The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-06-10


aboard the schooner and laid his rife On
the deck beside me. Then he drew his
heavy revolver and turned to the captain
of the brig.
i VIII give You five minutes to get me
the papers that YOU have for the people
on Inc launch which you are going to
meet. IT you fail to get them in that
tine. YOU are a dead man. All of your
plans are known and there is a gunboat
ready 20 meet the launch as soon as she
arrives from Hong Kong. Now come with
me and remember that you life is at
stake"
The spaniard turned white as a sheet.
'Bat there are no papers, senior"
Gasped the captain. at was thought bet
ter not TO have them"
That is a pity, for now YOU must die"
said Boles; but l th.nk you lie. IT it is
true hat You have no papers, how are the
others 20 know that You are the ones
whom they seek?"
All. senior, the captain of the launch is
my old comrade. Juan Gomez. and when
we drew near we We're to fly a small
white flag from our peak
Boles tugged at his mustache for a mo-
nert. Then his face hardened.
VIII question you and this other man
separately in the cabin and if what you
say does rot agree, or IL when we meet
the Gunboat | lind that you nave been
telling lies. YOU shall both surrey die. On
the Other hand, If YOU tell the truth. i
VII! promise that you shall go free and
your vessel Will not be confiscs ted
All. senior. You are Very good. We will
tell all IL 1t We know, especially now that
all is lost
They went below and In about half an
hour the captain came OF deck again and
thu other man went down. In a few min
nyaG h9 also Ha ma lin fnllnu-a1 H.. l.,
''rhey tel. a straight enough story" he
Said. IT'S just as i thought. They're
only chartered for the Job. Beyond that
they've Ito interest in the thing. And
there is some money coming ABOARD"
"Whatll We do with them now" L
asked.
THAT the question. / believe III lust
order them TO keep by us for another
twcnty-four hours and then tell them to
clear out. Thatl prevent them from flag
eing the launch by cable, if by any
chance she hasn't left Hong Kong.
They'll be only too glad to clear out.
They're satisfied that the whole game is
up"
Ain they any way leary of u.s."
asked.
"No-;hey think that We're Just sent out
as hait to make extra sure. That idea of
the s%uaboat was an Inspiration"
We had to shorten SAN so as not to run
away from them and all tina night they
hung Oh so close that j thought once or
twice they might foul us. The weather
kent fair and on the second day after. as
We were getting up near the rendezvous,
we hailed them and told them to go
back and that the less they said the less
HE Two hours later tbev We 1,,,l - 49,
Ia the southwest "A
For three days ~. ,,, n.. -
the plaoe of rendezvous ans ,ns W..
that excent for ono weaL ,ham = 80
the ne,Ira,pia from dri,.ins ,ha ie !. a
on a high trastla in tha u1rtsr a. - r.
most miserable seventy-two hours ~ -
life. Boles didn,, Seem ~ ,,,ra !. ~
was afraid mat littla Rrown nas 80 a
to have ne,.,.o,ts rns4rattoa %"s SING
painted a single lick wbic, m.as : y
had sign. 20"
ON the morning OF the foprth day han
pe},ed In he .an aocls 49, 20 , Hdp-
were below plavinr c,ihba~ -, " ~ ~
dead becalned vbioi, .loas71,, r., 49,.
pe,l In tho chin, so9 ,rd ~ . : 't@t!
ewes ia mo veetv,ar5 e~,i9n,,,. 80 ns
Of =bl,rl, s,,oka o,.a, ~ ~ = - ~
straight I'M into me ai, NJ, - t 90. raio
a h.g limTi and tban ~ w. 80 So
get nN.se5f toeotser bar1 ~ ~ ~ - 60
Brown came on deck A. soon .. ~
al,,. =, = -, 80. - - - soon as l was
fun,ned IN me fore = ri, 9fTr n .tf SKY me
lar a,%f ,ns- ~ 49, hor = stIs WIN a oihoco-
buster ali rieht. and coming as If sta,d
been Delayed on the street and WIS . raid
size might miss her dr. T ~ . a III
Poles ana Brown. Now MAT me si,s,ansa
was OVER and the time for antfon con,e
We an took a b~9ca rsn nv 49,. ~, ~
White rag to the peak an1 tba,, ua 4h
and watched. and an mar von c9,lla
hear was the gurgle of NV old IT.. and
the smack of the water when s,nltoI ~
a mouthful Of nicotine in nv a~cit .i1r -
Up she came and we sew th., sp vl'i r.a
q ,anuob Of na,bor, e{..n 80. w az
and all housed in forward win I To,5s,, '9 nv
planed blanks to stand the sen In ,he
cockpit aft there were hair a aa1a, - 60
OF men. and there was no talIina lon.
many more might lie down IN tba cabin
She ran up almost alongside Of MS and
net more than 50 feet away ana tbo,, me- mo
bell rang and her propeIJer s,clta6 tta
water back under the stern. 4 rnomart
later she was lolling idly IN tho seq VILE
a dozen binoculars We're PLAYING over us
from stem to stern. and my sk;, ;tl,e5
under the scrutiny. Boies csl,n1y ana