The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-05-30
CHAPTER XI-Continued

punishment melted out TO his enemy.
The tarpaulin was removed from the
ssixteen-foot cutter stepped on davits
outside the rail and the cook lifted
with difficulty and dumped into it.
Then the covering was replaced and
the boat swung again over the rail.
"This is an interesting sort of
game, Augustus" Bettington remarked,
land your part in it, so far. has been
worth fifty dollars tc you. Do you
want 10 earn mOre?"
as each of them guys worth fifty
bones|
"MetZger is worth a hundred. l
want them one at a time. How can
you get Metzger here"
THAT'S a pipe" said Augustus, his
eyes glistening. Hell want to know
where the cook is. I'll say he's up
here with the Jane he's stuck on and
that you've got the other"
"All right" said Settington. "a
hundred dollars if you work it right"
Slivers found Metzger sleeping. 1t
was easy to make enough noise to
awaken him. He sat up with an oath
and demanded that tie cook be sent
in with something to eat. Slivers'
sly smile angered him. He seized the
boys arm and spun him round.
what are you grinning for?" he
cried.
The boy edged toward the door.
Il was just thinkin' how cooks put
one over on you after all. While
you've been sleepin' him and the Doc
has been showing the skirts good
time on deck"
With a below Metzger drew his
knife and rushed up the stairs. In
moments of rage such as these he
cared nothing for caution. He had
been fool to spare the handsome
doctor so long.
The handsome doctor dropped the
moose accurately over his neck and
chOked him into submission. And
Metzger, gagged ana bound, was
dropped by the cooks side.
That's a hundred and fifty" said
Slivers happily.
"Slivers, tell Kenzie | want to see
him for minute" Bettington ordered.
Blinking, the engineer came into the
bright light. s.
do you suppose" Remington began,
that when this cruise is over, you'll
ever get the chance to work on a
craft like this again?"
Kenzie shook his head sadly. He
would end his days patching up ma
rine junk, he supposed. This voyage
was the purple patch in his gray life.
There would ne"er be another.
Listen to me-" Bennington said. 81
think If my scheme is successful that
Mrs. Railway will retain you per-
manently. All want you to do is to
keep steam up and join in no raid
against me-"
I'll" said Kenzie, "thats easy.
What do want to join in any scraps
fOr?"
"They may make you think it's nec-
essary. Is it promise?'
Kenzie thrust out an oily paw.
BettingtoD wrung it, heartily. Of all
the men on board. he thought Kenzie
vi.
Bob had witnessed the two en-
counters and wanted to know what
was coming. Was il possible that
Todd had been wrong in his esti-
mate of the doctor?
Bettington would tell him nothing.
Instead, he changed the course of the
vessel. well run for New York." he
said. "We shall have favoring winds
and 1t won't take much longer" He
felt certain that there would be no
trouble With the gamblers for many
hours. By that time some new plan
could be evolved for their overthrow.
He was rather concerned for him.
self. In the fight with Sam he had
been badly bruised and now the great
exertfon Of lifting the two men into
the boat agonized him. When he had
sent Slivers below and cautioned him
to report any new development, he
stretched himself on the couch.
I'm going to try to get little
rest" he told Bob. "Wake me If nee
essary and let no one come on deck
but Slivers. Those men in the cutter
can't get adrift."
Bob forgot the peris which hedged
him and his about in this new-found
joy of guiding big boat. Full steam
ahead was indicated on the gauge and
he was heading for home. Crosby
had told him that the only explana.
ton of the Doctors change of heart
il it were genuine and borne out by
lie, fh0
pardon. he hac insisted that double
murderer would have little hesitation
in adding another victim to his score
If il seemed necessary. But Todd
would not believe that Orme, as he
called him always in speaking to Mrs.
Railway, had repented. They were
bound for foreign port and when
they were no longer under the juris-
dictiOn of the American flag anything
could happen. In his moments of de-
preston Crosby Todd thought un-
easily Of what would happen to him.
DR.. Andrew Orme had looked at him
with an expression that did not speak
of mercy.
Todd experienced bitter moments of
which the others guessed nothing. He
had allowed himself to be fooled by
Grammar over the wireless and had
lost the opportunity to send messages
tnat might have saved them. 1t
seemed necessary for the common
good to refuse to listen to any of Mrs
Railways speculations about the pos
sibility that the doctor was their sin
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