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SYNOPSIS
In 1842, a British patrol ship, he Lion's Whelp, captures a slave ship commanded by Captain Nuggin Taylor and his mate, Powdah. The two refuse to tell what happened to the black cargo. They are strung up on the yardarm by their thumbs. Lieutenant Tarryton of Her Majesty's Navy is especially tough with the prisoners. But Taylor knows that Tarryton' is In league with the slave syndicate and tells him so.
CHAPTER, II
at his
"SOULS AT SEA
novelized by
RICHARD MATTHEW HALLET
from the Paramount Picture co-starring
GARY
COOPER
•
GEORGE RAFT
"Marvellous
done anything about it but kick me Woodley of the Naval Commissioner's In the teeth. You're different. Nug- umce. gin, you see this ring in my car? It's
pop-overs my mother's wedding ring." Powdah Woodley said, biting into one. gulped. "You're the first person I une."
1937.
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ever told about my mother. Yeh, and "Marvellous," Taylor agreed. He you know why? Maybe you think it's sat down, forgelting Powdah. "But jest talk. It ain't. It's because...Captain Woodley, I asked you to well, because I love you.”
net me here for more than pop- "Maybe it's the beer," Taylor overs."
"I feel the same way about| you, Powdth, and I can't account for
sald.
"Sa 1 ossumed."
"You have not seen the letter of Paul M. Granley's which refers to Tarryton's services to the slavers?" "If it exists, Martial must have suppressed it," Woodley said.
know why he has sup-
"Member when you sat up and fooked at me and said 'I don't know wool you are Malcy, but you got the crookedest look I ever saw in any man's eye? I knowed right then prereed it. He is marrying a Tarry- me and you was, going to get along on." good."
Dot writer
"I'll write you love letters from Boston." Taylor promised. Powdah sighed."
"Well, if we gotta purt, we gotta,"
"Quite."
pro-
TAYLOR with" "Powdah T
"Let him. And here's my heels, picked his way amongst the bales and barrets of Liverpool
trition. Granley, is dead, but that Dock. A conference between Mar-
need not la: reported to Updike and tisel and Woodley of the Naval Com-
Morgan, his buyers In Savannah, missioner's office had freed them across the way.
Taylor stared Info the booth Suppose, instead. I go to them as from the brig of the Lion's Whelp, drawing his fingers through candle-
A solitary man-sat Granley's messenger." The shadow of the law was lifted game. His moist face was pearled from them.
with
his sweet, "Powdah, my friend, let us go drink to our eternal parting."
"Nuggin," Powdah pleaded, "you n't gonna leave me here?""
ain't
"You're no credit to an honest man, Powdah."
"Credit? I got cash. Didn't I sica!
master's' money?!?
the
You told me he gave it to Taylor said angrily.
That's because you got a
science.
con-
Look, you gotta have a man without a conscience to keep you from starving, Nuggin."
Taylor stepped to one side to let
A carriage pass. It's wheel splashed mud on him, and Taylor stared for a second into a Kirl's eyes.
The
"Oh, I'm sorry." she cried.
carriage rolled on. Powdah with an oath picked up a stone.
duffy
with
throw
you would rocks at your grandmother," Taylor laughed, and knocked the stone out of Powdah's hand.
"Nuggin, you are coming unglued again. Look, she's stopped. That's Tarryton getting in with her.
the same pretty face over again, It's. his sister, Nuggin."
"Birds of a feather, Powdah. I've got more than sisters on my mind.
"You?"
"Why not? Tarryton will come to cavernous eye you to nalt for the new slave-patrol
"If you are right and Tarryton la a traitor to his country, I shall not give 'im the gchedule," Captain Woodley said.
Here's pub I'm looking for. The gleamed. He watched the flame as schedule."
Red Dragon."
"I'll buy you promised him.
if storing at, the fires in some jewel "That's in the course of his duty,”
'n beer," Powdah Taylor's eye came back to the con- Woodley agreed. "But if you are die-flame on his own table. He right, and Tarryton s ș traitor to dipp:d his fingers in it and gave a hls
You haven't enough, anyway, to buy little yelp of pain, and put the burn- schedy, I shall not give him the
a
on
of ale.
"Good. Spend your money on me.
passage the emigrant ship cd thgers deep into Powdah's mug William Brown yonder."
"Have
Your "Nuggio, I have. Marlisel took my Captain's papers, but he softened the blow with a little cash. I rather think brother Tarryton may have put a flea in his eur."
"You can go nutty on me if you want to," Powdah said, "and I'll love you like a brother just the same. inakes me no neverminds."
"He must have fingers like horze's hoof," Taylor said,
u
The Red Dragon was an uproar of "Or Bke a certain party's heart, casters Bunge and drunken eaths, strike me blind." Knots of emigrants told glowing tates of free Americs: In one corner said
Hello
"On the cove to him."
"Give to
Why
not?" Taylor whispered. "Suppose you were to fall in with this arrangement between Tarryton and myself? Nefarious, I agree, but 12 has its points. You give Tarryton the schedule, he countersigns it and delivers to me to give to Updike and Morgan in Savannah. And with
"Fair enough, you mug," Taylor this schedule goes another, supposed-
·Jy-from-Granley,-showing-the-best-
a pate violinist flourished his bow "Good by then," Powdsh blubber-routes for slave-ships to taice, 10 across the strings. Powdah slumped el, und embraced his tall friend avoid these patrol-routes" disconsolutely a booth, drew pic-uluinsily, falling half across him. "Suppose In short," the enlighten- tures sentimentally with his finger in "Break away, will you?" Taylo ed Woodley whispered, "my schedule stopped beer-foam.
yelled. "I've got to buy my ticket, were false, and expressly designed to
tangle "So it's like that, Is it, Nuggin? I teli
you." and good-bye.. It ain't with me.
lle stood up, shook Powdah off, patrol the slave ships with the When the lion puts its head to the I ain't never had a friend before, and walked to a little wicket whon: Not like you,
I ain't. You ain't sign that passage fare might be ar- ground and roars, I have heard that listenin' to me."
runged there on the William Brown, its victims come running into its I'm looking for a man." Taylor But now Taylor discovered that mouth," Taylor grinned, leaning back. sald, staring around.
his money had fled on the wings of "That ought to go for the British Powdal's affectionate embrace.
After all, these pop-overs 'You're
"Powdah," he yelled,
are not bad. Would you mind order- l'owdah was gone, but his place in ing some inore."
taken by Captain
(To be continued)
my friend, ain't you?"
"Well, I'm yours for life. Nobody that look a fancy to me before ever the "booth
WHE
Hon
MYSTERY BEAST IN THE HIMALAYAS
Reports of the discovery of the They certainly resembled tracks examined the photographs referred gint footprints of a mysterious of a giant certainly-that was what to by Mr. Smythe. The footprints animat in the snows of the Himalayas his porters called them. His own were those of the common Ilmalayan
bear. were supported recently by Mr. F. S. opinion, however, was that they wern
"The story of a giant snowman is, Smythe, who was a member of the made by a giant bear, much larger
"The of course, nonsense," he said. 1033 and 1936 Everest expeditions.than a grizzly.
Although he had never heard of Himalayan bear occurs from Kashmir These reports had been received
to Garwhal. Indian sportsmen call with aceplieism in India and other grizzlies in these parts, there was countries, especially as natives who no reason why some such animat, it the red bear, but a colour is, in extremely varlable, and may had seen the footprints believed that unknown to man, thould not exist fact, they had been made by the legendary there. He had spent several days range from dark brown to silvery
abominable snowman."
following the trucks, but had not grey or nearly white.
Its hind fool leaves a track very Mr. Smythe, who has just returned caught up with the animal.
Ite took photographs and careful from another visit to the Himalayas, said in a broadcast in Calcutta that measurements of the footprints andke that of a human fool. Its stride is approximately a yard. In size the Ilimalayan bear is much he the Rus- he himself had seen these footprints.had sent them to London. They were, nine Inches wide and
sian bear you can see at loc Zoo. many feet apart.
When he first saw them he was astonished. He had never seen any- thing like them before.
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1 This has cut short many a
career abroad. G Bird.
10 A town that came from the
coast.
11 A blg blow merely disturbs it, but many tapa tend to bring it low.
12 A foreign notability. 13 Not much change.
15 One of the greens.
17 There's only one arm in this
bit of clothing.
10 Scottish town.
21 This wanderer is apt Lo get
sleepy in his head.
22 A sweet coat for cook to put
on.
24 He often has to face a charge. 27 A rising character in politics. 20 From 1 across to this is a na-
tural transition.
20 Certainly not talkative.
30 Well known.
DOWN
1 Moloring beginners
getting into this a grind.
2 Beyond remedy. 3 A fastener.
may find bit
of a
4 To toast anyone does not imply
this, of course
speech is awful!)
(unless the
This may be useful for a rainy day.
7 Colour.
8 This mineral occurs in a London
park.
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17
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D'Made ready by being skinned
in advance, apparently.
14 The credulous might
cultivate
it for her own protection.
10 You will and this kind of tale
in Pilgrim's Progress.
18 Lavishi,
20 This is most excellent.
not
21 This sort of thing would
stand much chance among the breakers.
23 The smaller of the two pictures,
of course.
25 This' Essex town produces an or-
gan.
20 It may be strung up to please a
woman.
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