Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-10-16
CHAPTER IV--continued.


Besides, had my wonderful young
friend, to whom I grew daily more at
tached. I found myself feeling drawn
to him as / can imagine a young ia
Their is drawn to young son! and
sometimes l seemed to see in his eyes
ON the edge of making me-a whim-
steal. bordering expression. as though
wondering whether he dare to tell me
or not.
'What is it, Jack?" I asked him for
once when, early in our acquaintance,
we had asked him what we were to
call him, he had answered with a
laugh: "Oh, call me Jack-Jack Hark-
away. That is my name when / go
on adventures. Tell me your adven-
ture names. l don't want your prosaic
everyday names" "Weil," l had re
piled, entering into the lads humor,
my friend here is Sir Francis Drake,
and I, well-rm Sir Henry Morgan"
''What is it, Jack?" / repeated.
But he shook his head.
"Nop he replied, II like you ever
so much-and I wish I could; but /
mustn't" .ase
Somebody else's secret againY' I
ventured.
"Yesr' And he added: "This time
It's mine, too. But--some day per-
haps; who knows?-" He broke off
In boyish confusion.
"All right, dear Jack" said, patting
his shoulder ''take your own time.
We're friends anyway"
"That we are" responded the lad,
with fine glow.
I mustn't be too hard on Char
lie, for Charlie had another object in
his trip besides duck. AS certain
poet brutally puts it, he had anticlpat-
ed also "the hunting of man." In adj
dition, though it is against the law of
those Britannia islands, he had prom
ised me a flamingo or two for decora-
tive purposes. However, f1amingoes
and Tobias alike kept out of gunshot
and, as the week grew toward it's end,
Charlie began to grow little FESTIVE.
ut looks" he murmured one eve
teenth meal of roast duck, and were
musing over our after-duck cigars, sit
looks as if am not going to have any
use for this"
He had taken paper from his pock-
ct. 1t was warrant with which he
had provided himself, empowering
him to arrest the said Henry P. To
bias, or the person passing under that
name, on two counts: First, that of Sc
ditious practices, with intent to spread
treason among his majesty's subjects
and, second that of willful murder on
the high seas.
Charlie put the warrant back into
his pocket and gazed disgustedly
across the creek, where the loveliest OF
young moons was rising behind 9
frieze of the homeless, barbaric brush
There was never such a place in
the world" he asserted, ito hide in
or get lost in-or to starve in. / have
often thought that it would make the
most effective prison in the world"
The young moon rose and rose
while Charlie sat in the dusk of oul
shanty, like meditatiye mountain
saying nothing, the glowing end of hi,
cigar occasionally limiting at thu cir
conference of his face.
I'll get him, all the same" he sait
presently, coming out of a sort o
trance, in which, as / understood la
ter, his mind had been making a geo
graphical survey Of our neighborhood
going up and down every creek ant
corner on radius of fifty miles.
So we sought our respective cots
but had scarcely begun to undres
when foolish accident for which
was responsible happened, an acci
aent that might have had serious con