The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-25

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Gillette said. when YOU planned to
sneak right past the city like this, with
enough eontraband aboard to land you
in Jail for a couple Of years"
Sometimes the boldest plan is the
safest Carlton answered. 1.-The Gus
toms officers keep a sharp eve for Ha-
naumu Bay and Kaaeohe. on the other
side of this Island. but they seldom
think about Pearl Harbor. It's
dangerous, entrance at best, and very
few men know it well enough to go in
al night. But ! haven I sailed a yacht
five years in these waters for nothing.
could take this boat in there at any
hour, and in any weather.
They were running before the wind
now, wing and wing, and the yacht was
rolling over the swells so silently that
it was only by watching the lights
ashore that Gillette realized they were
moving at all.
Carlton called him into the cabin. and
with ten minutes quick work they had
all Of the bales on deck and lined I'D
along the starboard rail. Then Carlton
sent Gillette below again to shift some
OF the sand ballast to port, for the
yacht listed badly with the new dis
Pc9i S4oA u bHS cargo.
When he came up, the opium bales
were covered with tarpaulins and Carl
ton was at the wheel. Sullivan had gone
forward to make ready to fatten down
when they should begin to run into the
harbor.
can snug below2'' asked Carlton.
She steers better with her ballast
shifted, Daylight's coming. We've
made narrow squeak of it, but I think
We re all right
From behind the dark hills back of
Honolulu the dawn was coming. Cold
and pale at first, the light swept to the
zenith, extinguishing the stars so rap
idly that it was almost as though a.
thin, gauzy curtain was drawn across
the sky.
As they stood in for the harbor en-
trance, the shoreline changed in mo-
| ment from dark, formIess shadow to
definite outlines of busby trees. with
now and then a palm looking over: be-
hind stretched slopes of lighter green !;
here and there was a dark mass that
meant sugar mill, or cluster of lit
tie white cottages marking laborers
camp.
They We're heading straight for the
| beach, and, even as the day broadened,
Gillette could see no opening in the
low, green wall of trees ahead.
| The surf was rolling and breaking
all about them. and once a huge roller,
coming down on them, lifted their stern
| high and bore them swiftly shoreward
| for a moment, breaking with a thun-
| der of spray at either hand, and delug-
| ing both the men in the cockpit.
| Gillette gasped and clutched the rail,
but Carlton merely shifted the wheel a
| trife, and in fraction of time they
| Were in the stiller waters inside the
/ reef. Gillette, shaking the spray from
/ his eyes, turned to Carlton.
| II thought it was all off for mo-
ment. Jack he said admiringly.
| 'sWhen that big fellow caught us. it
looked as though we were bound for
the coral beds sure. ;"
"That's nothing, As long as sac
| didn t breach to, there was no danger
Wait until you see the kanakas at
Waikiki. They do it every day on six
foot boards.
"Something coming out of Honolulu
harbor, Mr.. Carlton interrupted Sui
Ivan. "They re in a hurry, too, judg,
ing by the smoke they're making
"Which way are they headingg'
| Carlton asked, without taking his eye
from the boat.
Now was the time when a bit OF
| carelessness in his steering might land
the yacht on one of the many bidder
reefs at the harbor entrance and wreck
the whole enterprise.
ttThey are coming this way, but
they re a good five miles off. -
Gillette clambered up on the deck
house and looked eastward. Sure
enough, small tug was visible; and
from the smoke which poured from hel
funnel, her people were indeed in {
hurry It was almost broad day now
and the steely light of few moments
ago had changed to rosy glow thai
| overspread ali the sky and painted tn,
cloud masses on the Waianae hills il
gorgeous colors.
The men aboard the tug could scarce
help seeing the Sylph, and it was small
comfort when they were five mile:
astern.
eff Yee Tan is on time, we II be rio
of the stuff and anchored comfortably
at the peninsula before they get here, ;
Carlton said cheerfully.
III.
They were close TO shore by thi
time. and the yacht heeled to the SHARP
gusts of wind that came over the leaf,
wall ahead. They had hauled every
thing fat for the beat up the harbor
and were feeling their way rather gin
gerly in. Soon rift appeared in tn
screen of trees ahead. They wen
about suddenly, and in a moment wer
: in the long, narrow lane of the harbor
which stretched inland like a tortuou
river, its banks rock trimmed AM
shaded by dense growth of low trees
Sullivan scanned each reach of tn
harbor as they wound their way aroun
point after point, but no sloop was Il
sight. They passed some native fshilli
villages. where the men were alread
putting of for sea in queer outrigge
canoes. The women gathered on tn
narrow porches Of the little, higf
perehed houses. and discussed the zach
eagerly.
} "Lucky I covered those bales wit
! tarpaullns. Bob. - calculated Carlton
: II didn t bargain for this. Where til
| dickens is that Chinaman
= Tho heat M, the narrow channel ba