The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-15
CHAPTER XII.

Early in the dull hot dawn a clat.
ter Of winches and hustle OF
shadowy figures on the deck Of
small trading vessel, which had spent
the night between the moles OF the
harbor Of Algiers, announced that tho
anchor was being weighed.
While this was taking place small
harbor boat, manned by two native
watermen and carrying a single pas
senger, put out from the steamship
quay, the oarsmen rowing with will
that limited at a premium having been
placed upon their speed. The coaster
was barely under way, moving slow
ly In the water, when the boat ran
alongside. A line was thrown from
the ship and caught by one Of the
watermen, the boat hauled close in,
and Its passenger taken on deck.
An hour later, pipe between his
teeth, O'Rourke stood by the helms
man, staring back over the heaving
expanse, swiftly widening, that lay be-
tween the coaster and the Algerian
littoral. The world behind was gray
and wan, but the skies ahead were
golden. "A fair omen!" breathed the
adventurer hopefully.
The bulk of the great ruby in his
pocket brought his thought back in a
wide swing to the girl who would be
waiting for him at Rangoon. Faith,
and must be getting below and max
ing a dab at writing a letter to her.
That was nothing"
He nodded with meaning towards
the bold profile of Algiers.
An III wind It was that blew Colonel
O'Rourke into Athens. 1t has
blown itself out and been forgotten
this many a day, praises be! but that,
once 1t had whisked him thither, i'm
mediately 1t subsidized and stubbornly
1t refused to lift again and watt him
forth upon his wanderings, in the
course of time came to be a matter OF
grievous concern to the Irishman.
All of which is equivalent to saying
that the dropping breeze of his
finances died altogether upon his
arrival In the capital Of Greece. lie
disembarked from coasting steamer
In the harbor of the Piraeus encum'
bered with a hundred francs or so, an
invincible optimism, a trunk and a
kit-box, and kings ransom on his
person In the shape of the Pool OF
Flame; which latter was hardly tc
be esteemed a negotiable asset. There
after followed days of inaction, while
his hopes diminished.
Nearly two months had elapsed
since he had promised two people
himself and one infinitely more dear
TO him--to be in Rangoon In ninety
days. In little more than a month
she'd be waiting for him there.
And where would he be? Still wa;
he far by many a long and weary
mile from the first gateway to the
East-Suez; and still he lacked many
to finance him thither.
II only he could contrive to get t.
Alexandria! Danny was there
Danny Malone, he of the red, rec
head and the ready fists; Danny, WHIT
held the O'Rourke as only second Il
the Pope in dignity and Importance
who had been O'Rourke's valet in {
happier time and of late in his hum
bier way an adventurer like his mas
ter. He was there, In Alexandria
half partner In a tobacco importing
house, by virtue OF money borrowed
from O'Rourke long since, Mt a tim,
when money was to be had OF thu
man for the asking. Ant
Danny would help.
= You must see O'Rourke revolving II
his mind this unhappy predicament o
his, on the last of the many afternoons
that he spent in Greece. Draw dow
the corners OF his wide, mobile mouth
stir up the devils In his eyes unit
they flicker and fash their resentment
place pucker between the brows o
p his habitually serene and unwrinklet
forehead; and there you have hin
who sat beside the little table In tn
. purple OF the Zappeion, with a hea,
barred to the cool Of the evening
E breeze. alternately putting at a me
diocre cigar and slipping black COTE
from the demitasse at his elbow.
; Now just as the sun was sinking b
hind the mountains and Hymettus wa