THE HONGKONG

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WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER 24,

1937.

"SOULS AT SEA

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THE

CHAPTER 1.

"STANLEY Captain TANLEY," Captain

back, Unbuckle, Drink dish of ten and relax."

Sit

"A laudable motive," Taylor sald you like to lenow I was with the calmly. "I dropped them in the inte Captain Gronley of the Black- Martusel water, yes, but Hot Coast Martisel water, yes, but not till I had stood bird when he died? And did he for

And example betray, any of his asso your stood by till the last one had reached clates?"..

the shore."

On the quarter deck of the English "A likely story," the Lelutenant slave-patrol ship. Lion's Whelp, Cap-raged.

"I am inclined to believe it," Mur- tain Matisel was having tea with hieutenant, Stanley Tarryton. tikel safd quietly. Broad on the beam, the captured I say he is the Captain of the slaver, with prize crew aboard slaver Blackbird," Tarryton said. showed a hull and sails riddled with "The Captain of the slaver shol. Armed only with brass Paul M. Graney" Taylor cried. swivel gun and cutlasses wh shark-skin

grips,

the slover had tougis savagely against fatal odds,

"Relax? With those two precious ruscala forward grinning it me?" the Lieutenant inuttered suny.

The two rascals forward were the Captol and mate of the glayer. Naked to the waist, they were banging by their thumbs.

A for these two reseals," Mar- tisel said, "I make a distinction. The Captal, Taylor, is superior man An American, 1 belteve but blackbirder trade. Let's

ה

no

by

"We

Iry

another turn

the screw."

Tarryton muttered, "Dead men tell no faler,"

"But dying men

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sometimes tell the truth. And I have taken a fancy to your Captain Mortisel. What if were to tell him exactly how Captain

managed was Granley

fo dodge the English slave patrol, and so clever- ly, that even the name Grunley is unknown to Marli- 2017 What if suggest to Martisc that there may be obliging. soul in the Eng-| Building

ish Navy who

have a now earvant, Powdah." Taylor: sald Ironically.

"Garcon, bandage our thumbs."

wounded thumbs.

some

tipped off Granley to the slave-patrol schedule? Some, one In authority that very pntrol, a Lieuten 11:31. for instance, whose name might

I

"Dog.

muat run you through?"" "Dead men tell no tales, but they make complica

tions,

Lieutenant,

Live men more

arc

obliging.

Live men glve advice."

Tarryton cast a sidelong jook at Powdan, who was

"Advice...Such as—?"

Captain Murtisel lounged forward, "Now I know be Bes," Tarryton absorbed in moaning and licking his and the Lieutenant trailed him.hid excliedly. "Granley is a rich Powdah, nute of the slaver, quaked slave-trader with a dozen trading- worse than ever at sight of Martisel's posts. He Captain of a single ship, drawn sword, which moved as if to Why..." nick the ring from Powdah's

сиг

Taylor's dark eyes showed no trace

of fear however.

"I got to tell 'em, Nuggin." Pow- dah blubbered. "It's like this, your Worships. Nuggia here is no slaver. on the shoals His ship went down of Delawan. We fished him half dead

23

whispered to Taylor,

Tarryton

"Such as how to handle Martise), let us say. In the slaver's mail-bag Tarryton broke off short, on a letter of Grasley's to his princi- fused with a sense that he had said

pals in

America, Updike and Mor- too much. His Captain's eyebrows gan.. Martisci must have read it by now. It gives one Lt. Tarryton credit had gone up n triße.

for his services to slavers."

"You wrote it and signed Grunley's

Tarryton snarled.

"So Granicy's name is familiar to you." Taylor said softly.

"Every seaman has heard of Gran- ley." Tarryton faltered.

"Tut. Granley's hand-writing is

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never heard of him," saldout his other thumb to be bandaged, ong Bank Bldg. "I

Mortisel coldly.

out of the water, gave him a shot of on the pulling rum and set him

nigger got braces. That night loose out of the hold and rammed a shackle-bolt through our poor Cap- tuln's head from ear to ear.

night, was Captain for one passed the job on to Nuggin iike a hot potato'

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"Birds of feather," cried,

A

15-?

"Nevertheless, Granley existed, ns

So all men know, who wast to abolish| but I slavery-of whom I happen to be

here one," Taylor said.

gan eld

"there's no harm done really. A Tarryton can keep Martisel's Longue from wagging"

me

"What do you mean?" "When you hung

by my thumbs, you didn't stop my cars. It's ship's news that Captain Mar- "An abolitionist in the guise of set will marry your sister Margaret Tarryton | daver," Tarrylon jeered.

this time home.""

"My mother made the match, not "As improbable I suppose as a asked "And your advice

staver in the guise of a Naval Lleu- Margaret." Tarryton sald. Mortisei.

"But

Come, But Margaret consents. Tarryton's "Drop them overboard, as they did tenant," Taylor Jeated. with their human cargo."

eyes showed a white flash, but Mar-put your cards on the table with isel seemed not to notice,

Marlisel. Offer him Margaret in ex- change for Granley's letter. Then- "Staver or nn, Tarryton," he said, stay in the Navy and get the new "the law requires tangible evidence slave-patrol""scliedule. Who "lesues of drowning, and we luck it. But that?"

"Don't let 'em drown me. Nuggin," -Powdah shrieked.

"Drown you? They'll never drown you, Powdah," Taylor said. "Drown- ing is a pleasant denth, but still murder, Fowdan, for King's officers as well as slavers."

"Murder." Young Tarryton re- peated, and turned pale.

"Murder us ever was. What's the law? You, my dine friend, find us with all sail pel and moving weal ward, and you drop a shot across our bows, Good. We light. Good again. You crumble us, and put a prize crew aboard. And what do you find? You find pots of horse beans. You And leg-Irons. But leg-irons are not legs. Beans are not black men."

"You drowned them, to keep from awlaging at n yard-ann yourself," Tarryton foamed.

THAT

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Captain Taylor, have at least "Captain Woodley of the Naval been guilty of resisting Her Majesty's Commissioner's office," Tarryton said, ship, and this offence will deprive as if mesmerized. you of your Captain's papers. Also, your ship will be confiscated. Tenant, put them in the brig."

"I will altend to that personally," Tarryton said.

Lieu-

He shackled his prisoners to rings hanging from the frames of the ship's bris.

"Get it from Woodley in the course of duty and-give me a copy to take to America. The frm of Taylor and Tarryton will take the place of Cranley, and grow rich."

over

"Agreed." Tarryton whispered, after

baunied *

look

his shoulder. He left his prisoners to "Garcon, their shackles.

"We have a new servant, Powdah,"

cald Ironically. Taylor bandage our thumbs."

"Who are you to order me about?" Tarryton growled.

"Powduh, you dog," Taylor chuckled. "The Lord has delivered Taylor whispered, "I am the man him into my hand. We shall strike

What area. blow at slavery at last," who knows your secret.

Would you shaking for, Lieutenant?

(To be continued)

PERFIDIOUS PROFILE

show your the physiogonus will tell you that IT is never wise to

profile," a psychologist told a one side will sometimes flatly con- audience, pirhaps humorously, the tradled the other; for it is rare for other day. "It reveals too much" any face to be quite evenly balanced, Perhaps there really is something or for both profiles to tally in every in, for someone had said. "If you point and match.

muke want

reveni her

woman

secret, study her in profile that gives

the chow away." ·

And have you ever noticed how strangely different a face looks when Certainly, some studled sideways? pruilles give one away in the most A barefaced and shocking manner. revelation! Sometimes it seems al- most

έν amount to an net of treachery. A person who looks so benignant and pleasing in full face may seem almost sinister in proble. Woman Revealed

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There is the old story of a man Especially is this so in the case of who found and fell in love with a a woman! her nature

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that little girl who had been his school- stamped upon her mind, are graven more deeply upon her fellow and neighbour.

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an diepted person gets drooping ages ago, and see the fright he made les, un certain features sog, cen of tae! No one would ever dream of anly at Ho profte: 11 hard-taking it for me!" hearted croutitra (tota tight and comprised Ilnes and strongly- duvelopes, abnormal prominences.

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