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CHAPTER I.
"SOULS AT SEA”
novelized by
RICHARD MATTHEW HALLET
from the Paramount Picture co-starring
GARY
COOPER
GEORGE
•
RAFT
Tarryton muttered, "Dead men tell no tales."
"A faudable motive." Taylor said you like to know if I was with the calmly. "I dropped them in the tote Captain Grunley of the Black- TANLEY," Coplain Murtisel water, yes, but not if I had stood bird when he died? And did he for laughed, "the battle is over.in close against the Coast. And example betray any of his asso- Sit back. Unbuckle, Drink your stood by uit the last one had renched [eintes?" dish of ten and relax. "
the shore."
"A likely story," the Leutenant On the quarter-deck of the English | slave-patrol ship, Llon's Whelp, Cap-raged.
tain Martiset was having ton with 1 mm inclined to believe it." Mar- his Lieutenant, Stauley Turryton, iisel said quietly, Broad on the beam, the captured "I say he is the Captain of the
prize crew aboard slaver Blackbird" Tarryton said. showed a huli and sails riddled with || "The Captain of the slaver was shot. Armed only with bruss Paul M. Granley," Taylor cried. awivel - gun and cutlasses with shark-skin grips, the slaver find fought savagely against intal odds.
slaver, with a
"Relax? With those two precious forward rasenin grinning at me?" the Lieutenant
nuttered suskiy.
The two rascals forward were the Captain and mate of the flaver. Naked 10 The waist, they were hanging by their thumbs.
these "As for two rascals," Mur- isel said. "I make
o distinction. The Captain, Taylor, is a superior mon. An American, believe but no blackbirder' by try trade. Let's another turn the screw,"
the
"But dying men sometimes tell the truth. And I have taken a fancy to your Captain Martiset. What if were to tell him exactly how Captain Granicy managed to dodge English slave patrol, and so slever- ly, that even the name Granley is unknown to Marti sc)? What if I
"We have a new servant, Powdah," Taylor cald tronically. "Garcon, bandage our thumbs."
Martisci
suggest to that there may be same obliging soul, in the Eng- 11sh Navy who tipped off Granley to the slave-patrol schedule? Some and in authority very
on
that
patrol, a Licuten- ant, for instance, whose nome might bo"
"Dog,
must 1 run you through?" "Dead men tell no tules, but they muke complica- tions. Lieutenant. Live men pre more obliging. Live men Hive advlee."
Tarryton cast a videlong look. at Powdah, who was
"Now know he lies," Tarryton absorbed in moaning and licking his Captain Mortisel lounged forward,
rich wounded thumbs. and the Lieutenant trailed him. suld excitedly. "Granley is a
"Advice...Such as-?" Tarryton Powdah, mate of the slaver, quaked slave-trader with a dozen trading-
He Captain of a single ship, whispered to
Taylor. worse than ever, at sight of Martinel's, posts. drawn sword, which moved as If to Why" nick the ring from Powdah's Taylor's dark eyes showed no trace ot fear however.
car.
on the
"I got to tell 'em, Nustin," Pow❤ dah blubbered. "It's like this, your Worships. Nuggin here is no slaver. His ship went down on the shoals of Delawan. We fished him half dead out of the water, gave him a shot of rum and sat him
pulling braces. That night nigger go1 | loose out of the hold and rammed a shackle-bolt through our poor Cap- tain's head from car to car. So was Captain for one night, but passed the job on to Nuggin here like a hot potato."
Birds of a feather." Tarryton
cried.
"Don't let 'em drown me, Nuggin," Powdah shrieked.
|
"Such as how to handle Martiset, let us say. In the slaver's mail-bag is a letter of Granley's to his princ!-
Tarryton broke off short, con- fused with a sense that he had said pals in America, Updike and Mor- too much. His Captain's eyebrowsun. Martisel must have read it by had gone up a wife.
It gives one LA. Turryton credit familiar to for his services to slavers,"
You wrote it and signed Granley's me," Tarryton snarled.
now.
"So Granley's nume is you." Taylor said softly.
"Every seatnan has heard of Grant. Granicy's hand-writing is ley." Tarryton faltered.
"I never heard
of him,"
caid
Martise) coldly.
"Nevertheless, Granley existed, as all men know, who want to abolish! slavery-of whom I happens to be one," Taylor sakl.
eastly proved. But Taylor held
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out his other thumb to be bandaged, Hong Bank Bldg, "there's no harm done really. A Tarryton can keep Martisel's tongue from wagging."
"What do you mean?" "When you
hung me by my thumbs, you didn't stop my ears. "An abolitionist in the guise of aiisel will marry your sister Margaret It's ship's news that Captain Mar- slaver," Tarryton jeered,
this time home."
"And your advice is?" asked "As improbable I suppose as a
"My mother made the match, not Martisel.
slaver in the guise of a Naval Lieu-Margaret," Turryton said.
"But Margaret consents. Come, "Drop them overboard, as they did tenant," Taylor jested. Tarryton's with their human cargo.".
eyes showed a white flash, but Mar- put your cards on the table with tisel seemed not to notice.
Martisel. Offer him Margaret in ex- change for Granley's letter. Then- "Slaver or no, Tarryton," he said, stay in the Navy and get the new "the law requires tangible evidence slave-patrol schedule. Who issues of drowning, and we lack it. But that? you. Captain Taylor, have at least been gully of resisting Her Majesty's Commissioner's office," Tarryton said, "Captain Woodley of the Naval ship, and this offence wit deprive us if mesmerized. you of your Captain's papers. Also,
DIC ORBUILDING CONNAUGHT ROADSCENTRALE HONGKONG "you, Powdah," Taylor said. "Drown
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"Drown you? They'll never drown ing is a pleasant death, but still, it's murder, Powdan, for King's officers as well as Alavers."
re
"Murder," Young Tarryton pented, and turned pale.
**Murder us ever was. What's the Jaw7 You, my fine friend, And us with all soll set and moving west ward, and you drup a shot across our bows. Good. We fight. Good again. You crumble us, and put a prize crew aboard. And what do you find? You find pots of horse beans. You find leg-irons. But leg-irons are not
"Powdab, you dog," Taylor legs. Beans are not black men."
clruelled, "The Lord has delivered "You drowned them, to keep from Taylor whispered, "I am the man him into my hand. We shall strike swinging at a yard-orm yourself," | who" knows your secret. What are a blow at slavery at last." Tarryton foamed.
you shaking for, Lieutenant? Would
your ship will be confiscated. Lleu- "Get it from Woodley in the course | tenant, put them in the brig."
of duly and give me a copy to "I will attend to that personally," take to Amerlea. The firm of Taylor Tarryton sald
and Tarryton will take the place of hanging from the frames of the ship's
He shackled his prisoners. To rings | Granley, and grow rich." brig
"We have a new servant, Powdah," "Garcon, Taylor sald ironically. bondage our thumbs."
"Who are you to order me about?" Tarryton growled.
THAT PERFIDIOUS PROFILE
"IT is never wise to show your the physiogemist will tell you that
profle,"
psychologist told on one side will sometimes fritty con- audience, pirhaps humorously, the radict 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 11, for someone had said. "If you point und match. want to make wuman reveal her secret, study her in profile-that gives the show away."
And have you ever noticed how strangely different a face looks when studied sideways? Certainly, some profites give one away in the most barefaced and shocking manner. revelation! Sometimes it seems al most to amount to an act of treachery. A person who looks so benignant and pleasing in full face may seem almost sinister in profile.
Woman Revealed-
The nose is rarely straight or even- ly curved; the eyes are often uneven, and they may even be of varying size and colours; the brows vary in the strangest way, giving a face in profile an entirely different appearance when right and left are contrasted.
Photographie Masterpiece
KO
man
A portrok of a person taken in profile will sometimes reveal different n type of face that a friend might not recognise: the sitter.
There is the old story of Especially is this se in the case of who found and fell in love with a woman; ber nature is more girl's profile, carried the thing about markedly written in her profile, since with him for years, and searched the that aspect revents the more per-world for the owner of the chorming manent and dominant motives of her face. He gave up the quest at last, disposition, the trails that life has and settled down to many a plain that Ittle girl who had been his school- stamped upon her mind, and
graven more deeply upon her fellow and neighbour.
are
fentures.
One day she turned the old faded A profile my tell us that a prit out of his packet. "Wel!! sensuous person has a coarse autline Where on earth did you get this old "it was taken with thick lips and eyelids; a morose thing?" she nzkrd, and disappointed person gets drooping ages ago, nanil see the fright ho made lines, and certain features sag, seen of ine! No one would ever dream of only at times in profile; 7 hard-taking it for met" hearted: creature gets light and
lincs and comprisex!
strongly- developed, abnormal prominences.
At the same time, one must remember thnt in studying a 'proßle one is seeing only half a face, and
A clever photographer and a angular scheme of lighting had made a work of art of a girl that in the ordinary way no one ever troubled to noticel
F. G.
|
"Agreed," | Turryton whispered, {nfter a haunted icok over his shoulder. He left his prisoners 10 their shackles,
(To be continued)
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