The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-02-02
CHAPTER XIV.

1 ordered supper at II o'clock an
e invited both Larry and Benson, on
: engineer, to my table. Hardly wer
the glasses filled when I began to pu
my laconic questions, and wrote upol
7 the slip of note at my side, the an
= swers to them.
For how many days have you coal
!, Mr.. Benson?'
i. THAT depends how far and how fas
, you steam, sir"
+ Suppose that we are lying driftin!
: here in these Gains. There is no grea'
consumption of coal them"
NO, sir; but If you wish steam KEEP
; up against a run, that empties YOU
bunkers.t
1T will depend upon what the Other
people can do, Benson. They nay be
in the same position as we are. Il
our friends at home believe our story
l don't suppose there win be much GOA
going for Val lmroth or any of his
company. OF course, he may have
other resources. He would not rely
upon relief ships from Europe alto
gether. The American governments
are not likely to concern themselves
oVer1nuch in the matter. Their news
papers VIII make as much of the mat
ter as the police will make little. In
~credulity We must expect. If we are
believed anywhere, it will be by the
+.NN "ip Apot luilbTeuS OIL thousands
or pounds every year in South Africa.
mats the keynote to his mystery.
Imroth may have a hundred agents
stealing diamonds for him at Kimber-
~. He hides the men and the booty on
TINS great moored ship until the dan
ger has passed. A hint to those pleas
ant people, the magnates of Park
Lane. will supply money enough for
any purpose. L doubt their sense, how
ever. They will leave the protection
of their so-called interests to other
people, as they have always done. We
really need not consider them in the
matter"
lis yourself and the young lady We
have to think of-no Others" interrupt
ed Timothy; 'phat the divil is Park
Lane to o or to me or to any decent
man? DO we care whether their di-
Almonds are safe or stolen? Not a tink-
er's curse, me bhoy. If We hunt Imroth
down, It's for your vanity's sake, and
not for the good of humanity at all.
Faith. I'd be a fool to tell We It's not
SO! Ye want the glory of this, and We
want the girl on top of the glory. Let's
De plain with each other, and we'll get
on the faster"
Timothy" I said. you are a philos-
opher. We won't quarrel about It. The
glory or 1t Is nothing to von, and e Ct
We're In your power you'd return to
Europe by the first steamer willing to
carry you there. Let us agree to that
Be hanged to it! 1 agree to moth
Ing of the sort"
All. then. here is Madame Vanity
sheltered also in another human bos-
ON! Say no more. If I am serious. II
is to tell you that vanity has been less
TO me In all this time than the safety
or loan Fordibras and her freedom.
OF that 1 account myself the guardian
She Is on board the Diamond Ship
refect among what a company of VII
lains, thieves, and assassins! Captain
Timothy, l nave not the courage to tell
myself what may befa1l her. Perhaps
1t would be better If she did not live
to speak of it. You know what It NAV
be. You must try to help me where
my judgment falls"
To the last man on the ship" said
w should sight the shin after
light bells. said I, diverting the sub
ject abruptly. and Their our task he
gins. I am hoping to outwit them, and
TO force a surrender by sheer bluff.
Very possibly it will fail. We NAV
even lose the yacht in the venture
"a promise nothing save this-that |
or ashore. Let us drink to that, gentle
men, a bumper. 1t may be the last &c
casion We shall find for some days 10
come.'' ~
We filled our glasses and drank the |
toast When n second officer IN
FORMED me exactly at eight bells that
the telegraph was working again md
very clearly, I heard him almost with !
Indifference For the moment it might |
be dangerous to ser any message
across the waste Of waters. There coIiId
no further talk exchanged between
lmroth and myself until 1 had def
nitely declared myself.
They would shift their nostt,on
captain. We must hold them to ii
and track them down. You saw that |
should sight them at two bells IN
he middle watch. I'll step down and
hear what they have to say, but IN
less It Is vital. I shall not answer
them."
I found the instrument tanning
sharply, as the second officer had said.
The words spelled out Colin Rosy"
the name of the officer upon one Of
relief ships, as they had already
informed me. Repeated again and again
It gave me In the end an idea / was
lltck to@act Upon. They must thinky,
the relief steamer broken down, / said.
Such should be the first card Il had to
play.
''Fordibras.' Observation-Disclosures
sFordibras.. and then upon it the
simple WordsH"Propeller shaft broken
-all hands at work-repaired tomorrow
eight beils.n
I say that / repeated the message,
one almost invariably is called upon
to do when the instrument is wireless
and no receivers have been tuned to
a scheme. A little to my astonishmenty
there was no reply whatever. As / had
ceased to speak to the Diamond Ship
so she had ceased to speak
to me tonight, renewal OF the call
earned nc better reward. I fell to the
conclusion the news had been OF suffi-
cient import TO send the Immediate re-
ceiyer headlong to the vessels captain,
and that he would return me an answer
anon. So half an hour passed and
found me still waiting. 1t must have
been nearly I O'clock by this time. +
.recollect that 1t was at IL minutes past
n precisely that u forward Lookout
discerned the lights of the Diamond
ShfpTupon q far horizon and that
Captain Larry burst in upon me with
this splendid news. Now, surely. had,
I no further need OF messages. You
may judge how I followed him to the
deck to feed my eyes upon the spec
tacle.
Have you just seen her, Larry?v
This very instant, doctor,
I went up upon the bridge with him
for 8 batter view. Many miles away, as