The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-27
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 He stared at me in smazement. and saw the light of recognition leap suddenly into his eyes. Gee Wiz, it is the boy: but how in thunder did you get into that rig?" he cried. Say. you fellows. this is Seth B. Dalrym- ple's boy alive and well. And who's the young lady?" he added excitedly as he clutched hold of me.
 This lady is Signorina Coreggio. and soreiy in need of both food and rest. Will you see to that. captain?"
 My wife'll fix that all right" said the Senator. 'I guess the lady won't want to be bothered with a heap of questions either" and to the mortif- cation of the other ladies. who were athirst with curiosity we four went of to his stateroom. where I left Ma sfta in Mrs Farnworths care.
 And now tell me where in thunder you've been at all this devil of time. Do you know that Plnkertons are spreading themselves all over. Europe, to say nothing of the United States and Japan, and a few othor litsle places, to find you?'
 Its a queer story and a long one, and I'm too used up to tell it just now. and nearly as black as one"
 'We'lf fix that right now" he re- piled; and he did. A bath. a hearty meal, and a sleep of some hours made new man of me. He sent a steward to me with a decent suit of clothes and clean linen; and I went on deck in the afternoon and over a cigar I told him everything that had occurred since had recovered my senses.
 Pink ertons were right, by gee" he exclaimed. They said they'd find you in Italy," and then he told me his story
 scoundrelly Italian, named Paulo Tsncredi. member of the formidable Black Hand gang. had been arrested in New York for nurdering a compa- trlot and in order to be revenged on the men who had betrayed him, had confessed that he had joined with them to murder me that night in the Italian quarter. This had been done at the instigation of the Black Hand gang, whose enmity my father had incurred. l had been carried into a house, strip ped of everything. clothed in some filthy garments belonging to one of the gang, and left for dead When they returned for the purpose of get ting rid of my body. they found me alive, but without the. least knowledge of what had occurred or who I was. was chAttering Italian, and they had then led me to believe that I was one of themselves until a chance had come to ship me off to Italy in the company of a man who was believed to be in league with a lot of kindred scoundrels in southern Italy. This man had lost his life in a brawl on board ship; and from that point all clue to my where abouts had been lost. The presump- tion was that he had some confeder- ates on board and that one or other of them would know where to look for me; and it was this clue which Pinker- tons were following up.
 As Tancredi had only been arrested a few weeks before. there had not yet been time to ind the other men. How I had come to join Beltano or how I had wandered down into Sicily. never learned; but what the Senator told me made It an open guess that in some way the men I had been with in the steamer from New York had taken me there.
 And now what would you advise. Senator?" I asked when he had finish ed. and we were nearing Naples.
 Stay right where you are, boy. You're safe under the American flag. Stop under 1t; and leave me to do the rest. I'll send a cable to your pap; and I'd give a thousand dollars to see his face when he reads 1t. But you can't be at both ends of wire worse luck; so must imagine it. Yzd