Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-02
CHAPTER Xxl-Continued.

Fl, dr9Dped down to the deck and
rested his rife across the rail. The
brl'ets we had received had travelled
nearly a mile. but by now we had cut
that distance in half. He fired three
cs-af1I shots. At the third the boat
s-earsr let loose his steering-oar and
crrnDled UP in the bottom of the boat.
.1 guess thatu fix them" Wolf Lar
sen said. rising to his feet. Il couldn't
afford 10 let the hunter have it, and
-rsre is chance the bOat-puller
doesn't know how to steer. In which
case the hunter cannot steer and
shoot at the same time"
His reasoning was justified, for the
boat rushed ut once into the wind and
the hunter sprang aft to take the boat
steerers place. There was no more
shooting though the rifles were still
cracking merrily from the other boats.
The hunter had managed to get the
boat before the wind again, but we ran
down upon it. going at least two feet
10 lbs one A hundred yards away,
saw the h0at-puller pass a rife to the
hunter. Wolf Larsen went amidships
and took the coil of the throat-halyards
from its pin Then he peered over the
rail with levaled rife. Twice | saw the
hunter let go the steering-Oar with one
hand reach for his rife, and hesitate.
We were now alongside and foaming
past
Here, yOu!" Wolf Larsen cried sud
denly to the boat-puller. Take a
turu."
AT the same time he flung the coil
OF rope. It struck fairly, nearly
knocking the man over, but he did not
obey. Instead, he looked to his hunter
for orders The hunter, in turn, was
ia a Quandary. His rifle was between
bis knees, but if he let go the steer
ngoar in order to shoot, the boat
would sweep around and collide with
the schooner Also he saw Wolf Lar
sens rifle bearing upon him and knew
ha would be shot ere he could get his
rifle into play
Take a turn" he said quietly to the
man.
THE boat-puIIer Obeyed, taking a turn
around the little forward thwart and
paving the line as it jerked taut. The
boat shcered out with a rush, and the
hunter steadied it to 4 parallel course
slua twenty feet from the side of the
Ghost
"Now get that sail down and come
alongside" Wolf Larsen ordered.
Once aboard the two prisoners
ao.stci In the boat and under Wolf
La-sen's direction carried the wound
el boatsteerer down into the fore
castle.
If our five boats do as well as you
and I have done, Wen have a pretty
fill. crew." Wolf Larsen said to me.
The man YOU shot-he is, l hope
..aad Brewster quavered.
IN the shoulder" he answered.
Nothing serious. Mr.. Van Weyden
will pun him around as good as ever in
three or four weeks"
Tut Ge won't pull those chaps
around. from the look of it" he added,
pointing at the Macedonia's third boat,
Tor which had been steering and
which was now nearly abreast of us.
hats llorner's and Smokes work. I
Told them we wanted live men, not
'a7t1sSes. But the JOY of shooting to
1t IS a most compelling thing, when
once you've learned how 70 shoot. Ever
experienced it. Mr.. Van Weyden?"
shook my head and regarded their
"oga IL had indeed been bloody, for
'2'E had drawn OFF and joined our
,,-,T three boats in the attack on the
.aaH."c TWO of the enemy. The de-
serted boat was in the trough of the
SOD. rolling drunkenly across each
'..',r IFS loose spritsail out at right
"..- 10 i, ana tluttering and tapping
90 I'd" wind The hunter and boat
-... were both lying awkwardly in
..' bottom. but the boat-steerer lay
1..>S The guuwale, half in and half
-. .-.s arms trailing in the water and
els -.aA rolling from side to side.
.'' look. Miss Brewster. please
~,~, .'oN, had begged of her, and |
"> SAD that she had minded me and
,,-. S'ared the sight.
, a'.' right into the bunch. Mr.. Van
s-." was Wolf Larsen's COM
~a-l
as -5 Drew nearer, the firing ceased,