Williams news., 1922-06-09

1 fifth day Captain Scraggs tainted | twice. On the twenty-sixth day Mo | Guffey crawled into the shadow of a stunted mimosa bush and started to prayl
 It was the finish. The commodore
 knew it, and sat with bowed head in his gaunt arms, wondering, wondering. Slowly his body began to sway; he muttered something. slid forward on
 his face, and lay still. And as he lay
 there on the threshold of the unknown
 he dreamed that the Maggie II came
 into view around the headIand, a bone
 in her teeth and every stitch of canvas
 flying. He saw her Huff up into the
 wind and hang there shivering; a mo- ment later her sails came down by the run, and he saw a little splash under her port bow as her hook took bottom. There was commotion on decks, and then to MT. Gibney's dying ears came faintly .the shouts and songs of the black boys as a whaleboat shot into the breakers and pulled swiftly toward the beach. MT. Gibney dreamed that a white man sat in the stern sheets of this whaleboat, and as the boat touched the beach it seemed to MT. Gibney that this man sprang ashore and ran swiftly toward him. And MT. Gibney twisted his suffering lips into a wry smile as he realized the oddities of this mirage-it seemed to- him that this visionary white man bore a striking resemblance to Neils Halvorsen. Neils Halvorsen, of all men! Old Neils. "the squarehead" deckhand of the green-pea tradel Dull, bowlegged Nefls, with his lost dog smile and his
 MT. Gibney rubbed his eyes feebly and half staggered to his feet What was that? A shout? Without doubt he had heard sound that was not the moaning of their remorseless prison keeper, the sea. And
 Hands off," shrieked MT. GIbney and struck feebly at the imaginary fig ure rushing toward him. No use. He felt himself swept into strong arms and carried an immea surable distance down the beach. Then somebody thretv water in his face and pressed a dr'uk of brandy and sweet water to his parched lips. His swimming senses rallied a moment, and he discovered tbat he was lying in the bottom of a whaleboat. McGuffey lay beside him, ard on a thwart in front of him sat good old Neils Halvorsen with Captain
  Gibney looked at this strange tableau Captain Scraggs opened his eyes, glanced up at Neils HaIvorSen, and spoke:
 ''Why if 1t ain't old squarehead Neils,' he muttered. wonderingly. eff 1t ain't Neils, I'll go to hades or some 1 other seaport" He closed his eyes | again and subsided into a sort of leth- | argy, for he was content. He knew he | vas saved.
 MT. Gibney rolled over. and, strug- | yling to his knees, leaned over Me | Iuffey and peered into his drawn face.
 'Mac. old shfpmatei Mac, speak to ne. Are you alive?"
 B. McGuffey, Esquire, opened a pair If glazed eyes and stared at the con- nodore.
 .sDid we lick 'em?" he whispered. The last I remember the king was putin 1t all over Scraggsy. And that rabu boy-was-no slouch." McGuf- ey paused, and glanced warily around he boat, while a dawning horror ap- ,eared in his sunken eyes. "Go back, lefls-go back-for Gods sake. There's two niggers-still-on the sland. Brfng-em some-water. ,hey're cannfba1s-Neils, but never hind. Get them-aboaro-the poor evils-if they're living. I-wouldn't cave a-crocodile on that-hell hole, 2 I could-help it."
 An hour later the Robinson Crusoe yndicate, including the man Friday nd the Goat, were safe aboard the 1aggie IT, and Neils Halvorsen, with he tears streaming down his bronzed heeks, was sparingly doling out to 1em a mixture of brandy and water. nd when the syndicate was strong nough to be allowed all the water it -anted, Nefls Halvorsen propped them p on deck and told the story. When e had finished, Captain Scraggs 1rned to MT. Gibney , "Gib, my dear boy" he said, make motion" q move," said the commodore, ''that , e set Tabu-Tabu and the king down . a the first inhabited island we can nd. They've suffered enough. And I t lrther move that we readjust the , of the Maggie IT syndicate I nd cut the best Swede on earth in on ( quarter of the profits" | "Second the motion" said McGuffey. ( "Carried," said Captain Scraggs. (