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ides | tha captain remar Sopies i dy' a strange ting: wi they aid. the EE khiow 1h the | 850. ; LUWhat d'ye. think now, Captain Mead: he od pregency, slaneing up at ed [arn you back ed heartily. "Didn't I tell Xo ; appealing to us, "Didn't 1 ot li have 'been no laughing mat. ter for: us," the Sther remarked petulant. ly. "I have lost a good sea kit aud nearly Jost my life rg the bargain." "Do nnderstand you. to say," sald I, "that you attribute your misfortunes to your 1-fated - passen; a The; mate opened his e; af the ad- Jective. "Why ill-fated, re he asked "Becatiss - they' are most certainly angwered. credulovely and 'went on warming his 1 are ' neve irowned: "he pause. él father, the devil, after Adem. Did you ever eee them stand: ing'on the poop. and rolling cigarettes at aways 5 ae chet "Too extraordinary to be a "coincidence," growled the mate, "I saw them during the calm yesterday morning, he land over "our starboar: knew well "eno sag port 4 they were 'm ng. for. do' you make of it a, then, Hawkins?" aiked the oaptain 'with _ a tronbled face; "what is FOur.o own theory ob the matter yin my opinion," the. mate an- , "them three swabs gentle breese which among. the ivy leaves aro: was caused by the same ha ho 1: ghould have in "swallowing this here {nj grog. They had reasons o' their own for coming to this God«forsaken--eaving your presence, sirs--this God-foreaken. bay, and the time when the missen was carried] to away and the quarter boats stove? « That was enough for me. I'm not surprised at you lamdemen not being able to take it but the captain here, who's been sailing since he was the height of the binnacle, ought t0 know by this time that a oat' and a priest are the worst cargo I can carry. If a Christian priest is 1 guess an idola uh, Dagan one is fits times owas: ib 2 aid d¥hy ihe old re. fie fon, and y father hea Tr So A help. Ia Ww ing at the rough sailor's very unor dox way of proclaiming his orthodoxy, The mate, Nowsrer, was evidently in dead. ly "earnest, and proceeded to "state his oage, marking off the dffferent points Jeon. the rough ved fingers of his left t Kurrachee, directly after they I 'warnied y8," 'he maid, re-{the come, 'proachiully, to the eaptain.'. "There was three Buddhist Lascars in my watch, and what did they do when them Shaye come aboard? y, they. down on their stoms sachs and rubbed their noses on the dedk --that's 'what they 'did. They 'wouldn't dope aa much for an admiral of the | the R'yal Navy. They. know who's Ww these niggers do; and I smelled mischief the moment I saw them 'on their faces. 1 asked them afterward in your presence, captain, why they had done it, and answered that the .passengers were holy men. - You heard 'em yourself "Welly there's no harm 'in that, Hawk- ing," said' Captain Meadows. "I don't know at," the mate said, doubtfully. "The holiest Christian i8 the ore that's nearest God, but. the holiest nigger is, in my opinion, the one that's idea ©' the matter, tho Buddhist priests could find to do in the bay of Kirkmaidén ig' clean past my coms prehension." My father 'raised Ht eyebrows to indts cate the doubt pig in Jgemitality for bade him: sfrong words. I think, Sentieme d. 'that you are both dorely A, Test after your ilove. a. BEY Tt yom will follow me I ghall to your rooms." He condustéd 'them old-fashioned: cere. 0+ Pmony to the ads best spare bedroom, and then returning to me the parler, proposed ARS we should go down to- gether to the Heo and learn anything fresh The first pale hy of dawn wae just appearing in the east when we made. our way for. the second: time to the of shipwrevk.. The gale nad Mons: 1h itself out, but the sea was. till very high, an all ingide the breakers. was a ng, foo line of foam, as though the erce old ocean was knashing ite - white at the victims had ssuaped Reh ite" clutches, All yi 4 the 'beach fishermen and crofters. were hard at work hauling dp epars and: b fast as they were tossed ashore, Nope of them had: seen' any bodies, however; and they explained $0 us that only - stich they | things as- could float had ay. chance of | gy dr coming ashore, for Bndercurrent Was so strong that whate surface must infalli sea. As to the tunate passengers -hayini reach the shore these ractiond men would not hear of it for a mome: us: conclusively that if they WELL SHINED SHOES ARE THE FOUNDATION OF_GoOD ArpRARANCE GIVES A QUIGK, BRILLIART POLISH THAT LASTS EASY TO USE, GOOD FOR THE SHOES 10 Jackies 1. in a place of sal I 'noticed shine. rus of bi below filed 1 the Ee is der and' aoicabulations. Down in the hall I'fo up seeing me. to drive them 0 h were to Rove 10 Glasgow b ing rain, and uy father hi dere th: hat, each ghould dwiches an packer of | egRE sustain | on 2) ado Haaied ue Jormly du of hie employer we had Lreated oi "at three oh 8 xe very Seay aL hureaki wi ating javelin; smaller bein) pod nd awn 'up and ooll hd 'by gangs of peal nof that a couple of broad-win gulls were hovering and ekimming the beene of the shipwaeck "as tha uy strange things were sible 10 th Dencatl he Waves. A tinted we 00 hy in. Zaucons 3 a they what. thiey. saw. a leaky old oraft," said captain; Yooking eadly there's always a fee scene," I rer due that three fellows," said the tai, 4 Phoul d they be CARL TD 4 departure, I am