The Huttig news., 1910-01-15


 fathers he would be the merest tool in the hands of French diplomacy.
 Everything depended upon getting him to the Siamese capital before the old king should expire The "Ong Iai'' was an energetic man of middle years. He controlled the army, ne had the tremendous weight of ancient custom to support his claim, and it vas practically cer.ain that, once pro claimed sovereign, he would be sus tained by the foreign governments, t only for the sake of peace Possession would mean all the points of the law and the road was barred by an in fernal machine.
 In the French consulate and on the French cruiser there was exasperaticn | md alarm. The cables to the east hummed with cipher messages. The commander offered the services of his blue jackets to remove the sunken Ukraine, he offered 10 tear it to pieces with his own bare hands. Money was no object. but the directors of the canal, mostly Englishmen. had no par ticular sympathy with the French mans ineomprehensible and almost fearful excitement and declired to risk having a mile of the canal embank- menis shattered by the tampering of unskilled hands. A hurry order had been cabled to Naples for wreckers and they might be expected in two or three days Till then it was neces- sary to wait
 It turned out to be four days, and for several persons in the port they were the slowest four days on record. Ship after ship continued to arrive at both ends of the canal, mail stea ners, freight boats, majestic steel ships and barques from the antipodes, every sort of craft important enough to pay the canal tolls, flying every flag known to the four oceans. Every day the com pany's offices were crowded with an gry and rough speaking sea captains, and dozen saits-at-law were daily threatened. As for Davenport, he carefully avoided even the neighbor- hood of these offices and spent much of his time on the end of tf. pier as before, sweeping the horizon with his | CT from Naples.
 On the fifth morning she appeared. Davenport at once had himself rowe1 to the French man-of-war. boarded her and introduced himself to the commander in purest Parisian French. Would the commander have the good ness to transmit to the French lega l i,, nlIa1r oioo ion of l importance to French interests in the east-of the highest importance. he might venture to say? The command CT would. Davenport confided to his care an imposing and official-iooking 1 document, tied with tape and decor ated with several ounces of red wax, and bowed himself over the side. Two hours later he went aboard vest l bound steamer that was ready to sail and disappeared under the Mediter- ranean horizon.
 fne dfTefs weMt to wUfR st once. hauling up carefully several tin cases filled with sand. After an investi- gation lasting an hour or two, cou- pie of charges of dynamite were ex-
 
 usual effects. The caEal vas clear. and in solid procession the shirs began to pass through. For a week there was a double file, moving in op- | posite directions, and the nights were | bright as day from the electric search l lights that the regulations compel every vessel to carry ;n nocturnal | transit
 The French cruiser crossed the h. 1 dian ocean and the Bar of Bengal as l if the devil were after der. She vas new boat and had recently been cleaned The French secretary of le gation was down at Paanam, 1t tho mouth of Bangkok's long harbor. on the lookout for her, and when she ap- peared he came on board Before he could open his mouth the commander thrust into his hand Davenports bulky missive In spite of it's size and weight it was found. when the multi plicity of seals were broken and the tape cut. to contain only the follow ing words
 On board the sunken steamer Ukraine.
 in the Suez Canal His ExceIlency. the French Ambass ader. | Bangkok: Five years ago an American sailor en- listed in the French Foreign Legation at Hue. Cochn-China. He rose to he a | officer. At the outbreak of the | Spanish war with the United StaLes Ec | applied for discharge (his term of enlist | ment having all but expired) in or ier | that he might ]oin the fleet of Adr1 .al | Dewey at Hong Kong aud wh.a t!.is | was refused be attempted to esca. and | make his way thither without leave. TIe | was captured and shot to pieces by te | native troops sent in pursuit. His Do iy | lies on the shore of the Gulf of Tnnqian. | under a heap of rucks--thc erSiiiest | sepulchre ever erected for Il has cost | France kingdom.
 That man was my only blotipr
 STEWART DAVENPORT.
 The secretary of legatiro ad the note and shrugged his shoni ;ers ex. pressively. Then, answering the look of intense curiosity on the command. CTS countenance. he said
 The king died four dave ss,o and his brother immediately assumed tie crown amid thunders of popular 90 plause. He has been formally recog- q, s< |