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The Diamond Ship
MAX PEMBERTON
Author of "Doctor Xavier," "The Hundred Days,” etc.
Copyright by D. Appleton & Co.
CHAPTER XVI.
The steamer, driving on rapidly to
the westward, showed her hull very
plainly when a quarter of an hour had
passed, and was immediately named by
Cain, the quartermaster, who was at
the wheel, for a collier he had seen
some months back at Cardiff.
. She flew a Brazilian flag, sir, and
carried a Russian ofelpper wjiat had a
plefuVb nose.” said In' cheerily enough,
"I remember the boys said that some
xme tattoed a bit of a circus scene on
his figurehead when he was took In
drink at Rio last trip. I'd have knowed
the ship anywheres by that doll’s house
,&baft the funnel. Leastwise, If there
ain’t two of ’em, she’s the same.”
His logic was commendable, and we
questioned him.
"Had she any arms, Cain?”
"Nothing that I see, sir, saving the
shovels.”
“And you didn't know where she was
bound to?”
"They gave It as Rio. sir. I had a bit
of a tumble-to with a Portuguese stew
ard of theirs, and I give him Port Ar
thur for himself. You come out to
Rio,’ says he, ‘and I’ll d ■— n well pull
Vour nose!’ It seemed to me a long
way to go for the Job, sir, and that I
could get It done cheaper at home. I
never see him again, and next day the
chip sailed.”
We laughed at his manner of telling
It, but the news proved acceptable
enough. I had already come to a de
termination, and this I communicated
immediately to Larry.
“We must stop them,” I said, “if we
are to save Joan Fordibras; that
steamer must not put her cargo on the
deck of the Diamond Ship. The risk is
small enough, captain. I think that a
signal will do it—If not a signal, then
u gunshot, anyway. Let us put it to
the proof. The success or failure will
mean more than any of you imagine.’'
j He obeyed me without question, and
we steamed straight for the tramp,
steering such a course that we over
took her on the port-quarter, and so
were difficult to come at by any for
ward gun. should she carry one. My
own impression was that she did not.
Her safety from Inquisitional officers
in port would be better assured by the
normal practice of ocean-going cargo
boats. I believed that the quartermas
ter had told us the truth, and upon
that supposition I acted.
“Signal to her to bring to, Larry!”
I said, and he assented immediately.
It was pretty to see our flags flut
tering upon the breeze of morning, and
to watch the commotion upon the deck
of tho tramp. We knew that she had
sighted us almost as soon as we set
our engines going. The far horizon
disclosed no trace of the Diamond Ship.
We two appeared alone In all that
vista of the rolling waters.
Now the ship answered by demand
ing our name and our business. We
could make out the figures of two or
three men upon her bridge; but the
crew appeared an unusually small one,
and the aft decks were completely de
fierted. To their signal, we replied Im
mediately:
<1) That Imroth was flying from
Brttlah warships.
(8) That their own safety depended
upon their Immediate submission.
, Not the whole truth, perhaps, and
■ret, as I hoped, truth enough. It had
been In my mind all along that the
government would send at least a pa
trol to the seas I had named. I could
not believe that, after my revelations,
'ports would not be watched. So I
signalled this message and waited with
not a little expectation for an answer.
To my astonishment, their captain’s
reply was to ask mo to go aboard,
meaning, of course, the master of the
yacht.
indicated the presence of Imroth's ves
sel, and not of a British warship.
“The game is up,” I resumed, “and
your friend Is about to pay the price
of it! If you wish to contribute your
share, go on and join the fun. I don’t
suppose the police care much about
such riffraff as you have on board here.
Get them back to Cardiff, and let them
find new ships. You are thinking of
the money—well, if you can fill my
bunker yonder, I will pay a long price
for the stuff you carry—down on your
table In English sovereigns."
At this, he regarded me very curi
ously. A dull head Is often obstinate
in suspicion. The fellow perceived his
advantage, and could have pressed it.
“Oh!" said he, “then you are short
of coal?"
“We arc short of coal,” I rejoined, my
frankness astounding him; “the others
have none to spare, and If we buy none
of you, we must run to Porto Grande.
In that case, you will carry this cargo
back to Europe and be arrested when
you step ashore."
I found the Russian to be a low-wit
ted, covetous fellow, not greatly to be
overdrawed by threats, but exceeding
ly susceptible to the substantial
fucts of money. In the end, I
bought what coal wo could carry from
him at a price which I would cheer
fully have doubled. And, inded, I do
think it was one of the best day's
work I ever did in all my life. To
cut off Imroth’s patrol, to fill our own
bunkers with his precious steam coal,
carried at such a risk from Cardiff,
to send the tramy steamer back again
wheftce she came—even the matter of
fact Larry could find no word to fit
it. As for my poor friend Timothy,
his emotions were altogether too much
for him.
“Docther,” said lie, “I doubt your
salvation, and that’s the truth of it.
Say that we are going back to dine
on Imroth's ship, and I'll believe ye
entirely. ’Twould not be more wonder
ful than that which these poor old
eyes are showing me.”
I told him not to make a fool df
himself, but to serve his turn as sen
tinel, while we brought the yacht
alongside the collier and took in coal
from her. Treachery might yet be
planned against us, though I doubted
It. We posted an armed guard upon
the bridge and stripped our forward
guns of their covers—the swell ran
kindly and the sea was like a mir
ror. Hardly believing their own eyes,
but obeying me nevertheless, our good
fellows set to work like niggers and
tilled our bunkers with the precious
stuff. It had been at seven bells of
the morning watch -when they began;
it was three of the afternoon before
they had done. The coal chutes with
which the tramp was provided to All
Imroth's bunkers now filled our own
admirably. I paid the Russian captain
honestly, and sent him at all speed to
the eastward when the business was
done.
neiurn as you came ana keep your
mouth shut," I said. "I will answer 1
for you to the police, should the need
arise. It will be your own fault if
it does."
He thanked me with some civilty,
and I could see that he now considered
himself a very fortunate fellow. To
be frank, I had dismissed him utterly
from my mind half an hour after he
east olT; and the excitement of the
deal having passed, I called to our
steward to bring me tea to the cabin
and there we held a council, vital be
yond any in its significance and its
earnestness. For now must we decide,
instantly and finally, what steps must
be taken to save my little Joan from
the devils of the Diamond Ship. How
were we, the crew of a puny yacht,
to bring that groat hive of ruffians
to book? What course dare we risk?
What hope had we of any assistance
from the British or other governments?
This is what we discussed when we
had lighted our cigars and the tea was
poured out. And this is much how
the talk went:
Myself—"We must first consider the
threat. I believe that they are capable
both of torturing and of killing Joan
Fordibras if they are driven to it.
But they will only do so in an ex
tremity. She is their hostage. The mo
ment that they harm her, they have
done all that they can against us.
If she be subject to insult meanwhile,
well, they have to deal with one of
singular courage and resource. It is a
callous argument but that much we
must ignore. My own idea is to lead
them to the belief that we are watch
ing them. If they run for South Amer
ica, we shall fall In with ships bound
for Rio and Montevideo. The malls to
the Argentine have the Marconi instru
ment. We can hardly fail to catch
one of them. I would rather burn
this yacht than turn back now.”
McShanus—"The docther says the
lady must put up with their insults,
but ye can see the blood going and
coming from his cheeks while he says
it. I honor him for it. We want to
get the girl off the ship and not to
lose Imroth In the doing of it. 'Tis
an employment for a Japanese wizard,
faith! Here’s yon rogue running for
a South American port, and when he's
ashore, he’ll make money faces at ye.
Toil yourselves that, and cry out
against the governments. It’s all ye
can do that I can see.”
Myself—"I am far from sure of it.
Timothy, but prophecy is of little help
to us. We must follow those people,
and let them know that we are fol
lowing them. Impudence has stopped
one of their fleet and may stop an
other. I am going to see how far it
helps me with Imroth himself,”
There is much of which my log
might speak to tell the history of the
seven days which followed upon our
resolution. We had pledged ourselves
to harass the Diamond Ship by night
and day; and bravely had we done so.
Incessantly now the messages passed
from our deck to hers by way of her
flags and instruments. Threats, defi
ance, insult—to these we became ac
customed. A torture of suspense had
been superseded by a dull submission
to necessity.
All this time we lay drifting some
two or three miles, I suppose, from the
great vessel which harbored the Jew
and his company. Sometimes, when the
night was moonless, we ran up boldly
and spied the huge ship out, defying
her untrained gunners, and learning
what we could of that which passed
upon her decks. There was a cabin
aft, I remember, which I named as
Joan’s; and I would place her therein,
and depict her Ri my mind sheltered
there from Imrolfc's anger and the in
sults ol’ his fellows.
Now, thus six days bad passed, and
I will take you to the morning of the
seventh, when, chancing to be on the
poop at a very early hour, Balaam, our
Scotch bo’sun, called by attention to
the distant ship and to something
which was passing on her decks.
"There’s nan a pill for the parritcli
the morn," said he in his dry fashion;
"yon body's fired no gun, sir, since
cuimi wuri me, i imomy, saiu L 10
McShaiiu.s; "don't talk about pistols,
man! I.arry will stand by for danger.
We could sink them in five minutes if
we had the mind. It's as safe as Rot
ten Row.”
“No safe place at all for a man who
Is susceptible to woman’s beauty. Go
aboard. Ban, my bhoy; I’ll take your
word for it when I come back!"
Wo put out a gangway and lowered
the lifeboat from the starboard davits.
The collier, lylno- some 200 paces from
our l ows, let down a pilot’s ladder for
meu and I caught it as it swung, and
climbed to her decks. Far down below
me now. the portly Timothy asked me
If I thought he was a bird. I left him.
full of strange oaths, In the boat and
presented myself immediately to the
captain of the steamer.
“Do you speak English?" I asked.
He shook his head and said "Nitch
evo!” emphatically.
A phrase in German, ho- -ever, ob
tained an immediate answer. I per
ceived him to be a coarsely built man
of some 50 years of age, his nose
scarred roughly by a seaman's needle,
as the Quartermaster Cain had told
me, and his manner as threatening and
full of bluster as his .master, Imroth,
could have wished.
“What's your business with me?” he
asked, while his clumsy fingers fondled
a revolver he carried in his breeches
pocket.
‘To keep your neck out of the noose.”
said I, without any preface whatever.
“Your game is up and Val Imroth
taken. That's what brought me here!"
He spat on the deck and called a
mate to him—another Russian no more
beautiful than he.
“What’s this man to me?” the cap
tain asked. “Am I his servant?”
“Undoubtedly, since you carry coal
to his ship."
“Suppose I tell you to mind your own
business ?”
T ain going to give you 10 minutes.
If you are not steaming eastward at
the end of that time, I promise you
that I will most certainly send you to
the bottom. Reflect upon it calmly.
You cannot help Imroth, but may save
yourselves. I'll tell you something else.
If you have any coal to sell, I am a
buyer. Now, do not finger that pistol
of yours, for it might go off. and as
sure as God's in heaven, if it did, this
crew would be on the floor of the At
lantic In less than five minutes. Rattle I
your senses, my man, and speak up.
If yonder warship spies us out. she’ll
not dial so tenderly with you. What is
Imroth to you, and why should you sell
your liberty for him? Come, think of
It I I am not a patient man, but I will
give you time enough not to make a
fool of yourself.”
They were brazen words, upon my
life! When I pointed westward to a
loom of smoke upon the horizon scarce
ly bigger than a man’s hand—when I
did this, and spoke in the same breath
of a warship, then, surely, the ingenuity
of suggestion could go no further. As
for tbe rascally Russian. I saw that he
was struck all of a heap. His eyes had
already told him that the,yacht White
Wings carried machine guns and a tor
pedo tube. Perhaps he argued that
even If he raced for it. we could sink
him before the Diamond Ship so much
as sighted him; and this was to assume
that a haze of smoke upon the horizon
[yesterday mornin. Maybe 'tis pure joy |
of heart. I'm not knowing rightly, but
it's sufficiently remarkable, as you
must be thinking.’
This was new, surely, and I gratified
the good fellow my admitting as much.
"Looks as though she was running
a bit short of ammunition, Balaam,"
I said; "has there been anything else
you have noticed?”
"Naething in particular, sir. She’s
fired a popgun or two, but maybe she’s
over merry the morn. You can hear
them _for yny£sejf. Bide here a mo
rn? tit and Til show 'you.”
He took his stand by the taffrail
and pointed with a tarry hand at the
distant ship. Day had broken propi
tiously with a fleece of cloud high in
the heavens and a shimmer of splen
did sunlight upon the chattering wa
ters. The Diamond ship herself lay dis
tant perhaps a couple of miles from us.
She hud sails set to prevent her roll
ing, but not a vestige of smoke es
caped her funnels, nor was there any
indication of her being under steam.
When 1 spied out her decks through
my powerful glass, I perceived that
they were crowded with men.
“Good God!” I said, "they are fight
ing among themselves! Go and call
Captain Larry at once!”
’’Larry,” I said, when he came up
from the cabin—McShanus upon his
heels—"they are shooting each other,
Lurry!”
He did not reply Immediately, but,
focussing his glass, he directed it upon
the distant ship. Timothy, in his turn,
took his stand beside me.
"And of what would happen to Joan
Fordibras if they quarreled amongst
themselves?”
”1 dare not think of It, Timothy—
she would be in her cabin. Good God!
why do you make me think of it?”
I stood by the taffrail to watch the
puffs of heavy white smoke and try
to depict the tragedy then consum
mated on the decks of the Diamond
ship. What a scene of horror and
bloodshed It must be!
I could readily imagine that there
had been two parties, and that they had
come first to words and then to arbit
rament of deeds.
Garry, t said. ' am going to se®
what is happening yonder. Let Mr.
Benson know tlint ,ro shall want all
the steam he can give us.
“It's staking much, sir."
"Bo little. Larry, that we’ll have our
breakfasts while we watch them. Ever.
Mr. McShanus, you observe, is not dis
turbed. 1 believe that he imagines
himself in a theater.”
But Timothy McShanus answered:
'Thdade and I do,” said he, “and no
more disturbed than a man at a hang
ing. Set a dish of parritch before ms
and ye shall see. Faith! should I weep
tears because one thief is cutting an
other thief’s throat?”
We laughed at this splendid earnest
ness, while Larry went up to th®
bridge; and Timothy himself came up
to me and spoke a more serious word.
"Ye are easier in your p he
said, scanning my face clost... . tis
good to see it, Ean, me bhoy! Ye don’t
think Miss Joan will suffer, now, do
ye?”
"She will suffer, but only her fears.
Timothy. The danger comes later,'
when this is over. I do not think of
it, because I hope to share it with
her."
"Good God! ye are not going on
board, man?”
”1 am going on board, Timothy—that
is, If my judgment leads me to be
lieve it possible. I’ll tell you in half
an hour’s time.”
Taking my stand upon our forward
bridge. I could clearly discern a group
of men defending the fo’castle and an
other in ambush behind the superstruc
ture amidships. A powerful glass dis
closed the prone figures of such as had
already fallen, while the intervals,!
when a restless breeze carried the haze
of smoke to the eastward, permitted
a fuller view of the spectacle, revolt-'
ing in its detail.
The villians were evidently enraged
beyond all measure. I could see them
in the death grip, here wrestling as
athletes upon a stage, there fighting
upon their hands and knees, as savages
who cut and slash at the face and head
and heart in unsurpassable lust of
blood and life. But beyond this, the
greater terror was to know that th®
ship sheltered Joan Fordibras, and
that she must be the witness of this
debauch. What could it mean to such
a one to suffer that? Again I say that
I had no courage to think of it.
We had come to no agreement upon
the nature of our approach, or upon
the limits which prudence should set
to it. I left it to Larry’s wise head,
and could have done no better. Not
until we were within a cable’s length
of their poop did he bring White Wings
to—and there we lay, rolling to a gen
tle swell, half the hands on deck,
some on the rigging, two officers with
Timothy and myself on the bridge, as
amazed a company as sailed the At
lantic that day.
"The hands have mutinied and the
dead weight is going under,” said
Larry, with an Indifference to the suf
fering we witnessed I had hardly looked,
for; "I shouldn’t wonder if you are re
sponsible, sit. A thieves’ crew Is for
fair weather. Let a cloud come up as
big as a man's hand and they’ll run
for port though Davey Jones takes the
tiller. They’ve had enough of it—any
man could see that with half an eye.
And God help Imroth if he hauls down
his Hag!”
(Continued Next Week.)
No Doctor To Help Her Die.
From Mack’s Monthly.
Like many of the older set of southern
darkies, when the civil war closed, Uncle
Ephraim and his wife, Aunt Jane, as they
w'ere familiarly known, chose to remain
with their former mistress rather than to
try their fortune elsewhere. Because of
this fact Mrs. Smith was peculiarly at
tached to her former slaves and saw to It
that they stood in need of none of the
ordinary comforts of life.
Sickness, however, had laid hold on
Aunt Jane and for days Ephraim had been
kept away from the "big house." Early
one morning, upon opening the rear door
of her home, Mrs. Smith saw Ephraim ap
proaching. Knowing that Aunt Jane had
been sick, she said:
"Ephraim, how is Jane?"
“W’y, she’s dead.”
"Ephraim, you don’t say so; is she
dead?"
"Yes, yes’m, she’s dead.”
"When did she die, Ephraim?"
"She died about midnight, last night."
"Well, well, well—did the doctor get
there before she died?"
"No, m’n, she ,1es’ died by herself."
Prohibition Everywhere.
From the Washington Star.
General Frederick Dent Grant, dis
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with a Washington correspondent,
said:
"At any rate, canteen or no canteen,
we should all remember that there’s
one public house at least that we can
all close. Yes, even in New York or
Paris we can have prohibition.”
And General Grant quoted with a
smile the couplet:
“There is a little public house which
every one may close—
It is the little public house just under-,
neath the nose.”
The Jordan is the most crooked river
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TROPHY.
NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION, AT
COLUMBUS, OHIO, AWARDS
TROPHY FOR PECK OF
OATS GROWN IN SAS
KATCHEWAN.
Again Canada is to the fore, and has
secured at the National Corn Exposi
tion just closed at Columbus, Ohio, the
.magnificent Colorado silver trophy val
ued at 51,500, for the best peck of.oats.
These oats were grown by Nessrs. Hill
& Son, of Lloydmlnster, Saskatchewan,
and, as may readily be understood,
were of splendid quality to have been
so successful in a contest open to the
world, and in .which competition was
keen. At the same Exposition there
were exhibits of wheat and barley, and
in all these competitions, the grain
shown by Canada secured a wonderful
amount of attention, and also a num
ber of awards. During recent exhibi
tions at which grain from Western
Canada was given permission for en
try, it always took first place. At the
Spokane Interstate Fair, last fall,
where the entries were very large, and
the competition keen, the Province of \
Alberta carried off the silver cup, giv
en by Governor Hay, for the best statt»
or province display, and a score ol
orizes was awarded Canadian exhibl.
tors for different exhibits of wheat,
oats and barley threshed and in tlio
sheaf. Vegetables also received high
awards. A pleqsing feature of thes«
exhibits was they were mostly mads
by farmers who had at one. time been
American Citizens and were now farm
<ng in Canada. The Department ol
the Interior is just in receipt of a mag>
aificent diploma given by the Tri-State
Board of Examiners at the Fair held in
Cincinnati last fall for agricultural dis
play by Canada.
The Surveyor-General of Canada has
(ust completed a map showing that a
large area of land was surveyed last
year in the northern portion of Sas
katchewan and Alberta in order to ha
ready for the rush of homesteaders to
that district during the coming spring
and summer. It is understood sun *
reys covering several hundreds o| t
thousands of acres will be made in
addition to these during the coming
summer.
A return just issued by the Domin
ion Lands Branch shows that 48,251
homestead entries were made Iasi 4
year as compared with 37,061 in 1909} 1
of this 48,257, 14,704 were made by
Americans. North Dakota coming first
on the list with 4,810, Minnesota gives
1,528, South Dakota 1,133, Wisconsin
T45, Washington 730, Michigan 706,
Jowa 645, while other states show less,
hut with the exception of Delaware,
District of Columbia and the Indian
Territory, every state and territory
contributed.
The prospects for an abundant cro&
tn all parts of Western Canada for
1911 are said to be excellent. In the
districts that required it there was an
ample rainfall last autumn, and the
snowfall during the present winter is
greater than in many previous years.
Both are essential factors to the farm
ers, who look upon the moisture that
these will produce as being highly
beneficial.
A large immigration from the United
States is expected, and the demand for
literature and information from the va
rious Government Agencies located al
different points in the States is the
greatest it has ever been.
Since the above was written word
has been received that in addition td
honors won at Columbus, Ohio, Cana
da won first and second on wheat and
first and second on oats, as well as
diplomas.
Norman Cherry of Davis, Saskatch.
ewan, who was in the reserve for first
on wheat, secured the award, with G,
H. Hutton of Lacomhe, Alberta, seo<
ond. J. C. Hill & Sons got first on
oats besides the silver trophy. G. tb
Hutton took second in oats.
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