The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-09-05

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gray locks and pushed them back
from his forehead. There showed a
livid mark with four black circles.
Those round black marks are the
prints of your dear old grandfather's
knuckles," he said, letting the hair
drop back into place. They've been
there thirty odd years. I'll tell you
how it happened. Captain Burt was
very religious man, according to his
own standards. He was particularly
! down on swearing. A cuss word drove
him crazy and I've seen him pound
man nearly to death for a harmless
damn
I'VE had a sailor named Bilson,"
continued Mr.. Hawkins. He was one
of those clumsy, aggrayating fools
whose very looks were an incentive
TO profanity 1t came on to blow one
right and | sent Bilson aloft. He man
aged to foul the fore-royal cleW lines
and when | yelled at him he laughed
in his idotic way, and | was boiling
mad all over. While | was relieving
my mind | felt hand on my shout
der, and it wasn't a gentle one, either
Not another word from your bias
phemous mouth, Jack Hawkins! said
Captain Burt.
'''You go to hell said, SO mad
I didn't know what | was saying.
He gave me a cuff on the side of
lo mi ~ bo I'm IF
was not heavy, but it made me crazy.
"'Go below and pray God to forgive
YOU he said.
mo man had ever struck me before
and / swung at him with my right. |
caught him a glancing blow above the
eye. He didn't even raise his hands.
Hit me again, Jack Hawkins! he
said, calm as if asking me to pass him
rhe salt.
Il aimed for his chin, but caught
him on the neck. 1t was like striking
a brick wall His arm smashed
through my guard, and his fist landed
full on my temple. 1t was frightful
blow and | went spraWling to the
N
he picked me up and hurled me over
the rail. AS | came up | caught one
glimpse of the Segregansett through
the mist as she heeled to port in the
gale.
The water revived me, and | sue
ceeded in kicking off my boots.
swan In the direction of the ship, and
by sheer good luck bumped into hen
coop, which some one-Captain Burt
most likely-had thrown overheard.
| fioated around on that hencoop until
morning.
Along about noon heard splash
ing, and big canoe filed with ma
tlves came in sight. | yelled at them
ard after much palaver they took me
in. They were friendly savages on a
visit from one small island to another
I went along as guest, and it was
months before the boats of the Jane
IA came ashore and took me off.
"A year later I landed in Frisco,
lust in time to be in the gold excite
ment. That's all. If your grand
father hadn't thrown me overheard
in the middle of the Pacific ocean, it's
not likely I'd have located the Chal
lenge mine. | forgave him years ago.
and you can bet | harbor no grudge
against his grandson
He has been the one to suffer-
said John. "He imagines himself your
murderer, and for years has prayed
for forgiveness. | expect to go back
to him in a few days, and you must
go with me-
Then he told John Hawkins the
story of his boyhood and of the shoot
ing of Arthur Morris. He told of his
love for Jessie Garden, and Of his de-
termination to restore to General Car
den the fortune filched from him by
the elder Morris.
when last | saw Miss Garden"
said John, "she was the heiress to a
comfortable fortune. | had nothing
but health, strength and ambition, but
she believed in my future, and some
thing has told me that she would wait |
LOT me. SHdli oCo hoi III A0"
days, and | wish her to be as proud |
and Independent of my wealth as on
that night | left her side, five years
ago. She has been robbed of her |
birthright, but If my judgment of the
value of L. & O. is accurate, it will be
restored to the keeping of her father" |
II have news for you about L. & o."
said John Hawkins, 'but first tell me
exactly how you stand"
"The company is organized with one
hundred thousand shares, of par
Y alue of one hundred dollars each" he |
said, with bonds to the amount of |
five millions more. Morris holds
thirty-fve thousand shares, and his