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

word and you will come near to K
discovery. My purpose was to send b
wireless biography such a message t
tthe aHon Ship as would lead us I
the discovery both of her present sit
uation and her ultimate destination
10 DO so, I needed a password to tn
iconfdence of her commander. Tha
password I believed that I possessed
VI la been given to me years gon
when a dead sailor had been washe,
ashore upon Failing Beach and one o
tne most famous diamonds in Europ
had been found upon his body. Judg
OF my excitement when I sat down t.
put this idea to the proof! There be
fore me was the instrument, still tick
ing q message 1 could not decipher.
sat down before u own keyboard ant
deliberately raped ont the words
Captain Three Fingers" Again ant
again L sent the words speeding acros!
lonely seas. Captain Three Fingers
that and nothing more. AS a spiri
W1ng1ng q human thought. 1t went tt
the unknown, over the silent waters, 1
tremor of the air, a voice of doom, al
a"Iui, mysterious power OF word:
pregnant OF discovery or wholly i'm.
potent IN the mocking ether.
An hour passed and found me still,
alone. There had been no response tc
my message. no further agitation OF the
receiver whose message baffed me
faithful to my wish. neither Larry nor
McShanus had interrupted me. I could
hear. as a distant sound. the murmur
OF gentle seas beating upon our bows.
Tho purr of our engines was as that
or a living, sentient entity, awake to the
intervals OF action. My fingers had
grown weary of repeating those idle
words. / sat back in my chair in a
bitterness of spirit foreign to me, and
reflected upon the faulty of impulse
n the mockery of all human deduc-
ton. III there were a password to the
deck of the Diamond Ship, | lacked
1T My hasty conclusions had met
their Just fate. The men aboard the
distant vessel had taken alarm and
slgnalled to me no more. What would
II profit them to continue this vain en-
ployment? Answer, the obstinacy
prompted me. Doggedly, persistently,
reason would repeat that I was right.
The words We're the only words. I
could imagine no others. In mockery
almost, / changed my key and, to prove
myself right. a hundred times tapped
out the word "Fordibrasi upon the
ready instrument. Once, twice, thrice
thus 1t went speeding into the aerial
wastes, losing itself under the blue
heavens, a delusion upon a delusion,
the hooking Jest of a man who has no
SaS JSSt. Ia IioW are WOH-
der and the sport of chance to be ex-
when I say that the word was
answered, Immediately, clearly, beyond
AL question. In a message from the Dr.
almond Ship and from those who com
lmanded herr
I sat as n transflxed, my hands
trembling with excitement, my ears
intent aa though omen TO the story of
% miracle. Plain as the talk of a friend
my side came that memorable an
|gwer, How Is old Five AS doing?"
iLeaping to the lad Harry's story, I
answered them in the Romany tongue,
the first perhaps, that any student of
crime should begin to learn. And nov
1t became no longer a question of the |
word. Their anxiety mastered them.
They were telling me their secrets
across the waste, those secrets 1 would
have paid half my fortune to learn.
I'VE lie at 9 degrees 15 seconds by
Where are your"
! flashed back a false reply, two de-
grees northward of our true situation.
Quick as the instrument would trans
NIT h words I added this intelligence:
Every port watched. Fabos in
white ensign off st. Michaels:
station safe: wait, coming
r Their reply was the
ton: Are o Ross or Sycamore?n
l took 1t to mean that there were two
for which they waited. and that
h captains thereof were named re-
g~pectively Ross and Sycamore. At a
hazard chose the first name, and
world did the flashing voice of
electricity mean SO much to mortal
man
we are short OF coal and water
fhc tidings went: hurry, for Gods
Baka. or we are driven into Rio!"
To this, my hands, hot with the fever
u 6.sooveTv, fejjeined
Trio known-keep the seas-we reach
you tomorrow"
And then for a long while there was
I imagined that unknown crew
debating my words as though thew
had been 9 message OF their salvation.
a relief ship was coming to them.
they were saved from the perils of the
shore n that more terrible peril Of
thirst. When the machine next licked
u It's unconscious confession. II was
! me hasten. for Gods sakei
I In Valentine Imroth. What has 3
kept o ashoreP"
..The police and Fabos."
Then Fordibras is a traitor
You have his daughter with you"
lis that known in E~Iurope?"
TT Is suspected" 4,
-By the mouth of Fabos. He has re-
ceiyed my message. Has Sycamore
BdtAcu 4HFAEHe E2.MET% ~ 4lsNsS Eefaf@
II Is two DAYS behind me- i
What oal has he aboardg,
1 eat back from the instrument ana !,
not a word Be 1t said that
while I had already convinced mvseIf
this mysterious, unknown I'll i
amond Ship was in reality a vessel
hauled TO, as 1t We're, permanently in
s!a-Aslantlc. the ccrellary e atta.g /.
Ant steamers needed no demonstration.
Regularly from Europe or America + 4
tenders of considerable size
set out TO water, provision, and to coal |;
the great receiving hulk wherein I'M
roth hid his booty and harbored his /;
There would be a great go
ING TO AND fro OF rascals, OF course.
rehef crews, and a very system OF I
changing duties. But the great ship L
v max the shore unless
iriven thereto by ultimate necessity;
the VERY fact OF those equatorial
being chosen for her cruis-
ng ground, ATTITUDES of profound
aim and void OF winds. contributed TO
probability OF my surmise. So
much wal plain: but the the
asked me what coal the
sondsr carried, then, INSTANTLY I real-
1e0smy peril and Quilted h instru-
nant a~bruptly.Ot the tender I knew
aOthtnSAfaise wor might ndo all
hat accident had done for me SO nobly.
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