Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-10
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-Stacey Wallen. first mate
OF the bark Upolo. in the Java sea. is the
sole survivor Of the crew. all victims OF
last man die. tells Wallen he and five
other CE amen were sent aboard by
Sam not1rious character
recalls an incident of his childhood which
seems connected with the confession.
While delirfous, Wallen enters in the
ships log the announcement of his death
and Rbandons the vessel In a small boat.
CHAPTER II.-Wallen's boat drifts to
there, MacKnight, cares for him. Learn
ing that a ship Is in port on the other
side, of the island, twenty miles away.
mines to reach it. He sets out but falls
exhausted on the trail. There he is found
by man and woman who are from the
ship he was trying to reach, Mott, first
mate. and Helen MacKay, a passenger.
They convey him to the vessel.
CHAPTER III.-The ship proves to be
small tramp steamer the Monleigh, Capt.
Laynton i. Iaynton tells Wallen the yes
sell had been chartered by Wallen's father
to find him. the father knowing his son to
be in grave danger because of long
standing feud between the elder Wallen
and a notorious pirate. Ram Gulab Singh:
Laynton also informs him Of the death OF
was believed to be an accident. Wallen
instantly associates his fathers death
Upolo. He takes over the charter Of the
vessel.
CHAPTER Iv.-Helen MacKay explains
that she is on a visit to an aunt in Su-
matra. Wallen agrees to take her there.
Just touching at Singapore, where he Is
determined to fathom the mystery of
ing over his fathers papers. which I.ayn-
ton had turned over to, him, Wallen is
startled by the thrusting Of piece of pa
4. t. -
Is traced a human hand from which all
but the foreflnger had been hacked away.
He recognizes 1t as of sinister import, con-
nected with the death Of his father.
CHAPTER Vat Singapore Wallen
leaves the ship, alone, and visits Drink
House Sans bar-room. determined to
terry: Announcing himself as StaceNWal-
len, Sam denounces him as a liar and the
crowd in the bar-room attacks him. Wallen
ing made up his mind to have an inter-
view alone with Sam. Entering the house
he finds Drink House Sam murdered and
at the same time encounters his fathers
old servant, Gunga.
CHAPTER VI.-Gunga urges walIen to
return at once to the Monleigh and on the
way tells him he is not Drink House Sans
murderer. although he had broken into
the house to kill him: Gunga also tells
Wallen the story Of the enmity existing
enmity caused by the elder Wallen's
efforts to put an end to Gulab Singh's
pirate career. ~
CHAPTER VII.-Next morning Laynton
puts Wailen under arrest for the murder
OF Drink House Sam. but tells him he will
not deliver him tosthe authorities at Sing
apore. An .en1issary Of .Gulab Singh. on
the Monleigh had convinced Laynton that
his vessel~had been chartered by the elder
Wallen to search for treasure, the where
abouts of which .Laynton believes Wallen
is aware Of Laynton denounces .Wallen
as an impostor, calling his attention to the
entry on the log of the Upolo, where Wal
len In his delirium had written the an
nouncement OF his death. Wallen vainly
tries to explain. telling the whole facts
concerning Guiab Singh's schemes to have
him assassinated. and also his belief that
the pirate is DESTROYS OF Selling the vessel
L.aynton laughs at him and the ship sets
out on a course that takes her directly to
Ram Gulab Singh's stronghold, where
Laynton has been led to believe the treas
ure will be found. He refuses to put Miss
4acKaY ashore