their compliments in kind.
Morning showed the damage of one
port window smashed, two pancs gone
from the engine room skylght aud the
air pump In one of the boats alongside
with plangcr neatly cut into two
pieces. but there was spare air pump
in store, and after dawn came work
went OH rs usual. The dhows came no
nearer; neither did they go much far.
thcr away. TaZZuch, full Of enthus!.
asm for his artillery tried II carefully
aimed shot at one Of the largest but
the explosion was quite outdonc III
noise by the cacklr OF laughter which
followed It, So slow was tn" Night Of
Tn" IniSSil" than t'Ir eye coui1 trace II.
. So short was it,. iournCy aud so curved
Its trajectory TINT il came very near to
, hitting one Of the heats OF the divers.
Well" thought Kettle, these are
pretty cool hands for dagos anyway.
l'li going to have Il fine tough time OF
II Wi"n my part OF the scrfllc comes"
That night l,c had II still further taste
I OF their quality. So soon rs darkness
fell the dhows closed in again and re-
commenced thrir Snlping. They kept
under way. Uud 50 Il did little enough
, g,od to aim back ut the flashes But
TnZxUchl nnl half II GOacn keen Spr.
, it< got down into one Of the boats with
r their rifles and knives nnd II drum of
paraHin and pulled away silently into
the blackncss.
y There was silence for quite half al
hour, and the suspense on the anchored
, steamer was vivid enough to hay,
shaken trained men. Yrt these Ita!inI
, Nrt!;lccrS and merchant SCa,urn Srrlr,
. tC take 1t aS cuOlly as thou III such S0r
tbs were an everyday occurrence. Bu
n, the rnl Of tiiat time there was ;
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