Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-01-13
CHAPTER xiii.
Mr.. Tubbs Interrupts.


~ snow logged industry in the mat
yer Oh the Island Queen. It would take
4iie long while to get down through
'ne sand to the chest, but / resolved 70
accomplish it, and borrowed of Cookie.
Nlthout his knowledge, a large iron
spoon which | thought could WELD
more easily than a heavy spade.
But that afternoon | was tired and
mott really called for grimmer
resolve thap nine to shovel sand
through the languor of a Leeward
isiahd afternoon. Instead | slept in
my hammock, and dreamed that | was
queen OF cannibal island, draped in
necklaces made of the doubloons now
hidden under the sand in the cabin of
the derelict.
Later, the wailing of Cookie was
heard in the land and had to restore
the spoon to free Crusoe of the charge
OF having stolen it. said had want
cd to dig with it. But of course it oc-
CURED to no one that it was the treas
ure had expected to dig up with
Cookies spoon.
a more serious obstacle to nv ex-
plorations on the Island Queen pre-
scented itself next day. Instead of put
ting to sea, Mr.. Shaw and CAPTAIN
NagnuS hauled the boat I'D on the
beach and set to work to repair it.
The preceding day had been filled
with hardship and danger-so much
so that my heart sank little at the
recountal of it. You saw the little
boat threading it's way among the
reefs, tossed like seaweed by the
white teeth of gnawing waves,
screamed at by angry gulls whose
which the boat invaded. And all this,
poor little boat, on a hopeless quest
for no reward but peril and wounds.
Cuthbert Vane had d sprained thumb
which could not be ignored, and on
the strength of which he was dis
missed from the boat-repairing con
tingent, and thrown on my hands to
entertain. SO of course / had to re.
nounce all thoughts of visiting the
SlOop. | should not have dared to go
there anyway, with Mr.. Shaw and the
captain able more or less to overlook
my motions from the beach, for / was
quite morbidly afraid of attracting at
tention to the derelict. 1t seemed to
me happy miracle that no one but
myself had taken any interest in her,
or been inspired to ask by what chance
so small boat had come to be
wrecked upon these desolate shores.
Fortunately in her position in the
shadow of the cliff she was incon-
spicuous, so that she might easily
have been taken for Tie half of large
boat instead of the whole of a small
one, or she must before this have
drawn the questioning notice Of the
Scotchman. AS to the captain, his at
tention was all set on the effort to
discover the cave, and his intelligence
was not lively enough to start on an
entirely new tack by itself. And the
Honorable Cuthbert viewed derelicts
as he viewed the planetary bodies !;
somehow in the course of nature they
happened.
SO, assembling my excitements and
anxieties, swung placidly in my ham,
mock, and nearby sat the beautiful
youth with his thumb carried tenderly
in bandage. Was it merely my be-
ing so distract, or was it quite another
reason that led him to open up SC
suddenly about his Kentish home?
Strange to say, instead of painting for
the title, Cuthbert wanted his broth
er to 60 on living though there was
something queer about his spine, poor
fellow, and the doctors said he couldn't
possibly OF course | was surprised
at Cuthbert's views. for l had always
thought that If there were a title in
your family your sentiments toward
those who kept you out of 1t were
necessarily murderous, and your tears
crocodile when you pretended to weep
over their biers But Cuthbert's feel
ings were so human that | mentally
apologized to the nobility. AS TO
High Staunton manor, / adored 1t. 1t
is mostly Jacobean, but with an an
cient Tudor wing, and 1T has chapel
and a ghost and a secret staircase
and a frightfully beautiful and wicked
ancestress banging in the hall mean
a portrait OF her-and quantities or
OAK paneling quite black with age
and silver that was hidden in the fam
.ly tombs when Cromwell's soldiers
came, and a chamber where Elizabeth
once slept, and other romantic details
too numerous to mention. 1t Is little
bit run down and shabby. for lack OF
money to keep 1t up, and of course on
that account all the more enhancing.
The present Lord Grasmere lived up
70 his position so completely that he
had the govt and sat with his foot on
a cushion exactly like all the elderly
aristocrats you ever heard of, only
when / inquired II his lordship cursed
his valet and flung plates at the foot
men when his foot hurt him, his son
was much shocked and panied. de
did not realize so we'll as from an
extensive course of novelreading-
that such Is the usual behavior OF IL
tied persons.
II was delightful there in the hot
..,,- "a tha leland with the Mains