The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-07

be. WAL, reckon I musta fell
asleep after the boat started, fer the
next thing knowed there wuz noise
like million thunderclaps put to
gether-it minded me O. tibet time the
magazine blew up on the old Mohican
off Coronel-and the Sea Hawk
seemed to sorta fall apart around me
and I wuz shot about a million feet
up in the air. 1 guess I musta lost
track o. things for a while, for the
next thing 1 knowed I wuz in the wa
ter, hangin' onto a plank for dear
life and hollerin' for someone to pick
me up. What with hangin' onto the
plank and f1oatin' about in the water
all night and not havin' nothin' to eat,
wuz SO doggone weak when
reached the shore tibet I jest fell down
on the sand and went sound asleep.
1 musta slept quite some time, fer the
sun was pretty high when 1 woke up;
so, thinkin' I'd see eff l could find
something to eat, I started to walk up
the shore. hadn't gone more'n a mile
or so when I seed the smoke Nv a fire,
and who should I see a settin' in front
O. it but Miss Cleo herel That's all
there is to my yarn, lootenant, 'cept
that I'm so blamed hungry thet
could eat a house"
1--WE heard an explosion, you re-
member, sir" said Morissey, Just
about the time the Southeast island
light went out. 1t seemed somewhere
to windward Of u.s."
Yes said Hope, 'T remember it
now. It must have been the explo-
sion on the Sea Hawk that we heard.
I can't imagine what could have
caused it, though It's another IN
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
Fftzmaurice the very books which Sat
suma 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,
I'm going to put them in the sun and
let them dry"
I've a better plan than that" said
Fftzmaurice. why don't you bring
them up to my shack? Wen start a
fire and while the books are drying
you can lie down on my bunk and gel
some sleep You must be nearly dead
after last nights experience"
That's a good idea" agreed Hope
miss Burke is very much in need OF
rest, though she won't admit it But
we must make some arrangements tC
get back to the city. I'm afraid wei
have to trouble you, Fitzmaurice, tC
take US over in your saiIboat to Mid
die island. From there I 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 dom
you let Hook and me go across tC
| M1QQlo 1Sla0Q Win MI Z lLZUlduIlCk
and get some gasoline-theyn surely
have some at the radio station-an6
bring it back in the sailboat.
And so it was arranged.
We will now, in the parlance Of the
motion-picture people, "cut back" tC
| Mahlin and Satsuma. After the Jap
anese had been rescued from the wa
ter by his co-conspiTator, instead o.
| heading for the mainland, they land
ed unobserved on the island and, tax
ing every precaution not to be seen
i they made their way to the summit
OF a brush-coyered 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 1atter's skin was anchored
and they saw Cleo and Hope entel
the shack. They saw, moreover, Il
their intense establishment, that Hope
/ was carrying the books which Sstsu
ma had thrown into the sea-
by making a big detour," said Nah
lin, I'VE can creep along the edge o