Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-10-19
CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER VIII
He jerked Archie roughly by one
arm. Chaplin took the other, Ryder
caught him about the knees and all
together they pulled him into chair.
"What is the meaning of this. You
crooks!" Archie puffed belligerently.
"I'll tell you," Hampton blared.
eve are not even in sight of land.
We are not even headed for New
York. Your mother claims that she
lost the sextant and can't get her bear
ings. If anybody stole the thing
you did. And when l let you out of
this room you are going to lie on that
bridge, and I'm going to tie you
there and torture you until you think
Of a way to get back to New York"
Archie sneered: "You'd have to
fight six husky blacks first-and
there's Dupont and my mother to con-
consider"
Don't know that you are double
SAOooAAiS yOuA yOu OlS OuIls
Hampton raped back.
"Gee!" murmured the little jock
ey, admiringly. eve got a regular
sheriff with u.s."
"Wait a minute" Chaplin inter-
rupted the irascible Hampton. "Be-
fore we get into an argument.
What's your plan?"
"Come into the bathroom, where
this swine can't hear us. And you,
Ryder, stand guard. Well let you
in on it later-little boy"
Ryder winked. "Okey, Sheriff."
In the bathroom, with the door
closed, Hampton said: "I've been
wanting to have pow-wow with you.
When we scattered to get dressed be-
for lunch, took a sneak downstairs.
I knew Mrs. Glass would be on the
bridge, and I wanted to get a squirt
at the mate, off duty. Also wanted
to see what the engineer looked like,
if any. I didn't have to go far when
l heard voices. A couple of men were
having a shot, and believe it or not
they were talking in English and
they sounded as mad as blazes. They
were talking at first about the cap
tain's death. 1t didn't take me long
to discover that they were the very
men l was hoping to find. The mate
and the engineer One of them want
ed to start on the rampage and mu-
tiny. The other one objected and
talked about money and master
mind l gathered from other scraps
of conversation that these two and
the captain had been on this yacht
for years, and that it had been owned
in 1928 by Archie Montgomery's ia
Their. They talked mysteriously about
his death at sea and how he had been
buried in the Pacific. There was a
master mind and money involved
about that. Then they began laugh
ing about Mrs. Glass and how Archie
was trying to put it over on her by
having them pretend that they
couldn't speak English. One of them,
think it was the engineer, wanted to
go to Mrs. Glass and tell her a few
things about her darling son. 1t
seems the poor old girl can't navigate
very we'll, and because she has lost
the sextant she can't get her bear
ings. She won't trust the mate up
there for more than an hour or two,
and just as he gets the yacht headed
toward land she comes back and flops
it about in the other direction.
"They talked about some project
on a place called Dawn Island that
Archie has up his sleeve. One of
them argued that the captain was
the only one beside the master mind
who had known all the details. They
cursed about extra people, being put
ON board, and one of them said that
the captain objected to this. I also
learned that just before the captain