The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
"You never stole til" thundered Cap.

"You never stole I'll" Numbered Capt
Cody.
Never" beloved the chorus Of
mates and boatswains.
But people who once spoke to Capt.
Carr passed him silently and his chill
dren had no playmates on the street.
That's Mr.. Tanning" said a man,
pointing out the manager to Capt. Cody
on the street
Capt. Cody had Just returned from
voyage to the Pacific and had never
beheld the manager.
He glanced at him with the air Of
man who Is compelled to stare at
something very disagreeable, then his
glance became fixed and after Tanning
had passed he fastened around the
square so that he would meet the man
ager once more.
Where have seen man just like
him?" said Capt. Cody, to himself. But
though the photograph of mans face.
like. very like, unto Mr.. Fanning's,
was impressed on the captains mind,
the film would not develop. 1t was
misty and yet it was face. It worried
the captain. He went over the world
in his mind. He confronted himself
with men in fezs, in turbans and in
sombreros. He marshaled before his
mental eye the crews he had command
ed, but the film remained clouded and
imperfect.
There was an ingredient lacking, a
touch needed, and neither was within
the captains reach He lost his appe-
tite and kept Mrs. Cody awake with his
restlessness.
Capt. Cody waxed cross and peevish
as he struggled with his imperfect pho
tograph, and when a lady called to see
him he went into the parlor in bad
humor
The lady had a SON who was on
voyage to Demerara and she had heard
some stories about its deadly climate
and fastened to Capt. Cody for his
opinion. He treasured her and re-
NAMED sitting in the parlor after she
had gone. Demerara! He had not
been there for years, but the memory
of the pea-soup colored river came
with its fiat banks and the sugar sheds
and white houses of the town came
back to him. Then the missing ingredi-
ent came to his hand. The film be-
came gradually portrait, clear and
distinct Tanning 1t was, and Deme-
rara was where he had seen him. Fol-
lowing close on the perfection Of the
film came facts. Like links in a chain
they welded one in another. Tanning,
he had seen him on board the Vixen,
Capt. Chapman: and the Tanning he
saw there had manacles on his wrists
and was in the cabin of the steamer
with a grim looking man alongside of
him.
"Chapman's in Norfolk now" muir
INJURED Capt Cody.
He went to Norfolk on that evenings
boat
Capts. Cody and Chapman stood on
the street corner opposite the ware
house Of Bilson & Clark. much as two
would stand awaiting the
appearance of some willy game bird.
Hell go out for dinner" said Cody.
"and then you'll see him. Tanning
came out and walked up the street as
became man at peace with the world.
cts him." said Chapman. "Somers!
Robbed a house In Berbice of big
sum, made his lucky s~ape to Demerara.
was caught and put on my steamer for
return to Berbice. Managed to slip his
handouts just as we came into Berbics
at night and pumped overheard. Must
have caught boatman and bribed him
to hide him. He's wanted out there
badly"
"WhatIl you do?" asked Capt Cody.
"I'll call on him tonight" replied
Capt. Chapman. grimly.
Somers, alias Tanning, at first denied
everything fatty. But his face was the
color Of white clay and his knees smote
one another as he clustered. It was no
good. Chapman had his proofs pat and
Somers threw up the game. He was
willing to confess and put the confess
sion in writing that he had doctored
the wharfage books so as to throw the
blame on Capt. Carr for discrepancy,
the result of his own populations.
"Now," said Capt. Chapman. make
your best time out Of this. port, and
keep out Of it."
The $4,000 was not the only discrep-
ancy which Bilson & Clark discovered
when they went over the accounts of
Mr.. Tanning, who had come to them
with forged letters Of recommendation
Detectives hunted for Mr.. Tanning
without success and Bilson & Clark had
to charge the defalcation off to profit
and loss without even the qualification
of revenge.
Capt Carr resumed his post as chief
of the wharves belonging to the firm.
follow. Has life become so rapid that
a man cannot take time to eat? Is it