Williams news., 1922-05-05

| | .Phineas. Scraggs? Not on your life it hadn't been for you buttin' in witt your blasted, rotten hulk of a fresh water skiff, I'd
 MT. Gibney paused ominously anC savagely bit the end of his cigar. A:
 for Captain Scraggs, every drop O.
 blood in his body was boiling in de
 fense of the ship he loved.
 You're pirate," he shrflled.
 And you're just as big hornet as
 you ever was,'' replied MT. Gibney
 Always buzzin' around where you
 afn't wanted. But still, what's the use
 of bawlin' over split milk? We'll drop
 into San Diego for a couple of hours
 and take on coal, and about sunset
 we'll pull out and make the run down | to, Descanso bay in the dark. We l might as we'll forget the past and put
 this thing through as per program. | Only I saw visions of schooner all l my own, Scraggsy, and well, what's
 the use? What's the use? Scraggsy,
 you're a natura1-born mar-pIot- Al ways buttin' in, buttin' in, fit for noth- | in but the green-pea trade. However, I guess can turn into my old berth and get some sleep. Put the old girl under slow bell and save your coal. | We'll have to fool away four or five | HOuI III 1odu 1IIcSO liOW anu lLCA afn't no sense in crowdin' the old hulk"
 "Gib." said Captain Scraggs, twas that really your lay-to steal the 1 cargo, doubIe-cross the insurrecto l junta, and sell out to a furrin' coun- try?''
 "Of course 1t was," said MT. Gib- ney pettishly. "They all do such things In the banana republics. Why | should I be an exception? There's half q dozen different gangs fghtin' each other and the government in Mexico. and if I don't deliver these arms, just see all the lives I'll be savin'. And after got the cargo into Colombia and sold it, I could have peached on the rebels there, and got a reward for it, and saved a, lot more lives, and come away rich and respected"
 "By the Lord Harry" said Captain ScraggS, "but you've got an .1magina- ton, Gib. I'll swear to that. Gfb, I take off my hat to you. You're all tight and shipshape and no loose ends bobbfn' around you. Don't tell me tn schemes got t fall through, Glib. Great snakes, don't tell me that. Ain't there some way O gettin' around it? There must be. Why, Glib, my dear boy, I never heard of such grand lay in my life. It's q absolute winner. Done give un. Glib. Oil up your imagination and find a way out. Let's get to- gether, Gib, and make little money. Dang 1t all, Glib, I been lonesome ever since I seen you last"
 "Well," replied Mir. Gibney. ''P1I turn in and try to scheme a way out, but I don't hold out no hope. Not q ray of it. I'm afraid, Gcraggsy, we've got to be honest"
 Go ,J,g< into his berth, stretched his huge legs, and fell asleep with his clothes on. Captain Scraggs looked him over with the closest approach to affection that had ever frightened his cold gray eye, and signing heavily, presently went cn deck. As he passed up the companion way. the first mate heard him murmur:
 'Gib's a fine lad. I'll be dad burned if he ain't"
 At six o'clock next morning the Maggie was rounding Point Loma, heading in for San Diego bay, and Captain Scraggs. went below and awakened MT. Gibney.
 "What's for breakfast, Scraggsy. old kfdT' asked MT. Gibney.
 ''Fr,sd eggs,' said Captain Scraggs remembering MT. -Gibney's partiaIity for that form of nutriment in the van ished days of, the green-pea trade. Ham an fried eggs an a sizzlin' pot O coffee. Thought a way out O our mess, Glib ?''
 '.Not yet" replied MT. Gibney as he rolled out of bed. "but eggs is always stfmulatin', and I don't give up hope on a full stomach"
 An hour later they were tied up un- der the coal bunkers, and at MT. Gib- ney's suggestion some twenty tons of fo'castle head and on the main deck | ford, in case of emergency. They lay in the harbor all day until about four l o'clock, when Mr Gibney, by virtue of | his authority as supercargo ordered | the lines cast off and the Maggie | steamed out of the harbor. Off Point | Loma they veered to the south, Ieav- ing the Coronado islands on the star | board quarter. ten miles to the west. | Mr. Gfbney was below with Captain | Scraggs. battling with the problem | that confronted them, when the mate | stuck his head down the companion- way to report large power schooner | coming out from the lee of the Coro- l nados and standing off on course cal | culated to intercept the Maggie in an | hour or two.
 Captain Scraggs and MT. Gibney | sprang 1p on the bridge at once, the latter with Scraggs' long glass up to l his eye.
 'She was hove to under the lee of 1 the island, and the minute came |