The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-12
The Green Pea Pirates
 By Peter B. kyne
(Continued from Ylesterday)

(Continued from Yesterday.)
 ''You refused to let us do it for hundred. Now it'll cost you two thousand, an m lettin' you off cheap at that. Of course, you can take a chance an wait until word O your predicanlent sifts inio San Francisco an a tug comes out for you, but in the mean ime the wind may increase an with the tide at the flood how do you know your anchor won't drag an pile you up on them rocks to lee ward ?''
 '1'n pay two thousand, Mir. Gib- ney."
 Without further ado, MT. Gibney went to the masters cabin, wrote QUE and got his signature to the contract. Then he tucked the skipper into bed and came dashing out on deck.
 Come here till I introduce you to the jib halyadds," he bawled to Me Guffey, and they went forward. With the aid of the winch, they braced the foreyard; then McGuffey ran aft and took the wheel while MT. Gibney scuttled forward, eased up the compressor on the windlass, and per mitted the anchor chain to pay out rapidly. With the hammer, he knock ,d out the pin at the forty-five fath- om shackle and leaving the anchor to go by the board. for it worried him no longer. the bark Chesapeake course that would keep her three points off the land. She had sufff- cient head sail on now to hold her up. MT. Gfbney fell upon the main to- | gallan-s' leads like a demon carried | them through the leading block to | the winch head, turned over the winch and sheeted home, the main-to' gal lan'-s'L The Chesapeake gathered l speed and MT. G.bney went aft and stood beside MT. McGuffey, the while i he looked aloft and thrilled to the | whine of the breeze through the rig ging. '"rhis is sailorin'." he declared. Ut sure beats bum boatin.' Here, blast you, Bart. You're spi1lin the wind O that jib., First thing you know we'll have her in irons an then | the fat will be in the fire.'
 He took the wheel from McGuffey. | When he was two miles off the beach he brought her up into the wind and | made the wheel fast, 8 spoke to lee ward. Sheet home the fore-to gal | lan'-S'l." he howled and dashed for ward. 'Leggo them buntnnes an that sheet"
 The ship lay in the wind, shivering. MT Gibney was here, there, every where. One minute he was dashing along the deck win a leading line the next he was laying out aloft He | ordered himself to do a thing, and then, with the pent-up energy of a of degradation as navigating officer of the Maggie fell away from him, as he sprans, agile and half-naked, into the shrouds; a great. hairy denligod | yards and sprang from place to place with the old exultant thrill of youth and joy in his work. A word, a ges. ture. from Mir. Gibney. and McGuf-
 bull-dog. With the fore-royal set MT. Gibney ran back to the vince and put 1t hard over. There being nc readily. on to her course, slipping knot Speed. Ten miles off the coast & ppsea aug hz sE 1as sD @ t the sbs was ,f of the winch and MoGuffey. came about and headed north. At three o'clock she cleared the hgftship ant steering cast by south. half-south advantage of the wind now and ovei hs throush n ss aae esae se with nrs her yard. aa | squared. on the last of the flood tide
 As they passed Lime point, MT. Gib. ney prepared to shorten sail and like q clarion blast his voice rang through "Clew up tAsssa reya!a." He lash. ed eGa,f the ,s, wheel and they brought the fore the fore-Toya1 was elewed up. SC MT; Gihney Fea back to the wheel while Meauffsy brought the main. royal clswlines 10 tha winch. Again Gibney made the wheel fast and l helped Mcduffey elew up the main ! royal; again he set her on her course while McGuffey. following instruc- | tions. made ready to ciew up the fers-to'-gaIian.-s'I. They were abreast I Black Point before this latter sail was eIewed up, and then they smoth- cred the lower top's'ls. the bark was slipping iazily through the water and McGuffey took the wheel.
 "Starboard a litt1ei Steady-y-y.
 Keep her as she heads" Gibney warned and cast off the jib haIyards l The jibs slid down the stays, hangins they fell, They were weI1-up to- ward Meiggs wharf now and it de-