The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-01-26
The DIAMOND SHIP
MAX PEMBERTON
Doctor THE
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MAX .PEMBERTON
Copyright by d. Appleton & Co.

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 Jiu-
Jitsu
"Tis the little yellow devil again and
me on my back like a turtle Says he,
The honorable Irishman no puttee
Okayada on the floor Says /. 'Ye wisp
Of hay, could knock We down with my
thumb The honorable Irishman try
says he. So just put my hands upon
his shoulders and gave him a bit Of a
push. Sons of Ireland! He dropped to
the floor directly / touched him, and
where is the relic of Timothy McShan-
us? Sure. he caught me on the soles Of
his feet as fell over him and shot me
20 yards--me. that has the blood of
kings in me veins He grassed me like
rabbit, sir, and there are those who
laughed 'Risu inepto res ineptior nulla
est Let them hear Martial, and be
hanged to them!"
l comforted Timothy with what
words I could, and told him that they
were bringing breakfast up to the deck.
Il want few words with Larry and
yourself" and i. and hungry men are
crew, Timothy. and that Is something
In these days Be thankful to have
played such noble part and come and
eat Immediately. There Is a capital
fish 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 am selling to the natives!"
And then he asked almost pitifully.
IT'S not to say that we are going
back to Europe. Fan, me bhoy?"
The very thing in my mind, Tim
othy. I'll tell you when we have had
our 'parritch.' We were not born to
spend useful careers in the doldrums
Let us remember it after break fast"
They had stretched friendly avn
ing over the aft deck, and hereunder
We took our coffee and such food as a
man cared to eat in such a temperature.
When breakfast was done, and we had
lighted the morning cigaret, delicious
beyond words under such circum-
stances. l began to speak frankly to
Timothy and the captain of our present
situation and the impossibility of con-
tinuing i'm 1t longer.
The obstinate man is about to sur
render to his friends" said I'VE
have now been running to and fro be-
tween Porto Grando and this Styx Of
an ocean for nearly month. We have
sailed halfway to the Brazils and back
and discovered no more traces Of the
Diamond Ship than of the bark which
Jason steered. When / consented to
quit Villa Da Porto I believed that
Valentine Imroth would be taken afloat
in the vessel we saw first we returned
from South Africa. 1 still believe it
but what is the good Of belief when
the ocean guards his secret and no eyes
of ours can pry 1t out? He has 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-
auctions were wrong from the first;
that he has fled 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 that personal
account Of our Investigations to which
they are entitled. These conclusions
compel me most reluctantly to assent
TO your wishes and to return. We have
failed upon the high seas. Let US now
discover what the shore has to tell u.s."