Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-19
CHAPTER xxx.

FOUND.
TOOK at the map, Jo."
iii 1--WE got it, Mr.. Carberry."
VERY Well; find Guardian ISL
and"
'Tve done it,
'sTrace your finger southwest-pass the Roy
al George Archipelago. What's beyond?'
"a dozen or more red dots"
"Good put 'em there. That's the Hell
NETS. Right or wrong, or far, some
where within two hundred miles from the
Royals, and due southw-su, s,v-ssrS- Lies .s
land we must find before the equinoctiel
overtakes u.s."
| 1t was a strange colloquy, under strange
circumstances A blazing tropical sun beat
down on an unbroken waste of waters, bob
bling up and down upon which was yaWl,
rugged as a sailboat.
| 1t had been fitted up by Tom Carberry at
| Guardian Island week previous and II
now contained the venturesome' friend OF LOST
| John Morris, the son Of the missing man, and
Nat Davis.
Calm waters, fair skies and favorable winds
had attended a voyage around the Horn,
halfway across the Pacific, and to anchor
at Guardian Island so uneventfully, that, look
ing back over it, the three adventures seem
ed to recall pleasant dream.
They had worn every fragment of narra-
| tive, speculation and theory regarding Cyrus
| Meserve John Morris and Arnold Percival
| threadbare SO fully and often had they dis
cussed the case in which they were interest
! ed.
Putting what one knew together. with what
| another knew, it was not many hours after
| the ioyous reunion of Nat and 10 before the
| happy trio realized that they were acting in
the very best harmony with circumstances
| and the demands of duty in undertaking the
search on which they were engaged
Arnold Percival and lonely, deserted Sam
TAYLOR became themes OF regard and regret.
All anxiety and eagerness, however, were
fixd on the distant island whittier their course
Carberry had lost the charts he had made
from memory and his guesses at the exact
location of the Helmet Islands.
Meserye had them, but the sailor had not
FORGOTTEN their contents, and by the time the
dueed these maps and memoranda.
Of the Petrol they had seen and heard no
thing. They had reason to believe that they
were many leagues in advance of the schoo-
ner. If it was indeed on the same business as
When the Star sailed away from Guardian
Island, it left CarberTy and his young friends
with about four hundred dollars IN their pos
Carberry utilized this money to great ad-
vantage. He purchased an old yawl
wieldly but seaworthy, and rugged it up to
meet the requirements of the treacherous
waters they were destined to sail in.
They started one morning bound for the
vague and distant Helmets.
It was remarkable how the boys adapted
themselves to circumstances. So naturally
had events pushed them forward into nau-
teal career, SO completely were their thoughts
fixed on the object of their mission, that they
never paused to think of past perils and fn-
ture possible obstacles to success.
eff we can only find my father2" 10 said,
time and again. ut doesn't seem probable,
but if we only can, what happy party we
would be back in New Jersey!'
"Aye, lad, the Petrol and Cyrus Meserve
may slide for all of me, and Morris money,
too. Willing hearts and hands would soon
build up a new and busy life-so many of US,
and true and loyal, we couldn't help but get
And so, even In Carberry's mind, the lone
" shanty on the unimproved lots near Jer-
sey City grew to be a sort of oasis to look
| forward to, point of reunion, a house of re-
| fuge, when perseverance and fidelity should
have mastered the problem of John Morris
fate.
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