The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
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|, the astounded mutineers. Al
 shut the scuttfeg' he screamed shut it. for Gods sakei"
 Whats hup?" asked Ben, rising from his seat on the side of the bunk.
 The passengers have mutinied.' i gasped the skipper; they've killed the man at the wheel and tried to kill mo They're pirates. and 1t was a made-up thing to get the brig" "Wot!'i calculated Ben; 'twA men and one of 'em a hold blcke to take d vessel from seven ilable-bodied sea- men," i
 They're cranimed full of revolvers,' 2 replied the captain. ''and they've a lot of dynamite glass bombs thatll kill six men every time one Is smashed on deck"
 Mike arose with alacrity and closed the scuttle. He breathed short.
 He had hardly resumed his seat when a rap sounded on the hatch
 'Below therc." thundered a voice 'is the captain down thefeT'
 "Yes. sir," replied Ben, meekly. "
 Then heave him up. you internal set Of rhomboids. you"
 The whole company of conspiratofs helped to push the unhappy skipper up the ladder. When his head emerse ed he was roughly snatched up.
 Don't dare sho wone of your faces on deck, you set of parallelograms." said the voice, truculently.
 When morning dawned the hatch was flung back and the mutineers or- dered on deck. Badly scared. they were as docile as flock of sheep. In- stead of an abstracted old man and a studious looking younger man, the ex- mutineers saw a piratical old bravo with his belt bristling with pistols and his companion even more heavily arr1- ed. Another man stood by the skip per, who was at the wheel, and patted him on the head with a pistol butt.
 T thought there was only two men," whispered Mike in an awed tone.
 'TIi 'spect the 'old's full of 'en, like a bloomin' play HI seed In Liverpool. where a lot O robbers were packed in hoil barrels" replied Ben.
 A breeze having arisen, the old pi- rate sang out from the poop: Make sail. you infernal set of uniformed rectangles--make saiIv'
 Under the captains directions, which were issued under pressure of a poinr- ed pistol, sails were spread and the brig headed for Curacoa-
 "aie," said Ben, while on the yard with Mike, Hi could cuss like that hold bloke, TIrd want hextry wages. :" Like @docile lambs the mutineers worked ship until she entered the port of wilhelmstadt, and then, with one accord, they leaped into the water and Awam furiously for the shore.
 This beats me- said the skipper gazing admirinEly at the doctor And me-" added the released mate "Oh, it's nothing, gentlemen, but Q little plan to save our lives. These sawed off chair arms look wonderfully like pistol butts stuck, in 0 belt and Miss Annie made a splendid man s4n the mates clothes; besides. your tale about the dynamite bombs did the work" Tie man who had been at the wheel and who was securely bound in | the cabin was released and sent ashore new crew was shipped and the bris l again started on her voyage of dis | covery.
 "A well devised plan, doctor" said the professor, "well carried out" "Your fields the stage" retorted tho doctor, you acted a pirate to perfec' ton. Don't you think g. man of my stock of ideas would make Miss Annie a good Ahusband.etf tAff eEf1 AI,
 Hum. we'll see about that" said th' professor.