The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-09

six in getting three drunken men on
board the Wanderer. He was very
tired and sulky
well. wod's up now" he grunted
Hell is up. and fiamin'," said Tom,
You amt forgot the admiral by any
chance, now"
Billy woke as suddenlg as If he had
been sleeping on the lookout and had
been found hard and fast by the mate
"Eh, what, has the California turn
ed up?"
You bet she has" said Tom. And
he burst into laughter. What dys
reckon he was on board of her when
she came to N York;"
Cooks mate?'
No, captain, captain! Think OF
that And he says he don't know who
laid him out and put him aboard OF
her"
Billy rose
Here. gimme the paper. You're
drunk"
He read the telegram with protrud-
ing eyes.
by the holy frost, but he must be
q dandy. Say, Smith muqt know this"
He marched to Smiths bedroom
and induced his boss to sit up and
hear the news, after Smith had used
more bad language with his eyes shut
than most men in San Francisco
could lay their tongues to when wide
awake.
Don't | tell you it's about the ad-
miral," expostulAted Billy; its about
Dunn. as you showed on the Califor-
MIA"
But now Shanghai was W a awake.
He looked al BIS, WI wicked eyes.
LAS | showed in the California. Ell?
Say that again and III get up and
knock the corners off of you You
miserable Tarhead. if | hear you whis-
per that | had the last joint of the lit
tie finger of my left hand in the game
I'll murder you"
Billy fell back from the bed in
alarm. Though he looked big enough
to have eaten Shanghai Smith, he
lacked the devil which had made
his boss what he was-the terror of
the coast" and of sailormen and
political power in his quarter of the
city.
"Oh, very IL then, Mr.. Smith, but
who done tt"
Understand that no one knows
who done it, you dog" said Smith.
reaching for what he called his
pants" ''but If any one done it, 1t
was you. And don't you forget it. |
hire you to do the work. and I'll see
you does it,
And Billy went back to Tom
Hes fair luny. that's what he is.
But If he reckons I'm goin to the Gala
bose for him, he'll run up agin a
snag'
And presently Smith came out to
breakfast witt n face az blac'- % a
near cyclone. Lilly and Tom jumped
when he spoke and all those men in
his house who were in leeshore, as
regards dollars. got away from him
and adorned neighboring fence.
What's wrong wiz Shang'ai?"
asked Londoner: a." es a black 'un,
but never seed i'm so rorty as
this!"
And no one answered him. They
were sick crowd at any time. and
now, when their slave owner roared,
their hearts were in their boots.
But Smith was only trying to keep
zap his own courage. Not once but
many times since he had got even
with the M who had given him
thrashing, he had regretted his meth
cd of revenge.
''Pd best have Dashed him and left
him laying on the Front" said Smith.
"and here's Tom and Bill know the
whole racket I've half a mind to
have them put out of the way In
such place as this. who can a man
trust? Bah, it sickens me, it does.
It fair sickens me-
How in the name of all. that was
holy and unholy had the admiral man
aged to rise from the focsle to the
command of the California?
And I thought Baker and Simpson
was both mem" said Smith with dis
gust "There amt any trustin' to APP
pearances, nor to reputation neither
But how could the swine have done
it?"
An early evening paper had the
whole story, and as Shanghai was
still up town. all his crowd of crimps
and slaves reared over e yarn.
"He fote the mate and was give
is billet" said one .: say. but old
Baker was sport. Taat's real old
Western Ocean packet law. And then
Baker went luny with r aim singing
and the hadmiral locl' i'm up.
8; with. but it must ave bin pic
mic! I'd 'av' give q m.nth's wages
TO see the show. But 90 was 1t
shang aied hadmiral?"
He spoke with bated breath
Who'd ii be but Smith," asked the
speakers mate sulkily Hes a devil,
q notorious devil. as we know He'd
shanghai his father for a quarter, IL
he was dry. And a month back my
own brother that shipped in the
Cyrus F. Brown told me as Shanghai
had a down on this very man
Then wouldn't be Smith for all
is money. This'll be government
business"
II would have been IL the admiral
had been any other KIM of man. But
Admiral Sir Richard Dunn was one of
those. and they get rarer every day.
who prefer handling their own affairs
He had gift of humor, too. and was
nightly pleased with himself.
Whoever 1t was that laid for me,
he never meant to make me master of
the California" he said, as he came
west on the cars "And whoayer he