The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-07-27
next day. It rained some and ! was
able to quench my thirst.

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able to quench my thirst.
Some time after dark last night
the storm subsidized. I threw myself
down and went to sleep. Early this
morning somebody poked me in the
ribs, and I woke up to find that some
of the natives had cen the launch
and had put out in a boat to investi-
gate. The storm had carried me to
within half a mile of the island. What
do w think about that, hey? '-~-..
"They lowed me in through tie
reefs, and a white gink told me about
a man coming ashore from a yacht
day before yesterday. l knew In g
minute it was you. I had a bite to eat.
and here I m Now, how about you?"
Lent told the tale he had framed up
to tell II ever called upon.
He must have fallen asleep on the
corner OF the porch he said, for the
first thing he knew he was powcrless
in the hands of the three sailors. He
was put aboard the yacht aud after.
they were out in the open he was fore
ed t. help make sail. >@~~.~sss~-.'~~~
Then he related the incidents that
happened after Hemenway was left
behind in the launch, sticking to the
truth. It was a brief recital. ..s>
When he had finished Hemenway
said: ,s.fa.s ssan.rSs4~~
"All right, Joe; cheer up. Well get
EN- yet. Now, then, let's dope this
thing out"
Lent explained his calculations af-
ter which they sought out his landlord
and learned that the only way to
leave the island was by means Of a
trading vessel.
The movements of trading vessels,
however, were very uncertain. One
might arrive in four days, or four
weeks or four months.
So they lolled around and put in
their time the best way they could,
pending the arrival of some kind of a
craft to take them away. The island
and it's inhabitants did not interest
them in the least. Lent settled regu
larly with the landlord, and this led
Hemenway to remark n day:
81 notice you got away with that
dinner coat and the stuff you had in it
joe"
eyes," replied Lent, "Tyler over
looked it."
There was silence for a few seconds
| and then Lent remarked casually:
whatever became of those boxes l
helped you move to the forehold OF
the schooner"
They were seated in the shade, kill.
ing time. Hemenway was chewing a
green leaf.
He purposely swallowed the leaf
and purposely choked on it. The fit of
coughing that followed gave him time
to overcome the wild rage that swept
over him when the question was put.
For the instant the words were oui
of Lent's mouth Hemenway had an an
swer to a lot of questions that had
been troubling him. Strangely enough
he had not suspected his companion
of treachery until that moment.
There were a lot of loose threads In
the misfortunes that had overtaker
Hemenway recently that he could MOI
piece together until then. But tina,
question about the boxes cleared ev
erything in Hemenway's mind.
He saw through the whole transac
tion as though he had invisibly follow
ed Lent through 1T all. Lent knew
what the boxes contained. He wanted
them for himself.
And why, after Hemenway shot
Hawkins, hadn't Lent rushed to the
halyards and cast them off, thereby
sending the sails to the deck and al
having Hemenway to recapture tht
yacht? The whole. thing was as clear
as crystal.
The fit of coughing lasted some
time. When it ended Hemenway sim
ply said:
"Oh, those boxes! George said they
were in the way, and he made me
move them away aft under some
stores. He said he wanted the CRU:
handy.
"Say, Joe, 4 hope a trader puts in
an appearance soon, because some
vessel might happen along and rescue
our friends before we could get there
in which case our party would be spit,
up for fair, wouldn't it,"
Lent made no reply. He was puz
cling his brain about those boxes and
what would eventually happen te
them. He wondered if Tyler and his
gang would discover them, and he pic
tured in his mind the fight that would
follow the discovery of the money.
But he might have spared himseli
the trouble of thinking of the boxes
They were not on the yacht at all
Hemenway had seer to that. The
night after the arrival of the Wanna
at Little North America Hemenway
had secretly removed them from the
hold of the yacht and buried them lu
the sand in a certain spot on the is
land.
Hemenway was puzzling his brains
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