Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-12-03

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carr passed him silently and his chill
uren mad no pla%mates on the street.
That's Mr.. Tanning" said a man
pointing ont the manager to Capt. Cody
on the street
Capt. Cody had just returned from
a voyage to the Pacific and had never
beheld the manager.
He glanced at him with the air O,
man who is compelled to stare al
something very disagreeable, then his
glance became fixed and after Tanning
mad passed he fastened around the
square so that he would meet the man.
aSer once more.
Where have I seen a man Just like
him? said Capt Cody, to himself. But
though the photograph of a mans face
like, very like, unto Mr.. Fanning's
was impressed on the captains mind
the film would not develop. It was
misty and yet it was a face. It worried
the captain. He went over the world
IN MS mind. He confronted him sell
with men in fezs, in turbans and il
sombreros. He marshaled before hi,
mental eye the crews he had command
ed, but the film remained clouded ant
imperfect.
There was an ingredient lacking. 8
touch needed, and neither was within
the captains reach. He lost his appe
tile and kept Mrs Cody awake with hi:
restlessness.
Capt. Cody waxed cross and peevisi
as he struggled with his imperfect pho
| tograph, and when lady called to Sc,
him he went into the parlor in a bat
humor.
The lady had a son who was on 8
voyage to Demerara and she had hearC
| some stories about its deadly climat,
and Mastered TO Capt. Cody for hi.
| opinion. He treasured her and re-
| NAMED sitting in the paror after she
| had gone. Demerara, He had no
| been there for years, but the memor,
! Of the pea-sOup colored river cam,
| with its fiat banks and the sugar shed:
! and white houses of the town came
| back to him. Then the missing irgrcdi
l ent came to his hand The fila be-
| came gradually a portrait clear auc
| distinct Tanning It was, and Dere
rara was where he had seen him. Fol
! lowing close on the perfection of tho
him came facts. Like links in a oh air
they welded one in another. Tanning
he had seen him on board the Vixen
| Capt Chapman; and the Tanning h
| saw there had manacles on his wrist.
| and was in the cabin of the steame,
with a grim looking man alongside Of
him.
| "Chapman's in Norfolk now" muir
| INJURED Capt Cody.
He went to Norfolk on that evening,
! boat.
Capts. Cody and Chapman stood or
| the street corner opposite the ware
house OF Bilson & Clark, much as two
marksmen would stand awaiting thu
| appearance of some willy game bird.
He'll 30 out for dinner" said Cody
and then you'll see him. Fannins
came out and walked up the street a.
| became man at peace with the world
Its him. said Oh apman. s.Somers!
. Robbed house in Rerhiee q, ITS
sum, made his lucky escape to Demerara
was caught and put on my steamer TO,
return to Berbice. Managed to slip hi.
handouts just as we came into Berbic,
at night and pumped overheard. MUS
have caught a boatman and bribed hin
to hide him. He's wanted out Their,
badly"
"What1l YOU do?" asked Capt. Cody
| III call on him tonight" replied
Capt Chapman, grimly.
Somers, alias Tanning, at first denied
Everything fatty. But his face was tn,
color of white clay and his knees smot,
one another as he clustered. II was nc
good Chapman had his proofs pat anC
| Somers threw MP the game. He va,
willing TO confess and put the conres
sion in writing that he had doctoreo
the wharfage boo S so as to throw tn,
blame on Capt. Carr for a discrepancy
the result OF his own peculations.
Nov" said Capt. Chapman. max,
your best time out of this port. anC
Keep out Of it,"
The $4,000 was not the only discrep
ancy which Bilson & Clark discovered
when they went over the accounts O
Mr.. Tanning, who had come to then
with forged letters of recommendation
| Detectives hunted for Mr. Fannir {
without success and Ellison e Clark hqC
TO charge the dedication of to prof
and loss without even the qualification
of revenge.
Capt Carr resumed his post as chic
OF the wharves belonging TO the firm