New-York tribune., 1908-11-08

steamship T--z ST Malcolm The C-.=- Justice .
CHAPTER Y Continued
aHNTEA.ZWHIL-E 5 smith .55 n nd 77252zPd s55l55.
~ lNl rls6e his wav to Fort House
IASTg Fortune had indeed treated HIM
tNE&@NE--.A badly The arrival Of the Chief
- JSaI-4sA-sS Justice the accident that had &C
F31C s@r%A cgura-ied his landing smith
F-L-L1E wondered now how he had found
.1EHST(-& the hear u laugh Al Clifford 5
sVSsFSy ~ account 1t the total lrcaTaCIty
and -he present peril OF ms chief
Lieutenant. combined % paint the world Tor nm II
That the Chief Justice should make visit to
EE,-s- Island had been Az utterly Unforeseen con-
tE1geucv. Every likely v-Sl-g-.-tnr A-chdeacJn
the Circuit Magistrate. the Governor the rlltils
process Of LAYING ms plans Casual visitors % Horse
Island were practically unknown.
let after all the intrusion ot the Chief Justice
into Smiths nicely spun web had come about quite
naturally He had been III. had. as q matter Of
f--- long ago made total sacrifice u ms liver upon
the altar Of the British Empire and finding HIM
UNUSUALLY yellow and l-s-sce Co-c9rau had sug
1-,-=I z %ea VOYAGE Cruising about Tor q month
.- two free from wo--y and with plenty ot sea
freeze ought u re the Ee-t rl--E Tor h-rl- ms
had seemed good idea 70 Sir Malcolm, and ne had
----5ted the invitation with a-acr-rL-
There had hee- no thought a. al u cali ~ Horse
Sand -, when -le CAPTAIN read II his aneroii
a-1rle-er the prophecy ot the syTl 9l .e. .eE lHil
EEt le expected 10Y = DAY OF L|g, l--e %
The almost [a-dlolEed ha-5y- OF Horse Island the
best II the whole archipelago, made a.. iTresialioie
-a-=a- 70 h-- ~ Malcolm. when he heard OF the
-.z- EXPRESSED ~ -l-5- the intention OF staying
board the Phea-ar-. Representations as 70 the
Inevitable discomfort and the possible danger OF
s..-- a course had induced him 10 embark N the
--ugEga-. with the result that has already peen
HIS state q mind after he had been ignou-niOusy
E-ckeE and exposed as Al object Dt lr-lslJC 10
Smiths u-3arelv smiling staff and 10 the mean
descent g-l-s gf the fringe II natives that had taken
Il the s-eC-acle = hardly subject Tor anal SIS
he OILY person he could turn %. without utterly
sacrificing that badly outraged dignity o- ms was
Beaumont
Arm II arm with Beaumont he had painted up
Fort E-lL From Beaumont EaD1 ne ha1 accepted
dry clothes and =ea-lug glass OF hot Scotch. and
then. as q fitting climax from Beaumont $ own lips
be heard the rale II that man adventures during
the last tWeuty-fou- hours So II a blaze IF per
f-c-y righteous Indignation. the note written
aad despatched % Clifford. putting the manager
a1d his chief lle-teIa1r under arrest.
ID 1T the judicial inquiry that Sir Malcolm had in
u mind when he summoned the rWD cJuspIratOrs
{. ,.-,es- before him At Fort HOUSE destined
never % take place Probably mere lapse Of time
and the restoration Of his Iupe-lled dignity would
alone have suttce1 % convince ti'n mat ne had
acted 1u quite insufficient grounds and with inJu-
d-cial haste
BIT the storm outside. which was percePtibly
more t-rDciJus with every passing quarter h0ur,
was d stII stronger deterrent. " hen smith and
t--1-E torn. bruised. battered and completely
sheltered SIDE II Fort House, nothing liTtieF from
the minds u every BODY there than sitting OI hgh
court II justice could De imagined.
fsr ten minutes after the door was closed Jenlul
l--- the TWO las fat the stone flags II the little
Passage and got their breath. hen. setting each
The ,g library. where everybody else IN the house
ants and al -9- such - the democracy u man