Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-06
By E. W. HORNUNG

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 Few travellers tempt the Red sea at midsummer. The Uhlan was very empty indeed. She had. however. but limited supply of cabins on the prom enade deck, and there was just that excuse for my @laring Rallies room. I could have ha! ene to myself down. stairs. but must be up above. Raffles had insi that I should in Slst on the point, so we were toget | CT, thtnk, without s.:s iiz,eiau. tlia;=4r..s also
 without any object t!.at l could see.
 Oil Ee Lr.atsay afternoon ws.s
 ! ieep ii Ii.,s lcltil--s...4 lower one
 when the curtains, were shaken N lsattiiiie;. v-.3o v.as ill bis s,lirt sleeves ou tac settee
 'Aeh55tss S,!lktrg in lis bunk..'
 What el4c is ile2e ,o Go:" l asked him as l stretched al.l yawacd I noted, however, 2ite gVJu ls,.iu0r of l4i- tone anl t.ies uy best } ca;ei t.
 Il have t4uAd so;l.e ding else, Ec51. ny"
 II dare say"
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 ! 5i@5ztt:- my ie.s, oYei, tie 5.dt, of I::5 berth Alld 9..t forward. US he wa; ,i,- ting. ali atention The inner door. $ grating, Was s!!ut and bolted aud cJii- taIle ile !le open partho!e.
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 ."S yeH sti5l mean b do it
 "Did ! eyer s3y didH't:"
 ''12tl {.tse said so lit,tic either way" . "AdXiscdIy SC, my dear Bunny. Nh{ sp2a l pleasure u5I, by talking unnec. eszatN sh9P: bgt BOW the time has eeAe. 1t gest be done at Genoa O. ncT at all"
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 No. oil hoard, tomorrow night. To. night Wo.id fTo. but tomorrow is bet ter il eas@ of Hishap. If We were 'rfed - u>e violence we couh C ;tWiy by tAe earliest train and noti4..1:s he known til tine ship was sailing aud Non Heumann found dead or drugged''-
 Not dead"' I exclaimed
 "Of course not assented Rallies. Tor there would be no need for us to bolt. But, if we should have to bolt Tuesday morning is our time. when this ship has got to sail whatever hap pens. But l don't anticipate any violence. Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence. In all these years how many blows have you known me to strike? Not one, be- lieve but l have been quite ready to kill my man every time if the worst came to the worst
 asked him how he proposed to en- ter Non Heumann's Stateroom unob- served. and even through the curtaincd gloom of ours his face lighted up
 "Climb into my bunk. Bunny, and you shall see''
 did so, but could see nothing. Raf- fes reached across me and tapped the q sort of trapdoar in the wall above his hed some eighteen inches long and half that height It opened outward into the ventilating shaft.
 "'Tlat." said he. lis our door to for tune. Open it if you like. You won't see much. because it doesn't open far. but loosening d couple of screws will set that all right The shaft, as you may see. is more or less bottomeSS: you pass under it whenever you go to your bath, and the top is a skylight on the bridge. That's why this thing has to be done while we're at Genoa. be- cause they keep no watch on the bridge in port The ventilator opposite ours is Non Heumapn's. It again will only mean couple of screws, and there's q beam to stand on while you work"
 But if anybody should look up from below?"
 Its extremely unlikely that any body will be astir belew-so unlikely hat we can afford to chance it. No, can't have you there to make sure rhe great point is that neither of us hould be seen from the time we turn Il. A couple of ships boys do sentry 1 90 on these decks, and they shall be 'ur witnesses. By love, it'll be the 'iggest mystery that ever was nader If Von Hcumann doesn't resist"
 Resist. He won't get the chance. 1c drinks too much beer to sleep fight, and nothing is so easy as to hloroform heavy sleeper. You've ven done 1t yourself on an occasion f which it's perhaps unfair to remind ou. Von Heumann will be past sen- Atfon almost as soon as l get my and through his Ventllator l shall rawl in over his body, Bunny, my oy"
 And I?''
 You will hand me what want and old the fort in case of accidents and enerally lend me the moral support ou've made me require. It's luxury, unny, but I found it devilish difficult ) do without it after you turned pi!'' He said that Won Heumann was cer- lin to sleep with bolted door, which 9, of course, would leave unbOlted,