Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-11
HAPPIER XXIII.-(Continued.)

I'VE have the packs ready for car
yiage.H said the man addressed, sturdy,
weather-beaten seaman of middle age.
THE silk and lace are down in these
squares covered over with sacking. The
sne ! have marked yarn and the other
.iute-a thousand Of Mechlin to a nun
bred OF the shiny. They will sling over
= mules back. Brandy, schnapps.
Sthiedam and Hamburg Goldwasser are
All set out in due order. The 'baccy is
in the Hat cases over by the Black Drop
there A plaguy job we had carrying it
all out, but here it is ship shape at last,
and the lugger floats like a skimming
dish, with scarce ballast enough 10 stand
up TO a tive-knot breeze"
Amy signs of the Fairy Queen?"
asked the Smuggler.
None. Long John is down a the wa
ter's edge looking out for her fashight.
This wind should bring her up if she
has rounded COmbe- Martin Point. There
was a sail about ten miles to the east
nor east at sundewn.s She might have
been Bristol schooner, or she might
nave been a Kings fiyboat"
A Kings crawlboat," said Capt. Muir
gatroyd, with a sheer. I'VE cannot hang
the gauger until Venables brings up the
Fairy Queen, for after all it was one of
his hands that was snackled. Let him do
his own dirty work"
"Tausend blitzenw cried the ruffian
Dutehman,, would it not be a kindly
gl11ss to Capt. Venables to chuck the
gauger down the Black Drop ere he
come? He may have such another jon
10 do for us some day"
POUNDS, man, are you in command or
am II" said the leader, angrily. Bring
the prisoner forward to the fire. Now,
bark ye, dog of a land shark; you are as
surely dead man as though you We're
laid out with the tapers burning. See
here"-he lifted a torch and showed by
its red light great crack in the floor
across the far end of the cave-"you can
judge of the Black Drops depth he
said, raising an empty key and tossing
it over into the yawning gulf. For half
minute we stood silent before Il dull
distant clatter told that it had at last
reached the bottom.
1T will carry him half way to hell be
fore the breath leaves him. said one
It's an easier death than the Devices
yallows" cried a second.
Nay, he shall have the galows frstw
Il third shouted 1T is but his burial
that we are arranging"
He hath not opened his mouth since
We took him." said the man who is called
Dicon. rs he mute, then? Find
your tongue, my fine fellow, and let us
hear what your name is. 1t would have
been well for you if you had been born
dumb, so that you could not have sworn
our comrades life away"
Il have been waiting for a civil queS-
ton after all this bawlng aud babbling,
said /. My name is Micah Clarke.
Now, pray inform me who We may be,
and by what warrant We stop peaceful
travellers upon the public highway"
This is our warrant" Murgatroyd an
swcred touching the hilt of his cutlasS.
AS to who we are, We know that well
enough. Your name is not Clarke. but
Westhouse, or Waterhouse, and you are
the same cursed eXciseman who Snackled
our poor comrade, Cooper Dick, and
SwOre away his life at leicester"
II swear that you are mistaken, | re-
nlied. Il have never i'll my life been in
these parts before"
Fine words! Fine words" cried an
other smuggler. 'Gauger or no, you
must jump for it, since you know the
secret of our cave"
Your secret is safe with me- / an
swered. But if you wish to murder
me shall meet my fate as soldier
the field of battle, rather than to lie at
the mercy of such pack Of water-rats
in their burrow."
My faith said Murgatroyd. This
Is too tall talk for Il gauger. He bears
himself like soldier. too. 1t is pos
caught the falcon. Yet we had certain
token that he would come this way, and
on such another horse"
Call up Long John" suggested the
lutchman. Il would not give a plug of
Trinidado for the Schlems word Long
John was with Cooper Dick when he
was taken
'Ay," growled the mate Silas He
got a wipe over the arm from the gaug-
or's whinyard. He'll know his face, if
any will"
Call him, then" said Murgatroyd,
man came IN from the mouth of the
cave, where he had been on watch. He
wore a red kerchief round his forehead.
and blue ierkin. the sleeve of which
ne slowly rolled up as he came nigh.
Where is Gauger Westhouse" he
cried: he has left his mark on my arm.
Rat me if the scar is healed vet. The
sun is on our side of the wall now,
sauger. But hullo. mates! who be this
that We have clapped into irons? This
Is not our man"
Not our man. they cried, with a vol
ley of curses.
Why, this fellow would make two of
the, gauger. and leave enough over to
fashion I. magistrates clerk. Ye may
hang, him to make sure, but still he's
not the man."
Yes, hang him.. said Dutch Pete.
# all the country? We're is the pretty
Alarla TO go then. vid her silks and her
Natins. her kegs and her eases? Are we
70 risk orr cave for the sake of this
fellow? Besides, has he not schagged
my kopf-s chlagged your coopers kopf-
rs If he had hit me nit mine own NAL
let: Is that not worth a hemp cravatT"
~ Worth jorum of rumbo," cried
'Icon. by your leave. captain. ! would
say that We are not n gang of padders
and michers. but a crew of honest sea-
men, who harm none but those who
harm us. Exciseman WeSthouse hath
sam Cooper Dick, and it is just that he
shond die for it; but as to taking this
Young soldiers life. I'd as soon think
~ Scuttling the saucy Maria. or of
'nonnting the Jolly Roger at her peak"
What answer would have been given
20 this speech / cannot tell. for at that
moment a shrill whistle resounded out
>lde the cave, and two smugglers APP
peared bearing between them the body
- man. 1t hung so limp that I
bought at first that he might he dead.
qua when they threw him on the sand
ne moved. and at last sat up like one
mo IS but half awake from Sw0on.
ne was a square. dogged-face1 -fenow