Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

and send him back.
"Just tell him Jim Croghan wants him
home, and he'll come. Stop at no cost to
find him." said the letter.
And Warren wrote too, and passed on the
word of search to the shippers and officers
of the mail liners that went to the islands.
Yet no word of Danny came back to San
Francisco. As October sped and Novem-
Der blew away Croghan's hope fickered out.
With the coming of December he looked to-
ward Christmas with the b1tterest thoughts.
There was constantly in his mind saying
of Danny's about Christmas time, "Me tur-
keys always been beef stew and Deep
Water had planned to make it real turkey
this year.
THE Dreadnought on night in the first
week of December lay IN her old berth,
sacked coal on deck in MEETINGS and bunkers
full, and in her masters room Deep Water
and Marble, his new mate, bent over the
chart table, preparing themselves against
the morning to tow a windjammer to Puget
Sound. Suddenly the door behind them
opened, revealing the naked brown figure
of boy, his round chest heaving, and pool
making at his feet where the water ran like
jewels from his glistening young limbs.
DANNY Danny!' cried Croghan, with
a mothers note in his voice. @What has
happened, Boyo Where'd you come fromo'
and as he flung these questions at him he
wrapped coat round him and ordered Mar
BILE to get some brandy.
"Alb-bib-atross," Danny chartered, nod
ding toward the bay, and Deep Water knew
he Spoke of bark in the stream, an island
sugar packet, which Swanson and the Lion
had brought in from sea after shutdown.
Seeing the pilot chart spread on the table,
the boy started toward it, drawing Croghan
with him as he moved. Hesitating second
in puzzlement, he ran finger out from the
Heads along the blue-lined track for sailing
vessels bound from the Hawaiian Islands
toward San Francisco. At wind-rose
about three hundred miles to the westward
his finger stopped. 3There she is-127 west,
38 north-the Saxon King--abandoned an
"a million dollars in her!"
"The Saxon King!' exclaimed Croghan
and Marble, as with one voice.
For weeks this British ship, laden of silks,
sulphur, and mattings, from Japan for the
Golden Gate, had been overdue. Many had
given her up for lost.
SCOT to hurry Danny went on, @if you
if" A blast of steam whistle, beginning
in deep bass and trailing away in a Shrek
ing tremolo, stopped him short. Even as
Deep Water Croghan knew the voice of
every whistle and siren in those waters, SO
did this boy.
aThe Lion!' he cried in distress. ooh,
you'll have-have to hurry-hurry, Cap'n
Jim!"
And then there sped from Danny's lips in
the vivid speech of the sea how, three days
before, the bark Albatross, on which he had
slowed away in Honolulu, had come upon
the Saxon King, with smoke pouring. out of
her for'ard and all hands in the act of aban-
doning ship.
at was put-up job, were his own words
There was no real fire. The Saxon King
crew planned to break her skipper. They
knew he'd run-that he was yellow. He'd
been buckoin' the lives out O EN-, feedin'
'em castor oil an rice. They planted pile
O sulphur down in the peak-in the chain
lockers, where fire couldn't hurt nothin'
fgurin' to touch it off within easy distance
o this port, an scare the whole shootin'
match intuh the first ship that came along.
Well, we've hove in sight, an'-an' the
fireworks started. Albatross's Of man got
wind O. it all this mornin'. | saw his chart
-127 west-3S north. That's right, that's
the position. The bark's leakin' like a sieve,
or he'd gone back for the ship hisself. When
Swanson picked us up in the Lion this after
noon the Albatross's skipper makes deal
for big percentage to give the Red Stacks
the call and keep all hands from goin' ashore