The Pulaskian., 1919-11-07
CHAPTER IV-continued.
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 Besides, had my wonderful young friend, to whom I grew daily more at tached. I found myself feeling drawn to him as I can imagine q young fla ther is drawn to q young son and sometimes I seemed to see in his eyes the suggestion of a confidence he was on the edge of making me-a whim- sieal. pondering 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 I go on adventures. Tell me your adven- ture names. I don't want your prosaic everyday names" "Weil," I had re- piled, entering into the lads humor, my friend here is Sir Francis Drake, and l, well-I'm Sir Henry Morgan"
 'What is it, Jack?' I repeated.
 But he shook his head.
 Mop he replied, T like you ever so much-and I wish I could; but I mustn't"
 Somebody else's secret again?" I ventured.
 "Yes" 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" I said, batting his shoulder, take your own time. We're friends anyway"
 "That we are," responded the lad, with fine glow.
 1 mustn't be too hard on Char lie, for Charlie had another object in his trip besides duck As q certain poet brutally puts it, he had anticipat- ed also "the hunting of man." In ad- iition, though it is against the law of those Britannia islands, he had prom ised me a tlamingo or two for decora- tive purposes. However, famingoes and Tobias alike kept out of gunshot and, as the week grew toward it's end, Charlie began to grow a little restive.
 "It looks," he murmured one eve hing, as we had completed our four teenth meal of roast duck, and were musing over our afterduc5 cigars, Cit looks as if am not going to have any use for this."
 lie had taken paper from his pocl- ct. It was a warrant with which he had provided himself, empowering him to arrest the said Henry r. To- bias, or the person passing under that name, on two counts: First, that of se- 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 a 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. I 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 our shanty, like a meditatiye mountain, saying nothing, the glowing end of his cigar occasionally limiting at the cir conference of his face.
 "I'll get him, all the same," he said presently, coming out of sort of trance, in which, as I understood la ter, his mind had been making geo. graphical survey of our neighborhood, going up and down every creek and corner on radiussof fifty miles.
 So we sought our respective cots but had scarcely begun to undress when foolish accident for which was responsible happened, an acci- dent that might have had serious con-