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'$ $* 8YNOPSI8, 'CHAPTER Phlneas P. crafga has grown up around the dock* pt San Francisco, and from men boy on I. Captain own up a sv liver steamer, risen to the ownership of the steamer Maggie. Since each an nual inspection promised to be the last of the old weatherbeaten vessel, Scraggs naturally has some difficulty in securing a crew. When the story opens, Adelbert P. Gibney, likable but erratic, a man Whom nobody but Scraggs would hire. Is ftae -skipper, Neils Halvorsen, a solemn ffnode, constitutes the fo'castle hands, and Bsrt McGuffey, a wastrel of the Glb ny type, reigns in the engine room. CHAPTKR ir.-Wtth this motley, crew and bid ancient vessel. Captain Scraggs Is engaged in freighting garden truck from Halfmoon bay to San Francisco The Inevitable happens, the Maggie going ashore in a fog. CHAPTER IIIA passing vessel hail ing the wreck. Mr. Glbney gets word to a towing company in San Francisco that the ship ashore is the Tankee Prince, with promise of a rich salvage. Two tugs succeed in pulling the Maggie into deep water, and she slips her tow lines and get* away In the fog. CHAPTER IV.Furious at the decep tion practised on them. Captains Hicks atid Flaherty, commanding the two tug boats, ascertain the identity of the "Yan kee Prince" and, fearing ridicule should the facts become known along the water front, determine on personal vengeance. Their hostile visit to the Maggie results in Captain Scraggs promising to get a new boiler and make needed repairs to the steamer. .CHAPTER Vacraggs refuses to ful fill Ms-promises and Glbney and McGuf- "strike." With marvelous luck, ships a fresh crew At the end Scraggs of a few dovs wildstranded i -1 ~*i Jftt S conviviality Glbney -an McGuffeyof are and seek their old positions on the Maggie. They are hostilely received, but remain. On their way to San Francisco they sight a derelict and Glbney and McGuffey swim to it. CHAPTER VI.The derelict proves to beethew Chesapeake,with 1 richly (Continued from last issue) L. CHAPTER VII. \VUn 'Captain Scraggs, after abau douiuif all hope of salving the bark Chesapeake, returned to the Maggie, the little craft reminded lifin of noth- .'ipg soinuch us the ward for the in corrigible of an Insane asylum. Due to Captain .Scruggs' stupidity and the general Inefficient^ of the Mnggle, the new navigating officer was of the opin ion that he had been swindled out of hln share of the salvage, hlle the new eiigjneer, furious at haUng been en gaged to hab such a ruin as the Mag gie's boiler turned out to be, blamed Scraggs' parsimony for the loss of bis Share of the salvage. Therefore, both men aired with the utmost frankness their opinion of their emplojer. One word borrowed another until diplomat ic rclittlons were severed and, in the language of the classic, they "mixed it," They were fairly well matched, and, to the credit of Captain Scruggs be it said, whenever lie believed him self to hnve a righting chance Scraggs would tight and fight well, under the Tom-cat rules of fisticuffs. Following a bloody battle in the pilot house, he subdued the mate follow ing Ills \lctory he was still wur mud, so he went to the engine-room hatch and abused the engineer. As a result of the day's events, both men quit when the Maggie was tied up at .Tacksbn street wharf and once more Captain Scraggs was helpless. In his extrem ity, he wished lie hadn't been so hard on BIr. Glbney and McGuffey, for he realized he could never hope to get them back until their salvage money should be spent. Godless and wholly irreclntmable as Mr, Glbney and Mr. McGuffey might have been and doubtless were, each possessed in bounteous measure tho sweetest of human attributes, to-wit: a soft, kind heart and a forgiving spir it. Creatures of impulse both, they found it absolutely Impossible to nour ish a grudge against Captain Scruggs,, when, upon returning to Scab Johnny's boarding house, their host handed them a grubby note from their enemy. It was short and sweet and sounded quite sincere Mr. Ulbnuy read 1C aloud: "On Board the Maggie, Saturday ni? ht. "Dear Friends 1 am sorry. You hurt me nw ful with your klddeu wheu took the (Jiesa pvake away from me. To er is human but to forgive is devine. After what 1 doue 1 don't expect jou two to come baofc to work ever but for God's sake don't give me the dead face whp we meat agin. Hemember we beenf'shlp iuates once. I "P. P. Scraggs." '*\Vhy, "the pore ol' son of a horse thief," Mr. Glbney murmured, much, moved at this profound abasement. "Of course we forgive him. It ain't manly to hold a grouch after the cul prit has, paid his fair price for hio sins. By an' large, I got a bunch. Bart, that old Scraggsy's had his led-, son. for once." "If you can forgive him, I can, Gib." K*0i. Js cetalnly_cleanel hin- JU^'i'JW'M self handsome, Barf laden,Scragg Its en- tir cre stricken scurvy attempt* to tow her In, but the Maggie Js unehual to the task and Gihney and SrcGuffssr, alone. Ball the ship to San XT&nclsco, their salvage money amount Wf to tlLO0O apiece. rl telephone for a messenger boy," and Mr. Gibnuy sat down and x\rote: "Scraggsy, old fanciful, we're square Forget It and come to breakfast with us at seVMt- tomorrow at the Marigold cafe. I'll older deviled lam kidneys for three. It's alright with Bart also. "Yours, "Gib." This note, delivered to Captain Scraggs by the messenger boy, lifted the gloom from the latter's miserable soul and sent him home with a light heart to Mrs. Scraggs. At the Marl gold cafe next morning he was almost touched to obser\e that both Gibney and McGuffey showed up arrajed in duugarees, wherefore Scraggs knew his late enemies purposed proceeding to the Maggie immediately after breakfast and working in the engine room all day Sunday. Such action, when he knew both gentlemen to be the pos sessors of wealth far beyond the dreams of avarice, bordered so close ly on the miraculous that Scraggs made a mental resolve to play fair in the futureat least as fair as the limits of his cross-grained nature would per mit. He was so cheerful and happy that McGuffey, taking advantage of the situation, argued him into some minor repairs to the engine. About nine o'clock, as Mr. Glbney was on his way to the Marigold Cafe for breakfast, be was mildly inter ested, while passing the Embarcadero warehouse, to note the presence of fully a dozen seedy-looking gentlemen of undoubted Hebraic antecedents, congregated in a circle just outside the warehouse door. Tijere ?*as an air of suppressed excitement* about this group of Jews that arousrtl Mr. Gib nej's curiosity so he decided to cross o\er ana imestigate, being of the opin ion that possibl one of their number had fallen in'a fit. He hud once had an epileptic {shipmate" and was pecu liarly expert in the handling of such cases. Now. if the greater portion of Mr. Giltnej's eventful career had not been spent nt sea,' he wdufd'have known, by the red flag that floated over the door, that a pubClc auction was about to take'place, and that the group of He brew gentletnen constituted an organi zation knoy.n.as fh Fojrtjr Thieves, whose business It was to dominate the bidding nt nil auctions!, frighten off, or buy off, or outbid, nil competitors, and eventually gather unto themselves, at lheir own figures, aty'goods offeied for sale. In the. center of the feroup Mr. Gib no\ iKrtlced a tall, Innky individual, evidently the leader, who wns issuing Instructions In a low voice to his henclrmen. This individual, ffiough Mr. gibney did not know it, Wae the King- of the Forty Thieves. As Mr. Olbny luffed into vle'tv the king e^ed him.'with suspicion. Observing this*, Mr. Gibney threw mit his magnificent (he? t. scowled at the-king, arid stepped Intf. the warehouse for'alj. the y\orld ns if he owned It. &n oldish mnn with glassesthe rtnctloneerwaa seated on a,box mak ing figures in a notebook.' Him Mr. r*lbne addressed. "What's all this here?" he inquired, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at the group. "It's an old horse* sale,1' replied the auctioneer, without looking up. Mr. Gibiiqy brightened. He glanced around for the stock: In trade, hut ob serving njbne concluded that the old horses wnuld be led in, one at a time, through a small donr In the rear of the warehouse. Like most sajlors, Mr Glbney had a passion for horseback ,*nd in a sphir of adventure he rcs4lv*v*i to acquaint himself -with the ins? and outs of ah^old, horse sale. 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