The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-30


 [ here to amuse themselves the best way they know how"
 "Right-O," said Mir. Gibney, and turned to walk down the beach to the boat. A second later a hoarse scream of rage and terror broke from his lips.
 whats up?" cried McGuffey. the l laughter dying out of his voice, for 1 there was a hint of death in MT. Gib- l ney'S cry.
 "Marooned!" said the commodore hoarsely. Those two sailors have pulled back se the schooner. and - there-sGsA. Mac! My Gawd!' AScGuffey looked. and his face went | whiter than the foaming breakers be- yond which he could see Maggie II, | under full sail. headed for the open 1 sea. The small boat had been picked up, and there was no doubt that at | her present rate of speed the schooner would be hull down on the horison by | sunset.
 "The murderin' hound," whispered McGuffey, and sagged down on the sands. ''Oh, the murderin' hound of a mate!"
 "Its-it's mutiny,'' gulped Captain Scrag aggs in a hard, strained voice. That bloody fiend of mate! The ! sly sneak thief, with his pleasant smile and his winnin' ways! Saw a
 
 rich cargo, and he is leavin' us here, ! marooned on a desert island, with two cannibals.'
 Captain ssraggs fairly shrieked the last two words and burst into tears. Lord, Gfb. old man." he raved. whatever will we do?"
 Thus appealed to, the doughty com modore permitted his two unmatched | optics to rest mournfully upon his l shipmates.
 He gulped and thoughtfully rubbed the knuckles of his right hand where | thes kin was parked off. He thought | thought to perpetrate on Captain Scraggs by leading him up against a beating at the hands of a canntbal | king, and with the thought came a | grim, hard chuckle, though there was the leek of a thousand devils in his eyes.
 Well, Mac, old sporty boy. guess | there ain't much to do except to make up our minds to die like gentle men. If I was ever fooled by man in my life, I was fooled by that dog gone mate. I thought he'd tote square with the syndicate. I sure did,
 For a long time McGuffey gazed seaward. He was slower than his shipmates in making up his mind that the mate had really deserted them of the syndicate. Of the three however, the stoica1 engineer &C., cepted the situation with the best grace. He spurned the white ney and Captain Scraggs with just | the suspicion of a grin on his homely face.
 q make motion" he said, "that the syndicate pass 9 resolution con- demnin' the acton of the mate." It was a 'forlorn hope, and the jest went over the heads of the deck de- partment. Said Mr. GTbney sadly:
 There ain't no more Maggie II | syndicate
 CHAPTER XIII. Nei1s Halvorsen often wondered what had become of the Maggie and | Captain Scrasgs Mir. Gibney and | Bartholomew McGuffey he knew had turned their sun-tanned faces toward deep water some years before Captain Scraggs and the Maggie disappeared l from the environs of San Francisco l bay, and Neils Halvorsen was wise | enough to waste no time wond erins what had become of them. These two worthies might be anywhere. and every conceivable thing under the sur might have happened to them; hence in his idle moments, Nei1s Halvorsen did not disturb his gray matter spec ulating on their whereabouts and their then condition of servitude. But the continued silence of Cap tain Scra ggs from his old haunts ere ated quite 8 1ttle gossip along the waterfront, and in the course of time Il rumors of his demise Fy sundry and Neils Haivorsen.
 Hence ''The squarehead" was pug. zled. In fact, to such an extent was I Neils puzzled, that one perfectly calm clear night. while beating down sar Pablo bay in -oay scow, the Willie and Annie. he so far forgot hmselt and his own affairs to concentrate all his attention on the problem of the , l nf Cp tQdn So engrossed was Neils In this vair speculation that he neglected to ob serve toward the rules of the ocear ! highways that nicety of attention which is highly requisite, even in thu skipper of a bay scow, If the fulsomt title of captain is to be retained fo any definite period. As a result, Neil became confused regarding the exac number of blasts from the siren of river steamer desiring to pass him t port. Consequently the Willie ant : Annie received such a severe buttini l from the river steamer in question a ) to cause her to careen and fill. Being 7 unfortunately, loaded. with gravel o | this particular, she subsided in continently to the bottom of Sa !. Pablo bay while Neils and his crey of two men sought refuge on a plank ) Without attem pting to go furt h e into the details of the mi5fortunes 0 r Neils Halvorsen, be it known that tn
 destruction of the Willie and Anni = proved to be such a severe shock t 3 Neils' reputation as a safe and san | bay scow skipper that he was ulti 2 mately forced to seek other and nor Q virgin fields. With the fragments c
 his meager fortune the ambition :, Swede purchased a course in a locs a nautical school from which he dul managed to emerge with sufficier I | courage to appear before the Unite II States local inspectors of hu1ls an [ boilers and take his examination fo e a second mates certificate. To hi ), unutterable surprise the license wa p granted: whereupon he shipped n quarter1naster on the steamer Ala d meda, running to Honolulu, and whs O with the lesson taught him in the los e of the Willie and Annie and the eS :. acting duties of his office aboard tn liner, he forgot that he had eve if known Captain Scraggs a (Continued Tomorrow