The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
Adventures of Torpedo Boat No. 5
By FOXCROFT DAVIS

There was a marked change in Bill
Jones air and manner on this morning,
and without the slightest protest he
took the chair offered him by Mckenzie.
81 may as woll tell you, Mr. McKen-
zie, began silavely the erstwhile Bill
Jones, ''tho whole story. so that you
won I make any mistake III the report
concerning me. ! am Lieutenant Ally
win, Of the United States gunboat
AlIetta, on a fortnight's leave from
my ship. ] succeeded in getting on
your vessel, not for the purpose Of in
vcstigation. In the American navy Wa
prefer to get our information by actual
experiments ourselves, but had-ahem
it was, [ may as well admit. n wager
with n lady, ] hope you VIII not ask
moro detailed explanation You can
| find out the truth concerning my iden-
| tity by writing my ship, which is still
! lying up the river, where we left her
| five days ago. As an officer of sister
service l hardly think you would wish
TO take any proceedings which would
| detain me beyond my leave. / am SIM
ply a half drowned man whom you
| picked mp during the evolutions.i
At that moment Alywin s eyes Light"
! cd on the little white letter, Inyolun-
! tarily he seized il and tore it open, his
! eyes sparkling meanwhile. The cx
preston on his face convinced Me
! kenZie that neither Admiral Harbord q
| wishes nor the performance of No.
! would avail anything with Mary Har-
bord, His clear Scotch head showed
| him the whole thing in flash. Alywiu
had accepted a challenge from Mary
! Harbord and had slipped on No. D and
| remained five DAYS without his identity
being known, and Mary Harbord s LET
ter would never have been delivered
10 Alywiu il he had been elsewhere
! The letter itself was so fascinatiuglv
! A 4l,as l,a Il
over three times. grinning delightcdly
meanwhile; then he put il carefully III
| his breast.
''I think, Mr. Alywin.'' said Me-
Kenzie. drylv. except between our
selves we will consider what you have
told me as being unsajd, and we will
| turn YOU loose us a rescued man calling
| himself William Jones
''Thauks awfullv: nothing could suit
me better, and we will let ii 90 NJ
that
Alywin rose. taking of his rusty cap.
offered his hand 10 Mckenzie, who took
it with wrath in his eve. Ten minutes
afterward Alvwin was bidding goodby
to Benson on the pier.
''You re good fellow. Mr. Benson,
and / think there are a lo1 of fine fci-
lows on No. ). Perhaps I shall chango
my profession from the galley
/ 'FTo the quarterback. sir. That y
| lust what ] We been tnlnkln ever
since Won was 'andcd over 10 me. Good
by. Mr. Jones, and good iuck TO You.
Benson held ont his paw 70 Bill ,lones,
who shook il warmly and then dartcd
off. When he WAS gone Benson looked
into his hand and saw there couple
of gold sovrrcigns.
II 'ope ] II sec that ere gent
! again was Benson S inward comment
with an outward chuckle.
That night Alywrl was fellow guest
at dinner at the British Consulate with
Admiral uarbord and Mckenzie and the
coqucttish Mary. who had not got the
Admiral s telegram after all. The Ad-
miral was in a savage humor, for his
daughter had told him that day she
meant to marry the American liehten-
ant, and amid gurglcs Of laughter told
the story of Alvin IS getting down TO
HanEow on No. D.
After dinner Alywin slipped off from
| the gentlemen in the smoking room,
Half an hour afterward rho Admiral
passing the open glass door Of 4 sweetlY
scented and dimly lighted conservatory,
caught a glimpse Of his daughter be-
hind a huge lowering gadiola IN a
green tub and heard Alywin S voice
Whispering: ''Shail I break IL TO the
old man tonight, darlings'