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Crittenden
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lHustyattons by
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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I.—Thrown from his auto
In a Lew York village, a man Is ear
ried unconscious into the home of a
Miss Edith Grant. A doctor discovers
he has been shot, fatally. Conscious¬
ness Morbaeh, returning, the man gives his name
as and babbles of ■■millions." I
He begs that Henry Archman, million¬ j
aire resident of the vicinity, be sent i
for, declaring he has an Important mes¬
sage for him. Archman cannot be
reached by 'phone, but word is sent
that Ills secretary is on the way. A
man announcing himself as Archman’s I
secretary, Morbaeh, Akin, arrives, talks with
and leaves with a package
he gives him.
man's CHAPTER arrival, IX.—Morbaeh dies. Arch- |
with his secretary, re¬
veals that the man posing as Akin is
an Impostor and has escaped with the ;
papers Morbaeh carried. Archman de¬
nounces Edith Grant as a girl endeavor¬
ing to snare his son Harry.
CHAPTER III.—Arohman, hiB mil¬
lions made in Chicago, has yielded to
the importunities of his family—his
wife, daughters Nellie and Bessie (sev¬
moved enteen ye trs old), and son Harry—and
to New York in an endeavor to
gain recognition by the Four Hundred.
They have not succeeded. Mrs. Arch¬
man is bitter over her failure, particu¬
larly mourning the fact that she has
not been "taken up" by a Mrs. Van
Kull.
CHAPTER IV.—Archman orders Nel¬
lie t > get ready for a long Journey with
him, "starting In an hour." He refuses
to reveal their destination to his wife,
declaring tells Bess it she Is "not his secret." Nellie
is in love with James
Carr, a youth working on Archman's
ship, El Rio. She gives Bess a message
for him. Archman and Nellie depart.
CHAPTER V.—Harry tells Bess of
tis determination to marry Edith Grant.
Mrs. Archma.i receives a map, with the
bach’s explanation that it was among Mor
papers, and suggesting she for¬
ward it to Mr. Archman. Lord George
Caruthers, traveling Englishman, ar¬
rives at the Archman home, by invi¬
tation.
CHAPTER VI.—The Archman family,
with Lord George, visit the El Rio.
Bess meets Carr and tells him of her
sister's departure. She learns sts(er. from him
that “Edith Grant" is his Mrs.
Archman decides to take Bess and
Harry and sail with Captain Bunker
or. the.El accompanies Rio to meet her husband .
Caruthers them. Bunker
has sealed orders.
CHAPTER VII.—A Miss Denslow, en
gaged as governess for Bess, and Akin,
sail with the party. Miss Denslow and
Caruthers, It appears, keep have met before.
They decide to It a secret.
CHAPTER VIII.—Bess finds a note
urging her to warn Captain Bunker
to guard his Instructions. She thinks
It a joke, but playfully warns the cap¬
tain she will see them before he does,
Bunker finds his orders have been tam¬
pered with, and accuses Bess. Con¬
vinced of her Innocence, he realizes a
spy Is on board.
CHAPTER IX.—The ship arrives at
Its destination at night. At the mo¬
ment of anchoring, someone on the El
Rio sets off a red flare, evidently to
show the pursuing ship their position.
CHAPTER X.—Mrs. Archman, Bess,
Harry, Lord George, Miss Denslow and
the first officer, Collins, are landed. ;
From a height they discover a torpedo
boat destroyer evidently watching the
El Rio. Wigwagging the information
to the ship, those ashore witness a
commotion on board, which they rightly
Interpret as a mutiny. |
CHAPTER XI.—Price, ship’s steward, !
leader of the mutineers, comprising
practically the whole crew, tells Cap¬
tain Bunker, wounded and helpless,
their object is the treasure which they
believe Archman Is seeking. Nellie
Archman comes on board.
CHAPTER XII
Cross and Double Cross
For a full minute Nellie stood In the
doorway of the cabin, staring with
round eyes at the scene before her—
at Captain Bunker’s bound form and
bloodstreaked face and at the form of
the ex-steward as he stood leering by.
Then she started forward. “Captain
Bunker 1” she gasped. “Oh! Oh!
What has happened? What does It
mean? The sailors acted so strangely
and—and now—”
Bunker’s face grew grimmer than
ever. “It means that this hound
here”—he glared at Price—“has led a
mutiny and that the scoundrels are
in control of the ship. Come In! I’m |
sorry to see you here, but I think
you’re safer than you are on deck.”
“But—but—you’re hurt! You’re
bleeding 1” Nellie ran forward. “Why!
You’re bound! Oh, how cruel, how
wicked!” She swung around on Price.
“Cut these ropes at once,” she ordered.
“At once—do you hear!”
Price shook his head. “I’m sorry,
miss,” he said; “but I can’t. We had
a devil of a time before we could tie
the captain up and we don’t want to
have to do It over again. He ain’t
much hurt, you know.”
Nellie stamped her foot. “Then I’ll
untie him myself,” she flashed, and
bent to the fastenings.
“Hold on!” A note of sternness
crept Into Price’s voice. “Let those
knots alone, lady,” he ordered. “If
you let the captain loose I’ll shoot
him. Understand? I was going to
do it anvwaj when you came on bo ard.
Just you sit down.’*' The man ges¬
tured toward one of the vacant chairs
at the table. “I don’t want to hurt you
'or any of your friends; but I’m going
through with this thing now, no mat
ter what It costs. Sit down and let’s
talk things over.”
But Nellie shook her head. “No!”
she said. “I won’t sit down. I’m
to dress Captain Bunker’s head.
You can talk while I’m working.”
“Oh! All right. Just ns you like,
I did what I could for him, but It
wasn’t much. I’ll be only too glad to
have you go ahead. Captain Bunker
isn't much hurt, really. His head’s too
hard.”
Price luughed smoothly and easily.
His voice had again become ob.sequi
I ous. “I’ve been trying to persuade the
captain here to see sense,” he went
on, “but he won’t do It. Perhnps you
will. Anyhow, I’ll try. I always try
| persuasion before I try—er—stronger
measures. I want to know all about
things asliore here. First, I want to
know how many men your father has.”
Nellie raised her eyes from the, cap¬
tain’s head. “I’ll tell you nothing,”
; she said flatly.
“Oh, yes, you will! You’ll tell sooner
or later, and you'd better tell sooner.”
an instant cold ferocity spoke in
the man’s tone; then he slipped back
Into his old smooth manner. But a
child could have told that it was mock¬
ing.
, “Maybe you think this Is Just a sud¬
den flash-ln-the-pan mutiny,” lie said.
“It ain't. As I’ve just been telling the
captain, it ain’t, rightly speaking, a
mutiny at all. It’s piracy, planned
weeks ago. You remember the night
j that Morbaeh was killed?”
“Morbaeh?” Nellie sought In her
’ inemor;,;. “No I Yes I You don’t
I ; mean that—”
I “Yes, I do. I’m the man who car¬
ried him into the Grant cottage. No!
I didn’t kill him. Quite the contrary,
He run me down and cume near kill
ing me. He was crazy to see your
father and he talked about millions
of dollars and all that, you know.
Well! That interested me. I was Just
getting away from New York with
my share of the loot of the Steenth
National bank and I was ready for a
fresh layout. So, to cut the story
short, I went out to my buggy and put
on another hat and coat and came
back and said I was Mr. Akin. Gee! I
insulted myself some when I did it.
Before I’d be a shrimp like Akin!—
However, I got the packet and cleared
out. The doctor and the Grant girl
were pretty excited, and I got away
with the stunt. They’d seen me only
a few minutes, and the dim light
helped. That was a mighty interest¬
ing packet. It held a map, a descrip¬
tion of a route, and a good big pack¬
age of I guess you know what, and a
statement that there was about forty
million dollars more where It came
from. That interested me still more.
See! I wanted that forty million dol¬
lars. The map was of an Island, but
it didn’t say where the Island was.
But I guessed your mother knew. So
I sent her a copy of the map, with—
er—some changes, and watched. Sure
nuff she piked straight down to the
docks and interviewed our friend the
captain here and took passage for the
whole family and an extra lot of as¬
sorted freaks—”
“My mother? Is she here?” Nel¬
lie's eyes grew big.
“Well! Here or hereabouts. No 1
She ain’t aboard, but she ain’t far off.
She and her friends all came down
here with the ship. And I and my
friends came along, too. This morn¬
ing your mother’s friends all _ went
ashore, following the map I sent ’em.
I sent a lot of grub along, so's they
.wouldn’t suffer while they was waitin'
for a ship. Then just as I thought I
had everything lovely, I found out
somebody’d swiped my map—my own
map, y' understand. Course loslng.it
don’t do me any real harm, because I
reckon I could draw It over again Just
[from memory, but I hate to be stung
that way. Besides, It’s just possible
that I might need It. So I starts to
ask the cap’n what he knows about it,
when all of a sudden somebody with
your crowd begins to wigwag from the
mountain top; and the mate starts to
answer him; and so—not knowing
what he's saying—I tells the boys to
take possession and I comes In here
and—er— takes possession, too. The
captain says he don’t know nothing
ab gqt a ny jaftgLOf mine—"
THE PELHAM JOURNAL
“I don’t!” Captain Bunker cut in
sharply.
“Well, who lu thunder does, then?
Those people that went ashore didn’t
have it, or they’d ha% r e gone to the
right place instead of the wrong one.
If you ain’t got it, who has?” Very
evidently Price was trying to make
his auditors think that he set very lit¬
tle store by the map. But lie was not
succeeding.
Captain Bunker shrugged bis shoul¬
ders. “If I’d had It you’d have been
In irons now, and my passengers
would be safe on bourd. And while
I’m talking, I’ll just warn Miss Aroh
nmn that you’re a treacherous bound,
and not to be believed on oath. I
don't know what your gume is, but
you’re not fooling me one ounce. You
haven’t told mare than half the truth.
You haven’t told of robbing my safe
and opening my sealed orders or of
throwing bottles over the side with
messages for your consort, or of burn¬
ing that flare on the taffrail last
night.”
Price was listening curiously. “Not
me,” he said finally, entirely disregard¬
ing the captain’s excoriation. “Not
me. I didn’t know your papers has
been swiped, and I never heard about
any bottles. As for the flare—well,
’twa’n’t me or mine that burned It.
That’s straight. But I'll give you a
tip. If I was guessin’, I’d charge all
those things up to one or two of those
passengers of yours. A steward gets
lots of chances to hear tilings, and I’ve
been hearing of ’em. Maybe me and
my friends have double-crossed you,
but unless I miss my guess, the al¬
leged Britisher and that governess
have been getting ready to triple-cross
you. However, that’s all over now.
The map never was of much Impor¬
tance, and I don’t give a wlioop for
It now, except to make a clean job.
I've got Miss Archman instead, and
siie’s better than a dozen maps.”
"1!” Nellie had finished with the
sponge and was binding up the cap¬
tain's head.
“Sure! I’ve exptalned tilings so’s
you'd understand—that all I want is
the money, that I don’t want to hurt
you, see? Nobody’s going to hurt you,
if you net proper, and I know you’re
a-going to.”
Price lay back In his chair. “You
know the way to the place where the
mnzoosalum—otherwise the forty mil¬
lions—are waiting. I know the road
starts near here. I’d picked the place
from what the map said, and the boys
tell me you came out right there. An’
I think I know the rest of the way.
But I ain't taking any chances. 1
want to know just what I’ve gol to go
against, and you’ve got to tell me. If
you do, and if I find out you’ve told
me the truth, I’ll put you and the cap¬
tain ashore. See! If you refuse, I’ll
make you wish you hadn’t. And if you
lie to me I’ll—well, I’ve got you and
your friends in the hollow of my hand.
It’ll he easy enough to find that moth¬
er and sister of yours and—well, we,’ll
find ’em, all right. So you better
speak up and speak quick.”
The girl’s face was colorless and
her breath came In gasps. “I won’t
"1 Won’t Trust You,” She Gasped.
"You Wouldn’t Keep Your Word.”
trust you,” she gasped. “You wouldn’t
keep your word.”
“Yes! I will! I swear It!”
Nellie’s Ups tightened. “I don’t be¬
lieve you. I won’t trust you. If you
have robbed and murdered, you’ll lie,
too. I’ll tell you nothing.”
Price sprang to his feet. The mask
dropped from his face. “You little
cat!” he yelled. “I’ll—” He paused,
holding himself In restraint by a
mighty effort. “All right,” lie went
on. "I won’t crowd you. We don’t
start till daylight, and I’ll give you
till then to come to your senses. Sleep
on it. I guess you’ll come around.
I’ve got ways of persuading people—
especially girls—who play ugly. How¬
ever, sleep on It. Now, I’ll just lock
you up in your mother’s stateroom for
the night. If you’ll come along—”
Price got up and waved his hand to¬
ward the door.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
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