Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 707) (1919 04 18)

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APRIL 18, 1919. 6 Cash ~ ORIFT OW TRE DRINOCD ; OR CTH E TREASURE | oF THE [JESERT. Dee can Hira LITHER STARIES ns stream with long poles. The current of the Orinoco now swept the boys Away, and a yell of gles escaped the crowd,

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-FAMEAND FORTUNE WEEKLY STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY Issued Weekly—Subseription price, $3.00 per year; Canada, $3.50; Foreign, $4.00. Harry E. Wolf, Publisher, 166 West 23d Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as Second Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. No. 707. NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1919. Price 6 Cents. ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO THE TREASURE OF THE DESERT By A SELF-MADE MAN : = poe al CHAPTER I. } THE TWO CASTAWAYS. “We're in a pickle now,” said Will Merritt, whose rett good clothes lookelt p and bedraggled owing to his recent ‘immersion in salt water, as he gazed gloomily out upon the broad and heaving Atlantic, which splashed its waters almost at his feet. “Couldn’t be much worse off,” admitted his companion, Jack Garrison, whose course and shabby habiliments were also wrinkled and sodden from the same cause. “Cast on a deserted shore, the Lord knows where, with noth- ing to eat or drink. It’s simply fierce,” went on Will, shift- ing his seat on the rock he ornamented. “Tt’s a bad scrape and no mistake,” said Jack, digging one heel into the wet sand, and looking at his associate in mis- fortune. oa) “We were fools to go sailing in that boat by our two selves.” oe “No, that wasn’t the trouble.” “What was, then?” “Taking that rascal’s word that his craft was seaworthy, - when it proved to be so cranky that as soon as the blow struck us we couldn’t do anything with her.” “Well, you’re something of a sailor; you ought not to have va fooled. Besides, you’ve been hanging around Georgetown for two or three weeks, and you should know the honest boatmen from the beats.” “I guess they’re all tarred with the same brush. The craft looked all right to me. At any rate he’s lost her, which serves him right.” “That doesn’t do us any good. It looks as if we were lost as well as the boat.” “While there’s life there’s hope. Never give up the ship, is ‘my motto.” . 44 _.. “That sounds well when you read it, but it’s poor consola- _ tion when you're, up against the real thing. Where do you ere. we are? See en idea yonder is Point Mocomoco, bit I may be b= . I only passed this way once.” “Where is Point Mocomoco?” “At the mouth of the delta of the Orinoco.” “I wish we knew which direction to take to strike a town or village,” he said, looking up and down the inhospitable line of shore. is “It’s a toss-up whether there’s one within a hundred miles of us.” “If that’s so what the dickens shall we do?” “Starve, most likely.” __ - Will looked hard at his companion. “You take it mighty coolly,” he growled. “I don’t see any use squ g,” replied Jack, who had had his shares of downs in the world, and had grown philo- sophy in consequence. “If we’ve got to turn up our toes, why we've got to, that’s all.” 7 é “But I don’t want to turn up my toes,” protested Will. “I’ve got everything in the world to live for—home, parents, and a future——” i See “Your future is a problem as things stand. As for me, I ; haven’t any to lose. Neither have I a home, or parents, or friends. I had all these once, but—well, what’s the use of talking? I’m just a rolling stone that’s always rolling into hard luck. I was stranded in Georgetown when I met _you— an American, like myself. I told you how the brig I shipped aboard went away and left me there. I believe the skipper did it on purpose. You are a young gentleman, by parentage and education, while I’m next door to a tramp, but still somehow we cottoned to each other. If I’ve steered you into a fix I’m fe sorry for it, but I'll stick by you to the last. I gee we'll - out of this somehow. I’ve been in some tough holes, but I~ always managed to crawl out of them. I feel it in my that we'll get out of this, and that you'll see your folks 2 yn : ‘As they were in a tropical clime the ducking they had te-_ ceived when their craft went down close inshore did not _ greatly inconvenience them. : ; € In fact, by this time their clothes were fairly dry, that is, their outer ones. : i ; As the sun was out again, though low down, after the © gale, Jack decided that the best thing they could do was to disrobe and dry their underclothes. : art oF He proceeded to do this, and Will followed suit. peer An hour later, during which time they had throughly can- vassed the aaa, tele things were as dry as a bone, and they : emse! 4 St Seis, “J suppose your watch has stopped?” said Jack. =, “Yes,” answered Will, after looking at it. “It is. likely to go again until a jeweler has overhauled it.’ “Got any coin about you?” asked Jack. - “Why do you ask?” said Will, in some surprise as in his ; Soy te dd pockets. Pe ne pola ae y= ei pnt had a pi of any 2 cent would do Las re’d t * whe roe _

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2 ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. as I don’t see that it makes‘ any difference at all which way we go, but still I believe in luck. By tossing up we leave our as to fate, and fortune might favor us in that case,” said ack. _“I agree with you. I’ve got half a dozen English sover- eigns, and some silver, as well as a $10 bill,” replied Will. “Toss up the shilling. If the queen’s head comes up we will go toward yonder point; if the other side shows upper- most we'll start down the coast.” _ “All right,” said Will, and he tossed the coin. When it struck the sand the boys looked at it: The queen’s head met their eyes. - “The point it * is,” said Jack, starting in that direction. on > on alked yhe tw They w ma © miles, passing little hilllocks of ‘sand, and bits of recent wreckage here and there. _ “Looks as if some vessel had been wrecked hereabouts,” et title survieing ting. 16 “No ZS Sing in e e Ww e Fe case or! Tere 3 replied fate gale we almost weathered “Look at that broken spar yonder wabbling about in the water near the beach. Must have been a vessel of some. size.” - . . “She was a square-rigger, for that’s a yard.” ___ “There’s a boat half smashed on the beach. Maybe it has the name of the lost vessel on its stern.” oak + a gpa — we i it? ; wish something worth eating or drinking had come in. _ My stomach is awiully empty. I’d give that $10 bill for a _ square meal. : __. When they reached the smashed long boat they found no Eee was. shens & int : was abou continue on when Jack im. __ “Wait till I overhaul her,” he ‘ead coped id of a locker in her bows. There might be something in it of value to us.” 4 “What do you expect to find?” “Quite, often a keeps his boats provisioned in case of an emergency. We had four boats aboard our brig, and “every one carried r of water and a bag of ship’s 4. a sides 0 i ” a ad z 2s in her locker proceeded to do so. a te found a small flat cask full of something which he Was water, and a ) i ethan died writh. avan package tightly wrapped~ Gg, ‘found it was water. “i ou can , we can eat.” greedily of the water, “ is almost sure to contain something et’s look into that locker,” replied Will, in some up in jack-knife he dug out the stopper of the take first drink while I’m unwrapping this bun- for he was almost vb he was. cracker,” said Jack, falling to himself. meal off the two jars of potted aie the stuff into a bundle, and sling it over his "y the water cask, Will, and when it tires you we'll cunder his arm, but found it rather awkward They were close to a sweep in the shore, and the view ahead was cut off by a dense mass of shrubbery. No sign of any town or village yet. We'll have to sleep out here in the bushes. It will be my first experience of the kind,” ‘said Will. “Tt won’t hurt you, cold,” replied Jack. ‘ “Catch cold in this latitude? I should imagine not. More likely we'll be moonstruck if there is a moon.” “As there was a moon two nights ago in Georgetown, I guess we’ll have it here, for the sky is there almost clear, only it will rise later.” The ocean breeze fanned the heated faces of the boys. “Hist!” ejaculated Jack suddenly, laying his hand on his companion’s arm. “What’s the matter?” asked Will, in surprise. “I hear voices on the other side of that shrubbery.” _ “So do I. I wonder who the persons are.” “Wait here and I’ll find out. I understand Spanish, you know. It is well to be cautious before showing ourselves.” : Sei speaking, Jack crept forward and peered through the ushes. T’ll guarantee that you won’t catch CHAPTER II. ae THE TWO SAILORS. On the sands, a few yards away, Jack saw two rough- looking men, who were clearly sailors, going through a san- dalwood chesf that they had evidently dragged out of the sea. “Tucky the sea washed our mate’s chest ashore, or with a little brownin’ by the sun, and-a feather or two stuck in our hair, we might have been taken for native Injuns#*one— of them was saying in English. “Yes, we’re in much better trim outside, but our insides ain’t so well furnished. I feel as hollow as a reed,” replied Just the other. “Hello! More luck! Here’s a big flask of whisky. what we need to brace us up,” said the first speaker, quickly unscrewing the metal top and putting the flask to his lips, while his companion sat back on his haunches and looked at him enviously. “When you’re through, Sam Griffen, I’ll take a nip,” he said, holding out his hand impatiently. Sam looked at him while he clung to the flask as if he never meant to relinquish it. “J say, are you goin’ to drink it all?” cried the other, angrily. breath. “My throat is as dry as a-chip.” it short, will you?” over. fancy biscuits. Se Sh 2 ae still, Bill. Here’s sorne biscuits,” he said. ‘Do you the fancy articles askance: “That’s what they are. avidity. : Ciete ss “Hand over a bunch of ’em,” said Flippe ‘There was silence between’ their jaws worked upon the crackers. 5 Flipper grinned and put it to his lips. “Avast there—that fen. “I found it in the chest, so hand it “Fair play, Sam. We’re the only we don’t stand by each other.” . “That’s right, so don’t will share and share alike. _ Flipper turned over the long swig. e on Sans up the leaks e aE Sata ue atees gh Sots come first served, Bill,” said Griffen, pausing for “So’s mine—as dry as this heregsand ’round us. Just cut “There you are. Drink hearty,” said Sam, passing the flask Resuming his search of the chest while Bill Flipper was “wetting his whistle,” he presently prought forth a bag of call them things biscuits?” asked Flipper, eyeing Kind of fancy and sweetish, but— thev taste good,” said Griffen, munching one with much them for a gen minutes, while “Pass the flask,” said Griffen, holding out his hand for it. ask is my an AMS growled Grif- two escaped from the — wreck of the Molly Owen, and it would be precious hard if take more’n your allowance. ‘We bottle, and Griffen took another — in a feller’s innards,” he said, — ee aoe 1,

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ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. from Rio to their home in New York. She was a blamed! = pretty gal, don’t you think, Bill? I wouldn’t mind bein’ tied up to such a tidy craft—as trim as one of them steam yachts that the plutocrats sail about in these days.” “Haw, haw, haw!” laughed Flipper derisively. “Jést as if | a gal like her would look at a shellback like you.” ; “Me a shellback! Why, I’m only forty, ard when I’m) __- Spruced up I’m gs-good-lookin’ as any man of my age. You | 2 always were jealous of my figgerhead, Bill Flipper.” “You've had two wives already. How many more d’ye} want ?” “That’s my business. However, what’s the use of talkin’? ; ; _ The gal is gone, and food for the fishes by this time.” F “You’d never got her, anyway. She was only seventeen, young enough to be your own darter. You used to act like a’ fool aboard on her account. If her old man or the skipper! suspected what you_were thinkin’ about when you plastered | your hair up with paim ile, and shaved yourself so often, | ou’d have got a takin’ down, you can take that-from me.” ' “Look here, Bill Flipper, you and me are friends, but there’s such a thing as rubbin’ it in too far, d’ye understand? I’ve got my knife, and if I ran it into your gizzard you'd . have somethin’ to squeal about,” said Griffen in an ugly tone. zi “I’ve got a knife, too, if it comes to that,” returned Flip- _. © per, with a bad look in his eye. “Don’t you go to threat- _ enin’ me, ’cause [ might make a hole in you big enough to shove that chest in.” The two men ey: Garrison, in the bac \ but they didn’t.” “What's the use oe ee each other in a way that made Jack ground, think they might come to, blows, - of our quarrelin’?” growled Griffen at _ “Ain’t no use. You started the matter with your threat ‘to open my gizzard. The bark’s gone, the crew, ’cept me _ pad You, are gone, the gal is gone, and so’s the officers and her father. What’s the use thinkin’ any more about "em? All we’ve got to do is to take care of ourselves, and who ¢ » now we're well victualed, we may be able to tramp it till we come to some village or town where we can get “Right you are, Bill Flipper. There’s my hand. Let by- ors genes be bygones.. If we only had a revolver we might be aes a Cenc wut ee : ; wou us in A ‘Maybe there’s through it?” ; Griffen made no reply, but dived again into the sea chest. ME vd he ot Ni a brace of shooters and a belt full-| “e - 4 “We’re lucky again,” he said, handing one of the revolvers | _ to his companion, who saw that it was fully charged, and) _ then buckling the belt around his waist. | The sailors got up and looked around. _ . Nothin’ in sight,” said Flipper. “Come on.” e They walked off westward along the shore, and as Jack and Will, for the latter had grown impatient and joined his _. companion, sat up and looked at each other, night descended on the face of Nature like the gradual turning down of a a gun in the chest. Have you been all 4 = @ a> we gas-jet. “Well, what do you think of those two chaps?” asked Jack. _ . “I think their room is better than their company,” said oi, cf my opinion. They’re bad eggs. I’m glad we didn’t so. We'll camp here for the night. That e th lately been Sates tothe shane of r: y awoke in the mo A nearly calm now, and there was hardly any ar ti his words interrupted here and there with the hiccoughs 3 “Mighty lucky we are to have anything to eat this morn- ing,” said Jack. “Yes, it was’ fortunate we ran across that boat,” replied Will, “If we hadn’t I don’t know what would have become of us.” “If we hag gone in the opposite direction we’d have missed it. You see that there’s luck after all in leaving things to chance.” . Fifteen minutes later they were on their way again. Walking in the heat of a tropical sun was very fatiguing to them, for they were not used to such a thing, and so they gladly welcomed the sight of what seemed to be a wood in the distance. ~ > It took an hour’s tramp to reach it, and by that time they were completely done up. Throwing themselves on an hour, and then tesumed their journey under the leafy covert, keeping within a short distance of the sea so that they would not go astray, since Jack believed that there was more chance of their meeting a village near the water than away from it. beecioe When noon came they were still in the long wood. They stopped and made a light meal, took a rest, and then went on again. Late in the afternoon they reached the edge of a clearing opening on the sea. : Tene cha saw a rude shanty that looked as if it was de- serted. “We'd better stop here for the night. What do you say?” said Will. : Before Jack could reply a pistol shot rang out, coming from the house. a, the ground, they rested for nearly. — It was followed by a shrill scream, od re from a girl, “Help! Help!” cried the voice, in Engli s “There's a ian in trouble, Will,” cried Jack, excitedly. “Come on; let’s see what the matter is Spurred on by the girl’s piteous cries, Jack dashed for the . TG door of the house, followed at a slower pace by Will. CHAPTER III. ROGER GALE AND HIS DAUGHTER. When Jack reached the door and looked in he saw a young and pretty girl struggling in on the seashore, while the other stood in a drunken attitude looking on, apparently maintaining his equilibrium with great difficulty. On the floor lay on the side of the Mead, either dead or unconscious. The fellow who had hold of the girl was almost as tipsy as . fy i ead him as the person answering to the Griffen, . : y ot arene he had done the shooting, and the revolver The girl was doing her best to fight the ruffian off, was like an.infant in his muscular ; fap “There ain’t no use of you tryin’ to stop me, miss. I to a fancy to you from the moment you stepped abo bark at Rio, and now that I’ve got the chance ’'m_ kiss you. sete mgr pte 2 —— of ee lip and you might just as well oblige me as last, se ri get it in the end whether you like it or not,” said G Id not suppress. ais <oWithout caleulating the chances he might be up ag the arms ef one of the two. ruffianly sailors that he and Will had seen the evening before elderly man, bleeding from a wound ' name tay in the middle of the floor. bio ¢ but a eae w¥ . Bh a Jack rushed forward, struck Griffen in the mouth, and tore ‘oy oe the girl from his ai i y aon rascal staggered back, not so much from the tear Sie general unsteadiness, and then stood glari in angry surprise. Pe arho are you, and where did. manded, with an imprecation. —__ “You and your friend had- ss you’re not wanted,” rep he ad heghest Y side the Pe

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s ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. Seeing the man’s revolver on the floor he snatched it up, “My name is Jack Garrison. My friend’s name is Will Mer- cocked it, and stood ready. to defend himself against both! ritt. May I ask yours?” men. “Drop that gun!” shouted Griffen. “Tl drop you if you don’t get out of here,” replied the plucky boy. oe Seeing that the sailor was about to dash at him again, he raised the weapon and pointed it at him. Griffen started back, for he read determination in the boy’s | face and attitude. After uttering a string of imprecations he cried to his com- | panion: “Shoot him, Bill. Blow his head off.” ‘ ener reached for his gun, and after some trouble got it | __At that moment Will came to the door and looked in. “Flipper tried to aim at Jack, but made a bungle of it. _. he boy took deliberate aim at his wavering hand and/| “Flipper with a roar of pain and rage dropped the weapon | as if it had suddenly become red-hot. rir pice “Pick up that gun, Will,” said Jack. __ Will rushed in and snatched it from the floor, then walked over beside his friend. _ , “Now,” said Jack, “I'll give you chaps just half a minute to out. If you don’t obey you'll be carried out.” ; teen ee eee . Faroe, May Pag a for Bl of his fingers had be y t. ait Griffen realized that eve Sedans ‘eas Was against him and his et presence of the two boys was A Se dpauken “nina, fold: hin thot ad SB Rn Rieigaee country, and y. he gritted.. “I'l know you when! Ill get square with you for this u . Flipper by the arm, they staggered out of the the boys watched them go down. to the water’s the wounded ruffian bathed his lacerated fingers | uld have fallen into the water only Griffen watch them, Jack went over to where th was bending over her father. Z , 2” he a in a sympathetic tone. My poor father!” she moaned in rise to him, and hardly be alone ; “He looks so white yee "tn Brg woe he said to his friend, | some water up in that ves-) “Jessie Gale. _My father’s name’‘is Roger Gale. I am very grateful to you for saving me from that man. He was in- toxicated, but still he knew what he was doing. He and his companion were among common sailors aboard my father’s bark. Their names are Griffen and Flipper,” “I am glad I was able to be of service to‘you, Miss Gale, and vaneigern 4 further that I and my friend can do for you and your father you can depend we will do.” : “Thank you. I appreciate your kindness,” and she flashed a grateful look at him. At that point Will returned with the gourd full of water. “Where are those two rascals now, Will?” asked Jack, as he proceeded to wash Roger Gale’s wound and bathe his face and head. ; “They’re walking up the shore,” replied Will. “Now that we are armed they’d better keep out of our way,” said Jack. In a few minutes the girl’s father recovered his senses, ane Jack helped him to sit up, propping his back against his ee a gt dear father, how do -you feel?” asked Jessie, solici- tously. “Not very good, my darling. Am I badly hurt?” “No, sir,” put in Jack. “You'll feel all right in a little while. Let me bandage your head up.” : “Where are those rascals?” asked Mr. Gale. “They’ve gone away. This boy made them go.” The gentleman was puzzled to understand how Jack and his friend happened to be on the scene, but he did not feel. in shape to ask questions just then. : He closed his eyes and rested his head on his daughter’s ap. RES Jack thought it better that he have quiet, so he called Will, ~ and they went outside. “That’s the girl we heard those sailors talking about last evening. She and her father escaped the wreck of the bark by floating ashore on a spar. Those rascals evidently dropped in at this hut and found them here. The ians were half seas over from the contents of that whisky flask, which I dare say they have emptied between them. _ ag is clearly sweet on the young lady, who is far above class, and seeing her here with only her father to protect her he thought he could take liberties with impunity. Her father in defending her from him aroused the fellow’s anger, and Griffen shot him. Fortunately he made a bad shot, though he came pretty near putting a bullet in the gentie- man’s brain.” “You think he’ll recover?” . ' “Sure, unless he should get a fever or something of that kind on account of his wound, which is really not dangerous |as it stands.” “T suppose we'll have to wait here till he is well enough to go on with us?” : 2 “We were going to stay anyway all night. He may be in shane in the morning to make a start.” “The small amount of provisions and water we have won't go far among four.” : ’ “That can’t be helped. They have their share, and then we must all trust to Iuck. We'll come out somehow. We have been quite lucky so far, and I hope good fortune will con- tinue to favor us.” i The boys returned to the house in half an hour, just as the and found the girl in the same position, r-keg, and held was the only way. =

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‘ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO, 5 [ae nn nn nn UU EEE ' Jack then satisfied his curiosity concerning the presence | Jack offered the man four shillings, which Will supplied, of himself and his friend in that out-of-the-way spot, and he; and he seemed perfectly satisfied with the remuneration. in turn told the boys something about the voyage of the ill-| As a matter of fact, he was well paid. fated Molly Owen after she had sailed north from Rio de} The party then started in the direction in which the vil- Janeiro till she was overtaken and wrecked by the gale. lage lay, along a well-defined trail made by wagon wheels Then they all talked about their prospects of reaching civi-| and animals. : : lization before lack of food knocked them out. They reached the village about two o’clock, and Jack be ‘All Mr. Gale knew about their position was that they were| learned that there was an inn at the further end of it. on the south shore of the delta of the Orinoco, probably at| Their presence in the place attracted much attention and % least 100 miles from the mouth of the river. curiosity as they passed along, and they were followed by 3 “Do you know of any towns along this shore?” asked Jack.|an increasing mob of children until they reached the inn, L “I know there is a place called Placoa, about twenty-five | where was a two-story stone structure, very old in appear- miles this side of the river, and I know there is a town by|ance, and very dirty and unkempt. = the name of Barrancas on the northern side of the river near| The landlord was lounging in the doorway, smoking a long . its mouth, but that is the extent of my knowledge of this | cheroot, and he eyed the party with no great favor. part of Venezuela. There are penlabie many native vil=| Jack asked for accommodation and information. ; lages scattered about in this neighborhood, but we are likely| “How far is to Placoa?” he asked the boniface. to hit one more by accident than anything else. We must! “Over one hundred miles,” was the reply. try to reach Placoa, for we can’t miss it by going straight on,} “As far as that, eh? Can we get a wagon to take us — provided we are able to get that far. I should imagine that | there?” it would take us several days traveling on foot to reach it.” The man shook his head. “We can’t get there then unless we find something more| “We will pay good.” _ Abe to eat. What we have will not last over to-morrow,” said| “You have money?” said the landlord, beginning to show tS SD fee oe Jack. interest at last. ; As matters stood the prospect before them was indeed “We have some,” replied Jack. gloomy. “How much?” asked the landlord. | : : “Enough to pay you for entertainment till to-morrow morning and the services of a wagon and driver, if we can 3 ie = CHAPTER IV. get one, to take us to Placoa.” ai = . * ee The landlord seemed to reflect while he scanned the four ag ie THE VILLAGE INN. critically. ‘a eee 3 ; ; i luntly stated his charge for the accommoda- ; Next morning Mr. Gale was feeling all right again, he|,. Finally he b feet et : tomary said, except a natural soreness about his wound which Jack pe top Ber A pda omic in ene righinney ats _ _—treated again with an application of sea water. Th oa h a faete wanted! to see some evidence*of their) - The gourd was cleaned out, and the balance of their water Ns , t thei to ; Se emptied into it. funds before he would. stg A heir ay mg Korg - ‘Their breakfast consisted of two crackers and some tongue| _ (Show hima soverslgh, ™ 1 Ge tiayed them before the — between as a sandwich, and a drink or two of water. ee rae teeh. SS eo Beene es __ After they had finished, leaving them for the tinie being | “me man’s eyes sparkled covetously, and he became all — ye geerere! ees: before, they started on their tramp for) _ ites and politeness at once. "Following a beaten track they gradually lost sight of the| With a low bow he waved ties iy tne main one ‘of = te the wood, but supposed they were walking parallel) 1.0 inn. but it was not emeeny inviting, especially to : i dl essie e. tare Sak Se Sea wey, MONS, fending: ety Tittle rogteen, 0 a ee pt enh ergammeaationstinde: alae fe earinally they struck a thatched house of one story about i Soa eg he c9 ald 1 et. them have three separate >. : . A F ©! rooms,.and the boy sai ey wo e to see them, raed eae rig yr Le grag rae rg nearly naked children came The’ man led the Sead upstairs to the next story, and tine iden : showed them the ; me nag se Tk Fae gaping Pihead evidently a great surprise to the|* Thee wav avaiagle bed ta cach, snd aot rit of Naa that. rest of the furniture consisted of a stool and a wash- | stand. Z eS Ler ae a ing Mr. Gale and his daughter in one of them f Beas the boys returned downstairs with the land} | _ Jack ordered the best meal the boniface could get u then he and Will w at outside and sat on a bench, Their surroundings on one side Was. a wood, on the the straggling houses of the village. ee ony eed i ee a si ong the roa in ie fom, rae children which had acco i Be hho Sere oo le * Sate tty : : this | “Ye: ¥ Eto itupt" ates “Down in Rio, where I stopped about

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6 ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. e “He named his price before he saw my money.” of the dark-skinned natives, named Domingo. “If you are That doesn’t make any difference. He’ll charge for extras | sure Silva and I will make a good round sum out of the job that we won't get or are not worth what he asks for them.” | you can consider the matter settled.” “We Wwon’t pay him.” | “Sure! Why, man alive, her father dotes on her. He will It probably would not be to our interest to scrap with ‘pay any price to have her restored to him,” replied Griffen. him.” “But if he has not the money nearer than New York we “I don’t believe in being robbed.” will have to wait some time before he can pay down the “Your objection won’t cut much ice.” price, The girl must be watched and taken care of in the “But we'll need all our funds when we reach Placoa.” meantime,” said Domingo. iach, s nothing to the landlord. He’ll roast us as well as a course; but you say you have a capital hiding place up the Orinoco.” At that moment two men came around the corner of the “Si, senor. One week’s journey by horseback from here.” _ building. “shen what difference will it make whether you have to . One glance satisfied the boys as to their identity. keep her a week or a month? Me and Flipper will watch ‘They were the sailors, Griffen and Flipper. her while you and Silva do the negotiating for her return.” : \ Domingo and Silva consulted in a low tone, too low for We, Jack to hear what passed between them. Mi “We agree, Senor Griffen,” said Domingo. ems : CHAPTER V. “Good! You will provide horses for us all?” ; ; “Si. Leave everything to us.’ THREATENED TROUBLE. / “Now, how about them kids?” chipped in Flipper. Dee oe them did thi d he held up his bandaged h: a ot ae aailors saw the boys at the same moment, and = sreala like 4 Ria Pack.” ey a a 7 engi ledge a — be Bs oo a8 “You would have your revenge, eh?” grinned Domingo. om e 1 “« ; “« The sailors consulted and then retired the way they came. ae replied Flipper, fiercely. “I want to get square wi re Fang oe oe ek oes Ser them; they will Sohebiy try| “which one is he?” ischi, sai = ? ; at, they. bot bother us theyse-dikely. to encounter ‘2: ‘bullet ice eee ure You have seen them both, so you ad “Si. He is a boy you must handle with care.” a meal ag: they were called. to-sypper, and found:s: good PN om hare el ape Flipper, contemptuously. “I bie cou. ottle him with one hand.” Jessie and her father came down, and the first thing Jack “Maybe, if you catch him off his guard; otherwise he “is did was to tell them of the presence of Griff ffen and Flipper. : J look not of the kind that is easy to manage. I read his face, ye py on 2 sae oy sonny: for since her encounter with| Sonor. I see there fight.” ‘ “Bah! He is only a kid.” a Jack assured a ber that he and Will would protect her. - Domiigo-shragged. his shoulders. “We each have é revolver, ou know, with a cy 4 t - “ idges,” he sai id 2 Sup I fight a boy like him I make sure I get in the . eked Bh “so it won't be safe for anybody to try | frst blow,” ” he said, rolling a cigarette and lighting it. “He Lr Pi Ready AM ; ’ “They oni enj has the crit that tells. He is of your country, but you do ; . joyed te meal very much, and at the end of it the not seem to know him. I see him once only; that is enough inilar to scone bie ee re’ jug _ liquor and three cneroots for re to tell ge oh shall be capable of when it comes to_ fe laid the the what you call pinch ee Mion Me: Gale, = a + pena “Which of the rooms will he and his pal sleep in?” asked tossed theirs to Flipper. te gs and the cheroots wall t be charged extra,” as “That I do not know. When they all are asleep it is — to find out. There is no lock or*bolt on the-doors. so? We didn’t order them.” e sometimes wish to pay a visit to his roomers in the night doesn’t matter. That’s the way this fellow does when they are asleep, wi ich he could not do if they locked “You on to have him down fine.” pont themselves in.” “Then we can count on Spe to keep his hands off in this binge’ landlord tries e all he can out of his when he knows : cially matter of the girl?” said Gri don't see why Americans should — mark. for +2 = rs, “Si, senor. I will tell him what shall happen in the night, and he will keep out of the way.” “What time shall we pull the job off?” “We will say midnight. It is a 800d time. By daybreak we will be many miles on our An a 5 “All right. The matter is settled, then?” Domingo nodded and rose the table with his com- panion, “I go now to make the preparations We will meet at the corner of the house in three hours.” The two gauchos strolled out by the back door, leaving | the mack salisted b tag oy h, rejoined , satis’ ie enoug’ the to the door of the inn Jack getatied PR apn Regntarts get that was on the tapls is for the nigh “My gracious!” exclaimed Will ow are we — to prevent this? There are four of them, you say.” ; “We must watch for them, and give them such a hot re- ose oRC TE enh think they were hit by an earthquake,” ral ; Re aap oe meal soreamyrss : - “The landlord js as bi rascal a5'the othars: We've to rely on our own saa es sacar ot I suppose?” said nee sta have knives bat we ou Sanhy eee ze with our revolvers. aie “Can Shae ee a ‘That is heavy as: o i his daughter would retire to rest badly. back of the house, and ) it as they strolled about out- ‘ at a table with a Ber aed fooked very maueh | ‘Republic. , drinking, and seemed to be on _ Will to oe Jack ae is hy

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ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. {7 eu entered the inn and walked up the stairs to the sec- ‘floor. Investigation showed them that there was a second. stair- Way at the rear of the corridor on which the rooms opened. “They'll come up the back way, most likely,” said Jack) “And the stairs are so dark we’ll never be able to see them as they creep up.” Z ' “Unfortunately that’s right. Then two of them could come ; up the front stairs at the same time the others were as- mc these back ones, and we’d be caught between two res. “What are we going to do in order to save Miss Gale from x being carried off ?” 3 “There’s only one way that I-can see that offers any “What is that?” “We must awaken her father, tell him about the situation, and have him arouse his daughter. Then we'll all take in one room and try and fight the four rascals off. There’s bound to be shooting, and that ought to attract at- tention, though it’s my opinion nobody around here will come to our assistance.” ‘ “This is a pretty state of things,” growled Will. “A fine country where a party of unfortunate travelers can’t put up * a country hotel without being set upon by rascals and one up. “Foreigners like us have to take chances in the wilds of these South American republics.” “I wish to gracious I was back in Georgetown, where British law prevails.” “Wishing won’t get you there. We are up against a hard 2 ition, and must take the bull by the horns.” — - “Well, are you going to arouse Mr. Gale?” _“Not yet. Those chaps are not coming up here till mid- night—at least that was the time I heard them set. We'll let Mr. Gale and his daughter absee need rest, while we can stand a little hardship.” / *T haven’t seen any other lodgers up here,” said Will. “Let’s look at the other rooms, and see if we ean find a bet- ter one for making a defense than the three the landlord assigned to us. € ones we have taken are too small for fog: be pete and do much.” ; ss sei 2 ‘ oug’ S companion’s suggestion a good one, an ey proceeded to investigate the other rooms. At the end of bag ye e, near the back stairs, they found a fair-sized room, it showed evidences of occupancy. — would be just. the place to make a stand in,” said It is occupied by somebody, however.” “What if it is? We can take possession on the ground right to sdepehe best means at hand to save ourselves.” dw are we going to keep track of time?” _ “Guess at it. : that it isn’t more than nine now.” The boys found a couple of stools in the room, and took # possession of them. : ¥ Fame Semen clowky with: thet. house was quiet except at the kitchen end, whence could hear loud talking and laughter. was bright, and eee Ris wo. - - See by an attack, and therefore have the | wood See a TER aroana to the front of the daghing their cifficulty would be for them to leave the inn on the sly while the coast was clear. pe ; : Accordingly he returned to Will, who -had been impatiently waiting for him in the dark, and told him what he proposed doing. } that’s a good idea,” replied Will. “Let’s do it.” Jack at once went to the room occupied by Mr. Gale, aroused him, and in as few words as possible told him what they were up against. ; He was astonished and much disturbed. He agreed with the boy’s proposition to leave the place on the quiet. Drecsad phnaclt! he went to the next room and awakened his daughter. ‘ After explaining matters he told her to dress herself as quickly as she could, and join them all in the corridor. In ten minutes she came out of the room. “Now follow me,” said Jack, and he led the way toward the rear stairway. As they were about to descend a door opened below, and a man with a candle appeared at the foot of the stairs. It was the landlord, and he was evidently coming up. —_—__ CHAPTER VI. © A STROKE OF LUCK. the landlord did not see the i rkness above Owing to the darkness and they made no noise to party in the act of descending, attract his attention. Relying on the darkness to obscure their retreat, Jack as long as possible. They | ¢alied on the others to follow him. “Make as little noise as you can, for the landlord is down h idor,” he said. ; : They followed him to the head of the back stairs, down to the and then oor. ed the back door and looked out. Jack ee silent, and there was no one in sight, Bene ee said, stepping outside, and they followed him. There was an outhouse ayes by, er object was to. tw! them an e inn to begin with. nig he kt to hide their further retreat to the woods ~ behind. : the building without discovery, and then hur- nae nae ager an field that lay between the inn and the They had barely sence mee entered it when they becarne tion in the rear. Ms Ke indore} Sos found out that we have dusted out, and he is raising Cain and organizing immediate pursuit,” said Jack. “Unless we are seen crossing this field he'll natu- — rally conclude we have gone —s the road, that is, unless Griffen and his companion can swear that we have not. That all depends on how long those two rascals have been sitting : in the front of the house, ch commands a view of the ; ng Ww roan party got an extra hustle on, and ran toward the wood Rye they could go. = ged “they reached it quite out’ of breath, and stopped while itered. MRS Whey could ee the inn in the moonlight, and made out — persons moving about there. ; Fah “We'll go on,” said Jack, “The sooner we place some dis- tance between us and ‘the inn the better our chances for escape will be.” ; They were about ir ears, to. start ahead when the rapid gallop of ais horses came to Two or more mounted persons were approaching bag Pes ir positi ‘kward. sce 5 We must hide the: riders rs go by.” said Jack, ne soon they were’ concealed in ‘th appearéd when two horsemen’ cai stemnaton the fugitives, the men reed

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8 ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. then rolled and 1 a cigarette each. siderable distance. “We have yet _time,” said one of them in Spanish. “Ts there a town or village near here?” continued the boy. _ “Why wait alt ight to carry off the girl? Sanchez!’ “Six miles ahead there is a village,” was the reply. is with us. The sooner we get started the further along our| “This road leads to it, does it?” road we'll be by morning,” said the fellow whose name was} The man nodded. They tied all Poe to one of the trees near by, and| The man couldn’t say, but intimated that it was at a con- Silva. : “Muchas gracias,” said Jack. “Give him a small piece of .. “Very good,” replied Domingo. “Follow me.” silver, Will.” : _ The two rascals started for the inn. Will handed the man a sixpence. __ As soon as they passed out of the wood the fugitives came| He looked at it, and then; taking off his hat, made the party from their place of concealment. a low, sweeping bow, grinning all over his face. “Hero's luck,” said Jack. “How much did you give him, Will?” asked Jack. __ “What do you mean?” asked Will. | His friend told him. Se “Those horses. See them? There are four of them, and | “T’ll bet that’s more than the fellow will earn by working ee four of us. On their backs we'll soon get out of this neigh- | all day.” i 4 ood, and can defy pursuit.” They met people frequently after that, who regarded them _ "That will be great,” cried Will, in a tone of animation. curiously. _ “We'll lead them a short distance before we mount, so| Foreign-looking strangers were apparently not often seen that those rascals won’t hear the sound of their hoofs,” said} in that neighborhood. od At length they saw the village in the distance, and has- - SOCK. _ He stepped forward and rapidly detached each of the ani-| tened toward it. ~ mals in turn. Jack reined in at one of the first houses, and inquired if fo Take this one, Will,” he said. “Mr. Gale, grab the bridle| there was an inn in the place, _ of this one. I'll take the other two myself.” There was none, but he was told he would find one on the After leading the horses a hundred yards into the woods| main road a few miles further on. + : _ Jack helped Jessie on one of the two he led himself, and! So they passed through the village, and aimed for the inn _ mounted the other. in question. Will and Mr. Gale were quickly in the saddles of theirs. They reached it about eight o’clock, and found it to be a “Now off we go,” said Jack. “Miss Gale and I will lead | fair-looking place. ; the way. 3 ct ‘ Jack told the landlord that. they wanted a good breakfast, “Are you going straight ahead?” asked Will. and their horses looked after. 2 For the present, yes.” y was invited to make themselves at home. x J The The landlord was curious to learn whence they had come, 18 _ “Where will that take us to?” ame “I couldn’t tell you. My object just now is to secure our) but Jack parried the question. “escape. That is the first consideration. We may go out of; He learned that Placoa was eighty miles to the northwest. _ our way, but that can’t be helped.” : ; “We have quite a ride before us,” said Jessie. Jf they started, Jack and Jessie riding side by side, and; “Yes, but it isn’t half as bad as walking.” said Jack. wv v Sr After a good wash and a chance to fix themselves up, the four fugitives sat down to a bountiful breakfast, which they pelos hugely. : ; eir horses were then brought around in front of the inn. The landlord charged a fair price; and after paying the party set out on their way toward Placoa. All were feeling good now, and anticipated no further trouble from their enemies, whom they thought they had outgeneraled. ; But that was where they made a mistake. 4920) ee 3 - Of ‘Tithe ‘gil “proved to be a splendid xid h to Jack ~The | prov a splen rider, mu ack’ eidticn. e plendi muc Ss __As for Jack himself, he could ride anything in the shape of a horse. se . # _ Will was not an expert, but he could ride good enou Soya er jaguera while Mr. Gale was accustomed to horse- ; _ At the end of half an hour they emerged from the wood =F ab they followed without figuring where it would take] - “They rode for many miles in the moonlight without meet- with a soul. . . 24 passed many cottages on the edge of cultivated cir inmates had been asleep hours before. length they slowed sean te a walk, feeling fairly tafe i ong overhauled by their enemies, who could scarcely yand out their line of retreat. | y baal 1 a xness we've gone ten miles by this time,” said ised if we have,” returned Jack. away from Placoa instead of toward CHAPTER VII. TRACKED DOWN. They traveled all day at a rapid rate, for they were anx- ious to reach their destination as soon as possible. Night overtook them before anything in the shape of a — ‘house showed up. F : They remarked that they no longer met with the ‘culti- vated fields they had passed so often before, and that the. way was more lonesome and wild than they had hitherto en- — countered. ; od “Pm thinking that fellow lied to.us,” said Will. “I do not ed | believe we 1 find any inn to stop at.” pes: ““T see a light ahead,” said Jack. “It’s close to the road. Perhaps it is the inn we are looking for.” fon Ral They soon reached the building, and it looked like a house of entertainment. ee

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| ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. 9 Along one of the walls was a line of pegs for hanging] “Who’s there?” asked the gentleman, who was already in hats and clothes. bed. There biel many other things which it is not necessary to} “Me—Jack.” particulari “Oh! Well, you have something to tell me?” Ratna. Jack had completed his survéy a dog barked in} “I have bad news.” ‘the yard at a furious rate, and the party heard his chain} “Bad news!” cried the gentleman, sitting up. rattle as if he was tugging at it. “Yes. We have been tracked to this pe as by our enemies, The woman put down her work and came toward the door.| whom we thought we had eluded.” Jack hastily left the window and went, to meet her. “You don’t mean it.” “What do you want?” she asked in a surly tone in Spanish. I do. I have seen them. The sailors, the rascals they “Is this an inn?” asked the boy. conspired with to help them abduct your daughter, and two “Yes, but we don’t take in everybody.” others in league with them.” “There are four of us+a gentleman, his daughter, an-| “What shall we do?” ; other boy and myself. We want supper, beds, and break-| “Get up and dress yourself, and arouse the young lady. fast. We'll have to fight the thing out this time.” The woman peered at the rest of the party. Mr. Gale hurried into his clothes, and then rushed into - “Come in,” she said. “I will send a man to take charge| the room occupied by his daughter, of your horses.” Jack returned to Will, and found his friend dressed again. Jack helped Jessie to disrhount, and she and her father} Seizing the candle, Jack examined the corridor, and found ; entered the house, while Jack and Will held the animals till| that there was only one flight of stairs leading to it. . a rough-looking fellow came out of the yard and took charge| “They'll have to come up that way, and we must head ~ ‘of them. | them off,” he said to Will. zs The boys then went into the house. “Head off six men.” ; The four sat on a settee on one side of the room, feeling) “Yes. Miss Gale must be protected at any cost.” Z very much like cats in a strange garret. “I see our finish.” ‘ Presently an overgrown, clownish-looking youth appeared Perhaps, but there will be others in the same boat. IT and be. setting one end of the big table for four. intend that those rascals shall pay dearly for their triumph if “4 It didn’t take him long, and then he disappeared. they win it. zB In the course of half.an hour a rude repast was ready for} He took out his sai woe and looked at it. 4 the party, and the woman told them to sit up and eat. Mr. Gale now joined i. She resumed her occupation, but Jack noticed that she| He held in his ms ey a ind of club he had found in the ~ was furtively watching them. corner of the room. ~ 3 When the meal was finished Jack said they would like to “We must make the best stand we can against those ras- __ >) to bed, as they were tired. cals,” he said. They shall reach my daughter only over my __ The woman summoned the clownish boy and ordered him dead body.” +e to” oon the party to the rooms she mentioned on the floor} “And ours,” replied Jack, with a resolute look. ri, ie 4 — minutes afterwards Jessie appeared with a fright-. ~ The boy took three candles and led the way. ened face. oa A sthey were ascending the stairs they heard a clatter of| “Let us go to the head of the stairs,” said Mr. Gale. »” “Two or three of these villains shall die before we are over- powered.” “Oh, father!” cried the girl, throwing her arms around ~ his neck.” : Pr Sah my dear, don’t be frightened; we will pro- 5 “But if Rhee ou should be killed, father?” she sobbed. ee “Don’t k of such a thing, daughter, before it has hap. or pened. Go into one of the rooms further back, and keep out — of harm’s way.” ‘t Redeal 2 into the one we occupied at the end of this Pas se door is open, and you will find a candle in 5 said Jack. , Jessie was loath to leave her father, but when he insisted : that, oe should retire from the danger point she relue- xf tent y i: ae Mr. Gale ut the two.boys placed themselves at the hea of. the stairs and awaited the outcome of the situation wi dogged determination. hoofs outside, and that indicated several new arrivals. Jessie was shown into a small corner room, her father to one peeing it, while the boys were taken to a room “T’m Soaks out,” said Will. *1 shall sleep like a top to- pie gs walked to the’ window that opened on the road and ; looked out. _. . The moon was just rising above the tree-tops and shone full on the house. ars in boy heard ‘an excited conversation in Spanish going on e looked down and then he got a shock. ae saw the two sailors, Griffen and Flipper, and their weap native companions, Domingo and ilva, with two - _ other fellows of their own breed, standing at the door talk- ing: to the woman and rough-looking man, t From what Jack heard, the newcomers a Pa ages of their arrival and were in high glee over the di “That they meant to erent by it there year Be no doubt. ” whispered Jac “What do 70 vant te i asked his friend with a yawn, aa CHAPTER VIII. CAPTURED. Nothing happened for half an hour, but the: aie. < much! longer to the peg At sound of sere they yor the opening stad ieee + below, am the | . =r mee na do you mean?” cried 1 will, waxtted pate A aN yore £2” gasped W Will. “Not Griffen and a Fifppert” : w are. The oth dE ye Fo gga ¢ th Ameri- aan, Peereee pad Oi maser Pe Te: antana

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10 ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. If a thunderbolt had struck the house at that moment As: his head appeared above the level of the window the ‘the scoundrels could not have been taken more by surprise. | boy shoved his weapon in his face. Domingo stopped, and the rest had. to. The gaucho raised the candle and all looked up. “Git or I'll fire,” he cried. Domingo was so startled, as well as taken by surprise, They saw Jack and Will standing on the landing point-| that he lost his balance and fell backward. ing their revolvers down into‘ their faces, and the figure of the bark owner, looming indistinctly behind the boys. Domingo uttered. a native imprecation, and the sailors ~~ said/something under their breaths. en Domingo said: “What is this? What do you mean, senors? We are going to bed.” . aitat's a lie,” replied Jack. ___ to attack us and try to abduct the young lady who is under er ' our protection.” . “We attack. you, senors!” cried Domingo in. a tone of assumed surprise. “You must be mad. You are strangers to _us. Why should we do you harm?” zi “You can’t deceive me, for I am acquainted with your plans. You and those two sailors conspired toxsiier, at the inn kept by one Sanchez to kidnap Miss Gale. We left | the place in the night to save her. Now that you’ve followed | us here, your object is the same, and we are prepared to| resist you as long as we have a bullet in our revolvers. Advance another stép and ru shoot you dead.” swear you are wrong.” “You'd swear anything, I have no doubt, but we know ands than to trust you. ” Retire or take the consequences, and remember we shall be on the watch all night.” : Domingo, clearly much discomfited, turned to his com- : s fi -panions and said ea in a low tone. - . Then he surve the landing again, and the formidable aah ‘front presented ie = party above deterred him and. his _ associates from making any rash move. Griffen Bing een F keds prospect even less than the and began a backward movement. ag swear we mean you no harm,” said Penings ae. us go-to our rooms in peace. We will in no a you. _ “No; you can’t come up here except at the risk of your ie returned Jack. “The landlady sen hear of this.” g, he turned around, and the others, taking ir cue, began to descend the stairs. ’ paused at the foot for a rr consultation. leaving two of the party at the bottom of the ee ee Cte HO aeF > Fs ray room “you suppose will be their next move?” said can I tell? Without firearms they will hardly ave cs By d to ch; up these stairs, and there is no other way of reach- ou: at I know of replied Jack. = Pay ascend by way of the windows with the aid of forgot that. Give Mr. Gale your revolver out of one of the windows. If you see warn us at once. Two of us will ae stairs in any case, while one at. which- ee plant a ladder could hold them at keep wate from one of the windows. It w a had thought of the rascals adopting peat that is ot what they steenaptod in a little ‘hile, thin to the party on the second floor off minutes at the window ener and Bites, ‘being: He struck Griffen, who was following him, on the head, and broke his hold. The two swept Flipper off the ladder in their fall, and when Jack looked out he saw the three floundering on the ground, swearing furiously. Griffen was the first to recover his feet, and seeing Jack looking down he shook his fist at him and flung a string “You are coming up here | of imprecations into the air. At that moment there was the report of a revolver on the landing. Mr. Gale had fired at one of them on the stairs, and sigptly wounded him. e three raseals retired precipitately. Jack leaned out of the window, seized the top of the lad- fetes and flung it to the ground. Thus the second effort of the enemy failed. For half an hour the party was not disturbed, but they did not believe that this inaction on the part of "their foes would last long. They kept a sharp lookout from one of the windows and down the dark stairway. At the end of that time Silva. and the two sailors reap- peared at the foot of the stairs, This time they had no light. Griffen shouted up “What do you want?” asked Mr. Gale. Hardly had he spoken when there was a flash and a report, - and a char nee of buckshot rattled inst the wall near Mr. Gale’s hea standing alongside who tead of on had the balustrade, instead Of on the landing, where the rat ~ - fians supposed. he was. The moment the gun was discharged the three men made a rush upstairs, thinking to reach the top in the confusion. There was no confusion among the defenders, neither the —_ owner nor Will having been touched by the shower of ot. Will, who had the revolver, fired it down in the de ge at nothing, for he could not distinguish the a’ party. ihe bullet hit Silva, and he fell back on the stairs with a loud cry. The two sailors kept on, and Griffen was -met by a clout Ce the head by Mr. Gale’s club, and was staggered by the ow. Jack, hearing the rumpus, and seeing nothing deing out- ‘side, hastened to back up his friends. Will’s revolver rang out again, and the bullet “barely missed’ Flipper’s head. The next minute he was in the grasp of that scoundrel, and a desperate tussle took place between them, with the chances all. against the boy, who was no match for the brawny sailor. Griffen recovered himself, and with the blood runhing . down his face from the wound inflicted b: by the bark owner, tackled that gentleman savagely. The appearance of Jack, however, was likely to turn the scale of battle against the two sailors. The chief trouble’ was it was too dark to distinguish friend from foe. He got hold of Flipper, however, and struck him a stag- "| Sering blow in the face with the butt of his revolver. — At that exciting moment a shrill seream from Jessie anh’ out from the room at the end of the pasage. It showed that something unexpected had ety to her. : Jack was the only one in a position te gash to her aid. - Sioa thd tek -of th h the girl strug: ll ote @ room, 4 hi e gir ,peling in f Domingo and the ether two natives. — y were forcing her toward an open door in wall ther neither Jack nor Will had noticed when they i: in- e eae Ua t See On ot was because it was a secret there. — eee? yea SS

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- As he reached it he suddenly received a blow in the face from Domingo, who expected this more on his part, was lying in wait for him. As he staggered back the Calling back one of his friends, and grabbing the boy be- | tween them, binding his arms jo his side. Then they tossed him on the bed, and grabbing up the light | rushed out in the corridor, where the scrap was still going. on between Mr. Gale, Will and the sailors. | The arrival of Domingo and his companion on the scene resulted in the complete defeat of the boy and the bark) owner, and they were soon bound like Jack. ; Both Griffen and Flipper looked badly handled, Jack’s| blow having torn a great gash.in the latter’s cheek, and | they wanted to take revenge on the two ‘boys; but Domingo | prevailed on them to postpone the matter for the present, telling them that the girl was now in their power, and it | was advisable to lose no time in carrying her and their | other prisoners away from the inn. ae was secured downstairs, and gagged to quie The rascals then repaired damages as well as they could, and after a drink all around, their own horses, and those used by the fugitives, were brought around to the front of | the house, the prisoners were bound on the animals they had oo and then the party set off at a rapid pace up the road. : keep her e \ CHAPTER IX. ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. _The prisoners were separated from each other during the dack’s hotse was led by Flipper, who followed after Domingo, the leader, leading the animal bestrode by Jessie. Behind Jack came Mr. Gale, convoyed by one of the na- tives, and behind him Will, in charge of Griffen. Last of all rode the wounded Silva, his arm done up m a , and with him was the other native. e party reeled off many miles at a brisk pace before daylight disclosed a bare and lonesome landscape ahead. _was no path or road over this sterile stretch of | land, which seemed to be of considerable extent, with few if any trees to break the monotony. As the sun rose in the sky the prisoners began to ex- the heat more and more, and the sailors were some- |) what affected, too. The South Americans alone did not appear to be in- commoded. , - At length the landscape began to change for the better, and after about an eight-hour steady ride since leaving the : a halt was called under a large spreading tree, the _, thick leaves of which afforded a ‘welcome relief from the burning rays of the sun. The prisoners were lifted to the ground and propped against the trunk. ; Then rice cakes, with a slice of meat, were passed around, . which with water formed the meal. 4 } x the lapse of an hour the party started on again. thee _way was mostly eg by Some relief, as the sun was hotter than _ Will had felt so fagged out that he slept during more than half of the first’ stage of the journey, while Jack nodded less during the trip. of the * — 5 By this time the party had covered about mil and were fifteen miles ov so south éf; Placoa. wesree: a meal. second stop was made for Yest and another frugal ‘san iS i , ‘ _. The thi not made till midnight, after they had % big a ‘th Pe olga and seat food wae distributed. _ Tt was at this EPS OREN. AGENT, HEME : AAS e. ni 4 ; itemsclves and Wake a slog wotco the Barty comllel with h an le kook ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. ’ ight arm of each of the prisoners was released so! to it. feed themselves. - 11 “We will stay thereall day,” he said to the sailor, “and » go on again after dark.” The night seemed an endless and fatiguing one to the prospects gaucho sprang upor him, bore | prisoners, who felt very glum over the uncertain him to the ground, and pulled the revolver from his grasp. | ahead for them. Morning came at last, and about seven o’clock the inn twas reached. The prisoners. were taken from the horses and marched into the house. Jessie was turned over to one of the two women at the place, and was conducted away from her frien It made Jack wild to see the poor girl’s distress, and to realize that it was quite impossible for him or her father to help her in any way. Mr. Gale and the two boys were placed in a small room at the end of the house. , Only one of their arms was bound, but one of the natives squatted outside on guard. This was the first opportunigy they had had since their _ capture to talk together, and they naturally availed them- selves of it. t ' ; “Say, this is tough,” said Will, dejectedly, “I never thought I’d ever have to go through anything like this.” “If you think it’s hard what must it seem to Miss Gale?” replied Jack. “My poor child!” said the bark owner. “No one but her- self knows how she suffers!” ; se “I wonder what these chaps are going to do with all of us?” said Will. “They will release you, Mr. Gale, of course, otherwise they could not expect to get the ransom they are looking for you to put up for the release of your daugh- ” zr. “I will willingly give every dollar I’m worth for the sare return of my a a civilized town whence I can take her home,” said Mr. e. “If I were you I wouldn’t let on that I had much, then maybe these fellows will be satisfied with a ‘small sum, Anyway, an American dollar is worth twice its value in South America, and I should think that $1,000 would look like a fortune to these scallawags.” f “You forget, Will, that Griffen and Flipper regard money in the same way we do, and $1,000 wouldn’t count for much with them. Unfortunately, oe appear to know that Mr. Gale is well off, for I heard Griffen tell ‘that native chap who is running things that he owned a house and had account in New York. He also spoke about the insurance money due for the loss of the bark. Altogether it is al- certain that they mean to demand a stiff ransom for iss Gale,” said Jack. ; ek “They don’t expect to get a ransom for us, so wi at dis- turbs af is what’ are their intentions rega: z us? Do they propose to kill us when they get us to their destina- tion, or what?” said Will. : “It would be useless to figure on what their purpose is re- garding us,” answered Jack. “They have us in their power, and they will treat us as they please.” “I wish we could escape,” said Will. “So do I, but there’s ange ad ittle chance of such luck coming to us the way matters looks. aA ‘ At that point Doran 2 egpee and addressing Jack said that breakfast was y; and they must walk out They had no objection to doing that, for the three were very hungry. They were taken other arm After resumed at dark. - oe were tired and used up after their late experience advantage of the chance to rest, and ‘slept nearly ther As they s = Te took 1 day. Just before: sundown they were treated to another fair Gack: and. Will were led hack to the Foom, but-not, Mr,: sees 2 ? . Al raneas, at the mouth of the Ornoco, where he would 7 = * * a Se te eee a bank — . .. ©

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12 - From Georgetown he could ‘where he could set to work to get together the amount of the ransom, which had been fixed at $10,000.. ’ As soon as it was dark he was allowed to bid his daugh- ter a temporary farewell, after which he set off in charge of Silva for the Orinoco. The two boys did not learn that the bark owner had poet company ‘with them until they were brought outside p.) resume the journey westward, then they saw that he and Silva were not with the party any longer. _ Jack called Domingo over and asked him about the ab- ‘sence of Mr. Gale. . “It is not the young senor’s business what has become of the other prisoner,” he replied, shortly. “Perhaps you'll tell us where you are taking us to?” asked Jack. “You will learn in good time,” was all the satisfaction he - got. '_ The journey was then continued as before, and only one short stop was made during the night. In the morning the boys saw a broad stream of water in ce, Jack asked Flipper what river it was. “Tt’s the Orinoco, my. hearty,” he answered, “and if Sam me has our way you and your pal will be pitched into it with a stone around your feet.” : He eyed Jack with a look of malice, and the boy did not feel like asking him any more questions. They lost sight of the river soon after. After severa] days of steady traveling the party entered a rps paid yen, Age see and finally came to a halt . before another inn which stood beside the road that crossed -. It was only a small building, but there were outhouses rhe and a stable attached to it. work in these little fields. om boys noted the fact that. Domingo seemed well ac- - quainted with the people at this house, and when dinner Was ready, and all hands, including the field laborers, sat appeared to be See down to it, he on terms of intimacy with _ Jessie was not present at this meal. _In fact, the two boys had not seen her since their arrival -inn when she was led away by a woman called to take charge of her. Jack and Will were taken outside and tied ree, one on one side and the other on the opposite side L they. coul position ‘not see each other, but they by turning their heads. what is next on the programme?” remarked CEST len be aby oe ft a ‘re u, ‘know no mere about their intentions than you Jack. - are are deciding on our took the was to do us say Tor Sele ect a thoie doc’ bes. wpkde wree p for ¢ Bp Sena aaa ole dug y a@ spade ay up. A clip on the would have put us have is no chance of our doing either.” ne ph sag shout rose from 2. crowd. ; doing now? 2 tbat ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. get to the United States, | arnused themselves passing jeering remarks about the two t < young prisoners. ° Their talk was like Greek to Will, bat Jack understood all they said. y This. went on for about ten minutes, when Domingo came | to the front of the inn and gave a shrill whistle. | The crowd at once broke up and the men teok their way toward the long stable. ._ ; Presently a man came around the corner of the inn leading a kind of burro. : Behind him followed the two sailors, carrying a small barrel between them. ; : It seemed to be empty from the east with which they handled it. Domingo took the animal’s leading rope from the man, and started for the'tree. He and the sailors stopped close to the tree, and the latter dropped the barrel. : The boys viewed the proceedings with some apprehension, wondering what was on the tapis. Griffen and Flipper released Jack first, and throwing him on the ground, bound him hand and foot. Will was then served the same way. Domingo led the burro up and the sailors bound the boys on each side of the animal, as they might a sack of merchandise. The light cask was then placed on the burro’s back, be- tween the prisoners, and’secured there. The animal was then tied to the tree, and the three ras- cals returned to the inn. Fifteen minutes passed, during which the burro moved around, nibbling the grass here and there, while the feelings of the tavo lads may be better imagined than described. Then the young Americans heard a rush of horses’ hoofs pnd a crowd of horsemen came up and surrounded tree rro. . One of them dismounted, and taking the aninial’s leadi rope in his hand remounted, and the whole party started down the mountain slope. Judging from the way the crowd carried on the rascals seemed out on a kind a holiday expedition. ; Domingo led the advance with the two sailors, and piloted the way along a different route to that by which the pris- oners had been brought to the inn. : In the course of an hour they left the range, emerging out on a grassy plain, with a broad river stretching to the left and a as far as one are see . — re wey a A straggling wood grew within a hun yards 0 e stream, and here the party halted, dismounted, and tied their horses. - The burro was led down to the bank of the stream by Domingo, two natives following close behind with spear- Speed les, and the crowd stretching out in the rear. e sa and the barrel were removed from the animal’s back by the two gaucho companions of Domingo. J Having bound the boys to their frail) float, the two — gauchos pushed them out into the stream with long The current of the Orinoco now swept the boys away, | end a yell of glee escaped the crowd. “Oh, Lord!” gasped Will. “We shall be drowned.” ; Jack, whose head was alongside his friend’s, made no ly. k verre Eanent that their situation was fraught with the gray- est peril, They were literally adrift on the mighty Orinoco. e — ——— CHAPTER X. at

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- than they et ADRIFT ON. THE ORINOCO. “This is our finish,” goaned Will. “Tt looks like it,” his spirits up. “Another duck or two and it will be all up with me.” “Hold your breath when you feel the barrel sinking.” “It bobs down too quiek.” “Keep cool and watch out.” “What's the use? ‘It’s only a question of time when the water will finish us.” “Don’t get discouraged. Hang on to your life for all you are worth. Who knows but something will happen to pull us out of this.” “No such luck.” The conversation was carried on under difficulties, and to Will’s last remark Jack made no reply. They were floating further and further out from the shore where their enemies were gloating over their hard lot, and going down with the stream at a moderate pace. For nearly an hour the rascals on the bank watched them, and then tiring of the amusement the whole bunch turned their horses and rode off toward the range, leaving their vic- tims to their fate. The rope that held the boys to the barrel, as well as the ropes that bound their arms and legs, had now become so water soaked that Jack, in an effort to shift his position, ‘found he could draw one of his arms out of the loop that ‘confined it. “Here, what are you doing?” cried Will, as the barrel “bobbed about in the water under Jack’s movements. “I've got one arm free and I’m trying to release the Other,” replied Jack. “The ropes are loose. Why don’t you and get your arms out, too?” ill did try, and succeeded quite as en as his friend. ““We’re not a whole lot better off,” said Will. “Our legs are still tied, and we are bound to the barrel.” See we could get free from the barrel we could swim ore.” . “You might be able to, but I couldn’t.” “Why not? You can swim, can’t you?” ' “Not much. At any rate, not as far as the shore.” ~ “Well, I’m going to try and work this barrel shoreward ee my arms,” said Jack. ~ He began to carry that plan into effect, but the current admitted Jack, though he tried to keep at pocket. 13 I’ve just reg ag that I have a Jock-mife in I don’t see why I didn’t think of it before. You hold on tight and. steady the = and give me a chance to fish out the knife,” replied J “Got a knife, have you? That’s eee Yll hold on for all I’m wo Jack felt for his knife, but the effort carried his face under the water. He didn’t mind that a bit, for. he was accustomed to div- ing, and could remain beneath the surface as long as any good swimmer. He got hold ee. his knife, drew it out and opened the big blade with his teeth. Then he proceeded to separate himself from the barrel. This was not as easy as it seemed to be, for the water- soaked strands resisted the blade a lot more than if they had been dry. the two “Fasily. It took him. fully ten minutes to, eut throu loops, and as the same loops also held Will, he to not to let go his hold under any consideration. his friend | While cutting the rope he held on to the flat-boat with ~ his left hand so as to support himself out of the water. At last he was free of the barrel, and throwing the knife on the craft he Ee) himself up and rolled aboard. “Hold “ee ‘at Lee ree e sai his Show ge by the arms, hauled him up and over the stern of the boat. The barrel. left. to itself did. not float away, but clung close to the stern of the flat-boat, held there by the pressure the current. hig “Ng few minutes Will’s legs were free, and both boys up. “Shake, old man,” said Will, in a tone of satisfaction. “We are out of that peri] at any rate.” They shook hands in a hearty way “I was afraid all the time we were tied to that barrel] that t fill with water by de s and drag us under. Just think if the bung came out of it We'd have gone to the bets ‘in no time. didn’t come out, and consequently we didn’t eth ‘go to the bottom. That shows we have luck with us, and * worked against him, handicapped as he was with the barrel | with luck in our favor we'll get out of our scrape in the to pull. and h‘s friend’s weight. too. : _ The boys were now being swept around a bend in the river, ang right before them they saw a large object floating di- rectly in their path ahead. It was —. and unwieldly and went along much mesiten “Whats oat ahead?” asked Ph “Looks like a house.” _ Jack worked around so as to look. _ “It’s a kind of flat boat with ‘a low house built on he said. “It is right in our way, and we are Poe ict oa it said Will. “Maybe we fast.” “We must try and get hold of a could manage to get on board - Tiver on Ags than on this barrel. ot vé it to me and I'll see what I can do. It lies so low _ im the water that we ought to have no great "connecting with it,” said Jack. Aree ‘trend of the current kept them e flat-boat, and they came up with it me had agen from the first that the boat Prove that there might not be everal pe rsons asleep ins house, which oa to be a ind of of double-decked nativ on top of the eee “was et to hold with one hand, and by one got his other hand on-the boat. % rt was a total failure, handicapped as they were ope lh Tre ciuag ‘eaten difficulty in| hole with a loft which was a bgor door, yd in the track of boys, a? There was a table in tt the he “room, and shelves around ea te course of ne were lucky to run foul of this boat. Let’s look at ae ai river y down the se Widens eke » | OPER, sash—. fl mecen ake i Jack pushed the door o and looked inside. The height of the room was not over seven feet, and a ladder near by eergrenrer pe Riga evns a by another opening of course, could id not see. dently of native appeared to and ro for there was no one looking after it; that dane — as patrol and Seoaers Beene 3 ge which Jack sus~ 4 ide | pected chaft carri * f p was the cargo the gana hed nee | Por Tore, Before an part t sntisfaction the found a cask full of f, aint Sa gees ee Jet qui | Pig, and a won starve with all th . whe ee ead nt to eo ‘1 pull you in just as soon as I cut my — ob took him about five minutes, and then grabbing — VER By the opening above the a . = 2m ‘ee pen another door at the other end, which stood y eh sooner float down Wile] gait e-windevr aecalther alte open, v iy

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ae ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. one of the shelves lay a navy revolver in its leather or sheath, and beside it a box heaping full of cart- aR | possession of the revolver and filled his pockets “with cartridges. examination of the wi m showed that every cham- “ber was already loaded. — ¢ “Say, V'll bet the people who belong to this craft are __ asleep upstairs,” said Will. . in this _ aboard. It doesn’t look reasonable.” rs I agree with you. Weil, if the people are aboard they are 3 ake taking things easy. One of .them onght to be} 5 pe ew ooking out for. the boat,” said Jack. “It might go | ashore Somewhere if if it wasn’t kept in the middle of the} “T didn’t see ay PS jag inthe stern aint ly =e, carhe on ‘How. do you suppose this craft is con- Raber hectic e boat gets too cloge to either bank j rs can fend “oft with them till a sweep of the 2 _ tide carries the craft out into the stream again.” I _see,” ps lied Will. “Well, let’s take a peep upstairs. Tl slip fingers, show d look. If the people are there I'll hold up my id how many th¢re are of them, Tf it should the boat. is really deserted, so much the better oe us.. Went boss the craft to suit ourselves.” __“T have an idea you won’t find anybody there,” confidently. t makes you think so?” we've already made’ noise enough around here to awaken most any sleeper, and the natives of this country are easily aroused, for they have good ears, better than @ average civilized person.” : hee ipa noe you account for the boat being adrift with- Pr crew _ “Tt might have broken loose from its moorings while the were all ashore attending to some business,” replied “"That’s so Will; “but théy’d have chased it in some, Tight ‘arate wouldn’t ‘they, as soon as they found it 1ey ey he following it now for all we know.” ope they won’t catch up with it.” “cant npn this lumbering craft they’re worse We're traveling as slow as molasses from a more confidence than before that he would find the a Will mounted the ladder and poked his head hole in the ceiling. The two small square windows furnished enough light for see the interior of the loft pretty clearly. Bie what do you see?” asked Jack, preparing to follow Say Tag + & d ot JO cae tortie thle silutiol“aP-tie cami MEAS s ution craft deserted. It is clear to me that its presence was Ds

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“ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. 15 “With that eutlas and this revolver I think we. ought.to be able to do up Mr. Snake,” said Jack. “You wouldn’t catch me going near enough to him to stick him,” said Will. “I know what- snakes are. They get around you in no time and squeeze you into a jelly. I mean snakes as big as this one.” “They can’t do much squeezing unless they can get their tail anchored around a tree, or something else that will give them the chance to brace themselves.” “How do you know they can’t?” _“Pve h so.” ; “They can poison you with their stinger, can’t they?” _“Small snakes of a venomous kind do, but whether the big ones do I can’t say.” Are you going to try and shoot this one?” “T cer y will do my best if he comes down here.” ie < we'd better roost on the roof of the house -to- night. : “The snake could crawl out of one of those small windows and get up there as well as it could come down here.” “Suppose it comes down in the dark, how are you going to see it to kill it? I guess a snake:can see better at night ae it can m the daytime, while we can’t see at all in the “There’s a lantern inside here which we can light as soon as it gets dark. That will illuminate the room.” “That’s something, but still I donjt like the idea of passing the night on this boat in company with that snake.” “IT don’t see how we can avoid it and better ourselves. ‘Here is a good boat with plenty of provisions on board on _ -which we float down to civilization.. We are a long dis- _ tance out in the winderness, and if we should leave the boat we'd surely starve. Between two evils I think the snake is the lesser one since we are armed and able to protect our- » “selves.” : The boys got a couple of stools and sat down near the door insi room. » While they continued to converse they kept their eyes on the opening at the top of the ladder, Pee also watched the two doors, for it was not unlikely that snake might let itself out by way of one of the small windows at either end of the house. Jack was cool and collected, but Will was manifestly nerv- ous. _ The boys talked over what they had gone through since they started out of Georgetown harbor on that unlucky sail _ which had ended in their being cast away on the Vene- _. zuelan shore. = “T feel sorry for my father,” said Will. “He has surely - ‘eoncluded long before this that I am at the bottom of the sea, and I don’t know how he will be able to write the news et : z - home to my mother. The chances are he will not send her -_- word, but leave her in ignorance of my fate until he reaches home and breaks it to her himself.” _ “When did he expect to sail for the States?” asked Jack. Es “Not for some little time, as his business is by no means completed in Georgetown. : Rey “Tf that is so you may turn up before he leaves, and that _ «will save your mother an unnecessary shock.” eRe 7 oe to do that for you. should be so lueky don’t agree ; tea the snake “But we can’t leave the snake out. We’ye got to count on him giving us a lot of—or, Lord! There he is now at the » - ° fr. ; fell off e! door to on his ‘hai ‘* you can cut it 7 1 no ic, | who slid any further out of the window, and as the reptile made a dart at him he pushed the door\against its neck and held it with all his strength. “Quick, Will, now is your time, before it gets away from me,” he shouted. Will advanced gingerly and made a cut at the snake’s head, He missed it. “Get closer. Don’t be afraid. Work quick.or he may get laway,” said Jack, who wasn’t sure he could hold the door | tight against the slippery and squirming reptile. Will made another blow at the snake and this time in- flicted a bad cut on its head. It hissed so and shot out its forked tongue that Will fell “Get at it again or come here and hold the door.” Will was clearly afraid of tackling the snake even when it was in his power. He seized hold of a heavy crate and shoved it against the end of the door, thinking to crush the snake between the edge of the door and the jamb, but it. didn’t work. It held the snake fast, however, and gave Jack a chance to get busy. ; 5 He drew his revolver and put five bullets into the reptile’s brain, which settled its hash for good. . “That’s the end of Mr. Snake,” said Jack ina tone of satisfaction. \ Its head was reduced to a mere bleeding pulp, held by the “Y’ll never forget this | \ closed door. “Lord, how glad I am!” cried Will. experience-as long as I live.” Anat They waited for an hour, and as the sun was setting Jack pulled the crate away and openedithe door. The e was limp and lifeless. It was all out of the window and was a monster, capable of squeezing a bullock to death easily. =a hag With the aid of one of the poles they managed to push the body over into the river, and when it disappeared be- neath the surface with a splash the boys felt that an meubus had been lifted from their minds. Ten minutes afterward darkness fell over the landscape, but the sky was so brilliant with stars that they could see some distance ahead down the river. The lantern was lighted, and then they had their supper. ‘They sat talking a while, chiefly about the unfortunate sit-— uation of Jessie Gale, who was a prisoner in the hands of the rascally band in the mountain range to the west, and figuring on.schemes for her rescue, and then they turned in on two of the straw beds in the loft of the log cabin and slept until morning, letting the flat-boat navigate itself down. ~ the river, as it had done since they\came aboard. x ' 4 CHAPTER XII. WILL ALMOST HAS A FIT. 2 Several uneventful days passed, and during that time ae | flat-boat made but slow headway down the Orinoco. eats Eviceiy enone was of small importance to the navigators owned i ar declared that they could walk faster if they were Way Pa a Will ashore. aie, robabili = Slow mt ‘ _ That afternoon a

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16 ADRIFT ON On the following day they were still in the midst of the desert tract, their progress not being fast enough to carry _ them through it. Along about noon the breeze which had somewhat tem- pered the heat died out and the heat became so intense that they grew drowsy and retired to the loft to sleep till night came on, While they slept the sky grew dark and threatening, wid a terrific thunder storm came up. _... It was preceded by a furious wind which came diagonally » across the river, and forced the flat-boat over toward the ehposite shore, did more than that. It forced the boat up a tributary of the Orinoco which emptied into it at this point, and finally landed the boat on a shoal, for the tide was low at the time. The shock of the boat striking the shore awakened Jack and he poked his head out of the window to see what was up. _. He was surprised at the gloom in the air, and roaring of _ the wind, for everything had been as still as death when they _ went to sleep, é@ was more surprised to notice that the boat was ashore. went down the ladder and out on the forward deck, phi ra saw that the boat had grounded hard and fast on the shore, _ “Here’s a stroke of hard luck again. We're irate in the desert. This stream doesn’t look like the Orinoco. It must be one of its branches we have run into somehow. I’m afraid we’re a fixture, and will have to tramp it the rest _of the way to the nearest town.” Looking out over the landscape Jack saw a curious look- ing tree, withered and dead, standing like a lone sentinel a short distance from the water, and not far from a great mer apa rose, like a sunken dome, out.of the ground. Something bright and shiny hung on the tree, and Jack’s i he wondered what it was. : pen t looked so weird in the red glare of the lightning that _ he determined to run over and take a look at it. The distance was not far, and he felt sure that he could get back before the storm burst upon them. a Eregtape a he jumped ashore and started for the tree. * my erage ithe saw that it was but a hollow shell, : ast Sabet terior decayed after the trunk had been split open, in all p ity 8 a thunderbolt. . ~The Ftc og Sa object proved to be merely the bleached interior $ Bag " been worn fn the wloer and by we Boar, giving Spectral et e oom, and under e lurid gleam the lightning. one Jack sibeittinnd that fact than the storm wn with such’ terrific force that he dared not re- to the boat, but decided to take shelter inside the a tree, so he stepped inside. was at meat moment that Will was aroused by a tre- the loft wrapped in a darkness. 4 tremendous — sont sound came from the roof which e boy soon ns mie his: eyes a vivid flash of lightning lit up eae a moment, and another awful boat from stem to stern. vil uncer of 2 pha tilel. sad one elite ream a a m its meu glare of the lightning showed Will that he was alone. $ ‘must haye aroused Jack, and he has gone 3,” pe thought. “It’s a corking heavy one. Gee! ; followed: as before by a tremendous peal. dd over to the e Tadder. and bsapsp ‘down bands 8 ‘open, so intense was the darkne th oats! and h = tapos dak THE ORINOCO. iosity was aroused as he gazed at it through the gloom,| half a mile I am sure I could see him. “poh up and looked around him, and was astonished aad was made by a fearful downpour of wanna aware that the boat was no longer ‘as Job’s turkey; now I’m 2 roof was ere in that time. Tl go down > could see nothing, Seidadh both fs doors SS, the matter with his brains. Then what in thunder has be- come of him? yi slipped down the ladder; went to the door and looked ou fie was fairly pe alte by what the lightning revealed to his eyes. “Good Lord, we are ashore!” he gasped, What was even worse, Jack was nowhere in sight. The clouds above were like thick masses of soot w orking like the surface of the ocean in a storm, only reversed, an so close to the earth that it seemed to ‘the almost terrified Will, who had never seen anything in his life approaching it, as if they were descending in a heavy mass to suffocate the landscape below. The tremendous sound of the thunder was due to its near- ‘ness. It tore things up generally. Will was greatly alarmed over Jack’s disappearance, par- ticularly at such a time as that. It was impossible for him to account for it. He was frightened, too, at the fierceness of the storm, for he feared that a thunderbolt might strike the boat and de- stroy it, in which case he would surely perish himself. He retired to a corner and huddled up like an animal over- come by terror. There he remained for a whole hour while the storm raged like legions of fiends an the rampage. radually it worked off to the northwest, and the sky | lightened up. The worst over, Will got up, fesling like a aegis and went to the door again. “TJ don’t see where he could have gone to,” said Will, more uneasy than ever. “Surely he couldn’t have fallqa into the river and been borne away. If he were anywhere within ‘I can’t imagine any reason that would have taken him off the boat in that sterm. I never felt so lonesome in all my life. happened to him I see my finish, too. I couldn't go on alone to save my life. The boat is stranded anyway, and that set- tles the trip down the river. The Orinoco seems to have got mighty narrow all at once. It doesn’t look like the same river.” He walked dispiritedly back into the cabin, and seating himself on one of the stools, gave himself up to gloomy fore- bodings about the future. Fifteen minutes passed away and then there came the 3 sound of steps outside, He looked up and saw Jack stepping up to the door. He sprang up and rushed to meet him “Where in creation have you been, Jack?” he cried. “I have been worried to death almost over your mysterious ab- sence, I couldn’t make out where you had gone.” “Oh, IT woke up a couple of hours ago, just before the If anything has’ Le storm came on, and discovered that we had gone ashore some--~ y where vpon a branch stream of the Orinoco,” nd “Where were you during the storm?” “On shore.” “And didn’t you get wet?” “T don’t look as if I did, do I?” “No, Where did you find shelter? a walking stick from such a tempest.” “I was in the snuggest storm didn’t bother me at you'll open your eyes pretty wide. enough coin to start a couple of national banks.” “What are you talking about?” “Think I’ve suddenly turned lightheaded? be ig Jack, “J think you’re talking . rae-t'me. What do you mean by saying that you are ow a kind of Monte Cristo?” _ “Because I’m worth lots of money—loads of it,” and ‘Jack's ‘. eyes sparkled, “I can see the stuff now lyi ‘hoxes just as somebody broke it open. y bons . never carried it away is a mystery Saal ie Will Lighee at Jack et some a He believed the sun had paige him: see things that did not ‘apie era as a bedbug,” | oar the satay colon gz arov I only saw one teat: tree in sight, and that wouldn’t shelter a person as thim as lace in the world, where the © 1. When I tell you ever I left this boat as poor = m a sort of Monte Cristo, I’m worth | his ‘rend’: brain at ; 2 und | a =e ae

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ADRIFT ON THE ORINOCO. ' 17 | down = apd than to return to the hole below and stay PTER XIII. | tnere till the storm was over. CRS . “You did right. It was the fiercest storm I’ve ever seen JACK’S STORY ‘in my life. I was scared badly, I am willing to admit, but ; | probably I wouldn’t have felt so rattled had you been with s Ee é ;me, but you see I did not know where you were. I could I told you that luck might come out way again, and hardly imagine you out in the storm, but I knew you were there is the evidence of it. : _ |not on the boat. I was worried about you, and that made Thus speaking, Jack took a handful of gold coin from his my situation worse,” said Will. poet and exhibited it before the astonished eyes of his| “yoy must excuse me, old chap, for leaving you, but I pews . ‘ . 2 ... | didn’t expect to be so long away.” “Where in creation did you find that money?” cried Will.| «ppat’s all right. Go on with your story. I want to ~In a cave near here, and if there isn’t all-of $100,000 | ,e4+ how you found that gold and the silver ingots.” inkit there I shall be surprised.” “The first thing I did, thinking I was only in a dirt hole 3 “A hundred thousand!” exclaimed Will. was to squat down and wonder how soon the storm would _ “Every dollar of it,” replied Jack in a positive tone. blow over so I could get back to the boat.” '“I*guess you’re stretching things, Jack,” said Will. “Never mind that. I want to hear about your discovery.” “No, I’m not. Well, there are six boxes of those yellow « hed th for perhaps an hour while the storm boys besides a lot of silver ingots in the cave I tumbled aes aee and heavier, The lightnin gas 2 che aig . : : = trated through the hollow trunk, and lit up the hoie “Six boxes full of them! How big are the boxes?” asked | vuite & bit. At o est L to0k little notice of. this, but after the amazed Will. ‘a while I‘was surprised to notice that the place I was in was — Jack indicated the size. | larger than I suspected. I finally got tired of doing nothing, “Gosh! What a lot of money! And you say there are sil-| got up and felt around to ascertain the extent of this un- ver ingots besides ?” | derground hole. I was not particularly curious about the _ “Quite a pile of them.” | matter at first, but when I worked along the wall, and the — - “How did that stuff get there?” ‘place seemed to run for some distance under the yearth, I : - “How should I know?” to wonder what freak of nature I was exploring.” . is this eave?” | Well?” said Will, as Jack paused. . : “Right opposite here.” — against a kind of shelf and upset thing that “How came, uk to tumble into it? It must be under-| oe bey 1 ash Ry and felt potty ed ori pant n= - ground a rate.” g red a small paste-board box. I picked it up and soon _ *The entrance to it is through the trunk of a hollow tree Gmcdvered it was a large box full of matches.” near a big rock which you can see from the door. The tree} «pfatches!” cried Will. “What luck!” ira as if it’s been for a very long time, probably! wij] nodded. = by a thunderbolt, which doubtless tore open the trunk.| «he moment I found that the box contained matches I was over there when the storm came up, and I stepped into) .truck one, for light was what I needed in that place. The the tree to moar stting ae we ssible. ba ehh I mer match flared up and I saw I was in A stone cavé, which, Fone ba ag von tog rough a hole la | judging from the direction I had followed, is somewhere nearly a dozen ow ‘the surface all in a heap.’ My | under that dome-shaped rock you can see from the door.” , re a ae oS TTT ee say] OE ey ana centnnd Md ity Sake be atcytsarestion, "Se thougkt ana coon, sine, Sew inne ht : can assure you.” posed they were empty, but to my astonishment ¥ : mS oer ee the” cash ve the storm watsine That, hom. tnd satan an "0 : of 7 “SE no anos bother me. The storm would be over in time, ou don’t mean it!” cried Will, in astonishment. ; x $ mut no amount, of time might help me out of my predica- He deve it If MS nie one bball coala Fis ; it, Then I examined all the cases, and poate them ‘heavy, — > . \ * - *How did you get out?” asked Will, much interested. | they were full of canned ere was also. a “The first Ching I did was to feel around the hole. Yon; | meee hare and two cases of =. which had also been ‘ S A mo doubt, would have done the same had you been in ™MY imported from the United States. I found there was e ee Shoes.” . Nh |food to sepply our wants for a long time. It was the _| “I guess 1 would.” ; : _|Gdea oceurred to me of an easy and convenient way of con- y ' “At first I could feel nothing but a great void. Moving! tinuing our journey.” re - around I clutched a most extraordinary thing. “What was your idea?” asked Will, curiously. — - he Bo Pa was that?” . “To build a a Ea Stes sing re rope ladder.” “How?” asked his companion in surprise. - eee “You don’t say!” “Why, by pulling enough of this house to pieces to make er “yen almost directly under the hole through | one.” v tx. eee ¥@. 4 I was so astonished Pat 1 iets 0 ones “Your plan is a fine one, provided we can put such a sa tome What ladder should be hanging there| “After I discovered the. provisions I’ looked aroun the base of an old ead Mat cise was in the’cave, and I found the boxes of ‘certainly was,” nodded Will. “Go on. This is getting | coin, all broken open, and the bars of silver : : ; 3 é . | “J must go and see them,” said Will, eagerly. ; satisfied myself that it really was a ladder, and; “That's easy,” said ing it was-seeurely anchored somewhere above, I} “The presence of | ed to climb it, for my most earnest desire just then | in that cave d o escape from that awful black hole.” — : dezvous' of a- d have done the same thing. I wouldn’t have waited a is w ty : a58 ‘Ircum:

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_ ADRIFT CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION. Jack led the way to the old dead tree, with its hollow trunk, and striking a match held it so that Will could see where the rope ladder hung. Go down first, and wait for meat the bottom,” said Jack. nee did so without hesitation, and Jack presently joined ' “Come on this way,” said Jack, taking his friend by the A minute or so later Jack said, “Here we are in the cave.” He struck a match and lighted the lantern, which he held up and swung around. Will saw the cases of provisions, the shelves and sundry other articles, but no treasure. _“Where’s the money?” he asked. _ _ Jack pushed ahead a few feet and then flashed the lantern "value at ap @ sort of alcove. _There were six boxes full of Spanish gold coin, and the pile of silver wedges ready for the mint. : that though pretty e “Lift one of the boxes and you will see meer ould hia inope might be about #150 ; re might out $15,000 in this box,” said Will, after he had tested its weight. “We’ll have to put neweeovers on them so as to conceal the nature of their contents from the curious eyes of the natives of this coun- “We'll count the picces, but we'll have to estimate their $10 each, for I have no idea of their actual worth,” ' said Jack ‘ f as - $90,000 and $100,000. Accordingly they counted the number ,of coins in one of the boxes and found there were 1,500 of them. They estimated ¢hat the six boxes footed up between The silver wedzes were small and molded all of one size. _ The boys could form no clear idea of their value as the ‘ Ba though they estimated each at thirty pounds of bul- doe ~ On that basis, after counting the ingots, th judged therp ‘was over half a ton of aitver in the tak” inte __ After they had satisfied their curiosity concerning the sure they found a hatchet and a box of nails, hese will come in handy in building the raft,” said Jack. _ After a good breakfast next morning they set to work on the raft without delay. - Thus they put in several days, without seeing 2 soul in __all-that time, and then they had the raft completed, though ¥ were not sure it would in” vf et Bie 7 w sustain all the weight they : ing remained Be k ‘She Sg ping Bagh Ma © pack. he treamire securely y used See Season boxes i hold bea inept, av _& portion provisions wherever they co Tor the stuff, leaving the rest in the cave. early one morning, and by noon were managed to steer their craft current catching it they began ready, they trusted their deeply laden craft to | ™& stream ON THE ORINOCO. which you and your friend went off sailing that day escaped the gale?” “No, it didn’t. It held out as far as the delta of the Orinoco, and then went ashore, but we both escaped, luckily. Say, will you break the news of my. return to my father. It wouldn’t do for me to meet him unexpectedly.” Five minutes later Will was in his father’s arms. That afternoon Mr. Merritt, after having heard the sto told by both lads, which, of course, greatly astonished him, had the treasure unloaded from the schooner and deposi in the vaults of one of the banks. : Jack then brought up the subject of the rescue of Jessie Gale from the robber band, and insisted that no time ought to be lost. He proposed to organize an expedition sufficiently strong to cope successfully with the rascals, and head it himself. Mr. Merritt objected to this, particularly as Will wanted to accompany Jack. When he found Jack determined to do it anyway, he agreed to it, and said he would go with the expedition too. He advanced the necessary funds to charter a large schooner, and secured about thirty well-armed men, and one morning the vessel sailed out of Georgetown harbor, and on the second day thereafter was working her way up the Ori- noco River. The boys had the landmarks down pretty fine and pointed out the spot for landing. The expedition started for the mountains at dark, and came in sight of the lone inn before daybrea The building was surrounded, and as most of the rascals happened to be away on an expedition, the attacking party had little difficulty in forcing an entrance into the inn and carrying all before them. Jack found the room where Jessie was confined, and was the first to tell her that she was free. The expedition, having accomplished its object, returned to Georgetown, where a cablegram was sent to Mr. Gale, who had just about reached New York, informing him 0: the rescue of his daughter, and that Mr. Merritt would see that she reached the United States all right. The treasure was duly appraised and proved to be worth $150,000. , 4 . Tt was arranged that Jack should have two-thirds of it, Will taking the other third. 5 Jack, looking quife a young gentleman in appropriate clothes, took passage on Mr. Merritt’s yacht with Will, and with him went Jessie Gale. : The two young people were already lovers, and with Will, enjoyed the trip te New York greatly. r. Gale was on hand to welcome his daughter, and he invited Jack to go with him to his house, an invitation our hero promptly accepted. ex Jack afterward: paid Will a visit just before his turned to school. E While Will was finishing his education Jack started in best man at the wed- business, and did well from the start. When Jack married Jessie, Will was ng, and after that was the most welcome visitor at the home of the young couple, where he and Jack often talked over the time when they were set adrift on the Orinoco. Next week’s issue will contain “SILENT SAM OF WALL STREET; OR, A WONDERFUL RUN OF LUCK.” friend re- . He has been wounded three times, given i oe dead and was once reported as missing. He re- about wild over your disap-| ceived one wound through the breast and heaghniy ae ce in the am: ‘ |came out of E: his back. _He was hit twi ® « %

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 19 INTERESTING ARTICLES NEW MOBILE GUN FOR UNITED STATES ARMY. _ The ordnance department of the army has de- Signed a powerful new mobile gun which is to be built at the Watervliet arsenal, West Troy, N. Y. The gun, which is intended for caterpillar mount, is 194 millimeters (21 feet 6 inches) long, weighs twelve tons and has an approximate range of ten miles. The projectile weighs 175 pounds. Two of these guns will be built for testing at the Aberdeen proving grounds, Maryland. CORNCOBS FOR FUEL? The humble corncoh has come into its own at last -—the luxury class. City dwellers who use the corn- cob to “prime” their fire have found that, owing to the scarcity of the corn crop last fall, cobs have taken an airplane stunt in price. Harry Sanderson, a Geary County farmer, living near Junction City, Kan., one of the few men who had a good crop last fall, is making money hand over fist selling cobs. City people drive out to his farm, shovel the eobs into their wagon and pay him $2 a load for them. The demand far exceeds the supply, FROGS IN SPIGOTS. Residents of Clarkston, Wash., have appealed to State Fish Commissioner L. H. Darwin for some _ relief from a visitation of frogs. It seems the frogs have taken to joy riding through the town’s water mains. People are greeted with the sprightly chirp of frogs when they draw their morning glass of water, and before venturing to take a bath the cau- tious resident listens for the song of the unbidden guest before taking a plunge. Darwin recommends To demonstrate the truth of this Trixie was brought into court and scampered about among the jurors, who later returned a verdict for the dog’s owner. ON A CAKE OF ICE IN A BATHING SUIT. When most people sit by the fireside recalling the “good old summertime” William Pilz, of Chicago, floats around Lake Michigan on a cake of ice, clad in a bathing suit. ; oa % Recently Pilz set out \for his icy. plunge armed with a hatchet arid a bathrobe. Chopping a man’s sized bathtub in the foot-thick ice Pilz plunged in —disporting like a polar bear for some time. It was easy sliding into the water, but getting out was a different matter entirely. Try as he ould,~Pilz could not get a solid footing on the slippery sides of his bathtub. After repeated at- tempts, all hending in a “shoot the chute” back into the icy water, Pilz summoned aid. _ Securely planting his arctic-clad feet on the ice, his rescuer yanked Pilz from the water. Soi “Enjoyed the water immensely,” said Pilz, “but couldn’t get out. Thanks, very much, old man,” and snuggling comfortably into his bathrobe the Chicago human polar bear beat it for his comfy fireside. LIGHT WOODS. The best known of the lighter than cork woods - is the balsa variety, the lightness of which was jo- vially demonstrated by a yacht club, which, by way of novel invitation to an “affair,” sent out postal cards made of balsa wood. The cards were almost as long and wide as a cigar box and about a quar- ‘that bass and pickerel, the natural enemies of frogs, be turned loose in the town’s reservoir ter of an inch thick, and went through the mail with. : : be turn ; | a 1-cent stamp. ec Balsa in the Ibero-American countries means a raft, for which vessels the light wood has extensively been used throughout the southern parts of thishem- isphere. Balsa wood is about one-half the weight _ of cork and looks like poplar. Its strength is con- siderable, a moderate sized plank being able to sup- port the weight of several men. Its use in these ‘Ties mostly in the future. Tests are being — DOG A WITNESS. ' “ ; ets. She testified that the dog bit her on the “fete this, children. ’ be 2

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. BARRY, THE BREAKER BOY THE HERO SEES MINES By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY.) : CHAPTER XI (Continued). go were than that, she found out the danger the id was in here. She hunted me up, that pretty ne girl did, and told me this. So I come on, and I cc. she will come on here herself, if hér father’! oe er. Anyway, she’ll send some one here to spiel mad Barry in court, and hurried me off. I may lose my Job as brakey, but I’ll- get a better one; and What's the odds when you’ve been put up to things sare ac like no in savin’ a kid like Barry?” Pay y you always was in spite of yo _ general cussedness.” ay , aed ___ Then Mollie looked at her brother doubtfully and _ blushed. ' “Do you think this Rose Tevis l-likes Barry, “Ah, go on! What’s the use of askin’ me that? ‘What she, and you, and I must do is to see that this breaker kid has a square deal. All this must be _ Kept dark until that lawyer, or Rose Tevis, or some | one comes on.and*gives us a chance to let the cat out of the ‘bag. Then we'll not only find out who i Barry is, but put out this hired gang that have just played thunder all round to-night.” _. About this* time the doctor who had been sent f came in. After carefully examining the boy said all Barry needed was careful nursing for a days, and left a few instructions for the dress- 5c his bruises. aS _dust before leaving he told Jerry that word had e in from the Flat Top mine that the mine boss ones the foremen and several of the hands missing. This was owing to the fact that an extra sum- ns had gone out for extra help to begin removing debris occasioned by the mysterious explosion had, it seemed, endangered more than one life, jlarly the day and night watchmen who pa- the mine and the breaker and other com- your life, doctor,” returned Jerry, “that a sort of sifting out of who caused But for this kid lyin’ here the whole id have one for the plans was-laid and ) set to lay him out afore all the others.” betor formerly a breaker boy ee Je >| en a, ed bi MER Se fk” Se : Pe ae Vow too ‘ ais Sy a at a + rf? Teng. ot a? a ig ht on “It is said that a telephone or telegraph from there is at the company’s office concerning is Barry.” : “You don’t say!” Jerry exclaimed. “I rather © looked for more news, from there, but not so soon.” “What was said, doctor?” asked Mollie. “TI just returned from the hospital, where I was attending to the most seriously hurt of the watch- men, and so happened to hear of this message. I think one of Tevis’, the rich coal operator’s, attor- neys sent ‘the wire. Either he or some one will be down right away.” “Well, that’s going some,” said Jerry. else did you learn, doc?” - “Barry is to be carefully attended to and these parties will pay the bills. I am glad to find him and will report in the morning at the company’s office where he is, for I feel sure these Bluehole parties are deeply interested.” “All right, sir. Tell ’em he is right here and “What ‘that we'll do our best with him every time, pay or ht al no pay. I brought down some news myself from Bluehole, and I tell you there’s no better boy any- where than Barry. He saved those watchmen, and he saved that mine from a far worse explosion than , really happened. What I know I know.” “All right, Mr. Black, I will,” replied the doctor. _ “And I am heartily pleased to have been called in. Barry will be wanted, and I guess he has at last found powerful friends to assist his future.” - When the doctor left the injured lad seemed to awake. “Don’t you think that this doctor was kidding me?” nt drowsily murmured. “I—I guess I didn’t do so very much, Jerry.” “Now, sonny, this won’t do. You go right tosleep . again and follow what the doctor said. You'll be needed bad in a day or two, and you won’t lose nothin’, either.” Mollie also added her entreaties and Barry — drowsed off again. Cree Ne doctor's remedies that it — , So effectual were the do was” several days before the used-up lad again awakened to the realities of men and things, and especially himself. — bs a * r not all a j . _was interested and when he found| When he did, so surprising was the change that — y at|he could only stare and wonder if it was 4 2 P 5 ¥ ‘ 4 ee) @ cae an' | Bae ae fee : — a4 aia Rete = tl : : Leas ~ Fae he ae eh ao hae, ‘ te eis. SP , = Re ee SP SAPS ee ae ik * cia Tye

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. CHAPTER XII. BARRY BEGINS TO FIND HIMSELF. It was not so much in the material surroundings, which were much as they were before. It lay in the presence of certain parties that Barry had hardly hoped to see again. ’ There was one of the rich coal barons who were among the group he had seen the day he saved that pretty girl at the risk of his own life. This was Mr. Tevis. By this gentleman’s side was the pretty girl her- ‘self. With these was another legal-looking man, with sharp eyes and an alert though kindly manner. This was Mr. Brennan, the attorney before alluded to -as having wired to the Flat Top company. Near them, though,somewhat to the rear, was a - rough-featured old woman whose face was strangely ore if anything. familiar to Barry, for it was no less than his old landlady and juvenile foster-mother; the only ap- proach to a real mother the boy had ever known, notwithstanding certain babyish dreams of another kind which he had told of to Jerry. Lastly, there was Jerry himself, and Mollie, look- ing much as usual. The other members of the Black family were hovering in the background, looking as; bo | were too aie for him, whereat Mr. Brennan grinned broadly. “T will assume that you are, and proceed to ex- plain why we are here and what we propose to do with you and for you.” “Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.” Barry was not im- proving in comprehension, at least, so far. “You know these excellent people, of course?” meaning the Blacks, for the lawyer pointed to each of them in turn, winding up with Jerry and Mollie. “T should say I did, sir.” ing on the last two, flashed a grateful look. “T suppose you know old auntie?” “T guess I do, sir. I was wondering why she was heré.” “She is here to do you a service in return for many years of deception, which, however, she thought would help you as well as herself.” Old auntie looked rather foolish at this, as Mr. Brennan continued: “Owing to the influence of Mr. Tevis and his daughter, here present, old auntie has thought better of some things, and now restores to Barry’s eyes, now rest- — you what she took from you when you first came | under her charge. Am I right, auntie?” “Yes, Mr. Brennan,” “You—you lawyers are always right.” “Sometimes we have to bring a little pressure to bear in order to bring others to that view—eh?” “Yes—yes, sir—I———” the old woman sie if they, too, wondered some at the strange look of! then stopped. all these people in their own home. Lastly, there was the doctor, who had attended before. _ “Well, my boy,” said this last gentleman, “how do you find yourself to-day?” «Ym all right, I think, sir,” replied Barry weakly, > for the united presence ‘of all these people, who all regarded him kindly, gave him a shock that was _ Pleasing yet stupefying. “That is good. You were really more injured than we thought at first. This is the reason you ae still h ere. ” - “Pm sure I could not be in better hands, sir.” me - Better really meant the Blacks, but he was still sere sae too much a be clearly conscious of what he did say. — 2 “Sure, Barry, you're all right, Jerry, with a broad grin that increased his natura ‘If I stich mostly owing to you and Mollie. little more at himself. oie up up to the Shed tr milly. , W i »| now speaking for the first time. though the discovery of it may Sad some a Phen fe apnea cele : The lawyer grinned, while Mr. Tevis smiled in a more quiet way. ; Rose Tevis, the young girl at whom Barry still stared as often as he dared, was smiling, too. But there was a suspicion of tears in her large blue Pose when she, in turn, looked at Barry. Set “Now, Barry,” resumed the attorney, “ a3 you ree- tie ognize these or any of these articles?” To the lad’s further amazement old auntie, at Des sign from Mr. Brennan, opened a satchel wide and — poured on the bed the same things which he had seen in her trunk years before. This included the coral necklace, to which he now saw was attached a tiny gold locket. This he might. not have remembered, for his glimpse into cy € » blurted forth trunk was very brief and the old woman was mae ; }| very harsh. — . “Open that little locket, my boy,” said. Mr. Te “It won’t bite y the old woman. stammered, ©

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. GOOD READING ~ CADETS ALL IN DEBT, SAYS WEST POINT The professor patted it on the head and. then The cadet at West Point in these high cost of living days cannot keep out of debt on his pay, ac- cording to the annual report of Colonel Tillman, the superintendent, recently made public. It costs $1 _ a day to board a cadet and Uncle Sam allows only 40 cents. Besides this subsistence allowance the cadet gets $600 a year. This now barely meets cost of uniforms and laundry. On March 31, 1917) the : “debt classes then at West Point were $75,844.33 in n = > aa ’ : BARBERS VICTIMS. a sar! payed % ae - the four barbers of 4 suburb 0 eveland, Ohio, a joke they do aNe ‘not relish. Haircuts went to 40 cents there baad: ee and shaves to 20 cents. Then posters appeared an- 4 nouncing that a new shop would open which would cut these prices to 30 and 15 cents. The four old stands promptly announced a cut to 25 and 10 cents, Se ae the day’of the opening of the new shop. day the new place was to have opened two _ Clothing dummies appeared in its window with a sign around their necks: “We had lots of fun. Did the other four?” The prices are still 40 and 20 BATTLE WITH APES. : of the Wigwam theater witnessed an “excitin g battle in San Francisco some years ago and it was not down on the programme. It was 2 t in which a man and woman did hattle for their es against a couple of monster apes, and it was by the courage and presence of mind of some attaches of the theater that the enraged brutes sre prevented from killing both people. art of the evening’s entertainment was fur- p a oP ee ee troupe of trained animals, ak Maga eats and five large apes. He hand th e animals himself while on the and their assistants remained in ready to take charge of the animals as eed the stage. c s were kep ines en a les bw “cit pate in a large cage, and this after by Mrs. Samwells, stooped to adjust the harness on the canine steed. Then, quick as a flash, the cunning brute sprang from the vehicle and fastened: its long tusks in his wrist, driving them clear to the bone. In an in- stant the house was in an uproar, women screamed and strong men turned their heads aside as the mad- dened brute bit and tore at the man’s arm, while his screams for help ran through the building. “Grace! Grace! Take him off!. He is killing me!” shouted Samwells to his wife. Mrs. Samwells, who was holding another huge ape in her arms, threw the animal from her and rushed on the stage to her husband’s assistance. She seized the big ape by the throat and tried with all her strength to choke the beast in order to open its jaws, but she might as well have tried to strangle a Bengal tiger. She then did what few men would have done— thrust her hand into the brute’s mouth and by a superhuman effort wrenched the terrible jaws apart. It was just at this instant that the ape which Mrs. Samwells had left in the wing sprang on the stage, as if to the assistance of its comrade. There was a cry of “Look out for the other one!” and the next instant the newcomer had seized the woman by the left hand and driven its sharp teeth clear through it. Samwells, now free from the grasp of the first mon- ster, rushed to aid his wife, but he could render but little assistance, as both his hands were almost torn to pieces. At this moment several men rushed on the stage and the fierce brutes were beaten into insensibility _ with clubs and pieces of board torn from the scenery. The victims were carried from the stage and as soon as the patrol wagon arrived were taken to the re- ceiving hospital. Dr. Simpson, who was in attendance, found that the man’s left thumb was almost torn from the hand. . The tendons were completely severad and there were a dozen wounds, reaching from the tips of the’ fingers far up on the wrist. The wounds made by the animals’ teeth looked as if they had been in- flicted by a tiger, so badly was the flesh torn and lacerated. Every one of the wounds had to be sewed up, and after this was done and the dressing ap- plied Mrs. Samwells was attended to. She was not nearly so badly injured as her husband. Mrs. Samwells said that this was the second time tthe same brute had attacked her husband. neg were showing in San Jose on Thanksgiving Day, and after the street parade the brute sprang at Samwells. while he was undressing it and tore his | to pn into right hand in a fearful manner. The nee _ be tone story, ane fe roe not properly ed to and le induced to take its| It was ay - calling in the best ea aes "the eity that his life was saved aa s Lie oe 2 dee + > <a = citar! AP, oes - ease See sale oe namie! es ee Re ete ‘ oh

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FROM ALL POINTS — HEATING RIVETS ELECTRICALLY. With the employment of women in many forms of work heretofore considered too heavy for them it has been necessary to modify the equipment and form of work in numerous instances. Such a case is the heating of rivets by electricity in charge of women. Instead of portable, sooty forges operated by turning a heavy crank there has been introduced an electrically-heated forge which is clean, simple , to operate and readily portable. It will heat a stand- ard rivet in 30 seconds. as her main battery. Her protection of nine inches of side armor is reinformed by three protective decks, 17 main bulkheads and 365 water-tight com-. partments. The ship, according to the Engineer, is a type quite alien to British naval ideas, which run just now to fewer guns of heavier caliber, and in spite of her formidable armament she is not a very popular ship.* ~ 150,000 SOLDIERS ATTENDING. A. E. F. SCHOOLS. Brig. Gen. Robert I. Rees, U. S. A., formerly in charge of the army activities at colleges, has com- plete supervision over the educational work of sol- diers in the American Expeditionary Force in France and Germany. The matter of arranging the | curriculum and determining the number and loca-— tion of the schools is entirely within the control of General Rees. The latest reports received from the educational headquarters in France show that 150,- 900 men are now enrolled in the various schools -stablished by the A. E. F. The courses include ag- vicultural and engineering branches as well as the arts and sciences. Reports indicate that nearly 15,- 900 men are in attendance at the American Army University at Beune, France, alone. / WITH HELD HUSBAND PRISONER WITH © GUN. Declaring that his’ wife had “abducted him, marched him through the streets with her hand on ‘a revolver hidden in a hand-bag, and held him a pris- oner at the point of a weapon for three days and nights im an apartment in West Baker street,” F. R. Campbell, a railroad engineer, has asked the Munici- pal Court of Atlanta, Ga., for a peace warrant against his alleged belligerent spouse. Asked by an attorney why he did not take the pistol away from his wife, Campbell said: “Simply because she’s a better man than I am.” And the lawyer reddened when Campbell added: «J’d like to see you try to take a pistol away from “her.” A $200 peace bond was ordered. ANCIENT SHIP WONDER. An ancient Syracusan ship—a Greek Mauretania __that carried vast cargoes and had a gymnasium, bath, lounge.and gardens aboard, was described by Prof. W. S. Ferguson of Harvard in a lecture in Boston, Mass., on Greek economic development. = Prof. Ferguson gave a minute description of the ~ great ship, the wonder of its time. He said it was _ SUGAR BEETS SOAR $5 A TON. Sugar beet growers are contracting their 1919 crop of beets for delivery at $10 a ton,a price which ‘is from $3.50 to $5 a ton higher than pre-war fig- ures. According to a representative of the United ith 2 af t - States Department of Agriculture, who recently re- lin Ee phage eae rae which = _ turned from an extensive trip through the sugar ined by a crew of 300 sailors, to phar ‘beet areas of the United States, the prospects for ” - Ae Ay Fans _ the 1919 crop are excellent. An acreage increase marines. In its hold it could carry 110,000 bush- of from 20 to 25 per cent over the plantings of last year is indicated. d The United States consumes about 4,000,000 tons ee f der normal conditions, and of this # ERGs : 4a en Sei cpnrosimatety. 1,000,000 tons, consisting of paseo se Ss bere ay ape, et a » s, both beet and cane sugar, are of domestic produc- conservatories, and, in addition to all these luxuries - tion. ‘ and necessities, it had equipment and engines of Eas aa ‘ ~___|defense which gave it the. character almost of | THE 14:GUN AGINCOURT NOT POPULAR. |ship of war, In such achievements as these, ‘The British battleship Agincourt, formerly the |ship having been - Rio de Janeiro, building for Brazil and taken over | lecay had begun eset ¢ "by the British when the war opened, is notable for |said he could not avoid the ec the,.fact that she has no less than seven two-gun | °f Greek infiniilll m ets, mounting a total of fourteen 12-inch guns| ittle support ‘3 = Rea NS DERI 6 SESS Ae iY. eee ic eee ae ae ie Doe abe: ie eS Ra Price's ak ie h inl . a oe ag vf | af kta ae: At eo. 3

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. “T do not know, but with his dying breath he ac- © ACCUSED BY THE LAST WORDS. cused you—you, my son—of his murder.” F “It is false! false! Oh, father, hide me! save me! © By Col. Ralph Fenton Circumstances are against me. Though innocent, I~ cannot prove it. Quick! We have not an instant to © It was past twelve at night. Late as was the lose.” : we : _ hour, there was a light in the private office of Dr.| . “Gracious!” thought the father, “in what a posi- 4 Hampton Rayno. tion I am placed! Hither must I think the last The doctor had just returned from a late visit.| Words of a dying man a lie or my son is guilty. I Suddenly there e a ring at the bell. must choose between them and either accept my “Come!” cried the doctor, and a man staggered son’s statement, coupled with his suspicious actions, . into the office. He was a tall, slender, middle-aged |" I must believe the dead man. Oh, heavens! the _ personage, and he seemed exhaiisted as though by | alternative is terrible!—and consider my son a liar ‘a long run. He panted for breath, utterly unable|@d.a murderer!” to speak. As he leaned against the office door, which} _ “Father! Oh, misery! it cannot be that you think he had closed th t h s inside, the doctor me guilty! You do not doubt me?” asked: ae 5a Hake Aine “My son,” replied the father, “the last words of “What’s the matter? Anyone hurt?” the dead man were, ‘John Rayno killed me!’ ” EE Lock the door!” gasped®the stranger. “If you are an innocent man, trust yourself to The doctor shot the bolt that secured the door. the law and I will stand by you to the end. If you The man sank down ina heap before it. He was/| lee your own act will condemn you in my eyes, and trembling. There was terror in his face. An aw ful {1 shall believe the last words of the dead man, though ashen hue had come upon it. it break my heart and bring my gray hairs in sor- Ser te 17 . d th " told!” |row to the grave to think so.’ ae et gue AINE BH cent SoM Thus spoke the father of the young man ‘whi "The doctor sprang to him and partially raised him. had been accused of murder by a dying asad s last __ *¥You are wounded. Who stabbed you?” the phy- — 4 of eg ae - sician asked.. e sound of many feet was ngw hear “John Rayno,” replied the stranger. A crowd was approaching the doctor’s office. os “John nes Jy tr the ae Suddenly John Rayno leaped to his feet. The stranger had accused the doctor’s own and ' “Father!” he cried, in a voice full of desperate only son—the one child of his old age that had been | ©NeTey, “my resolution is taken. Come what may, spared to him. even the gallows and an ignominious death, I'll face “Explain. I cannot believe you, sir. You have this accusation like a man and put my faith in God : “accused my own son,” cried the physician. and my own innocence.” Ashe spoke he was hurriedly removing the; “Spoken like my own noble boy!” cried the father, 2s - wounded man’s clothing, for it had occurred to him | and then father and son embraced as a loud ring at that he might yet be saved. the door announced another arrival. _ The stranger made no answer. There was a| Dr. Rayno opened the door. The village constable _ tling sound in his throat. The physician knew and an excited, curious crowd were without. it meant. He gently laid the stranger down The constable and his two assistants entered. Dr. | n the floor. Rayno made no statement to implicate his son, but ‘He is dead! He is dead! And his last breath | told of the arrival of the man who had reeled into expended in accusing my son. Oh, John! John! | his office, only to fall dead. n this awful thing be? No, no! I'll not believe it. “That man is Harris Carleton and the evidence’ e is some error, some terrible mistake. My son | points to your son as his assassin. I arrest you, ; ‘not be guilty of this!” John Rayno, on the shares. < of murder,” said the Mt hid Ta TE eae AG 6 ES A CEL Pe tee OR et NS ee eee Se ee ee is wailed the father. He was in a state of | constable. ‘excitement... There came the sound of steps} = * 9%) * 0%) * * The doctor knew the steps. - | What I have related in the dramatic way in which y son comes!” he exclaimed. : |the incidents occurred was supplied by Dr. Rayno, — sprang to the door and drew the belt. The who visited our detective agency in New York the’ pens open. and *: ‘young man n leaped into | day following the night of his son’s arrest. _ “Tell me the whole story. Why is your son ais! father 1 he pane “I am accused of | pected of this crime? What did he know of the de- _ = The officers are even |ceased Harris Carleton; and, in fact, the ws Story: e me! save me!” x" of this case?” | inted at the body of} “My son will answer for himself,” dna the old yet noticed it. | doctor, “if you will accompany me to the lock-up.” < ences eet hens cheer eee WY; ae. wae

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“I will do so, sir, and with pleasure,” said John Rayno. dent of our village, has kept himself so much to himself that few people knew anything of his busi- hess, and he was a stranger to my father. “For more than two years I have been paying my . addresses to a young lady by the name of Clara K Coombs. Harris Carleton made her acquaintance ‘some months ago and proposed, only to be refused. » After this I became engaged to her, but still Harris | t Carleton continued to persecute Miss Coombs with _ his attentions, and yesterday I called upon him and _ remonstrated with him on his conduct in a gentle- Manly way. Carleton boarded at the village hotel. - He ordered me from his room, and I left him in a rage. The night of his murder I received a note _ from him asking me to call on him at. the hotel. _ I did so, and, as before, I was received by Carleton FAME AND FORTUNE* WEEKLY. 25 had not yet returned to claim it. I lost no time in “Harris Carleton, though for years a resi-| visiting the hotel in question, and was permitted to open the valise, which belonged to a man who looked like the murdered man. I opened it and found in it, among other things, a package of letters. What was my surprise to learn from the contented of those letters that the owner of the valise was ‘Harris Carleton’s brother, and that his name was | James Carleton. One_letter from Harris Carleton, the murdered man, showed that there was a bitter quarrel be- tween the brothers, and that James had threatened Harris. I had at last a clue to work on. As J lay awake that night, thinking over the case, it suddenly “came to :e,” as one may say, and, leap- ing from my bed, lat’ & was the hour, I roused some ‘in his own room, which is in a wing pf the building | fishermen and’we beg#. dragging the river. extending to the river*bank. I was surprised to Just .at sunrise we fished up the body of a man, note that when I first came into his presence that | whom we were yet able to recognize; and what was night he did not know me, or at least seemed not |our astonishment to see that he was James Carleton, to know me. I mentioned the note, and then he|and that papers and other articles in his pocket seemed to remember me, and apologized for his proved the fact beyond question, although he so conduct toward me on the occasion of my previous | nearly resembled his brother Harris, who had died visit and promised to annoy Miss Coombs no more. |in Dr. Rayno’s office, that one might easily have. “When I was about to depart he opened the long- | been taken for the other. hinged window of his room and J passed out that way. Half an hour later, as I came by the post- office, I heard a man, who did not recognize me, Say: “John Rayno has killed a man by the name of Carleton, at the hotel, it is supposed.’ “I stepped up and asked: __ * ‘How did it all occur?” __ “ ‘Well, you see, Carleton and Rayno were alone in the former’s room. One of the chambermaids _ Passed the room and heard sounds of a struggle and angry voices, and, pushing open the door, which _ chanced to be unlocked, she saw Carleton and Rayno a struggling. While she looked Rayno stabbed Carle- “Mat in the breast with a dagger. The girl ran down- and alarmed the hayes Everybody ran to arleton’s room. “When they arrived tiers the room was empty, but the window was open from the bottom. They Rayno has dragged the body of his victim away, vin ‘the hope of thus. concealing his terrible Thus the man explained, little thinking A was the very man accused of the crime. By I reached my: father’s house, to find a sho: . Carleton, whom I left alive and well half an hour , ying ine on the office floor. I remembered that Rayno had told me that when he entered Carleton’s room that fatal night Carle- ton did not seem to know him. Probably James entered his brother’s room during his absence and, being surprised by Rayno, person- ated Harris. That would account for Rayno’s state- ment. After Rayno departed Harris must have returned, encountered his brother and engaged him in a dese perate struggle, which had resulted in Harris being stabbed and James strangled to death. After he was stabbed Harris must have dragged his brother through the window and flung him ee the river. Then he rushed for a physician’s office, and, as Dr. Rayno was nearest, he came there, In the weeds on the river bank, near the windie hon os which had been oceupied by Harris Carleton, I found ad a large knife such as must have been used to kill — Harris Carleton, and a respected citizen of the place in which James Carleton had last resided, whom I | | brought in a few days after, instantly swore that the knife was the property of James Carleton. Thére was some dark stains on the blade of ‘the “That settled th ig ck knife, which, being analyzed, proved. to be blood, | and human blood, at that, as far as i ae Ba has |establish the fact.

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26 FAME . AND “FORTUNE WEEKLY. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY! Scores of canaries have been carried away from . their cages lately by butcher-birds, who by the thou- sands have taken up their winter abode in the fast- NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1919. nesses of Sutro forest California. The butcher-bird is described as a first cousin to the hawk, is about one-quarter the size and possesses a predatory bill. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS It is his habit to circle high in the sky until his sharp |eyes catch sight of a canary as it perches in a cage |hung on some veranda. Then, when it is satisfied sae ome lige: | that its movements are not being watched, it swoops 8 Paria Bein rag : |noiselessly down, thrusts its talons and hooked beak : \ through the bars of the cage, pulls the luckless bird POSTAGE PRES ifrom its domicile and flies swiftly away with its HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money er eae ee ag ay Latees 5 “remittances ig Bog other | prey. Sometimes the butcher-birds seem to be sat- 8 t a am same as = » an z cash.” When sending silver. wrap the Cin in a pepetie piece lisfied with the mere killing) of the song-bird. The . ee tee Se te veer meer eD butcher-birds hibernate each winter’ in Sutro forest, HARRY E&. WOLFF, Publisher, but their number this year is greater than ever be- fore. In the summer they fly to warmer climates. 166 West 22d St., New York ‘ = ‘GOOD CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES GRINS AND CHUCKLES 2 Some one had left a button on the table in the res- e 22, last, re ee Pie eS cenictc: Geren Cane Brit- | ‘aurant in place of a tip. “Ah, well,” philosophized ‘ ain ahd ‘Australia was established, when two.imes- the waiter, everything comes to him who waits.” ‘Sages from the premier and from Sir Joseph Cook were received by the Amalgamated Wireless Com- pany of Australasia from the new station at Carnar. Tt is stated that the messages received at Sydney were perfectly clear and distinct, despite direct ue aS eA td transmission over 12,000 miles. Willie—Papa, is it swearing to talk about old socks being darned? Papa—No, my son; Why? Willie— : The War | TE has announced ‘that the only ’Cause I wish Johnny would keep his darned old socks - distinction between service buttons to be granted out of my drawer. ‘Soldiers upon discharge will be in the case of wound-| — . Cah ak lee 3 ed men. All men who were wounded in action will| Amning—Has Badders made a success of the ss _ Feceive silver buttons, and the’ others will receive stage? Manning—Yes. He acted the part of butler eo _ bronze buttons. The discharge button is in the |S° well in a play last winter, that he got a place in a hands of the manufacturers and will soon be ready | Fifth avenue family. for distribution. The buttons will be issued to sol- wm eca WET Ree ge : _ diers upon being discharged, and those who have| High Jinks—Help, help! Cool, help! Mr. Cool— : left the service may obtain them upon appli-| What are you kicking up such a row about? High ; gation to the adjutant general. : Jinks—Don’t you see how I’m fixed? Mr. Cool—Yes, but I never saw you in a hole yet you couldn’t crawl r 1 order to raise the crest of Ute fusimmnoth dam at | Ut of. dfield, near Oswego, N. Y., the Salmon _ River a SA etal , : : er Company will move ‘the Redfield cemetery, Ye iagaratae’. t you glad you are a little girl? Lit- fistence for 118 years, it has been announced. tle Girl—No ; T'd rather be a little boy. Visitor—But s task entails the moving of 1,300 bodies and hun- little boys generally have to wear their father’s left- of monuments. Redfield cemetery is gne of | over clothes. Little Girl—Mother is a suffragette, : prettiest rural burying-grounds in the State. It|and she wis te pretty soon it won’t make much differ- ed the work will cost more than $100,000. | ence. . i i e necessary, as the raising of the dam would . ; ey the water impounded aah to a ped up to the! A little Bangor boy surprised both his parents and 2 ace hain flood the | Freddie—Are you the trained nurse mamma said was coming? Nurse—Yes, dear, I’m the trained nurse. Freddie—Let’s see some of your tricks, then! ‘power company to the teacher: “Which is the quickest, heat for the develop- The teacher was a little slow about venturing a re- 5 of the elit ; a rot the Engineers his school teacher not a little recently, while at din- ig on the state that ra raising of the crest|ner. He propounded the following scientific <a e dam ten fee or cold | ey sas nme kaac you eB 4

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: OLD MAN GOOD SHOT. _ Although past the allotted threescore and ten limit, U. J. Albertson of Pekin, IIL, is still active _ as a Nimrod, and never goes duck hunting without . Setting the limit—fifteen ducks. Mr. Albertson, _ who was a former member of the lower house in » congress, belongs to the Duck Island Gun Club, which has the ‘distinction of having had for mem- bers Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. The limit of membership is sixty, and no new members are taken in except when there is a vacancy caused . by death or resignation. Mr. Albertson has been _ an ardent duck hunter since 1860. ’ ] c Pk a BROKEN NECK NO BAR. William E. Steward, a former resident of River- - ton, Ohio, is one of the few persons with broken necks who recovered. Mr. Steward was injured in Washington and for a year lay in a hospital, where he was treated for a broken vertebrae. He finally recovered so that he could be released from the hos- pital, but was obliged to wear a plaster cast about his neck, as the vertebrae would not hold his head up. After wearing the cast from six to nine months the neck became stronger and the support was dis- _ carded. Mr. Steward is now visiting Coos County, and, although his neck is still a little stiff, he is able _ to earn a living. He has been. working on a drain- age dredge in the Sutro basin in California. _CALIFORNIA’S GOLD. _. The first gold in California was discovered sev- enty-one years ago, on January 24, 1848, by James Wilson Marshall. He was a native of New, Jersey who had gone West and settled on the site of Sacra- mento. Blasting away some rocks to make a foun- dation for a building, he observed grains of what ‘Seemed to be gold scattered about in the excavated earth. A test revealed that it really was the precious metal. Wild excitement followed the discovery and the immortal rush of ‘the “forty-niners” brought thousands of miners and adventurers to the Golden State. Marshall, the discoverer, did not profit by his find and would have spent his last days in pov- erty except for a smal] pension granted him by the State of California. : a a) ¥ " -,RECONSTRUCTION OF OLDEST CANAL. _ The oldest canal in, the world, dating back nearly 2,500 years, and also the longest canal,.measuring inthe main section nearly 1,000 miles, is that extend- from Hanchow, south of Shanghai, China, to - Most of this canal has been filled with ows of the Yellow River, but the souther f it still constitutes a very busy waterway, "+4 s « f : : FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ‘makers of Nippon never att mud] tion is due wholly to efforts of government ai ties to find markets for Japanese toys in for markets, And only a beginning has been 1na < has my A ~~ "3 : . a; ‘2 ai o ie 6 ¢ “d * * 7 Fil o” A FEW GOOD ITEMS The canal is now to be rebuilt and improved, says the Scientific American. The project is too vast to be done at a single operation and the funds are not at hand. At present about $6,000,000 is available, and this sum will be used for the improvement of a section about 100 miles in length, leaving to a later date, when funds can be accumulated, the re- nstruction of other sections. The work is to be undertaken by American engineers. WOUNDED MEN IN NEW YORK. : . A pathetic reminder that we have been engaged in the great war is Debarkation Hospital No. 3, in the busy shopping district on Sixth avenue, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, New York City. In this large building groups of less seriously wound- ed men are allowed to sit comfortably at every window in the large building, both on the avenue and in the side streets. The men look longingly at the passing throngs of people, many perhaps in the hope that they may see some relative or friend. Numerous passers-by greet the wounded men by waving hands, the men returning the salutation. Relatives are allowed in the hospitalat certain stated times. One reassuring fact that strikes those who pass the hospital is that the men inside are given the best possible care and everything possible is be- ing done for them that medical science and kindly attention for their comfort can do. The wounded men at the windows look happy, despite their wounds. TOY-MAKIN' G IN JAPAN. Four years ago the export of Japanese was. limited to a few varieties, such as page ht models and the like. A great change has taken place, says S, Kamiyama in the Japan Magazine. Last year the total value of toys exported from Ja an amounted to $4,200,000, and in 1918 will exceed $5,- 000,000. Thus the “land of dolls and flowers,” as Japan has been so charmingly called, has been trans- formed into a country creating playthings of every description for the.children of foreign lands, Br | “ = z as for its own. One might have supposed that owing to the cheap- Sg | ness of labor in Japan it long ago would A ii 4 the largest source of supply, for the toy trade, but _ German supply the toy, | seriously to ¢ until the shutting off of the ter foreign markets. ; increase in e: * o~ te

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ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST AIR DUEL OVER SEA. The Paris police have taken a hand in the proposed aerial duel with machine guns_ between Leon Vaudecrane and Robert Schreeber, formerly army avi- ators. The police give two rea- sons why the duel should not be held. One is that duelling is for- bidden and the other is that peo-| ple below would be in danger. | It is suggested, however, that| the aviators might hold their duel.over the sea. CUB BEAR STARTLES TOWN A cub bear about ten months old, caused much excitement when it walked into Moose Lake, Minn., and scratched at the back door of a restaurant. The cook thought it was the owner’s dog Her discovery that it was not be- gan a series of activities in the kitchen which could have been ualed only by the bursting of a high explosive shell. When the cause of the disturbance was learned the men of the town formed an estort and drove the cub back to its haunts. Bears are protected by law and for that reason it was not killed. - WATERVLIET ARSENAL TO BE CANNON CENTER. It has been officially an- Y. arsenal that the plant would be the center of the cannon in- dustry in the United States. The’ local gun factory is to be the master gauge of all the shops in the country, the sponsor of every gun manufactured, and its poli- cies as directed by the chief of ordnance will be those of other plants in the United States. All patterns of guns are to be made at Watervliet and the organiza- tion of the arsenal is to be amended to accommodate the new demands made upon it. DOG WORKS LIKE FARM- HAND. Albert McClure, near Nevins Station, Ky., has a spotted coach dog that is a wonder and on which any granger would be willing to pay tax, even if it was several times what it is. All this season this dog has worked in the tobacco patch and did as much’ in worming the weed as any $3.50-a-day hand. The dog takes his row like a hired hand and with his mouth attends to the pests. Should the worm be too high on the leaf for him to reach he seems to know that it would injure the plant. for him to rear up on it, so he barks and one of the other workers re- FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. OLD COINS WANTED $2 to $500 EACH paid for Hundreds of Coins dated before 1895. Keep ALL old Money. You may bave Coins worth a Large Premium. Send 10c. for New Illustrated Coin Value Book, size 4x6. Get Posted at Once. @LARKE COIN CO., Box 25. Le Eey, N. ¥- FUN AMUSEMENT ANYBODY CAN AND OH, BOY! NOW IMITATE BIRDS, FOWLS, ANIMALS, STEAM- BOAT WHISTLES, MUSICAL B INSTRUMENTS, ETC., with H mouth and hands. New book, J°“Mimicry simplified” (ilhus- trated), reveals how. Surpris- ingly easy. 37 ~=imitations complete, 25 cents, postpaid. Address ali orders to WOLFF NOVELTY CO. Dept. 5, No. 165 W. 23d St., N. ¥. TRICK CUP. Made of natural white weod turned, with two compartments; a round, black ball fits on those compartments; the otber is a sta- tionary ball. By a little practice you make the black ball vanish; a great trick novelty and immense seller. Price 10c, postpaid. WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 168 W. 23d 8t., N. ¥. TWO-CARD MONTE. This famous trick gets them all. You pick up a card and when you look at it you find . you haven't got the card you e thought you had. Price 10c, by mail, postpaid, mu. YF. FRANK SMITH, 383 Lenox Ave., SHERIFF BADGE, With this badge at- tached to your coat or Vest you can show the boys that ou are gs sherif, an if they don’t. bebave t hem- selves you might lock them up. It is a beauti- ful nickel-plated badge, } 2% by 24% inches In abe size, With the w : “Sherif! 23. By Heck” in nickel letters on the face of it, with a pin on the back for attaching it te your cloth- ing. Send for one and have some fun with the boys. Price 15 cents, or 3 mail, postpaid. for 40 cents; Sent by nounced at the Watervliet (N.| sponds and attends to the worm. 'H. F. LANG, 1815 Centre St., B’klya, N. ¥, “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY. Handsome Colored Covers—48 Pages of Reading—Great Authors—Famous Artists—Fine Presswork 10 CENTS A COPY 7 PRICE SIX CENTS PER COPY. | THE BEST FILM MAGAZINE ON EARTH $2 Pages of Reading. Magnificent Colored Cover Portraits _ of Prominent Performers. Out Every Friday. ‘Each numiber contains Five Stories of the Best Films on the | Sereens—Biegant Half-tone Scenes from the Plays—Interesting ‘¢ Art clés About Prominent People in the Films—Doings of tors and Actresses in the Studios and While. 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Poynter. 5 25 THE TRAIL OF ROSES, by 32THE COUNTERFEIT Edmund Condon, 26 THE HINDOO VANISHING CLUE, by Pauline Carring- ton Bouve. 27 WHO WAS GUILTY? by Beulah Poynter.. HEIRESS, by Inspector J. arrigan. 33 TRACKED TO CHINA, by Chief Roger O'Brian - AFTER. THE GERMANJ 28 THE EVIL EYE, by Charies SPIES, by May Halsey Mli- Fulton Oursler. ter. . a -The Famous Detective Story Out To-day in No. 35 is “THE CLUE IN THE BOX,” by Alexander Douglas nc ne FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, 168 W. 23d St. New York City. ao, 29 THR DOOR, by Tupper. } ——

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