New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

to scowl and have it out with his thoughts Out on the
Gridiron gray gus squatted with eieSs pinonS Lgnt
house lack the stations feathered familiar alone cir.
clcd slowly like toy kite the strange at-wnged
bird-ship that lay below with its long aluminium pom
toons glstenng in the suns reractions Ships Bottom
was hidden in the hollow Barnegat, over the empty pay
was like deserted village and the loneliness struck III
like a fist -.
~Somepns going to happen right now!' Welsh
growcd you'd think that consumed thing nd BEHAVE!
he said, venting his spleen on the SimDering MORO
plane what for did she lay down on me out on the
Grid3 An then start running soons the boat hauled
me in smooth as preasei Now the Inspector won leu
me work her. less its ship alarm. got notion to 60
jne that dead ship digging compny OF Sam bright s.
GLAD to have We, Wcshyl Good wages an long
" hours. seven DAYS off in summer. heerd you Bot
tomsll all be off right quick tor KIND o -ioozrh
things"
Welsh turned slowly, his mouth hard set, his eyes
screwed I'D to pin points \ burly ycllow-aced man
in Souvcstcr and saboots grnned back at him from the
slope of the sand dunc-Big Sam Bright HIMSELF case
hardened brain and body, by picking apart the bones
Of dead ships There no love lost between ohlps
Bottom and Sam Bright and his salvage company
organized for the express purpose it seemed just then
to profit by the miscr,s of Welsh and his comrades
The little surfnan was like bottled up dynamite lie
moved up closer every steel muscle IN ms Dody crawl
ing: but he spoke SOFTLY aye think we re gong to get
it. do We? An you're 50 kind an condcscendln as to Otter
me a iob-you ghoul!
Fighting, merely personal recreation, was s'e'tly
prohibited by the rules OF the Life Saving service DuV
Little Welsh was not fighting he subsequently cX-
nained TO Surfman Evans who just then happened to
stick his shock head the crest OF a nci8hOoilS
dune Wreckcr Bright a size and hall larger tnah
the gunner but Welsh did not stop to weigh IN BE
sides Bright started it, trusting to MS superior weight
and bulk. .;.,.
But. facing that pcnt up volcano of wrath avcnglng
the honor OF his crew, the wrcckcr never had ccG
II was only when the spectator giSped from MS SAND
hill ar laws sake Wclshy, leave some Ter me! that
J;ttlc Welsh backed away still glowering but with
feeling of rcmorsc that in former days ne Wouu nave
been a stranger TO. , =, cat,
"Mebbe We think We done ne cause amt ut!
Bright began, hcaving himself up
~ cmmc tell Won fcllcrs!" the wrccker snared his
greedy little eyes glinting cvy. You're IN bad the
hull bunch O We, an the Joke on you rom "cS' you
an your catainaran If you ony knew It, you d clear
Brpbt stopped. shrugged his shoulders, and lurched
away, laughing in spite Of his hurts Welsh ana Evans
stared after him. .,;,,,-
Srrfn1an Evans said Think he kin us fclcrs of,
an fence in the rocks like he done the Copper King
like she was solid gold stead o just hgh-grade copper
orc-an make private graveyard on the Gnd' Is that
aThats lest What he's Amin at" Welsh shot his
solid fist into the palm Of his hand "Ihcy Old Man
o. the Sea come port along OF the Copper King, an
Sans hired him It's wholesale barratry or beach
conbcrv an lvin lights mcbby; but Sam Bright knows
what's doing il. I'm going TO kctch that old ship
wrccln devil if he's up the air, or on the sea- or UNI
der the rocks got the craft to do It, an there she lays
with her ears cooked up. waitin' for the gun
He gowcrcd down at the Government hydroplanc a
powerful machine with her strong canvas wings and
broad aluminium pontoons- long hollow air tanks they
really WERE fiat on the bottom, and curved up at the
bows for alightng or rising from the water.
Il got TO clear off with my catamardn, have J; SAID
skipper Welsh, his jaw squarcd his blue eyes crnklcd
and swapping "l'll do It too right You JUS wa'ch
my curves, Mister Shipwrcckcr SAM
CHIPS BOTTOM did not have long to wait, either,
~ for the hydropIancs curves, or the wrath OF the
cnacng ocean gathering its strength for another VIC.
TIM gibng az them the rising wind and the wash OF
the sullcn breakers Ships Bottom didn't need any