The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-08-01
I he P1underers|
BY C. j.. cUTLIFFE HYNE.



OF all the quintet the man at tn
h1ier was the only one who shove
signs of energy, and his energy ha
sulphurous anger mixed with it. Fl
was a bowed, stumbling creature, wit
pne eye red and the other missing, wit,
Tong. hairy, ape-like arms, with an i'm
Pedfment of speech which threw hin
into paroxysms of temper every secon,
time he opened his lips. Once or twic
when his malady stuck him voiceless IL
the middle Of a sentence the other whit,
man laughed, and then when his tongu,
served him again he would break of
from the text and rap out a stream o
poisonous cursings.
AZ last he climaxed these by the onl,
v~ituperation which no American car
hsteTn to unmoVed. and the man on thu
soach roof dropped his Incidence Hike
1 flash and was on him before he coult
.esist. me aggressor was lusty, anC
We shook the steersman as a big dog
snake q rat, with ponderous wrenches
ana because the sloop carried a strong
'~eather helm when the tiller was let
80 she ran up into the wind, with her
canvas Stating wildly
you snake mouthed little skunk
fou'd say that to me-. would you? ]
hough learned you once how far
you might go. You've had one eye
Soused Tor this game less'n a month
oack, ana II you fling your twisted
gum, ~! pocket the other"
The blacks on the foredeck chuckled
'sno spiuttered, but the big man hove
IN iron bucket at them. with the curt
sommand. quit tina yehawin!' which
ihey did with q yell and a sudden veil
ing Of ivory. Then with an indolent
'sprawilng OF arms and legs he gained
Ills basking place again on the top of
the cabin roof, and once more the
'steersman got the sloop under COM
mand.
The next three boards were made in
silence. saw for the creaking OF the
ysear hen h went about, and then
me one eyed man broke out again.
foure sure 1t wasn't a government
'oo-o-o-at. Hank?"
government be sugared! She wasn't
The right build to start with. Besides,
n government knew this hanne at
I'll. you bet It'd be said SO in all the
papers. And she did know 1t, or she
wouldn't nave gone buZing past at six
knots without a leadsman. Seems to me
some ones split. and she's some darned
Brftisher come to cut out our game
Tor themselves"
You tire me. Plume huntlng's IL
g by these bub-bub blessed bird
laws. and SOS selling whisky to Injuns.
As 1t Is. We've trouble enough to sneak
IN and out of the 'Glades in this sus-
sus-sus.s-s-slip of a sloop. SO how in
hades dyou expect they'd do in a 1000
Jon Here the mans infrmity
blocked his speech for a full minute.
Ne snarled out, oh, I've no use for a
blank putty hear like you"
Hank laughed and put tobacco into
us mouth. "Go it." he said. Go it.
oring up shor Of that. or LII rouge
you. sure's DEATH"
lhe sleersman grtnned a spasrn Of
Jury. he onged much TO use again
tne ~npardonab phrase. but he fore
Nore. az feit that his friend would be
ne na zoo a. nus WORD, 80 ne ceased from
speech altogether, and a negro on the
.oredec enliveneo the silence with the
Joroan nynan, giving full value to every
tpossible shake and turn.
A porpoise surged past them making
LOT tne open AFTER a days fresh water
aasn.ng, ana once or twice an ailigator,s
eyebrows and snout showed like knots
OF blackwood floating up against the
current. for this was territory where
he skin hunters rife had not scared
mem altogether into night work. The
Scoops pace up stream was small, and
a. was hol .lli Just peIore night fa!l
mat she rounded a cape where high
oiack pines stood up like soldiers on
aarade around the waters edge and
saw the steamer. She was grounded
On a athwart the stream and
Jay with a Two foot list away from the
current Not until they were close
anoard OF ner could those on the sioop
see the gold lettering on her counter.
B.b-ooth gone. Say. that's
-TGsn.
Port Edea OF London" Hank read.
Edes? l seem to know that
am Hullo, Mutt! What's wrong
You look as though I'd said your
rich uncle q gone dead"
The n eyed mans face was lit up
! Nc asnsrs r out ans DE was IN an
Ing gu, 100000 in sovereigns. Her
Fort was New Orleans. and she's got
usIs ~ uHa.9l suppose tney think
shey re koinK 70 steal IL all by them