The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
T HE WOLF S b I E
Tale Of Fisherman of the Great Campeche Bank in the

some OF the coast towns ana sell her AT
good figure" announced Mcdonald.
I'm through with the business here.
There's no telling when we may get
held up by some Of these fellows drifting
about the coast, for Huerta can't protect
us"
Frank Somers, his mate. agreed with
him and the two owning the majority of
shares In her, that decided the matter.
The only men of the crew who still
wished to work on shares were couple
OF Italian fishermen from Galveston.
shipped at that port.
"Ah. II you have onlee the Teddy
the Roose'. the man with teeth-he
maka the Mex sit up--he hava de--what
you call de epileps-de fightin ldee---"
Jaw, it's bad enough as II is-we don't
need any crazy men running our Gov
ernment with country like this said
Somers. "You fellows can either get
your shares In money or we'll pay the
freight up to Texas-thats all the
papers call for. We're going to sell IL
we can. I'm through
And so the Mcknight came rapidly in
one day and tried Tanheuyo bar to lie
in the lagoon while Mcdonald and Som
ers went about looking for a man who
could put up $4,000 for as trim a little
ship as ever sailed the Mexican Gulf.
1t was here that Jorulla saw her. He
was in a somewhat desperate fix, being
shut of from the sea by the small gum
boats OF Huerta and menaced by the
md forces to the northward. near Tam
pico. He had made an attack upon
Romero and had failed. Romero would
undoubtedly search for him within a
very short time. Gateno had given out
that he would fish off the Areas Keys
on the Great South bank. and here he
was with an able smack drawing less
than five feet. all snug In the Rojo Ia
COON and completely hidden from Ro-
nero. the captain of the 'tecas.
Under the tropic moon Jorulla and
! Gateno sat long that night and dis
cussed the matter. There were ten mer
in the Mcknight. She was nearly q
| hundred feet in length and had more
than a hundred horse power In her en-
gines. The small. light six FOUNDER
] Jorulla dragged behind him on some OF
his attacks would make a fine CUR
mounted upon the schooner's forecas'
| tie. Ue had also light mountain gun
a twelve FOUNDER. which he hnd cap
I turcd from a detachment Of Huerta mer
sent down the Corozones.
will the men go?" asked Gateno.
! Most certainly they will have
fifty good men left all well armed witt
! Mausers. They can all crowd into your
! smack and well drop down to TanhueyC
and see what we will see--to-morrov
night-she might not walt longer"
/ The Mcknight, not being able to ne
gotiate the Tanhueyo bar, stood away {
the northward the next day while Ga
! tcno and Jorulla were busy getting thC
two small guns aboard the smack. TIL,
Gloucester man. being fast, soon ran tn,
distance TO Tampico and that night lay
off while Mcdonald went in with &
small boat and sought some of the NOR,
or less wealthy men OF that town.
The city OF Tamplco Is not entirel,
made up of poems. for the oil we'll
brought much money there. \ com
pany that used a few smacks hshlns
for Vera Cruz offered him a fair prize
for the vessel and after paying a re
tainer sent him to deliver her to tn
agents at Vera Cruz. the balance of tn
payments being ready for him upon tn
delivery of the ship at that port. Nc
Donald, feeling good at the outcome o
the transaction, went about own will
his mate Somers and they now spok
freely OF the affair.
a good looking young Mexican WI
a handsome girl Of sixteen, hearing o
the schooner going down the coast a.
piled for passage. Attilia, feeling tina
Gateno had gone well Off shore an
would now be In the vicinity of tn
Areas Keys, thought that a short elope
ment with young Philippe would not b
entirely out OF place. She could easil
get home again before her devoted hus
band returned. The desperate poverty
the squalor Of her hut, annoyed her an
; Philippe was a handsome young ma
who made love devotedly.
Jaw. it'll cost you a few pesos nc
: much. I'm going down the beach in IN
; morning-yes, git aboard and you ca
. have the port stateroom where some C.
, the gear Is kept-well clean It up ia
J you afterwards. You have q prett
, young wife. young fellow hope you
, get a Job ashore there and not get she
up"
But the winds were light and tn
heat heavy on the torrid coast. TIL
Mcknight ran a hundred miles sout
| and then the wind failed entirely, TIL
l heat was terrific. Arriving off Tux
, pan reef, McDonad's boat soon lay wa
2 lowing In the Gulf swell. his canva
: Stating idly and the haZy glare of tn
tropic sunshine making life n burde
E to all save the MeXlcans aboard.
[ This IL awful" said Somers, "we'r
? drifting right into the beach There
: not enough wind to give her steerir
| way"
III we don't get little shore air aft6
dark, wen let go in five fathoms be
y fore we hit the surf" said McDona,
They had not seen anything in III
shape of IA vessel on the run down. TT
hot low sandy shores seemed to ris
. from a steamy mist caused by the su
and torrld sunshine. Now they wei
: getting close in and Rojos bore far
{ the northward.
The schooner lay rolling loggily
the smooth swell and every one can
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