The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-22

eyes had discerned upon the deck ..
the unknown vessel. It fell far ehaaJ
OF us. q reckless, unmeaning threat
ana yet one which fate IRONICALLY noieht
nave turned to our destruction. A Geo.
ond and a third followed. We stood
hiin ednush the spindrift halt
piihdlhg US. the monste seas sureine
upon our decks in cataracts Of cleaT
water. Would they hit US. or shnn1d
we pc lost In the curtain of the stor,n 2
l claim no better courage in that mo-
Inent or the ordeal than the good fell
l9Ws VINO closed about me were So
ready to display. We raced from death
together, n numbered the minItes
winch stood between us and orr sal
walton. Nc thought or deed of on,
own could help us. The good Yacht
aione would answer for our lives.
VOW thls TRANCE pursuit lasted
uppos a full 10 minutes. That It
Sanle o premature end must be set
GOWN 10 the immense speed of which
me White Wings was capable and the
force or the gale which still RACED
ABOUT us. We had, indeed, now caught
the tail end of the hurricane. the outer
cage or the storm cycle; and immed-
lately 1t enveloped us, a darkness as
or intenser night came down upon the
waters. We held a course With dif-
nculty, and must instantly have been
Iost to the view of those upon the
pursuing ship.
oar course had been northward dur
ing these exciting hours, but as the day
wore on, we set it full north-north-
Mcst- captain Larry alone upon the
snip knew my determination TO sail
IRON the African coast to Santa Marie.
IN the Azores. l gave him no reason,
nor dld he ask one. He understood
that my purpose was worthy of him
and the yacht, and obeyed me unoues-
.lonlhSly. As for the men, they had
peen engaged for a service which they
knew TO have some measure Of risk
IN II a scale of pay, beyond anything
expected from the master of a yacht,
tempered their criticism and rewarded
their fidelity.
Timothy McShanus came into dinner
that night. He had found his sea legs
and ms appetite; and soup. fish and
bird disappeared like 1 o'clock. To
watch him drink 80 Bolllnger from a
venetian tunbler might have inspired
even the gods of thirst. Groomed TO
dhe last hair unon a timeworn scalp.
timothy Would have served well Tor
the model of an E1%nglishman of the go
as Paris used to see him.
"Phwat the blazes does it all mean.
Fan, me bhoy A ship in such a hurry
mat she fires a Shot at We for looking
at her. Larry has told me the story
ana, by my soul it's astonishing! When
l. return to Londo next month"
o are contemplating a return.
then, Timothy?'
Faith! would We have SO much
ganius buried in the dolldrums?u
we shall have to pick up a liner and
put aboard" said I.
He set his cup down With a bang and
looked at me as though 1 had done him
an injury.
"Tis to the British Isles We are
Would We deny it?"
Il do deny it, Timothy. We are
bound to the Island of Santa Maria, In
he Azores,
For phwat the divil-"
But this mastery, sentence he never
| could see that he was
mixing deeply. Presently he settled
himself in his chair and began to talk
almost as one ~communing with himself.
He takes me from London, me that
$ an orphan and has buried three
wives. He puts me on the sea and
me a wild mans country. Ach.
us a wonderful man, me friend Fabos.
none like onto him. AS a lamb to
he shearing do 1 thread in his foot
Rather an old sheep, Timothy, is it
He brushed the objection aside n
-p~ostrophizing the stars In that grand
ose style ne nad learned from ancient
nelodranIa, he exclaimed:
Women eternal-the crimes that are
in your name!"
DO you mean to say"
l mean to say that We are going to
he Azores to see her"
Joan Fordibras?"
mo other. Joan Fordibras. The lit
lie devil of q shepherdess in the red
n q Va a pa yrfNf nrr- = 49,
not. Ye are risking much to see her
duty which bought ye this ship,
knowledge we have learned out Of
frica, the story ye would tell to The
ritlsh government. Ye are losing
lese because of the shepherdess. ri
not true"
Then deny it row. Timothy. + am
Ding to the Azores because / believe
lat a house there can finish a story
hich the sea has begun. That ia rha
hole truth of it. There are men
ioat In a ship, Timothy, who, hide j
Of the worldss greatest criminals 3
I'D their plumber from the police OF !
] cities. That is what I had supposed. :,
I'd this voyage hes gratifed NV s,rp- I
I am going to the Azores to :
Get some of these men face to face.' ;
And Joan Fordibras?"
L hope from my heart that 1 shall ]
see her again." !
"Ye hope nothing of the kind. man. /
rs lurking IN yer heart, the thought $
at we will see and save her. + honor 7
for it. 1 would not turn We from 5
,ur purpose for q fortune upon the !
BILE. poor divil of a man that + am. !
D where We Will, Fan Fabos, there's
ie that Will go with ye-to the worlds !,
ID and back again n say uhat +
sen him :
Continued Next Weekly !