The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19

inhospitable. but the sooner you go
away the better
Telling Him the Tale.
| Aylwin was of the same opinion, and
in Il little while the launch steamed
off and Number One lay vt anchor, bak-
ing and blistering in the sun.
1t was not until after sunset that
Number One, Admiral Harbord g pet
torpedo boat. reached the anchoring
vessels of tho division, which were as
sembled by that time
Balestier went aboard Number Five
and poured into the admiral IS greedy
ear the story OF Number Ones discov-
cries that day. Two important features,
however, he omitted to mention. One
was that he suspected the granary on
Granary Point was an arsenal and the
other was the chain stretched across
the channel, which was likely to prove
awkward TO vessels attempting TO pass
it, But he enlarged upon the lookout
tower and the benefit it would be if
the admiral got up the river and SEQ
things himself from that point of van
tage.
The admiral promptly put his head
into the moose so obligingly held open
| by Balestier. And when the latter
artfully suggested that the mail boat
would be coming up the river the next
morning Admiral Harbord decided that
1t would be best to go up the river in
the cool Of the evening the next day
and anchor for the night and make their
observation in the morning. When the
admiral said this the commander of
No. l could have fallen upon his neck
and embraced him in rapture and graft
tude. The admiral having departed,
| Hyde. the chubby-cheeked was sent for
in the cabin and the joyful trend of
events was confded to him.
=" How will we get the quartermaster
ligbtedly at Balestier "Thc admiral,
YOU know, possesses an all.seeing eye.
Thank the Lord, he doesn't love Mum
Der Ono as he loves Number Five
81 think | can trust Stubbs to get
aboard. just keep bright lookout y
A bright lookout was kept, and Just
as the hot, still night paled before the
hot. bright, torrid dawning the mail
boat was seen approaching. It came
alongside Number Five, and then Wis
tied in turn tho other torpedo boats,
! throwing the mail bags on board and
taking other mail bags on. On Number
One, however, something else besides
o mail bag was left, This was Stubbs,
the Aletta's quartermaster, who pres
emily appeared in Number Ones cabin.
| A transformation had taken place, His
stubbly beard had been sacrificed, and
the chief quartermaster appeared as n
clean .shaven person, wearing the uni
! form and insignia of boatswan in the
! British navy.
| The japanese stewards. for all their
| listening. could not hear the whispered
conversation between the new add
tion to Number Ones company and
| her commander, but il was wholly salts
factory on both sides,
Late this afternoon, as the great red
sun lollcd in the lap Of the gold and
| purple west, Number One started up the
river On board was Admiral Harbord,
and as Number One IS quarters were un-
usually cramped. even for torpedo
boat, the admiral had left his aide be-
| hind, Hyde. tho chcrub, acting in that
capacity There was another addition
to the ships company in Stubs, the
| American quartermaster. Sailormen be-
/ ing unusually clear sighted, Number
| One s crew concluded that Stubbs had
not been taken aboard for nothing, and
awaited developments with great conf
dence in their commander.
The dark and sultry night had fallen
upon the land and the muddy river
when Number Ones anchor kissed the
ground at the entrance to the widening
river Little could be seen at that
hour. and Balcsticr assured the ad-
miral that very little more could be seen
| by daylight except from the top Of
the tower The admiral, believing this.
gave notice that he would debHrk and
investigate things for himself the next
morning at sunrise.
The Admiral Trapped
IN the morning, therefore, as the sky
suddenly hlazed with light, Number
One slipped into tho lake, and the ad.
miral was put ashore at the lookout
tower, with Hyde in attendance Also,
! there was n boatswain along, who.
| Balestior said, might he useful, rs he
understood the Chinese language per
fectly. and could communicate with the
natives and tell when they were lying.
The admiral approved of this, and also
Of Balcstier IS suggestion that while the
admiral was taking a survey from the
| tower Number One should steam II
| little nearer Granary Point, in order to
| LET as many of the people as possible sec
that there was a British torpedo boat in
the neiphborhood,
Balestier, from the bridge. watched
the admiral and Hyde as they tramped
perfectly looked the part Of the boat
swain, trudging behind them. Outside
the padlocked door of the tower a
group of Chinese were assembled and
Stubbs's linguistic accomplishment be-
came highly valuable A minute s
haraugue to the big Chinese in charge
Of the tower produced the keys, and
under Stubbs' IS direction the doors
were unlocked. Once on the platform
at the top. Stubbs. whose gaze was
upon the slate colored torpedo boat.
steamiug slowly away, waved his hand
three times behind the admiral's back
Then, before Admiral Harbord s
astoundcd eyes. Number One suddenly
dashed as fast as she could get up
"A twenty-five knot clip toward the
granary As she came abreast the
chain stretched across thc channel it
caught in her forofoot and she came
to a dead stop, her screw churning up
the muddy water into oceans of foam
Suddenly every boat on board Number
One was in the water. and every man
who could be spared was in the boats
and pulling across the fifty yards Of
water between the vessel and the gran.
airy.
As Admiral Harhord. on tho tower,
watched the men tumbling out OF the
boats and making Il rush toward the
9ranary he stamped his hand to his
Il,