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SYNOPSIS
Released on a charge that he was captain of a slave ship, Captain Nuppin Taylor,
47
'SOULS AT SEA
novelized by
RICHARD MATTHEW HALLET
from the Paramount Picture co-starring
GARY
COOPER
beloved violin to lay before you." He broke it across his knee. "Now I haven't even that."
decision?"
"This man's backbone will not break like his violin," said the Eng- American, comptres with thelshman. Puff, puff, "Reverend, what British Naval Commissioner's Office to trap Lieutenant Tarry ton, his captor, who is in league with the slave syndicate. Tarry- ton deserts the Navy and sails for On the Willem Brown. America Also 01
William Brown are Margaret, Tarryton's sister, Powdah, Taylor's best friend,
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to take water through a huge hote in her side. Taylor has a way this but it means that stop thi someone must awin under the ship to fasten a lac. He volun- teers to do the job himself. Margaret, who is In love with Taylor,
with watches dimmed eyes,
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CHAPTER VII
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RINGING cheer. Taylor's head) broke the water on the port side. He had eluded the sharks, hel had succeeded in under-girdling the ship with his rope. He climbed aboard, dripping.
"So we are saved, my little Tina," The Schmidt the toy-maker crind. little girl clapped her hands and shook her curls.
"Saved?" Taylor mutiered, breath- ing hard. "You fool, let the wind rise ever so little, and that canvas will rip like a bed-sheet. No, gentlemen, we must face facts. The Are has; gutted our ship and burned most of foud. Two boats ure left. women, children, a bare handful of men--that's all these boats will take.
"And you, I suppose, among that' handful? Tarryton suggested.
will
Without me, even that handful
never see the shore." "Shall we let this man do us out of our lives?" Tarryton raged.
"No," cried the youth, George
with a pale look,
GEORGE
•
RAFT
stand here. You are my second."
Powdah rubbed the gold ring in his car delightedly. He would have been the next before the Court. The swordsmen stamped.
De Bastonet was perfectly at east. "You have a bad habit of turning "Why should wo insult him?... over the inside of the left foot-to he in- on Guilty, Next."
the lunge, guin length The toy-maker cried, "No, no. Dla structed Taylor. "That is good- boy hat genius, I am noddings. I ex-against a weak swordsman-but shange mit him. Und I gif him little takes only a flick of the wrist in- turn ualde the point.... Ifo, ho, there Gretchen,"
Old Mrs. Martin, knitting, durted you are, wide of the mark. Fencing bright look at the bewildered child, is the art of touching without be whose famb wagged its head sol-ing touched, M'sleu. Bon pled, bon
geit." emnly.
"Let the Reverend's decision stand. Next."
Gaston de Bastonct rapped on his sword-ense, but he did not break it in two. lie shot a knowing look at the mutinous Tarryton.
"If the Bastonet,
Court pleases, 1 am de the finest swordsman in
"Try me again," Taylor said, re- turning to the attack..
Back of him, the grim Court was taking up its task again.
"My son, it is your turn now," old Mrs. Martin said.
"No, no. Mother, I am afraid," the wretched George said, qualling and
"There are not two hours left to us," Nuggin explained, "The boata with hold fifty people. And there are only two man among us who can een these boats to gafety."
the world. I am willing to condemn myself, but first-there is a little
Me bleu, no" de Bastonet swore. affair of honour-"
He must live to teach Creoles how to preserve their
the
Reverend "Bul. Rentin Clark pleaded, "If not this man then, what man? He speaks the horrible truth. Only three barrels of fresh water are left. If it be the will of God" "God
sund Us
0
His eye fell on the brine-soaked form of Taylor, who had come out of the hold again.
"At your service," Taylor said. De Lastonet brought the swords out of their case.
be pinked with a sword thon drown "I am like Powdah. I had rather
backing away. He had deserted his duly in the hold, but now he fled to It again, to escape a worse falc.
"HE
will come lo himselt before long," Mrs. Martin said calmly.
In the waist of the ship, the duct went on. But now it was de Bastonet who was silent, except for his quick breathing. "Bring up the left foot to while the knees are stil bent," the right
'Taylor
ship, in the sea. Let Taylor execute me," "So.... Ah, that led him.
may Telephone 28021. Reverend," Powdah whined piously
right," "This man
Tarryton sald, ranging himself by the alde of Powdah. "We may yet sight a ship. Curse you, what law empowers you
"OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
ACROSS
1 An inclination to write song?
5 What knights did is not con-
sidered upright.
Describes work of a novel kind possibly.
10 This is writicn.
11 Its upright supporters complete
the goal.
13 He added fresh weight to the
power of science.
14 A rather thin bark.
16 State started by a fool.
10 The output of the branches of
a growing affair.
20 The answer to a rasti bla?
21 15 down this is on a boot.
20 Place.
27 One never plays this well unti
one gets ono's back up.
28 What the sailor took the sulfor took with him when he retired to the farm?
29 "Cape riot" (anag.)
30 This is something not often
BOOTL.
31 A scholastic appointment.
DOWN
1 A sovereign container.
The idea is to change it in time.
3 Sarah'a form of worry.
4 This
passable
letter.
country becomes
without the
6 An addition in the fold.
7 Number.
Im- third
8 Explode, but distinguished the
wrong way at first.
12 "Cad, liar" (unog.)
15 See 21 across.
10 Pass this for the way.
17 Apparently the heathen is not
prompt in execution.
18 Strong, in a way.
10 It is not only flat-dwellers that
suffer from these of course.
23 Humanity in general.
23 Let off.
24 This and its fellows are
found under arms.
often
23. Trophy for a champion hen?
Yesterday's Solation
BARRACK CAPSTAN
A OL1AOMU
"I don't know what power the law gives me, but I know what power the Almighty gives me," Taylor cried. He struck Tarryton to the deck. Margarét dropped beside her brother, sobbing.
"Ah, you are cruel, thought.
as
Taylor did not hear her. He had shifted his eye to the horizon. A purple cloud-bank was rising there. puffed like a cobra's head....
"Wind. A ring-talled snorter if I
know the signs," he mutiered.
"Gentlemen, there are not two hours left us. The boats will hold fifty people. And there are two men among us who can see these boats; to safely." Pawdah's eyes gleamed with hope. "Myself and the Purser." Powdan's cyes illed with despair. be "As for the rest, lots must drawn.
"This suggestion is appalling. It 13 unfair," the Reverend Clark con- tended.
"Unfair to whom?" Taylor osked coldly.
"To Him Who created us in His Own image.... Among us are mea and women whose future may make the future of this free America. Let us hold court and judge people on their merits."
With lume thumbs, Powdah finger ed the jewels in his pockels. Bad
De Bastonet
was giving ground he said with a look of cunning. All knew the lurking danger. If Taylor wearily. He stumbled over a ring- should be killed, the make-shift or bolt in the deck, and Taylor welted
himself of the ship's company for him to put
on guard ganization would be destroyed. Anarchy would in, Desperate, de Bastonet shot reign.
A ray of sun into his foe's eyes from There is no time for
his private
polished belt buckle. For this could see no more quarrels," the Reverend Clark pro second, Taylor tested. But already the swords had than as if snuff-had been thrown at. him. He braced himself to receive clushed.
Bastonet's sword through his vitals. (Continued on Page 11.)
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"You of course will be one of the
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am so for honoured," Clark agreed. "But those who judge must first
They condems themselves. must sink with the ship. May we have your services as judge, Lieu- tennat?"
Tarryton "What force is this?" mumbled. He slunk to the rear,
"Proceed with your court," Taylor scid.
An Englishman putting on a rank pipe look his place by Clark,
"Now we need only three more, don't we, Roverend?"
The three stood forth. Old Mrs. Martin, knitting, Aileen the peasant-
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by poor Schmidt, holding Gretchen her hand. She clutched the woolly i lamb to her heart.
"Myself, it is noodings. My wife dic, I hat only Gretchen. I am bad man. When yong, I stole nine eggs. I could not eat dem, dey vas too But
shickens." near to
"Mr. Schmidt you are passed to the Doals," the Court decreed.
Next came the pale violinist, throw- ing back his thick hair.
"I am poor and unknown. And I have been selfish, thinking only of my talent. I have nothing but my
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