Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1908-05-06

two days ahead OF schedule! Thrice
unlucky popularity that found thee
basking in the sunshine of womans
favor instead Of on thy four-inch
deck! The pilot signaled the mail:
Skiddy put forth in his consular boat
intercepting the cutter In the pass and
receiving Ton his head his own espe-
cial government bag. The proximity
or the Southern Belle and the likeli-
hood OF Satterlee being at home
caused Skiddy to board the ship and
open the bag on her quarterback. One
stout. blue and important-lookingI let
ter at once caught his eye. He opened
the stout. blue and important looking
letter and
There were no white men In the
crew of the Southern Belle. They
were all Rotumah boys. with the ex-
ception OF All Foy, the Chinese cook.
This amiable individual was singing
over his pots and pans when he was
suddenly startled by the apparition
or Skiddy at the gally door The lit
tie consul was deathly pale and there
was something fierce and authorita-
tive in his look.
Come out of here" he said abrupt
ly, Il want to talk to youi"
The Chinaman followed him aft. He
had pretty good idea of what was
coming. That was why he was sewn
up with $500 In hard cash together
with twenty-dollar bill under his
left heel. He began to cry and in five
minutes had blurted out the whole
thing. Self-preservation is the first
law, and he had, besides, some dim
conception of states evidence. Skiddy
made the conception clearer and
promised him immunity il he would
make a clean breast of it. This the
Chinaman forthwith did in his labori-
Gus pigeon. A good part of it was in
comprehensive, but he established
certain main facts and confirmed the
stout, blue, mportantlooking letter
AS Satterlee came off on a shore boat
pulling like mad, and then darted I'D
the ladder in sweat of apprehension.
he was met at the top by Skiddy-not
Skiddy his friend, but Skiddy the arm
OF the law, Skiddy the retributive
Skiddy the worlds avenger, with
Seniko. his towering cox, standing
square behind him.
John Forster" he said, "alias Sat
terlee. arrest you in the name of the
United States, on the charge of hav-
ing committed the crime of barratry
and warn you that anything you say
now may be hereafter used against
you"
nrrfh hi %
be forced to say-and no sense of
public duty could make 1t less than
detestable. Skiddy almost whispered
out the words. The brutality of them
appalled, him. Remember. this was
his friend, his hero, the man whose
intimacy an hour before had been
everything to him. Satterlea gave
him a quick, blank, panicky look, and
then. with pitiful bravado. took a
step forward with an attempted re-
turn to his usual confident air. He
protested to be dumfounded at the ac-
cusation; he was the victim of a
dreadful mistake; he tried. with a
CHASTITY smile, to reassert his old do
minion. calling Skiddy "old man" and
old chap in a shaky, fawning voice.
and wanting to take him below Ito
talk 1t over" But the little consul
was adamantine. The law must take
its course. He was sorry, terribly
sorry, but as an officer of the United
States he had to do his duty.
Satterlee preceded him into the
boat. The consul followed and took
the yoke lines. They were both de-
Jected, and neither dared to meet the
others eyes 1t was a mournful pull
ashore, and tragic in the retrospect. A
silence lay between them as heavy as
lead. The crew, conscious of the can
tain's humiliation, though they knew