Evening star. [volume], September 29, 1924, Page 9, Image 9

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THE OWL’S HOUSE]
A Thrilling Adventure Story
By Crosbie Garstin
Copyright, 1924. by Frederick A. Stoke* Co.
(Continued from Yesterday’s Star.)
The west was barred with a yellow
atrip—-sunset, Presently it would be
night, and under cover of night Kate
was waiting for him crouched like a
footpad,
.«**•••
He did not see the vessel's ap
proach till she was upon him. She
must have been in sight for some
time, but he had been keeping his
eyes ahead and did not look round
till she hailed.
She was right on him. coming up
hand over fist. Ortho was so sur
prised he nearly jumped out of his
clothes. He stood up in the stern
sheets, goggling at her foolishly.
Was it a mirage? Had he gone light
headed already? He heard the creak
of her yards and blocks as she yaw
ed to starboard, the hiss of her cut
water shearing into a sea. and then
a guttural voice shouting uninelligi
bly. She was real enough and she
was yawing to pick him up! A flood
of joy went through him; he was
going to live after all! Not for noth
ing had he kept the Gamecock run
ning. She was on top of him. The
short bowsprit and gilded beak stab
bed pact; then came shouts, the roar
of sundered water, a rope hurtling
out of reach: a thump and over went
the Gamecock, run down. Ortho grip
ped the gunnel, vaulted onto the boat
side as it rolled under, and jumped.
The vessel was wallowing deep in a
trough at the time. He caught the
foremast chains with both hands and
hung trailing up to the knees in bub
bling brine. Something bumped his
knee. It was Anson; his leer seemed
more pronounced than ever; then he
went out of sight. Men in the chan
nels gripped Ortho's wrists; and hoist
ed him clear. He lay where they
threw him, canting and shivering,
water dribbling' from his clothes to
the deck.
Aft on the poop a couple of men.
officers evidently, were staring at the
Gamecock drifting astern, bottom up.
They did not consider her worth the
trouble of going after. A negro gave
Ortho a kick with his bare foot, hand
ed him a bowl of hot gruel and a
crust of bread. Ortho gulped these
and then dragged himself to his feet
loaned against the mainjeers and took
Slock of his surroundings.
It was quite a small vessel, rigged
in a bastard fashion he had never
seen before, square on the main
exaggerated lugs on the fore
and mizztn. S>he had low sharp entry,
but was built up aft with quarter
deck and poop; she was armed like a
frigate and swarming with men.
Ortho could not think where she
housed them all—and such men,
brown, yellow, white and black, with
and without beards. Some wore
pointed red caps, some wisps of dirty
linen wound about their scalps, and
others were bare-headed and shorn to
the skin but for a lock of oily hair.
They wore loose garments of many
colors, chocolate, saffron, salmon and
blue, but the majority were of a soil
ed ■white. They drew’ these close
about their lean bodies and squatted,
bare toes protruding, under the break
of the quarter deck, in the lee of
scuttle butts, boats, masts—anywhere
out of the wind. They paid no atten
tion to him whatever, but chatted
and spat and laughed, their teeth
gleaming white in their dark faces,
for all the world like a tribe of squat
ting baboons. One of them produced
a crude two-stringed guitar and sang
a melancholy dirge to the accom
paniment of creak ins’ blocks and his-
Bing bow-wave. The sunset was but
a chink of yellow light between
leaden cloud and leaden sea.
There was a flash away in the dusk
to port followed by the slam of a gun.
A gigantic old man came to the
quarter-deck rail and bellowed across
the decks. Ortho thought he looked
like the pictures of biblical patriarchs
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—Moses, for Instance —with his long
white beard and mantle blowing in
the wind.
«\t his first roar every black and
brown ape on deck pulled his hood up
and went down on his forehead, jab
bering incoherently. They seemed to
be. making some sort of prayer to
ward the east. The old man's decla
mation finished.off In a Ipng-drawn
wail; he returned whence he had
come, and the apes sat up again. The
guitar player picked up his instru
ment and sang on.
A boy. twirling a flaming piece of
tow, ran up the ladders and lit the
two poop lanterns.
Away to port other points of light
twinkled, appearing and disappearing.
The negro who had given him the
broth touched himi on the shoulder,
signed to him to follow and led the
way below. It was dark on the main
deck—all the light there was came
from a single lantern swinging from
Jl beam—but Ortho could see that it
was also packed with men. They lay
on mats beside the hatch coajnings.
between the lashed carriage-guns,
everywhere; it was difficult to walk
without treading on them. Some of
them appeared to be wounded.
The negro unhooked the lantern,
let fall a rope ltd.-er into the hold
and pushed Or' • toward it. He
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descended a few feet and found him
self standing on the cargo, bales of
mixed merchandise, apparently. In
the darkness around him he could
hear voices conversing, calling out.
The negro dropped after him, and he
saw that the hold was full of people—
Europeans from what he could see—
lying on top of the cargo. They
shouted to him, but he was too dased
to answer. His guide propelled him
toward the after bulkhead and sud
denly tripped him. He fell on his
hack on a bale, and lav still while the
negro shackled his feet together,
picked up the lantern and vis gone.
"Englishman?” said a voice beside
him.
"Aye."
"Where did you drop from?"
“Picked up—l was blown off-shore."
"Alone?”
"Yes. all but my male, and he’s
dead. What craft is this?”
"The Ghezala, xebec of Sallee.”
“Where are we bound tor?"
•'Sallee, on the coasts of Harbary.
of course; to be sold as a slave among
the heathen infidels. Where did you
think you was bound for? Kortunate
Isles with rings on your fingers to
splice a golden queen—eh?"
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“Barbary infidels slave,” Ortho
repeated stupidly. No wonder Anson
had leered as he went down!
Ho turned, sighing, over on his
face. “Slaves—infidels—Barb . ? ,"
and was asleep.
CHAPTER XIX.
He woke up 18 hours later, at about
noon—or so his neighbor told him;
it was impossible to distinguish night
from day down there. The hold was
shallow and three parts full. This
brought them within a few feet of
•the deck beams and made the atmos
phere. so thick it was difficult to
breathe, congested as they were.
Added to which the rats and cock
roaches were very active and the
stale bilge water, washing to and
fro under the floor, reeked abom
inably.
The other prisoners' were not talk
ative. Now and again one would
shout across to a friend and a short
conversation would ervme, but most
of the time they kept silent, as
though steeped in melancholy. The
majority sounded like foreigners.
Ortho sat up, tried to stretch his
logs and found they were shackled to
a chain running fore and att over
the cargo.
His lefthand neighbor spoke:
"Woke up, have you? Well, how
d’you fancy It?"
Ortho grunted.
"Oh, well, mayn't be so bad. You’m
a likely lad; you'll fetch a good
price, mayhap, and get a good mas
ter. ’Taln’t the strong mule catches
the whip: 'tls the old uns—y'under
atan’? Tomorrow's the best day for
hard work over there and the cli
mate's prime; better nor England by a
long hawse, and that's the gospel
truth, y'understan’?”
"How do you know?” Ortho In
quired
The man snorted. "Know? Ain’t I
been there nine year?”
"In Sallee?”
"No—Algiers . . . but it's the
same, see what I mean? Nine years a
slave with old Abd-el-Mamri in Siddi-
Okbar street. Only exchanged last
Summer, and now, dang my tripes, if
I ain’t took again!"
"Where did they catch you?”
"Off Prawle Point on Tuesday in
the Harvest yawl of Brixham —I’m a
Brixham man, y'understan - ? Puddi
combe by name. I did swere and
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loring Is, as always, evident.
wmmmm — m
vow one* X was ashore I would never
set foot afloat no more. Then my sis
ter Johanna's Oeorge took sick with a
flu* and I went In his place just for a
day—and now here w© are again—
hey, hey!"
"Who are all these forejgners?"
askd Ortho.
"Hollanders, took off a Dutch East
Indlaman. This be her freight we'm
lyin' on now. see what I mean? They
got it split up between the three on
’em. There’s three on ’em, y’under
stan’; was four, but the Hollander
sank one before she was carried, so
they say, and tore up t’other two
cruel. The old rets—admiral that is—
lie’s lost his mainmast. You can hear
he banging away at night to keep his
consorts close: scared, y’understan’?
Sowsombeit they done well enough.
Only been out two months and they’ve
got the cream of an Indies freight,
not to speak of three or four coasters
and a couple of hundred poor sailors
that should fetch from thirty to fifty
ducats apiece in the soko. And then
there's the ransoms too, see what 1
mea n ?"
” (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.)
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