The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-13

one OF those Egyptian magieians
would Look il Americanized.
Ware wonderful. ware wonderful
broke in the voice Of Andrea, the
Italian. He rested on his oars IN some
excitement. "One.a day he coma da
feeshman's warf an talk-a da feesh-
man, an say, / show-a to you da dol
lare ~deespeer. You gotta da dollare?
Freshman ruli-a da dollare out-a da
pock' an banda man one-a meenit-
You see? Passa da han dees-a way
and Andrea made a sweep upward
with one hand-"an' da dollare dees-
peer. Wait-a da dollare coma back;
no coma back Da man he wait-a, too,
an look-a da aire, but dollare coma
no down-nevare. Ware wonderful, all
feeshmans teenk. Try-a .da more dol
lare-all goa up, no coma down. Ware
wonderful. Feeshmans teenk he hava
da devil cen heem"
l felt Tor my watch. Harvey looked
surprised.
And didn't ne give he dollars
back" he demanded.
How giva back, when he no getta
heemself?" asked the boatman,
Harvey was about to reply, but
changed his mind and asked me what
time 1t was.
"Haltpast four" l replied, return
ing the watch to my pocket.
And where are we. AnGrea?'
"Closa da whistling buoy, sare, Half
a mile, I teenk."
I. could see the tower of the buoy
looming in the dark haze ahead OF us
1t seemed. as Andrea had said, about
half a mile away.
you want to get out Of this sait
Harvey, gazing around. We're righI
in the line of the raft and the buoy
where there hasn't been a fish since
/, the swimming season opened
At that moment | felt a tap on th'
side of my coat. l turned question
ingly.
We'll" | said. What is it?'
Andrea raised his brows with an
swering inquiry.
What was it you wanted?' | re
t peated.
Il? | not-a want-a %anyteeng.
Il thought you touched me"
e NO, sare, l no touch-a you
shut up talking" said Harvey
e Let's get to work
( For the next half-hour we circle
t slowly around the buoy and fshed
/ silence. Then Harvey wound his lin
On the peg in the bow again and r.
filled his pipe
t whats the time now?" he asked.
The next moment | could hay
II fallen out of the boat with cunstern'
Il lion.
My watch was gonel
had worn it in a small inside poe
ct OF my coat, without any chail
| thinking 1t safer that way. | had col
d suited it but a half-hour before an
/. replacing it carefully, had buttone
ye my coat over it, Under the coat
t. wore a sweater, so there was l
chance that ! had mistakenly placed
Of in a waistcoat pocket.
The watch had simply been remove
er in some miraculous way from Il
lie pocket In which | was accustomed
re keeping 1t, and in which remember
In ,with terrible distinctness havil
n. placed It such a little while before.
Of And now miracle was to follow m
acle-or else we hadn't done with I
is first one yet-for while | was st
st frenziedly fumbling about my cloth
I became aware of Andrea leaning Il
Id ward in strange excitement, with
lie finger pointed seaward.
re What the deuce is happening an
IN howe" cried Harvey, getting to
is feet.
e, I was doubly dumb. Straight ahe
he of us in the haze Of the dawn, cou
H. descry the outlines Of a vessel sol
err two or three miles farther seawal
d. Our own boat was fully three mil
no from shore: the whistling buoy
er could see quite distinctly on a Ii
Id perhaps a quarter of a mile to
lie. south Of us.
ed Andrea was hauling a glass out Of
en- locker and fixing II to his eyes.
as Ware wonderful be muttered l
le- der his breath. Il Dua see da boa
H. look LAX heem before teenk SOL
Well. I had. Here, in a part OF I
I'd Pacific at least six weeks travel FRI
ey where had last seer one, was a Z
IT pino junk!
It was bearing with good spe
ne southwark, but coming in also.
Oh seemed in a fair way to pass gu
OIL close to the whistling buoy, at VIII
we also we're heading. II we shoI
nd stop at the buoy the strange CT
would come within speaking distaI
by of us. unless she should change
Ito course. Trembling under a thr
nd fold mystery-the hotel stranger.
ng Junk. the magical disappearance Of
la. watch urged Andrea to give me
glass and row with all his might
ng the buoy. Harvey l silenced will
on shake Of the head.
me In ten minutes we had run the b
he alongside the buoy and were rest
led on the side hidden from the FLIP
vessel. By poking the glass arol
he the corner / could see the incongru