Adventure, November 1915 — page 70: what you’re looking at

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Winton picked up his sister in his arms and . waded out with her to where Ah Sing held _ for you. the boat on the tide. He set her in the stern with orders to crouch below the gunwale, which she mutinously obeyed, and took his lace on the forward thwart, his rifle across is knees, while Ah Sing took up the oars and put his sturdy back into the swing, keeping well out in the lagoon. A spurt of fire came from the cave, an-- swered by a shot from Winton. A man pitched headlong from the cave-mouth on to the sand and Winton’s voice came triumphantly over the water— “Got him!” The two remaining, either miscalculating their numbers or in desperation, came from - cover and, one kneeling, one standing, took deliberate aim at the boat. The bullet from one rifle struck the water ahead, the other gun was never fired. Addams hit the kneeling man squarely between the shoul- ders, so that he fell forward on the shingle and lay still. A shot from Selim on the cliff went wild. The lone survivor turned, his hands held high. his rifle. “TI quit!” aN “Walk up toward me till I tell you to stop,” said Addams. “Keep your hands above your head!” The man obeyed. It was the broken- nosed ex-pugilist who had met Henley at the wharf on the arrival of the steamer. Covering him with his automatic, Addams searched him for arms, relieving him of a knife. : “Til work my way back,” said the man, “if you'll take me.” “Not you,’ replied Addams. “You'll stay here till your own schooner comes back Selim!” The Arab came down from the cliff at his call and gathered up the rifles of the four men and the one that had been thrown down to Henley by his sister. “What are you going to do with me?” asked the man. “T told you,” said Addams. “You wait here. Get into that cave and stay there!’ “Hold on, boss. That ain’t right. You’ve got the goods. You’re going to get away with it all. If they see you leaving they won’t come after me at all. We didn’t figure on the young lady finding us. We took that cave because you’d dug it up “T QUIT!” he called, throwing down ‘mountain so we no can see. his dead comrade. Adventure already. Tuan Yuck said you might be playin’ a trick and he give Henley and us the chance to make good. “ ‘Tf the treasure’s there,’ he said, ‘you let *em show you where it is an’ ambush ’em.’ He’sasly one, he is. He didn’t take the chances. Waited, to let us do all the dirty work. You want to get out of it as quick as you can or he’ll be back. But he won’t take me. He’s got no use for losers.” The boat was coming around the cape once more, Ah Sing rowing hard. , “You'll let me go along, guv’nor?” said the man. Addams hesitated. His inclinations were - to leave the wretch to die or live on the island, as chance might determine. But they needed a man to take the place of Loo Chow, dead at his feet. “T won’t promise what I’ll do with you at Honolulu,” he said. “All right, sir. told to.” Ah Sing shouted over his shoulder as he came nearer. “Ship he come back! Ship he come back!’’ “How close, Ah Sing?” asked Addams, as they loaded the remainder of the gold and then laid Loo Chow’s body on the bottom boards. | ‘He come from this-a-way!” Ah Sing pointed north. “I think he made plenty one big ring, come back all same behind Now he sail along leef, plenty slow. No much wind.” Addams looked around for Foo Chin, loath to leave him. There was no one in sight and he had heard no sound of shots. “Foo Chin, he come bimeby all li’,” said Ah Sing. ‘“‘He sabby come to schooneh, Suppose he no come'I go get him. Tuan Yuck no get here one hour yet.” Selim and the survivor of Henley’s am- buscade took the oars, with Addams and Ah Sing in the stern, the latter squatting on the bottom board, steadying the body of They rowed swiftly, the renegade in particular needing no urg- ing, evidently assured of a scant welcome from Tuan Yuck. The breeze was light and changeable, though it seemed* to, be growing stronger and steadier from the north. As they rounded the cape, they could see the Lez Lehua close to the reef at the northern end of the island, making slow progress under the lee of the big crater. T’ll do anything I’m (E(0) WOOK (©) 3