Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-08-19
How Love
Retrieved a F ortune
By HAROLD SINcLAIRE


breed of sheep. The Lovely Lass was
purchased, sailed away with her young
brother in charge, was wrecked in
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
certain box in a 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 Gates. He pressed
payment. Ruin stared the Evans fam
lily in the face. 1t was then that DAN
ieIs proposed to cancel the obliga-
ton if Myra would become his wife.
one day Isle Evans called upon
Melvin. There We're tears in his eyes
as he spoke of Myra.
Listen, Melvin" he said, this mar
riage must never take place. can
do nothing In my condition, but you
if / show you possible chance to save
Myra, what would you say?"
you know without asking" re-
sponded Melvin, with deep emotion.
ST would give my life for her, for any
member of her family.
"Then listen, my friend / am sat
istied that Lovely Lass is still afioat,"
declared Isle. 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 GOO miles west of
Chilli
For two days Melvin Warrington re-
flected over this interview. Two
months later, the devoted lover found
himself the inmate of a hotel at Val
paradise He chartered small yacht.
From close investigation Melvin had
decided that the Lovely Lass, if afloat,
was grounded in some of the numer-
Gus inlets of the Dialmi islands.
The day before the yacht sailed,
brisk, business appearing young man
named Hudson sought out Melvin.
81 learn you are going on a cruise
to the Djalmi islands," he observed.
81 will pay you $500 to take me there
and return"
OF course Melvin accepted the of
Ter.
When the yacht reached the Djalmi
islands, Melvin ordered that it 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 iaunt. That day shortly after
noon, while lining an impossible
ravine, they came to a rude bamboo
bridge. They hac Just traversed it,
when a shower of darts rained about
them, and half hundred sayages APP
peared in the distance.
I'VE are safe, so long as they can
not cross" observed Hudson. sri 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 shore. 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 heart beat as he swan to
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 Glanced to glance ashore. There
stood Hudson. He had just fired at
the wreck one of his sticks of dyna-
mite.
lust in time Melvin dove. A fright
full crash sounded out. He came ashore
finally, to confront the astonished
| Hudson.
Then there were mutual explana-
tions. Hudson was a special repre-
sentative of Lloyds commissioned at
any cost to destroy the derelict.
"One minute more inside that ship"
shuddered Melvin, "and she would
never have known my fate"
"Sheg" questioned Hudson, with
his usual quaint, challenging smile.
ayes, the sweetest. dearest, loveliest
woman in the worldl" replied Melvin,
with fervor.
He knew that she was all his own
/ 4b,aa months later when he handed