The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-28
THE CAPTAIN OF
THE APHRODITE
Continued from Second page.

would you be kind enough to tell
me what you intend to do with us %
he asked.
IT intend to deliver you to the po-
lice at Savannah" she said, without
finching. "a
con what charger"
Don't you know" she asked, ear
nestly, looking with something like
pain into his clear, ingenious eyes.
cied lurked behind that innocent veil
shocked her sensitive woman's ma
ture.
mo more than the man in the
moon," he declared.
She lifted a telegram from her
desk. 1.-TWO days ago, at Cumber-
land island, a tender and some hunt
ing and fishing traps were stolen from
this yacht. This telegram is from
the chief Of police at Fernandina.
Your boat and goods undoubtedly
stolen by Seaweed Daggett and gang.
They own sloop Pedro and yawl Pedro
waters out of my jurisdictions. Run
them down if you can. If they resist,
shoot them. Well dressed young
crook, stranger to us, offered some Of
your goods for sale here. Is probably
with gang now She folded the tel
egram and looked at Hutchinson for
an answer.
After a moments thought he asked
quietly: What may call you?"
my name Is Virginia Powers" she
answered..
At the answer he started SO per-
ceptibly that she asked curiously:
us there anything strange about
that?"
mo-" said he, "but, Miss Powers, I
should like to ask you If I look like a
well dressed young crook 2" He
looked her SO boldly and confidently
in the eyes that she drew back a little
with maidenly reserve as she
answered.
you don't look like liar, either;
yet you told my mate you left Savan-
nah yesterday morning in that yawl,
when; know my own eyes, that it
lay at Fernandina at s o'clock yester-
day morning.
Hutchinson flushed, yet not exactly
like a. guilty man. After studying the
carpet a moment--or possibly the toe
Of the fair captains little tan shoe
strange coincidence, I know your un.
Gle, Jonathan West. I have heard
something Of his unwillingness fol
you to go cruising around IN a yacht
IN this independent manner. I am
we'll acquainted with your cousin
BARLEY Hutchinson. I worked with
him on the San Francisco Examiner
1 saw him off at the station when he
came east, ostensibly to visit you. /
perhaps, am the only man who knew
that he, from certain reports he had
received, regarded you as coquette
and that his Intention, in spite of YOU
uncle's kind invitation to come on tt
Newport, was to stop off at New
York, and secure position on a pa.
per there-which intention he carried
out. He was almost Immediately sen
south to handle the yellow fever cpl
denic at Brunswick
Miss Powers at first flushed scarlet
but when he finished she was pale
s'Believe me- said she, in a voice
trembling with indignation, that
was no party to my uncle's invitation
to BARLEY Hutchinson. And at the
very hour when he was to arrive a
our home in Newport was a hundred
miles away, in this yacht. But dt
not see how this concerns you," sait
she catching herself. However much -
may admire Mr.. Hutchinson's brav
cry in exposing himself to fever, If HI
would make public such a story a
that, about his own cousin, canno
| imagine him a man who is very cho1c'
about his associates. cannot SCI
! how this story clears you.
| s"Only this-I am BARLEY Hutch1n
son." said he, laughing.
! "It is impossible" she exclaimed
| stiffening.
aNo-sinply strange" he said. en-
| joying her discontinue.
I. sThen, why are you with this bant