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CHAPTER VII.
The Lieutenant Unmasked.
Where the craft could be bound; for
what secret purpose It was afloat; who
were aboard, were but so many unan
swerable questions arising In my mind.
Where could it have come from, unless
from that strange Dutch bark? If
It really came from the Namur of Rot
terdam had It been sent In answer to
some signal by Sanchez? I could think
of nothing else. I determined to as
sure myself as to the Identity of these
strangers. If they had actually landed
It would require only a few moments
to ascertain the truth. The distance
proved somewhat greater than antici
pated, because of the deep curve in the
shore and I had nearly reached the
conclusion that the boat must have
rounded the point and gone on when
suddenly I was brought to a halt by a
voice speaking In Spanish—one of
those harsh croaking voices never to
be reduced to a whisper.
"Not the spot Manuel? Of course
It Is; do you not suppose I know? This
is the place and now there Is nothing
to do but wait. The senor—he will be
here presently."
"Ay, unless you misread the signal."
a somewhat more discreet but piping
voice replied doubtfully. "I saw noth
ing of all you tell about, Estada."
The two men went on to discuss
plans evidently communicated to Es
tada by Sanchez from England. I was
about to creep nearer, when a new
comer moved past me scarcely a yard
distant, along the narrow strip of
sand. Directly opposite iny covert he
paused.
"Estada." He epoke the name cau
tiously.
"Ay, captain," and another figure
emerged noiselessly from the gloom.
"We await you."
"Good. I rather questioned If you
caught my signal. I was watched and
obliged to exercise care. How many
have you here?"
"Four, senor, with Manuel Estevan."
"Quite sufficient. How Is it here?
Are there suspicions?"
"Xone, seuor. We have cruised out
side most of the time. There is uo
warships in these waters. You said
you were being watched on the sloop.
Are you known?"
"A dog of a servant wno came over
with us—one of Monmouth's brood.
The fellow watches me like a hawk.
We had some words aboard and there
is hate between us."
"May 1 ask your plans, senor?"
"Yes, I am here to explain. This
planter Fairfax, has returned from
England with a large sum. It is In
gold and notes. It represents the pro
ceeds of the tobacco crop of himself
and a number of his neighbors. With
out doubt It will be upward of fifty
thousand pounds. This still remains
In his possession, but a part will be
dispersed tomorrow; so If we hope to
gaiu the whole we must do so now.
Everything is ready, and there is not
tlie slightest suspicion of danger—not
even a guard set over the treasure."
"Then It is at the house?"
•'In an iron-bouud chest, in the room
assigned to Fairfax for the night.
Only two servants sleep In the mam
house, the cook and a inalu, both
women. Fairfax is vlgoi-ous and will
put up a fight if ne has any chance.
He must be taken care of before ne
does have nn.v. Travers is an old man.
to be Knocked out with a blow. All
we have to fear are those fe'Iows or
the sloop, and the.v will have to bo at
tended to quietly without any alarm
reaching the house. 1 am going to
leave that job to you—it's not your
tested in ma^iy airplanes and in all
kinds of motors under every con
ceivable condition, and it hag teen
j 'uund that in cases where gasoline
has become lesg efficient. Jt baa
shown increased efficiency. This
has bse^ true where an airplane has
gone to a high altitude and? the
temperture was low. The new
fuel will give the same results at
60 degrees below zero as at nor
mal temperature."
The company, it i$ said, is plan
ning to produce the new fuel at
a: the rate of from 150,000.000 to
200,000,000 gallons a year,
There seems to be some little
i m'sunderstandlng regaiding the r*g
i titration of voters. Those who ha<i
! registered this spring previous to
i the postponement of the election wll
'not be required to register again,
| but all thosa who failed to register
| prior to that time, and who have
eot registered eincse the City
| Clerk's office has re-opened, should
do go at once- The Clerk's office
I will be open from 7 o'clock until
J 9 o'clock each evening for the bal
ance of the week.
arsr."
"The old sea orders, captain?"
"Ay, that will be quicker and surer."
The voice hardened to sudden ferocity. ,
"But, mark you, with one exception—
the Englishman is not to he killed. If
he can be taken alive. I would deal
with hltu."
"Then after that," Sanchez went on
deliberately, as though murder was of
small account, "you will follow me up i
the bluff. Who are the others with I
you?"
"Carl Anderson, Pedro Mendez and
Cochose."
"Well chosen; Mendez is the least !
valuable, and we will leave him with
the prisoner at the boat. The big ne
gro, Cochose, together with Manuel,
can attend to Travers and the two ne
gresses—they sleep below. That will
leave you and the Swede to get the
chest. No firearms if they can be
avoided. I have been over the house
and drawn a diagram, i'oir can look
it over in the cabin of the sloop. The
stairs lead up from the front hall. I
will go with you to the door of Fair
fax's room."
"And yon, aenor—the girl?"
"What know you of any girl?"
"That there was one on the deck of
the sloop—an English beauty. It was
when you turned to greet her that
you gave me the signal. I merely
thought that perhaps—"
"Then stop thinking," burst forth
Sanchez enraged. "Thinking has noth
ing to do with your work It there
Is a girl I attend to her. Let that suf
fice. Dios! am I chief here, or are
you? You have my orders; now obey
them and hold your tongue. B:ing the
men up here."
The little band ot men emerged
from the concealment ot the fog
noiselessly. 1 could distinguish no
faces, scarcely Indeed the outlines of
their separate forms in the giooro, hut
one was an unusually fellow—Co
chose.
"Lads." he snid incisively sharper
note of leadership In ilie tone "it iias
been a bit quiet for you lately, hut
now i am back again, ana we'll try
our luck ai sea once more."
There was a savage grow ot re
sponse, a sudden leaning fotwai'a of
dark figures.
"We'll be?in on a job tonight. There
are fifty thousand pounds for us in
that nouse yonder, and l waive my
share. Estada will explain to you the
work 1 want done. By daylight we
shall be on blue water, with our course
set tor Porto Grande. How ts it. bul
lies, do you sniff at the salt sea?
"Ay, ay, captain."
"And see the pretty girls waiting—
and hear the chink of gold?"
"Ay, senor."
"Then do not iaii me tomgnt—ana
remember it ts to be the knife. Es
tada, I have forgotten one thing—
scuttle the sloop before Joining me.
•Tis better to make all safe: and now,
strong arras, and good iuck. Go to
your task, and if one tails me it will
mean the lash at the mast-butt.-'
They moved off one by «ae, Estnda
leading, along the narrow strip of
sand, five of them, on their mission of
mnrder. The leader remained alone,
his back toward where I crouched, his
eyes following their vanishing figures
until the night had swallowed tnem.
CHAPTER VIM
A Victory and a Defeat
I arose silently to my feet, fully
aware that all hope of thwarting this
villainy lay in Immediate action. San
chez had turned slightly and stood
with his face toward the bay 1 ven
tured a cautious step forward and
stood on the open sand, scarcely a
yard to his rear. Some vague sense
of my presence must have influenced
the man, for he swung suddenly aoout,
uttering a stifled cry ot startled sur
prise, as we met face to tare. For an
Instant we were locked so closely
within each other's desperate grip, his
head bent beneath my arm, with my
fingers clutching at his throat to block
any call for help, that he possessed no
knowledge of his assailant's Identity.
But the man was like a tiger. The
surprise of attack was to my advan
tage, yet almost before I realized what
was being done ho had rallied, broken
my first hold, and his eyes were glar
, ing straight into mine. Then he knew
me, his free hand instantly grasping
at his knife. Even as he Jerked it
forth I crushed his wrist within my
fingers, forcing his forearm back.
There was no outcry, no noise, except
that of our heavy breathing and tram
j pling feet. Personal hatred had as
cendency in both our hearts—I doubt
If he ever thought of aught else but
the desire to kill me there with his
own hands. Only once did be even
utter a word, hissing out the sentence
as though it were a poison:
"To hell with you, you sneaking
English cur!"
What followed has to me no clear
ness, no consistency. Never have I
, fVUil'lt Fith dcejj^r realization that I
noefTort eVcry ounce of strength and I
every trick of wit and skill. Now 11
knew the fellow possessed greater
knowledge of the game than I and a
quicker movement; I excelled In
weight of body and coolness of brain.
Twice he pricked me deep enough to
draw blood, before J succeeded In
twisting backward the arm with which
he held the blade. He met fhe game
too late, falling half back upon one'
knee, hoping thus to foil my purpose.
There was the sharp crack of a oone,1
as his useless augers let >he rfnlfe
drop, a snarled curse of pain, and then,'
with the rage of a mad uog, Sanchez
struck his teeth deep into my cheek.<
With a thrill of exultation I gripped
the knife, driving instantly the keen
blade to its hilt into the man's aide.
He made no cry, uo struggle—the set
teeth unlocked, and he fell limply
back on the sand, his litad lapped by
the waves.
The fellow lay motionless, his face
upturned to the sky, but invisible ex
cept in dim outline. I rested my ear
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Made No Cry, No Struggle.
over his heart, detecting no murmur
of response: touched the veins of his
wrist, but found there no answering
throb of life.
With the death-dealing knife still
gripped in my hand I raced forward
along the narrow strip of sand, reck
less of what I might encounter. I ran
on until I reached the sloop. Through
the gloom concealing the deck I could
perceive only dim figures, a riot of
men, battling furiously hand to hand,
yet out of the ruck loomed through
the darkness in larger outlines than
the others—Cochose, the negro. I
leaped at the fellow and struck with
the keen knife, missing the heart but
plunging the blade deep Into the ttesh
of the shoulder. The next Instant I
was in a bear's grip, the very breath
crushed out of uie, yet, by sonre
chauce, my one arm remained free,
and I drove the sharp steel into him
twice before he forced the weapon
from my fingers. I thrust an elbow
beneath the brute's chin, and thus
forced his head back until the neck
cracked.
He was too strong, too immense or
stature. Apparently unweakened by
his wounds, the plant negro, thor
oughly aroused, exerted his mighty
muscles, und, despite ray utmost effort
nt resistance, thrust me back against
the stern rail, where the weight of his
body pinned me helplessly. With a
roar of rage he drove his huge fist into
my face, but happily was too close to
give much force to the blow. My own
hands, gripping the neckband of his
coarse shirt, twisted It tight about the
great throat until, in desperation,
panting for breath, the huge brute
actually lifted me in his arms and
hurled me backward headlong over
the rail. I struck something as I fell,
yet rebounding from this splashed into
the deep water and went down eo
nearly unconscious as to make not
even the slightest struggle. And yet I
came up once more to the surface,
arising by sheer chance directly be
neath the small dorv—which my body
must have struck as I fell—towing by
a painter astern of the sloop, and for
tunately retained sense enough to
cling desperately to this first thing ray
hands touched, and thus remained con
cealed. I
The dory caught in some current, I
floated at the very extremity of Its '
slender towline, and in consequence
the sloop appeared little more than a
mere smudge, when my eyes endeav
ored to discover its outlines. Evi
dently the bloody work had been com
pleted, for now all was silent on board.
Then came the voice of Estada in a
gruff Inquiry:
"So you are hiding here, Cochose?
What are you looking for iu the s*a?"
"What? Why that d d English
man. Mon Dieu! He fought me like
a mad rat."
"The Englishman, you say? He was
here then? It was he you battled
with? What became of the fellow?"
"He went down there, senor. The
dog stabbed me three times. It was
either he or I to go."
"You mean you threw him over
board?"
"Ay, with his ribs crushed in, and
not a breath left in his d d body. 1
He's never come up even—I've watched
and there has not been so much as a
ripple where he sank."
The two must have hnng In silence
over the rail staring down. I dared
not advance my head to look, nor even
move a muscle of my body in the
.inter.
"How came you aft here?"
"Because that fellow leaped the rail
from the wlmrf. I saw trim, and w§
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"From tlie wharf, yon say? TTe was j
not aboard, then? Santa Maria! I
know not what that may mean. Yet
what difference, so he be dead. An
derson, Mendez, throw that carrion,
overboard—no, bullies, never mind;,
let them lie where they are, and sink
an auger In the sloop's bottom. What i
Is that out yonder, Coehose?"
"A small boat, senor—a dory, I mako
it." !
"Cut the rore and send It adrift, j
Now come along with me."
The darker loom of the sloon van
ished slowly, as the slight '.'urreru1
sweeping about the end of the wharf I
drifted the released boat to which I '
clung outward into the bay. There I
was scarcely a ripple to the sea, and j
yet I felt that the boat was steadily I
drifting out into deep water. I was
still strangely weak, barely able to re
tain my grasp. Finally I mustered |
every ounce of remaining energy in |
one supreme effort and succeeded in
dragging my body up out of water I
over the boat's stern, sinking helpless
ly forward Into the bottom. The mo
ment this was accomplished every
sense deserted me, and I lay there
motionless, totally unconscious.
I shall never know how long I re
mained thus. Yet this time could not
have been great. As though awaken
ing from sleep a faint consciousness
returned. Then the sharp pain of my
wounds, accented by the sting of salt |
water, brought me swift realization of j
where I was and the circumstances j
bringing me there. I had evidently i
lost considerable blood, yet this had j
already ceased to flow, and a very
slight examination served to convince
me that the knife slashes were none j
of them serious. My other injuries i
were merely bruises to add to my dis
comfort—the result of blows dealt me
by Sanchez and Coehose, aggravated
by the bearlike hug of the giant ne
gro. Indeed, I awoke to the discov
ery that I was far from being a dead I
man; and, inspired by this knowledge,
the various incidents of the night
Hashed swiftly back into my mind.
No gleam of light appeared in any
direction; no sound echoed across the
dark waste of water. It was clearly
impossible for me to attempt any re
turn to the wharf through the impene
trable black curtain which shut me in.
What, then, could I do? What might !
I still hope to accomplish?. Those fel-J
lows had swept the sloop clean, and
had doubtless lor.-r aco scuttled it.
They would suddenly find themselves
leaderless, ununified. Would that suf
fice Ir. stop tin-in? Would the discov
ery <i(" his body halt his followers and
send tliem rushing l/auk to their boat,
eager to pet safely away? This did
not seem likely. Kstada knew of my
boarding the sloop from the wharf,
and would at once connect the fact of
my being ashore with the killing of
Sanchez. This would satisfy him
There was no further danger. Besides,
these wi re not men to flee iu panic.
Surely riot with that ruffian Estada yet
alive to lead them, and the knowledge
that fifty thousand pounds was yonder
in that unguarded house, with no one
to protect the treasure but two old
men asleep, and the women. The
women !—Dorothy! What .would be
come of her? Into whose hands would
she fall in t!tat foul division of spoils?
Estada's? And I, afloat and helpless
In this boat, what could I do?
(Continued on Tuesday)
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