Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
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Lost Continent
By CUTCLIFFE HYNE.
Pub BY Harper Bros. Copyright i9Oi by cutcs Hyns
CHAPTER XII.--CoNTINUED.
Pub by Harper Bros Copyright isOi by cuteiif. Hyn


Greeting, my lord,' said he, "but
I'd have been pleased to see you ear
lier. We've small enough force and
slow enough heels in this vessel, and
it's my idea that the sooner we're away
from here and beyond the range of pur-
suit the safer it will be for my wom-
an>and brats, who are in that hutch of
an aftercastle. It's long enough since
J. sailed in such small old-fashioned
ship as this. She's no machines, and
she's not even a steering >manikin.
Look at the meanneSs of her furni-
ture, and Tin your ear) I've suspicious
that there's rottenness in her bot
tom. But she's the best I'd the means
to buy, and if she reaches the place at
the farther end I've got my eye on,
we shall have to make a home there,
or be content to die, for she'll never
have strength to carry us farther or
back. She's been ship in the Egypt
trade, and you know what that is for
getting worm and rot in the wood"
You'd enough hands for your
scheme before 1 came?'
"Oh, yes. I've fifty stout lads, and
how, and trouble enough 1 had to get
them away from the city. That thief
of port captain well-nigh skinned us
clean before he could see it lawful that
SO many useful fighting men might go
out Of tarbop. IT,. TITS are not what
they were, l tell you, and the sea trades
about done. All sailor men of any
cly no to1y \
gone out in companies to try their for
tunes in other lands. Why, I'd trouble
enough to get half a score to help me
Work this ship. All my balance are
Just landsmen raw and simple, and if
land half of them alive at the other
end, we shall be doing we'll"
still, with luck and few good
winds it should not take long to get
across to Europe"
FOB slapped his leg. 'No savage Flu
rope for me, my lord. Now see the ad-
vantage of being a mariner. l found
once some islands to the north of Eu-
rope, separated from the main by.a
strait. which I called the Tin islands
seeing that tin ore filters many OF
the beaches. / was driven there by
storm, and said no word of the FIND
when l got back, and here, you see, il
comes in useful. There's no one in
all Atlantis but me knows of those
Tin islands to-day, and We'll go and
fight, honestly. for our ground, anG
build town and kingdom on it.
With FOB for king?"
"Well, 1 have figured it out as such
for many a day, but know when
meet my betters, and I'm content tt
serve under Deucalion. My lord would
have done wiser TO bring a wife will
him, though, and L thought it was un
derstood by the good lady that spok,
to me down at the harbor, or I'd have
mentioned it earlier. The savages il
my Tin islands go naked and stain
themselves blue with woad, and ar,
very filthy and british to hook upon
They are sturdy. and should make goo,
slaves. but one would have to ge
blunted in the taste before one coul,
wish to be father TO their children.
Il am still husband to Phorenice."
Tobgrinned. 1.-The gods give you 10,
of her. But it is part of a mariner
creed-and you will grow to be mar
liner here-that wedlock does not hol,
across the seas. However, that mat
ter may rest. But, coming to my I'll
islands again: they'll delight you. An,
| tell you, kingdom will not be s.
hard to carve out as it was in Egypt
or as you found in Yucatan. There ar
beasts there, of course, and no on
who can hunt need ever go hungr,
But the greater beasts are few. Their
are cave bears and cave tigers in SINAI
numbers, to be sure, and some rive
horses and great snakes. But tn
greater lizards Seem to avoid the land