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And the deck was | cumbered with at least forty sorts of machines for separating gold from the soil, some of them to use water, some | affair with wings was supposed to fan away everything but the gold. Differ ing In everything else, they were alike in one thing--they had all been deve: Ly men who had never seen any but | manufactured gold. | may add that) never saw a machine of the kind aec- tually at work in the diggings. | Just new, however, | looked on the | owners of these contraptions with en vy and thought ourselves at a disad- vantage with only our picks, shovels and axes. | As we drew southward the days be- | came insufferably warm, but the nights were glorious. Talbot and I liked to | sleep on deck and generally camped | down up near the bitts. The old ship | rolled frightfully, for she was light in freight in order to accommodate so many passengers, and the dark blue | sea appeared to swoop up and down beneath the placid tropic moon. We had many long, quiet talks up there, but in them all 1 learned noth- ing, absolutely nothing, of my compan- | fon. "If you had broken my arm that time I should not have taken you," he remarked suddenly one evening. "Shouldn't blame you," said IL "No! I wouldn't have wanted that kind of a man," he continued, "for I | should doubt my control of him. But | you gave up." | This nettled me. "Would you have had me or any man brute enough to go through with | it?" I demanded. "Well""--he hesitated--"it was agreed that it was to be fight, you remember. | And, after all, if yoti"tmd broken my< arm it would have been my fauit and not yours." Two young fellows used occasionally to join us in our swooping, plunging perch. They were as unlike as two men could be, and yet already they bad become firm friends. One was a slow, lank, ague stricken individual from somewhere in the wilds of the great lakes, his face lined and brown | as though carved from hard wood, bis | speed slow, his eyes steady with a velled sardonic humor, His companion | was scarcely more than a boy, and be | came, I believe, from Virginia. He | was a dark, eager youth, with a mop | of black shiny bair that he was always tossing back, bright glowing eyes, a great enthusiasm of manner and an Imagination alert to catch fire. The backwoodsman seemed attracted to the boy by this very quick and unso- phisticated bubbling of candid youth, | while the boy most evidently worship- ed his older companion as a symbol of the mysterious frontier. The north- erner was named Rogers, but was in- variably known as Yank. The south- | erner had some such name as Fairfax, but was called Johnny and later in California, for reasons that will ap- pear, Diamond Jack. Yank's distin- guishing feature was a long barreled "pea shooter" rifie. He never moved ten feet without it. i Johnny usually did most of the talk- ing when we were all gathered to | gether. Yank and I did the listening | and Talbot the interpellating. Johnny swarmed all over himself like a pick- | 1 shall be saustied with three hundred a day. Allowing 300 working | days to\the year, that gives me about v | A great majority of the passengers |W muscular labor, and one tremendous. Kentlgmen." ald 17° J SButi lof 6f us here aren't gentlemen. . | rifle, grinned faintly. | accepting gifts of | which there were a half a thousand or ~Q of these men was near, and he was so coldly and pointedly courteous that I would have slapped his confounded face if he had acted so to me. "Look here, Johnny," I said to him one day, "what's the matter with those fellows? They look all right to me. "hat do you know against them?" "] pever laid eyes on them before in my life, sir," be replied, stiffening per- ceptibly. "Take that kink out of your back," 1 warned him. "That won't work worth a cent with me!" He laughed. "1 beg pardon. They are not gentle- men." "I don't know what you mean by "It's a wide term. ®if you had broken my arm | should not have taken you." Far, far from it. But you seem to like us." He knit his brows. "I can't explain. They are the class of cheap pajitician that brings into dis- repute the chivairy of the south, sir." Talbot and 1 burst into a shout of laughter, and even Yank, leaning at- tentively on the long barrel of his pea We caught John- ny up on that word, and he was game enough to take it well. Whenever something particular had happened to | be also southern we called it the chiv- alry. The word caught hold, so that later it came to be applied as a gener- ic term to the southern" wing of venat politicians that early tried to control the new state of California. I must confess that if I had been Johnny I should have stepped more carefully with these men. They were a dark, suave lot and dressed well. In fact, they and a half dozen obviously | professional men aloue in all that ship wore what we would call civilized clothes. | do not know which was more incongruous, our own red shirts | or the top hats, flowing skirts and light pantaloons of these quietly courteous gentlemen. They were quite as well armed as ourselves, however, wearing their revolvers beneath their armpits or carrying short double pistols. They | treated Johnny with an ironically ex- | aggerated courtesy and paid little at- | tention to his high airs. | ous, however, that he was making en- | emies. It was obvi- Talbot Ward knew everybody aboard, from the captain down. His laughing, half aloof manner was very taking, | and his fronical comments on the vark ous points of discussion somehow con- veyed no sting. He was continually newspapers--of 80 brought aboard--with every appear ance of receiving a favor. These pa- pers he carried down to our tiny box of a room and added to his bundle. I supposed at the time he was doing all this on Moliere's principle, that one gains more popularity by accepting a favor than by bestowing one TH] Fit side tue smp. Sure euougnh, (IAL ASO was being lowered. So that we and a dozen who had made the same good guess, were, after all. the first to land We beached in the mud and were at once surrounded by a host of little, brown, clamorvus men. 'Talbot took charge and began to shoot hack Span- ish at a great rate. Some of the lit tle men had a few words of English. Our goods were seized and promptly disappeared in a dozen directions. 1 tried to prevent this, but could only collar one man at a time. All the Americans were swearing and threat ening at a great rate. I saw Johnny, tearing up the beach after a fleet na: tive, fall flat and full length in the mud, to the vast delight of all who be held. : Finally Talbot plowed his way tome. "-#It's all settled." said he. "I've made a bargain with my friend bere to take us up in his boat to Cruces for $15 apiece for four of us." "Well, if yon need two more, for heaven's sake rescue Johnny," 1 ad- vised. "He'll bave apoplexy." We hailed Johnny and explained matters. Johnny was somewhat put to it to attain his desired air of im- perturbable calm. "They've got every blistered thing I own and made off with it!" he cried. "Confound it, sir, I'm going to shoot every saddle colored hound in the place if I don't get back my belongings!" "They've got our stuff, too," 1 add- ed "Well, keep calm." advised Talbot "I don't know the game down bere, but it strikes me they can't get very far through these swamps. if they do try to steal. and I don't believe they're stealing anyway. The whole perform- ance to me bears a strong family re semblance to hotel runners. Here, compadre™ He talked a few moments with his boatman. "That's right." "Come on!" We walked along the little crescent of beach. looking into each of the boats in the long row drawn up on the shore. They were queer craft. dug out from the trunks of trees, with small decks in bow and stern, and with a low roof of palmetto leaves amidships. By the time we had reached the end of the row we had collected all our ef- fects. Our own boatman stowed them in his craft. Thereupon, our minds at rest, we re turned to the landing to enjoy the scene. The second ship's boat had beached, and the row was going on, worse than before. In the seething, cursing. shouting mass we caught sight of Yank's tall figure leaning imper- turbably on his rifle muzzie. We made our way to him. "Got your boat yet?" Talbot shouted at him. "Got nothin' yet but a headache in the ears," said Yank. "Come with us, then. Where's your plunder?" Yank stooped and swung to his shoul der a small bundle tied with ropes. "She's all thar," said he. These matters settled, we turned with considerable curiosity to the village it- self. It was all exotic, strange. Ev- erything was different, and we saw it through the eyes of youth and romance as epitomizing the storied tropics. Johnny and I wandered about com- pletely fascinated. Talbot and Yank did pot seem so impressed. Finally Talbot called a halt. "This is all very well. If vou kids like to look at yellow fever, blackjack and corruption, all right." said he "But we've got to start pretty soon after noon, and in the meantime where do we eat?" he told~us then. CHAPTER IV. A Tropical River, E returned through the town. It wa¥ now filled to overflow- ing' with our compatriots. They surged everywhere, full of comment and curiosity. The half naked men and women with the cigars and the wholly naked children and dogs seemed not iu the least disturbed nor enlivened. Talbot's earnest inquiries finally got us to the Crescent hotel. It was a hut exactly like all the rest save that it had a floor. From its name I suppose it must' have been kept by & white man, but we never got near enough through the crowd to find out. With- out Talbot we should have ggne hun- gry with many others, but he inquired around until we fofind a native willing to feel us. So we ate on an upturned bencoop outside a native hut. The wes consisted of pork. bread and wa- er. We strolled to the beach at the hour appointed with our boatman. He was not there, nor any other boatman. "Never mind." said Ward. "I'll know him if I see bim. I'll go look him up. You fellows find the boat with our things in it." He and I re-entered the village, but BAKIN # CONTAINS NO ALUM Users of this well known article have the assurance that food is made more wholesome and nutritious by its use. "Magic" is a pure phosphate baking known powder, and it is a well fact that phosphate is a necessary constituent in food, while alum is a dangerous min- eral ac id. 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The man stared. "None of your busi- ness," he replied. "They're askin' $20 a head," volun- teered one of the interested spectators. "Exactly. You see," said Talbot to us, "we got here a little too early. Our bargain was for only $15, and now this worthy citizen has made a better rate for himself." "You should have had the bargain immediately registered before the al- calde, senor," spoke up a white dressed Spaniard of the better class, probably from the castle. (Continued Next Saturday.) A A AA A AA ath TORONTO,ONT. a MONTREAL \ China Next. 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