Pluck and Luck #139: Jack Wright and His Deep Sea Monitor — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Instantly turning the Sea Serpent, he drove it slowly into x the opening, and she passed out from behind the reef. ; A cheer burst from our friends as soon as they found the Sea _ Serpent in clear water, and the young inventor headed his eraft for the flying schooner. ma Extra speed was put on, and she began to rapidly overhaul the Terror, when the pirate, in a fit of desperation, drove his eraft in shoreward. She struck with a terrible crash upon the hidden reef, a ; Bee was stove in her hull, and the bow rising, lifted her be ~ out of the water upon the coral. 4 There she hung, her stern submerged, and her broken bow _ hanging upon the reef, a hopeless wreck. % Down went her quarter boats, in tumbled the crew, and away some of them went for shore. Up to the wreck dashed the monitor like lightning, and upon a seeing Blackbeard yet on her deck, Jack shouted: “Surrender, or we will blow your craft to pieces!” “Never!” yelled the big rascal, defiantly. . Jack brought the monitor to a pause a few yards from the - schooner, and he was just about to open fire upon the rest of a the ‘piratical crew when the cabin door of the Terror burst _ open, and a man rushed out. He was Kellenda Mixitli, the Carib. _ Having followed the schooner in his other vessel, he at- ‘The Carib looked like a veritable fiend. He picket up a belaying pin, and, rushing across the slant- i ing deck, he pe tae gag te with the ferocity of a demon, ‘in ahee hand, and plunged it in “the Carib’s heart. “Oh, God!” shrieked Mixitli. “I’m killed!” — “May the arch fiend take your soul!” hissed the pirate. ‘ - ‘He flung the Carib from him and swam away. s Mixitli sank beneath the waves forever. _ “Fire upon Blackbeard!” cried Jack. 2 tm and Fritz cupid out on-the pilot-house on the turret we kill them?” the eee asked. ir gm 2 ber roped the boy. “They can’t defend themselves now. ‘we order by return mail. “Let the rascals live. Sooner or later their many crimes will find them out, and be expiated on the gallows.” “Vot aboud dot schooner?” asked Fritz, anxiously. “She will never serve their purpose again. I’ll blow her up. ” “Blast thar timbers, they’ve all mane but that ’ere Carib! 7 growled Tim, taking a big chew of navy plug. Jack backed the Sea Serpent away from the Terror, and, aiming one of his guns at her, he fired a shot. The schooner was blown to atoms. Jack Wright was satisfied at last: | ie “Mixitli is dead!” he exclaimed. “Blackbeard’s craft is de- stroyed. The stronghold and fleet of the pirates of Ruatan are blown up, and we have got the ton of gold we were in search of. There is nothing to keep. us here any longer. Now, what say. you, my friends, to return home and enjoy the fruits of our jJabor?” “Yea, verily, my Christian friend!” , OST. Tip Re S80, “neider!” “Ay, ay, my hearty!” __ Z Thus chorused the rest, and as Whiskers:and Bismarek just then chimed in, with a howl and a screech, the motion was ~ carried. Jack then turned the Sea Serpent homeward, and drove her through the Mexican Gulf and up the American coast, In due time, and without further adventure, she reached the vicinage of New York, when the ton of gold was brought ashore and sold. Jack kept the big diamond eyes as sou- venirs. ee The professor’s original calculation of the amount of money it would bring proved correct, and the sum was divided in four ~— parts among them, giving each a large fortune. : Peleg Hopkins resided in New York, so he stayed there, and after bidding our friends a hearty good-by, he took the shells und fossils he had gathered and went off to make a report of the result of his investigation to the societies he represented. The Sea Serpent then proceeded on to Wrightstown, and our friends stored the wonderful craft away and met with a great be ovation from their fellow citizens when their stories were ¥ toid, the monkey and parrot coming in for a share of the praise. . vi The inventive genius of Jack Wright began to assert itself ~ again, when once more he was comfortably settled at home, and a newer and more wonderful contrivarice than the monitor soon began to engross his attention. And so engaged we must leave the boy and his two friends for the present, promising - to show ‘you in the future the new marvel he was inventing, mi Ses" and all that it did. : : THE END. \ Read “THE RICHEST BOY IN THE WORLD: OR, THE: ss WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG AMERICAN,” by Allyn Draper, which will be the next number (140) of — “Pluck and Luck.” f «cian At ee - 4 eR - SPECIAL NOTICE: All back numbers of this weekly are always in print. 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