The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11


Dick went below at midnight. Too in |
different to undress. he lay with his
clothes on, watching cockroaches hunt
on the cabin floor and listening to Andry |
advertising sleep five cabins down the |
starboard corridor
Without warning, a shock came-a |
swering ring at all. but a shudder and |
the sickening. yielding feel and sound of |
steel plates bending inward. Then the |
/ Andrv woke and left his cabin like a |
whirlwind. but with his boots on, and |
felt his way back, cabin door by door, to |
where Dick thundered on the panels. !
/ The strain of the shock and list had jam
med the door tight. IN a moment An
GIY $ rect We're against the nearest bulk
read, and he grunted as his shoulders
| took the strain. The door creaked once
ana then went in, frame and all. as If
! typhoon struck It, The door and Dick
COLLAPSED in the cabin corner
Ar-r-re We dressed?" demanded An
Yes. Get of me! Man. you weigh a
us the bag packed? Aye: I have It
an the elaymore, here; I have them
ICON GONE on ,9 called Dick. And ali that
which he raced after in the bIackness.
trying to catch up.
They They had struck Pilgrim ship. bound
-Four. of the little liners boats were
/ oversize already. crowded full. Dick saw
pnS poaS ~ 70 pieces ana another swamp
in the thirty seconds while he watched.
suddenly he turned and grfpped Andry.
The women!' he yelled. AThey're be-
But Andry pulled 6. wry face. and
stayed to hide the bag and sword yhere
he. could find them.
AT once some one pressed the button
OF an electric torch. and its all but ex-
nausted rays shone golden on Dicks
4 knew you would come for me"
nFtnRnEd
I'VE. Vel have to hurry up" said Dick
me light went out. The blackness
throbbed with human Questioning AND
deep breathed decision. Dick had to feel
Tor the princess, and at the first touch
she sank into his arms
An, Richard-oh, mon roll" she muir
mureq. Il am safe-I know I am safei"
SO Dick gathered her up and ran for
It, stumbling over rats. and Andry fol-
lowed MIN, with the princess maid under
one arm and trunk in the other. He
laid both on the deck beside Dick lust
as somebody on the bridge lit bunch
of oily waste. He rushed off at once
then for the sword and bag. and brought
them back triumphantly
Then the mate spied them. in the light
OF his weird torch.
There's a small boat aftl'' ha shouted
Take it," -
Standing was difficult already, and the
slope of the deck was growing greater.
Dick rushed astern, and Andry fol-
lowed. In minute. being sailors both
of them, they had the little boat
=
, gage In. Their one chance was to get
away before the mob knew that thew
e had change and charged to take it
from them. Within a minute, the maid
lay in the bottom of the dingey. And
e then the worst happened.
knife, meant for Dick, went sIiv-
o ering through the night. Andry hove
: the princess off her feet and swung
! her in beside her maid, and as he
dropped her he snaGched an oar
/ More than a dozen times, ten feet
each time. they drove the mob back
: could not hold th ad gains gain, and Dick Dick
was running blood, although Andry
DID dld not ct know dS It suddenly Just as
Il dry to jump In and lower the boat.
pa aif Ma! III no 1o leave yeT
!. bear at bay, to cover the retreat.
d ,Andry biubbered then, while he
> When he stopped at last to lean on
i his oars and listen, the princess bent
e forward, laying hand on his enorm-
Leave us here and swim back tc
= him. she urged.
q "Jezebel!' he Kissed. ST hae ma or
lie Her agile brain was searching fol
another plan when a splash came thai
ct put new, sudden heart into Andry
re The. two stout oars bent into semi
circles, as his great back muscles
Il cracked and the dingey spun. Thu
10 little boat leaped on the wave tops a!
a phins. Under the overhanging sterl
2 he stopped and plunged his arms in
: hauled clear of the gunwale; in an in
st slant more he lay on the bottom o
er the boat, bruised and bleeding, blu
alive.
"a At dawn the princess was bathing
Dicks head with a handkerchief dip
,,+ ped oversize, and a movement of hi
~ masters eyelids had decided Andr
Sf that the end was at least not yet.
He was m-silent-ruminant 70
s. an hour, while a dirty steamer over
took them. He watched Dicks fac
- until the Nizhni- Novgorod, bound 70
~ the Dardanelles and Black Sea ports
- came beside them and lowered a ia
NJ eobs ladder down her grimy side.
16 Somebody called out in Russia.
~ ~ from the bridge, and the princess ans
al wered Disarrayed and tired, sh
ve stood up in the little boat and tol
'iT They s. seemed to own no compaio
an ladder. After a lot Of talk XIV, with oer tn
or iia Lay Mr.. znthony on that" tn
princess ordered, as they lowered
ps oversize from an outswung derrlcK;
ny 'Teddies f1rstp said Andry, and hi
lg- He was down on his knees by Die
ne before the sling was half way UP tn
ass "Ar-r-re We awake. Mr. Dicky? Ca
in We hear?"
ny ''Then, it's what l fearedi Listen
a listen, ladder Listen, sir! Y're forge
ars tin. She's no frien' at a'-she's
as vera weekid wumman. an COR enem!
all Wun We no listen?
for Dick sat up and Andry sat down
nd chew the cud of wonderment. Both
am them watched critically then as
In boat was lowered from the Russia
steamers stern. It was dinge
q ID much like theirs. and two men cou
have managed it easily; but IT he
mo four They came alongside in silenc
m One of the Russians took DICK al
he | helped him to the stern.
"a Then the Russian boat was full; the
tets was no room for Andry, and he Ia
Us hold of the Russians gunwale, that th'
~ might tow him along.
VI He yelled with rage when a Russis
'ar' struck his wrist with an oar END: t
reached for an oar to strike back.
was then he discovered that the Ga
you w. ST s tbs btg man could swim. Di
ON laughed as he watched him swim for I
- Jacobs ladder. with the sword betwe
ann his teeth
A mate and two seamen hauled at I
up ladder, but they hauled up Andry. T
giant sprang between them before tn
set could think of seizing things to hit b
ire with, and it was only the sight of Di
you being helped out of the dingey on
are the steamers poop that prevented h
from 9alr hIoO7v of the claVr1O