Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-06-19

The partners started for Vineyard
Haven in the early morning The cap
tain talked most of the way, for which
Bradley was thankful He didn't feel
like talking. They found the Diving
Belle lying at the wharf, and Captain
Titcomb watched his companions face
as they stood on the stringplece look
ing down at her.
They bought the schooner. 1t re-
NAMED only to bring over the check
and take away the schooner, and this
they did week later Meanwhile
Captain Titcomb had performed anoth-
er miracle. He had hunted up man
who had expressed desire to pur-
chase the Lizzie and after two days of
bargaining, during which time the cap
tain had twice pretended to give it up
and return to Orham, had sold him
the old schooner for $3.50; also he sold
his shares in the cranberry bog.
There was good sized crowd of
townspeople on the Orham wharf when
the Diving Belle slid smoothly past the
harbor mouth and up to her mornings.
There was a splendid breeze, but they
wouldn't have used the sails for any
consideration. The sight Of the NOV
ing pistons in that wonderful sixteen
horsepower engine, the enchanting
smell of the gasoline, the muflled drum
ming of the propeller under the stern
these were brand new, unadulterated
joys of proprietorship that no mere
item like the saving of unnecessary
expense could induce them to forfeit.
Captain Ezra put in the most of his
spare time Improving the new pur-
chase Bradley told him it seemed
like the Thomas Doane days to smell
paint and trip over Il bucket of water
and Il swab every little while.
Orham was just then i'll the throes of
Il burglar scare. Two houses in the
village had been broken into, apd the
natives were talking of calling an in
dignation meeting for the purpose Of
expressing their opinion of the select
men Then steam yacht belonging to
a summer resident, which lay housed
over for winter in the harbor, YVES
boarded and ransacked.
1t was on the day following this rob
berry that Captain TitcOmb began tin
kering with the cabin door. This door
and the sliding hatch above it had been
fastened with paddock. The captains
first move was to block the hatch so
that it would slide back but a little
way. Then he sawed and hammered
away at the door.
There he cried i'll triumph after
two hours of hard work. Brad, como
mere. Spose ore OF them mean sneak
thieves tries to bust into that cabin,
He can pry the staple OF that paddock
easy. can't he? Yes, bit the way that
hatch is now 'twont open fur enough
for him to climb down; he's got to open
d three dollar pltcnt lock that can't
be opened without the key, and no ten
cent whistle down the barrel key eli
tier. The key that'il open that has lace
edgin' on it. You hear me. And I've
took off the knob on the inside Of the
lock 50 il can't be worked that way.
Now, when we want to 50 home we
haul TO the hatch AID lock it with the
paddock. Then we jest slam the door.
Click! There you are! a spring lock.
EIow's that for higl? Thundcratlon!
I've left the key inside'
Luckily the key was lying on the top
step Of the cabin stairs, and they Wc"c
able to reach it with fshhook on the
end Of stick
Getting up the tar with the aid Of
the patent windlass and the engine
was simply fur. They took out all they
could bring up through the hatchway
and then began blowing out the side
of the hull with dynamite. Tbr cXplo-
sive was stored in the Diving Bellies
hold forward behind bulkhead with
only one small manhole in it and was
carefully boxed in to prevent accident.
Bradley's whole interest i'll life now
centered in his work. Gus he had not
spoken with since the night of the
dance; had, in fact, only seen her at
distance. Sam, while on board the
schooner, was pleasant and to all APP
pearances, as friendly as Bradley
would let him be, but from Captain
Jabez and from other considerable and
gossip loving souls the junior partner
learned that Hammond was now a
fegular caller at the Baker cottage.