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The Laurens Advertiser. $1.^0 Per Year in Advance. OOooOOo' GO 'M real glad lo I??? n!>li l< call you 'captain.* n?: lud," said < >WCll I Let 1U ami Mrii ray, in delight ill his new promotion, wrung l>is uld eonr j mamlcr's lain.I afrain I "You've siav. .I hum 1 onough ms mal.," Kettle wen I < ? j "You've swonted and slaved s > inu I ; that your clothes hung on you like r I slop chest bhlrl on h stanchion Jui i | now. l'.nt you'll till 'cm OUl cicely hj ( the Ihne you Bot hnek t<> England again, my lud." The pnlr of them liked om- iinothet well, bul the lies of discipline hnd kepi them h'lly apart up lo now. Mur ray's pr motion pi.i them on nn equal fooling of grade. 'Mill iniug i lo- 1'arnheel doesn't seen; tt) have made you very plump, skip per." "Constitutional, I gues?," said Ketlle. "I don't I ' h. v.- ihn food's grown thiit'd Ilia ho me .any llosh. I'm one of those men ihnl w< re soul Into I ho world with a whole shipload of bad luck to Work through before I ctiiuo across any ol the SOfl I hitlgS." "Vou havetri iiuieli to grumble nl now. said Murray cheerfully. "Here am I k'ekiug you oui of the cominmu] of the t'aiakci t. lo be ?ure. And Wby1 llei u s,, w Idle > u've beeil hi ?. old man you'vC inilde her pay so well thai the ilrvuVi saved enough lo hoy a bigger ship. They're naturally going lo give iic-r to yi n lo scare up more fat divi dends. Lord." said Murray, bitting Ida |;i ee. "the > -haps oil heard here will be eailing me the 'old man' behind my hai l< iut\v." "You'll !."?.? used to hearing the title," sa I K lile grimly, ''liefere you make v pr p i.-. ' ""'II get married, l sup p i?, ..a (he- strength of Iho promotion. I a a glrl'ii photo nailed up In your roi :n " 'the new eapialn nodded, "(lot cn< gip'ed when I passed for my master's (I* ... i. vrrtiligc 1 to tic hitched so soon as i I'oend si ?'?'??I- Well, t suppose you ? slialiihl liouie by mall from Aden her. V" "'Iclltd 'lav n'i they told you?" ion. - was only the dry. formal ai ? ? id t'aal y m were promoted l. i ? e. v. idp aiul I was to take over !!,<? Ihiraln el " ?Tbej don'l waste ihelr typewriter i,t !?..- oi-'fe- i suppose they thought p., ! ami mi luv i- tier >'<?' I sa .. lit. Itcad Ihroi gh Hail." sal i K< nie and handed aerdi t !ii i t'WM Nils Is how it ran: \ :u ( l|.t.il?i ::.? '.? ii.'toi from yimf ml . i I ii'i Ii* y ?? arc liiiiMiiit a k.l Illing f..i . -a "I ma '.!>ir tll? t'.iiakivt, wo linvo 1.1. .. ? -. > i- in ton' i.ni'-.; \ mi 10 our now boat Wbl'll 1- IIOW '.iii\' "ii II " ? ly.l... Sli.' will lit S.?????> I Olli?, illl ' VVl- ?:?.?> Illkl' Olli IKISSOIIHOr ..'llifi fill.?. \. -ur ?.:;? "ii lirr will I"- ?21 |'<T montll* w\ 'i i'ii' cent . nitiilsslon, iis before, but t<>r ti.i- |irrst'ilt, on iliis new i?? -;it is finished, wo want j?u lo give nycr ? inmiinil <>( the I'arakcct Id M.in.o :i,;.i .ii a now Job. our Mr. Alexander I:ir.I has rrroiili) I.ght Hie wreck of tlid Meant' ililp t.n ? ian, an ' wu arc sending out u steamer with .iio-rs iiml lull equipment lo get tho salvage. \Vo with v? >n i" go oil bi na ibla vessel tq watch ovvr our linen ??? Wo the you Cull control and bnvo notified < ipt itn Tazzuctii, at present in com mand, to Ibis > lb ? t. "Birds are getting on," said Murray. "Ulli I've bl? doubts about three new boats all ai one Iiite. One they might manage en a mortgage. Hut three? I don'l lltlllft It. uld lkey's too can ti m ." "Messrs. Bird are your owners aim u.lne." - lid Kettle significantly, "Oh," sa!.! the newly made eaptaln, 'Til ii'i inn of your old fash toned sort thill Ihillks an oWl. Ilttlo Jin god!'' ??.My view is." Mild Kettle, "that your owner pays you and so is entitled tu jour respect so long as he is your own er, hm you've got such a hlg notion of your own rights that we're not likely "How do yon think those crafty impx have managed it/" lie cried, to ugroo. Besides, you've got to check my accounts hnd sei' I've left It all for you shipshape. See you again before 1 go away, and we'll have a drop of Whisky together lo wish tho Para keet's new 'old man' a pile of luck." ******* At the edge of the harbor Aden bak ed under the sun. The salvage steam er rolled at her anchor at the opposite Hide of tho harbor, ami Kettle and two portmanteaus w re transshipped direct In one of the Parakeet's boats. lie was received on board by nn af fablo Italian, who Introduced himself as Captain Tnzzuchl, The man spoke perfect English am] was hospitably personified, Tnzzuchl put tho best .oom in the ship at his guest's dis posal and Bllld that anything that could net for tils comfort should be clone forthwith. "Y'know, captain," said Tnzzuchl. "this Ih what you rail a 'dago' ship. And wo servo out country wine na n regular ration. Hot I thought perhaps you'd like your own home ways host, find so 1'vo ordered the ship's chandler ??bore to send off a easo of Scotch. fthdT aent'ioHo for pome London p"le" kles. I know how you English like your pickles." In fact, all that a man could do In |ho way of outward attention TflZ BUCbl did, but somehow or other Clip? tain Kettle got a suspicion of him from the very first moment of their meeting. Perhaps tt was hecause the civility wns a Ilttlo unexpected and oven effu sive. Putting himself In the Italian's place, Kettle certainly would not have gone out of hin way to tie pleasant to a foreigner who was sent practically to supersede him In command. But perhaps a second letter which bo had received hnd something to do with thin hostile feeling. It was from the same baud which hnd written the JJrm's^formal letter, hut It was com h. d in ?iii 11o .'i different vein, Isaac Hlrd was i vldontl) Beared for his \ *ry com* mcrclnl existence, und ho thrust out IPs arm? to Kettle ?>n paper iik his only . savior, li seemed that Aloxaudcr Itlrd, tho younger brother, had been running a little wild of late. Tho wreck of the IJ reel an had been put up to auction, Alexander strolled Into , the room by accident and bought at an ' exorbitant llgure. Ho came ond au-I uounccd bin purchase to Isaac, declnr- j lug it us an I nut Mice of bis hue busi ness Instincts. Isaac BOt It down to whisky, and recriminations followed. 1 Alexander In a huff said bo would g-> OUt and overlook the BUlvagO opera- I Hons In person. Hut forthwith Alex- I under, still In Ms cups, gets to brawl- | lug and is next discovered In hospital i with a broken thigh. | ??I have found Alexander's depart ment Of Hie business very tllUglcd," j wrote Isaac, "and the thought of this new complication drove me near crazy. Salvage is out of our line. Alexander ; should never have touched It. But there It Is; money paid, It lid I've had to borrow. And eugaglng that Italian tlrni for the Job wa s the best t til iik 1 could manage. W hat (Cngllsh firms i wanted was out of till reason. I don't Wonder at Lloyd's selling wrecks for anything they will fetch, a pittance In cash Is belter than Kettln? Into the hands of those sharks. And what ?nur- j unter have I that the firm will see even the money out pa hl agnin, let alone rea sonable Interest? None." There wore aeveral words erased here, ami the writer went on with what was evidently considered a dramatic llulsh. "'But stay,' 1 say to myself. 'You 1 uvo Kettle, lie 's down In the Bed sj ii now doing well, um had nil along intended lo promote him. Do It now und net hllu to overlook this Italian sal vane firm while the new boat Is building. He Is the one to see that Isaac Bird's foot doth not full, for Cap tain O. Kettle Is a godly man also'" The letter w:vs shut off conventional ly enough with the statement thai the writer was Captain Keith's truly and ended In a postscrlplutn tag to the ef fect that the envoy should still draw bis 21 ; per cent oil net results. The ac tual llgures had evidently not been con ceded without ii mental wrench, as the era ion beneath them showed. However, although In his recent pros perity Kettle had assumed a hatred for risks und bred a strong dislike for all those commercial adventures which lay beyond the ordinary rut and routine Of trade, he took up his duties on tho salvage steamer with a stout heart and a cheerful estimate for the future. Murray tooted him cheerful farewella on the Parakeet's siren as the llttlo Italian Btllvtlgc boat steamed out of Aden harbor, and ensigns were dipped with due formality. Taziucbl was all hospitality. He Invited Kettle to dam ago his palate with a black Italian "Vlrglula" cigar with a Btraw up tho middle; he uncorked n bottle of the Scotch whisky and put It ready for ref erence when his guest should feel a thirst. Kettle accepted It all with a dry civility, lie had every expectation of upsetting this man's plans for robbery later on. Though it was Tnzzuchl who presented the Virginias, ho took It for gruuird that Messrs. Bird, Hlrd & Co. had paid for them, and he was not averse to accepting a little luxury from the Urui. The wreck of the Grecian was out of the usual steam lane. She had, It ap peared, got off her course lu n fog, two of her compartments had been stove In, and then she had been steered for the shore lu the wild attempt to bench her before she sank. She had ceased lloat lug, however, with some suddenness, and when the critical moment came not ail of her people managed to scrape off with their lives In the boats. Those that got away found themselves In n g.-ilo, mid when they were picked Up could only give hei whereabouts vngue ly However, they slated that the Gre cian's mast trucks remained above the water surface, and this filet was brought out strongly by the auctioneer who sold the wreck nnd hnd due Influ ence on ihe enterprising Alexander. The salvage steamer wandered for several days nmoug an Intensely dan gerous archipelago und many times over hnd narrow escapes from piling up her bones on one or another of those reefs with which the Hed sea In that quarter abounds. Tnzzuchl navigated tier In an ecstasy of nervousness, ami Kettle, w ho regarded himself as a pas senger for tho time being, kept a pri vate store of food and water bottles handy und saw that one of Ihe quarter boats was ready for hurried lowering. Hut nowhere did they see those uiuel talked about mast trucks. They did not Right so much as a scrap of float Ing w reckage. Thin seemed, however, a good many dhow coasters dodging about In nnd among tho reofp, and from these Ket tle presently drew a deduction. "book here.*" he said to Tazzucbl one morning, "w hat prevents those gentry ashoro from having found the wreck already? I guess they aren't out hero taking week end trippers for sixpenny yachting cruises." "No." si:WI Tnzzuchl, "and they are not fishing." "Well, I give you the tip for whnt It's worth," said Kettle, nnd that afternoon the steamer was run up alongside a dhow, which tried desperately to es cape. Her captain was dragged on board, nnd at that Juncture Captain Kottle took upon himself to go below. Ho knew what would probably take place, and. I hough he disapproved of such mctjjods strongly, h0 felt he could 1 ^?C$<i Rt - - ? ?/' tt; II Ii tf 4 The BhoVel jarred against something solid ,_ underfoot, not Interfere. But presently came a notso of hol lowing from ihe deck ubovo, nnd then that wns followed by shrill screams as tho upper gamut of agony was reached. Kettle was prepared for rough han dling, but at Information gained by ab solute torture he drew the line. It was clear thai these cruel beggara of Ital ians were going too far. "By James," ho muttered to himself, "owners or no owners, I can't stand this!" And ho started hurriedly to go back to tho deck. But beforo be reach ed tho head of * be companion war the I erics of i>:iIii censed, and so he Blood where be was on the Btalr und waited. | The engines rumbled, and the steamer once more gathered way. A clamor of | barbaric voices reached Id in wbleli gradually died Into quietude. It was clear they were leaving the dhow be hind Captain Kettle drew a long breath. They would Btlek at little, these dagos. In getting the salvage of the Grecian, ami It seemed preposterous to suppose that once they gripped the specie In their own fingers they would ever give it up for the paltry pay which had been offered by Bird, Bird & Co. Their own poverty was aching. Still, the poverty of these Italians was no con corn of Ids. Tl?',v were paid servants of the owners, and It was his duty to see that they earned their hire. He took It that he was one against the whole ship's company, but the odds did not daunt Ulm. On the contrary, his I old lighting spirit, which had been of 1 late hustled into the background b.V 1 Htnug commercial prosperity, came back to him. And. besides, he had al- i ways tit his call that exqulsito pride of j race which has so many times given i victory to tbe Anglo-Saxon over tho Latin. By a sort of Instinct he buttoned up his trim white drill coat and stepped out on deck. There would be no BCUille yet awhile. With the specie yet snug ly stored on the sea tloor. the dirty, untidy Italians were still all affability. Indeed, as soon as he appeared, Tne> BUChl himself stepped down off the upper bridge to give him the news, i "How do you think those craft\ hups have managed ItV" he cried, with a gesture. "Why, they dived down | and cut off her masts below water level. The funnel was out of sight al ready. They Just thought they were going to have tho skimming of that wreck themselves. No wonder we couldn't pick her up." "Cute beggars," said Kettle. "I've begged a pilot. It' be takes us there straight, he gotB backshoesh. 1 think," %ald Captain Tazzuohl. with a wide smile, ' that he'll toko us tbero the quickest road." "Shouldn't wonder," said Kettle. "Hut don't bo surprised if his friends come round and make things ugly." "Let them come. We were ready for this sort of entertainment when we sailed. If there la tiny trouble, we shall shoot, and If we begin that game we shall Just Imagine they are Abysslnl ans and shoot to kill." Under the black captive's guidance the salvage steamer soon put a term to her search. For two more hou-s she threaded her way among sort which broke over unseen reel's and swung round the capes of a rocky archipelago, and then the pilot gave Ids word, and tho engines were stopped, and a rusty cable roared out till an anchor had got hold of the ground. A boat was low ered away with air pump already stepped amidships, ami the boat's crew with eager hands assisted the (liver lo make Ids toilet. "Your ediaps seem keen cm ugh." said Kettle as tie watched the trull of air bubbles which showed the man's prog Toss on the sea door below. "They have each got a stake lu the venture." "I bet they have." was Kettle's grim comment to himself. The kidnaped skipper of the dh< w seemed, hnd done hs pl.'otngi wu\ n flno accuracy. The salvage >n .?. had been anchored in a good po.i ami between lliem two divert, -.n ; boats found the Cteclan's wreck In i. an hour. They came up to the ait foi a qi at ter of an hour's spi ll and made Iben announcement, ami then the copper hel m< ts were elapp? tl into place again. v? i otieo more they faded away Into tl: depths. A gabble . f excited ItnlhMi: ki pt pnee to the turning of the a!r pumps, and of that language K i:'. know barely n score ?>( w ?rds. r . tit ally tin c people might have woavod nay kind < f a plot noisily and under his very nose without his boln.-, any the Wiser, ami this possibility did little to quell his suspicions. But still Tu;c/.uehl was all outward frankness. "It's as well we brought out this little steamboat Just to skim the Wieck and survey her," he said. "If they'd wnlted to lit out a big salvage expedition to nttse her straight off, I reckon there wouldn't have been much left but Iron plates Mid real bunkers. These Red sea niggers are pretty useful at looting, once thty sunt. The bog gars ran dive pretty nearly as well and ns long In their naked skins as their betters can in a proper diving suit." Each time the divers cam ? up from the opaque white water they brought more reports. Binnacles, Wlilf tie, wheels and all movable deck Attings were gone already. The chartMOUSC had been loot ed down to the bare hoards. Hatches were off both forward and aft, ami al ready the enreo had begun to diminish. The black men of the district had been making good use of their time. News came from the coo' mysterious water to the baking region of air above almost at the second hour of the search that the Grecian could never be re floated, In addition to the holes al ready made In two of tier compart ments, she had settled on a sharp Jug of rock, which hnd pierced her In a third place, aft. This one piece of rook was the only solid spot In the neighbor hood. All the rest of the sea floor was pulpy white clay, and In this the unfor tunate wreck had settled till already It was Hush with her lower decks. There were evidences, too, that the ooze was creeping higher every day, so that all that remained was to strip her as quick' ly as might be before she was swallow ed up. Tnzzuchl asked Captain Kettle for his opinion that night while In the chart h..;e;e. "I'm to be guided by yon, of course," he said, "but my idea Ib that we should go for the specie first thing and let everything else slide till that's snugly on board here. Birds gave CM?U for the wreck, and there's ?8.000 In cash down there In a room they bullt specially for it over tho shaft tunnel. If we can grab tlint. It win pay our expenses and commission and all the other actual outlay, and Birds will be out of the wood." "Yes," thought Kettle; "you want those gold boxes lu your hands, you blessed dago, and then you'll begin to play your monkey tricks. I wonder If you think you're going to Jam o knife Into me by way of making things snug and safe?" Hut nlotid he expressed agreement to Cnptnln Tazztiehl's plan. He felt that ttds was diplomacy, and, though tho diplomatic art was new nud strango to him, he told himself that it was tho correct weapon to use under the cir cumstances. He had risen out of his old grade of hole and corner shipmas ter. He was a captain In a regnlar lino now, and wild tllghts and scrimmages wero beneath tho dignity of bis posi tion. Accordingly, as soon as dawn gave a waking light tho boats put out ngaln, and the divers were given orders to put all melr efforts into gotttng the specie boxes on to the end of the sal- j .voge sten iner's winch chain. A lot of dbowa. sere showing b^rA and JLhfifj* ... . v v.a . among tlio roofs, obviously watcumg thorn, ami Tazzuchl wns beginning to get nervous. i "We're In for trouble. I'm afraid." be Bald to Kettle. "That rock on which she's settled iistern lias mitde a hole lu her you could drive a cart through." "Well?" "Didn't you hear the report the>y'vo Just sung off from the boats? Ob. I forgot; you don't understand Italian. Well, the news is that the rock's split a hole In Ihe bottom of ihe strong room, nnd those gold boxes have toppled through." "And burled themselves In the Slime?" "That's It. And Lord knows how many feet they've sunk. It's dreadful I Btuff to dig among; slides in on you bb soon us you start to dig and levels up. They'll have to brattice as they work. It'll be a big Job." All that day Kettle watched the sea with an anxious eye. From below tho mud came lip in white billows, and out beyond, In ami niilOllg the reefs and aloug the distant shore, swung ami shimmered m the heat ha20 hungry dhows prowling like carrion birds tem porarily driven away from a prey. Tazzuchl anil the chief engineer bus led themselves in binding together fragments of lire bars with Iron wire. The Italian shipmaster had a great no tion of the damage Ills Signal guns could do against a dhow If they were provided with orthodox solid shot. As boon as the second night came down and tho dark noes became fairly fixed in hue there begun lo crackle out of the distance u desultory rlflo lire from every quarter of the compass. It was not very heavy. At the outside there j were not a score of weapons tiring, but It was annoying fur all that, and as i I the marks tuen and their vessels were completely swallowed up by the black ness of the night it was Impossible to repay their compliments In kind. Morning showed the da ma go of one port window BtUUShcd, two panes gone from the engine room skylight and the air pump In one of the boats alongside with a plunger neatly cut Into iwo pieces, but lhen- was a spare air pump In store, ami after dawn came work went on as usual. The dhows came no nearer; neither did they go much far ther away. Tnzzuchl, full of enthusl asm for his artillery, tried a carefully aimed shot at one of the largest, but the explosion was quite outdone lu noise by the cackle wf laughter which followed It. So slow was the flight ol tlio missile Unit Ibv eye coulU trace n. Js<. short wns Its J ilirney and so curved Iis trajectory lim I it came very near lo hilling one of the beata of ihe divers. "Well,* thought Kettle, "these are ' pretty cool hands for dllgos anyway, l'i i going to have a fine tough time of it when my pari of the Hcirtllo comes." Tl III night he had it still further taste of tlu-lr quality. So soon ns darkness fell the dhows closed In again and re Commenced llWIr sniping. They kept under way. lltld so It did little enough lc o<l to aim back nt the Hashes. Hut Tnzzuchl and half u dozen keen spir it' e.ot down Into one of the boats with their rllles and knives nnd a drum of paraffin and pulled away silently Into the blackness. Tluvre was silence for quite half nn hour, nnd Ihe suspense on Ihe anchored stearner was vivid enough to have shaken trained men, Yet these Italian artificers and merchant seamen seemed lo take it as coolly as thou .h such sur libs were an everyday occurrence. Hut in the end of ihat lime there was a splutter of shots, a few faint squeals, and then n bonfire II :hted up away in the darkness. The I laze grew rapidly lied showed In Its heart the outline of a dhow with human figures oil It. With promptness every man on the steamer emptied his rlllc nt thfc murk and con tinned Ihe fusillade till the dllOW was deserted. TnzzUehl and Ids friends returned In the boat safe and jubilant, and for tho rest of ihai ? Ight the little salvage steamer was left*in quietude. With Ihe next dnybroii!: Ihe divers and their at tendants once more (died themselves to labor. Kettle ns he watched was amaz ed to .see the energy they put Into It. Certainly they seemed keen enough to get the specie weighed and on board. Whatever ihe piratical plans Uioy had got made dp were evidently for after w ai d. Hut when d i v nfler day passed and none of ihe treasure was brought lo the surface ho began n. modify ibis original opinion Tnzzuchl, ran. luting the divers' i i,rts, ;iid thai l! >? call c of ihe dein; a-ns the * ifiuess of ihe sen floor i ,. heavy chests hnd sunk dt. ;? im 11he .d; .-. and din ctly n spade M I of I he lie;-;; ?? *! was dug away mere slid III lu till Ihe gip. Of course till i inlghl I e true, hot suspicion had poi so dei p .i hold on Captain Keltic's n lu I In- Iit-f, .-i ti) cudgel Ids brain for seme new method by which the Ind ians could s rve his purpose, lie put himself BUpposllilloiisly In Tnzznchi's place and mnde piratical theories by the score Most of them lie had to dis miss nfler examination as Impractica ble, but finally one stood out beyond nil the rest. For one thing, It did not want many participants, only the actual divers nnd Tazzuchl himself. For another, It would not brand the whole gang of them us criminals and pirates, but, properly managed, would make theiii rh'U without any advertised Sliglllll i r still ii. In simple words, the method wns this: The gold boxes must be ie moved from their original silo and hid fien elsewhere under the water close ut band. The friendly BlltUC would bury them snugly out of sight. The old ie port of "un get-at-able" would be ad hered to, and finally the steamer would give up further salvage operations ns hopeless ami Steam away to port. There TazZUChl and his friends would charter n sinnll vessel of their own and go back for the plunder. Kettle felt all nn unimaginative man's complacency in fowctlng out such a dramatic scheme and began to think next upon the somewhat Im portant detail of how to get proofs be fore ho Commenced lo frustrate It. Oha nee seemed to make Tazzuchl play Into his hand. The air pump which had been damaged by the rlllc bullet had been mended by the Steamer's ell glneers, and as there were two or three spare diving dresses on the Ship Captain Tazzuchl expressed his Inten tion of making a descent In person to Inspect the progress. "I didn't do It before because i didn't want to make the men break time. Will you come off in the boat with me, captain, and hand my lifo lino'/" "I'll borrow one of those spare dresses nnd shnre the pump with you," said Kettle. Tazzuchl wan visibly startled. "What do you mean?" "The pump will give air for two, and I'm coining down with you." "But you know nothing about div ing, nnd you mny have nn accident" "Oh. I'll risk that. You must nurs ery maid mo n bit." Tazzuchl lowered his voice. "To toll | tho truth, I'm going to pny a surprise visit. I waut to make sure those chaps 1 below are doing the squaro thing. If they aren't, there'll a row, ami TOO MUCH iSxercise is as bad as too little for the growing girl. It is very easy for bei to overdo, and this is especially dangerous nt that critical period of a young girl's life when she crosses the Hue of woman hood, it Is not an "^^^^^ months i suffered with feinnlr trouble," writes Miss Agnes M.c.owue of l.'t.? U ink Sll*H. WnshiiiKt"". J> 1 ? " 1 o led various remedies, but none seemed to dp me. ??y permanent pood. The doctors said It was the worst case of Internal trouble they ever baa 1 decided to write to you for help, I received a very encouraging reply and commenced ireat I metlt B? ?nee. I had not us.? vom ?'avorUC Prescription' a weck ??efore i hegan lo kc better, and, as t continued, my health gradually Improved, and is Improving every day." Dr. Tierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R, V. Pierce, buffalo, N. Y._ they'll use their ludves." "H'lill" said Kettle. "I've got do use tor your local weapon as a general thing, but at a pinch like this I'll bor row a knife of you. and If becomes to any one cutting my air tube you'll Und I can use It pretty mischievously." "I wish you wouldn't Insist on this," said Tnzzuchl persuasively. 'Tin going to. anyway." "Pin going down merely because It's my duty." "That's the very same reason that's Uiklng ine, captain. I must ask you not to make any more objections. I'm a man that never changes his mind, once It's made up." Whereupon Tnzzuchl shrugged his shoulders and gave way. "Now," thought Kettle to himself, "that man's made up his mind to kill me If he gets a glimmer of a chance, and, as I'm not going to get wiped out this Journey, he'll do with a lot of watching." Captain Owen Kettle's nerve anil In domitable courage were never more se verely tried than In this voluntary de scent In the diving dress. The world beneath the waters was strange and dangerous to htm; his companion wus a man against wTiom ItO Held nie black est suspicion; the men at the pump (whoso language he did not understand) might at any moment out off his air supply and leave htm to drown like a puppy under n bucket. They hung the weights over his chest and back, and Taxzuchl signed to htm to descend. Kettle hitched round tho sheath knife to the front of Ids belt and signed, with politeness, "After you." Tnzzuchl did not argue the matter. He got tm the ladder and climbed down out of sight. Kettle followed. The chill of the water crept up and closed Over his head, lie reached the end of the ladder, slid down a rope, and w hen he reached the bottom he sank up to his knees m Inpnlpahlc mud. He could foggily seo Tazzuclll a few paces away waiting for him, and he went up ti ll Im at euro. If the men In the boat, acting on orders, cut his air tube. In wanted to be In a position to cut Captain Tnzzuchl's also with prompt ness. However, everything went peacefully Just then. The Italian set off down a track In the slime, ami Kettle waded laboriously alter him. It was terrible Work making a passage through that white, glutinous ooze, but they came te tin.' wreck directly and. working round her rusted llailk, st.I beside ii great shallow pit, where two weird looking, gray sea monsters showed In dim out line through the dense fog of the wa ter. Tlt<> two newcomers stood for long enough before the two workers ob served them. Rut one chanced to look up and see them watching and Jogged the other with Ills spade, and then both frantically beckoned the visitors to come down Into the pit. Tnzzuchl led, and Kettle followed, wallowing down the slopes of slime, am) there at the bottom. In the dim, milky light, one of the professional divers slipped a shovel into his hand and thrust it down till it jarred against something solid underfoot. It was clear they had come upon the gold boxes, and they wished to Impress upon the visitors, In underwater dumb show of triumph, that the lind had only been made Ihui very minute. Ponder Ultily booted feet did a dance of ecstasy In three feel of gluey mud, and mean while Keltic, witli a hand on the halt of his knll'tv edged away from this un canny demonstration lest some one Should slit Ids air lube before hi" could prevent It. lie bad seen What he wanted; he had no reilSOU to wait longer. The gold boxes .voie iliefe, ami if they were not brought lo the surface and carried hon estly to Hues! the matter would have to ho fought mit above in Cod's open air and not in that horrible, choking quag mire of slime and water. And so. still guarding himself ennnlly, he got back again to the boat ami almost had It In 111 111 to shake hands with the men who eased him of that Intolerable helmet. Now, far be it from mo to raise even a suspicion that Captain Owen Kettle resented the fact that llC*tUld been rob bed of a scutlle when the little salvage stcnmor.aetunlly did bring up in Suez harbor with the specie honestly locked In one of her staterooms. Hut that he was violently angry he admits himself without qualification. He says he l ick <d himself for being such a bad Judge of men. The 1'aKill;ret was !n there when they arrived, rohnnkcrlug for the run home, and Murray came off as fust as a crow could drive Ids boats to Inquire the news. He accosted Tazzuchl With a vigorous handshake and a "Hello, Klzz-hookey. old man! How goes It? Who'd have thought of seeing you hero? Howdy. Captain Kettle? Had good tlshlng?" "Do you know Captain TozzuchlV" "Somewhat. Why, wo were both boys on the Conway together." "You'ro making some mistake. Cop- 1 tain Tazzuehl Is on Italian." "Oh, am I?" said Tazzuchl. "Not ' much of tho dago about mo except the name." i "Well, you never told mo that bo fore." "You never asked mo that I know of. 1 speak about enough of tho lingo to cajrrjr .onjlutjLiffltb, ajd \ g^rye o^au _ . .1 Italian ship "because I could 111 get n i skipper's billot "ii anything else. But I'm ns Kugllsh as either of yon. Great Scott! Captnlu Kettle, can't you tell a dago yet for Btiro?" Murray laughed. "Well, come across and discuss it in the Parakeet. I've g"t a case of chainpugue on board to wet my new ticket." "stny half a minute," said Tazzuchl; "We'll Just get these boxes of geld do\VU Into your beat. Murray, and ferry them across. They're too big a temptation to leave handy for the crew there Is otl board here" "l'hew!" KOkl Kettle. "It's hot here In Suez! Creat .lames! To think of the way I've been sweating aboard this 1 blame ship without a sera,) of need of 1 It. Here, hurry up with the lucre box- i es. I want to u<-t across to the old Par- 1 akeet and wash tho taste of a lot of I things out of my mouth." TH? WEST VIRGINIA. STORM An Eye-Witness Describes the | Destruction of Keystone a Min ing Town. The following Btoty is told by an eve-win ess of the creat llootl in West Virginia: " Keystone is the metropolis of the Klkhorn milling country. It has but 0110 narrow street, and because ol bunted space many buildings worn built on piles or walls over the Klk horn, or close, up against the moun tains. The town follows the meander ing.** of the. stream for n mile. o On Friday at 11 o'clock tbu storm struck tho mountain, and loi six hours rain descended in torrents. At day break the lllOUBnnd8 of people along the Klkhorn and its tributaries rea i/.ed what a great flood was upon I hem, but they little susnoclcd the disaster snou to follow. Hy '.i a. in. the narrow valiey was u raging, seething, angry torrent. Houses, barns, bridges, fills, livestock and human beings were swept away by the mighty current and dashed on the rocks or It'COS below. u] was an eye?witncB8 of the disaster al Ki /Stone, being a guest a' the Na tional hotel. This hotel laics the mountain, with a narrow spot between it and the building on the mountain side of the street. At the llrst Wain lii r many of the inhabitants took re fuge on the. mountain side overlooker, the town ami river. More than Inn people, however,remained in the |o%vn to look after the women and chihlr. n who ilid not escape early. The brh'gi leading lo the depot was soon sw? pi away; then the angry waters rushc' through Ihe street in the town and w ? found hundicdscut oil' from the. inoti ? tain retreat and the hotel was inn-l fa<t to the telephone poles by me., of a line. Hundreds ol lives weie saved. Hut in iilleinpting to cro.*s the muddy, surging Wittels winch swept like an avalanche down till* street many lost their hold, ami in plain sight of friends were earned on into lln; river ami d row lied. Houses plung cd and danced in the mighty stream, with screaming women ami children on the roofs. II uses, entile and other animals went down in ill ves and sin gly struggling lor Hie. " The Norfolk and Western railroad till at Ibis place gave way ami more than a mile of track now lies in the bed of the river, while large I) I Is on either side arc all gone; in fact, it is hard to tell how many miles of track and how many bridges have been swept away. The destruction is disastrous a id it may be many days ami weeks before trains can be run. The loss of life cannot be estimated from here. Fight lives were, lost here. Six bodies have been recovered at Fckni in. tw Hilles below here. Several were diowned at Shawnct and a good part of the town swept away. "All the women were conveyed from the llOtol to Ihe in untain side b\ [ means of the life line. Tin n the men , left, as the place was unsafe. When it came my (urn I seized the line ami plunged in Ihe muddy current. In nn instant my feet wen; swept from under me and il was the light of my life to I reach the house on the south side, ol Street. The distance was not great and the water not more than three feel ' deep, ! .it the current was almost I irresistible, and even cows and horses were swept past me as I ( lung to the rope, which was the only hope. Friendly hands pulled mo out more (Tend lhan alive. The hotel is slid standing." SENSATIONAL INCIDKNT* OK TIIK II. (loo. Minefield is the. great shipping point for the Pocnbontas coal coining east. If is said there Unit the coal fields will not be able to ship out any coal for '.he next thirty day. It is.tllOllgllt at Blue field that the loss of life will be in tin neighborhood of sixty. The coal trade will stiller almost incalculable loss as a result of Ihe washed otll tracks and damage to their machinery. A gen tloman from the stricken seel ion gives an explanation of the report first cir culated, that great masses of human bodies were lo be seen floating around in the water. It seems thai there is a grave yard belwuuu Norlhfork Jute lion and Keystone, which towns are about a mile apart, and al which pel. . the storm was very severe. This gravi yard is near the hank of li e river which caused the great destruction. Whin the Hood came the. graves gave up their dead and added greatly to the bodies seen. Tnzewell, Va., also suffered from the cloudburst. The house of Paris "My hair was falling out and turning gray very fast. Hut your Hair Vigor stopped the falling and restored the natural color."?Mrs. E. Z. Iknommc, Cohocs, N. Y. It's impossible for you not to look old, with the color of seventy years in your hair! Perhaps you are seventy, and you like your gray hair! 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Another member of tho family died on Wednesday afternoon, and Mrs. Van Dyke issiil! unconscious and cannot live. At Keystone the streets are washed an I dohris is everywhere; lloors ol the buildings standing are covered with mud, iiml water has been all over the town to a considerable depth. Had it not been for the jamming of three or four buildings at the upper end, near the suspension bridge, no d< ubl the on tiro properly of the town would be a total loss, .lust opposite. Calhoiin's buildings, mi Ihe other side of Ihe crick, all houses weio entirely swept away, including ihe most of IJclchor town. I'roporty is undermined and badly damaged at Burke. The whole lill, on which the two tracks pass through Keystone, is entirely gene, track and all. The wagon bridge and the coal company bouses on Ihe com pany's side are also gone, and the. building known as "The First (. banco" sal ion is demolished. 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