The daily Alaskan., 1921-12-13

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 ny's boarding house.
 Hello" Scab Johnny saluted him at his entrance. "ouit the Msggie7'
 NIT. Gibney nodded.
 Want a trip to the dark blueT
 Lead me to It." mumbIed Mr, Gib- ney.
 'Ttn cost you twenty dollars, Gib. Chief mate on the Rose of sharon, bound for the Galapagos islands seal ing"
 "Tu take t. Johnny" Mir Gibney threw over a twenty-dollar blI, went to his room, packed all Of his belong ings. paid hIs bill to Scab Johnny, and within the hour was aboard the achooner Rose Of Sharon. Two hours later they lowed out with the tide.
 Poor McGuTey was stunned when he heard the news that night from Scab Johnny. When he retBiled the information to Scraggs next morning, Scraggs was equally 'perturbed. He guessed that McGuTey and GIbuey had quarreled and he had the poor judgment to ask McGuTey the cause Of the row. Instantly. McGuftey informed him that that was none of his dad fetched buslness-and the Incident wss closed.
 The three months that followed were the most narrowing Of McGufrey's life. Captain ScragEs knew hIs engineer would not resign while he, SCraggs owed him three hundred dollars; wherefore he was not too particular Co put a bride on his tongue when things appeared 10 go wrong. McGuf- fey longed to kIn him. but dared not. When. eventually, the railroad had been extended sufficiently far down the coast to enable the farmers to haul their goods to the railroad in trucks. the Maggie automatically went ont of the Ereen-pea trade; simultaneously, Captain SCraEgs' note to McGuftey fell due and the engineer demanded payment ScraCgs de murred. pleading poverty, but Mir. Me Gufey assumed such a threatening at- rIrude that reluctantly SCrsEgs paid him & hundred and fifty dollars on ac- count. and McGuTey extended the bal anCe 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 ScragEs as he went overside.
 Time passed. For a month the Mas cie piled regularly between Bodega hay and San Francisco iD an endegvor to work up some business In farm and dairy produce, but a gasoline schooner cut in on the run and declared a rate war. whereupon the Maggie turned her blunt nose rlverward and for & brief period eSSsyed some towing and Eener- al freightIng on the Sacramento and San Joaquin l. was improbable, however. and at last Captain SCTRErS was forced to lay hIS darling little Maggie up and take a fob as chief officer Of the ferry steamer Encinsl plying between San Francisco and Oak land. In the meantime Mfr. MCGuf- fey. after two barren months "on the beach" landed a job as second assist ant on a Standard on tanker running to the west coast while thrifty Nells HaIvur>en invested the savings Of ten years In bay scow known as the Wu- lie and Annie, srrOEBted to himself the title Of captain. and proceeded 10 freight hay. grain and paving stones from Petalums.
 The old joyous days Of the green pea trade were gone forever, and many a night. as Captain SCraEgs paced the deck Of the ferryhust, watching the ferry tower loom Into view, or the scattered lights along the Alameda shore. he thought lonEInClv Of the old Maggie. laid away, perhaps forever. and slowly rOtting in the muddy waters Of the Sacramento. And De thought Uf Nr. Gihney. too, away of under the rronfc stars. l-adlng the care-free life of a real sailor at last and of Bar tholomew McGufey. imhihiuC pu'que~ in the "cantina" of some disreHutGble cafe. Captain ScraECs never knew how badly he was going 70 miss them both untn they were gone, and he had nobody Go fight with except Mrs Scrar-s and when Mrs SCraucs Ito quote Captain SC-CcCsl slipped her cable in her torry-third year Captain Sc-sccs felt sluCularly lonesome and in mood Co aCceur eagerly any feviltry that might offer
 (Continued on Thursday