The Red Cloud chief., 1913-02-20

ihere was notnlng 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 ren.
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 a
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 I told him had
decided to sell the Florence and Surprise and
quit the business We were in. Norton dunn
founded. advanced many arguments against
such course. and finally he lost his temper
- 1t may be-" he suggested sneeringly, that
this is due to the fact that Moy Sen has
threatened to exterminate us. II you don't
want to fight the old scoundrel why don't you
say sO?"
Ihat Dart struck tender spot. I would be
the last one to quite under a threat or under
hre and Norton knew It, Far from running
away from fight Of that kind" I told Norton,
i should much rather run into It. We will
cruise around awhile to see whether the Chink.
les really mean TO give us battle. But 1t is the
sport or 1t that want and nothing else. for II
II comes on 1t will be great fight"
Nothing happened for ten days or two weeks
we saw several junks which we could easily
nave stood up and robbed, but | would not per.
ii'' H. iheH, idIe one evening an enormous
JUNK appeared suddenly from behind an island
She appeared to carry only a small crew but
when we came together 1t seemed to me for
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 grappingiron which
caught on our port bow
We III our battle.lamps SO that they ilh,.
minated our deck. where we preferred to fight
because we knew every foot Of 1t.
~ was such fight as one gets into only In
years. perhaps only once in a lifetime The
Dutchery was dreadful, but the excitement of
1t set ones blood abaze. There was not a
pirate left alive on the Junk or on our own
deck.
before We had time to congratulate ourselves |
or count noses, we discovered a big steamer |
almost on top Of US. 1t was the Ly.cemoon. the |
nagship OF Moy Sens feet and. though we did
not know it, the old pirate chief himself was in |
command Of her.
The result was a repetition of what had oc.
CURED with the crew of the Junk, but II re.
CURED much longer to accomplish It,
Gradually. but slowly at first we got the
upper hand of them
1t was broad daylight by the time we had
thrown overheard the last of the dead China.
men ana washed down the decks. after giving
Wv" o''"'' buCn attention as
was possible under the conditions. We thought
Tor time that Moy Sen had escaped, but we
found him. almost chopped to pieces, close to
the after-wheelhouse. with three OF our men
beside him.
On the Ly-ce'moon were two teak chests
nlled with gold and silver coin and ingots. sill.
verware, jewelry and precious and semipreci-
Gus stones of the Oriental variety apparently
representing the most valuable portions of sew.
eral stolen cargoes and these allowed to be
transferred to the Leckwith In preference to
throwing them overheard ,
IL then became a question as to what we
should do with Moy Sens ships. We com. !
promised the difficulty by scuttlng the Junk /
and putting crew aboard the steamer. We 4
Went to Singapore, arriving there in the early ,
part OF 1876. as I remember It, to close up our
business, and sold the pirate ship to our
chlnese agents for a third of what she was
worth We also sold to them for a small part
ot It's value. the loot We had taken from her =
out all or that money was divided up between
Norton and the crew. I held to my promise
and touched none Of IT,
l left the China sea behind me and never
,ave returned to II.
AFTER a fruitless expedition after buried 8
reasure In Corea We sailed for Shanghai and .
rom there for London.