Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-04-14
CHAPTER xlIl-co,.inued.

shot in under her lee quarter, and half
a minute later the expectant Neils
stepped upon her deck. A tall dark
man. wearing an ancient paImleaf
hat. sat smokil g on the hatch coam-
ing. aad him Neils Halvorsen ad-
dressed.
ave bane want to see Cap'n
scraggs,'' be said.
Thestall dark man stood erect and
EAST q quick, questioning look at Neils
usivorsen. He hesitated before he
made answer.
.sWhat do you want?" he asked de-
vherately, and there was subtle
menace in his tones. AS for Neils
Halvorsen, thinking only Of the sur
mise he had In store for his old en-
ployer, he replied evasively:
ave bane want job"
"Well, I'm Captain Scraggs, and I
haven't any JOB for you. Get off my
boat and wait until you're invited be-
fore you come aboard again"
For nearly minute Neils Halvor-
sen stared opea-mouthed at the spuri-
GUS Captain scraggs, while slowly
there sifted through his brain the ro-
tion that he had happened across the
track of a deep and bloody mystery
of the seas. There was something
rotten in Denmark" OF that Neils
Halvorsen was certain. More he could
not be certain Of until he had paved
the way for complete investigation,
and as a preliminary step toward
that end ne clinched his fist and
sprang swiftly toward the bogus skip
per.
"Aye tank you bane d-n liar" he
muttered, and struck home, straight
and true, to the point of the jaw.
The man went down, ana in an IL
slant Neils was on top of him. Off
came the sailors belt, the hands of
the half-stunnrd man were quickly
tied behind hiE, and before he had
time to realize what had happened
Neils had cut q length of cord from
a trailing balyard and tied his feet
securely, after which he gagged him
securely with his bandana handker-
chief.
A quick circuit of the ship con-
WINGED Nels Halvorsen that the re-
mainder OF the bastard crew were
evidently ashore so he descended to
the cabin in search of further evil
dence of crima He was quite pre-
pared to find Captain Scraggs' mas
ter's certificate In its familiar oaken
frame, hanging on the cabin wall, but
he was dumfounded to observe, hang
ing on the wall in a similar end
equally familiar frame, the certificate
of Adelbert p Gibney as first mate
Of steam or sail, any ocean and any
tonnage. But still a third framed
certificate hung on the wall, and Neils
again scratched his head when he
read the wording that set forth the
legal qualifications of Bartholomew
McGuffey to hold down a Job as
chief engineer Of coastwise vessels
up to 1900 tons net register.
1t was patent, even to the dull
witted Swede, that there had been
foul play somewhere, and tie schoon-
er's log, lying open on the table,
seemed to offer the first means at
hand for solution of the mystery.
Eagerly Neils turned to the last en-
try 1t was not In Captain Scraggs'
handwriting, and contained nothing
more interesting than the stereotyped
reports of daily observations, cur
rents, weather conditions, etc, in
Guiding notation of arrival that day
at Honolulu. Slowly Halvorsen
turned the leaves backward, until at
last he was rewarded by glimpse of
different handwriting. 1t was the
last entry under that particular hand
writing, and read as follows:
June q, 49,. Took an observation at
noon and find that we are in 2e-4S S.,
atS-4 w. At this rate should lift Tuvana-
eholo early this afternoon. All hands
ven and looking forward to the fun at
AuVana, Bent new flying jib this morn
ing and had the king and Tabu-Tabu
Aoiystone the deck. A. P. GIBNEY."
Neils Halvorsen sat down to think,
and after several minutes OF this I'M
usual exercise it appeared to the
Swede that he had stumbled upon a
clue to the situation. The last entry
10 the log kept by Mr.. Gibney was
under date of June 21st-just eleven
days ago, and on that date Mr.. Glib
ney had been looking forward to some
fun at TRvana-tholo. Now where was
Shat island and what kind of q
place was lit
Neils searched through the cabin
sntil he came across tne book that is
the bible of every South sea trading
sessel-the British admiralty reports
pown the index went the old deck
nand's calloused finger and paused at
Friendly islands-page 177;" where
upon Neils opened the book at page
~ and after q five-minute search
discovered that Tuvana-tholo was
barren, uninhabited island in latitude
@l-z south, longitude 1850 west.
Ten days from the Friendly islands,
me paper said. That meant under
power and sail with the trades abaft