Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01

they pleased. but they were going to sea in
search OF Jenny Duck. Not that they had
anv hope; but no honors were too great for
their lost mate. So it happened that the two
crack crews of Barnegat put out to sea that
night, searching for what had been short
legged caStaway cook who had finished a
mans work and gone out on the big waters
Last honors! as Casco said.
PUT Jenny Duck was far from ready for
= last honors, proud as his admiring
mates intentions would have made him in
other circumstances. As a matter of fact
Jenny had just begun his nights work
when the tidal wave bore down upon him.
and passed.
He was still clinging to the breechcs buoy
cable when the wave returned ito finish the
Job, he growled defiantly. As the wave
passed. black mass came tearing through
the channel and struck him, @broadside on.
He had vague idea that he was still
hanging to the cable when his senses cleared
but, curiously enough, the cable was racing
out to sea, and the black mass still loomed
over him. Further investigation convinced
him that he was clinging to the bobstay OF a
schooner. staring up at name in white let
tiers that stared back at him from the bow
and Jenny gasped.
THE Island Queen! It's her or her ghost
or I'm dead and dreaming of Chinee SNUG
glers againi Nope, it's her. | can hear
them Jamaiky blacks chattering up on deck
this minute. I'll 60 up and investigate.
He was torn and tattered and battered
and bruised all over; but his amazing resur-
rection and the apparition OF the Island
Queen sent the blood coursing through his
veins. After the glorious time he had had
with the life savers it seemed almost toe
much luck to find himself aboard the schoon-
er that had not been out of his thoughts
since she first cast anchor back of Ships Bot
tom in the bay.
But the Island Queen was speeding out
to sea, and Jenny had no intention OF
going to sea on ship whose character was
in doubt.
Grunting and groaning, he climbed up
over the schooner's bow and rolled drenched
and dripping among a group of men on the
o'c'sle. Something Squlrmed under HIM
and Jenny found himself gripping a woolly
head that to his horror peeled off in his
hands. The negroes fled shrieking, and the
man he held struggled to get away; but
Johnny was holding to the long pigtail that
had slipped down his back, and he gave a
shout OF triumph.
Il thought so. | knowed them .Jamaikies
was Cinnamon when | hears EN- chatterine
that furrin lingo back in the bay; on'y
didn't have time to prove it. l bet everyone
Of them Janaiky darkies has got pigtai
curled up in his wig. Skipper painted EN-
up and passed EN- off for his crew, and gives
EN- shore leave, so they can make their get
away. That's the way they smuggle EN- il
the Pacific. And I've caught her-the
Island Queen, Chinee smuggler! ]. Duck
A. b."
DANCING in his excitement, and still
= holding the struggling Chinaman by
his cue, Jenny suddenly realized the deadly
peril he stood in,-alone on the filibuster
facing dozen desperate Cinnamon who
would show him no mercy now he had dis
covered their secret. Besides, they had seer
the little giant before, and knew he was with
the Ships Bottom coastguard.
They were crowding forward again, headed
by the black-bearded skipper, hourishing a
handspike and roaring vengeance on the
government spy" Jenny gave desper-
ate Glance around Far ac4err, he cow +be