PAGE TWELVE ~ THE DATLY BRITISH, WHIG, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1012 A The Misadventures of Findla | | nsly under his weight. Down below phone's 1 ta split "Vo pistol sb imble, war f land a 'Bang ronners were ery clangity I'he KE 5 " ghn Bat de had not r "You thought if oy the after D CHARLES FRANCIS | pr was évident. BY S. TEN EYCK BOURKE AN BEOUR Le bine coated enemy cropped up world whe cares!" It was the first time: some re t} rdech von had! ~ Past bis ears, You 'Look here, | wl vag ht pear funnel top and. rie th Findley, the target, leaned far out flourishing that florid bax {gard of bullets, Spanish ut to head him off. Findlay, doubling she had e than th you MOOF & leboughed unexpects Lie was saved fi Findlay. way. billets spat, > tled careless 1 late outpour f a big factory build: tle ery Findlay My name is Maria For- said The fugitive, the policeman and the "Mavbelit w ob she ti "Mine's Findlay. Look here, Miss ven H ¢ ities, Wis | Fortuna, how long have 1 been dead tol « : i = ! asy to see you're not mean ? : y {taunted. "No. American Ages! It is. growing) ark like fis--H | f smoke where that revenue 3 Pull of wadke And I don't like these! now im pursuit of fine " a t & : , : little Bit!" ishot from her Bowchaser stack. fue tood i I a tallies TL 'ndjay groaned and struggled to his dead abead of the t a cluster of ino? : 3 ly ping a jg 48 t + 88 wdying himself against the table. | "Then N AD awit Mevianically he glanced at the ness | darn ye!" a late New York edition y he limpness went suddeniy from him. | lo ke of it some of that Junta « ny \ : i ous expression hovering around his there won't he wi You ay' your No A . : ack aristocratic wouth; his jaw tightened as} Hh iG. stared at ¢he face ou the front page | 2 Young man mob tra them wrought panic among last, softly, "if tell me ah : . . Some scattered goif » if {the sweatshop workers. } ' » the fore the hunt, it as they, Khe gank her face jn her bands kA TOW ve seless | "Ion It particular, a slender slip of a Rel oyonismpetiug kitten.™ fons sun rif r - re j dark, lustrous eyes and oval face, Fil "There, now!" said Findlay "You 1Fout on ti Overhead o 2 1 posted sn Anath my tage up : must " chaps a leading or! Q ! . » skipper © 3 _ (not Findlay, were the quarry. One iB 4i' she said was Rippey 2 daylight eaven knows } » was 8, then! the nd ok noted for the sheer incongruity of her know the kind of ship we're pevident refinement fa that illiterate yuddenly, to divert her. mmy * 4 / AR hing *t linewith to -conie aboat----and yelled Finday Cap's broke jail 1 "It is a bad ship," she said. "Tt is like these who made war in my own Sonth | , 1 throng, even as he holted out on a long, men like a ¥ F lay t shit om paper i All: "Looks revenne 5 iwharf, the big policeman clinging like. a Jovons the Seminola.' kitled "Ye he packet : Georze oo! America, so that my fathaire is ¢ . Copyright, 1912, by the New York Heraid Co. All leech. rights reserved ) { Yio 'had see he dark eyed gir} dart fighting and we are impoverish'--so0 peor th swee he é¢ the Peering closely ldonhie nuneleus in wvell known in Wall street {men al the funnel with ASHING I must come te work in this strange city said Findlay, "is as easy bank checks, {ahead of him, down the wharf, as the as : "me "where y 0 we wavs and alwavs {big policeman bore down. Then, as the I know not the ways, and alway clipping 'coupons' and, in the; But I) : . | flushed him easy | ¥ 1 iaonyof 1} {the enshrondin loom™of thé road to riches by anticipating | Te nsY 5 : t Yem--with a forged signature!" | I am frightened when som {for his like--like"-- "Like when ng happens, Connection r ventures. | however, about the ¢ | Allowing for big Apia thedistortion of the libel| He was sorely fom pted i it bore a marked resem.!!be cook. in jase fo Findlay even in the printed aded the trapdoor. Findh | De bere was. a similarity<-Findlaterjibe funsiel stays and sw { Rockmorgan, Jr {the rim. At the sam An flashed suddenly Kind Jah shot through b jlay's mind. I'm going fo interyiew the The be said grimly "That little song pet Side as he slid ; With hisl AhSIRE on "They only ere 3 it, if th putters creased m . if hat cutter'si pi never Spanish gun nt the and 'itching . officer threatened, a pitiful ery of fright maio, as satisfactory. never before ; as the colossal Nemesis. in to oJ tried the I butted in th {lous wondeut, his ent imminent, 3 y and the cop, and we Lundefstorm: could never have. ve cop, and A by his | S1ashed the blackness workers and fright orange go 1 see!" Findlay girl poise, stenggling for her footing on her "face ring jagged.™ vivid, streaking » | Findlay was worried. Despite his biythe exterior he was worried own past performances and hatassed by the hand of the law sternly beckoning. with a backward, white faced glance of Earlier in the day Findlay had gathered | J terror at the suddenly revealed peril, Findlay saw the drew idea into On cutters boat w : i a plain gokl de | the outermost edge of the stringpiece, and, #'ain gou ; i | bird keeps his nerve anyway! EE help maybe we ean do still hanging on." taken N He np climbed into the mezzanine gallery, where| the cooks with certain spotting companions at the café of the Ocean Finance Building te!¥ celebrate the fortuitous outcome of an all} © night secret session at that metfopolitan| office warren, not unconnected with the not imminent activities of a seagoing tug. | himself in a graceful, arching dive, aim whose "past performances" in tropical ling to come up close under the girl's body. ; ; . waters bad variously incited Uncle Sam's| The rush of the tidewater had the girl's Z : - A J 4 ' : NN jliceman . undesired espidriage. Funds running low frail form in its clutch, sweeping her sea- i him. 3 He) to prolong the festivities and the hour!ward. Catching a flutter of 'red and a : = " £ : oF UR; \ {enormous axe which the cook flourished]! "That che whort--it was Saturday with its noon glimpse bf rippling tresses shimmering jin a hand like a smoked ham. mured. Till that bank closure--Findlay had risked his ver-| like molten ebony in the lightning's flare, | "I- thought if Swag the r-r-revolution looked the fact (ha tan sonal reputation and liberty to procure|lhe struck out in pursuit. | come to storm me!" the giant piped, in a Hy e from justice, as wold the not inconsNerable wherewithal in the] A grantic blast chortled behind him: | | voice like a Pesuy whistie Bo you have | i¢ I aie boii fmmediate vicinity. lon something struck him on the head, i. Findlay was alcTONE!" the ede re ' Subsequently, very shortly, brutal men! weeping him aside, For a moment he Findlay Unfurls judge of men. He YOU doing here?" : fn brass buttoned uniforms had haled a gorgeous the Red Flag to went straight to the| At that him 10 answer {o a grave infraction of the] "Betterdrop display, Bring Rescuers, point. "You know) Rockmorgan, Jr law, to wit, forging a check on a baking! 'em overboard," from within and : : what this ones (08 a 'charge a villainous at ut g {making band is--gun smugglers--filibus-} A straight left from the sho strange bank. | voice suggested. io of the Bat. : pers?" he asked. "They've got the Cap-| ted He murderous tain locked; they wanted to leave the|¢®AR off the deck, tu in head oy Findlay had laughed--then. To be|tery overhead. But he had the girl in {young lady to her fate, too! Now, I don't) hee Is beforg he came down w r - "wanted" at Headquarters was more or| his grip, and the crew of the chortling tng jrnow whether you know me, but-- - Just; Findlay Jad store to setfl less of a joke to such irresponsible young|(s full fledged seagoing tugboat she was, [ast ute Fe ou this Bont DUS Oot of i: & prompt § bloods as Findlay, considering the farcical he noticed even then, showing no lights) | woodeut of the prominent New York! "You did have esse with which those "in the know"!were flinging ropes and stretching out, Sinancier, | boy? could "square things" if too much public- brawny arms to drag them aboard. ! ity did not pertain to the case and funds) «Dis no fault o' yours you didn't get were forthcoming. Findlay had om: yumped to bottom," a gruff voiced res-, manded the situation, and the funds, 0p, the tugmaster, accosted him. "Whar then. \ | Bailed out, with the proceeds of that eheck, Findlay had jumped the bond Emerging from the Ocean Finance Cate, where he had failed to connect with his erstwhile friends and their money, mat ters wore another complexion. He tras deserted, left to his fate in the equally deserted purlieus of lower Manhattan, at the close of a sultry summer Saturday. + Let alone the disastrous possibility of frustrating the tug venture if publicity, at its present stage, proclaimed his pres ence in town, Findlay began to doubt even if he could explain satisfactorily © the Court, the lawyers and the police--to way nothing of the irate banker--all hot op the trail of the fugitive who had so summarily evaded them, with blood in their eye! "I'll never do a crazy thing like that again," be told Casey--Special Officer Casey, of the Ocean Finance Building-- "those Johunies aren't worth ir." and caught the newspaper ACro bridge de He did ne and span revenue of nheorf € e affice j cheerfully over the rail almost "Voila im | ' they do thins pe A gigantic man, a Colossus in snowy Ag white linen, beside Findlay's po-! his eves foll on Find . . il on Wd son ungé headlong down into the phosphor-! rent river. light tenor was still chirping Findlay's hands went up in his stride: pausiig -for a second, he launched and who gave ¥ AMA Ren whom . ays ¢ i f the d¢ rer | " of the dock was. a mere atom, ragged. sooty j confronted battle in his ove | gasped ndlay gasped his eyes fell "m Again on rdlay re-covaire? precise momes '. viewed as Findlay company and presenting said check at al or sh eo. and Find.' in his debts it. in for h old the revenne officer criod laut "Mistaire, Findlater Rockmorgan, Fryer _ fe Satie of your tag von {1a such distress!" The cook gasped. 1 ives --. qo) Dew Jue wilh [ant necessary to ask if he believed.| = days, instead: of hiring x fe n {Only one doubt seemed to linger in his} hn RL, ring professional {colossal head, and Findlay anticipated Xr nie todo it ' " I" "I know they say I financed just such! sty une of them * said Findlay {gun running expeditions as this," aii] ST: ii Bal : mad ay Findlay. "This experience has heen a busines cons is. How tat ay i n it, that got in ti don't let those fei, found a late edition w rr al » They'll kidnap me in dead| : EY g| arnest' and hold uy for ransom. Now, " ig [that revenue cutter's still watching ux ' | He pointed out the open port. Under th this tug game, soou's we Lea lee of the distant Jersey shore, thei, town on the eve of Ser sa reakicg dawn, flaunted a ligtle fluttering | ong didn't do a t ensign, with the stripes running up andi po the stars and bars of the Revenue the "sea_cops" of the merchant marine. "I'm Where do you come r your own J yZ- would ye be'doin' in th' drink now---you <Ad iy - an' the la-ady? "Not a blessed thing," said Findlay fer > ; a > y F come 'd "We were--ah, capsized in a! ] ; # w did t n? They ith a = here? O here? h, ve papers? lesson to me. Only vently. + Cap come oul th the race. Got bumped, as you say." He was bumped, badly bumped, but | Findlay was used to hard -enocks. Be sides, it buoyed him immensely to see that the girl was coming round all right! she was resting against his shoulder, get- ting sher breath, or her courage, or both, vo fret time as it gleamed in the while he listened to the crew, or cabin|of the cabin lamp. "Ah!" said Findls ard W The captain we.t]he touche complement, excitedly jabbering in Span- | Of course it was perfectly silly 't a. still 2 and v. ™ rid t maybe silly? : t ish and English about the immediate dis- be hadn't known the gzir hour; 1 : shit i jer--in the 4 didn't know how long they ith 1 1 bad : position of himself and the girl be dad}, tugboat, watching {lights slip by, he judged they must be ] nt ev " ' . : itter "You're crazy to pick up this man! With| i . & i the revenue watching out for us, too. | en better 0 dep em overbontt v6 To Seek El Dorado in the Mud Captain," a villainous voice suggested. Now, mind | "They'll | = ILENCE." The hushed throng, per skinned and tropically spl {be nobody throwed overboard while I'm : s lows get on Jars in the locked hix The office That's whas put the an on doiibled fe-- swore! Tevetine i Findlay heart! said { p into her thought of d away when 5 g . 3 t in ; she "For a Glorious Minute He Was Master of the Deck." go 1g to yo kmorgan, forging' a check and | down, {bakery combine Cutter Service, Depart pick you up" "A pirate on. b or t the ' y s the-ring of m . | . : COWRA gun runner, shore! brid v ¢ aid ft "I lost ber, L" said the cooks proudly, "a, Alphonse | It's high time | 3 Bataille, was once chef of that rev'noo says the Seminoin. At first {but now" = United States » signal ber. on the wd Deen but, the pe . There's u saved. 1 hold off, anyway "Casey the special He pla things te the police {offioey suddenly cried the cook.ia lark and you'd done it on a ¢ At AWW of Lake Guatavita ¥ as We pe speculat Findlay cried. "Now, how'll go about nt?" A red flag. would wot fire ou us unless she was in But a pirate flag. taunting from the betray your identity op But th funnel top hin The mting yet. Andi them is hollow," explained the With elopiog "Young , i larks' Oh, 1 sas The keep the | hand must "Bully! gr e "Raid you yopng blood < own inoog-neeta an wi "Overboard is ut, ye scum! i cop nry P me," a heavy brogue responded. ise ned id sne come like the wind ness *' sdid Findlay. "You imb up the smokestack?! 1 police Ihe Lor nea we got to in their gala dress, await the . _ skipper o' this flibuster packet ~barrin'} Has oa "Th' lads has left, then? Casey con- it do be yeu Cuby Junta Ginirals, me & : v ~ doled. "They was cuttin' up high jinks, |, 10 So put that in your cigareet an jiake "they stand, devout, tense oa ter rovsand fe ) " i ; : y ' ole since you was gone th' mor-rnih', before] oy fire to ut™ frond the mostsiately ; hey 1 Shed 1 REnguom . = is ridat ve hold they was put out." 1 wy of their high pries.. One of funnel for © dommy officer choked i have Miss eintensnt he There is & Inder] judge we'll' pot be landed yet," |the rugg joor. I will "1 mpever. doubted it," Findlay saidiyipdiay suggested teutativeir, gloomily. "Now I can shift for myself skipper came up with a friendly word T've a good notion té go to the war inl«snvway, the do Cuba; there's as much sense in it." "An' what bas the war in Cuby to do with it?" asked Casey. "Oh, some friends of mine in the build pe ecuddy she'll maybe find a dey coat dug here were fitting out w filibusterer--aj = OL oo of 'me' main: un runner," sid Findlay uneasily. "H rainin' discipline on me guarterdeck." there's anybody in the world more miser- | Findlay able than L" said Findlay, "1'd mary] oe of the: temporanily bat as he strode below, bearing lus dripping ; Stddenly there was a commotiva around! the corner. - " 2 pr : i Beat. it!" said Casey, without stov-| Findlay! when the crinkling Forfuna, pe OF Piien frien I tarkle JL Lieutenant, my Mun, as glicte Ren Miss Mar the golden st tha re Jady will better be-i.p, tuna." From | ieotenant 0 Reis « giant shed his white jacket ray he waist up be was clad in glaring flannel. | ng fires, sweet si zr. £8 > : v i r . ii . ' £Ote R K i A 0 guard asainst aromatic » Sale % ' : : 3 damp, 1 bw srt candindl temples send riir DREWES \ . : . cord . - . 2 i . » gh. apd man $ ay Bi ver is in a jerk phonse of fame, thew ssaouhiv . a Slowly, wavering chant, Hoan to flow ¥° music; in Special ought to be!" said the skipper dryly. "In F th f rotndg tir argm of the afet 3 y Qessions ye tround the marg It's a judge o € Ye, the lady" will permit Liels wear such he -a aboard the cutter out matters here, "Miss Fortuna wil retorted Fludlay i woods © explained red . head th' way these phe = ' : Heten) a n iajesteall thn. with 7 ; . i stripped for activo ercules swingiug his Gly . Yo Hiei ye ' Fritigs of the . pen if the of- the, water en . ' I with add of i or gl ' i the st splendid bag of heaped 1} warmih of tendauts man nusied Behind and purple and g batile axe, "Fol said, your uniform licker, Bab, he the Rockmorgan terror to Mistaire with strike ow "We the . growling remon-) at cowed Juuta oan of your The girl Findlay assis caught nen bl was blus od her ¢ | that ends Man®are i. . 4 ya ™ enemy! thermtus. 8; wraversed the ie be man fn the pilot house, yy ently they deck, we he looked piles Alia w " save for but Findlay beard voices. Dodging behind pay the shot' smok k, the opensd a n trapeor at the foot of the veati. : burden. His jaw squared; sternly remorseful and unforgiving for serted D In - wee Johnnies wi ade ustitnte, A fatint it wharl waters at six hon failure of the - va him 1 chief Lia the rea Cook ping. "They're red hot after ye! i - K sheetire y sd, each wit beetir Figauce Building, through the corridor upd out inte. the side street, face to face wity the local baker whose name was 1 i = © Mpgot ye! Sidp thi With the outraged baker's yeil that " part of Manhattan, as it seemed to Find-| "lay, wuddenly enveloped an immediate 'population of two hundred thousand thief fakers, alf friends of the baker and all inimical to Findlay, including a squadron of police apd police dogs and all their friends. nt ? Roowing the mobs of Manhattan, Find- "lag knew the pursuit woeki never let up so lohg as there was a fragment of fugi- five fo pursue. ln the growing darkness &"big thindersion was gathering over Jerney Olly, Blackening (he narrow thor into which Findlay bolind, and] "1 have mo friends. Findlay doubled hack into the Ocean; "Wanted to chuek her overboand, that { Junta crowd did!" he growled. "That's is it? Just wait awhile!" While waiting be watched the girl by the light of the swinging lamp in the cabin. She was too dazed to talk, and she was wet--but pretty! Welll---- a softly | rounded figure, pale, of course, her pallor accentuated by the parrow strip of red ribbon she wore at het throat. "Spapish, I det a bat! Spanish ladies lalwars wear red," said Findlay, ss he rilmaged out the pilot coat and a cou- venient blanket, and tucked her up as comfortably as possible on an old lounge: "We're io for a long sea trip--likely stop over," he said casually. "Bat we'll Arrange to get word to your friends a Se the kind of filibustering sports they are,' Nobody in the riding agains: of gold abd emerilis They have reached the the lake, mark®¥ by between the again, the people turning their backs, as the One stretches np his army and sudre the Spirit of the Lake intense women!, whan algiost to cease beating Man plunges full into the } Tterrific shout surges across the hills, 2 'through the clear deeps glimmer the jewels exalt tain cord opposing 1e privesy bowing of the chieftaigs and the smaller offerings Po ne oper of their subjects. The Golden Map, longer in golden, hot in' his vatura 'majesty, regains bis barge. Robed perial purple, he is propelled back mn the great temple. The harves! baras will an lm (full. The Serpent of the Sacred Lake of toi | straight through to Cuba without aay Guaisrita has been pr 2! is wha: the old Spanish historians 511 : {tell us was happeniug in Cobmabiz, South Boards' thar must of Bagland was Peioaiiced at the bottom of thw fake the Sararens snd when! lu iX8 a5 English company, soi ated, {Ameries. when Richard : Gy bet ¢ innate atten his treasure 1 Be ba an treasure. of burdsus. of the countless verea Barve gone before it, + English eom- ciermined lead chief in 5 personally hw possessed of the Euglish eonvie be it forty, lend, with of the El that they nf ] hey tor fe r the the orig hnowies, wh shptan, made kis { Makes * York > Afler exhibiting iu jue disceveries Mr Kuowles is off ta South' Apr 1 ¥ detemuiaation and bis atenm boiler. 17 may be the old story {af the practica. superiority of tie Kaglisb- Las over the Spataard. Hs is a good natured FE al botiowr that riveat inp t in Lis coumry Iator fennel { Doubtless they will shoot, but 1 willl ald the door," be said, "Flap Gard, Mis taire Rockmorgan! If you die you do not die alone I" You're a game sport, Alphonsé " said] Fiadlay CE The door clanged. Inside the funnel was! stifling with aval gas and pitchy. black, but! overbead Findlay saw an oblong patch of | sky. He climbed up the iron ladder, bold-| ing bis breath and bis precious "pirate's | flag" At the top his lungs were bursting, | but kis first glance over the rim of the! funnel brought a paesn of joy. The distant | cruiser was heading seaward as if scenting | an enemy > i "By George, she's on the slot now | good doggy!" he cried. "The cutter's got a siriog of fags up! Come, on--come! a runnin', old girl! Bet it's the first time. 4 Slibuster ever drew fire on his own! ship" He shook out the improvised bas |° gor. The founel, suddenly spromtiog = man and a2 ted flag in midocenn, mynd