The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-09-05
The P1underers.
BY C. :. cUTLlFFE HYNE.


down in our medicine chest, dom
know where you will find it, Yes sir
l will say that. The Port Edes has {
romping fine medicine chest, and Tvt
been through it all myself. so I ough1
to know. The donkeyman's been mos
ways through it, too, but he's III a
fever mixtures now, and he's going
solid at them. We've three quart bot.
lles-A for bilious, b for malarial anG
Q for typhoid-and the donkeyman has
a swig out of each with a nip of cholo-
rodyne thrown in just after his break
fast every morning and then a rub with
st. Elmo's rheumatic cure, and if he
isnt as right as a mailboat-Well, never
speak to me of drugs again. But it's
making a tough man of him, Mr.. Cam
bel, and that's what l want, because
the donkeyman and l are going to
CHIP in partnership
What, buy 4 steamer together and
take her trarnpinG? Well, l. hope you'll
nave all manner of luck"
oh, don't you make an error" re-
torted the captain. 1T isn't salt wa
ter trading We're in for. We aren't
such gulls as that. We know too much
about it, both of us. We're going to
start in farming"
Farming? What does either of you
know about that"
oh, on you lake me for a fool, sir.
1 can learn as well as anyone, and so
can the donkeyman. We shall get 800
acres of land granted to the pair of us
for nothing in northwest Canada. and
even If crops failed altogether we've
enough saved UP to live on for the first
Two years We can try it anyhow When
you give us our discharge from here.
Ever since l worked at sea-" he added
plaintively- "I've always wished to be
a farmer"
Il think" said Cambel, Il would dis
suade you from the attempt if 1 could,
put know it's no use trylng, SO l will
hold my tongue on that point. AS to
when your bargain is up with the Port
Edes, you can put that at half an hour
from o if you like. Anyway I'm 60
ing to leave here directly. md L never
intend to return here again"
Captain Kettles jaw dropped.
"What?" he gasped.
Il have changed my mind,' he said,
or had it changed for me. For my
that gold will remain where it is.
L am not going to touch a sovereign
of it,"
Look here said Captain Kettle. do
you mind telling me? Did you come
against some preacher during the
cyclone and get religion from him?"
II think 1 know what you mean. But
re on the wrong rack. I'm not the
sort who announces publicly that he
a. SoS " JIG q SltlllGE just because
finds himself in physical, danger"
No said kettle, come to think of
it, | should have known you were not.
L was q fool to ask that question, But
1t settles it in another direction. There's
a woman got hold of you"
"Or 1 of her."
Either way. SO that's it. And you
TOLD her all about this racket because
you thought it wrong to hold any Sc
crets OF your own, and she soured on it.
Well, that's woman's way. And the
other lady you spoke about, she who
made you run wild, you've forgotten
Cambel nodded.
And She forgotten you?"
Il hope she has, and il she HASN'T I
can't help it."
Well, Mr.. Cambel, If this business is
10 end in a bout ship. as soon as the
d"nkeyman nm Jack from his hunt
l am ready to- get under way and
OF. But as he isn't here yet. and as
we've still a bit of time to wait, I'd
like to hear what is going to become of
mat $500, 600 and the old ship, after all.
I've been in at the handling of them
both SO long that I'm beginning to take
quite a friendly interest in their move
ments. AS you know. I've liked them
Well at times that I've been half
to adopt them myself"
Il know. and it is to your honor
you didn't"
oh. as to honor, don't make any
blessed error about that, sir. 1t was
my cantankerousness. If the crew
hadn't been SO uppish that night in
the gust of the Florida channel, so helm
me, neither steamer nor gold would
ever have got SO far as this. But We'll
let that pass. for the present. And now
ID like to hear, If I might. who is to
the stuff?'
Kettle, I'd tell you if 1 could. but
upon my soul I'm no able. My bargain
with the girl I'm going to marry wa
pocket no share of the plumber nv
self, but as I warned her / was Shelf's
still and couldn't cease to serve
him because of scrupIes of my own
conscience. And SO 1 was going to set
off to carry his half to the bank We
had agreed upon when a newspaper
arrived to say that he had gone smash
was in Jail awaiting trial on six
teen heavy charges.
Directly afterward a letter came
from Shelf himself, which had been
passed by the newspaper cablegram.
telling me to transmit the stuff to a
in South America where he could
meet me. Clearly he can't do that now.
and being a convict he cannot hold
property. So, perhaps jesuitically.
hold myself clear of all pledge to him"
n who the devil is to get the
money? Hang me if / can see."
The proper owners whoever they
may be-" said Cambel. But they'll
to be found, and at present i
haven't the vaguest notion who they
might be. In fact. as we now are.
there's half a million Of English money
and a fine steamer a going a-begging."
N- . CIY nvyr1r