The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-29

1 II lay at anchor, while her crew la | bored daily in the gardens of the deep. Vast quantities of pearl oysters were brought to the surface, and These MT. Gibney stewed' personally in a great iron, pot. on the beach. The | shell was stored away in the hold and the pearls went into chamois pouch 1 which never for an instant was out of | the commodores possession. The ] coast at that point being now desert | ed, frequent visits ashore were made, | and thea crew feasted on young pig, chicken yams and other delicacies. | Captain Scraggs was almost delirious with joy. He announced that he had not been so happy since Mrs. Scraggs slipped her cable"
 | At the end of two weeks MT. Glib ney decided that there, was '1oot' | enough ashore to complete the schooner's cargo, and at a meeting of the syndicate held one lovely | moonlight night on deck he announc- | McGuffey.
 Better leave the island alone 9 counseled McGuffey. Them niggers may be a lyin' there ten thousand come prowlin up into the bush so they can nab 'em.''
 I've thought of that Mac,'' said the commod ore a trifie coldly, and if made a sucker of myself once it don't stand to reason that I'm apt to
 
 | child dreads the fire. Tomorrow morning, right after breakfast, we'll turn the guns loose and pepper the bush for mile or two in every di- | rect1on. If there's a native within range he'll have business in the next county and we won't, be disturbed none" MT. Gibney's program was duly put through and the capital of Kandavu footed of the trade accumu1ations of years. And when the matches were finally battened down. the tanks re- filled with fresh water. and every thing in readiness to leave Kandavu for the run to Honolulu MT Gibney announced to the syndicate that the profits of the expedition would figure close up to a hundred thousand dol laTs- captain Scraggs gasped and fell Imply against the. mainmast.
 "Gfb, my dear boy" he sputtered, are you sure it ain't all a dream and that we'll wake up some day and find that we're still in the green pea trade; that all these months we've been asleep under cabbage leaf, communin' with potato bugs?''
 Mot for a minute," replied the commodore. "Why, I got a dozen matched pearls here that's fit for queen. Big, red, pear-shaped boys regular bleedin' hearts-There's ten thousand each in them alone.''
 Well. Pll-Tll brew some grog," gasped Captain Scraggs. and depart ed forthwith to the galley. Fifteen minutes later he returned with ket- tie of his favorite nepenthe and all three adventurers drank to a bon of the toast MT. McGuffey set down his glass, wiped his mouth with the back of his hairy hand, and thus ad- dressed the syndicate.
 so,,+,, In p Ieaysn, this paradise of the that we have accumulated other wealth besides the loot below decks. l refer to his royal highness, the king of Kandavu, and his prime minister, | Tabu-Tabu.e When these two outlaws was first captured, I informed the syndicate that I would scheme out a punishment befittin' their crime, to- wit = murderin' an eatin' you two | boys; It's been a big job and it's 1 taken some time, me not bein' blessed with quite as fine an imagination as our friend, .Gib.. However, I pIdde myself that hard work always brings success, and I am ready to announce what disposition shall be made of these two interestin'. specimens of aborfglna1 life beg to announce, gentlemen, that I have invented a punishment dttin' the crime"
 Impossible said Captain Seraggs 1 ''Shut up. scraggs," struck in Com modore Gibney Out with it, Mac EWhats the program?'
 | "I move you, members of the syn dicate, that the schooner Maggie II proceed to some barren, uninhabit island, and that upon arrival there this savage king and his still more savage subject be taken ashore in a | small boat I also move you, gentle | men of the syndicate; that inasmuc oh as the two aggrieved parties, A. P. GTbney and P. Scraggs. having in a l sperr1t of mercy refrained from Iayin' l their hands on said prisoners for fear or 1nVahdin' them at a time when their services was of importance to the expedition, be given an oppor- tunfty to take out their grudge on the persons of said savages. Now, I no- tIce that the king is miserable skimpy. sawed-of and hammered down old cove. By all the rules ot the prize ring he's in Scraggy's class. ' (Here MT. McGuffey flashed a light ming wink to the commodore. Ii was an appeal for MT. Gibney's moral support in the engineers scheme tc l put up a job on Captain Scra ggs and thus relieve the tedium ot l the homeward trip Mir. Gibney instantly telegraphed his appro, batfon and McGuffey continued ) T notice also that if I was to hum | the universe over, I couldn't find g better match for Gtb than Tabu Tabu. And as we are all agreed thai the white race is superior to any race on earth. and it'll do US all good tC see fine mill before we leave the | country, move you, gentlemen O. he syndicate, that we pull off a ffnisf light between Scraggsy and the king and Glib and Taibu-Taibu. I'll referee both contests and at the conclusion of the mixup we'll leave these two murderers marooned on the island aand then-'
 Rats snapped Captain Scra ggs
 That ain't no business at all. Yor shouldn't consider nothin' short O. capital punishment. Why, that's only petty 1arcen-- form of-'
 Quit buttin' in on my prerosatives roared McGuffey. That ain't the finish by no means"
 | What is the finish, then %
 Why, these two cannibals bein left alone on the desert island, natur. ally bumps up agin the old questfo1 or the survival of the fitest The, get scrappin' among themselves, ana one eats the other up"
 tContinued Tomorrow.
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