The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
CHAPTER XIII.

They heard me with evident pleas
ure. Loyal as the men had been all
along, these weary week Of fruitless
pursuit could not but tell their tale
upon them. When we sailed away from
Villa da Porto and raced to the south
ern Atlantic, it was in the minds of all
of us that we should track down Imroth
successfully in as many days as we had
now devoted weeks to a futile quest. All
the arguments We're pon my side. Ii
the unknow vessel harbored Imroth's
rogues, and not them alone, but the
fruits Of their robberies, then was 1t
PLAIN that n must abide, at least for a
time, in the situation where we had first
discoveredher. How could her commune
cation with the shore be estab-
lished otherwise? Relief ships from Eu-
rope would be visiting her constantly.
She must be p~rovisioned, coaled, and
kept aware of what was going on
ashore. 1t seemed impossible to me that
she could shift her present cruising
ground or make any wide detour. un-
til open pursuit compelled her to dc
so. These reasons had kept me dog
gedly to my quest Of her. But they had
failed to satisfy my comrades, and
there We're other impulses bidding me
return.
1T is hard to give it up, DOCTOR"
said Captain Larry, when 1 had done:
but, really, / think you are right. If
the government had sent out q ship to
help us, the course would have been
plain enough. AS it is, we can do moth
ing, even If we track them down.. and
we might lose valuable ives in the en-
deavor. Get back to Portsmouth. and
leave 1T to the government. That's INV
word, and that, / think, is what Mr..
McShanus thinks. We have done ali
we can, and a precious sight more than
most would have done"
AYE, and tbs sense the man speaks,,
added McShanus. THE last man in the
world would I be to cry off while tha
fox is running; but, Fan, me bhoy.
he's gone to ground as sure as blazes'
and what for would We fog a good
horse to death? Here's a fortune spent
in COAL, n a sea hot enough to fry
haddocks, and divil of a sign as much
as Of a rowboat. The captains not be-
ii'nd me in knowing of other people
Woo have a claim upon your consid-
GRAFTON. Go to Europe and learn OF
their welfare. There is one who may
need ye sfirely. And poor talk will 1t
De that you'll hear then If they tell
you OF what might have been!' Go
PACK TO Europe, say I, n learn what
mas become of Joan Fordibras. IT'S bet
ter work than roasting like a heather
on this blazes of an ocean"
we set the yacht upon a northward
course, n lived through a morning of
angry silence. D%isdaining any lunch but
a biscuit and a proud cigar, Timothy
McShanus fell to "reminiscences. I re-
member that he discussed the law of
chances, reminding me of the American
citizen who, being asked if he were
a lucky man, replied that he once held
four aces at a game Of poker in Mex
leo CITY and only got shot in the leg.
In a lachrymose mood, Timothy went
on to say that he cared little whether
he lived or died, but thai he would
give much to know what they were
doing at the Goldsmith club in Lon
don town. l did o answer him, for at
that moment Captain Larry came
at his face told me that he has news
OF moment.
WELL. Larry-and pow?"
There Is a message, SIR