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

AA fS 1AASlAA jaw Y ~
the day before yesterday. Twill be like
new wine to DR.. Fan. says /, dead or
alive. That tool the ship to st. Mich
aels. Your fine fellow of a Jap, he was
alone 20 hours in the hills. Man, he has
the eyes. the ears, the feet OF a SER
pent, and If he's not a match for Inn
roth, may / never drink champagne
again!"
I assented a little gravely. His news
meant very much to me. You must
know that, before I landed at Villa da
Porto at all, I had entrusted to Tim
othy and to Captain Larry certain mes
sages which were to be cabled to Eu-
rope in the graveGt emergency only.
These messages would tell Scotland
Yard, they would make known to the
government n to the admiralty and,
even more important than these, to the
great diamond houses, that which I
knew of Val Imroth, and of his doings
upon the high seas. From this time
forth, the warships of three nations
would be securing the ocean for such
witnesses to my story as only the ocean
could betray. IF. from one point of,
view / welcomed the thought, a shadow
already lay upon my satisfaction. For if
lmroth We're arrested, M with him
the man known as Genera Fordibras,
what, then, of Joan and her fortunes?
These men, I believed, were capable
of any infamy. They might well sac
rifice the child to their desire for ven
geance upon the man who had dis
covered them. They might even bring
her to the bar of a court Of Justice,
charged as an accomplice in those gi-
gantlc thefts they had committed SO
many years. To this end they had
put my stolen jewels about her neck
and so baited their devilish trap from
the earliest hours. I am convinced now
that their ultimate object was murder
-Whan IF Monl1ll ha On fo1,, Is 5~aa o-l
when the whole of my story was known
to them.
You sent the cables two days ago,
T1mothy-and what them" 1 asked
him, not wishing to make too much of
1t before them. Have you had n
reply from Murray?"
Captain Larry interviewed, pointing
out that h cables had been sent from
st. Michaels.
I'VE had to get the. ship back. sir"
ne said. Il was determined not to
leave this place without you, If we
waited here a tWelvementh. Az for the
authorities, it was as Mr.. McShanus
says. all blubber and fingers, and the
generals money hot in their pockets.
When we got back from st. Michaels
the little Jap came down to the har-
Dor with his story. You We're up in he
hills, he said, and there was a spring
to be damned to get you out. He had
NOAS VAtoS iC rSooluy lOlllilS the rocks
into the water with his own hands
until he could hardly stand upright
from fatigue, but we sent a boats
crew up last night and another to-
night, and they played bowls with the
stones like the good men that they are.
! would have gone down with your
servant, but he'd the conceit to go
alone. It's natural to such a man-no
words, no fuss. just a coil of rope about
.iis waist di1d a couple OF REVIEWERS
IN ms hands. He took h Scotch boat
swain because he says Scotchmen give
nothlng away. Honorable Englishman
too much tongue he says. / left it
with him, because I believed he smoke
the straight truth. When he had gone
UP We posted a couple of men on the
shore here and Mr.. McShanus and I
took our stand at the cliffs head. We
hadn't been there more than half an
hour when the first of the rife shots
We're fired. We saw a number of men
on the hillside and they had fired a
rifle for a signal, as we supposed. to
others on the shore below. BY and
by we heard another rifle shot, but
saw no one. A little while after that,
you came down"
men stone dead at the entrance TO
the tunnel, and this astonished them
greatly. We could only surmise that
lnroth's sentinels had quarreled
anongst themselves n that the sec
ond of the shots had been fired by
a man as his comrade
emerged from the tunnel. Be it as it
might, the hazardous nature of nv
escape became palmer every moment
1t needed but Larry's intimation that
q steamer had left the island two hours
ago, to tell that my life had been saved
almost as by a miracle.
They have heard from Europe that
l fhn 90 mr. - s,- 80 49,
another haven" I said. "There was no
longer anything to be got from me, so
out came their pistols. If they touch
at any port north of Tangier. the No
lice will lay hands upon them. Thai is
not likely. My own opinion is that
the are running for the great ship
which we saw drifting out there in
mld-Atlantic. If it is correct. the game
becomes exciting. We can leave no
message which can be safely delivered
should the government send a cruiser
the officer OF it will hardly set out for
a blind mans bluff. If we had coal
enough ourselves
Captain Larry interrupted me with
scarce an apology.
.lhat was n of my reasons for
| geias to ST. Micfaeis, DOCTOR. MIR. NC
shanus will tell you that we were
lucky. We filed our bunkers-at a stiff
price, but still we filed them. The
shSHt iSttuS 10 put TO sea this in
slant II you SO desire it,"
His news both amazed and troubled
me. I will not deny that I had been
much tempted to stand by he island
until I had definite news of Jean Eordi-
bras and her safety. And now he
clear call came to embark without an
instant's delay upon a quest which
I owed both to myself and to humanity
Undoubtedly | believed that Imroth
had taken refuge upon the Diamond
Ship. Behind that belief, there stood
the black fear that he might have car
ried the child with him to be a hostage
for himself and his fellow rogues, and
to stand between my justice and his
punishment. This 1 knew to be pos
sibie. And If it were SO, God help her.
Captain" said /, do the men under.
stand that this is a voyage from which
none of us may return"
They so understand it, DR.. Fabios"
And do they consent willingly"
Turf back n you are upon the
brink Of a mutiny."
Then let us 60" said I. now. this
We are called"