The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-02-01

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dackhand helped Royce drag Trask to
! the deck.
He was heavy, and his agony
seemed to increase upon him when the
desperate necessity of swimming was
over. He tainted the moment his drip
ping body was stretched out, and Doc
tor Royce had, as 1t were, to save his
life twice, first to bring him back from
the swoon of pain, and then to bring
him back from the humiliation of his
shattered machinery.
Meanwhile Jed was locked in fe-
rocious wrestle with the captain of
Pierpont's yacht, who called the en-
gineer to his aid. AS the engineer
told Pierpont, II had to knock him
senseless before 1 could knock any
sense into him"
And now Nell Trask. who had
turned from one battle to another,
tearing now at Royce and now at the
captain, recovered from the stupor
with which she had watched her IA
theirs disaster and, leaping over to the
yacht, knelt by him, calling to him
with wild appeals and threatening
Royce as his slayer.
Gloria came running down from the
suit of her work with utter dismay.
Trask was crushed and perhaps killed.
Jed was unconscious, and Nell seemed
to have gone out of her mind.
Gloria felt that her head was COW
cred with blood guilt. The sobs of
Nell were Misunderstanding. Gloria for
got all her resentments against Nell
and her father. She forgot that Nell
had kept her prisoner. She saw only
that Nell was a mOtherless daughter
who saw her father dying.
She caught the girl in her arms, held
her in spite of her resistance, MUIR
maring: "Forgiye me, you poor child
It's all my fault, but we won't let your
father die. Doctor Royce is a splendid
physician. He saved my life. He
will save your fathers. You can trust
him."
Nell also forgot all other emotions
in that one necessity for hope. She
turned eyes of prayer on Doctor Royce
and beat him on the shoulder with i'm
ploring hands, urging him to bring her
father back. 1t was not Royce, but,
doubtless, nature that brought Trask
back to consciousness. Royce re-
ceived the credit and the gratitude,
however, when Trask's eyes opened
and his tortured lips moved.
Nell and Gloria were overjoyed at
the miracle, but Royce was the more
alarmed the more he studied Trask's
body with fingers searching every
where and finding everywhere the
decorations. He pretended none the
less to be confident, for the sake of all
three, Trask and Nell and Gloria.
A bucket Of water restored Jed
roughly to what wits he had. He came
up yelling, as if the fight had not been
interrupted. They had to tie him up
to keep him from continuing the war.
1t had taken this much time for the
tugbOat TO round upon it's course and
come alongside the barge. The crew
had watched the scrimmage with i'm
patient envy. They came aboard now
ready for carnage. They We're armed
with weapons of every sort, and with
zest for blood. The yacht crew gath
cred itself to meet the onset of these
Now came the opportunity Of Pier
pont Stafford to use some of the heav-
lest artillery of battle-fnance. He
was too old and too little used to fisti
cuffs to attack roustabouts with blow
for blow. He put up the shield of his
The captain of the tug
boat led his little army forward in a
wedge, demanding with tugboat en-
phasis:
"What kind of pirates are youse,
anyhow; and what you beatin' up
the old man fur? For two cents I'd"
Pierpont answered:
"Thats what l want to know. What
would you do for two cents?"
sTd t'row de whole bunch of youse
into de river"
81 see," sale Pierpont, "and what |
would you charge not tor
This stumped the captain. He could |
not quite make out Pierpont's drift. |
AS he pondered, Pierpont gave him a |
chance to look into the depths of a |
wallet full of bills of size and num- |
Der that had not been seen hitherto |
In his circle. PierpOnt kept moving |
the bills under the tugboat captains
very nose. They had the effect of cat
nip to a cat. The captain began to |
purr, also to reach out for the money.
"Let US understand the transaction"
said Pierpont. "This man Trask is
wanted on a serious charge. He had
escaped from the jurisdiction of Judge
Freeman. He was probably bound for
Canada. / happened to have steam up
in my yacht, so l came after him. I'll
take him back and deliver him to the
Judge. You take the barge on up the
river and deliver it to the consignee. Is
that the agreement"
"That's the agreement, sir" said the