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Shelf being under the malign influence of, Mrs. Shelf. III. IV, V and VI The scheme is to ship gold to New Orleans, overinsur ing it and wrecking it. Shelf and Cambel employ Captain Owen Kettle to commana the steamer, the fort Rdes, and to carry ont the plan. Cambel sails in the steamer. VII As to the Port Edes. laden with the boxes, leaves the dock a man on bore declares that she is doomed. VII The crew attemp to seize the vessel in order to secure the gold. IX Rut Capt. Kettle subdues the mutiny. X and XI Cambel, who has attached wires from bis ttite- room, makes the electric connection and causes an explosion. Th) ship appears to be sinking. Kettle tends Cmbel below with t ie ostensible purpose of seeing what is the trcuble. CHAPTER XII. TURKS FOR TWENTY -SF.VES. "Xow, my lad," Raid Kettle, "you've Et to hump yourselves, or we'll have the steamer swamping beneath us. It'll lie touch and anyway. Mr. Cambel, you'll have rlio ileek nil to yourwlf, after you've done your jolt on the fnivhold, of eourae, and you'd better jump lively after that at once Kvery Kill of water toll now, and It Mrike me If we've very much mere of the Mexican pulf on board the dock will blow up. and alie'li go down like kentledge Imllimt " CuiiiIk'I ilitrted throanh the doorway. 'And now, Mr. Sulilvnn, umlerstsnd that, nlthoiiKh I mill continue tn rate ij Kklppcrof thin craft, for the prewtit I in ruIiik to work ns llrcinaii and ro.il trim mer. Von will Ixtrliief rtiKineer, and I'm the nni tot.il of your crew, and between na we'vo nt tn lo the work of m-ven bfinea and nr.o mule. Are the bilge pumps clear?" Yin, aor." "And hoa aha atiil a good head of team?' ". "Sho l:an. Nono'a been blown off." ' Then pick up your feet nnd let 'a po to your hardware (hup and it.irt In work " "Walt a hit, Mr,"fuiid the dnnkeymnn. Thern'a thins hero 1 don't understand. Aren t the Hvo5 of u In beastly danger? Didn't them bout go off because the tenmer'r kinking?" "Wt you,'" retorted Kettle, "consider me one of those fancy sort of maniac w ho have no vr!h lo kurvive the loss of a sliip? I tell yon I kIioiiIiI h.ivo tevn drownctl eight times already If t lint had lieen hit lay. No. Mr. t'htcf. Knir right's right enough, and I'd stand up tn Nick In I lint and vnli? my life at leiis than rice mat. but at other times yuu bet I'm no foul to chuck it away." "Hut." said tho donkevman. "what gets me's this: If the blooming steamer bottom shot out, what's the fun in mewing with it? The Mexican gulf will circulate through th:it hole lunger than our hllgo pump will run " "You tire me," Kild tho little man. "Who said she'd her bottom blown out I tell yuu this steamer was sunk n few plates lielow her iibiiuI trim for reasons nnd now we ore going to pull her up again. fee here, new Mr. Chitf, take the cinch from me and ask nomorvquotinns, and you'll get told no lie. It'll pay you If you do as you're hid ahuard of me, you'll hnve sovereigns enough given you to work through the biggot siprce that was ever spread out In a caiort town." The bigdonkeymnii appreciatively drew thehnckof a hntidacrohisinuzle. "Ah, captain, dear." lie jjid coaxingly, "I d jut like to hear ye mention a tigurc." "Call it two 10 notcs." "Thcn, he Christopher. I'm yermanfor any piece ot derilment in the calendar. Come along, captain, dear. 'Tin a mrlo dinus little man ye are, for all they any against yea." Meanwhile the steamer was becoming more and more water logged with every plunge and roll, and I'ntrirk Cambel fear ed that hi dangerous stratcgem for driv ing awny the crew had been carried too far. It seemed to him Impossible that they could salvage her now True, she was brought tip to the wind by the after can vn. and her rollings were not of such sickenlag strength, but the stern hicmed high tn the wild night air. and the bowt lunged deep Into every successive sea that rolled tip from the stormy south, taking ine green water over the forecastle head In masses which scoured anchor and windlass tn the linked iron The wash found Its way below through mat jaggeugap In the lower deck in crash Ing waterfalls, and every moment, too, the opened vnlve beside her keel wa gushing In fresh gallons to her swamping hold. Any larger sea which swept up now might well settle over her solidly and launch her with hursted decks onto the sponges ami the coral growths 100 fathoms below. N)ine men, in the face of such condi tions. Would have been amazed, helpless. physically incapablo In the presence of that solitude to making any necessary effort, lor It is ene thing to do a desperate matter before the cye of an applauding crowd and another when the devil below I your only appreciative onhiuker. It would have been lcyonil the taiulii!ities el laptain Kettle. f-r in.tjixr I'amlicl, however, waa the ore mail iu Ilia million to whom the auventure vu as meat and driok. If he succeeded. tli?ti the profit wa bis. If he failed, death would lie use ful to him, and anyway there wa the wild excitement of the moment, which was a meal to be enjoyed, and oca which uoth lusj could snatch awar. It was In this mood of mind that the maa od whose action the very outer ait existence ot the Port Kdea depended left bl fellow In the chart rboni and raced forward to where the iamd lin of the fore hold hatch yawned to the (plashing riue- VVMhout lantern, without so much a a look before him, fee lowered hiaiaell on so tn twisted battens brbnr with tin Ueaa water retain t .on to him from abort raff aaraoe) and muddy wavelet squirting up from below, and then when the steamer cave a heavy scend and tbo more olid wash from below smoto hint heavily upon tbo thighs be loosed his grip and dived like a stone through tho brimming sbaftway of the hatch. Seconds parsed, a minute, two minutes, and still he did not reappear. Three min utes. Then tho rounded outlines of some thing black rolled to the surface and surg ed r.bout limply with the swill cf the water. For awhile it staid so; then, swung by a heavier pitch of the steamer, was washed to the bock of a stanchion, where it hung. tue slopping water beneath ebbed stcadi ly. Tho valve in the steamer's bottom bad been closed. During a wholo hour Patrick Cambel lodged behind that iron pillar, a mere boneless mass of tlesh and clothes, and then the pains of lifecnme into bin again with shivers nnd shuddering. Tho thin gray light of the dawn was filtering down through tho jugged opening above when first tho trembling lids slid from liU eye balls, but for still unuther M minutes he wo a thing of no wit. breathing, truly. but caring naught for all tho wurld con tained. Then a sucking, sobbing noise from the depths fit the hold fur beneath broke upon his ear, and the languid brain legan to work. With au effort he sat up.jrtizzily holding to the pillnr, trying to think where he was and how ran recent history. and by degrees the details strolled back tc him. Before, however, lie hnd gathered ail his senses or a working quantum ot strength he had a visitor in the shape ol the donkeymaii, who clattered up over the decks with plate shod boots and crouched at the top of the gup ulmvu on knees aud hands. . Hnve ye l.een getting hurt now?" in quired the newcomer. "Aliuut iilue-tentlis drowned, I funcv, if that counts, liul I'm about all right again now. "Ye don't look it," replied the donkey man candidly. "Barring the tan ye'd bo blue and lard color about the face this minute. Hut I feared thero was something gone wrong through not seeing ye on the bridge, so I nipped into tl.e chartroom and pocketed n w iibky bottlo that was lying convenient iu case Pull at the Binall end, sor." The bottle was handed down, and Cam bel lifted it. his teeth chntteiing against the nozzle like castanets, but tho spirit drove up color into bin faco nnd set the sluggish blood once more on its appointed Journey through his hands and trunk. "What has occurred since I left youf" he asked. "Well, first, sor, tho captain nnd my self bad a littlo friendly discussion about what s been happening and eanio to a bit of financial agreement. But I will say that I figured tne new terms very low when I understood it was a thrille of a conspira cy that ye wanted me to stand in nt. And then, sor, we went below to the engine room nnd turned steam into the bilge pumps to heave this nasty tlop of water overboard, after which, as chief, I set about making a thrilling repair to the low pressure engine. Ye see. when that ex plosion took place a bit of a casting jump ed into the crank pit and got jammed there hard liefore they could stop her. I've had a fair do at elbow work outtiug it out cold, but it's clear now, and she runs as sweetly ns she did the day she left the shops. Hut, oh, Mr. Cambel, I wish you could see the old man I The sight of that little chap shoveling coals and swearing and tumbling and burning himself Is enough to make tho ghosts of some dead firemen I know cbout grin and dances and jigs In their graves." The donkcyman was Inclined to be gar rulous and evidently lusted for a consider able chat, but with returning strength Cambel' anxiety grew on him again, and nn ciimnni out on decK keen to be once moro in action. His knees were tottery, and the donkeyman gave him an arm aft. But when be hail climlied un the lad dcr and gained t lie bridgo deck be stood The yirl mif on the eoumf ikj of thfcockjiit. for a minute staring, then threw up bis bands and pitched forward onto the plank ing as though a bullet had smitten the life in bis braia. The big donkeyman also was startled. Out of the morning mists of tho south there had enmo up a str.a.I centerboard schooner of some I j tons, nil ovsterman perhaps in the season and now a sponge gatherer or a mere counter, the was com ing down over the sens as dry as a gull, driving along under her boom foresail and jib. The donkeyman s eye hung on her as he surgea past the rust streaked flank of the steamer some SO fathoms away not because the sight of a little white painted schooner was new to him, not be cause be was impressed by the danger to the Port Kdes' enterprise in her being seen by any one, but on account of tho tiny vessel being handled, in what to her was distinctly ugly weather, by so extraordi nary a person as a young and pretty girl. No one else was on deck, and the s;irl cat on the coaming -of tho cockpit, tiller in ote hand, tl'.ltr r;pe a the other, as un concernedly as Shoush sue nott been an ancient mariner bred and aged in fore and afters. She was a girl. too. with looks mnch ta the Irishman's liking, with copper red Sair whose ends blew out from beneath green Italian nightcap, laughing, impn- uent features, with the. color whipped up Into warm pinks by the wind; a figure oi pretty curves, and tbo shapeliest little brown Ssts in the world splayed on the tiller nnd gripping the restraining tillet rope. &he was pretty much up to the eyes In her steering, but sho found time to throw an ceilind toward tho steamer. which Mr. iSullivnn answered with a yell intended to show his complete admiration and a swirl of his greasy cap. It was then that Cambel fell, and the donkeyman took his eyes from the schooner and picked nliu up and onco mors applied the whisky bottle. "More drowned than I thought for," he muttered. "It'll be a pig's mess for us if he goes ill." But Patrick Cambel hod not fainted through the effect of bis recent struggle alono. 11 was qnite another matter which hod dealt him the sufficing shock. In the stcerer of that little schooner he bad seen the sister of the woman to whom he had once been affianced; who had dis carded him for another mnn; who had driven him from a scdnto English life to bo a wanderer and a vagabond upon the face of tho earth. His ruaniings bad be gun and continued only because the im age of this one woman had refused to Icuvo his thoughts, and the half sarcastic nickname of the great traveler hnd been gained without any seeking on his part. Five loug desperate year had passed linco the blow fell upon him, ant) time wns doing its work. Ho had begun to for get her, to promise himself that, thispres snt enterprise accomplished, he would eliminate tho past and lead a newer and different life, m:d yet thero, on tbo most unlikely corner cf tiod's earth, her sister passed liko n Etayo figure before his eyes, the sister from whom sho was never parted. The shook came upon him as a thunder bole from a bluo sky. Ho hud fancied her to bo in England, Europe, Australia anywhere but here and in his weak state tho surprise wns too great. Again the gush of tun waters thundered in his car, again the light faded from bis eyes, and this timo he liivtd iuto blank uncousciuus less. TO BE C0XTIXCED. flil You Ever try Elcotric Bitters as a rcmcdv for your troubles? If not. get a bottle uow and get relief. This medicine has been found to be particular adapted to the relief and cure' of alJ Female Complaints, exerting a won derful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs, li you have loss of appetite, constipa tion, headache, fainting spells or are nervous, sleepless, excitable, melan choly or troubled with dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you uecd. Health and strength are guar anteed by its use. Larfje bottles only 50c at Hartz & Ullemcyer' drug store. 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One alderman in the First ward for two years. rnv a: ti i-1 ui mi id uie -rconc wartj ror iwe years me alderman in tne Third ward for two vi-am One alocrroan in tbe Frnnh ward fortwoyaars. rne niaenoan in uie ruin wara lor two yean. One elitemun in the tilth ward for two vmra One alderman in tho Bevanth ward for two years. Towxsmr omens. One Snpervisor tor two years. Two as slant gapervteora tor two yean. One Assessor for one y a-. One Collector lor one vear. Which election will be open at 7 o'clock tn tht morning ana conunt e open aslu s o clock id tae afternoon of t-.at dv. Places of registration aad voting will be as fol- First Ward Franklin hoae honse. second Want -Precinct 1, No. 1014 Third ave nue. rjremid Ward Precinct t, Geonre gtodd's hall. biKwu avenue, klwkh mnm ana lentb street. Third Ward- Precinct 1, ro. 1914 third avenue Third Warl Precinct 3. John Tavlor' gro cery. Kizbth avenne and Fonrtiwnth Fourth Ward Predict 1, Uimlcks "livsr fourth Ward Precinct . 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