Williams news., 1922-05-12
RE-ENTER McGUFFEY.

Synopsis. - Captain Phineas P. Scraggs has grown up around the docks of San Francisco, and from mess boy on river steamer, risen to the ownership of the steamer Maggie. Since each annual in spection promised to be the last of the old weatherbeaten vessel. Scraggs naturally has some difh- culty in securing a crew. When the story opens. Adelbert P. Gib- ney. likable, but cratic. a man whom nobody but Scraggs would hire. Is the skipper. Neils Halvor- sen. solemn Swede, constitutes the forecastle hands, and Bart Mo Guffey. a wastrel of the Gibney type, reigns in the engine room- With this motley crew and his an cient vessel. Captain Scraggs is engaged in freighting garden truck from Halfmoon bay to San Francisco. The inevitable happens; the Maggie goes ashore in a fog A passing vessel hailing the wreck. MT. Gibney gets word to a towing company in San Francisco that the ship ashore is the Yankee Prince, with promise of a rich salvage Two tugs succeed in pulling the Maggie into deep wateT. and she slips her tow lines and~getS away in the fog Furious at the decep- ton practfced on them, Captains Hicks and F'laherty. commanding the two tugboats, ascertain the identity of the Yankee Prince anu. fearing ridicuIe should the facts become known along the wa ter front. determine on personal vengeance. Their hostile visit to the Maggie results in Captain Scraggs promising to get new boiler and make needed repairs to the steamer. Scraggs refuses to fulfill his promises and Gibney and McGuhey strike" With marvel ous luck, Scraggs ships a fresh crew At the end of "a few days of wild conviviality Gibney and McGuffey are stranded and seek their old positions on the Maggie. They are hostlely received, but re- main- On their way to San Fran cisco they sight a derelict and Gib- ney and McGuffey swim to it. The derelict proves to be the Chesa- peake, richly laden, it's elt.re crew stricten with scurvy. Scra ggS at tenpts to tow her in, bIst the Mag gie is unequal to the ts six and Gib- ney and McGuffey. alone, sail the ship to San Francisco. their sal wage money amounting to s1,OOo apiece. His crew having deserted him, CaptaL1 Scraggs induces them to return. At an "oId horse" sale the three purchase two mysterious boxes which they believe to con-
 
 They find. instead. two dead Chi namen- Scraggs seeks to double cross his two associates, but MT. Gibney outwits him and makes a satisfactory financial settlement with ,he Chinese company to whom tue bodies have been con- signed. leaving Scraggs out in the cold. Gibney resents McGuffey's action in lending money to Scraggs without consulting him, and after a terrific wordy combat the three separate, McGuffey becoming as- sistant engineer on an oil tanker, Gibney disappearing, and Scraggs, forced to lay up the Maggie, takes a subordinate position on a ferry steamer. Senor Lopez, Mexican reyoiutienist. makes Scraggs a gen. erous offer for transportation of munitions to Lower California Scraggs accepts. and the old Mag gle Is once more put into conm.s- sion Arriving at his destination, Scraggs finds his old companion, MT GiOney, is the consignee. Time having softened animosities, the re- union is joyful. Gibney plans to steal the amn unition and convey it to revolutionists in Colombia. On the way they are attacked by Mexican gunboat and a terrific combat eusues.