Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-28

a mouthful OF advice. When We get
that money on board, want you to
let me steam back to Grand Canary
and bank It, At the same time I can
leave you and the ladies' ashore and
come back here and finish the job"
"You still think you'd be able to get
the Norman Towers out even 1.-THE
people ashore who objected were re-
lnforced by two hundred up to date
Winchester rifies?"
"Oh, don't deny that 1t will make
things bit tougher. sir. But I've
said can do It, and that seems to me
the end OF the matter. At the same
time, I don't mind owning to you that
with the ladies of the ship. and safe
elsewhere, I shall lose my present
nervousness" ,
Sir George chuckled. You've only
heard half the deal. and when I tell
you the rest l believe that even you
will be convinced that Bergash In.
tends to play fair. It's he, OF course,
who Is buying the cargo. He 10 go.
Ing to pay now as soon an he can send
for the gold-which apparently he
keeps in his wine cellar, or 10 It butter
cooler land bring It on board here
within a couple Of days. but by his
own suggestion he doesn't take deliv-
cry of the rifles and ammunition till
we've got the Norman Towers out OF
the lagoon, and are ready to sail with
her In consort ourselves. Now then,
my good skipper. play on that"
Captain Kettle thought while,
But, by James, to me 1t looks too sim
~ - M me-
denying that the market price of
Winchesters up-country In Morocco is
a lot more than It, Is In London or
Connecticut, but Mr.. Bergash 10 man
with an English upbringing, and he
knows how to get stun out here ifshe
wants 1t. Paying seven to eight timAs
their value for Yankee rifles 10 out OF
all reason. Why, he could get even
those shiftless Grand Canary hshing
schooners to run them across here for
half that" .. rvs
II didn't hagsle." said Sir George
rather etiffly, nor did Mr.. Bergaah.
He heard what we'd got, and Tho just
made the offer in round figures az I've
told you. \ took It. Perhaps 1T may
throw little light on the matter II I
point out to you that gold has relative
ly little value up there in the Atlas.
They cant eat 1t. and they don't
wear it, and I gather that they can get
1t by washing out the sands In the 10.
cal becks with comparatively little In
hor. As regards a guarantee OF good
faith. don't see how he could offer .
more conclusive one than proposing
to leave the guns In our possession
till all chance of using them against
us would be over" ".s's
well sir, you are owner, and It is
for me to carry out your orders hit
doesn't interior with arrangements,
I may tell you that when the moon
goes down and all Is nice and quiet
and dark. / mean to take my gig and
slip across the lagoon to where the
Towers is lying, and find out for my
self how things exactly are at the mo-
ment. The glass shows she hasn't "a
anchor down, and I've had her against
careful shore bearings, and she hasn't
budged a foot since we came In here
with the Wangaroo. Now, she was
ranging about bit when we came to
reconnoiter in that surf boat"
Probably she's on the ground.
Floated there at high water and stays
tight and quiet" qisss5 Il
I'D be easier II she did,; reckon
the tide lifts some four feet six. or Ave
feet inside. here, and If she'd grounded
on the top of high water, she'd show
two to four feet more side at the bot
tom Of the ebb,. according to how soft
the bottom was. She doesn't do that.
1 put the big telescope on her. Poor
old Captain Parrish loaded her down
with that copper ore to within half a.
inch Of her mark, and she floats ~
that without 80 much az hands
breadth OF change. No. Sir George.
she's got water under her, and shes
not anchored. The tides. both ebb' and
food, run round that blight whore she
| is at a good six knots and still she
doesn't move" @
Then she must be tied up in some
other way" 49,
| (To Be Continued)
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