Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-04-04

Gnm@sa~s6 tered the notorious Captain Star
light, and Tasmania in the seventies was the
theater for the exploits of Coventry Strke-a-
Light, but It is doubtful if either of those wor-
thies at their best worst, had anything on
| the bright particular star of the Indian Ocean,
Red Saunders
| To have known Saunders was a liberal educa-
| ton, and when turn of Dame Fortunes wheel
pitched me out on the beach at Maize and into
his company, the tickle old lady unwttingly did
me service not to be too highly esteemed.
There is only place in the little town that
a sailor is likely to bring up in-Francos' Ma
hogany Bar" and like everybody else had hung
around that rum ranch until money was as
scarce frogs feathers. / trying to figure
out my next move when Red Saunders hove in
sight.
The barkeep suppose on the same principle
that leads sawbones to give poor devil
dose of dope preparatory to abbreviating his
longitude by leg set bottle of liquid tin
lacks up for me- with the kind intimation to
have on the house and clear to blazes out
of here" and my outlook seemed about as bright
as the soul of Chinaman, when red-topped
giant six feet six by about four feet beam, rolled
in through the door and strobe up to the bar.
"Barkeep, where in Tophet all the hugger-
muggers today?" he growled in voice like
Mauna-I.oa in eruption.
"Su6s' briefly indicated my now improbable
carcass and shrugged his shoulders, remarking
that business bad, even should have
been on my way before now.
Solitude will breed strange comradeship any
where and having nothing else to nail his at
tention, Saunders took good look over me and
showed the "tacksn my way again, saying as he
let go the bottle:
You don't seem dazzling with diamonds.
matey. but maybe you shoot the guff so take
another pearler's peg and .,eep me company for
spell"
We took our vitriol over to a table and stretch
Il ofvfvc ~ tho
beach, while was debating in my mind whether
1t would be worth while for me to breach to this
coppernobbed stranger the scheme that had kept
me awake nights for months. Though gossip and
ruInor had made Saunders familiar to everybody
on the beach, the man had never crossed my
bows until ten minutes before, and what who
he was little Willie could not have guessed. Pre-
vious TO his entry there had been nothing my
| horizon, and be certainly was socabIe sort OF
brute; putting all my trade In one bottom.
opened out and laid my dream out for Red to
pass Said |:
"You look like blue-water man, none bluer
and If you find the hooker, can lead YOU to
the place where minted moguls are lying, not too
far down for number diver to get at but
Ira cleaned out busted to bazes, and can't even
subscribe to the tucker bill. I'm all in. but this
yarns straight stun; If you're looking for a hut
| ter here's chance What dye say?"
! I keenly of cold steely drive
| through and through from a gimet eye before
that mighty voice rumbled forth:
Show your goods perish your petit That gun
is too easy to pass If you've got rocks at bot
| tom. I've got little schooner out in the bay
right now; she's ready for any trip from niger
stealing to pearlpoaching. and can be handled by
| two sailcrmen; but give us the yarn and give 1t
straight. by the peak of perdition I'll haze you
/ for trying to throw the bull at Red Saunders!
| Here Francois give that bottle fair wind, and
| leave 1t here"
Back in 1876" began, 'the clipper ship
Strathmore outward bound for Otago New Zea-
1 lane piled up on the Crozets, and when she went
up had fifty odd people aboard. all colonists, and
all carrying their entire worldly capital In the
ships strong box. The amount of cash aboard,
including sum for payment of government sal
aries, was somewhere around twenty thousand
pounds sterling or one hundred thousand If you
want it in dollars
THE people we're taken Off after more than
six months of misery. but the stuff is still there,
and l think can be got by diver. The spot is
well laid down and can take you there. Hows
| It strike you. capn?"
1 Red took his second-mate's nip at a gulp and
gripped me my the arm. growing like south
erly buster"
See here young fellow.my-lad I've got a
streak CT intelligence in me today, and it seems
to me that you are sailing straight. Anyway,
like the cut of your phz, and as I've got nothing
better on hand, I'm going to take you up on that
Strathmore job and Wen get our hook this same
rudy p m. I'll stand the stores and put my
boat in it; you'll take us there and Wen go alone
share and share, fifty and fifty; and you'd bet
ter be sure you're sailing straight, for I'm an
ugly Brighter when l find I'm being blistered
That settled the hash far as / was con
cerned had no dunnage to stow, and Red sim
ply yanked me out of the bar and down to the
beach. where his boat was lying telling me &c
row out to a little black schooner in the road
stead and cast off the stops while he went up tc
the town to get barrel of beef and some small
stores
The little vessel boarded was certainly 9
beauty-regular yacht in lines and deck fittings
When we'll under way and heading for thu
: east coast of Madagascar we arranged to keel
I watch and watch, and each to call the other II
the schooner got out of hand but after Rec
showed me how the little hooker would lay her
. course with the wheel in a beckett ] had M