Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-09-27
Copyrighted. 1900. by the J. B. Lippincott Col
CHAPTER VIII.-CoNr1NUEp.

CHAPTER VIII.-CoNTINUED.
A grewsonle sight those sailors had
presented when called up for SEN
tence in the morning, and a remorse-
full quartette they proved. Moreover,
TO the consul general, who had been
called in in the interest of fair play
for Jack, they declared that they
-Svere innocent of all evil intent. They
only went in for a little fun with
the soldiers. 1t was that San Fran
cisco fellow who called himself
Spence when he was sober and Sack
EFT when he got drunk who brought
ON the row and then abandoned them
TO their fate. He had owned that he
s'.had it in" for soldiers in general
hated the whole gang of them and
tsyanted to see them well licked. He
had plenty of money and would pay.
their fines if the police ran them
an,' and now had left them in the
4urch.
They had no money and were con-
fronted with the proba bility of a
months labor with the""chain gang"
on the public roads if the consul gen.
-erai couldn't get them off. So that
amiable official had gone out to the
hoti1la and had a talk with the Colo
radO officers and the three brawny
heroes of the billiard room battle,
S~ith the result that everybody agreed
to heap all the blame on the vanished
culprit in the check suit, and the
sailors got off with a nominal fine
and went home to nurse their bruises
and their wrath against Spence, alias
-Sackett. That fellow shouldn't get
away on the Miowera if they could
help it.
All this Stuyvesant was bordering
over as, after stopping to leave his
p p. c. at the Pacific club, he strolled
down Fort street on his way to the
boat landing. The, big whistle of an
-sncoming steamer had attracted his
attention as he left the consul gen
erals to make one more call, and at
the club he heard some one say the
Miowera had reached her dock and
would sail for Australia in the morn
ing.
The sky, that had been so cloud
less early in the evening, became
somewhat overcast by IL, and the
moonlight was dim and vague as he
reached the landing.
In his several trips to and from the
transport it happened that. he had
fallen frequently into the hands of
bright Kanaka boatboy whose adj
rnirable rowing and handling of the
boat had pleased and interested him.
BE ready to take me out about
$780, he had told him, and now
where was he?
Several officers and soldiers were
there bargaining with the boatmen,
and three or four of these amphibi-
Gus Hawaiians precipitated them
selves on Stuyvesant with appeals for
a job, but he asked for Joe.
Him gone," was the answer of an
eager rivala Him other job;' but
even as they would have persuaded
mad and his selection must be one
OF their number, Joe himself came
running from the direction of a ware
house short pistol shot away
What kept you, Joe?" asked Stuy-
~esant. as the light boat danced away
on the tide.
oiler want me take him outside
Efiowera,- ~as the answer; sshim be-
hind warehouse"
The deuce you say,' exclaimed
PtuyVeSanl, turning about in the
stern sheets and yazing back to
shore Are IT, landing stairs at
the warehouse, and is he waiting for
you there?''
Huh" nodded Joe.
Then here" said Stuyvesant, CLAN
cling moonward and noting with sat
fsfaction that the luminary was be-
hind thick bank of clouds Turn
back and row to the warehouse steps.
Z won't to look at that fellow" So
saying, he quickly threw off his uni
form coat with its cleaning shoulder
straps and collar device, slowed his
forage cap under the seat and sat
bareheaded and in his shirt sleeves.
Obedient to Joe's powerful strokes
the little boat was speedily gliding
sn among the shadows of the sailing
ships moored along the quay, and
presently her stern was swung round
TO flight of stone steps, and Stuy-
Cesant bounded ashore. Over at the
boat landing the electric lights were
cleaning and the sound of many
voices chaffering over boat fares was
heard. Here among the sheds and
warehouses all was silence and dark
keess, but Stuyvesant .unhesitatingly