The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-22

gleam of a long knife in the belt Of
boy who looked the LATEST Of all.
''Stay back" he warned them.
''Stay back until your time comes!"
Nobody moved on the deck of the
Holokai as Dick went over the rail
of the Seal. Everyone of those sea-
riding men must have known what
inspiration was in Inyashi's hand as
he drew the Holokai past the Seal,
against the restless swell Of the
countering sea. But they stood,
waiting their turn, while Dick made
his Jump across better than faith
ON of open water; and, gaining the
Seals deck, signaled Inyashi to
stand clear.
The one-eyed Captain Ramey was
waiting at so nearly the exact spot
where Dick took the deck that he
had to jump back when Dick came
down over the rail.
"What's this. What is this?"
"How would you like to turn your
boat?" Dick said.
''Listen-wait-list There was
a frantic expostulation in Ramey's
voice, not without its note of ap-
peal. "You can't do this! What are
you going to do? Damn me, you
can't do it! You know I hardly ever
get a decent charter, and when ]
do, do you have to butt in, and"
Everyone upon the Seal had
known that the Holokai was coming
from behind, had seen Dick Wayne
come aboard. There was ring of
faces, now, all around Ramey and
Dick Wayne. Through the quick fog
that action makes he saw that John
Colt, too, was there.
"You can't do this" Ramey said
again. "I'll hang you higher than
kite in any court"
Dick saw now where Karen Wa
terson was. She was leaning against
the bulkhead of the cabin, detached
still, with an unreliable face.
"You don't even know what I'm
going to do"
"Sure, I know" Ramey said with
as much black malice as can be put
through one eye. go ahead and do
it-and see what happens to you!
Will you, now?"
"You have your choice" Dick
said. "You can turn back, if you're
willing to turn back"
John Colt spoke then. He said,
II really don't understand"
"Shut your head" Dick said
crudely. He spoke across them all,
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head of the cabin; and although he
did not raise his voice, no one could
have mistaken to whom he spoke.
you're going back now" Dick
said. you're going back, and
you're not even asking why"
John Colt said, with a singularly
decent poise, care we to under
stand-?"
"You wouldn't understand this.
An old, dying man wants to see
what his grandchild looks like.
have guaranteed that he will. The
girl is going back"
eff you mean Miss Waterson,"
Colt said, "she is going where she
chooses to CO."
Sorry"
The sound Of the sea was all
around them, but within it there
was peculiar silence, in which
nothing human had anything to say.
John Colt stepped forward across
the swaying deck, into that ring of
faces.
'This isn't a hundred years ago.
We're not in the days of Captain
Cook; we're not even in the days Of
Henry Morgan. We're not living
in the old days, Wayne"
"No," answered Tonga Dick, ''but
this is the sea-"
Sam ! to suppose"
''I don't care what you suppose.
I have to take Karen Waterson back
to Alakoa."
''This is an outrage" Captain Ra-
mey put in. sI'll fight this through
every court of admiralty that
"You viii be very happy" Tonga
Dick said, mot to raise your head
before admiralty at all. How would
you like the admiralty courts to hear
what happened at Lord Randolph's
Island?"
"You mean to blackmail me?"
Ramey screamed.
Dick Wayne grinned. 'You bet
your life I'll blacl1mail you'll it's
any good to mel"
It was singular the way Ramey
faded, after that.
"I'll have you for this-this is
piracy" John Colt said. II can
bring charges such as will"
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