Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-06-09

with the money, Dut Iylers thouShts
were evidently on something else
when Lent YVES PIT c-ho-e.
Well the money was something, re
Elected Lent, but on he other hand
through his treachery Eemenway was
dead by this time or worse than dead
! -adrift and helpless in an open boat
at sea without chance in million OF
being rescued.
And the Carteret boys and Melon
aid were abandoned on their island,
their yacht, their launch gone and In
a very serious plight.
Lent was not utterly heartless, and
he was genuinely sorry for the terrible
fate of Hemenway AS for the others.
theirs was not hopeless case, and
/ Lent resolved to try and make amends
in some way for his treacherous act.
Hemenway he gave up as lost.
Lent was no sailor. All he knew q;
, steamship was what he had learned
on the voyage from San Francisco.
But he had an alert mind and he SET
himself about figuring the location of
the island where the twins and the de-
tective were marooned. Picking up I'D
twig he traced i'm the sand the course
of the yacht. as near as he could judge
from the time ii left Little North
America" to the time Of its arrival at
the island where he now was
When he had finished his rough cal.
culations he came to the conclusion
that Little North America" was not
more than forty miles, probably less,
in a south easterly direction.
He was carefully going over his fig
ures to verify them when he heard a
step near by and glancing over his
shoulder he saw something that made
his hair stand on end.
1t was Hemenway!
He walked briskly up to Lent,
slapped him on the shoulder with one
hand and held out the other
"Hello. Joe, old SCOUT" he said
with a grin. knocked you silly,
didn't I? Come out of your trance.
Here / am. They can't keep good
man down you know =.
He pumped away at Lent's lifeless)
hand, smiling all the while. Lent \.
could not utter word.
Hemenway didn't give his com
panion a chance to ask a question. He
.rattled on:
Eyes, sir; / thought my goose was
cooked when the gasoline gave out
and the yacht kept sailing on. And
when the true situation dawned upon
me l just about collapsed. l threw
Ill he ,.l, md
You wouldn't believe = it would you?
Funny l didn't think of the gaso-
line all the time l was chasing the
schooner. | nearly had her, too,
didn't 1? When l winged Hawkins i
wouldn't have given counterfeit mon
ey for the lives of any of them, for !
would have killed them. Joe, just as
sure as I'm standing here if | had e..
er got my foot planted on board that
schooner"
Hemenway scrowled suddenly ana
sighed; but he quickly frightened up
and continued cheerfully:
Caught you asleep, did they, and
gagged you and took you on board the
yacht, and you couldn't do thing to
that's all right; I'll get them yet: that
is, after we get our fellows out of the
scrape we left 'em in.
I'm going to spend some years in
this territory, and Tyler and his gans
will never get away from me. This
world is too small for Tyler and my
self to live in.
I cot in ho
launch, with the hot sun beating down
and my tongue hanging out for thirst.
1t seemed like a year before the sun
went down, with me rolling around
in that launch until thought woulo
go crazy.
But after shutdown up came ri
storm, and it was beaut; 1T least, III
seemed so to me out there in tina.
open boat. How l got through it beats
me; but I am lucky cuss. A thousand
times thought the waves would burr
me end the launch.
Between keeping her half way
bailed out and keeping her head be-
fore to wind, had my hands full al!
that night and the greater part OF the
hNAt uuys IL SOIlc dbu i WIZ
abe TO quench my thirst.
SOME time after dark last night
the storm subsidized threw myself
down and went to sleep. Early this
morning somebody poked me in The
ribs, and ! woke up to find that some
of the natives had seen the launch
and had put out in a boat to investi-
gate. The storm had carried me to
within ha'f mile of the island. What
do j. u think about that, hey?
They towed me in through tie
reefs. and white gink told me about
man coming ashore from a yacht
day before yesterday. l knew in
minute 1t was you. had a bite'to eat,
and here ! am. Now. how about your"
Lent told the tale he had framed up
TO tell " ever called upon.
He must have fallen asleep on the
corner On the porch he said, for the
OF t.ft Ia