Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 683) (1918 11 01)

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NOVEMBER 1, 1918 PAW EE LAI ENIEEKII sTORIES OF BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. ADRIFT IN THE SEs On JHE [REASURE OF [ONE REE, By A SELF MALE MN. g 40 OTHER STORE RP SPF x Wi . It was evident that both ‘of the castaway sailors would injure them if whey advanced. “Get off of Lone Reef!” yelled the man with the upraised club. “Ther treasure is ours; you'll get no part of it!”

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Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 No. 683. CHAPTER I. DISIN HERITED. “T believe everybody is here,” said Lawyer Ephraim ker, in thin, rasping tones, gazing around the plain lit- ¢ parior, with its old-fashioned horsehair-stuffed furniture, _ faded and well-worn carpet, what-nots filled with gee-gaws, and the walls ornamented with cheaply framed pictures— - mostly family portraits, “so I will proceed to read the last will and testament of the late Ann Jerusha Stebbins, spinster.” ? 5 The legal gentleman dipped one hand into a small grip that stood on the marble-topped table at which he was seated in the center of the room, and took out an oblong document. Before him were grouped Jack Gale, the nephew of. the _ deceased; Tom White, the gardener; Molly, the cook; Sally, the housemaid, and Jimmy Jones, whose position in the “household was somewhat indefinite, though he was recog- nized as a sort of boy-of-all-work. 3 Every one except Jack, who was a bright, good-looking lad of eighteen years, with a frank and open countenance, looked with awe at the folded paper, which rustled and Gelber at stiffness as the lawyer unfolded it with great ration. ‘Mr. Croker, who was a distant relative of the testatrix, seemed in no rush to disclose the contents of the will. He removed his spectacles and wiped them slowly and fully with his handkerchief, while he looked around on persons assembled. @ was a middle-aged, crabbed-looking man, short in and dressed in a seedy suit of black. ately after the death of Miss Stebbins he appeared ; the house and took charge of everything. He made such niggardly arrangements with the under- that Jack Gale, who had been very fond of his aunt, his methods, and was backed up by the servants, long service, had grown attached to their late iD) wate Ae OMS y Per 1 Leth CRN fps. oe Nery MEAND FORTUNE WEEKLY STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY ; =: Issued Weekly—By pe Keng $3.00 year. Entered at the New York, N. Y., Post Office as Second-Class Matter Yy a NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 1, 1918. ADRIFT IN THE SEA a _ THE TREASURE OF LONE REEF — . By A SELF-MADE MAN te aunt lasses, blew his nose with |. a pe West 23d Street, New York. Price 6 Cents. Leet After that he continued as follows: “Firstly, I give and bequeath-to Mary Brown——” “That’s me,” ejaculated the cook expectantly. = “Don’t interrupt me, please,” said the lawyer in a severe tone. “I give and bequeath to Mary Brown, my cook, who has served me faithfully for twenty years 7 “And nine months,” interjected Mary eagerly. : “The sum of one hundred dollars in gold coin,” said the awyer. Bit Molly looked disappointed at the smallness of the legacy,) as she had been led to expect a much larger one, and the’ 4 others appeared surprised, especially Jack, who remembered ad told him she intended to leave the cook five hundred dollars.” “Did you say one hundred dollars, Mr. Croker?” he ven- tured to ask. “T ‘said one hundred dollars,” replied the lawyer, frown- ing upon him. Y “Are you sure there isn’t some mistake?” persisted the boy. “My aunt told me——” “No mistake whatever. Please don’t interrupt,” said Mr. Croker sharply. “Secondly, to Sarah Popple——” The ‘housemaid uttered a slight giggle. “The sum of fifty dollars in gold coin.” “Oh!” cried the disappointed girl. ‘ “Thirdly, to my gardener, Thomas White, the sum of twenty-five dollars in gold coin,” went on the lawyer. The man accepted the announcement quite stolidly. “Fourthly, to James Jones, my boy about the house, ten. dollars in gold coin.” 5; a grinned, for even ten dollars looked considerable _ “Fifth and lastly I give and bequeath to my beloved sec-— ond cousin——” a . _ “Who is that?” eried Sally impulsively. Cy “Will you be quiet, young woman?” cried Mr. Croker. tartly. “My beloved second cousin, Ephraim Croker—— An astonished exclamation from the cook and the hous: maid once more interrupted the lawyer. 2s “My house and the grounds appertaining thereto.” The four servants looked at Jack, who merely stared at the lawyer. eee “All my household furniture——” “All the furniture?” cried Molly. “Pictures, books, ornaments, plate——” “What? The plate, too!” gasped Sally. en Sg abe : dco y, Miss Stebbins promised me her——” excl “Will you be qui ‘ “And she

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2 SS geo 1s ‘ADRIFT IN. THE SEA. . s “Money,” F eontinraall Mr. Croker, “in the house, in the benks| a dont think Mr. “@toker. lias: couraze enough to. take ' : ®and everything of which I die possessed. 2 the chances of going to San Quentin.” é Ye “Why, your name isn’t mentioned at all, Jack,” cried Sally | “J wouldn’t trust him. The way you were left out of the ~ ot in amazement. ~ ee yisn’t fhe only queer thing. about it...Molly only got — 4] don't believe Mids Stebhinky evdt minde, that will,” as-!a measly hundred dollars,and you told her yourself that serted Molly. ‘Why, you were her favorite, Jack. yee lived | Miss ; Stebbins said she intended to give her five times as with her, and I know she thought the. world of you. She/| much.” “ never would have treated you so——” “That’s true. She did tell Me ‘so. And you® ‘oni to 7 “T haven’t finished yet,” said’ Mr. Croker, in an untuf-| have got more, too. You have ‘been with my aunt nearly. meg fame at = social to read. » . ten years, eer since eed bab a Set me at cried Salle _ ysill!” cri ally. “What’s that?” ‘“Toesh’t that prove that that ain er will?” cri a “It’s an addition to the will, and is sometimes of very trehandy great importance.” ‘No. The wili, however;must-be proved _in. court. The “Let’s hear the codysill,” said Sall expectant] “Maybe | two witnesses who were present when my aunt signed it ay xp 8 a name nd. bequeath io mb J a iA will: be calles upon to swear, that.they saw her put her sig- give an oo to loved nephew- nature to i “That’s you, Re the housemaid. You" re| ““Who are the witnesses?” ; goin’ to get ate a all. Maybe "#’s the money.” r. Croker didn’t mention their names.” = “Or the house and grounds,” hazarded the cook. “Maybe he was afraid to.” Se “My beloved nephew, John Gale, who has been almost.a 5 think ae Why — he de oi ¥ son to me——” there is anything wrong about the wi ad a eth mig pps, Selly while rs cook nodded. ‘a gam ‘t believe there Se big oro a = sab : “The family Bible, hoping he r it daily a e r you to 2 ss about gettin’ nothin’~ “x a lessons to heart, thereby growing wy ite Sortihates but > Bible?” ‘ital - { ‘of his father,” concluded the lawyer, beginning to refold| “it wouldn’t do me “any good.” the document. “Then you’re goin’ to ett that old bald-headed thingamy 3 “Is that all?” cried the astonished Sally. take everythin’?” & “That is all,” replied Mr. Croker calmly. | “TD don’t)see how I can prevent him coming into ‘posses- — ., “Then all I’ve got to say is it’s an outrage,” said the gui sion of what he is entitled to under my aunt’s will.” a4 indignantly. “What are you goin’ to do, then? It would be just like ~— Fae “Take care, young woman,” said the lawyer sharply. that old lawyer to turn you out of the house.” see ae op Eg tee i 3 a right to speak my. mind. hp idea #7 — no Lape of staying here, even if Mr. Croker — 3 0: iss bins vin’ you, an. outsider, everythin invited me to do so ___ her own nephew nothin’ but a Bible. It’s—it’s. sh “Where will you. go?” ite ‘ scandalous——” “Most likely ‘to San Frane¢iseo, wHere I’ll look for some-— ——_.#So jit is,” agreed the cook. “I don’t believe. she ever la on always, gapectid. ta be be'yonr sinte Reta TOU heneaee % 3 Doe & do 1” — Sally. “It’s a forgery.” deo what ‘do? She has left’ 4 ow dare thing!” Pee Croker angrily. sinuate such a g!” ejaculated: Mr. poreteots ie a baghets and there is nothing left % A what I please. ” ‘yetorté u ig ou ae *% the +, Speier My tongrie's my: dwn, ds a shame... A be 8 ; hae oat pitas, si “J thank you for your sympathy, Sally, and I know i _ woman.” fri _ “What do you mean by that?” she snapped: immy ._-*E could bring you into faust tn take you take back se coak and the gardanst: nodded, "yitle, 3 Ton = _. Your words.” “Don’t throw our situation here, Sall wyer Se “Td worn Ayr see you do it, you old dried-up apology for a| js Talling. to cee ss a his SKonay is ay if the Lowyer aM ‘™man, cried the angry girl. ly else’s, ; used to. the place, and it will be x . Remember, young woman, that this place bélonys to | like home —_ alywhere: en He'll dowb' Er ae if f you ton to retain your place——” up his residence ae while the will is beii probated. work fot you fite minutes. Give me ‘My Atty he will do with the property after jis, t$ are Col Suche a — Yl go this very day.” is, of course, a see a at present. ‘Mr. Croker made no reply; ‘but aie the —_ inaiiis| “When are 3a sales a ie tom asked the gar : “f _“Be careful. I could bring an action against you, young} yest es 4: 78 feel the same way, for we’ve always been | * ~ grip, snapped the lock, took up his hat left the houte. “As soon possi Org to-morrow.” ving the heated diseussion between the housemaid and| “So soon!” FY aelatad = Tl Jack Gale never made a move, or seemed aware “Yes. I have,,to ngs i i Tow now, aa, A can’t of what was going on. on the job too’ aie : vt wee his eyés bent upon the carpet, and he actined| » Thus saeghareie Jack, walked out at fie ‘room. ith the departere’ of Mr. Croker, Sally arbtised him. by ¥ an 738 — . a sorry for you, Jack. I think your aunt treated foil sas ra : 3 ACK SECURES A rosrtion | fe aria! will do, Sally, | 1 have no fault, to’ find with: wy ee house which had Been Jack. Tale Gale's Ste Bi 4 She, had the right to leave her property to whoever | {eat Bais, abo TE eo ought = have lett you the house, or, at least, ae ay i a start - vt so what’s the use of bout it?” ena. nae hd Hin’ bepotiatios may she ever mode Pat said Molly, |; bag bye in Dp dost, no i in packing poe in a positive way. Saat dove eels ag wn, Croker is a lawyer, and he wouldn't dare pre ace a seni he dare do ite “Yve heard of it én’ done | vison offen: chico oe SE :

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would be obliged, for appearance sake, to keep Jack estate was finally settled. “San Francisco.” “What do you expect to do there?” “Make my living, for I have to depend on my own exer- tions now.” “I suppose you'll need some money to pay your way and you till you get a position. 1 can let you have fifty rs. to do so.” ing it again. ; Accordingly, he went to his safe, counted out the fifty and handed it to the boy. “Shall I give you an I O U for this, sir?” asked Jack. Mr. Croker did not regard his note as worth much, but he thought he might as well have it, since the boy sug- gested it. -- _So he wrote out a note, payable on demand, and Jack D htee. god) _ “Now, “by, sir, “Are you going right away?” ~ “T'am. I shall have the gardener, Tom White, drive me to the station with my trunk after lynch.” “Good-by, Jack,” said the lawyer, shaking hands with him. “J wish you luck.” -It was a mere perfunctory wish, and he did not dream that before the year was out Jack would run up against such luck as would make the lawyer’s legacy under Miss Stebbins’ will look like thirty cents. A few hours later Jack was aboard a train speeding to- ward Benecia, where he would cross the strait and con- ._ tinue on, to San Francisco via Oakland and the ferryboat across the bay. jy 7? slr, a, Pea | > Fowles: te, a ee ee = “ >, b? a deposit and started for the office of the Pacific Transfer ’ to arrange for the delivery of his trunk at his new home. . _ Jack ate his lunch at the hotel, as he was entitled to it, and then taking his grip went back to his boarding ? gran _ paid the rest of the sum due for his first week and took hg act ‘of the day walking about the city, and '" e w ga e , an picking up lan miliar to him. once fa When he returned home for dinner, he found his trunk in persons of e refinement, who had come 1e world when husband and father. died and but a small insurance. arly next mo and had several paper to apply to for a job when Greate + x ADRIFT IN THE SEA. tha, he secured what seemed to be an uncommonly good at the house during the months that must elapse until the! “T have some money, but, on the whole, I'll accept your | offer and regard it as a loan to be repaid when I can afford | him clear o The lawyer was so pleased to have him go away that, | _ though he regarded fifty dollars as a considerable amount | of money, he was willing to take the chances of never see-|to my office and I will make it all rieht with you.” nominal for is aes Jack caught on, and 'my own hook position by accident. He was standing on the corner of Battery and Sacramento streets late in the afternoon, after having exhausted his chances for the day, when he saw a. good-looking, well- dressed man of perhaps thirty years start to cross the street , toward him. He had reached the center of. the thoroughfare when a lrapidly driven hack turned the corner and bore down on Tifn. He didn’t see his danger, but Jack did. The boy sprang forward, seized him by the arm and pul'ed the wheels of the vehicle. The inan then woke up to the peril he had escaped. “Thanks, boy, you saved me from being run down. Come Jack accompanied him readily enough. He had no intention of accepting pay for the service he had rendered the gentleman, but he thought the rescued man might be able to get him a situation somewhere in the vicinity of his own place of business. : They walked along Battery street, with its frowning ware- houses and shipping establishments, in silence, the gentle- man, apparently, having something of moment on his mind. Finally he entered a narrow doorway where a pair of stairs led upward and curtly told Jack to follow him. The boy noticed a well-worn sign over the door, which read “Geo. Sharpley & Company.” At the head of the stairs, to the left, was a door, on which the same name appeared, with the word “Office” under it, The gentleman entered and Jack followed. The boy saw he was in-a counting-room, with a small space railed off for callers. Half a dozen or more clerks were at work over tall desks strung along, back to back, against the window. The room looked dingy and musty, for the building was one of the early solid structures of San Francisco, and an air of ‘business permeated the atmosphere. Jack’s conductor walked straight to the door of a room marked “Private,” and strode in as though he was the boss “What is your name, young man?” he inquired. “Jack Gale,” replied the lad. “You have done me a great favor—indeed, it’s quite pos- sible you mt have saved my life—what can I do for you in return? If ee will accept a sum of money I will be you any reasonable amount.” in ae pon of ng “4 e gentleman loo him over sharply before lying. “What kind of a position do you want?” es “Anything where I can*make myself useful and be pro- moted when I deserve advancement.” “Write a sentence on that pad and sign your name in your usual style,” said the gentleman, handing him a pen. Jack complied in an offhand way. tome gentleman looked at his effort and nodded approv- gly. “et Then he studied the boy’s face searchifigly. . eee ink you would like to learn the shipping busi- ness?” he asked. = 5... “Yes, sir; I think I would.” Pare: “My office boy left last week, and the position is open, — You may have it.” Ae “Thank you, sir,” replied Jack joyfully. “ths to wa » when we take on s boy they i e first six months. You live with your par en + presume?” sis 0,

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A peculiar light flashed in the gentleman’s eyes, and he gave Jack another steady look. There was something in his eyes that did not favorably impress the boy. “Are you eine by yourself?” pee Yes, sir.” ~ “Born and brought up in the city?” | “Yes, sir; but for the last two years I have been living with my aunt in Napa County. She died a few days ago, ‘and her death threw me on my own resources, so I came back to Frisco to get a new start.” 6) A look of satisfaction flashed across the gentleman’s face. te “Very well,” he said. “In consideration of the fact that fy you have to pay your own way, and also because I am in- ag debted to you for saving me from the hack, I will make % an exception in your case on the wage question. You shall have ten dollars a week for the first six months. After | au that you will be raised by degrees and promoted as your | talents warrant.” ‘ “Thank you, sir,” “Come with me,” said the gentleman, rising. He led Jack into the counting-room to the desk of his - head bookkeeper, “Mr. Jackson, this is our new office boy. lhe +) Se His name is 4 : ee od Gale. His wages will be ten dollars a week till further ' notice.” “Ten dollars, sir?” ejaculated the bookkeeper in some surprise. “I said ten dollars,” replied the head of the house sharply. “He will report for work in the morning. Tell him the hours, and explain what will be expected of him.” 7 The gentleman turned on his heel and walked back to his private room. _ ‘The bookkeeper made a note of Jack’s name on a pad. “Where do you live?” he asked. The boy gave him his address, cm “Show me a specimen of Pia hp cagibappd in your cus- y- tomary style,” he said, handing Jack his The boy’ dashed off a sentence to whic wih signed his name, as he had done in the private office. “You write a good hand,” said the bookkeeper, ~ you'll do.” Jack learned in a general way what his duties would be and that his oa hours were from eight till six, with an _ hour for lunch, then he was dismissed. He walked home feeling that he had connected with a wolid job, and was proportionately well pleased. ae’ ‘Ss ie “T guess 3 = CHAPTER Ul. LOCKED IN. abccms congratulated Jack on getting such a fine she and he rose considerably in their estimation, for they udged he must be a smart young fellow. = the om ping house on Batt street, and was introduced zs DS ineioer to one a toe of the clerks. — Pears was pee at a desk and given some invoices to make - The clerk under whom he was doing the work found him apt and correct, and told the head bookkeeper that he re to be a great. improvement on his predecessor,» Jack was soon on so terms with everybody in the room, and his polite ways and attractive mnassuming ‘man- rs secured the good opinion of all hands. « He learned that the firm of Geo, ei Bi & Co. was one “of the oldest in the city... of th the vessels were barks wholly devoted to bring- ne house had = od a tati as the always borne a. sped es ion ore- fe pion at ADRIFT IN" THE ‘SEA, » He ee promptly at eight o’clock next morning at | e Pate her with his good luck, and in due time bated 4 a-reply from her conveying the congratulations and best wishes of herself, Molly, the cook, and Tom White, the | gardener. Jimmy Jones, she said, had been discharged by Mr. Croker when he moved into the house, but otherwise things were going on as usual. She filled out four pages with village gossip that she — thought would interest Jack, and signed herself “Faith- fully yours, Sally Popple.” One of the first errands Jack was sent upon was to Bacon & Co., printers, on Clay street, to find out if the illuminated cards "advertising the fact that the ship Morning Glory was Heaey to receive freight for Melbourne, Australia, were rea He found they had just been finished and carried them back to the office. | Then he was put to work mailing them to all the ship- jpers of the city. For a couple of weeks things went as merry as a marriage bell with Jack, and then he received a jolt that took his | breath away. One afternoon about half-past five Mr. Sharpley came Ah of his office with his hat and coat on; apparently bound me. He lived in a fine house on Rincon Hill, on the south side, and his coachman had been waiting for him a a full half-hour. He paused at the railing, and, beckoning Jack over, poe him a sealed envelope. “Take this to ie ge Brant, of the Morning Glory. I Suppose you know the vessel lies at Greenwich Dock?” es, sir.’ “You have seen Captain Brant here, and know him by | sight?” “Yes, sir,” “This note is important, and you must hand it to the ¥ captain himself. If he isn’t aboard either hunt him up or wait for him. Understand?” “T do,” replied Jack. 3 Philip Sharpley walked out and Jack prepared to go on his errand. 2 He told the head bookkeeper where he was bound, and * that individual nodded. a Five minutes later the boy was on the street. “a ‘Greenwich Dock was at the foot of Battery street, and of there wasn’t the least danger of Jack going astray even in © the mist that now rendere objects rather indistinet’ in the — street. See. He walked fast and soon reached’ his destination. The dock was deserted at that hour, as the longshoremen who were loading the Morning Glory had quit Wark on the — stroke of five. ; The watchman sat on a stool] in the doorway of his little _ house at the head of the dock smoking, apparently not both- — ered by the foggy atmosphere. “= Jack found a narrow stage that ed to the poop’ of the — vessel, and mounting this, reached the waist of the ship : by wey. of a short flight of steps. | There was no one on deck, as far ashe could s6¢; #0 he ; a to the doorway of the passage communicating with the n cabin, There. were several doors off this passage, one of which was open. af + light streamed through it,. and Jack heard he rattle es. He looked in and saw it was ae ship’s - “Is Captain Brant on board?” h evaskelthe steward. “You'll find him in the cabin,” shes the reply. | er He The cabin door was at the end of the passage, ‘so Seek’ opened it and walked in. The rs toed and his two mates were seated “as the not, i uh es = v he Seer vyhen say aught sight of: os | oe ho have we. Aste _ “I have brought a for nselt | Jack, ‘advancing with th the en’ Os; te r sy a alee

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“Give it to me,” said the skipper,. reaching for it. tore it open and read it. earefully with an air of in- terest. 3 _— “Sit down and have some supper,” he-said to Jack, as he placed the. letter,.in his pocket: »-. .* : > “Thank you, sir; but I’m going straight .home.” “You might as well eat with us, now you-are here, Be- sides, I have to write a reply to the note you brought, which you will have to deliver to Mr. .Sharpley. Steward,” he shouted in. fog-horn tones. That person stuck his head in at the door. “Set a plate for this young man and wait upon him,” ‘said the skipper. . “Take the chair at the foot of the table, my lad. By the way, what is- your name?” : “Jack Gale,’ replied the boy, as he took the seat in a diffident way. He would have preferred to take his supper at his board- ing place, as he felt like a cat in'a strange garret in the eabin of the Morning Glory. “You are employed in the shipping office, I suppose,” con- tinued Captain Brant. LOS, Sir.” “You know where Mr..Sharpley lives, don’t you?” “Somewhere on Rincon Hill. I dare say I can find his “That’s at the other end of the town, quite a distance from here. Where do you live?” Jack told him. “How long have you worked for Mr. Sharpley?” “Not quite three weeks.” The captain looked a bit surprised. “He seems to have a good deal of confidence in: you.” Jack wondered what he meant, and then presumed it had reference to the letter he had brought. “I shan’t give him any reason to. change his opinion,” he replied, as the steward set some food and a cup of tea be- fore him. The skipper nodded approvingly. In a few minutes Captain Brant retired to his stateroom to write his reply and the mates went to their rooms, leav- ing Jack to finish his supper by himself. ; By the time the boy was done the skipper returned with the letter. “Give this letter to Mr. Sharpley and no one else,” he said, putting a strong accent. on the last three words. “Bet- . ter walk up to the Plaza and hire a hack. You will reach your destination quicker. Here is some money for your ex- _ penses,” and he handed Jack a five-dollar gold-piece. The fog was as thick as bean soup when the boy walked out on deck. ; , He had to feel his way carefully to the staging, which was provided with a guide rope on one side. : BI He left the dock and walked up Battery street as far as . Washington, up which he turned toward the Plaza, other- * wise known as Portsmouth Square. _ eg - In the days of the gold fever this was. the liveliest part of the town. Before hiring a hack Jack pol are at a drug-store and consulted the city directory, in which he readily found Mr. Sharpley’s home address. : ; r that it was plain sailing for him. Bee In the course of an hour he reached his destination. >. ts servant answered the ring and he asked for his em- -_. ployer. T think he’ went out immediately after supper,” she said. “Wait a minute and I'l] find out.” She went away and in a few minutes came back with word that Mr. Sharply had gone out to keep an engage- ment at his club.’ i m : _ “What club is it? I have an important message to de- liver to him and I must find him,” said Jack. The servant had to Leh ony Se find out the name of master’s club, as she iow. street,” she said, when she to the California Club t of their route. 1 © wi Pg hy « ADRIFT IN THE SEA. “I have an important letter to give him.” “Take a seat and I will see if I can find Mr. Sharply.” Jack sat down. and the attache walk away. | He was gone some time and the boy was growing inm-~ } patient, when, happening to look down the corridor, he saw | Mr. Sharply and another gentleman cross to 2 | and walk up. | Jack hesitated whether to rush after them or not, for j his experience with the attache indicated that outsiders were {not permitted to wander around the building. : | “Y’ve only got to hand him this note, and then I’ll leave,” |he told himself. “There can’t be any harm in that.” ;. Anxious to return home, he made a dive down the corri- his companion ascend. When he reached the landing above he caught a hee. ea of the two gentlemen entering a room at the en ‘of it. : Jack lost no time in following them. < | He knocked at the door, but as he got no answer he ven- tured to open the door. was empty. Two doors led off the apartment. Jack took the right-hand one at hazard, opened it and walked in. : He found himself in.a small, box-like room, dimly lighted’ like the other, and. fitted up with a highly polished round table and four chairs. The place was unoccupied. ; Jack, seeing he had taken the wrong door, was about to retreat when he heard his employer’s voice quite distinctly | through the partition, say: | matter let me make sure that the coast is clear. We must ‘have no listeners, for we have a perilous game to play.” | “Yes, it’s a ticklish game, and if we were caught at it \the house of Geo. Sharpley & Co.. would go out: of. busi- |ness, while you and I would spend the next ten or fifteen years in San Quentin,” replied his companion. stcod rooted to the spot. ; A moment later he heard the key turned in the lock of the room he was in and removed. “Gosh!” he ejacula‘ed. “I’m shut in here and can’t get } out,” CHAPTER IV. JACK OVERHEARS A CROOKED PLOT. As he stood close to the partition, wondering what he was }going to do, he heard the door of the adjoining compart- /ment slam to, and Mr, Sharpley say: | “Now we may talk freely without fear of eavesd | “I am glad to hear it,” returned the man named | *Let’s get down to business. enterprise I want to know if we can thoroughly depend on pers.”” udley. stairway ~ The room, dimly lighted by a single gas-jet turned low, Jack was so staggered by what he had heard that he ~ As I am your partner in this dor and rushed’ up the stairs he had seen Mr. Sharpley and ~ “ “Pardon me one moment, Dudley, before we go into this « a ne lar, yal r.) v aa han) are ie a Captain Brant. Sending a ship to sea to be lost’ is one ee thing, but having the job executed in a way that will in- sure success and, at the same time, stifle suspicion, is. an- ~~ other.” “T have perfect confidence in him. He goes into this with the full knowledge that the three of us sink or syin together.” ; This won’t be his first essay in your that line. *“T do. any better luck, for “Well, you didn’t have Be ae iger at his own beat the nae

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‘same boat, so to give you a lift I have taken you in with -me this time.” “For which I ought to be truly thankful,” laughed Dudley. ' “But to return to the Shenandoah. She- "foundered at sea, I believe, with the assistance of Captain Brant?” “Yes, but close to the Stiletto Islands, so that no lives were lost. Se. tain Brant managed the affair admirably.” _ “Of course there was an inquiry by the Board of Under- writers?” “Naturally. But not a taint of suspicion attached itself either to me or the master of the ship: The insurance ‘com- ig paid up promptly, and that was the end of the mat- “While the truth of the matter was you loaded a rotten ship with a worthless cargo, insured it at about twenty times its value, and arfanged with Captain Brant to purposely wreck it. Am I right?” “You couldn’t have made a closer guess if you had been interested in the scheme yourself,” laughed Philip Sharpley. “rp what has been done so well before may be done as well/or better again, eh, Sharpley?” “Precisely.” “But why os you selected the Morning Glory for this ‘enterprise? was on board of her yesterday, and upon my word she ges like a new vessel.” “That’s because you couldn’t see under the paint. © She’s nothing but a rotten hulk I bought up cheap. I had her agg up and then thoroughly repainted. Then IT had her examined and secured a very fair rating for el We are now loading up with a general cargo, but her lower hold is filled to the hatches with the bales and cases for which you are down as the consignor.” . “And pray, what do they consist of?” asked Dudley curi- ; “The bales are filled with old rags and entered on the bills of lading as high-grade silks.” “Very clever, indeed. And the cases?” “Are filled with old newspapers, books, and scrap iron, and en as the best class of woolen 8, china d entered the best cl f len goods, fine chi _ ware, and expensive cut glass. All of which you are ship- a 1, agent in Melbourne to be sold on commission.” bf d which never will reach their destination?” ‘Of course not. It wouldn’t be healthy for you if they ine not,” “I should ima; erstand your position in the matter?” - “Now you un “Clearly.” _. “And you are ready to sign the documents that make you a acon? in the enterprise?” 4° “Yes, am ready to take the risk for one-third of the ; prey, fe I believe Captain Brent shares equally with us.” He does, for the success of the scheme largely depends om his management. But you understand that before the division is made I am to be reimbursed for the actual cost of the ship and the expenses connected with her refitting ?” “That's fair enought, and I agree to it.” die 's there iar ing more you wish to learn?” pe y chief anxiety was connected with Captain ow that T see he may be depended on I am per- Y satighed with the situation.” es “Then here are the documents that require vour signature _ » to attest the fact that you are the ship prer r of the larger part of the merchandise in the main hold. -morrow you must _ all on Wright & Early, the marin¢ insurance agents, and insure. them for seventy-five Pes cent of their supposed ~ Value which is stated in the erent manifests, copies of hich are in that bundle. You will take charge of them and chibit them to the insurance men as evidence that you ° ly shipped the | ape in question, I have already d the vessel to the full limit. The other shippers have, insured their consignments, or made arrengements to ; that effect, so that when the Morming Gioty clears the e underwriters will carry quite a heavy risk on es iS. aad a which theyll, hay have to | in due time,” chuckled Pope egy ands to; vr in anticipation of the ther in at some future raat “By a eae Se pro} ly o e mor- apd the da after, if peer’, ie tm she'll 2%.% yt ie tilt FX ¥ Z ADRIFT IN THE ‘SEA, | ee eg ae Rac teat ota ne tN ale St Roe NR SEE A ET A Nt aL St nS Tirt A RREIES a Sh a A RO A ED RD Ral EC aI PN PR ca A ng signed. the “panes that Paty Pats, them. placed before him, took up the package of duplicates and placed them in his pocket. ‘ | Ta there is nothing else to detain us in this room?” e sai “No. Everything is fixed up between us. We will go downstairs to the cafe and drink success to our enterprise.” “And wish the Morning Glory a quick passage—to the bottom of the Pacific,” laughed Dudley, rising from the table. ’ Jack, who had heard every word of the conversation, and was quite staggered by its import, realized that the two men were about to leave the adjoining room, and he won- dered how long he would be obliged to stay locked in where he was, and what explanation he could give to account for his being in such a situation when somebody unlocked the door and discovered him there. Philip Sharpley and his companion, Dudley, walked into the large room outside and were about to step out into the corridor when the former recollected that he had the key of the little room adjoining the one where they had carried on their conversation in his pocket. . He stepped back, shoved the key into the lock and turned it. He did not open the door, as he was satisfied no one was there, for he had looked in before he and Dudley first entered the neighboring room. Had he taken the precaution to lock the door in the first place, instead of afterward, Jack would not have got in the room, and thus have been in a position to learn facts that stamped his emplcyer as a man without principle, and showed that he had not only been guilty of a grave crime against the marine underwriters of San Francisco by send- ing a rotten ship loaded with a worthless cargo in part to sea to be lost, as in the case of the ship Shenandoah, but that he was about to repeat the offence with the Morning Glory. When Jack heard the key rattle in the lock he fully ex- to see the door open and either his boss or Dudley ook in, which would mean discovery and a strenuous situa- tion. On the spur of the moment he reached up and turned out the gas. Fortunately for the boy, what he feared did not happen, and pyesently he heard the two men leave the outer room. Trying the door, Jack found it unlocked, and giving the gentlemen time enough to go downstairs, he left the little room and walked out into the corridor and almost into the arms of the attache who stopped him at the front door. The employee stared at him in surprise and then with dis- pleasure, “How dare you come you doing in that recom? “Looking for Mr. Sharpley,” replied Jack, a bit embar- rassed at the encounter. “You have no right to come any further than the vesti- bule. I went to find the gentleman for you.” “I know you did. but you went in the wrong direction.” “You've got a check to tell me that. I know my_bust- ness. It’s my opinion that you didn’t want to see Mr. Sharp- ley at all. I suspect that you are a young sneak thicf, and I’m going to fake you to the office and turn you over to the superintendent ” “All right. Do it if you want to. here with a letter for and Jacek held the superscription. “That letter may be a fake one. At any ee I'm ‘not roing to take any chances, You can settle the matter with the superintendent.” “The letter isn’t a fake one. Mr. Sharpley will know that as soon as he opens it. He’ s in the cafe now with a friend.” © “How do you know he’s in the cafe? ie if he is, why are von looking for him up here?”rasked the attache, sus- piciously. “He came up here with another gentleman, and I followed __ him, but he went back downstairs before I had the chance to _ give him the letter,” explained the boy.” “Your explanation is rather-a lame one,. young man, 50 you'll come with me.” The attache gripped him by the arm, led him downstairs and into the small office of the Roldan <0: se as bie hogs poe Ss was not fos tad nay andes mom Sharp waa came “ees the corridor from the cate: and the attache suai up here, young fellow, and what were I can prove I came Mr, Sharpley, for there is the letter,” envelope up so the man gould read the

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a a : “Here's Mr. Sharpley now,” he said. . “We'll see whether ‘ that story of yours is straight goods.” __ Still maintaining his grip on the Jad’s arm he marched him outside. E “Mr. Sharpley, will you step here a moment, please?” he said respectfully. ~Vhe shipowner stopped, turned around and immediately | recognized Jack. -. “Hello, Gale asked pleasantly. “Yes, sir; I’ve brought a reply to your letter from Cap- tain Brant, > answered Jack, holding out the envelope. “You know this boy, then?” said the attache, releasing: his | hold:on Jack. “Certainly. He’s my office boy.” “Then it’s all right, I suppose. I found him coming out of one of the rooms on the second floor of the back corridor, wes" as he had no right to be there I took charge of him, | | you here? Are you looking for me?” he ene of the rooms on the second floor!” exclaimed Mr. Dudley, with a slight start, and pausing in the act of open- | ing the letter. “Which room, may I ask?” “The one connecting with the two private card rooms,” Mr. Sharpley looked searchingly at Jack: “What were you doing there, Gale?” : “Looking for you, sir,” replied Jack, showing some con- | usion. What induced you to believe I was in that part of the building “T saw you and that gonilaenash go up the back stairs a little while ago, and I followed to hand you the letter.” “Oh, you did,” said Sharpley, holding the boy with his eye. “If you saw and followed me, why didn’t yeu give me the _ letter then?” “Because when I reached the upper corridor you had dis- “appeared.” “And what did-you do then?” “J tried to find you.” . “And in doing. So you éntered the room this man saw you - come out of, eh?” _ “Yes, sir,” admitted Jack. “How long ago was | that 2?” ? “A little while ago.” : “When did you meet this boy coming out of that room?” ke asked the attache. j “About five minutes ago, sir.” | “How long were you in that room, Gale?” asked the ship owner sharply. Jack looked clearly embarrassed. “*I wasn’t in it long,” he said. “You just walked in, and, not seeing me > Miva, you walked out again, is that it?” - “T looked into.one of the small rooms.” “Which one?” “The one on the right -+and.” “You found it empty 2” = 6¥es, “gir,” “Why didn’t you try the other 2” “T couldn’t, sir.” : _ “Why not?” _ “Because,” hesitated Jack, finding himself in a tight fix, ~ *T couldn’t Ect out of the little Yoom after I went in.” _ “Why couldn’t you?” “Somebody turned the key on me just after I went, in,” lurted Jack. “Then you were in that little room until after somebody turned the key again so that you could walk out? Pa + Yes, Bir, ced the boy, with a guilty look, Sis t he had let the cat out of the bag. The two ee looked at each Siner. e same Seats See We toind..<f-ench=-bab: his -boy rd their conversation? _ - If he had er mneeead sags exposure ca ruin, faced ee ADRIFT IN | to Dudley in | Do you comprehend the situation?” - = THE SEA. Lae “7 Jack had brought him, read its contents and then put it in - his pocket. “Come with us, Gale,” he said; “I may need your services.” Jack followed him, wondering if his employer would ques- - tion him further about his experience in the little card room, On the way to the front door Mr. Sharpley talked earnestly 3 low tone, and the latter nodded several times. __ A couple of hacks stood close to the curb for the aecom- modation of club members, the horses blanketed, and the drivers napping/inside out of the fog. Mr, Sharpley roused up one of the jehus and he gumbled roe of his comfortable quarters and touched his hat respect- ully. The shipowner gave him directions in a low tone, and then told Dudley and Jack to get in, following after them. The driver took the blankets off the horses, mounted to his sect and started down the street. : He turned into Montgomery street, went as far as Pa- cific, turned down that ili-lighted and not over-sweet thor- oughfare till he reached Battery street, and then drove straight through the dense fog to Greenwich Dock. Leaving Dudley and Jack in the vehicle, Mr, Sharpley walked aboard the Morning Glory, and found the skinper and his second mate playing cards in the cabin, with a ope A spn with a suspicious-looking compound at the e bow of eac The unexpected appearance of Mr. Sharpley occasioned the captain much surprise, and brought the ganie to nad abrupt halt. “J would like to see you in your stateroom a few minu' Captain Brant,” said the shipowner. Certainly, Mr. Sharpley,” said the skipper, in his most affable tones. He led the way into his private quarters, and carefully shut the door. Turning up the kerosene lamp, he pointed to the only chats in the room and sat down vn his bunk himself. so “I fear we have run against a snag, Captain Brant,” said. — Mr. Sharpley, opening the interview. * “Avsnag!” ejaculated the skipper. “I’m sorry to heat it, We have only a small quantity of freight to put aboard to-. morrow morning, and then we'll be nearly chock-a-block. to | think I mentioned the facet in my note, and told you that I would-be ready to haul out in the stream about four o'clock in the afternoon.” . “The snag to which I have referred is the hoy whe. brought you my note this afternoon.” “What about him?” “You returned an answer to my note by him, which was umnecessary, and therein lies the trouble.” “Did he tamper with it?” “No. He went to my house to deliver it, but I st fo left for my club to keep an engagement with Mr. who is with us in this enterprise, so he found his way the . Sharpley then went on to state how he and Dudley hai gone up to the private card room to conclude their ar- rangements with réference to the Morning Glory, and how the boy had followed them there, and during the whole of their conversation had been locked by accident in the ad- joining card room. 4 “T haven’t questioned him about the matter, as it. rather delicate subject, but I fear he heard enough of ¥ passed between us to put him wise to the game.” The skipper stroked his whiskers and said nothin : “At any rate, my suspicions are fortified by - som He appeared much embarrassed and confused by the tions I put to him. [If he is on to the game, why, we tan¢ ona smoldering voleano. A few remarks dro, sew by. even in my office, would start a train of ) the end would spell ruin. if he. went still’ further, and and ried his ob Sd one of the marine underwriters, an invest gation would assuredly follow that could not fail te to. 5 the exposure of the game, and the ruin of the three,of Sep 4 x. ~ a Us ian eee feat ¥ rituals ee mn SR: fos OE va "SL would be'a fool if T didn’t. “What's to be done?”. afford Pape at le uae + the a ' agiar We nae ee only. we of pare

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ADRIFT IN never get the chance to split. on us, Savage tone. “You ought to have brought him down here to-night.” ; _ “I did,” replied Mr. Sharpley. ~ “Where is he?” - “In a hack on the wharf in charge of Dudley.” _* “Good. We'll get him aboard, and I’ll stow him down pe- tween the double bulkheads under the lazarette, the space you had built so I could reach the ship’s skin with an auger - when the time comes for her to spring a leak. I’ll keep -him there till we’re clear of the land, and then make him turn to and earn his grub as cabin boy and steward’s helper.” ~ “Do what you please with him, only see to it that he never returns to put a hitch in our calculations.” “Tl sew his mouth up, never fear,” replied the skipper - with emphasis. “He must be got aboard by stratagem. It would never do for him to suspect our intentions, for he’d raise an outcry ona would alarm: the watchman and lead to an investiga- - tion.” “Send him aboard for an imaginary package and leave the rest to me.” “A good idea; but how about the second mate?” “Don’t worry about him. He'll learn nothing. . Wait a minute till I go to my medicine chest. A dash of chloro- _ form on a rag will put the boy to sleep. I’ll meet him as he comes over the side, and when I lay him down near. the Be, companionway he’ll be dead to the world for several hours to come.” een _ Shaspley walked out of the stateroom, and thence eck, accompanied by the eta "thes bade each other good-night at the head of the ate “T’ll look out, sir, The Yor won't other me any.” Thus speaking, the unsuspecting boy hopped out of the k and went to —— his fate. - “Five minutes passed slowly away, and then the shipowner ered the hac to return to the clubhouse. Twenty minutes later Mr. Sharpley and his friend, Dud- _ Tey, got out at the door and adjourned to the cafe. en Jack Gale walked up the stage and put his feet on - the s ship’ S poop deck a stalwart figure rose before him in the "The next instant he was seized by the throat and forced backward against the low rail, and a rag, saturated with chloroform, was pressed over his nostrils. He put up a desperate struggle against his unknown as- nt, but the man held him in a viselike _grip until, he ne unconscious. ‘hen Captain Brant, for it was he, lifted and carried him ) the narrow space between the binnacle and the com- anionway, or -cabin stairs. oe e laid him down in the fog and left him for "the “second offieer. an hour afterward the second mate retired to hi om, leaving the captain reading the latest edition of enin ing Bulletin. ‘the & to maf ‘Captain € poop, and ving mate time enough to pottl ascended the stairs to ous boy into the cabin ting a lantern, the a er gently lifted the trap’ com: ting with the lazarette: and hung the lantern toa thsi his reach. ap after him as he followed. ey sae several boxes from one corner and exposed trap door there, known only to himself. ‘ the lantern to a thin line, he lowered it to the > ship’s sternpost. boy clasped nage to him he stowly ‘made = er. the he dec | brought he lowered the boy down into the place and closed vessel where it ended at the bulkhead built THE SEA, “TI do it. Once under my thumb ll guarantee that he’ll| partment, which had been constructed for the purposé of ” said the skipper in a! permitting the skipper to gain access to the vessel’s hold in secret. Captain Brant laid the senseless boy on a bit of planking that covered the run, and taking up the lantern, climbed back to the lazarette, shut down the trap, replaced the boxes over it, returned to the cabin, and retired to his stateroom, after turning the swinging light low. When morning dawned the fog still hung over the bay and cit DS Gicliatks it thinned out as the sun rose in the direction of Mount Diablo, miles away to the east. When the longshoremen started work at eight o’clock some traces of it clung around the summit of Telegraph Hill close by, but it didn’t last long, and soon the city lay basking in the morning sunshine under an almost cloudless sky. It was about this time that Jack Gale began to move at the bottom of the ship. Presently he sat up and began to blink at the darkness which surrounded him. He was somewhat dazed from the effects of the drug, but this feeling presently wore off, and then he began to won- der where he was. As he collected his thoughts he remembered the reception he had met with on stepping aboard the vessel. - Who was the person who attacked him, and in whose grasp he had become unconscious ?~ He had no suspicions that it was the captain, or that Mr. Sharpley was in any way connected with his misadventure. “Where in creation am 1? Certainly not in the open air,” he said to himself. “I’m in some building, but I don’t see =z windows. Maybe I’m in a cellar.” < e got on his feet and began to move around. out his hands he felt one of the bulkheads. “Ym close, to one side of the room. I must see how big the place is.” He started to follow the wall. ‘After taking two steps his foot shot down into space, and only that he had been making his way cautiously he would have pitched forward on his hands and knees on to the planking nailed to the bottom ribs of the vessel two feet or so below The fall wouldn’t have been so much, but when a person takes an unexpected header in the darkness the conse- quences are often very serious. “Gee! a pe escaped that hole by the skin of my teeth,” he mutte the perspiration coming out on his forehead, for he imagined the hole was of some considerable depth. Then he remembered that he had some matches in is ‘pocket. He took one out and lighted it. As the flame fiared up he was astonished to see the. other side of the room, as he supposed it was, within a yard of his face. “I’m in a passage,” was his natural surmise. He flashed the match to the right and left and saw the rough planking below him. Stepping down, he walked in one direction till the light of a second match revealed the ribs of a vessel. “Why,” he gasped, “I’m in the hold of a ship.” gz to the cabin, the skipper resumed the card game) ’ CHAPTER VI. + IN THE, HOLD OF THE MORNING GLORY. The natural inference was that the ship Was the Morning . Glory. abot vessels, so the space between the two bulkheads at the extreme stern did not strike him as anything unusual. t most interested him at that moment w: ng hero that he was in such a peculiar situation, and She tena therefor. siete ‘The more he thought the baron over the farthe 3 seemed | to be from the solution of the enigma. 3 ‘Seeing the ladder running straight up into the da ided_to climb it. and: Fae he make his_ escape fro1 lost pope ge in seh Gai Sony Shea he: Jeck did “not possess a very large fund of information | pa: TO rT ee Na wo Pa hl ae « —_ "ets & date Leb ex re

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~ to give it up. He hung on to the top rungs for a while, and finding that pretty uncontifortable, returned to the bottom of the hold, here he sat down to wait for somebody to come and let him out. Nobody came, however, as time passed, and he grew im- patient and nervous. The only sound he heard was the splashing of the water against the ship’s side some yards above his head. “I wonder what time it is? >” he asked himself. “It may be morning for all 1 know. The Masons are, no doubt, won- dering what kept me from my dinner and away from my) room all night.. I should think Mr. Sharpley would have looked into the reason of my failure to reappear on the dock with the bundle he sent me for. Captain Brant would then have investigated. I don’t see how anybody could have t me down here without the captain finding it out. And I on’t see why I was put down here anyway. I don’t see any sense in it.” Jack’s thoughts then reverted to the revelation of his ge — rascality, in which Captain Brant appeared to d-in-glove with him. ‘The knowledge placed him in a rather difficult position. If he told what he had discovered it would involve his boss in ruin, and that would mean the end of his fine job. If he ere silent on the subject he would to a certain ex- tent be aiding and abetting a piece of villainy. He hated to play the role of an informer, and yet it seemed to be his duty to do so, and save the underwriters a iy ae e tried to argue that the underwriters were nothing to him, while his boss was a whole lot. Still, it was repugnant to his feelings to wink at a crim- inal act on the ground of self-interest. Mr. Sharpley, instead of being the fine, honorable man phe had thought him to be, was a self-confessed swindler of marine insurance companies, so why should he shield him? “if I permit the Morning Glory to go to sea, knowing that she is intended to be lost, how will I ever square my- self with my conscience?” Jack asked himself. “Suppose one or more of the sailors should lose their lives through her wreck, will I not be accountable in a way for their deaths ?” In that event, Jack felt that he would never be able to ‘ forgive himself for his silence, By this time it was after ten o’clock and the boy was feel- my Sooo ea cs thaks dant: Junk fee ona figure that morning must have cag ae ont ente strong hopes of a speedy release from th Time slipped by, et ange Hold. there were no sounds at the a a sone to indicate the end of his confinement. “Tl be saa, Ta the office at this rate,” he muttered 3 Seencnaate heals oever put me in this, hole ought to have > sense enough to know that I can’t live on air, ly such stuffy air as is down here. It beats me what Ss oe ject was. 1 don’t see what he gained by it. It is sim- y—' ee Py > ie AS he ee Sin oe a bes paused abruptly, for a solution of the mystery sud- across his brain. The possibility that he had hit the keynote of the situa- . tion struck him cold with apprehension. it In a word, Jack had at last hit upon . his imprisonment in the hold of the Morin rat Glory. It sti him that Mr. Sharpley, suspec g he had over- heard the momentous conversation between himself and his the true meaning of dnc 5 al bol ADRIFT IN THE SEA. ay (ae 44 tt = * His efforts to force it open. met with no success, so he had | At that juncture there was a sound at the trap above. Jack looked up and saw the flash of a lantern. “Below, there!” cried a voice that Jack recognized as the captain’s. ? “Hello!” cried the boy, springing to the ladder and com- mencing to ascend. The lantern began to descend and with it a dark object, By that time Jack was half way up the ladder. “Hold on there, I am coming up,” shouted the boy. “Go back, you young sculpin,” bellowed the skipper 1 “Why should I go back? I want to get out.” ‘ . “You'll get. out when I get ready to let you,” was the harsh reply. “Why am I being kept a prisoner down here?” asked Jack, continuing to ascend, but more slowly. “None.of your business. Go back, d’ye hear, or I'll drop something on your head that’ll hasten your movements.” “This is an outrage. I ought to be at the office by this time if it’s morning, as I guess it is.” A sardonic chuckle was wafted down to him. “You'll never see the office any more, you bona lubber.” His words struck a chill to the boy’s heart “What do you mean?” he asked. ya I said. You're booked for a trip across the Pa- cific.” “Why am I?” : “That’s my business.” ’ “I don’t see why you should treat me this way, Captain — Brant. What have I done to you?” a “Oh, you know me, do you? You'll know me better in 3.4 day or two when we get into blue water, I warrant you,” — retorted the skipper, savagely. ; The lighted lantern and a basket containing some cold provisions had halted close to the boy’s head. 7 “IT want to know why I am being treated in this way,” per- y sisted Jack. s “Shut up and go down or you'll wish you did, d@’ye un- derstand? Unship the lantern and take the grub out of the basket. Make haste, for I don’t intend to stay here all day. You won’t hear anything more from me till to-morrow, so if you don’t want to starve you’ll do as I tell you.” The! lantern and the basket began to descend again, and Jack, with a heavy heart followed them down. Reaching the bottom he removed the eatables from the © basket and unshipped the lantern. a “Is the basket empty?” roared the captain, “Yes,” replied Jack, in a choked voice. In another moment the basket ree) in No: gloom overhead, and presently the boy h the trap close. He was alone once more, but he had a light, which was some consolation. As he was half famished he attacked the provender, of which there ; an re supply. a of cold meat, part of a loaf of — It consisted of bread cut in ‘isin and _ buttered, nearly. a pound of soda — crackers, a slice of meat pie, and a jug of water. ; ; Jack got away with of the meat before he remem- — bered — the captain said he wouldn’t show up again till next day fs However, there was more than enough bread and crackers. to last him for twenty-four hours, so he finished up on them, — and washed the meal down with a long drink of water. . “This is pretty fierce,” he said, gazing in a disheartened — way at the ae: # in the lantern. “I’m to be carried to sea 4 ae my will because I’ve learned too much about the ~ > uakediies It isn’t my fault that he has made a of peigt henry nor have I anything to do with Captain Brant — being mixed up in his schemes. They’ll be able to carry” 5 their project out now, and cheat the insurance people out of - another big sum. They forgot, however. that I’m li ec A get back some time, and wag ae make them sweat for hash > ms mind Jack did not reflect the plotters’ purpose that he should of that he never nage get back to sa to aa them to justice. \ — —_ CHAPTER VII. JACK SHOWS THE STUFF HE’S MADE OF, se t the soviy, oe and cee enough with Jack int td town his prison until he was & et paptaiaes hold ot ” <s < Me oe:

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ADRIFT IN Cae ee ag fe EE THE SEA, - ‘Then he walked up and down his prison until he was tired ' of the exercise and sat down. With his back against the forward bulkhead he dropped off » to sleep, and remained dead to the world for several hours. | : During that time a tug came alongside the vessel, her dock hawsers were unshipped, and she was towed out into the stream, where she came to anchor. _dack slept on unconscious of his change of base. en he woke up he found that three-quarters of the candle in the lantern had burned away, and he blew the light | out to save the remnant. Night settled down over the city and bay of San’ Fran- | cisco once more, and the fog came rolling in like escaping steam, from the “Heads,” but the boy had no knowledge of the fact. Day and night, fair weather or foul, were alike in the depths of that gloomy hold, which might have suggested the deepest dungeon in some old castle. We will not dwell on Jack’s unenyiable position during the next thirty-six hours, at the end of which time the Morning Glory sailed from her anchorage, a tug taking her across the bar outside the “Heads,” when she spread her canvas to a fair breeze and started on her voyage across the Pacific, southward, toward Australia. . Jack felt her get under way and his last faint hope that something might happen to favor his release vanished. “’m booked for the trip,” he muttered, “but it’s a long lane that hasn’t a turning.” a ~The ship was off the Farallones, a group of islands about __* twenty-five miles due west of the Golden Gate, at dark, = was bowling along under all plain sail. : that time Jack was asleep. z SS Aug daylight next morning he was awakened by a grip on| 3 pearing g up he found himself face to face with Captain - it, who held the lantern in one hand anda cocked re- a ver in the other. _ “Now, you young sea cook, listen to me. To begin ‘with, We're at sea, more than a hundred miles from Frisco. You're thoroughly in my power, and if I chose to blow our brains out down here no one aboard would be the wiser. By al jee po understand ? + hy es,” replied the boy. sf 2° s’ pose you *re tired of staying down fhere, eh?” a at b she o “Then it remains with you to say whether you'll stay. here - and starve, for I’ve sent you down your last meal, or come up with me, sign the ship’s articles and turn to and. make yourself useful as cabin boy. H *. “Pll sign the articles ce make myself. useful. help myself,” replied Jack. “Of course. you will, but there’s a condition.” tis it? | ~ Your’ presence above has got to be accounted for so I'm Te ae le > Re i can't be Ce Bid at os ‘os to give out that you're a stowaway. You raust admit! to you are. Do you agree to do so?” suppose I’ll have to do as you say.” “You will or Wy ~~ stay here and croak.” Ti egal sensible. Now if you go back on your word, or _ I hear of you blowing your gab about anything. connected with this his. ship, you'll go overboard to feed the fishes. . Re- member I’ll ate eep my eye on you. You're not to go for’ard =~ mi paele with the crew in any way, D’ye understand ?” “I have a vacant stateroom in the cabin, and you'll bunk t is not the kind of querters that a cabin boy oath gets, but in your ease there are reasons, so you see Be re as well as the mates if you keep a still tongue and e head,” 4 will I have to do?” Help the steward, make the beds in the cabin, keep the neat and clean, and attend to such other things as ‘ef, oe ‘that the ship bas sailed perh AI tell: me whi ow e ship perhaps you me why ve been kidnap a cabin boy “and I took.a faney to you. That's reason,” replied the skipper with a shift _, Jack made no reply, but he was sati in had not told the truth. = me. I’m going to say that I found you t Mine sald the skips = 12 oP, tof e out a sai e skipper inva pace e!” said Jack. “What's that?” ~ Si Ss adie “IT want 7 lint in his eye. that Captain “The storeroom directly above here and underneath the | eabin. We'll pass*through it on our way.” ‘The captain led the way up, and Jack followed him, glad to escape from his prison pen. “This is the lazarette,” said Captain Braht, after they had passed through*the trap, which the skipper covered as before. “Now up with you into the cabin.” The morning sun was shining athwart the skylight when Jack made his way into the cabin, and his sudden transi- tion to daylight, the first he had seen for two days, made him | blink like an owl. Captain Brant hailed the steward, and when that per- sonage appeared, told him that he had just discovered Mr. Sharpley’s office boy stowed away in the lazarette. “He has run away to sea, and as it’s too late to put him ashore I’m going to make him work his way. He’s to be cabin boy, and you can make as much use of him as you want. Take charge of him now and set him to work.” “You can set the table for three to begin with,” said the steward, “By the way, what’s your name?” Jack told him. a with me and I'll show you where everything is e The boy followed him and the skipper went on deck. The second mate was in charge of the watch, and Captain Brant told him about his finding Jack in the lazarette. This story was subsequently repeated to the chief mate, when he came to breakfast later on. Long before noon every one aboard the ship had heard about the supposed stowaway, and Jack was wise enough not to say anything that would throw a doubt on the skip- per’s statement. As the days passed he attended to his work in a faithful way, and the captain had no fault to find with him. All things: considered he had a fairly easy berth, and he even began to enjoy the novelty of his situation, almost for- getting the fate that was in store for the ship. Jack had. no fault to find with the treatment he received from the captain. The skipper kept a pretty close watch on his moyements at first, but finding that the boy was keeping his part of the bargain to the letter, his scrutiny relaxed, and he assumed a tolerably friendly attitude toward the lad. He even began to entertain doubts as to Jack’s knowl- edge of the plot in view to wreck the vessel. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Sharpley was ,wrong after all about Gale having overheard that conversation in the card room,” he told himself. “I don’t blame him, however, for not taking any chances on it. I’ll sound the boy by degrees, and if the indications‘aré that he is ignorant it will save me from a-crime, for it was my orginal intention to see that he went down with the ship. -I’d-rather not be responsible for his death if I can’ avoid it,” Six weeks after leaving San Francisco the ship passed the windward of the Stiletto Islands, in the neighbor- head of which the .xtbs of the Shenandoah lay bleeding many fathoms down. Of course Captain Brant had no intention of losing two vessels at the same spot, although it was an ideal one for the purpose, as the coincidence would look somewhat sus- picious. -He had two or three other spots pricked off on the chart and noted down in his memorandum book where the im- pending catastrophe ‘could be pulled off nearly as well. One of them was an island of the Piji group—an un- inhabited ‘spot within easy reach by boat of a missionary settlement. The: skipper favored this place, as it would enable all hands to get away and reach shore and he hoped circumstances would enable him to carry out his plans there. e weather thus far reputation of the Pacific Ocean, with the balance in favor of the ocean. There had been some dirty weather, but it was of brief duration, Tt ht enough, though, to put Jack on his back with sea- sic ae at lasted scareel two. days, and after that he rapidly acqu red his sea 1 aan — abruptly came to the fine weather when the Morn- ie Sere into.a tremendous gale-after she passed south ” It fasted th = tte pte oe eee ‘ait i ad ape. ad been fully in accord with the

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eee Te ae ae i ie tf 7 * ‘ ADRIFT IN THE SEA. 11 Indeed, at one time it looked as if she would founder| He was responsible for the safety of the ship, and the - without any assistance from the capt At any rate when the gale broke the carpenter reported that the water was gaining on the exhausted crew, and he feared she had sprung a plank in her bottom. This report would have brought joy to comen Brant’s soul if they had been within easy reach of land. He out: : certain by going down between the two bulkheads and boring a few holes in the ship’s skin to help the good work along. Their position on the chart was not a desirable one, in the skipper’s estimation, so he kept his men plugging away at the f to keep her afloat, while he crowded on sail for the point he was alming at. ; . The men, haying no relish for cutting loose in open boats as long as it could be avoided, worked away with a_ will, though growing more and more exhausted as the hours There is a limit to even the sailor’s endurance under strenuous conditions, and that limit was finally reached by the crew of the Morning Glory. : wigs Had they been able to hold their own against the inroad of the sea through the crazy planking they would doubtless have persevered a while longer, but the suspicion prevailing that the Morning Glory was little r than a coffin ship, they threw up the sponge when the carpenter reported Pace feet of water, cap’n, and the leak evidently making ‘as ” t. he “Bight feet of water, and the chain and sucker worn through,” cried a brawny member of the crew, who was re- garded as a sort of leader by the others. “My hands are @s raw as beef. I'll work no more.” The others quit with him and gathered about the pumps in a kind of sulky despair, for the sea was 1 running high, due perhaps to the lessened force of the wind which had previously flattened the surges out, and the prospect was not at all cheerful. “You’re a nice hand to call yourself a seaman,” roared Captain Brant, pares down on the man from the break of the poop. “Instead of setting the men a good example you give up like a lubberly, skulking bully. Get back to work, you lazy rascal. And the rest of you, turn to and save the ship.” ; “The ship ain’t worth savin’,” growled the brawny chap, whose name was Sturgeon. “She’s nothin’ but a coffin, as full of holes as a colander.” t “How dare you talk back to me?” shouged the skipper, who perceived that here was the chance to accumulate evi- dence to show the Board of Underwriters in San_Francisco that every effort was made to save the’ Morning Glory from i “Get to work, you rascals.” “JT don’t see no use, lads, in wearin’ the flesh off our bones to do an impossibility. We can’t keep this blamed old afloat more’n a few hours longer. She’s bound to sink ‘ore dark,” said Sturgeon, addressing his mates, and ap- ignoring the captain’s words and presence alto- gether. sie cae my lads, any of you? Speak out.” “No, sartainly not; and what’s more, I won't,” replied er. showing that they fully agreed with the rifgleader. 1 a itera Ber | to his second mate and ordered him monient the second mate returned with the weap- up your pointing d have hastened to make the fate of the vessel | — of those on board, and was the autocrat of his own ons. Sturgeon, however, was not one of the yielding kind. When he saw that his mates were wa’ he yelled: “To the boats! To the boats! We'll cut loose from th pees old hooker, and let the skipper save her himself e kin.” He made a dash for the starboard side, followed by sev- eral of the crew. | ‘Yhe captain’s revolver cracked and Sturgeon staggered for the ship to give up the ghost,| and fell. umps in order, | But he was up in a moment, with a streak of blood across | his forehead where the bullet had raised a furrow. With a how] of rage he drew his case knife and started | for the steps. The skipper fired again, but missed him. The deck was now a scene of indescribable confusion. The seamen grabbed marline spikes, and anything that came handy and followed their leader. , The captain and the mates fired into the surgi ec | particularly at Sturgeon, and two of the men fell. wound on the planks. The ringleader. escaped in some miraculous way, and had his foot on the lower step of the ladder, Jack Gale rushed forward, seized him by the,arm that held the knife and stopped his progress, and with him the whole bunch. “Stand back, men, are you crazy?” he cried. “Stand back! Would you murder the captain and officers? You’d all be hanged for it when gra. ronebed shore, if you ever did. The gale is over and this ship has got to be saved. I’m only a boy, but you’ll have to kill me before you pass up that lad- er. Are you cowards enough to down an unarmed boy? Back, I say; back to your duty, and save the ship!” With flashing eyes and heaving breast Jack stood between the officers and the half-maddened men, any one of whom could have twisted him around their fingers, while Sturgeon have crushed him with a blow, and defied them to pasa im. , ’ CHAPTER VIIL JACK MAKES AN ALARMING DISCOVERY. Sturgeon was fairly paralyzed at the nerve of the boy, and he stood and stared at him with a black look that would have cowed most any lad. < Jack, however, was wound up to a high pitch of excite- e had so reck- lessly courted. ment, and seemed unconscious of the danger The captain and officers were amazed at the cabin boy’s nerve, and hastened to take instant advantage of it. They rushed to the head of the steps and ben presented three revolvers point blank .at the men, a yard of their heads. That cooled the mutineers, and their rush having been stopped short their chances of overpowering the officers we practically gone. ’ “Now, you rascals, return to your duty!” thundered Cap- a chorus of similar negatives from the others, | ,.i, Foaek The men to give way, and Sturgeon, seeing that the game was up, gave up the fight. Bat ine eat hee ies | ae grabbed Jack, however, and dragged him back with - m. i “Let that boy go!” roared the skipper, covering the ring- ye er. With an imprecation the seaman threw Jack from . d retired to the pumps where all hands resumed work In there was tio further call for hiscekps um the pantry, where cr praised by the “i an a half-hearted way. , Jack, seeing that on. of tim th ae Mt Aiea ie As ary . =e aa 7 rial Sere na le

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ADRIFT IN f ies and the skipper will no doubt report you favorably to 2 phe owner.” Jack made no reply. ~ He knew that Captain Brant was not likely ‘to do any -such thing. ; Following the instructions of the captain, the carpenter | went below with a sailor on a tour of inspection, and dis-| _ covered the main cause of the inrush of the water, A plank had started below the water line, and the sea} was pouring in at a great rate. He succeeded in patching the break up to a considerable extent, and in plugging other holes. . After that the men with two pumps, working in reliefs of two, were able to hold their own against the water. In those days steam pumps had not been generally in- troduced on ships, so that the safety of a vessel that sprang a leak in mid-ocean, or elsewhere, depended wholly on the ' muscles of the crew. The result was that when the —_ were worn out the peril of foundering was ve By dark the wind had sobekica ¢ to a fair breeze, the sea had gone down somewhat, and the crew had gained half a foot on the water. The skipper braced them up occasionally with a. stiff round of spirits, and no more signs of insubordination ap- peared among them. The captain and mates agreed among themselves that Jack Gale was a'plucky boy, and had saved them no end. of trouble, and possibly their lives. The two cohaaak sailors were removed to their bunks in the forecastle, and were attended to by the skipper as best he knew how. _ . Neither was fatally hurt, but there was some danger from blood poisoning, as the captain was not experienced _ enough to probe for and remove the bullets. _ All that night and all next day Captain Brant crowded on sail, and during that time the watch on degk took turns at the pumps, and gradually reduced the water in the hold. : oS om rant was not anxious to get all the water out of e All ‘4 really cared was to keep the vessel afloat long _ enough to get within easy rowing distance of the island he had picked out as a good one to reach. : The carpenter’s investigation below demonstrated to his own satisfaction. that the Morning Glory wasn’t the vessel _ she had been cracked up to be. -He was surprised that such a craft should be sent on a long voyage with a valuable cargo by a shipping house as respectable and well thought of as Geo. Sharpley & Co. In many: places her timbers were so rotten that the car- penter marveled they had stood the strain of the recent _ gale as well as they did. . *Tt’s a mercy that she a - lumb to the bottom like a stone,” he sol I was out of her. I hate’ to think what's liable o haps if another gale like _ the last hits us between here and Melbourne.” __ The carpenter reported the state of affairs to Captain cent, and the skipper pretended to ding much concerned about the condition of the ship. He insisted that the carpenter had magnified the danger, dip the man solemnly assured him that he had not. Jack heard what. the carpenter said and he knew that he had truly represented the state of affairs. The ship was rotten and he, too, wished he wa8.out of her. x hadn’t more than told the truth when he called -eoftin ship, though he did not know how bad the vessel | y was. the crew was a fine, pirspping young fellow named ae ven about a year older than Jack. é would have liked to get friendly with him, but the 's orders were against it. they got acquainted just the same, and occasionally pped 2 few words. shadn’t taken any pait in the. short 1 mutiny, an ‘eye-witness of Jack’s courageous act. 35 oe result of that was Jack rose high in his estimation. and the entiré crew, after matters had gan to feel a lot of fuss and zim a ate were — nents estes, ee THE SEA. On the second evening following the outbreak Jack was on the poop when Sam relieved the man at the wheel, and the two boys got into conversation. The: captain was below. in his:stateroom, and Jack, feel- ing that. he stood in good favor with the. officers, ventured to hang around Sam longer than he otherwise would» have dared to do. As a consequence by the time Sam’s trick at the wheel was up he and Jack were on a very friendly footing. This feeling continued to increase during tre next three days, by which time the vessel was almost free of water. Although the skipper saw the boys talking together sev- eral times he did not call Jack down for it. At length Captain Brant noted that the ship was drawing close to the island near which he intended to settle the Morning Glory’s fate. That noon when the second mate made the observations with the instrument and proceeded to calculate the ship’s position, he made a mistake jn his figuring and | pricked their position at the wrong spot on the chart. Captan Brant, assuming that the mate’s work was cor- rect, proceeded to calculate how far the vessel would run by. midnight. if the wind maintained its present weight, which was likely. st found and marked off the place where the ship ought A clear sea, with Sago Island, an uninhabited bit of land, bearing fifteen miles - on the port quarter, and-the big island he intenced the boats to make for, twenty miles off the star- board bows. Owing to the mate’s error the skipper’s calculations were bound to he wrong. The ship eald: he ‘close. aboard of Sago Island at mid- night, and all of thirty-five miles N.E. of the large island. The weather began to look threatening at dark, and the wind dropped a bit. At ten o’clock Captain Brant came on deck to make his, final observations. The wind was still softer, so he calculated a loss of six or eight miles by ey spe which didn’t cut much ice with him, as the baronreter showed no signs of a dangerous fall. Returning to the cabin, which was empty, he pulled up the trap communicating with the lazarette, descended and shut it down after him He was not aware that his movements were obsetved by Jack Gale. Jack was in his stateroom at the time and something im- pelled Hy to o his door slightly and look out. “Now I wonder what Captain’ Brant is going into the lazarette for?” he asked himself. “Of course he has the right to go there when he chooses, but I don’t see any reason for him going at this hour.” The strenuous efforts made by the skipper to save the ship from foundering, directly after the gale had deceived the boy as to'his real intentions. He n to believe aa Captain Brant had decided not to lose the vessel after all In a conversation with Sam Ellis he asked the lad what the space between the two bulkheads under 7 jaraee was intended for. Sam told him that there was no such Siok aboard any ship, ane Jack was afraid to explain to him that he had had personal gives with such a vacant enclosure on the red Glo After thinking the matter over he came to thé conclusion that the space had been built for some secret purpose, and that must be the wrecking of the ship. So when he No the captain entering the lazarette at such nog Might é began to have his suspicions that all was not rig! To satisfy himself he determined to take the risk of peek- ing apen into the stateroom to see what the ia sel was a the trap a couple of inches and surveyed He saw Captain Brant in|the act of deseending g through second trap into the ¢ between the two bulkh That satisfied him that all was not right. The captain pulled ‘he the trap down after him which left ‘ bg regina tes Jack ended mie sca cane ak et a woo oe PE the second i a te il Crossing the cabin in his stocking feet ra tly lifted . cf: gs the gen y oa

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ADRIFT IN Putting down the light, he picked up a big auger and a beg to bore a hole right through the planking of the = S85 He started a second one before - meaning of his work. a _ “He’s letting in the water and means to sink the. vessel now,” breathed the startled boy. “What shall I do?” - He felt that it was his duty to call the attention of every- body on the ship to their danger, but that necessarily would expose the captain as a villain. ; - Well, why should he shield the skipper under the circum- +. stances? ‘ First of all he decided to call Sam Ellis. Jack woke up to the real his own eyes what all hands were up against. He left the storeroom in a hurry and made his way to _ the forecastle where Sam was asleep. | - ~ “Sam, Sam, rouse up!” he called to his new friend. 3 | was awake in a moment. “What’s the matter? Is the watch out? Jack! What’s up?” asked the young sailor. “Get into your clothes, quick, and come out, on deck,” re- ied Jack, in a tone of suppressed excitement, that told that something unusual was on the tapis. Sam obeyed and they were soon on the roof of the fore- Oh, it’s you, e. “Now tell me what is wrong,” said Sam. ; __ “The captain is boring holes in the stern of the ship to sink her,” said Jack. ~ “Get out, you’re dreaming,” replied Sam, incredulously. “Come with me and I’ll prove it to you.” , Jack dragged Sam across the deck and into the cabin. 2 ing the trap of the lazarette he said: “Follow me down.” Sam, full of wonder, did so. “Do you see this trap?” asked Jack, nf gsi he match. _ Before Sam could answer in the affirmatice, the trap flew back, an arm and a lantern appeared, and then Captain _ _Brant’s head and shoulders. : It would be hard to say which party was most taken by seve sack and Sam, or the skipper of the Morning Glory. 2 per, CHAPTER IX. LOSS OF THE MORNING GLORY. latter returned their stare and then with a deep didn’t know what answer to make to that. re called to stand laring at , pelted Of ne THE SEA, In fact, he would bring him there and let him see with| —_ . As the two boys gazed at the face of the skipper the imprecation “What did you bring y with you for? Afraid to venture alone in the you know you have no right aft here except when our trick at the wheel?” roared Cap- “| mate, and the second mate, too?” : a “Tt was afraid to open my mouth because Captain Brant kept a strict watch on me. He said if I dared say a word 13 | Then he walked on deck to await results. The night was dark as the caves of Erebus. : | Unknown to any one aboard, and owing to the second mate’s error in his day’s calculations, the ship was heading | straight for Sago Island. : . : The wind had freshened within the last half hour and Was now blowing a small gale, which sent the vessel tearing along on her course. Judging from the looks of the barometer it did not prom- ise to be of long duration, and the rascally captain had no fear that his stanch boats would not easily ride it out. In the meantime how fared matters with Jack and Sam | down in the storeroom? “We're in a nice pickle,” said the latter as the skipper | disappeared up-the ladder and closed the trap upon them. “All hands are in a worse one,” replied Jack. “What do you mean?” “What I told you in the first place. The captain has bored holes in the stern of the vessel with an auger to let in the water and sink the ship.” ; “That doesn’t sound remecgehle, Jack,” replied Sam. | “T don’t care what it sounds like; it’s the fact. You saw him come up through that trap.” ; “Yes. I didn’t know there was an entrance to the hold that way.” “There is. There’s a space a couple of yards wide ex- tending across the ship.” pe dickens you say!” exclaimed the surprised young sailor. “Lift the trap and Ill flash a match down and that will give you some idea of the place,” replied Jack. _The match flared up and Sam looked into a dark void, the dimensions of which he could not gauge. As they knelt on the edge of the open trap their sharp “That’s the water which ears caught the splash of water below. “You hear that?” said Jack. has come in.” “Then we must get out of here “Tf we can.” “What’s to prevent us? and give the alarm.” Follow me.” but he couldn’t budge it. been battened down. “Great Scott! We’re prisoners!” cried Sam. sinks we'll sink with her.” : “Nothing surer,” answered Jack; “and that’s our fate, I ear. It was as fast as though it had “Good Lord! What does this all mean?” he groan when, he tried his best to save her last. week?” *T couldn’t tell you why he tried to save her, but I can tell you this much that when the Morning Glory left San Francisco it was ‘| destination.” “How do you know that?” gasped Sam. ai “Tl tell you in a few words.” with his abduction from San Francisco, and Sam listened to his story with astonishment and consternation. “That’s the worst I ever heard,” he said. It’s an outrage. Why didn’t you blow to any one about my abduction I’d go overboard.” “If the men knew what they were up agai eome aft and murder the skipper,” said Sam. feel sorry for him either. He must for saving the ship a week back.” f hands could escape to the wrecked the Shenandoah.” | ae soo Saige cake Reta: “Tf would be 'clear re ot Ee Sam dashed up the steps and pushed against the trap, — “If the ship Sam, in a state of panic, pounded with all his might on the bottom of the trap, but his efforts availed him Slee ; “Why is the skipper sending the vessel to the bottom now ‘not intended she should ever reach her _ It took Jack fifteen minutes to tell everything connected ; “To send a rotten ship to sea with a worthless cargo in part to be lost. e yarn to the chief ‘GF “T guess he wanted to get near some island where all shore, like they did when he

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ADRIFT IN THE SEA, the job before ' “by what we have both’ seen to-night, F eagt beter e Tree men im e the Board of Underwriters, and send plot to State prison?” “T guess it would.” “Under those circumstances do you think Captain Brant wants us to escape?” “Good Lord!” palpitated Sam. “What shall we do?” “What can we do? is the question.” As the boys sat facing each other in the dark, almost paralyzed by the realization of their terrible situation, the shi Fetched. up suddenly against some obstacle with a ter- rible crash, and the boys were sent flying against the after wall of the lazarette, accompanied by half the goods in the They were both stunned by the shock, and lay as inani- mate as the boxes and bundles heaped around them, The Morning Glory had gone ashore on the desolate Sago and the captain was as much surprised by the ca- tastrophe as any one else. According to his calculations, based on the day’s observa- tions taken by the mate, there*wasn’t any land nearer than ten or fifteen miles of the ship at that moment. The shock was so seyere and unexpected that the captain and mate barely saved themselves from going overboard. sman was not. so fortunate. He was thrown clear over the rail and disappeared into __ the surges. : f _. After striking, the ship careened on her side to some a i gag and all the starboard boats were smashed to splin- rs. & _ Of course great confusion ensued on board. _ _ The watch below rushed out on deck,’ as the watch on deck were picking themselves out of the starboard scuppers. “Tt soon developed that the vessel was hard and fast : eee. and that there was no immediate danger of her go- ae pieces. Bus mee mates calmed the fears of the men and order was restored. ‘ ____. The captain ordered the two port boats to be provisioned, _ declaring that his reckoning placed them on the edge of the roup, and that they ought to reach a settlement inside = rty-six hours at the outside. { He could not understand how the ship had run foul of _ land, and-held a consultation with his mates on the sub- __He declared that the second officer must have made a miscalculation, otherwise the catastrophe couldn’t have hap- _ It was decided to wait till morning before leaving the vessel as long as the weather was not bad enough to en- Ox the wreck. ‘ , The men, reassured, turned in as best they could for a ‘Rap, and so the night passed away and day broke. —_ __ The half gale had spent its force by that time, and the Sea, though rough, was not bad enough to deter the crew from launching the two boats, which they did soon after sunrise. * __. It_was not till the boats were some distance from the - ‘wreck that the two boys were missed, and then those in one boat believed they were in the other. _ . The captain alone knew where they were, and though he ers from committing a crime that amounted to murder, ents 2 ¥ ; the safety of himself and his fellow plott ; on the death of the lads, and so he stifled the 3s of his conscience, and the boats kept on, a few hun- of ag apart, headed for the nearest inhabited island, a ive es away. 2a ; bea Oe Hg ig CHAPTER X. . | = ON SAGO ISLAND. - . —_—_ “} SWEET Ghani SS i uted acai bw “What in thunder happened?” he inqui scrambling: on his legs, which he began to rub as if they were sore. j “The ship has gone ashore.” : “Gone ashore!” cried Sam, in astonishmen : “Yes; you don’t fee] her moving, do you? % We must have hit one of the’ Fiji basa eet i — te . “That’s so. Well, that’s better than going to Davy Jones’ locker. y legs are sore.” “Some of the stuff in here fell on you. I just pulled you | out from the hole.” + “Yhanks, old chap. We got a pretty fierce shaking up. Were you knocked out, too, or did you escape what I got?” _ “I was down and out as well as you. I only just got my senses back.” rae “I wonder how long ago’ this thing happened?” : “We mane ta BP eee sit f this place.” he e must and get out o is place, ite “Nothing would please me better, but the captain the trap, you remember, so it’s foing to be a job to out. If we | a hatchet we could cut our way out, don’t see anything down here that will help us. ai Sam looked around also, and then he ran up th termined to make another effort to force the tra He put his shoulder against it and to his. yielded readily. -. 5 b The weight which the captain had placed on it. thrown against the side of the cabin, a couple of away. t SP athe of ; : “Hurrah!” shouted Sam. “The way is open. Come on.” gan ‘He sprang out on the slanting floor of the cabin, and Jack . BS. smallest islands in tp oe said

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after that three days’ gale we went through. If the risco underwriters could see her now they’d have some- thing to think about.” There was no lack of stuff to eat on board of the wreck, as the lazarette was full of provisions, though most of it ss, abiad cooking. _ They found that the had eleaned out the pantry and [ » Which furnished tham with enough for the short run had before them. * _ found in the storeroom and then took their seats on the = poop to consider what they would do about getting away ; m the island. : “We may have to wait here some time before a vessel comes close enough to notice our signals and take us off,” said Sam. “But we've got to left that will swim,” “What’s the matter with building a raft?” suggested the young sailor. ~ “We might do that; but it won’t sail.” “We'll rig a spar for a mast, fix a smaller spar for a yard and put canvas on it. There is plenty saileloth aboard.” Jack fell in with Sam’s plan, and they started to make the raft right away. _ . They found all the tools they needed for the work in the carpenter’s chest, and they fell to with a will. The making of the t furnished them with occupation, too, which kept their spirits. : It was no easy, job to prepare the foundation of their un- wieldy craft, for they had to saw the heavy spars into suit- able lengths and drag them to the water astern. The sea was still too rough for them to launch thcir spars overboard, Oe they put in the rest of the day prepar- ing their material. : fact they spent the whole of the next day also this way, and it was not till the second morning, by which time the 9 was quite calm, that they began putting the raft er. Ls, \ re it occupied them a week, working pretty hard, to complete their craft, and then they, had a solid-lookin affair, with a well-braced mast and yard,-to which a g ‘sized square sail was attached.- They carpeted the planking with sailcloth, and in the center, near the mast, they piled enough cases of canned proyisions, bags of crackers, and two k of water, that “ | would last them a good le, * They enveloped their provisions with a covering of sail- cloth, to keep them dry. ; The boxes were so arranged that there was room for them - to erawl under the sail-cloth and stretch out on a double _- mattress they placed in there. : Altogether they were quite proud of the raft when they viewed it in its deupietes shape, ready to put off from the waited till sunrise next morning and then, with the a couple of poles, shoved off from shore, where the t eaught their sai] and the rude craft began to ve through wo here, for there aren’t any boats replied Jack. — Ses ¥ Bag he Pee, —s * \ e water at a slow rate. = he ae shouted with satisfaction, and ‘noted by the _ compass y had taken from the binnacle that their course ‘was south by east. ; “Tf the wind changed they couldn’ heep to that course, ‘or was no means of guiding the raft. _ Me were at the mercy of the wind and tide, and must go wherever they were carried _ ; : ! = ‘ Pd ud ——— CHAPTER XI. ‘THE TWO CASTAWAYS OF LONE REEF. “As we are somewhere near other islands of this group fait me in sight of one by to-morrow morning at we do si ‘an island it won’t do us much d see ay r nearly so,” replied Jack. our course fyuit our wishes. That fe the great ék toa raft. “4 atk well, we are- oniree one be seen on shore, who would Se ; Y ete rhs pierce ~ ~ nig is ie < : ou rae cdma, quits ADRIFT IN THE SEA. at them, how they’re split and bulged out. It’s a wonder she| The boys talked for some time about their e boys made a meal off crackers and canned meat they | prospects and |then feeling hungry proceeded to sample their provisions. That afternoon they saw land to the west but it was a % long distance off. oe Just before sunset they saw a ship crossing their course, but she vanished in the gloom of evening long before they got anywhere near her. _ Next morning they sighted another island ahead, but the tide carried them away from it, and they eventually passed ‘it miles away. They drifted past one island while they slept. It was a fair sized one and inhabited, but. they never knew how close they were to it at one time. In the morning it was a mile away astern. That was the last land they saw for two weeks, and Sam said he was afraid taey had passed away from the Fiji group and were floating aimlessly about on a great waste where they wouldn’t meet with any islands. “Then we'll have to depend on being picked up by some ship?” said Jack. “That’s about the size of-it,” replied the young sailor. “Will our proyisions hold out—our water particularly?” “We've got enough stuff to last us three months, and it’s bovnd to rain often during that time so that we can fill our casks with a fresh supply.” This conversation was carried on soon after sunrise one morning. s The situation by this time had got to be dreadfully mo- notonous, : The first thing they had done was to look for a sail, and : Seeing none they sat down to breakfast and began to. talk. A They: had finished their meal and were gazing -listlessly | across the ocean when Sam suddenly sprang on his feet. “I see something,” he cried. “What do you see?” asked Jack, with interest. “It looks like a tree growing out of the water.” : . 5 phen we must be drawing near a low island. Where is it? | Sam pointed dead ahead and Jack saw the arching leaves | of the tree quite plain. i By slow degrees the tree grew more and more distinct to their vision. 4, Jt’s on a low island or reef,” said Sam, after a while. It’s a cocoanut. tree.” , “ “Strange that there wouldn’t be more than one tree. It must be a mighty small place,” said Jack. “It probably is. I’ve seen a cocoanut tree growing out’ of the water, where there was no land to be seen.” “You have?” cried Jack, in some surprise. ‘ “Yes. It sprouted on a submerged reef, and made'a good landmark for a ship to give a wide berth.” ; “How did the seed get there to sprout?” “Just as yonder one did—floated there from some dis- tant island where there were lots of the trees.” Strange things happen in this world, don’t they?” “But your life they do,” nodded Sam, ; In the course of another hour, they saw low-lying 1 a part of it covered with vegetatién, and what interes eee most was a fair sized hut standing not far from the ae ee a Pa a oa nck ay “Somebody must have been wrecked on that reef,” said Sam, “otherwise the hut wouldn’t be there.” “Whoever it was has probably been rescued or died there, for I don’t see anyone.” _“Maybe several ms were wrecked here, and it is pos- sible they are in hut, or sitting on the other side of it, that’s why we don’t see them.” Xe “If there are any men there they should have seen us _ before this, and shown themselves in the hope of being taken off.” : i “Well, we'll soon know if there is any one on the reef for __ we are drifting straight for it. The only advantage the reef _ will be to us is that it will give us a chance to stretch our ae a while on dry land, which will be a great relief. We — will probably be able to secure a supply of shellfish, which, as we’ve matches, we can cook and add variety to our of fare.” a “That will be fine,” said Jack, licking his lips in tici- y Pernod. og te See craft ys ga ee. their cr toward the reef z became slower. ; - ie hae of the tide would c Tag y soon found that the : ‘ uf eee

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ADRIFT IN was setting for the reef and would take them there in time “even if the wind died away altogether. The reef had evidently been there for a great many years, and was probably of coral formation, for it was plentifully sprinkled with vegetation. Jack wondered why more trees hadn’t taken root there, for it seemed a likely spot for them to grow. “Looks like a poor spot to be wrecked on,” he said. “It Seems to be mighty shy of anything in the eating line. I’m afraid we may find a corpse or two in the hut when we take a close look into it.” “I shouldn’t be surprised. Shellfish is about the only like- ly thing to be found there, and that is poor nourishment as .@ steady diet,” replied Sam. At last the raft floated into a kind of ‘sheltered curve in the reef, and the boys sprang ashore, Sam with a rope in his hand to secure their craft to the shore. 4 ’- The only thing available as a hitching post was the soli- tary cocoanut tree which grew within a couple of yards of the water. : Sam made the line fast to the base of the tree with a . sailor’s knot that was sure to hold. . ; While he was doing it Jack eut a few capers on the ground, and let out a wild whoep, expressive of his joy at ; treading the land once more. The whoop produced expected results. Two gaunt looking faces suddenly appeared at*the door-of | the hut. “Hello!” \cried Jack, “there are two men in the hut.” oe ay George, you’re right!” responded Sam. DY tna "re pretty hard-looking chaps. They put me _ in ( mind of the tramps [ used to see in Napa County.” “If they’ve been long on this reef I don’t wonder théy look like scarecrows,” replied Sam. “I’ll bet they’re glad to see us.” “Tf they are they don’t look it.” _... As the boys started to advance the two men sprang from - the hut with wild cries, seemingly of rage, Spee had a club and the other a revolver in his hand. _ ‘These they waved menacingly as they rushed at the young ers. _“Get off Lone Reef!” yelled the man with the upraised club. “The treasure is ours, You'll get no part of it.” + Bs -CHAPTER XI. . Ps Phas. THE TREACHEROUS ATTACK. | _ The boys were rather staggered by. the reception they i were receiving from the castaways of the reef. _. They thought the men must be crazy, made so probably by suffering they had gone through. . The reference to a treasure made by the man with the elub seemed to be positive proof of his unsound mind, for ‘how could there be any treasure on that lone reef?’ _ + Sam and Jack, not relishing the belligerent attitude and wild look on the faces of the men, backed toward their raft. _ “These chaps are clean off their nuts,” said Sam, in a low voice. _ “I should. say they are,” replied Jack. . “It looks as if we can’t stay here even long enough to get a megs of ‘shell- _. “If they were in their right minds they’d be so glad to “see us that they’d fall over themselves with joy,” said Sam. ~ “Sure they would. And they’d want us to take them off on the raft. Instead of that here they are ordering us off the reef, and they don’t show the least desire to leave them- We i Se te THE SEA, “What’s the good of having a scrap with two crazy men? We might get hurt.” “Why don’t you go?” demanded the man with the re- volver. “We don’t want you here.” “How can we when there’s no wind?” replied Sam. “Where did you come from?” _ “From an island in that direction where our vessel was | wrecked about three weeks ago,” replied Sam, waving his ;arm toward the northeast. | “Are you the only. ones who escaped?” “No; everybody got off.” “Where are they?” “I don’t know where they are. They. took the boats, leay- | ing us, behind, and we had to build this craft to get away ourselves,” The two men consulted. “That fellow talked sensibly enough,” said Jack, as they watched the men talking together. -“Maybe they’re not crazy after all.” “Ym not sorry they don’t appear anxious to be taken off on the raft. I don’t like their looks, and would hate to have them as passengers. They might take it. into their heads to throw us overboard and take possession of the raft themselves,” said Sam. The man with the gun turned around to Sam again, “Where are you bound for?” he asked. = E “The first inhabited land we can ‘run across,” answered am. “Will your raft bear a couple of small heavy boxes?” “Why do you ask that?” “Because if it will we might make a bargain with you.” “About what?” : “To take us and the boxes off the reef.” “What's in the boxes?” “There’s something valuable in them,” he replied, after looking at his companion and receiving a nod. I s’pose that’s the treasure your friend spoke about?” “Will you take us off with the boxes if we ‘give you $1,000 apiece?” “That’s ‘a lot of money. “We'll get it.”,- “What are you chaps living on here?” “We've got plenty of grub.” 4 “You're. lucky.” i “We'll fetch what we’ve got left aboard the raft with us, and you can share with ug. if you’re short.” “Ym afraid there isn’t room enough on the raft for a lot more stuff. Still if you want to come we'll take you Where are you going to get it?” and the food, which you can live on for we've plenty of | : our own.” “And the boxes, too.” “I don’t know about the boxes, What are they full of~ money?” Sam grinned. “No matter what they’re full of, they’ve got to go.” “I'd like to see them before making any rash promises.” “Come along and we'll show them to you.” “I wouldn’t go, Sam,” whispered Jack. “They may do_ you up if they get you over’at the hut. Then they’d come | k and do me up. That would be an easy way to get possession of the raft,” ¥ : Sam thought so, too. x “You come with me. We'll both say ¢ our eyes on them and our hands on our guns. At the first on their part we will be ready for them,” he suspicious move wk ee “No, no; only one of you must come,” objected the man _ with the , as the two boys stepped ashore together. © “Why apt both of us? The man shook his hea 3 “Well, you go along with him, Sam, and the other man can stay with me,” suggested Jack. ; The men objected to that a ement. : That kept matters at a deadlock, for the young sailor wouldn’t take any chances with the two men at the hut. _ a He and Jack returned to the raft and left the men talking together near the tree, — + 1k ee j d ba chaps. I or the purpose of 7 Ya goes where I go,” replied Sam. 5 oG cr

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5 Ger cbims: all tommyrot. cere it if we gave them passage.” - Sam, with his revolver in his pocket, started to look for a mess of shellfish among the coral rocks, and was soon busy z gathering a supply in a large pan. Se The. two castaways made no attempt to imterfere with When he had gathered as much as he could carry he _ brought the sea food back to the raft. Breaking up an empty box Sam made a fire on the beach and added a lot of dry vegetation to it till he obtained a ‘bed of glowing embers. '. In this he buried the shellfish, and in the course of twenty _ADRIFT IN THE’ SEA, “ee ae It seems a shame for us to go} the shore, but in spite of their wounds they began to swim away and leave them on this reef, but I feel sure we’d re-| back the moment their heads reappeared above the surface, a showed ‘that the chanees were they were not fatally urt At that moment there was a commotion in ths water, and |the dorsal fins of two sharks shot toward the swimmers with the speed of an express train. “Look out!” warned Sam. “Swim for your lives. | are two sharks after you. Both boys took aim at the fins and fired. The sharks might have been hit, put the bullets did not stop their rush. Just as the boys fired again at the monsters one of the _ seme threw up his arms with a shriek and was drawn There A moment later the other utered a similar yell and dis- The sight was a horrible one to the two boys, but they had sine all they could do to save the rascals w ho thirsted — ; said Sam, as the water resumed its cus- suggested Jack, = food the men have left.” : they stepped ashore and walked It was a good sized building, constructed of -pieces of a minutes or so the food was well cooked. under the water. x After it had cooled enough to handle he carried it on the _ aft and with the addition of salt the two boys made a} appeared in the ensanguined water. i> palatable meal. _- “Phat was fine for a change,” remarked Jack. oR Nid Dy soon get tired of it if you had nothing else,” re-|for their lives. : 7) lied Sam “They’re gone,” ~~ Qne of us niust keep his eye on those men.” tomary placid aspect. oo *T’'ll do. it,” replied Sam. “They had a terrible death,” said Jack, with a shudder. So the boys crawled into their cabin, but found it so hot} “Let’s go and investigate the hut now,” __ there that they had to raise the canvas roof as high as they | “We'll take possession of ry 3 could ‘and leave the sides open. Sam was willing and so ‘This was not an easy job as the boxes and bags were so| Over to the dwelling. tied aaige to the raft that they couldn’t shift them about. 4 y talked for a while, but the heat made them sleepy,| Wreck, and was covered with a piece of canvas to keep ee = and they had great difficulty in keeping their eyes open. ee ese side were a _ Jack finally fell asleep, and in a little while Sam fell into a - doze, too. » An hour passed and all was quiet on the raft. The day waxed hotter and hotter. _ like a sheet of molten glass, too aang for the eye to rest u ns PThe men had retired to the shelter of their hut, but they lid not fall asleep. __ “The boys are asleep. Now is our chance,” said one of them. . “We'll creep over to the raft, knock.’em on the head, and toss ’em into the sea for the sharks to feed on. De. aren be able to get away from this reef with the Apes as stepped aboard, their prs =e: the raft i r sure. But how in thunder did it get here?” st “They probably saved the boxes from the wreck of ‘their vessel, knowing the value of their contents.” “Lord, have’e luck!” cried Sam, in great glee. “If pa chaps had acted decently they’d have been alive now, and We would have carried them and the boxes off with us. Now all the treasure belongs to us.” a “I'd like to make sure that there is money in those boxes)” said Jack. “Can’t we open them some way?” fee “It’s a pity to smash them. [I think we can take the ~ chances from the looks of them that they contain something worth carrying away. ‘ At that moment Jack spied a key near one of the boxes that looked as if it belonged to them : Snatching it up he thrust it into he nearest lock, turned ; it and, threw hack the cover. The box was crammed full of $20 gold pieces. Both boys uttered a shout as their eyes fell on the coin, “We're rich!” shouted Sam. Jack opened the other box and found a similar amount of double eagles. i The boys could hot rest satisfied till they had counted the Each ‘took: a box and began the pleasant job. The result of the count showed $40,000 in each box. . bee replaced the money and then Jack relocked the barre we can get those boxes to ’Frisco,” he said, “we'll be made: for life. “Bet your life we will,” returned Sam, in a tone of satis- f bet take them aboard the raft at once,” said Jack. se mates rel “Riptee ke stbaee Say ta erties first,” “What for?” thn, P ; anes e us rea

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et. =e “commodate them for a while. Pe _ HANDSOME COLORED COVERS T » oie . Peo ? ay 1e ADRIFT IN THE SEA. “They'll suspect anyway from the weight, won’t they?” “A canvas cover will hide their looks at any rate. I saw @ sailor’s kit in the chest. It doubtless contains needles and thread.” 4 Sam got the kit and found a complete sewing outfit, with a pair of small scissors. The boys set to and in the course of an hour had put a canvas wrapping around the two boxes. Then they removed them to the raft. The boys carried the sea-chest aboard with its small quan- ‘ity of provisions. ‘The next day they set sail on the raft. Several days passed, and then late one afternoon a full-|- rigged ship hove in sight, heading for the raft. They were seen by the lookout and hailed. The ship took them and their treasure aboard. Then they learned the ship was headed for San Francisco. They made no mention of the treasure, nor did Jack say peoting about the secrets connected with the Morning ory. They landed at Pacifie street wharf and while Sam stood guard over the treasure Jack went off to find an express Wagon. An hour later the boxes were. deposited in the vaults of the California Bank, with both boys’ names down as de- positors of the articles. Jack then called on Mrs. Mason and asked if she could ac-! ~~ Mrs. Mason said they could come, and Jack then hurried away. He met Sam at the corner of Montgomery and California streets and they went to the Merchants’ Exchange together. Here Jack made inquiries about the Board of Under- writers, and was given the address of the secretary. __ They found that Fine rc in his office, and the story Jack told him, backed up in a measure by Sam, opened that person’s eyes pretty wide. He questioned Jack closely, and then made an arrange-| ment for him to call at the office next day. . Both boys were on hand and found ‘the full Board await- ing their appearance. Jack went over his story again, which was taken down -by_a stenographer, and he afterward signed it under oath. Jack learned that the loss of the Morning Glory had been -duly reported, and after an inyestigation, at which Captain Brant and his officers and; men were witnesses, the total amount of the insurance had been paid. He found out that the captain was in town, as Mr. Sharp- ‘Tey had not engaged him to take out another vessel, which led people in the shipping world to think that the ship- owner had soured on the captain for losing two of his ships. Jack was told to keep out of the way till wanted, as the Underwriters were going to send a steamer to Sago Island to investigate the wreck of the Morning Glory if it was ‘still there, and they didn’t want Mr. Sharpley, or Captain| “Brant, to learn of his presence in the city. an . Before the steamer sailed the boys got their “of the two treasure boxes and made a special deposit of it in the bank,. then they sailed away across the Pacific once more. The wreck was found sufficiently intact to prove ‘alf the points Jack had told the Underwriters, and so on the return copies to order from us. “MYSTERY 48 PAGES OF READING are no detective stories that ean equal the > ~_—s a ¥ _ mB LOOK! LOOK! of the steamer, Philip Sharpley and Captain Brant were treated to the surprise of their lives. ; f They were arrested and charged with their double erimes. In due time. they were tried, and Jack was the chief wit- ness against them. They got fifteen years on each count at San Quentin, and that was almost as good as a lifer for the skipper, who was over fifty. A civil suit against Geo. Sharpley & Co. resulted in the breakup of that house, and the money recovered was divided among the insurance companies interested. At the end of it all Jack Gale was presented with the sum Si het ahd by the Board of Underwriters, and Sam was paid Jack, taking Sam with him, paid a visit to the little vil- lage in Napa County where he had lived with his aunt, Miss Stebbins. Here another surprise awaited him. ; eenaee Croker had just died and willed everything to ack. A sealed private letter, addressed to Jack, was handed to him by the executor. When Jack opened it he found that it was a kind of confession. Lawyer Croker said he had, through artifice, got Miss Stebbins to sign a will specially drawn up to suit himself in place of the one she had told him to make out. The right will would have made Jack heir to the bulk of the old spinster’s property and given the servants much larger legacies. : — Jack found himself about $15,000 richer than he ex- pected. He did not make the lawyer’s confession public, but burned it so that no one would ever learn of his duplicity. He afterward made up to the servants the amount they would have received had the proper will been probated. Jack and Sam went into the ship chandlery business to- gether in San Francisco, and to-day are recognized as solid men of the town. They married the two daughters of Mrs. Mason, and now dive on Van Ness avenue in very handsome houses. . Next week’s issue will conclude “THE YOUNG WALL STREET JONAH; OR, THE BOY WHO PUZZLED THE BROKERS.” . : mag SPECIAL NOTICE “am Please give your newsdealer a standing order for your weekly copy of “FAME AND FORTUNE ~ WEEKLY.” The War Industries Board has asked all money out| publishers to save waste. Newsdealers must, there- fore, be informed if you intend to get a copy of this weekly every week, so they will know how many LOOK! “3g te Exciting Detective Stories in Every Number = MAGAZINE” . , be sure to tell all your friends about for nes in this magazine, ua

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Ei gag aaa se Sec - MAKING ARMOR FOR MODERN WARFARE. - Perhaps the strangest workshop in the United States is situated in the Metropolitan Museum of _. Art, New York City, where are being produced _ from pieces of ancient armor models to be adopted _ and copied for the use of soldiers of the United _ States Army. A famous French artisan is.in charge _ of the show, which has been turned over to the _ Ordnance branch of the Army. Helmets, shields, and breastplates will be made _ for our soldiers, inasmuch as the war in Europe has _ brought back into use many discarded weapons and _ practices of medieval times. Hand-to-hand fighting ae caused the adoption of heavy breast-plates by _ the Germans and light breastplates by the English, _-while armored waistcoats are worn by the Italians. All the armies’ employ’ steel helmets and trench _ shields. ~ _ Fortunately, the Metropolitan Museum. possesses. ‘one of the greatest collections of armor in the world, ~The workshop was established for the purpose of An ein repairing, and restoring the precious pieces assembled with great care from all parts of * 1e world. It happened that included in the collec- "e mn are 90 kinds.of anvils and “stakes,” several hundred hammers of different types, and curious _ shears and other instruments. - When the war began, the director of the museum, acting with the sanction of the trustees, placed the lep. ent of armor at the disposal of the Secre- r of War. Since then many designs have been <A worked out by Maj. Dean, former curator _ of the department of armor, who went to France to a aay needs last autumn ‘and since then has been _ dir the adaptation of the models in accordance vith suggestions made by Gen. Pershing. ‘Twenty-five types of armor have been made, so far, in the various factories, in lots varying from snses include arm and leg guards, which are con- ered most important, in view of the fact that ital statistics in France and England show that er cent of hospital casualties. quitered: were leg apace ae Sipe Sega. wows. pica \ DWARE. CLERKS. Goop FARM HANDS. ‘dware dealers and clerks make good farm nd “This tip to the farmer in search of help is by the farm division of the U. S. Employ- . The man who works in a hardware e about farm machinery, from a than anybody else the farmer can has to hunt for unskilled labor. merally has worked long ; and work clothes. . FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. HELP YOUR COUNTRY! 100 to many thousand pieces. These armor de- haber ae in ‘est Street, Ni ee ee ee 19 = y “ty a 7 3 €% & probably has some muscle, because he is used to handling heavy things. If he is one of the millions of town and city men who grew up on a farm he already knows something about crops and stock. The most important thing to be done to make him a good farm hand, reports from different localities show, is to convince him that his country needs him on the farm as his war service. STUDY AID TO SHELL-SHOCKED MEN: Sixty-five young women are undertaking a unique means of proving their value to the country, by beginning a highly specialized type of war work that will eventually mean much to the labor power of the country. They are graduates of the Training School for Psychiatic Social Work at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., and are styled “shell-shock experts.” They will go immediately to clinics in 4 New York, Boston, and other cities to begin six _ § months’ practical work with nervous patients. if They will undertake the economic and physical reconstruction of shell-shock victims, with the idea of making these unfortunate men fit once more for places in industry. It is estimated that eventually 2,000 psychiatric aides can be used to advantage in this : ‘work. The Department of Labor is co-operat- ing with the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- tion in the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers. PLAGING WORKERS ON FARMS. i The North Dakota State Council of Defense is solving two problems—the food problem and the _ unused farms in order to stimulate crop production _ in the Northwest. 5 The owners of the farms are paid a percentage of the return as rent. Large tracts in North Dakota were unused, and in order that, the State might be made' as productive as possible the Council of De- — fense decided to put them into service. . TEACHING GIRLS TO SELL TICKETS. At the New York School of Instruction for Women Ticket Agents a two months’ course of in- struction is offered, Students are paid $25 a month © and when qualified. for positions they command sal- aries ranging from $75 to $150 a month, according _ to efficiency. Applicants .must be between the ages — of 21 and 25 years, must have a high school educa- _ tion or its equivalent, and must agree to complete the course and to accept positions either in New York ee or a nearby suburb, ES ae may be sent to Committee on assenger Oficial Classification letize. 90 ew York City.

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BOUND TO BRING IN BUSINESS — THE BEST BOY SALESMAN IN TOWN By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY.) CHAPTER IX (Continued). | “We must have an understanding about this Not but that Harry would have trusted him, but business,” he said; adding: — om he expected to have a fight on that point. “Well, have you sold anything else? “I suppose,” said Finkhauser, “that the stuff can Yes; one or two lots. remain here till Mr. i it? “What?” : do not want sp neon £6 Hey Hehe wis “Oh, that lot of old frescoed boards for one thing, ; weather at this time of year, old as they are.” and half those oval window frames. Of course, as 2 Harry assured them that he would hold the boards | YOu say, this is a bad day for business, but I man- __-until they were wanted, and the two.men departed. aged to do a little something in spite of the storm. As soon as they were gone Arthur Powers stuck| Nevil stared at Harry blankly for a few seconds, his hand out over the office rail. and then, turning on his heel, walked out of the “By Jove, Harry, shake!” he exclaimed. “You| Office, slamming the door behind him. seem to be shaking up things with a vengeance.| “By Jove, you hit him hard, Harry!” exclaimed This will make Joe Nevil tired, and he hugging the| Arthur Powers. ‘While he was lying around some spe? Fa, house all day on account of the storm.” gin-mill loading up with booze you were hustling in ’ Towards night he came in, considerably under| the snow-storm, and this is the result.” the influence of liquor. “I didn’t intend to hit at all,” replied Harry. “Well, this is great weather!” he exclaimed, shak-; “The truth is, Mr. Powers, I am just as disappointed ing the snow from his hat. “It’s a sockdolager on| as I can be about Nevil. I took a liking to him, business. There will be nothing doing till this lets} and he seemed to understand this business so well.” up. Did the old man come around to-day?” “And now it’s the big head and the booze, and “No,” replied Powers. “His wife is very sick.| jealous of your success, and all the rest of it. He _ But of course he would not have come out, anyway.”| called Cohen & Co. his customers. You will find “Right. Er—well, Harry, how did you make out everybody is his customer whom you sell. Mark yesterday? Nothing doing, I suppose? But you my words, we are going to have trouble with that Le he UT ae RN ee NE lard Alley Leas De alias _ Mustn’t be discouraged. Of course, you are green| man, and you will come in for your full share.” _ at the business, and can’t be expected to take hold! They closed up now and Harry went home. Zpee an old: band. Here he found that his mother and sister were de- x a ; “Well, that’s so,” replied Harry quietly. “Still, | 4; i ; | I did a little. I sold all those old gas-fixtures.” - lighted with May Mason , rie * eR nse: in trouble before,” the widow said privately to her “Who to?” son, adding: Dear me, Harry, she has been telling ~ “Cohen & Co., West Broadway.” me all her life. It has been nothing but endless — “My customers. 7 sheinite Rast them to-morrow: trouble ever since my te pega) died.” Faas a - to : And Harry also found his new cousin charming _ a aking sy Sos eee Se maptig a aaa days went on; but he saw little of her that night -.“T don’t know anything about that.” replied|for supper was scarcely over when Gus came from — Harry. “I am bound to bring in business, no matter | Mr. Shears, asking that Harry come around to the — whose toes I tread on; that’s one thing sure.” house and lend them a helping hand. as P38: He needed someone to help him, poor man, for _ Mrs. Shears was very ill. oe ee a4: 3 ' For three days and two nights Harry remained 9 CHAPTER X. | -| with his employer, making no = to atone +e : Ce Gs ' | business, and then Mrs. Shears’ death ended it all. _ ABOUT ALL SORTS OF THINGS. =| ‘Tt was a great blow to the old contractor. — evil gave Harry a look which plainly showed| It was three weeks before Gus rolled him usy he felt. © to the office again, © Be Sick: “Such a dear girl! If I had only known she was © o- Levey eS an i = eer . OS ae omer > _— be FS & it as ip zd . }

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als remained brisk.’ _ Harry’s success was certainly phenomenal from |: e start. ess came his way. ‘But the boy was a born salesman, and had fallen in love with his work. He was civil and gentlemanly, and very ite Such a person could scarcely help succeeding. Long before his probation was over Harry had oved himself a success. And Joe Nevil sold, too. Some of his sales were His principal success lay in disposing of large ts of second-hand brick and lumber. Harry stuck close to the odds and ends, and the ock was rapidly being disposed of. _ The. profits, of course, were enormous, and arry’s commissions mounted up. ea predicted by Arthur Powers, Harry was more r less in hot water with Nevil all the time on ac- cot nt of the man’s jealousy and general meanness disposition. evil’s slights and double-dealing quietly. _ Many times Joe jumped in and snatched an order y from his j unior associate without the slight- Often Harry thought of Sopealie to Mr. Shears, never said a word about these matters. | oko 3 in every way saactiie evil was more or less under the, influence of gh’ actually ‘denne although at such times was x noisy or boisterous, but just the reverse. That such a man could not last Harry felt sure, he began to wonder who would succeed Joe once Mr. Shears turned against him, ice me he as only a question. of time. , q so the winter passed and spring came. and good spirits came with the recovery. onally she went out nursing, but she made x ith Mrs. Reka who Har not POR, of adh eaten at around. ut this time, just after the. opening of firs. Sh ears eran. calling Bt the. Hak ng g himself ttn aie ighh d; tes — took: him eanwhile business in second-hand building ma- Of course there were days together when no busi- was: 3ut he was able to avoid open rupture by taking | nwhile May Mason had entirely recovered her | a a — eee ee a ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 21 ing better acquainted with his employer, which was | something, of course. Summer came and went; the fall set in. The stock in the two yards had very materially lessened, but old Barney Barlewiz had left so much behind him that there still remained much to be be of. Joe Nevil was constantly urging Mr. Shears to g9 into the house-wrecking business, and thus lay in ee esh stock, but the shrewd old man’s only answer “Not yet. Later on I may. Can’t tell.” “The old fool will run a good thing into the ground,” Nevil said more than once. Indeed, the man was doing more talking and less selling as the days went on. Harry knew through a tip from Arthur Powers that his own sales were approaching very close to his superior’s by the time September came: That year all business was good, and it opened particularly well in the fall. It was that month which brought matters to a climax. One morning Harry turned up at the office at the. usual time. As was often the case now, Joe Nevil did not show up. At nine o’clock Mr. Shears came. Harry was doing some figuring at his desk over a F lot of brown stone sills and lintels on which he had received an offer the day before, when the telephone — rang, and Arthur Powers, answering, turned to Mr. Shears and said: “It’s Johnson, of Johnson & Powell. talk to Nevil.’” Now, Johnson & Powell was one of the heaviest building firms in the city. They swung all kinds of contracts. Just then they were erecting a palace on upper Fifth avenue for an ex-senator from the West. In such uild: ings, as we have said before, the use of second-— hand lumber is very general. Joe Nevil had been talking about selling iene people, who certainly were his customers, for over a month. Now the call had come, and he was not on hand to attend to it. : “Did you tell him that Nevil isn’t here?” de | manded Mr. Shears. “No; I told him to hold the wire and I would aber “Tell him Nevil hasn’t come, and that just as soon: as he does come we will send him up there. be Powers. obeyed. “He says that Nevil wants to look alive if heex- pects to get the contract,” he remarked as he hung — up the receiver. figuring OVItS se “Exactly,” replied Mr. Shears, “and we bid. fain: to lose it the same as we lost the big Ryan contract — # to| through Nevil’s being away from T think T to ‘eae aiivmatee, Norge ona ees I enough.” ;- He wants to © “Weeksher and two others bec H + 3 » the o. + a) ae BOE SPR ai ere SO aoe ae ee ee = 2s, P x

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aes ie A A a ak Na rg ang Vid ohn Os eo pt EN > ‘ Aes Poa ae ee a pies tape ites meek ys : eet \ . + 4 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY, CURRENT NEWS — ye: vs . WOMEN IN WEATHER OFFICE. Motor-cars have advanced in price when a new — Following the resignation of the Assistant Weath-| generation was ready to buy. Many, but not all, of - er Observer in Topeka, Kan., it was.announced re-| the prospective buyers will dig further into their — cently by S. D, Flora, State Meteorologist, that two| pockéts and possess the gas-wagons. . Others will be young women, Miss Helen Claypool and Miss Alta} deterred, not only by. the cost of the car, but by — Puett, had been employed to take charge of the| the high prices of tires, gasoline, and repairs. The work. This is the first time women have been| young married couple in the suburbs, paying for employed as weather observers in Kansas, it is said.| their home on the installment plan, may be forced — HIDES EIGHT HOURS IN CASE. | Detective Mcllhargy told. in Morrisania Court, | calls, to reach the beaches or the fishing-places. The ' i New York, the other morning of a ruse he employed | bicycle will offer a temporary expedient. & to catch a thief. Having been assigned to solve the case and was rewarded early Sunday morning, he alleged, by seeing William Christie open a case and extract two pairs of shoes. Christie was held for trial in the Court of Special Sessions. . ae ee, ee eee ey) 74. Wemes ‘ A£ Horrible conditions due to starvation in Teheran| factory fence or on the home veranda. s and other Persian cities are pictured in a telegram| The country roads are as well adapted to the to the Armenian Committee for Armenian and| cyclist as they were twenty years ago, ras Syrian Relief in this city from Mrs. Eva Balls Doug-| speed goes, they are better for him. Macadam high- las, who has just arrived from Persia to Portland,| ways lead in all directions. They are oiled and the Ore. Mrs. Douglas has returned to recuperate from| bicyclist is not covered with dust by passing cars. typhus, of which her husband died while they were| There are also other roads, and here lies one of the “In Teheran and other cities,” her message read,| roads are the untraveled ones where the motor-car — “men, women and children are prostrated in the| does not go—the roads with single tracks, plunging streets from exhaustion and are dying. In Hama-| into woods and leading to some strange place tha’ dan the head and arms of two! children remained! the map-makers do not seem to care about. Th to tell the story of bodies that were probably eaten| motorist keeps off these roads. His heart may sa; “Crowds gathered daily at slaughter houses with| off a motor-car and trundle it up a rutty hill. trough. Others were grazing in the fields like cat-| In these mysterious lanes the Wheelman is fi tle. Children came to our rest houses with flesh | from the dangers of the eighteen-foot highway. hanging on bones like rags, voices gone, but eyes| take him to the pond of which the motorist ne ; _ above the golden age of seventeen? It has been out] youth, finds much joy that is denied to the t __ for a long time. Its disapearance was concomitant| who rides on crank-shafts instead of knees. with the production in large number of the popular-| goes where he likes, and that the motorist ycle back. It is no more interesting now than a| mouth. He will use the bicycle for the s ; the returns to favor! pose of getting ‘grown-ups, it will be through that cause of| and easier nees and recrudences, | practically to drop their ambition for a four-cylinder convey- ’ ance; yet they must get about somehow to make | a Then there will be the man who is engaged on war — mystery of shoe thefts from a barn where cases of | work and his name is legion. He may live five miles - shoes awaiting shipment are stor ed, he secreted him-| from the new cantonment where he is making six — self for eight hours on Saturday night in an empty| oy eight dollars a day as a carpenter ora mason. He — may not incline toward the expense of a car. The — big wages, he knows, are not permanent; a large — part of them should be put aside. The bicycle is the solution of his transportation problem. Leg muscles do not cost twenty-six cents a gallon and . “ THE STARVING GRAZE IN THE FIELDS LIKE| bicycle tires, only two in number, are not twenty- — five dollars apiece. A bicycle may be parked at the — "are So far as ae ie lial’. . T+ ~~ es reasons why the bicycle may return. These o § yes to them, but his tires say no! You cannot ge’ These are the pleasure roads of the cyclist now. - gets a glimpse. They lead him to farm-ho where milk is still to be had, a nickel for all he drink. They bring him to cool shade, now easily found along the main traveled roads. _ The bicyclist, returning to the vehicle o say. He will scorch along with his head dow ing to make a century, with a wet spong : +. i WEF RS igs

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KHAKI BLOOMERS 1,000 women will be employed to help turn gun carriages and other war munitions at the Morgan Engineering Company, Alliance, O., it was announced recently. The women will wear khaki bloomers, work nine hours a day, and, after being properly trained, will receive the same pay as men. A physical. examination is required. Shortage of Man power has led to the step. The work will include crane operators, material asers, acetylene burner welders, rivet stickers, _ templet makers, lumber cutters, layer-out helpers, punch helpers, assemblers on gun carriages and for rious clerical positions. Relatives of men employed in the plant and de- dents of soldiers in the service will receive the ference. The American Steel Foundries Com- y recently put on a number of woman as laborers he yards. - From 800 to _ REVIVAL OF POLO. IN THE ARMY. Vith Cavalry coming into its own once more in war, polo is again becoming popular. At Camp ecler, Ga., it has been ‘added to the list of ath- 2s through the activitics of the War Depart- ’s commission on training camp activities. en at the commencement of the war the Govy- ment dismounted a number of crack Cavalry enisiand distributed the personnel among In- y and Artillery resimentainterest in polo de- perceptibly. Hundreds of. well-known polo , many of them haying international reputa- were affected by the order and sold. their s. Now that cavalry is being used to so great extent on the French front the mounted branch he Service here feels confident that it will regain s former usefulness and importance in the Ameri- Army. In consequence., polo ig reviving in the my and also in civil athletics, SUSPECTED OF USING SECRET CODE. — “Investigation is being made to learn, if there is es suited between the fondness which Josep} agner, who was arrested in New York recently, Stamps and a code which might be used by _ Wagner, who came to the United States emberg in 1913, worked as a jewelry pol- 2 a week, and is said to have purchased 49 worth of stamps such as are sold to Zoey Le, : Fy “ ; ¥ “FORTUNE WEEKLY. Pn: 23: FROM ALL POINTS closing letters and signs which the officials are studying. His explanation of a folder bearing the letter “I” followed by a dash, a “P” and the word “love” was that he had became rusty in his music and was taking lessons by mail. Wagner was sent to Ludlow Street jail. AUTO RACES RABBIT. Junction City, Kan., motorists who frequent a long level north and south road some miles west of town tell of frequent races with a huge jack rabbit, which on oceasion, gets up a speed of forty miles an hour. The jack’s size would gain him recog- nition anywhere regardless of his speed. All of the motorists tell of meeting him in about the same spot each evening. He jumps into the road ahead of the car and races for a distance of several blocks, then darts into’ the weeds beside the road and lets the car pass him. Races with rabbits in the evening are quite frequent; the headlights blind them and they stay in the road ahead of the car until they can see to escape to the side of the road, but this particular jack always meets the machines at a certain point and races with them until he reaches his jumping off place, so it is presumed that he races the autos by intention and not by accident. Motorists tell of having three and four races with the same jack within a week. NEW DRY DOCK AT QUEBEC. The new dry dock at Quebec, Canada, now ready for use is one of the largest in the world, and will be of immense value at this time. The new dock, which has been constructed on the south side of the St. Lawrence, is 1,150 feet in length, 120 feet wide and has a depth over the sill of thirty-four feet, at neap tide and forty feet at high water of spring tide. The dock*is divided into two compartments, an inner chamber 650 feet long and an otuter one 500 feet in length. The outer entrance is closed by a rolling caisson, and the middle entrance by an ordinary floating or ship caisson. The outer section ‘of the dock is filled through six culverts in the outer

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WOMEN FREIGHT CLERKS. Women -are to be employed by the Toledo and ' Ohio Central Railway Company as clerks in the freight yards, Toledo, O., it has been announced. ; The women will start work at the rate of $77 a month. The company officials assert they cannot : secure young men capable of handling the work. MAKES AIR MAIL RECORD. Another record flight was made in the Aerial Mail Service by Pilot Maurice Newton, September 28. He reached Belmont Park from Washington in two hours elapsed time, ‘ He left the national capital at 11:32 a. m. and reached Philadelphia at 12:45., Leaving Bustleton Station there at 12:58 he flew to Belmont Field, = Fee “i ninety miles, in 47 minutes, landing there at 1:45 4 p.m. He carried 200 pounds of mail. ee CHINESE LETTER FOR SOLDIER, a Shortly after arriving in France, Lieut. Charles i Crayton learned to write French. | He felt enthusi- ss astic over his acquirement, and, knowing his wife 1% would not read it, he wrote her a letter in French. E She had it interpreted. Mrs. Crayton then sought Bi) the aid of a Celestial who operates a hand laundry in Danville, Il. For her the latter wrote a letter to Lieut. Crayton in Chinese, which he signed. Wheth- _*\--er-he succeeded in deciphering it remains a mystery. RE RE op 4 b= ot _ “4 _ TEACHER RIVETS SHIPS. - Less than six weeks ago Frank Johnson had a Bi professorship in a high school in Philadelphia, Pa. E*. - He worked at it, too, and nothing else. To-day he has another job and so different is it, in every re- pect from that professorship that one can scarely realize the transition. . Ss. “ A riveter in the Merchant’s shipyards at Harri- man! Yes, sirree!; This man who never before did ‘anything harder than lifting a textbook or balancing it before his class, now handles a steel riveting gun of great weight and you should see him crouched under a ship hull, holding that throbbing jumping machine against a red-hot rivet as the pneumatic does the driving. This is no classroom exercise. _ Indeed, the classroom is only a memory to this _ ‘shipworker.. The pedagogue’s boiled shirt has been _ replaced with a blue jumper and the bare neck tanned to the healthiest color, now shows where the white piccadilly used to be, Safety goggles have ie the place of the tortoise-shell glasses. Inci- ntally, Johnson says these changes in his makeup we come to stay. He has found a new life and it s him so much to be toiling with humanity for ty’s sake that he is perfectly content to keep Te es met ‘ a ee tenth Z Ra: Ses 2 te , 5 me i FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. . INTERESTING ARTICi ES of an intelligent worker.” | pointing that heavy riveting gun as long as his | : him there A was directed by a military officer THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA 4 The Great Wall of China is one of the architec-" tural wonders of the world. It is the most formid-— able and vast structures ever planned by man. It is supposed to be a barrier for China, to defend her — from enemies. It is from 15 to 30, or even 50 feet high, and is 15 feet wide at the top. The base is 25 feet thick. ; a It is built of an earthen core, faced with immense — bricks that weigh from forty to sixty pounds each. ~ These bricks are built upon a stone foundation, and in many places the wall is faced with granite. The earth-filled core has a pavement of bricks, laid in~ line on the top, that make a fine roadway. ae The wall today is 10,000 miles in length, but it © originally was much longer, stretching more than ~ 15,000 miles, over mountains and down valleys of — China. Its fortifications consist of parapets and fortress towers at frequent intervals. There are about 25,000 towers and about 20,000 of these © are in fine repair after twenty-one centuries. This — shows the thought and careful work that was put — into the great undertaking, and it symbolize to all | the people of today the desirable qualities in one’s” character of strength, perseverance, unity and true- protection for man and beast. “4 Once seen, the Wall of China can never be for-~ gotten. It is onegf the best “Sermons in Stone” ever demonstrated® If you stand at Old North Gate, you can see the. cloudcapped towers, extending on — both sides, east and west, until the miles and miles — of wall dwindle away into a minute point. And you stop to remember that for twenty cenutries peo-— ple have stood where you stand and haye seen the — same perspective view that you now see. Then you feel so small a bit of the Great Plan of Creation and think to yourself, “What can I ever accomplisht in view of this stupendous work?” Ah, this is thé reply: “You with the same Mind and Gifts from the Almighty, can work out wonderful things just as- this Great Wall was thought and planned and mani- fested to last indefinitely. So don’t belittle yours but remember you, too, are capable of great work if you but handle the ‘potter’s clay’ with the abili This awe-inspiring legacy of China’s past gr ness proves to us how fleeting are fame and. ness of the world. When this wall was built said that no power could ever reach the fo1 and protected. people back of it. And yet it a short span of years before an enemy foun to attack the Chinese. _ The Prince of Tsun, first Emperor of f the wall in the Third Century. B. :

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GIRL POLICE MASCOT. : » The Gloucester City, N. J., Police Department has . a four-year-old. girl that has. been adopted as a mascot until her parents are found. The child was ind wandering along Broadway, near the tollgate, ‘3 nd does not know where she lives, but says she _ ame across on a big boat with her mother, and the Phi Oucester authorities believe her parents reside in ‘ adelphia. The child says that her name is Fan- She has a’ lump over her left eye, and says that - father did. it. HAS FINGER AMPUTATED. L larder to join the United States marines had no ars for Sam Billingsley. uiting aeons were ordered closed. = “tne that little finger amputated,” the Sergeant today that Billingsley had parted with his -Billingsley’s papers will be the first filed eae of marine recruiting, which is eC soon. : NAPOLEON’S COIN TRICK. said that thousands of five frane pieces are ito halves by their French owners every year hope of discovering an immense hidden treas- This treasure, according to the legend firmly ed, is an order to pay the holder one hundred vfs ay francs in silver five franc coins. . 1en Napoleon first set the five franc piece in lation it was very difficult to/induce a French- to receive the new coin. Hence, according to tory, Napoleon gave it. to be understood that d ordered a check for one hundred thousand 8, written upon : asbestos paper, to be concealed of the new silver pieces. that day bes this no one has eae to the a of Aasieet! at the. cannery are passing one to waste. ~The high” mark was FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | A FEW GOOD ITEMS \ paid for labor and produce. Upward of seventy- five people are now employed-at the plant, and even with this crew much night work has to be done to keep up with the receipts. NIGHT IN JAIL: CHANGED MAN’S OPINION. Albert R. White, a farmer, living in Rutland Township, Kan., forty-three years old and the father of eight children, refused to register Sept. 12, even though importuned to do so by his wife and children. He is a-member of the Holiness Church and claimed that the Lord had instructed him not to register, and that it was more necessary for him to obey the laws of God than it was man-made law. He was brought before the local draft board, and although assured by friends that he would probably be exempted on account of his large family and would not have to go to war, he still refused to reg-’ ister. 5 He was then turned over to the Sheriff, and after -| spending one night in the county jail he had another vision, which instructed him to obey the laws of his country.. YANKS EAT DOUGHNUTS BEFORE BIG BATTLE. An American division commander, through the chief of staff, has written a long letter to the of- ficials of the Young Men’s Christian Association reading as follows: “Particularly valuable were your services during the recent operation at St. Mihiel. You have fur- nished aid and comfort to the American soldiers in the last few days and in accomplishing this worthy mission you spared nothing.” Among these services the Y. M. C. A., emulating the Salvation Army, distributed before the attacks. ten thousand doughnuts to one divisional organiza- tion. It supplied to each soldier before the attack . four packages of cigarettes, two bars of chocolate, one package of matches and chewing tobacco with- out cost. The organization distributed during the drive to wounded and men returning 17,000 packages of cigarettes, 4,000 packages of biscuits, 4,000 boxes~ of matches and 5,000 cigars. Half a million cigar- tations in Cottage Grove, Ore. The high! ettes and a quarter of a million cookies were dis- for evergreen blackberries has resulted| tributed free among the troops when they were re- vg of tons of this crop that would other-| ‘placed by other soldiers. ; David Martin, a Y. M. C. A. worker, of Pitts- at daily Hones — over’ four burgh, while advancing with his regiment, came — German kitchen with a- quarter of — beef

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re = ag = = A —s- @ —_ r cag (~—T son using an airplane. 1 \ 26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 1, 1918. __ TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Bingle Copies ........ccscececetsconce Seeeeerecene One Copy Three Months One Copy Six Months One Copy One Year POSTAGE FREE SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. Cheek or Registered Lett Money er; remittances in iy other mow T om nay at your risk, We accept Postage Stamps the same as — When sending silver wrap the Coin in a sopurate piece per to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and P+ ress plainly. Address ietters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, 166 West 23d St., New York ‘GOOD. CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES Scientists will try to unravel the mystery sur- rounding the unearthing of skeletons of eight unsu- ally large men and dog by laborers of East St. Louis, Ill, The heads of the men were very large and each contained thirty-four teeth of extraordinary size. The dog’s bones were found entwined in the arms of one of the skeletons. Bits of pottery nearby lead ‘the authorities to believe that the men were Indians. Scientists will try to determine the period in which they lived. A battle royal between a large dog and a, turkey buzzard was staged in front of the W.. Dickey home, near Brownstown, O., the other morning. The dog, lying in the yard, saw the buzzard circling above and began barking at it. Apparently angered, the huge bird swooped down into the road and attacked the dog, which ran out to meet it. The bird paid no attention to the several auto loads of people which stopped to watch the fight, but battled on with beak, wings and talons. Finally the bird delivered a knock- out blow with one of its wings and autoists rescued Wie dog. ae order to discourage and even punish careless work on aircraft, the following case might well be applied to others: At Tottenham Police Court on August ist, William Benjamin Smith, of Tottenham, and James Harding, of Enfield (both im England), _ were summoned by the Ministry of Munitions for _ committing certain acts likely to endanger any per- They were also summoned for doing certain acts calculated to deceive their . employers as to the quality of certain material. It was stated that men were working on spars for Handley-Page machines, and Harding held a aaeare while Smith drilled a hole in an airplane spar. The was a FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. _ the proprietor of the factory, said he had repeatedly -impressed on his workers the need of exactitude. — | When he was informed of the incident he called the — _work people together and again reminded them of © /the importance of their work. He also dismissed ‘a quarter of an inch out, and after dat’s'a small skimption. Ah got dat ten ¢ ng their error the defendants stuffed the | down in ye plug, and made another hole in the right | tinued the judge, “j | anes ath attambetecen a ed mere 6 Spar. A government inspector who detackadl the mistake asked Smith if he would like to ride on a flying machine containing such a spar, and Smith i replied that he would not. Mr. Rowland Chessum, ‘ Smith and Harding. The defendants were fined. Now the moral of the story is that the workmen in aircraft factories hold the life of many airmen in — their hands, and under no circumstances should they ; allow faulty work to pass on. Tf they do, then they — are guilty of a very serious crime. GRINS AND CHUCKLES Little Henry—Are you going to marry my sister, — Mr. Sapleigh? Sapleigh—I—aw—don’t know, Harry. — Little. Harry—Then pa saw right. He said you didn’t know anything. : ; Jim had made an unsuccessful attempt to conquer the world and came back to the Tennessee town — dirty, worn out and hungry. ‘Uncle John,” he said ee melodramatically, “T came home to.die.” “No, do gast. you,” said unsympathetic Uncle ere “you came home to eat,” ; : “Hello!” said the farmer,. “what you swearin’ about?” “Why,” snapped the diseusted autoist, * machine’s broke down and I can’t get it to ‘Cricky! you’re in luck. The last fellow like you I seen ’round here got all broke up ‘cause he couldn't git his to stop.” my Dennis was wan o’ the pallbearers at the funeral o’ the rich Michael Hooligan th’ day.” “Ah!” retorted Mrs. Cassidy, jealously, “twas well fitted fur the job yer husband was; shure, he’s used to carryvin’ the ‘bier - that some wan else pays_ fur.’ is “Well,” said Mrs. Casey, proudly, “ The convicted man had just received his s and was being led out. ‘Poor man, is there ps T can do for you?” asked a sympathetic woman f the audience. “No, mum,” said the prisoner, less you’d like to do this three years.” é A negro was recently progkt' into a Vir court on a charge of larceny. After hearing evidence the judge pondered for a moment b passing sentence, and said: “Rastus, you are ten dollars.” Whereupon the negro replied: — Pap ate na dig down in ye yon lage fine Sy ane

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- hae oe cul et e i oe ae. ay a ee oe ep ere Cage a ee ER ie — YOUNG JACKSON. By Paul Braddon “9 hat’s that, Ben?” _ “Eh? Just a leetle louder, boy, the old man’s learin’ ain’t as sharp as it was forty years ago,” wered old Ben Boerck, the fisherman, dropping chain that secured a row-boat to a stake on h. I heard a strange sound like the cry of some one Mortal agony. Did you hear anything?” said Ben’s companion, a strong, muscular young man h a resolute face, which was adorned with a eeping black mustache. ‘Where away?” was.old Ben’s nautical query. “Up there,” answered the young man. “Tt seemed _to come from the house on the cliff,” and he pointed to'a neat cottage that perched upon the summit of the abrupt coast like a huge white bird. _ Old Ben followed the direction in which his com- ‘panion pointed with his eyes. © ~ “No, no, Ben, I told you it was a human voice— ‘A man’s voice; and if I am not much mistaken there’s something wrong up there,” said the young man in a tone of conviction. this moment two stylishly-attired and very t and pretty young ladies whom the young at once took to be city girls, come around the upon the beach and advanced toward him eir cheeks were flushed, and it was evident hat they were very much agitated, : “Oh, sir,” panted the foremost one of this charm- 2U : young man raised his hat gallantly. ck Gordon, otherwise “Young Jackson,’ the ve at your service,” he said politely. .e mention of his name both of the young ‘started. violently, and they regarded the man with new interest. _ read about! You the detective who it is said a charmed life!” said one of the young ladies, the other exclaimed: my!” = zg > ~ ing Jackson bowed. dig ee what way can I be of service, ladies? I judge something has occurred to disturb your tran- Be aE. 2 este S021 Sty SEO 8 Yh, sir,” said the young lady who had first “my name is Mabe | Heath, and this is my ulia. We are living in the cottage up yon- with our father this summer, and just a nt ago, as we were walking on the sand beyon , We heard a terrible shriek. It was m ce. We left him all alone in the cottage nen we came out for a walk, and I 1s befallen him, for rig in sum of money which he was bank to-day, Will you not a hee 5 aa ou Young Jackson, the detective, whom. we! “Your come with us to our home? We are afraid to go there alone now.” “Most certainly, miss, and if I can be of any assistance you can count me in,” answered Young Jackson, and he turned toward a rock upon which he had hung his loose light sporting jacket, prepara- tory to a row on the water. While he had been conversing with the young ladies, a dark evil face had raised itself from behind the rock and peered at the group on the beach, and a large, coarse hand had fumbled with the young detective’s coat as though its owner was striving to ‘pick the pockets of the garment. : Young Jackson put on his coat, and, followed by the Heath sisters and old Ben, the fisherman, he hur- ried up the rocks toward the cottage. The door was wide open. Young Jackson entered first, and behind him came the young ladies and old Ben. } A startling sight greeted them. . The room was in confusion, In the center of the room, stretched at full length upon his back, lay a man. ‘He was stone dead, they all saw at a glance, Over the murdered man stood Dragon, Young Jackson’s wonderful dog detective, which, according to report, had aided his young master in many a skillful piece of detective work. The two young girls rushed forward and knelt beside the dead man. “My father, dead, murdered!” screamed Mabel, while her sister wrung her hands in speechless grief. “I guess I’ll run up to the village and git ther con- stable, for this here are a case of murder,.and no mistake,” said old Ben, and without waiting for Young Jackson’s answer, he ran off as fast as he could toward the little fishing village, a quarter of a mile up the coast. “Come back! Come back!” shouted Young Jack- son. If old Ben heard he heeded not. Then to the girls: : “Is there anything missing from your father’s person 999 The girls hastily searched their father’s pockets. “Yes,” said Mabel—‘the large light-colored pocket-book that contained the large sum of money I spoke to you of is gone.” an Young Jackson threw off his jacket and began to search about the room. Minutely he went over every inch of the space of the floor. Upon his hands and knees he went. Suddenly he picked up a little piece of blue cloth d| and thrust it into his vest pocket with a muttered exclamation. Young Jackson. went outside of the cottage and searched about in the sand before it for tracks. ‘This done, the came back into the house and i sy 3 father’s coat is black; this is blue. Miss. . Se - ‘ as 4 ae re Mi fa ata at Ai: ee ; down. _. FAMB AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ee

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get oe Oe ed ite ne eats eee Lae goats ot eo “S-2 Se EGR, Up . As ae ree aan Te fF ny Foo ee + i a ae ay § cake eh < ey Fos axe aia ss FAME AND FORTUNE ‘WEEKLY. im $7 Se a eae ee ae od) omer . an Heath, I think, as we detectives express it, I have] the second button has been torn off violent an : ' __ struck a clue. '| that with the button a little bit of cloth was taken, At this moment Julia, who had gone to the wim-| leaving a speck of the white lining exposed? T see Be dow that looked toward the fishing village, turned} you notice all these little peculiarities about the : = from it, and said: of your worthy constable. Now, Ben, old man, just 4 5 “The fisherman is coming back, and a crowd of | take this cloth, and.see if it don’t exactly fit the torn ; r village people are with him.” spot on thexoat of Mr. Hill? I found it beside the “Just as I feared,” muttered Young Jackson. body of the murdered man.” “Why so?” asked Mabel. Ben applied the cloth, and all saw that it fitted © “Oh, I dislike*to have a gaping curious crowd ot | like a charm. country people at the scene of a crime that Ihave| “Now, then, gentlemen,” said Young Jackson, 3 an interest in working up a case out of,” answered “you notice, as I remarked, that the second button 5 oe ; the young detective, carelessly. | is missing from Mr. Constable’s coat?” < i The sound of voices was now heard, and in afew}; ‘Yes—yes!” cried the spectators. oa ‘ moments old Ben, followed by a large, coarse-look- “Very well,” Young Jackson went on. “The ques- Pa ; ing man, who announced himself as Constable Sile| tion is, where is that button’? Can any of you tell?” — Hill, and a crowd of villagers arrived at the cottage.| “Bah,” said Hill. “I lost that button off a month pT Dees -" ; “So, so,” said Hill, gruffly. “There’s been killin’| ago in New York.” goin’ on here, eh?” He glanced at Young Jackson “That’s a lie, and I can prove it; but first, gentle- as he spoke. men, you are doubtless all aware that Mr. Hill, your “As you see,” answered Young Jackson, who was| enterprising constable, has lost his middle finger ' watching him as closely as a cat watches a mouse. | down to the second joint, ” said Young Jackson. = “Anything missin’, gals?” the constable asked, Hill made a movement as though to lower ie turning to the bereaved and drawing his right hand | maimed hand. across his eyes. “Keep it up, so all can see it, or down you go,” The girls explained that their father’s light-col-| ordered Young Jackson, cocking his pistol warn- ored pocket-book, containing a large sum of money, ingly.. “Now, then, Miss Heath,” continued Young — Was gone. Jackson, “please hold up your father’s pocket-book.” — Young Jackson noticed that Hill’s left hand was} Mabel did so and all saw that upon its light-col- imperfect. The middle pagers was missing, from the} ored surface was the imprint of a human hand made second joint up.' in blood as the hand had grasped it, and they ; ; Hill strode across the room and. proceedéd “to | noticed that in this accusing stain the middle fin examine the dead man, and as he turned away after| Was wanting, from the second joint up. doing this, he, seemingly accidentally, knocked Hill began to tremble like a leaf. Young Jackson’s coat from the chair on which it| “Now, then, gentlemen, just one more point lay. Iam done,” Young Jackson went on. “This dog o oe As the garment fell to the floor, a meee: light-col-| Mine is a detective in his way. When I came ored, leather pocket-book fell from its inside pocket. | this cottage I found him standing over the “My father’s pocket-book!” exclaimed Mabel| body of Mr. Heath, and I noticed that he had | Heath, springing forward and picking it up. | thing in his mouth. Open your mouth, Dragon, a Young Jackson was dumfounded. let us see what you have found.” The dog o ALEC tates an ‘the derite -*ould that have got into my his mouth and a button fell upon the floor. Pech - pocket?” thought Young Jackson: but, notwith-| J@¢kson held it up, and all saw it was the missi standing the alarming situation in which he found ee a Hill's gr , t dof: himself, he was as cool as an icicle, and as composed s a clear case, and I arrest you instead 0 as a judge. arresting me!” said Young Jackson, producing 44 of handcuffs. Nept “Do not judge me hastily, Miss Heath,” he said, pair 5 Fas _ ina yoice intended for her ears alone. “Who are you?” demanded Hill. wr “Young Jackson, and this is my dog det ‘daion te sain hee ni ar ta take this young was the answer, as the speaker placed his bh at upon the head of his canine assistant. : -— During.all this Dragon, the young detective’s. ‘dog, Pull was handcuffed and lead away to the.¥ _ had been growling fiercely, and his attention seemed jail, and although there was some talk of lynch 7 be turned principally to Hill. . ‘ Young Jackson walked by his prisoner’s side ee young feller, you’re my prisoner,” said his ke in his hand, and there was no a Hill, advancing toward Young Jackson, notwith-| made to do so. ash “standing Dragon’s warning growl. _ Hill was in due course of time tried, “Hold all!” thundered Young Jackson, “Do you | and executed. Before his death he re see this bit of blue cloth?” and he held AS the bit | money he had stolen. Young Jackson “lg ead ae heeds So ee | tie ae ake ne he oe ee tee eS +4 FY Pea Nt ee ge eh een ig tee bare g sre ON et Lae OS ae

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TRICK CIGARETTE BOX. This one is a corker! Get a box right away. if you want to have a barrel of joy. "s the secret: It looks like an ordi- y red box of Turkish cigarettes. But tt contains a trigger, under which you place | a ta cap. ffer your friend a_ smoke | and he raises the lid of the box. That ex- -plodes the cap, and if you are wise you will _ get out of sight with the box before he gets _ ver thinking he was shot. Price 15e, post- J A PECK OF TROUBLE. J id. . & F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn, N. Y. oes MAGIC LINK PUZZLE. A number of | rings. The} . scheme is to link < them together : just exactly the Same Way magicians link their hoops. It | Kut we defy anybody to looks dead easy. rice do it unless they know the secret. 10c by mail, postpaid. | H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klyn. N. Y.) en ten ec te on neerteell ce Mbretesre toed pane THE JOKE SPIKE. | One of the hardest puzzles ever invented. 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I can also say thut 1 huve gained Anyove in doubt can refer to me.”—Jolin Brodie, (No. 153235), nine pounds in seven weeks, and feel Ike a new man.’’~Robert Wapello Co., Iowa, (Full address on application.) 8. Brown, (Noe 220852), Worcester Co,, Mass, (Full address on “I had weighed as low as 128 pounds, never got over 135 while application. } I used tobacco, New 1 weigh 156 pounds. LKveryone wants to “My busband hasn’t smoked a# single cigarette, and has no de- know why I got so fleshy; 1 feli them to follow Edward a sire to smoke since following your method of quitting, . He Woods’ method for overcoming tobacco and Mad out,”"—W. 8. looks like @ new man—the best J ever saw him. He gained sev- Morgan, (No, 11315 K), Covke Co, Tex. (1ull address on enteen pounds, and 1s feeling fine."—Mrs. Carl C. Rogers, (No. upplication,) 224300), Iredell Co., North Carolina. (Full address:onu application.) “I smoked for more than 20 years, but now I am proud to say “I was using about one pound and a half of chewing tobacco b. t bi ; no crave for smoking; I a week, but since quitting through your system, I have gained or tit lendt ae cuisine te enter euery month since I about 16 pounds, abd lave better health by far, than Yefore.”"— stopped."—William Crawford, (No, 20073 Penna, (Ful) address on application.) application.) WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO QUIT TOBACCO QUICKLY AND EASILY AND ENJOY YOURSELF A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER WHILE IN ROBUST HEALTH? Why continue to commit slow suicide, when you can live a STOP RUINING ae. contented life, if you. only get your body. and nerves YOUR LIFE right? Jt is unsafe and torturing to attempt to rid oneself of tobacco by suddenly stopping with “will power”—don’t do it. The correct way is to eliminate nicotine poison from the system, and genuinely over- tome the craving. Tobacco is poisonous and seriously injures the health in several ways, causing such disorders as nervous dyspepsia, sleeplessness, gas belching, gnawing or other uncomfortable sensation in stomach, constipation, headache, w eyes, loss of vigor, red spots on skin, throat irritation, catarrh, asthma, bronchitis, heart failure, melan- choly, lung trouble, impure (poisoned) blood, hearth torpid liver, loss of appetite, bad teeth, foul breath, lassitude, lack of ambition, weakening and falling out of hair and many other erecapen ek: & Aes re REE ¥ Overcome that peculiar nervousness and craving for cigarettes, Ee cigars, pipe, chewing tobacco or snuff. rection Ae aactuuh seutters Rae ‘ treatise on the subject, containing interesting and valuable information that you aad He iy ose should be glad to learn about. This book tells all about the renowned Three Days’ "°°°* ae ; Method by which Mr. Nelson, and thousands and thousands of others, saved themselves —yobn P. Monter (Photo above) | and snuff habit, will be mailed FREE TO YOU in plain wrapper, postpaid. All you ; REQUEST IT. A postcard will do. Address (Full address on application.) Edward J. Woods, WA-103, Station F New York, N. Here is an opportunity to receive FREE a caretally compiled past seventy -elght Tears ot, ae, 5 4.” “— Y.| GAINED 25 POUNDS IN 2 MONTHS| ), Philadelphia Co. W. 5S. Powell, (No, 189149), Harper Co, Okla. (uli address on - . from the ee tobaceo habit. Full particulars, including the book on tobacco Civil War Veteran}

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643 A Stroke b 645 On the Gold Coast; or, The Treasure of the Stranded Ship. 646 Lured by the Market; or, A Boy’s Big Deal In Wall Street. ’ 647 Trading Tom; or, The Boy Who Bought Everything. 648 Favored by Fortune; or, The Youngest Firm In Wall Street. 649 Jack Jasper’s Venture: or, A Canal Route to Fortune 650 After Big Money; or, Turning the Tables On the Wall Street Brokers. 651 A Young Lumber King; or, Way Up. 652 #3 Luck. the Market. 655 656 7 The Boy Builder; or. The Rise of a Young Mason. 658 Marty, the Messenger: or, Capturing Coin In Wall Street. ° 659 The Stolen Bank Note; or, The Career of a Boy Merchant, 660 Digging Up Dollars: or, The Nerve of a Young “Bull” Oper- ator. 661 A Runawny Boy: or. The Ruried Treasure of the Incas. 662 The Old Broker's Heir; or, The Boy Who Won In Wall Street. 663 nen Farm to Fortune; or, The Boy Who Made Money In nd. Sa LATEST ISSURS—— -"* = me ef Luck; or, The Boy Who Made Money In Ofl. « 644 Little eg the Boy Trader; or, Picking Up Money In Wall The Boy Who Worked His PD. Ralph Roy’s Riches: or, A Smart Boy’s Run of Wall Street A Castaway’s Fortune: or. The Hnnt for a Pirate's Gold. . 654 The Little Money Maker; or, The Wall Street Boy Who Saved Fough and Ready Dick: or, A Young Express Agent’s Luck. Tipped Off by Telegraph; or, Shaking Up the Wall Street “Bears.” Million. Wall Street. Finm. Worked. 22 @2 22389 9329 9 99888 the Brokers. 664 Ragged Rob of Wall S - 665 The oy Railroad Magnate; or, The Contract That Brou, _ 666 Dandy Dick, the Boss Boy Broker; or, Hustling tor Gold | Caught by Cannibals; or, The Treasure of the Land of Fi eye The Little Operator; or, Cornering the “Bears” of Wall Street. ~ Air Line Ed; or, Building a Telegraph» Line. - hs A Boy of the Curb; or, The Secret of a Treasury Wete = = From Foundry Boy to Steel King; or, The Rise of a Young — Bridge Builder. : ae The Missing Box of Bullion; or, The Boy Street Mystery. : Claim No. 7; or, A Portune from a Gold Mine. =. Out for Big Money; or, Touching Up the Wall Street Traders. The Boy Ice King; or. Coining Money from_the River. - = Four of a Kind: or, The Combination That Made Wall Street = treet; or, $50,000 from a Dime. SaaS Who Solved a Wal a 2 Bob Brandon, Contractor; or, The Treasure That Ted to Feme. A Boy from the South: or, Cleaning Out a Wall Street Crowd.” Hal. the Hustler; or, The Feat That Made Him Famous. A Mad Rroker’s Scheme; or, The Corner That Couldn't Be~ Dovars from Dust: or The Boy Who Worked a Silver Mine. Billy Black, the Broker’s Son} or, The Worst Boy In Wall Street. - Res Adrift In the Sea; or, The Treasure of Lone Reef. - The Young Wall Street Jonah; or, The Boy Who Puzzled 685 Wireless Will; or, The Success of a Young Telegranh Operator. For sale by all newsdealers, or, will be sent to any address on receipt of price, 6 cents, per copy in money or postace, stamps, by HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, - - 166 West 23d St., New York. IF YOU ‘WANT ANY BACK NUMBERS of these weeklies and cannot procure them from newsdealers, they can be obtained from the publishers direct. Write out and fill in your Order and send it with the price of the weeklies you want, and the weeklies will be sent to you by return mail. POSTAGE STAMPS TAKEN THE SAME AS MONEY. 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