The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-09

cifully anonymous. For he had been
severely manhandled before ironed and
imprisoned.
Now he had knowledge neither of
his whereabOuts-save that he was not
far from bilge-Or of how long he had
lain there insensible.
Vaguely he apprehended that the
ship was once more under steam. But
he suffered too much to reason from
this that the fog must have lifted.
! 1t was, in fact, only just lifting al
that sunset hour. And as the evening
breeze gained strength and swept clear
| the face of the sea, it showed those
on the Sandals bridge the slender,
graceful, white shape of Il Naval Re
serve cutter standing between her and
the open sea.
Aboard the otter Patria Claiming
bling hand.
A moment later twO-pounder spoke
from the cutters deck, and its shot
dropped neatly beneath the Sandals
bows.
Now the freighter had drifted almost
dangerously near inshore during that
afternoon of fog; while the cutter was
still well out. She would need several
minutes in which to lay her boats
alongside the Japanese-luore minutes
by several than the japanese would
require in which to land her own boats
| II, l,-ino oh A M
the crew of the freighter, no more than
her passengers. desired to become pris-
ouers Of the United States government.
There followed. consequently. some
thing of scramble aboard the Sandal.
But her boats wereS launched quickly
and in sailorly fashion, and were actu-
ally headed shoreward and pulling fast
l.by the time the cutters were well
started toward their destination.
But before the japanese abandoned
the freighter, Donald Parr was briefly
entertained by a fugitive caller.
A manhole above his head was sud-
: denly opened. An active little officer
slipped dcwn the iron ladder to the
plates wherein the American rested.
Without noticing Parr in any way, the
} officer moved eff into the gloom, and
, for moment was busy IN some mys-
terious fashion. He reappeared, pur-
: sued by noise of gushing water,
swarmcd briskly up the ladder, re-
closed the manhole.
Parr moved uneasily in his irons.
| C,I,l x,.o.oy 1,-.,c ft1y apvnlnDir,r hi
body il a pool. Then abruptly he IN
t derstood, and with desperate effort got
, upon his feet. Ills tongue clave 10 the
roof Of his mouth and his heart was
, like q mad thing in his breast.
For the sca-cocks had been opened
, to scuttle the ship-and he was penned
{ in there to die by drowning in the
| dark. =.
When the Naval Reserve men opened
| the manhole, they found Parr clinging
: with his manacled kinds to the upper
; rungs of the ladder, his head barely
I out CT water.
: But he wasn't long about regaining
his poise, when they bore him up to
I Patria on the deck. Under the influ-
!. ence of that surprise he was even able
: to muster a Pickering smile when the
e lieutenant in command of the board
!, ing party laughingly explained that his
4 life had never been In real danger
A since the japanese had tried to scuttle
the Sandal at point so shoal that she
{ could rot have sunk or even have
s filed beyond the point the waters hat
1 reached when Parr was rescued.
: AS for the treasure, tha
r was saved without any loss what
soever.
d (END OF THIRD EPISODE.)