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10 . NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. suppose seloas sould take aim, an’ for: ‘‘She had been found asleep, an’ was that matter I don’t think that either our bandaged with a chloroformed handker- men or the others were sharpshooters. chief before any of the Malavs knew that “Anyhow, the two who was carryin’ any strangei's were near; 11 fact, our men the burden got to the boat; one was the had made a good start from the village second officer an’ the other a sailor; before some one made a misstep which they ran into the water an’ put their bur- ‘aroused one of the enemy. den down in the bottom of the boat. _ As T have told ye, I never could make ‘““T could see what it was; it was a girl. ‘out exactly what happened then, for each *« *Give ’em a last volley! I heard the of the men told his own story, an’ they captain yell, an’ with that there was ‘were that excited that there was no three or four pistol shots close_ by me. piecin’ their stories together; it’s enough ™ ““There was pistol shots from further for us to know that the Malays gave away, too, an’ although I’d plenty to do. /pursuit.”’ in handlin’ the boat, I could make out, “And what happened after thaf>”’ the forms of a number of men rushin’ | asked Trim. a out from the cover of the trees. | ‘Ye may well sae that, For the attack. ee ~ There was flashes from that direction, | oy me this afternoon was a part of it.”’ an’ the next “instant somebody lurched | Trim made no response, but looked ~ agin’ me an’ fell into the water. It steadily at Dobbin, who returned the gaze proved t6 be the captain. fap lait. and continued: b [-; SEBe Malay girl was locked into. a i -otner sailors tumbled soinehow into the ‘stateroom, an’ once the Dunmore Castle a boat an’ grabbed the oars. was on. hex way again, the second officer ie We went off to the tune of flashin’ 1.4 21) he could do for the rest of that ; ““} lifted him into the stern, an’ the “» shots‘on shore an’ a splutterin’ of bullets S\time | in lookin’ after the captain’s wound.» in the water alongside. | ‘We had no surgeon on board, for we Ba “Somehow or other none of us was hit, cattied no passengers, but every officer although the boat was chipped in two or knows somethin’ about medicine, an’ ___ three places. Jones managed ‘to bandage up the cap- “Phe captain was a plucky one; he tain’s wound an’ put him in purty S00: ~ had a bullet in his shoulder, but he never shape. uttered a groan even while we were) «Tt was a) painful wound, buts not a ~liftin? him on board the Dunmore Castle gayoerous one, as it prov ed. ; ee x er me got here. et ine dhe otis ' “The next mornin’ we were of course ae bse ne kept epee i ‘| - “e <a far away from that island, an’ were _ dered up the anc Ee ee tS akin’ , as we thought, toward Singa- _ . hoisted as usual, an’ in ten minutes we ‘pore. sate . were steamin’ away at full speed just acs > “Tt was uci ‘the middle of the after-— ate as if nothin’ had ever aay | gaan follow atau when the we _ captain waked t 2 ‘He had. ne mi; sleep about daybreak, — after the ‘second officer had | doctored up = his wound. og ea nee ee ‘He was feelin’ purty ‘well, an’ as '¢ ‘heir. jslat a ide 0 derstand it, he told the second officer to ‘G the e harbor where Tee ship brin n or eH ae het Faia speek oe 3 1ey had dwellin’s on shore, or cab | So Gs Col iid have mee! the eae ee ‘Trim as Dobbin =o caps Se amie