The Southern herald., 1912-07-05

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There was nothing to do but fall in with her
plan
knew about where to find the Florence. We
picked her up in few days and boarded her
made sail to meet the Leckwith at the rem
devious Kate went on to Singapore, where
she took the next ship for England. SIX
months later | received word that she had died
suddenly there, before she had applied for
pardon, and the course of my life was changed
When rejoined the Leckwith, told Norton
simply that had been away on strictly private
business. day or two later told him had
decided to sell the Florence and Surprise ana
quit the business we were In. Norton, dum-
founded advanced many arguments against
such a course and finally he lost his temper
ut may be-" he suggested sneeringly, tnat
this is due to the fact that Moy Sen mas
threatened to exterminate u.s. II you don't
want to fight the old scoundrel why don't you
say so?"
That dart struck a tendeg spot. | would De
the last one to quite under threat or under
fre,a Norton knew It. Far from running
away from fight of that kind" | told Norton,
II should much rather run into It. We VIII
cruise around awhile to see whether the Chink-
les really mean to give us battle. But 1t Is the
sport of 1t that want and nothing else for II
1t comes of 1t will be great fight"
Nothing happened for ten days or two weeks.
We saw several junks which we could easily
have stood up and robbed, but would not per-
NIT It. Then, late one evening an enormous
funk appeared suddenly from behind an island
She appeared to carry only small crew, put
when we came together 1t seemed to me FOR
O moment that she had more Cinnamon on
board than had ever seen before at one time.
Suddenly she swung to starboard and would
have smashed into our bow II we had not gone
full speed astern. AS she passed under our
bowsprit she threw a grappling-iron which
caught on our port bow.
We lit our battle-Iamps so that they illu-
minated our deck where we preferred to fight
because we knew every foot Of 1t.
1t was such fight as one gets into only IN
years, perhaps only once In lifetime. Tne
butchery was dreadful but the excitement oi
It set ones blood ablaze. There was not
pirate left alive on the junk or on our OWE
deck
Before we had time to congratulate ourselves
or count noses we discovered big steamer
almost on top Of u.s. 1t was the Ly-ce-moon, the
flagship of Moy Sens feet and, though we die
not know 1t, the old pirate chief himself was II
command Of her
The result was repetition Of what had oc
uuired much longer to accomplish 1t.
Gradually but slowly at first. we got tn
upper hand Of them.
1t was broad daylight by the time we ha
thrown overheard the last Of the dead China
men and washed down the decks, after givin
our own badly wounded men such attention a
was possible under the conditions. We though
for time that Moy Sen had escaped, but
found him, almost chopped to pieces, close
the after-wheelhouse, with three Of our me
beside him.
On the Ly-ce-moon were two teak chest
filled with gold and silver coin and ingots, 81
verware, jewelry and precious and semiprec
GUS stones of the Oriental variety, apparent
representing the most valuable portions Of se
eral stolen cargoes, and these L allowed to
transferred to the Leckwith, in preference
throwing them overheard.
It then became a question as to what "
should do with Moy Sens ships. We COZ
promised the difficulty by scuttling the jur
Q and putting a crew aboard the steamer v
went to Singapore arriving there in the ear
part Of 1875, as remember it, to close up o.
: business, and sold the pirate ship to o.
Chinese agents for third Of what she w
r worth. We also sold to them. for small pa
Of Its value the loot we had taken from ht
D but all of that money was divided UP betwe
I Norton and the crew. held to my proml
t and touched none of it.
s left the China sea behind me and nev
e have returned to 1t.
After a fruitless expedition after buri
e treasure In Corea, we sailed for Shanghai a
from there for London.
F.