The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-01-26
i He DIAMOND SHIP
MAX PEMBERTON
Author Of Doctor xavier 1.-THE Hundred Days sta
Copyright by D. Appleton 8 Co.
MAX PEMBERTON
Author of Doctor xavier THE Hundr
Copyright by D. Appleton 8 Co.

j ship shouts OF laughter claim my at
tention and turn my steps to the spot.
The laughter is the laughter of honest
seamen. The victim is my friend Nc
Shanus.
He picked himself from the deck.
brushed his clothes ~methodically, and
told me that the game had been Jtu-
Jitsu.
IT'S the little yellow devil again and
me on my back like q turtle. Says he,
The honorable I:ishman no puttee
Okayada on the floor SaysI, 'Ye wisp
OF hay, / could knock we down with my
thumb The honorable Irishman try
y he. So l just put my hands upon
MS shoulders n gave him q bit Of a
push. Sons of Ireland! He dropped to
the DOR directly I touched him, and
where is the relic of Timothy McShan-
us? Sure. he caught me on the soles of
his feet as I fell over him and shot me
~ yards-me, that has the blood Of
kings In mo veins. He grassed me like
a rabbit, sir, and there are those who
laughed. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla
est Let them hear Martial, and be
hanged to them!"
! comforted Timothy with what
WORDS 1 could, and toId him that they
We're bringing breakfast up to the deck.
y want a few words with Larry and
yourself" n !, IAN hungry men are
poor listeners. You have amused the
crew., Timothy. n that is something
In these days. BE thankful to have
played such a noble part and come and
eat Immediately. There is a capital
nsh curry, and the loaves are hot from
the oven"
Faith" he replied, "if you make me
as warm inside as I am out, twill be
my clothes I am selling to the %natives!"
And h he asked almost pitifully.
lis not to say that We are going
back to Europe, Fan, me bhoy?"
The very thing In my mind, Tim
our parritch.' We were not born to
spend useful careers In the doldrums.
Let us remember it after breakfast"
They had stretched a friendly avn
ing e the aft deck. and hereunder
we took our coffee and such food as a
man cared to eat in lei a temperature.
When breakfast was done, and we had
lighted the morning cigaret, delicious
beyond words under such circum-
stances, I began to speak frankly to
Timothy and the captain of our present
situation and the impossibility of con-
tinuings in it longer.
The obstinate man is about to sur
render to his friends" I said. I'VE
have now been running to and fro be-
tween Porto Grando and this Styx of
an ocean for nearly a month. We have
sailed halfway to the Brazils and back
ana no more traces Of the
Diamond Ship tina of the bark which
Jason steered. When 1 consented to
quit Villa Da Porto I believed that
Valentine Imroth would be taken afoat
in the vessel we saw first we returned
from South Africa. I still believe it
but what is the good Of belief when
the ocean guards his secret and no eyes
OF ours can pry it out? He ha escaped
US, vanished in a cloud, and left us to
GRID at ourselves for the precious weeks
we have lost. 1t may be that my de-
ductions were wrong from the frst:
that he has fed to Paris or to America,
and that the Diamond Ship is safely In
some harbor where no civilized govern
ment will find her. In that case, our
patrol is doubly futile. We are giving
him time to perfect his plans, while we
keep from the authorities hat personal
account of our Investigations to which
they are entitled. These conclusions
compel me most reluctantly to assent
to your wishes n to return. We have
failed upon the high as. Let us now
discover what the shore has to tell u.s.