Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-11-03

be. WAL. reckon musta fell
asleep after the boat started. fer the
next thing knowed there wuz a noise
like million thunderclaps put to-
gether-it minded me o. tibet time the
magazine blew up on the old Mohican
of Coronel-and the Sea Hawk
seemed to sorta fall apart around me
and I wuz shot about million feet
up in the air. I guess I musta lost
track o. things for a while. for the
next thing knowed I wuz In the wa
ter, hangin' onto plank for dear
life and hollerin' for someone to pick
me up. What with hangin' onto the
plank and floatin' about in the water
all night and not havin' nothin' to eat,
l wuz 80 doggone weak when
reached the shore tibet Jest fell down
on the sand and went sound asleep.
musta slept quite some time, fer the
sun was pretty high when woke up;
so, thinkin I'd see eff / could find
something to eat, started to walk up
the shore. hadn't gone moren mile
or 30 when seed the smoke NV fire,
and who should see settin' in front
o. 1t but Miss Cleo here! That's all
there is to my yarn, lootenant, 'cept
that I'm so blamed hungry tibet I
could eat a house."
1--WE heard an explosion, you re-
member. sir" said Morissey, lust
about the time the Southeast island
light went out. It seemed somewhere
to vindward Of u.s."
YES" said Hope. IT remember It
now. It must have been the explo-
sion on the Sea Hawk that we heard.
can't imagine what could have
caused 1t, though. It's another un-
solved mystery Of the sea-"
well, here's another mystery of
the sea for you to solve, Jarvis" said
Cleo. who, during Hooks recital, had
been standing with her hands behind
her. and she suddenly flashed before
the unbelieving eyes of Hope and
Fitzmaurice the very books which Sat-
su-ra had thrown over the cliff!
Hope emitted a long whistle of as
constituent.
where on earth did you get them,
Cleo?" he asked, staring at the water
soaked volumes as though his eyes
were deceiving him.
"They came in the same way that
Hook did" she answered. "They were
washed up by the sea-"
'T haven't examined them yet" she
replied. "They are so wet. you see.
that the leaves are all stuck together.
I'm going to put them in the sun and
let them dry"
I've q better plan than that" said
Fitzmaurice. why don't you bring
them up to my shack? Well start
fire and while the books are drying
you can lie down on my bunk and get
some sleep. You must be nearly dead
after last nights experience"
That's good idea" agreed Hope.
Miss Burke is very much in need of
rest, though she won't admit II. But
we must make some arrangements to
get back to the city. I'm afraid well
have to trouble you, Fitzmaurice, to
take us over in your sailboat to Mid
die island. From there can send
radio message to San Francisco for
boat to come out and get us"
Excuse my making the suggestion,
SIR" said Morissey, "but why don't
you let Hook and me go across to
Middle island with Mr.. Fitzmaurice
and get some gasoline-they'll surely
have some at the radio station-and
bring 1t back in the sailboat.
And so II was arranged.
We will now. in the parlance OF the
motion-picture people, "cut back" to
Mahlin and Satsuma. After the Jap
anese had been rescued from the wa
ter by his co-conspirator, instead of
heading for the mainland, they land
ed unobserved on the island and, TAX
ing every precaution not to be seen,
they made their way 10 the summit
OF Undiscovered knoll which over
looked the shack. From here they
saw the return of the party; they saw
Hook, Morissey and Fitzmaurice de-
scend the path leading to the cove
where the latter's skin was anchored,
and they saw Cleo and Hope enter
the shack. They saw, moreover, to
their intense establishment, that Hope
was carrying the books which Satsu-
ma had thrown into the sea.
by making big detour," said NAH
lin, I'VE can creep along the edge Of