Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-06
How Love
Retrieved a Fortune
By HAROLD SINCLAIRE
te. 4gzl. Western newspaper UniOn)

LNduS-lle, poor anu dLuDlllouS. ~
did Rolfe DanieIs-rich, selfish and an
idler. Myra's father had borrowed all
the money he could to fit out an eX.
petition to Australia to import a new
breed Of sheep The Lovely Lass was
purchased, sailed away with her young
brother in charge, was wrecked in a
terrible storm at sea, and Lisle Evans
came home crippled, pauper and his
health broken.
The worst of it was that when all
hands were forced TO abandon the
Lovely Lass $50 miles west Of the
South American coast in the rush and
peril of the occasion Isle had left in
a certain box in certain part Of its
cabin over $4,000 in money to buy the
ship with, and papers representing as
much more. An abandoned derelict,
the captain and crew gave her up for
lost. The blow crushed the proud
spirit of old Colonel Evans. He had
mOrtgaged his home to fit out the
venture. In some way Rolfe Daniels
had secured the notes. He pressed
payment. Ruin stared the Evans fam
lily in the face. 1t was then that Dan
iels proposed to cancel the obliga-
ton if Myra would become his wife.
One day Lisle Evans called upon
Melvin. There were tears in his eyes
as he spoke of Myra.
Listen, Melvin" he said, this mar
riage must never take place. l can
do nothing in my condition, but you
If l show you possible chance to save
Myra, what would you say?"
"You know without asking" re-
sponded Melvin, with deep emotion.
IT would give my life for her, for any
member Of her family.
''Then listen, my friend. / am sat
isfied that Lovely Lass is still afioat,"
declared Lisle. 81 feel certain that
somewhere on the bosom of the broad
Pacific she is knocking about, with
that treasure which means the saliva
ton of our family, aboard Lloyd's
Register has listed her foundered,
but this marine obit was later changed
to abandoned at sea- A tramp
schooner sighted her 900 miles west Of
Chilli.
For two days Melvin Warrington re-
fiected over this interview. Two
months later, the devoted lover found
himself the inmate of hotel at VAL
paraiso. He chartered small yacht
From close investigation Melvin had
decided that the Lovely Lass, If afioat,
was grounded in some of the numer-
Gus inlets of the Djalmi islands.
The day before the yacht sailed, a
brisk, business appearing young man
named Hudson sought out Melvin.
II learn you are going on cruise
to the Djalmi islands," he observed.
II will pay you $500 to take me there
and return"
OF course Melvin accepted the Of
fer.
When the yacht reached the Djalmi
islands, Melvin ordered that ii land
him on the barren eastern coast Of
the largest of the group. To his sur
prise, when he left the yacht, Hudson
accompanied him.
Neither disclosed his purpose in the
curious jaunt. That day shortly after
noon, while lining an impossible
ravine, they came to rude bamboo
bridge. They had just traversed 1t,
when a shower Of darts rained about
them, and half hundred savages APP
peared in the distance.
1--WE are safe, so long as they can
not cross" observed Hudson. "T'll fix
that"
He opened the satchel he carried,
selected an oblong package, opened
one end and gave it fling. In an in
slant the bridge was shattered to
atoms.
Dynamite" explained Hudson, and
Melvin marveled more than ever at the
eccentric comrade who went about
loaded with the deadly explosive.
They camped that night near the
west shere. At daybreak Melvin was
on the move. He went along the
shore, came to an inlet and there dis
mantled and lying on her beam ends,
was-the Lovely Lass.
HOW his HtdTI peat as Hc SWIM W
the wreck and decended into the
water-logged cabin, to find the hiding
place, and with 1.-THE precious tin
box!
Melvin came back to the deck with
cheer, the box thrust in his bosom.
He CHANGED to glance ashore. There
stood Hudson. He had just fired at
the wreck one of his sticks of dyna-
mite,
just in time Melvin dove. A fright
full crash sounded out. He came ashore
finally, to confront the astonished
Hudson.
Then there were mutual explana-
lions. Hudson was special repre-
sentative Of Lloyds commissioned at
any cost TO destroy the derelict.
"One minute more inside that Ship"
shuddered Melvin, land she would
never have known my fate"
asher? questioned Hudson, with
his usual quaint, challenging smile.
"Yes, the sweetest, dearest, lOveliest
woman in the world ~ replied Melvin,
with fervor.
He knew that she was all his own
three months later, when he handed
to Colonel Evans the little tin box res
cued from the Lovely Lass-derelict
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