The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-26

1 said, ito think of that fool McGuffey | not bein' here to enjoy himself. Pm go1n' to send a note out by one of Taibu-Tabu's boys, askin' him once | first mate and one or two of the sea- men come if Mac refuses to be civil" ," Good idea, Gib.'' said Captain Scraggs, his mouth full of roast l tore leaf out of his pocket memor- | andum book. scrawled a note to Me Guffey,s and handed it to Tabu-Tabu, u, who at once dispatched a messenger with it to the Maggie II.
 Within half an hour the messenger | returned. He was wildly excited and poured a torrent of native gibberish
 into the attentive ears of TaIbu-Taou u | and the king. He pointed several
 times to the point of his jaw, rubbed l the small of his back. and once he | touched his nose; whereupon MT. Gib- | ney was aware that the said organ | informed Captain Seraggs. Neither of | the gentlemen had the slightest trou- | ble in arriving at the correct solution | of the mystery. The royal messenger l had been incontinent1y kicked over | board by B. McGuffey, Esquire. Tabu-Tabu's wild eyes g'iittered and grew wilder and wilder as the mes- I senger reported the indignity thus heaped upon him. The king scowled | at Captain Scraggs, and MT. Gibney l was suddenly aware that goose flesh | was breaking out on the backs of his sturdy legs. He had a haunting sen sation that not only had he crawled into hole, but he had pulled the en- tire aperature in after him. For the first time he began to fear that he had been too precipitate. and with the thought it occurred to the gall lant commodore that he would be
 much safer back on the decks of the
 Maggie IT. Always crafty and inn agtnative, however. MT. Gfbney came quickly to the front with an excuse for getting back to the ship. He stepped quickly toward the little group around the outraged royal am- bassador, and inquired the cause of
 the disturbance. Quivering with rage,
 Tabu-Tabu informed him of what
 had occurred.
 MT. Gibney's rage. of course; ;~knew
 no bounds. Nevertheless. he did not
 have to stimulate his rage, for he was
 truly furious. When he could con-
 tro1 his emotions, he requested Tabu-
 Tabu to inform the king that he,
 GJbney, accompanied by Captain
 Scraggs, would forthwith repair to
 the schooner and then and there fay
 the offending McGuffey within an inch of his life. Suiting the action to the
 word, MT. Gibney called to Captain
 Scraggs to follow him, and started for the beach.
 As Captain scraggs arose, a trihe unsteadily, from his seat, a black
 hand reached around him from the rear and closed over his mouth. Now, Captain Scraggs was well versed in the gh-and-tumfble tactics of the San Francisco waterfront; hence. when he felt a long pair of arms crossing over his neck from the rear, | he merely stopped and whir1ed his l opponent over his head. In that in | stant his mouth was free, and clear | above the shouting and the tumult rose his frenzfed shriek for help. MT | Gibney whir1ed with the speed and oc of l dodge a blow from a war club. His | fist colEded with the jaw of Tabu- l Tabu, an down went that savage as if Dole-axed.
 | Pandemonium broke loose at once
 Captain Scraggs, after his single | shriek for help, broke from the circle | Of savages and fled like a frightened
 rabbit for the beach. One of the na- sfIe took Scraggs in the back Of the
 head. and he instantly curled up in a
 heap.
 "Scraggys dead" thought the hor-
 Thed Gtbney. and sprang at the king.
 In that moment it came to Mir. Gib- | ney to sell out dearly, and if he could
 dispose of the king, he felt that
 Scraggs' death would be avenged. In
 arms hal closed around the king, and
 with the helpless monarch in his l grizzly bear grip MT. Gibney backed up against the nearest bungalow A l 1fdhSo oI spears threatened him 1n
 front, but for the moment he was
 safe behind, and the kings body pro-
 tected him. Whenever one of the
 savages made 8 jab at MT. Gibney,
 MT. G1oney gave the king a boa
 constructor squeezee. and the mon-
 arch how1ed.
 I "r1l squeeze him to death," panted Mr. Gabney to Tabu-Tabu when that
 fndtvidua1 had managed to pick him.
 self up. "Let me go, or I'll kill your king.
 The answer was an earthenware pot which crashed down on MT. Gib-
 ney's head from a window in the
 bungalow behind him. He sagged
 forward and fell on his face with the
 gasping king in his arms.
 | & CHAPTER XII.
 | On board the Magge II. B. McGut-
 fey, Esquire, had just gotten into po- | sttton the Maxim -Vtclers "pom-pom''
 gun on the top Of the house. The last | bolt that held 1t in place had just
 been screwed tight when clear and
 shril1 over the tops of the jungle and | across the still surface of the little I 1--