The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-17
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menacingly at Captain scrasgs. "In have my time,'' he growled prSSenty. Give it to me an give it qu1ck-
 The very information of his Volce warmed Scraggs that the present Was not time for argument or ~I1ning, ~ Silently he paid MT. Gibney Hhe money eating officer went to the pilot house. unsc-ewed his framed certificate rom the wall, packed it with his lew pc longings and departed TOT Scao 'oAii- ny's boarding house.
 "HeIlo," Scab Johnny saluted nm nm, a.. his entrance. Quit the Magg1e?" Mr Gibney nodded | "N Tt a trip to the dark blue? q cad me to it,' mumbled Mir. G1b- '.It'u cost you twenty dollars. Gib- | Chief mate on the Rose or 'Sharon' bound for the Galapagos islands seal
 s'Ill take it, Johnny" MT. Gibney threw over a twenty-dollar bill, wen: longings. paid his bill to Scaib Johnny, and within the hour was aboard the schooner Rose of sharon: Two hours later they towed out with the tide | Poor McGuffey was stunned when he heard the news that night from Scab Johnny. When he resa1bed the information to Scraggs next morning, guessed that McGuffey and Gfbney had quarreled and he had the poor | Judgment to ask McGuffey the cause of the row. Instantly. McGuf1ey m- 3- ad-fetched business-and the incl | dent was closed.
 | The three months that followed | fey's life. Captain Scraggs knew his | engineer would not resign while he, 1 Scraggs owed him three hundred | dollars; wherefore he was not too particular to put a bridle on his | tongue when things appeatred to gc wrong. McGuffey longed to kill him, but dared not. When. eventually, the railroad had been extended suff1- | cien ly far down the coast to enable the farmers to haul their goods to the railroad in trucks. the Maggie pea trade; simultaneously, Captain | Scraggs' note to McGuffey fell due and the engineer demanded payment. soraggs demurred, pleading poverty. but MT. McGuffey assumed such threatening attitude that reluctantly l Scragga paid him q hundred and fifty dollars on account, and MGuffey ex- tended the balance one year-and quit
 ''see that you got that hundred and fifty an the interest in your jeans | the next time we meet" he warned l Scraggs aS ho went overside.
 | Time passed. For 0 montlh the | Maggie piled regularly between Bo- dega bay and San Francisco In an en- deavor to work up some business in | farm and dairy produce, but gas- 0ltne schooner cut in on the run and declared rate war, whereupon the | Maggie turned her blunt nose river ward and for @ brief period essayed | some towing and general freightfng on the Sacramento and San Joaquin. Il was unprofitable. however. and at last Captain Scraggs was forced to lay his darling little Maggie up and take a job as chief officer Of the ferry steamer Encinal. plying between San Francisco and Oakland. In the meantime. MT. Guffey. after two bar ren months lon the beach," landed a job as second assistant a Standard Oil tanker running to the west coas. while thrifty Neils Halvorsen invested the savings of ten years in bay seow known as the Willie and Annie, arrogated to himself the title of cap tain, and proceeded to freight hay, grain and paving stones from, Peta- luna,
 Tho old Joyous days of the green many q night, as Captain Scraggs paced the deck of the ferryboaIt watching the ferry tower loom into view, or the scattered lights along the Alameda shore. he thought 1ongingly of the old Maggie, laid away. per- haps forever. and slowly rottfng in the muddy waters of the Sacramento. And he drought of MT. G1bney, too, away off under thse tropic stars, lead ing the care-free life of a real sailor at lasa and of Earth olomew McGuf- fey, tmbtbing 'pulque' In the "can-
 tina" of some disreputable cafe. Cap tain Scraggs never knew how badly
 he was going to miss them both until | they were gone and he had nobody to fight with except Mrs Scraggs and when Mrs. Scraggs (tto quote Captain Scrages) Slipped her cable" in her l forty-thtrd year Captain Scraggs felt sfngularly lonesome and in a mood to offer.
 = Upon a night. which happened to
 be Scraggs' night off, and when he was particularly lonely and inclined to drown his sorrows in the Bowhead saloon, he was approached by Scab Johnny, and invited to repair to the latter's dingy office for the purpose = of discussing what Scab Johnny t tion."
 Upon arrival at the office, Captain
 Scraggs was introduced to a small 2 f1erce-looking gentleman of tropical , appearance, who owned to the name of Don Manuel Garcia Lopez. Scab , Johnny first pledged Captain Scraggs !, to absolute secrecy, and made him = swear by the honor of his mother and the bones of his father not to dfvuIge :, word of what he was about to tell him.
 Scab Johnny was short and to the point He stated that, as Captain Scraggs was doubtless aware, if he
 perused the daily papers at all. there was a revolution raging in Mexico
 His friend, Senor Lopez. represented d the under-dogs in the disturbance and was anxious to secure a ship and a
 nervy sea captain to land a shipment
 of arms in Lower California. It ap- 1 peared that at 0 sale of condemned
 army goods held at the arsenal at
 Benicfa, Senor Lopez had, through
 Scab Johnny, purchased two thou sand single-shot Springfield rifles
 that had been retired when the mili-
 tia regiments took up the Krag. The krag in turn having been replaced
 by the modern magazine Springfield
 the old single shot SpringfieIds, with
 one hundred thousand rounds of 45-
 70 ball cartridges, had been sold to the highest bidder. In addition to | the small arms Lopez had at present in warehouse three machine guns and four inch breech-loading pieces
 of field artillery. (the kind of guns generally designated as a "jackass
 battery" for the reason that they car
 be taken down and transported over
 rough country on mules)-togeth ther with a supply Of ammunition TOT