White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-04-18

fog, gave it muggy warmth that
promised little later to make hot,
still day. The sliver was one of nervous
tension and expectation, due to some
thing in her guardians silent waiting.
At the end of several minutes this
began to tell on Sebastiens nerves
The strain of Indian blood that first
had motivated his grim taciturnity was
unequal to the support of it when flung
back at him in SO assured a way. The
predominant Latin blood of the mon
grel started to fume and seethe and to
demand some sort of safety valve. Sc
bastien began to breathe lurid curses
at his men for their slowness, and from
under his black eyebrows he shot more
frequent malevolent glances at the
calmly vigilant watcher in the rowboat.
Then all at once, the volatile prin-
ciples in his cosmos fetched away from
their container, blew out the plug of
it. so to speak. He had picked up the
helmet and seemed about to try it on
when, glancing at the rowboat, he
flung it down on deck again and strobe
to the main rigging, Selling a shroud
in one grimy hand
what you want?" he snarled "Why
don't you clear out bout your business?
What you t'ink you goin' do?"
Doctor White did not move a mus
Gle. He neither smiled nor frowned,
but continued to regard the furious
Sebastien as if he had been a violent
inmate of an institution for the GRIM
inally insane. Jessica's heart beat a
little faster but she, too, preserved her
disdainful calm. Sebastien seized the
other shroud and shook both parts en-
ragedly, like a great ape might tug at
the bars of his cage.
II know you, mister" he snarled
II see dem French officers go long
your house. You t'ink you find out
what dey lookin' for and beat 'em.
You t'ink you play 'em one lousy
trick. I fool you, by dam'!"
This frenzied outburst brought no
more response than before. Doctor
White took out his watch, glanced at
it, then returned to his fixed contem-
plation of Sebastien. Wheeling from
the rigging, Sebastien picked up the
helmet again, half raised it, then
scowled across at Doctor White A Gu
rious indecision seemed to possess the
man. Doctor White, as if observing it,
half turned in his seat and, drawing
in the line that anchored the boat
to the wreck until it led nearly at an
angle of eighty degrees, caught a turn
of it through the ringbolt.
Then all at once the fog that had
obscured his motive from Jessica's
mind cleared as the sea fog that en-
veloped them seemed almost ready to
do under the hot rays of the morning
SUM- She suddenly was able to appre-
ciate the reason for Sebastien's fury:
the man was afraid to go down while
this unknown quantity of doctor was
there alongside in rowboat. And
even going down, he would never dare
loose the doctors line with that tell
tale tension on it.
If there is any one job at which the
worker requires full assurance of his
helpers undistracted attention, it is
that of the diver in arrnor What if
while he were down there some rue
ton were to arise? Or even a tenpor-
airy diversion? Such would not need to
be protracted very long to finish his
interest in the affair.
AS Sebastien could not help but see
the situation, there was this Internal
DOCTOR possessed no doubt of all his
cults coldbloodedness claiming wreck
by virtue of his having got a line fast
to it, and now waiting calmly for Sc
bastien to submerge himself for the
taking of measures that might result
in a shortage of free air.
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