Evening star. [volume], December 30, 1906, Sunday star, Page 9, Image 33

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A
Captain j
master of
cules, surf
oavement
abstractec
suited a slip of paj
barrels of oil from
he muttered, "and
cheese from the Du
That imported che
warm day. It's a
power wasted as i
limburger. And fo
Me mopped his b
loafing groups of 1<
UI1U ^CctlUCll WIIU CI'
the saloons, from \v
beer and staler free
over, lurched again;
lighterman, whose
ended with startling
and let drive both :
who fell sprawling
laughed, and John
hair trigger temper,
again when a friend
"You vas mit thf
per? Come inside i
more of those loaf(
ready."
The lighterman gi
bulk of Fritz Osterh
dingy store front ab<
Chandler and Deale
" Hello, you Dutcl
*' I don't want an\
You'll have to bunk
Osterhaus let one
wink, and frowned
ters were in his mi
enough for a huge j
shoulder, and he v
doorway. His capt
eye bolts and cut h
emphasis.
It vas somethin]
Johnny. I vill spar
Blow off some of t
back room und we
*' But I want to g<
victim. ihe Hen
doin'."
" Let her wear out
was the reply. "I
member the Berm
Maybe some other c
down where the pal
next ?"
"Another filibuste
eager tone. Then ]
y>H,
' "Sift
m
JW I
M You Have Your ^
Watc
OHNNY O'DWYER, -rj
the steam lighter Her- 1*1
;ed along the South-st. *
with a heedless and ?
1 air while he confer
in his fist. "Three hundrec
Hoboken to the Red Star pier,'
two hundred and thirty cases o
tch boat to the Fall River line
ese is a strong man's job on ;
shame to see so many horsi
s penned up in them boxes o
>rty bales of?"
rick red face and scowled at th<
sngshoremen, stokers, stewards
owded the pavement in front o
hose doors came whiffs of stall
lunch. A roustabout, half sea:
it the peppery little gray hairec
absorption in the day's worl
; abruptness. He whirled aboul
lists at the face of the offender
in the gutter. The onlooker:
ny O'Dwver, repenting of his
was hastily getting under waj
ly voice smote his ear.
; war paint on to-day, eh, skip
ind cool off before you kills an\
;rs. I vas looking for you al
-inned at sight of the ponderous
aus framed in the doorway of a
ive which hung the sign, "Ship
r in Junk."
1 robber!" was the cheery retort.
secunu nana navsers to-aay
o me some other time."
eyelid droop in an elephantine
gloomily as if momentous matnd.
O'Dwyer had hahed neai
>aw to be clamped down on his
. as hauled bodily through the
or sat him down on a barrel of
is protests short with rumbling
js worth your so precious time,
lk you if you tries to run away,
hat steam and come into the
vill be chummy."
?t out on the river," snorted the
:ules is pantin' to be up and
her pants at the dock, Johnny."
vas not fooling. Do you reuda
und some other things?
ountry has troubles mit herself
m tree grow Vas you getting
Tin' job?" cried O'Dwyer in an
:ie caught himself and lowered
V?5 - '- )" \
^pgHHOtssEsnnMHna^.
%?'>
Emm
ijnDrs
vv *
?V)
rzr Paint On. Eh ?"
:r Frc
y RALP1
i his voice as he cast a qi
" "Aye, aye, Fritz, I'll \v
f They threaded theii
couea piles 01 cnain
1 pulley blocks, and bar:
e The German closed a
f them.
"It vas a very funn
2 very much," he began s
, arm chair and rubbed
f overheated brains of yc
* "Fir*1 awaul" ?nqn
3 with brains is needed,
1 ready, Dutch v."
c "You vas like a buz
t jokes, Johnny, but I dot
, beamed Fritz with a ch
3 in a peanut shell. T
3 Willis come into my si
r as me. He vas makini
long white whiskers, urn
- coat mit the grease sp
' think he vas wanting t
- dollar, und I vas not hi
his chest und ask me t
> quiet."
i "Old Hank Willis!"
) oath. " He's a counter
his grandmother's coff
been a human barnacle
. afloat for bein' mixed u
salvage case. You're a
! " But he delivers th<
Miracles vill happen.
' around looking for sue
: Battery, he got himself
s Central America mit m<
: revolution in his bonn<
; He makes this tan color
Hank Willis vas the (
, und copper fastened c
TTnH WllllQ winHc nr^ rr
: arms und the ship und
Honduras.
' "To make a short cut
Senor General Lopez ti
und makes good mit th
deliver equipment for
machetes, ammunition,
saddles und medical st
i ci.xv*_ uu uiiva l_llcll^c
ever he vas not watchec
"And I'm to put th<
and take chances on ge
the other, with a grim
" Y
to-nij
elude
Genei
be th'
your
deper
off m
?-v1? .
yjicx v c<
times
?> CIO OV.
fSBr pealin
derlv :
ica.
patrio
pat hie
stirred
laid a
>nt C
i D. P;
nick glance around the i
alk into your parlor."
a i i _ 1: a x
r way mrougn a 1111
cable, clustered heaj
rels of salt beef and pi<
nd locked the door b
y game, und I don't 1
is he slumped into a bat
his chin ; "but maybe
>urs vill be of some use
ped O'Dwyer. "If a
you're out of your cla:
zy wuzzy misquito mit
1't let you sting me mit '
luckle. "Here vas the
wo weeks ago old Ca
lop. You know him t
g his same old bluff mi
1 his big voice, und his 1
ots down the front el
o make a touch of me
V\1q IJnf
jopuauic. Ajux lie av>ci
o talk business on the
broke in O'Dwyer wit
feit, Fritz, and he'd sell
in handles for junk,
ever since he lost his 1
p in that dirty Morning
n easy mark, Dutchy."
e goods this time, Joh
While he vas snooix
kers between here and
next to a Portuguese
jney to build bonfires u
2t. Well, what you tt
ed gent mit the boodle t
jnly daredevil ship m
ronspirator in New ^
lit a commission to pel
command the expeditic
mit a long story, this
lrns up in tow of old W
e cash. Und I contrac
seven thousand men, r
und some other things
.ores, w mis vas to gel
of the ship und graft vv
3 cargo aboard the ste;
tting pinched?" comme
smile.
ou vill come to mv h
jht at eight o'clock,"
ri Fritz "iinH mppt
:al, und old man Willis
ere. You can size it u
own hook, Johnny; h
ids on you to take the g
iy hands. It vas a gam
d pretty well, one or t
, eh?'!
i home of the ship char
ard by the water front w
. ed, an ancient brick di
most submerged among
, warehouses and tenem
ir from Coenties Slip. \\
yer mounted the de
stone steps he faced
caller who was fumt
the rusty bell pull,
-ing light from a street 1;
; corner showed him a si
tooping figure topped 1
llniipli Viof TVin +n-n
Jjvuv.il llUb> 1 uv m V
each other shrewdly, t
Osterhaus opened the c
a growl of welcome. C
were in the hall, the S
med:
?neral Lopez, this is
vat I tola you about,
r of the Hercules. He v
t* ciin rlnnrrtPf fViic
i. .IUU ViV ?? IIV1 | UllO
y O'Dwyer."
lighterman surveyed
al with a somewhat pit}
s if wondering how he cc
:>een unlucky enough to
of old man Willis. T1
>mething attractive and
iL '
g in me ci&pctL ui mi:
soldier from Central Ar
It was the face of a gem
t, and the impulsive s
s of O'Dwyer were war
. even before General Lc
hand on his sleeve wit
^onsr
VINE
room, kind of fluttering
caress and
er of said:
ps of "I have heard
ckles. of El Capitan
ehind O'Dwyer as the
friend of liberike
it ty. Now you
tered will serve my
those Door, unliannv
. . t *
country; is it so
man "Ihavemistru
ss al- ed some of yc
breed," frankly cc
your fessed O'Dwyi
em," "but you look
f n ft Q m#a tn K/i oil **inr1
i"v i VJ k/v. U11 i igj
ptain Let's get busy a
letter chart a course,
it his I'm to be in tl
black deal."
1? I Osterhaus 1
for a them up stairs
1 out his den, which w
H AOfl Cn />?*i m ?v> n><
vivuv* ou aillilitu \\ 1
relics of deep wat
h an ships that it look
1 you like an annex of }
He's junk shop. Capta
nerth Hank Willis was s:
Star ting beneath a ft
tooned row of fi
nny. nets, and what wi
Jrmg his long white bea
I the and general air ol
from looked like a rath
nd a rose with pompo
link? O'Dwyer:
hink " Hello, shipma
aster the one man we h;
"ork. It was on the
: the make a bitinsr retc
>n to opments.
Fritz Osterhaus
Herr was built like a
'illis, "The scandalous
ts to or six days, John
ifles, It vill be shippe
like hams und tinned
t his packed in stout t
iit-n- part 01 tne rines j
vas up to you ne:
inter O'Dwver twiste
nted eral Lopez. " I'll t;
friend here and pi
ouse or off shore, and ii
con- I run the risk oi
the Captain Freiburg
? vill don't expect a cer
p on "That's satisfa*
>ut I Willis with a patr(
oods "You play wit]
e we flashed O'Dwver.
hree General Lopez
soothingly: "We ,
tan. It is not go
idler rades. I have wc
hich All my fortune is
.veil- money of my friei
; the my life, to free m
ents not know!"
"hen " Who in blazes ]
eplv exploded O'Dwver
an- ant Willis. "Nev
>ling ness, and it's too 1
The Captain Hank
amp more grieved than
ight ered his . protests 1
jy a "There vas no c1
men Willis?"
mtil "She's layin' h
ioor proclaimed that wc
Jnce steamer Marv Hall
host prepared to "take
her put, as long as
my "The Mary Hall
the with honest wrath
as a bundle of scrap i
eller holds her togethe
The mild mann
the be ruffled bv this c
am i4.t_ - 'j. ..
mig uung wiin a pari i
)uld cern him. The la
fall setting matters b}
lere cerning the mariti
ap- reprobate, Captaii
s el- resigned himself to
tier- lawless undertakin
line night, Fritz Osterh
ym- whispered:
mlv "it vas foolishnt
ipez Willis has twisted
;h a job is done. Ma;
urciu
*
itThe
General
From Central
th Ampfiri i
"" J
rd
: having been picklec
er battered Father J
us dignity and cor
te! I told the Gene
ad to have in our bus
tip of the lightermai
>rt, but he decided tc
stretched himself on
ship's transom and
merchandise vill be
:ny, tx>xed and marl
d heavily disguised
beef und barb wii
>oxes for the export
joes as shovels und ;
>ct."
d in his chair and tu
ake over th's cargo frc
.4. ~i? j ~ ,.J.
ai it duuaia ci bteaiin
t will cost you a thoi
i bein' jailed for t\\
of the Orienta, sai
it till I deliver the g<
ctory to us," obser
jnizing flourish,
h your whiskers till
"I'm talkin' to the
patted O'Dwyer's ki
are all in the same tx
od to have trouble
>rked for this for tei
staked in this expedi
ids. It is my religi
y beloved country.
wt you next to that o
, nodding violently a
er mind. It's none
ate to pull out now.
,'illis stroked his bear'
angered, while Ostei
:>y asking:
liance of a slip about
.ere readv for sea,'
?rtVi 4'T'\'?=? pliartpr*
, a picked crew is sig:
her wherever the G<
she floats."
!" cried O'Dwver, re
. "That condemnec
ron! Why, her pain
ered General Lopez
>utnurst, as it u Dw\
jf the program that'
tter perceived the fu
uttering more asp
me repute of that h
n Hank Willis, an
i threshing out the d
ig. When O'Dwver
aus followed him to t
?ss to kick up a shin
him his finger arou:
ybe old Willis vas
y
i ' i : i _
x in in me, ne
Neptune. He
dially hailed
ral you were
iness."
i's tongue to
) await devela
divan that
1 announced:
ready in five
ced as usual,
as canvased
e und such.
trade. Und
axes, eh? It
rned to Gen>m
my Dutch
er in the bay
tsand dollars.
'O years like
rvy? But I
iods."
ved Captain
I'm done!",
boss."
nee and said
Dat, El Capiamong
com1
long years,
ition, and the
on, my love.
Ah, you do
Id terrapin?"
.t the benign
of my busi.- 1
3 1 1 J
LI ctUU 1UUKCU
haus smoththe
steamer,
sonorously
?d the stanch
ned, and I'm
meral wants
d in the face
1, rotten old
t is all that
appeared to
"er was meddid
not con,+.'1:***
U1 Up*
ersions contardened
old
id therefore
etails of the
said good
;he door and
dy, Johnny,
nd, und the
straight for