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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-27
A Monster
OF the Deep.
Tale of the Sea Serpent That
Appeared OFF Quincy
Harbor.
By ]. LEROY BARsTow

Quincy Harbor was in an uproar.
The wind was blowing half a gale
from the northwest, and great waves
came tumbling in from the sound to
break with angry roars on the pebbly
beaches.
| was standing on the front porch
of Captain Barnabas Fish's snug cot
tage on the west beach, watching for
that gallant sailorman to return from
his schooner Indus. where he had been
to see that everything was snug and
shipshape aboard.
Maria Fish came out and stood be-
side me. her arms wrapped in her blue
bingham apron. her hair whipped
back by the wind.
Captain comingi' she asked.
YES: he has just left the schooner.
See. Maria; there's a motorboat ON
ing in. l wonder if it has been out
side"
Looks like Ananias Shines boat"
remarked Maria. He goes into
the sound in all kinds of weather. Ana
Mas is as good a sailor as he is a
story teller"
Then be must be an excellent sail
orr was my laughing response.
We watched the motorboat approach
the captains dory and then saw it
lead the smaller boat to the steam
boat wharf, where they made a diff
cult landing at the slippery wooden
steps. But there were many hands to
help them.
What the land are they all Cabling
about?' wondered Maria as she squint-
ed through her cupped hands at the
dock. They're all gathered around
Ananias and the captain. and Ananlas
is waving his arms-good land. my
pies will be burnt to a crisp!' Maria
darted into the house. and | buttoned
my sweater closely around my throat
and went for a walk along the beach.
When | returned | met Captain Bar
nabas at the gate.
Get me u bite to eat as soon as you
can, Maria" said the captain as he
sat down in his ~favorite rocking chair
in the south window. I'm going out
again.
"Where?" demanded Maria crisply.
Around to High point. Ananias has
been out. and he's seen a sea serpent,
and
Maria turned a baleful eye upon her
husband.
"Sea serpent?" she repeated scorn-
fully. "Barnabas Fish. tell me the
truth-do you really believe there is
such a thing as a sea serpent?'
maria. l do" returned the captain
solemnly. Il never saw one, but
have met many deep sea captains who
claimed to have seen sea serpents,
and faint for me to gainsay them.
for ! know there are more wonders
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the glasses l could witness its cap
ture even better than if l had been
aboard the boat.
| climbed a great gray rock and
perched myself there with the IVA
breaking about the base in splashing
rOars that drowned all other sounds.
Therefore the capture of the sea SER
pent appeared to me merely as a pan
tomime.
| saw the motorboat nearing the
serpent. and saw the other boats
draw closer together as If their oecu-
pants had planned concerted action in
case the serpent should make a saw
age charge upon them. Many of them
had guns. and one or two old whalers
had harpoons like those Ananias had
prepared.
| saw Ananias in the bow of the
boat. one foot poised on the gunwale.
the harpoon lifted for action.
Then something unexpected happen
ed. | believe that the sea serpent had
sent some sort of a flashing upward
blow beneath the boat, for it suddenly
heaved upward and then down again.
and Ananias pitched forward, as it
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under the sea and in the sky than we
poor land pirates can ever hope to
guess at"
Then you believe In this sea SER
pent of A~nanias?" persisted Maria.
"You really believe that there's a sea
serpent here in Long Island sound2"
"It is possible" admitted the captain.
"And you believe it on the word OF
Ananias Sline?"
II am open to convictions. returned
Captain Barnabas cautiously.
captain BaFnalms. won't you take
me with you this morning?' begged
''Out In all this iather of foam?" be
asked in%credulousiy.
I'D love it."
"All right. Furl your tops'ls, Miss
TeIham. and you can come along"
Maria gave us Il hot lunch with plen-
ty of sustaining coffee before we set
forth or our trip.
you can bring me home a piece OF
the critters tail. Barnabas." she called
scofingly as we departed.
"You can count on 1t. Maria. If we
sight the c%ritter." retorted her spouse
1t was arranged that we should ac-
sompany Ananias Slime in his motor
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AAAfA ~ AANA ~
SEA MONSTER.
appeared, straight into the place where
the sea serpent's head should have
been.
| closed my eyes then, for | knew
that the water should be drenched
with an ugly red after Ananias and
the nea reptile met beneath the waves.
When l opened my eyes again they
looked upon the strangest sight mag
Unable.
Ananias Slime riding triumphantly
in, astride of the sea monster!
All the men were shouting together.
ard their voices broke above the clam
or of wind and wave, but l could not
understand a word they were saying.
All l knew was that the sea serpent
was headed straight for the pebbly
beach at my feet and that presently
an incoming wave would toss 1t into
my arms if | did not escape.
l escaped at once.
With all haste | scrambled down
the rock and flew up the sandy beach
to an ancient cedar tree, where
chung breathlessly.
Then with a final heaye and roar of
water, as If the sea was weary OF its
denizen and would gladly shift the
responsibility upon the broad Shout
ders of mother earth, the sea serpent
came rolling %in-bobbing in-growing
bigger and blacker and snakier look
ing as it unreeled its length from the
sea and was tossed on the beach.
And the doughty Ananias, upon whom
| had just gazed as upon another
Jonah. had come in in triumph bestride
the thing stretched its prosaic length
on High point beach.
Little by little l began to realize
the significance of the scene. l saw
Captain Barnabas land with the other
boatmen. l caught great snatches of
their laughter. Some of the men rolled
on the beach in an excess of merri-
ment- | saw Ananias stif1y descend
from the head of his charger and tear
off his pea jacket and coat, displaying
narrow. sloping shoulders and puny
fists to the biting wind.
Then | ran down to the stranded
sea thing. | placed my foot boldly on
it's head. and |, too. laughed. Ananias
turned upon me so fercely that my
laughter died in an apologize gurgle.
Stretched on the beach was a long
string of empty oil barrels. fifty in all.
And fastened to the end barrel was a
short spar. and draped IN the spar
was a great ragged mass of seaweed-
the named and bearded head of the
serpentl
OF such things are many of our ter
rOrs made.
Captain Barnabas and | could not
make peace with Ananias. He return
ed alone in his motorboat, and we
the big skiff of Sylvester Beebe. And
all the way home we laughed at the
way in which we had been taken in
once again by the vivid imagination
Of Ananias. even while VIZ speculated
upon the reason for the casting over
board of the oil barrels with the bit
of spar at one end that so cleverly
masqueraded as a sea serpent.
When we reached home Captain
Barnabas solemnly laid at his wife's
feet an empty oil barrel and handful
Of seaweed.
MARIA" said he gravely, 'ias | prom
Used, | have brought you the. tip end
Of the sea serpent's tail and a lock Of
his hair-for re~membrancev'
Maria gazed scornfully upon the
souvenirs.
sIf that amt just like Ananiasv' she
smiled, and then she laughed.
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erous eminent men of medical profess
sion, and members of the federal and
municipal government service who
are ardent workers for social reform
and are, at present, waging war for
the prevention of social diseases.
Miss Goldman took exception to
the ideas advanced by DR.. R. M.
Woodward of the Federal Health
Service, who charged the Sirens
along the waterfront" with being re-
sponsible for many of the troubles of
mariners.
She discounted, also, Probation Of
ficer Christopher Ruess' statement
that 'the question of juvenile delin-
cuency with relation to sex hygiene
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POVERTY AND PROSTITUTION STALK HAND
IN HAND" SAYS EMMA GOLDMAN

must be treated from the angle OF
temptation and it's removal"
"These things are all wrong" said
Miss Goldman. "The sirens and the
temptations are all there to meet de-
mand, and that demand is the result
of IGNORANCE and its great COM
panion, POVERTY. Destroy the great
root of all this evil and these problems
which you have been attacking from
the surface will disappear"
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San Francisco, CaI.-Emma Gold
man threw a few, bombs here at the
recent meeting of the Pacific Coast
Federation for Social Hygiene when
she made brief plea for more eff
fective work in combating social dis
eases by getting at the root of the
trouble-ignorance and poverty and
their direct result, prostitution"
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose of expounding the views of num-
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OF IONORHNSE anu us SISdL SOIII"
panion, POVERTY. Destroy the great
root of all this evil and these problems
which you have been attacking from
the surface will disappear"
WHATCHAMEAN BY SILLY?
Just as Ounce once meant wise
man, so it was once upon time con-
sidered rather commendable to be
silly.
But that was when the English
language was just merging from its
medieval to its modern form, and in
those days to be silly meant to be
sweet and innocent. A gentle sheep
or a sweet child was said to be silly.
A certain old English author meant
nothing irreverent when he described
the Christ-child as that SILLY baby"
-O-O-
WHEN | SHALL COME AGAIN
What shall l be when 1 shall come
again?
Of all that now is 1 what shall re-
main?
Lightly clothe me, lightly cast the
robe
That serves me on this wandering,
twilight globe.
Edith M. Thomas in N. Y. Times.
We can't imagine, Edith; We'll con-
fess
That what you'll be next time we can
not guess;
But should you seek again this twi-
light globe,
Pray don't get careless and forget
your robe. ..
w. K Maxwell in Peoria Journal.
Norwegian women can now go into
all the professions except the priest
hood and the army. r.-.
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CHAPTER III.
In the Train.

ISCUSSION was Inevitable
on the way up to town next
morning.
The silly season was by
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who had seen more than sights and
cities. one who had been ten years
buried in the bush, one with such
yarns to spin behind those outpost
lights Of England, was not even on
deck to hail them back into his ken.
Achilles in his tent was no more
conspicuous absentee than Cazalet in
his cabin as the Kaiser Fritz steamed
sedately UP Southampton water.
He had finished packing; the state
room moor was impossible with tina
baggage that Cazalet had wanted on
the five weeks voyage. There was
scarcely room to sit down. but In
what there was sat Cazalet like a
soul In torment.
All the vulturesz of the night be-
fore. Of his dreadful dream. and of
the poignant "reminiscences to which
gnawing at his vltals as he sat there
waiting to set foot once more In the
land from which . bitter blow lad
driven him.
Yet the bitterness might have been
allayed by the consciousness that he.
AZ any rate. had turned 1t TO account.
II had been, indeed. the making Of
him: thanks to that stern incentive.
even some of the sweets Of q de-
served success were already his,
But there was no hint Of com
placency In Cazalet's clouded face
and heavy attitude. He looked as II
he had not slept. after all. since his
nightmare; almost as II he could not
trust himself to sleep again. His face
was pale. even In that torrid zone
between the ATTITUDES protected in the
bush by beard and wideawake.
And he jumped to his feet as sud
denly as the screw stopped for the
first time: but that might have been
Just the curious shoc!. which Its ces-
sation always causes after days at
sea. Only the same thing happened
again and yet again. as often as ever
the engines paused before the end.
Cazalet would spring up and watch
his stateroom door with clenched
fists and haunted eyes. But 1t waa
some long time before the door few
open. and then Slammed behind Hill.
ton Toye.
Toye was In a state Of excitement
even more abnormal than Cazalet'a
nervous dependency, whisi indeed
II prevented him from observing.
1t was instantaneously clear that
Toys was astounded. thrilled, almost
triumphant. but a. yet Just drawing
the line at that. A Newspaper nut-
tered In his hand.
Second sightf" he calculated. a
thourh It w-re the night before and
Cazalet still shaken by his dream
II guess you've got It In full measure
pressed down and running over. Mr.
.zalet!"
II was a sorry example Of his talk
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Toye. land that you're going to marry
her. II you haven't YETI
Cazalet laughed. but the shadow
had returned. mo. I left that to my
pal" ne said. 'Hc did that all right"
Then I advise you to go and do
likewise" rejoined his new friend
with a geniality impossible to take
amiss. II shouldn't wonder. now. II
there's some girl you left behind
YOU"
Caxalet shook his head. None who
would look on herself In that light"
ne interrupted. II was all he said.
but onoe more Toye was regarding
him as shrewdly as when the night
was younger. and the littleness OF the
world had not yet made them conf
dant and boon companions.
Eight bells actually struck before
their great talk ended. and Cazalet
swore that he missed tho watches
aft. sir!" OF the sailing vessel ten
years before; and recalled how they
had never changed watch without
putting the ship about. his last time
in the bay.
"Say!" exclaimed Hilton Toye, knit
ting his brows over some nebulous
recollection OF his own. IT seem to
have heard Of you and some of your
yarns before. Didn't you spend nights
in a log-hut miles and miles from
any other human being?"
1t was as they were turning In at
last, but the question spoiled q yawn
for Cazalet.
Some times. at one of our sta
tions." said he. looking puzzled.
tive seen your photograph" said
Toye, regarding him with q more
critical stare. But It was with a
beard"
II had It of when I was ashore
the other day." said Cazalet. II al
ways meant to, before the end Of the
voyage"
II see. 1t was a Miss Blanche Mac
nair lives In a little house down
there near your old home. Judge
hers 10 another old home that's been
broken up since your day.
They've all got married." said Cas-
alet.
Except Miss Blanche. You write
to her some. Mr.. Casalet?"
"Once q year-regularly. II was q
promise. We were kids together" he
explained. as he climbed back into the
upper berth.
"Guess you were . lucky KID" said
the voice below. "she's one In q
thousand, Miss Blanche Macnairl"
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And yet Cazalet found himself en-
phatically unable to make any plans
at all for the next few days; also. no
seemed In two minds now about q
Jermyn street hotel previously msn-
toned as h. i-lmedlate destination;
and his step was Individually lighter
as he went of first OF all to the loop.
line. to make sure OF some train q.
other that he might have to tshA
before the day was out.
In the event he did not take that
train or any other: for the new mir
acle Of the new traffic, the new smell
OF the horseless streets, and the new
err joys Of the newest OF new taxi
cabs. all worked together and 20
swiftly upon Cazalet's organism that
he had a little colloquy with his smart
young driver instead OF paying him n,
Jermyn street. %E
He nearly did pay him of, and with
something more than his usual impet-
uosity, as either n liar or a fool with
no sense Of time or space. .
ITO Be Continued.) "
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Are You Going Away for Vacation?

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You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful
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ISCUSSION was inevitable
on the way up to town next
wO morning.
A The silly season was by
no means over: q sensa-
tionaI inquest was worth every inch
that Il could MI in most of the MORN
ing papers: and the two strange
friends. planted opposite each other
In the first class am0ker. travelled
Inland simultaneously engrossed IN a
copious report Of the previous days
proceedings at tho coroner's court.
OF solid and significant fact they
learned comparatively little that they
had been unable to gather or deduce
the night before.
There was the medical evidence.
valuable only a. tracing the fatal
blow to some such weapon a. the
missing truncheon; there was the
buffers evidence, finally timing the
commission of the deed to within ton
minutes: there was the head garden
er's evidence. confirming and sup
plementing that Of the butler: and
there was the evidence OF . footman
who had answered tho telephone an
hour or two before the tragedy &C.
CURED.
The butler had explained that the
dinner hour was 7.s0: that. not i've
minutes before he had seen his mas
ter come downstairs and enter the
library, where at 7.S5. on going to a ;;
II ne had heard the gong. he had
obtained no answer. but found the
door locked on the inside; that he
then FASTENED round by the garden
and In through the French window
to discover the deceased gentleman
lying In his blood.
The head gardener. who lived In
the lodge. had sworn to hav!n. seen
a bare headed man rush past his
windows and out OF the gates about
the same hour. as he knew by the
sounding Of the gong up At the house;
they often heard II at the lodge In
warm Weather when the Windows
were open, and the gardener swors
that he himself had heard It on this
occasion.
The footman appeared to have beer
less positive as TO the time OF the
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Toye. u guess ] skipped some.
Where does |. say anything about
his being robbed7"
, "iere!" Cazalet had scanned the
paper eagerly: his finger drummed
upon the place.
"'The police" he read out. in
some sort Of triumph. "'have now
been furnished with a full description
OF tho missing watch and trinkots
and the other articles believed to
have been taken from the pockets OF
the deceased what's that but rob-
bery?"
You're dead right" said Toye. II
missed that somehow. Yet who in
thunder tracks . man down TO rob
and murder him In his own home7
But when you've Drained a man. be-
cause you couldn't keep your HANDS
on him. you might deliberately do
all the rest TO make II seem like tho
work Of thieves"
Hilton Toys looked a judge OF de-
liberation as he measured his irrefu-
table words. lie looked something
more. Cazalet could not tear his blue
eyes from the penetrating pair that
met them with a sombrs twinkle, an
enlightened gusto, quito uncomfort-
ably sugrestiye at such n noment.
you aren't a detective. by any
chance. are you?" cr,ed Caza,e,. with
rather clumsy humor.
mo. sir! But I've often thought I
wouldn't mind be,pr ors" .a,d rovs
chuck,inx 81 rather figure mi9b,
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ielsbs'sSsis1sSSSO0
guess" said Toye. was II fourtssn
years2'
That was It," -.
"But I guess fourteen doesn't mean
fourteen, ordinarily. II . prisoner
behaves himself2"
mo. I believe not. In fact. h
doesn't" ~
do you know how much It would
mean"
"a little moro than ton
Then scruton may be out nowr'
"Just."
Toye nodded with detestaule
aplomb. THAT gives you something
to chew on" said he. "Of course. Z
don't say he's our man
Il should think you didn't" cried
Cazaict, white to the lips with sud.
den fury.
Toye looked Disconnected and dis
tresscd. but at the same time frankly
puzzled.
He apologized none the less read
lily, with almost ingenious courtesy
planning himself In n single sentence.
and that told more than the rest Of
his straightforward eloquence pot
together.
III a man had done you down Me
that, wouldn't you want to kill him
the very moment you came out. Cas-
a'et?" "a.
The creature OF impulse was on at q
tangent. "rd forgive him II he did
It. too" he exclaimed. 'fd move
heaven and earth to save him, guilty
or not guilty. Wouldn't you In my
rlace"
IL don't know" said Hilton Toye.
at depends on the place you're In.
guess!" And the keen dark eyes
came drilling into Cazaiet's skull
like augers.
Il thought told your" he ex-
planned impatlently. We were In
the office together; he was good 70
me. winked at the business hours
was inclined to keep. let me down
lighter In every way than I deserved.
You may say II was part Of his eAms.
But I take people as I md them.
And then. as told you. Scruton was
ten thousand times more sinAed
against than SHINING" 81
Are you sure7 II you know Il ct
the time"-
II didn't. l told you % last night"
Then II came to you in Austye-
lia3" said Toye. with a smile ~
: whimsical as the suggestion. .b
1T did" cried Cazalet unexpected.
~. I'm letter." he added with hest
tation.
: well. I mustn't ask questions.~
said Hilton Toye. and began folding
: up his newspaper with even more
p than his usunl elaboration.
"Oh. I'll tell you!" cried Cazalet un-
kraciously. "It's my own fault for
l. telling you 40 much. II was in let
' ter from scruton himself that heard
:. the whole thing. I'd written to him
toward the end-suggesting things.
He managed TO get an answer
through that would never have passed
the prison authorities.
"And-and that's why I came homo
just when did" concluded Casalet:
: that's why didn't wait till after
shearing. He's been through about
enough. and I've had moro luck thap
/, ! deserved. meant to take him bact
with me. to keep the books on oar
station. n you want TO knowi"
The brusk voice trembied.
Toye l.. his newspaper slide 10 ~
floor. But that was nne!" he tx-
: claimed simply. That's a. fne N
! action as I've heard OF in long
5 time"
IF II comes off," said Cazalet In .
, gloomy voice. -...s -
Don't You worry. TIN como Oh.
, Ii he out yet. for sure? I mean. q
|, you know that he is?"
"Scruton7 Yes-since you press Il
!. he wrote 10 tell me that he was
q coming out even sooner than he ex-
, pected."
, Then he can stop out for me-"
said Hilton Toye. II guess I'm not
= running for that reward"
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CHAPTER II.
Second Sight.
SOUTHAMPTON WATER was
an ornamental lake dotted
with fairy lamps.
This stars above seemed

only IoT-hWhy Icucx Oh
those below; but In their turn they
shimmered on the sleek silken arm
Of sleeping sea. II was a midsummer
night. tagging . whole season behind
Its fellows.
But already II was so late that the
English passengers on the Kaiser
Fritz had abandoned ali thought Of
catching tho last train up to London,
They tramped tho deck In their
noisy. shiny. shore going boots: they
maDned the rail In lazy inarticulate
appreciation Of the nocturne in blue
stippled with green and red and
countless yellow lights.
Some delivered themselves of the
patriotic platitudes which become the
homing tourist who has soon no for
eign land to touch his own. But one
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STORY BY THE k011U0c
AUTHOR Or N0III6N
CHAPTER I.
A Small World.

AZALET sat suddenly
II
n He ndered
- how much he had said. and
the throb Of the liners
water
Then his assembling cabin
clear recollection Of having switched or before
rejoined the
cabin
snim neither
yet the pulled
taken nigh
or cigarettes
chin o In phinx.
II his cabin companion
Cazaiet addressed him with familiarity.
II say been talking
Hilton a
OF
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CHAPTER w.
DOUn the Riper.

Waterloo the two men
parte :. with q fair sx-
change OF fitting speeches.
zone {. which rang really
false.