Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
JACK O. LANTERN
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graph.
Let's see. What's-oh, l remember.
Flash flash = fash-long blank flash.
Slipped cable Reef exposed. Now what the
deuce isl know! Long blank-fash-
blank flicker-1ash Sacing aide. Reef
dhedd,'
He was signaling by navy code, almost
forgotten, working madly with the heavy
canvas, fiercely holding himself together,
| by sheer will forcing his wounded arm to
do its work.
"S7cng scide Reef exposed. That II put a
Joker on your game, Mr. Murden. Flash
flicker ficker-I'll have to Morse it. Snug
gleys in lannoh-s7Ving aide reef Glory.
there goes her siren! TAO shorts-shOrt-
three Shorts O. K. Cdsco sighted
Hurroo! We've got the whole crowd dashed
to the mast"
TACK O. LANTERN DEGNAN was all in.
, His duty done, he crumpled on hands and
knees, crawling blindly about till he found
the door, seeking way out of the inferno of
gases and heat.
He was half conscious of a white light that
played on the lamp top. The calcium of the
Seneca swept the whole length of the light
| ship With drOning siren the Government
| ship passed the sunken shoals in wide arc.
Degnan sighed contentedly.
| FOOLED emf he murmured.
| The treacherous sand trap Tom N1urden
had laid with such devilish ingenuity and
foresight had failed. Degnan vaguely saw
the white shaft pick up the fleeing schooner.
His last conscious survey brought a grim
chuckle as he lay there spent, bleeding, and
breathless. The big white motorboat filled
with burly life savers in sou westers had
closed in on a black launch, cutting her off
| from the shore And they had made a clean
roundup!
"Cascos got the smugglers an NIurden;
| the cutters got the schooner, an L got
about forty-'1even cases of Struggled cigars,
an whole raft Of
| "Ribbons and laces, to set off the faces
| Of pretty young sweethearts-and wives!
It's a whirligig world Wonder what-rny
Annie's dom now?' said Jack O Lantern
sleepily.
CASCO and the cutters officer found him.
~ with bruised head and useless arm, in
the cramped cabin of the Ightship, indus
triously shivering in his attempt to frame his
Report to the Inspector The officer
could only stare; but CasCO promptly gath
cred him in.
1t had been strenuous time for ]. Deg
nan, special secret agent of the United
up" the big Barnegat smuggling case. OF
ensuing events, after the advent of the two
men, and of the transhipment of Murden
and his smuggling crew, the securing of the
smuggled goods on the ightship, Degnan
knew as little as he knew of his own flying
trip ashore in the white lifeboat, in blissful
Inconsistencies.
Two days later, however, in a new blue
uniform with gittering brass, he stood in the
messroom of the life station patiently an
swering the admiring life Captains volley of
questions.
Course it was put up job all around,
| he said "AIurden had fooled the depart
ment every time; so they reckoned the only
way to trap him was to put blunderin' little
runt he just couldn't suspicion as bein' there
to spy on him-and lights are good look
outs But after all twas Providence played
the winning hand for the department. Muir
den couldn't figured beforehand on Car
Inns blunder-but when it came he jumped
to his opportunity, and his finish Great
scheme, thought
Casco nodded is it right, what l hear
about you quittin' the beach service? How
about Annabel?7 he demanded bluntly.
The big coast guard was godfather to half
| +t,o Girls Of R9rDeo1t Ui11aoa and had