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piled Miss Helen.

posed you would obey me-.
81 went below. papa, just as you
told me to do" said Miss Helen, con-
tritely. "But You did not tell me
could not look out. opened the
port hole in the saloon, and saw and
heard everything that happened on
the shark When Mr.. Hestor
jumped from the bridge and ran to
the gun, Capt. Waters shouted, stop
him. Hold him. Then he yelled
'Starboard!' to the whcelsman, and
rushed down the steps to the deck.
But before the men could stop Hes
tor, he had commenced firing. Then
he threw his hands up in the air
and the men caught him MS he fell
backwards. [ thought I could see
/ blood on his face"
'"This probably terminates Hes
| tors career as a pirate or maniac
remarked Mr.. Morton. "The gov
eminent cutters will run the shark
| to cover in short order. You are
quite a sharpshooter, Mr.. Seymour"
Il had my eye on that Iiotchkiss
gun all the time" said Mr.. seymour.
AT first ] thought Hestor was max
ing a bluff to scare us. But when he
| turned loose | knew he meant war.
| If he had remained back Of the shield
/ he would have been safe. and ! pro-
posed to drop the man at the wheel
and take crack ut the captain.
But IIestor stuck his head ont TO sec
where his shots were landing and
! let him have it. have shot some
before. The Sioux Indians and used
to exchange compliments before the
battle of Wounded Knee, and I
guess my shooting eye is all right
yet. But | hope did not kill him"
At midnight the ''lIclen Carmody"
steamed up to New Orleans. landed
near Canal street and discharged her
passengers on their native soil. They
al once proceeded to a hotel.
\ surgeon was called and made a
careful examination of Sidney's
wound. He confirmed the diagnosis
made by the Yacht steward. He
dressed the wound carefully. and adj
vised Sidney to remain quiet for sew
eral days. II was late before Mr..
Chalmers and his assistants had for
warded 10 "Thp Record" an account
of this incident.
( Mr.. Bernard Seymour arose bright
and early the following morning. and
after a stroll around the Lee Circle
returned to the hotel and enjoyed
hearty breakfast. He purchased
the morning papers, and selecting
comfortable chair on tho vcranda
/ proceeded to combine the luxury of a
cigar with a perusal Of the journals
/ in which his name figured so con-
/ spcuously. He was studying a three
column portrait labeled mfr, Ber-
] nard Seymour. the Famous Ncwspa-
per Detective" when some one tapped
/ him on the shoulder.
"IIaou are We, Mister Seymour.
/ swan, I'm mighty glad ter see We!
Haou de We dew, Haou de ye dew"
"iello. Captain Parker! The pleas
ure is all mine How are YOU, Cap
tain? How is the good ship, the
Sam Walker'?'
"Finer'n silk" said Capt. Parker,
as they shook hands cordially. well,
I swan, but yer er great man; amt
We? Your picter is in all Their papers.
Well. well. we'll, swan, We never
can tell, can We? Who'd thunk it,.
SO We arc acknowledgements. Well,
well. Well"
The Captain insisted on purchasing
the cigars. after which they returned
to the vcranda. The good sailor
seemed to have something on his
mind. Once or twice - cleared his
throat as if to make some important
announcement. Finally he took a
long pull AT his cigar and said:
Mister Seymour, seeing as how We
air a newspaper man-thOugh | never
would n thunk it-dew We suppose We
could get my name in the papers
about this ere matter? | don't care
a blamed thing about it myself, but
my old woman is Just plum crazy ter
see my name in the papers Darncd
if / don't believe she would he willin'
ter have Their Sam Walker wrecked
IL il would get my name in Their
newspapers, Fact! Dew we suppose
ye could fix it?'
Sure, sure thing" said Mr.. Ber-
nard seymour ITS already in The
New York Record. / sent more than
Il thousand words about you and the
sam Walker from Vera Cruz. | also
sent description of you. and they
will probably have your picture. All
the papers will copy it. You had
better get me photograph of your
self for use in more consecutive
story ! am now writing"
The delight of Capt. Parker was
beyond expression lie nearly frac-
tured Seymour's hand in his joyous
clasp.
"The old woman will be tickled
plum ter death" he exclaimed. "T
have been saihn' 80 years an nothip'
has happened worth printin' until
now. Haou much is 1000 words? A
column! Great Scott! Have another
segar. Have box of 'em. This is
the greatest thing that ever happened
ter the Parker family"
Mr.. Chalmers was asleep when a
bell boy aroused him and presented
n card. lie rubbed his eyes sleep
lily and rebuked the boy in no equivo-
cal language. Scrawled on a card
was: