The Washington times., 1910-05-18
CHAPTER VIII.
With 2 Flowing Sheet

DY 10 O'Clock that night tie Beau
Il Gallant was streakinE through the
waters Of the lower bay. with the glare
Of COney IsIand-gay and Eaudy and
hot looking. even with the rolling waste
OF cool, black water separating US
rapidly becoming \ Renaissance IN the
rear. and with The fixed white glare OF
the Sandy Hook s-ghts looming hard on
our starDOard bow.
She bore a crew Of three more or less
COntented persons, but rather more than
less So AIr. Faraday Pvas az the wheel,
calmly smoking; the negro Zeb had ap-
pointed himself fgurehead. for the time
being OF the sIOoD, and was cr0uching
IN the bows, ringiEg 10 the stars a care
nee voice, rich, deep, resonant
Way do-hown lIo-bheeI-r
p nile i was established In The ~ list Of
the vessel q suppose il IS called the
hard over my nautical education h-~
failed TO hammer into nv skull even
me TUdlments OF the arr OF safinEl-I
was IN the waist, stretched OUT on my
beauty OF the sumner heavens and me
turning Of the wheel OF things
hy luck Ieit-C~, AZ least. our luck.
since was now member OF the crew
had changed for the better.
and the manner Of the same was
lleVed ZeD Of his haTd-earned sixteen
BITS odd cents he was seized OF an in
SEPARATION, and dispatched the darby Tor
an afternoon newspaper
This was around the hour OF 3 in the
afternoon.
In me interval OF another five min
utesr the negro had returned, Faradav
had hastily scanned the ru.rIcc ~
SE-TpShead Bay for the day, had pick
Cd q probable winner in the last race
and was on on my way 70 ind q
pool room
This, in itself. vas not a task so DIFF
fcult- The pool room industry -four
iShes IN Brookiyu-prebabIy because
not so extensively carried on as IN Mar
haitian and therefore not 50 apt 10 at
tract the attention OF the blatant re-
former.
At any rate. once I had found Fulton
street i easily obtained the opportunity
70 place my bet
Zeb-s s. and our last homes went on
q horse by the name OF Colonel Pep
per he was not the favOriLe- the odds
were eight 70 one
Indeed, there was little method n
Fa-aCay's selection Of his horse He
said that he had q hulCE-a blind
mans bunch, he called it-lEat q South
EN- horse was due TO win for Us And
Colonel Pepper was near enough 10 CuI-
pepper 10 seem something Of coinci-
dence-
and, still more remarkably. the horse
Won i CaSneG Ia after the customary
half hours wait for the confirmation
Of the resuits-during which you may
be sure ] was in an agony OF fear lest
Colonel Pepper should be disqualified
and, IN truth, more than half expected
that he would cashed in and made all
haste back 10 the Beau Gallant with
eighteen good American dollars in my
pocket
Faraday. true 10 his Indifferent pose
seemed very slightly surprised ar this
phenomenal luck He even dared &c
CTumble that the odds had not been
longer, and our winnings proportionate-
y greater
He had s sneaEing desire. he said. to
feed vel OF the trip down the coast
The amount in hand would be barely
enough 10 pay wharfage fees and b19T
Us scant supply Of provision and to
baccO.
He departed with Zeb. and returned
late in the evening heavily laden with
some twelve pounds Of tobacco. a few
bags OF questionable -four. bacon and
''sich Ike filings" as Zeb termed then
These safely bestowed in the sIOonrs
storeToom, We cast adrift and orr~ Trim
was beEuE-proSaicallv enough. 7 fa1rf-
cd little dreaming OF what was 10 h
the outcome Of this crazy venture
The Continuation Of This Story VIII
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Issue CT The Times.