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U.S.WARNED NGTTO NAME 'BAYER' MEANS ASPIBINJS GENUINE 33 OLVES OF THE SE OF CHI DIN Safe, proper directions in each "Bayer" package Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. Canadian Takes Rap at Plan for Eight-Hour Day. By RANDALL PARRISH t HAPPENINGS w CURRENT WEEK OUTPUT r ( iMiQ CHAPTER XVII Continued. 12 The hilt of the knife In my belt at .Tacted my attention, and I drew It torth, curious to learn if It bore any nark of ownership. My eyes were in Itantly attracted to a dark stain on )oth hilt and blade. I held It to the ight it was the stain of blood, and ny hands were also reddened by It. In :hat first Instant of horror I hurled :he weapon out through the open port nto the sea. Iilood I There had been nurder committed on board, and the tellow I had struck down was seeking refuge, endeavoring to find conceal ment following his crime. Ay, but what about the light In the cabin? It had been extinguished after the flee ing fugitive had entered Dorothy's stateroom. Did tills mean that the slayer had an accomplice? If so, then the killing was not the result of a mere personal quarrel amidships, or In the forecastle, but the result of some conspiracy. I thought of San :hez, and of Estada's plan to obtain control of the ship. Could this be Its culmination? And was the Spaniard already lying dead In his cublu? Nothing came of my thought only tonfuslon; nor did I dare Investigate or fear of becoming more deeply in polved In the tragedy. No, there was nothing to be done; my safety, nnd the safety of the girl depended on our apparent Ignorance of what had oc curred. Convincing myself of this, I washed the blood stulns from my hands and lay down in the bunk fully dressed to await my call. When called I exchanged but few words with LeVere. He went quickly to his room. Nothing of Importance occurred during my watch. The dawn came cold and gray but tvlih clcurlng skies. I climbed Into the main crosstrees and swept the horizon with a glass. Not so much as a speck rewarded my efforts, and I descended the ratlines, shouting to the boatswain to call the port watch. Watklns came aft to the wheel and I sent the fellow thus relieved down Into the cabin to rout out LeVere. The two returned to deck together, the negro glancing about curiously without mounting the ladder. "You call Senoi Kstada yet?" ho questioned. "No j I had no orders to do so." "He toT me call hlin at daylight. Here you, Amada; go wake up the senor." . Tho seaman disappeared, while Le Vere crossed tho poop deck and stood besldo nie looking out across the ex panse of sea. 1 Amada emerged from the companion nnd stared up at us, shading his mouth with one hand as ho spoke. "He answer nothing, Senor LeVere." "Was the door locked?" "I know not, senor ; I not try to open it." "Tho swine," said LeVere, "I sup pose I'll have to go myself." ,, "We'll go down together, senor," 1 said quietly. "Estada must be 6lck ; T 'imnlil' ' hni!'thn -rn:mtia Amnrln kicked. up even on deck here. No nuin could Bleep through that racket." CHAPTER XVIII. A New Conspiracy. Tho Interior of the cabin appeared desolate In the gray light of dawn. I led tho way directly to Estada's It Was the Stain of Blood. stateroom. My heart pounded Hko a hammer as I rapped on the wooden panels and v ailed some response from within. Th 're was no answer, no Bound of movement, nnd I rapped ugatu more loudly, my questioning eyes seeking I.eVere'g face. He was listen ing ns Intently as myself. "There Is something wrong, senor," he whispered, "for he was ever a light oleeper." Tho door was unlocked, the lnteh yielding Instantly to the hand, and I stepped within. A gtuuee told every- Cupyritiiil, by A. C. AluUluitf At Cu. thing. Estada lay In his bunk, with 1 one leg dangling outside, and his head crooked against the side wall. His very posture was that of sudden death, even had It not been pictured by the ghastly face, and the dark pool of blood underneath. I heard an excla mation from Le Vere and stood for an Instant utterly unable to move. I knew already what I should find, yet finally forced myself forward he was stone dead, pierced with three knife thrusts. I stood up and faced the mulatto, whose countenance was fairly green with horror. "What do you know about this, Se nor LeVere?" I asked sternly. "The man has been murdered, knifed. Who did it and why?" He could scarcely answer, gripping at the table for support, and never re moving his gaze from the face of the dead man. Yet I believed his words; was convinced this was not the terror of guilt. "My God I I cannot tell ; I have never dreamed of this." "Had the man enemies. Anyone you would suspect?" "Enemies? Ay, plenty of them; we all have. We expect that in our trade. This ship is full of devils ready enough to do such a job; but I could not name the one who did do It. I know of no cause. I have heard nothing-" "I believe you, LeVere," I said. . "What can we do, senor?"' "Do I We must talk that over first. We cannot meet this thing until, we are prepared. There Is more danger in hasty action thun anything else.' I shut the door behind us and turned the key. It was a relief to get out side, even into that dismal .cabin, be yond view of Estada's dead face. Le- Vere, who had evidently lost his nerve, sunk into a chair. "You fear an uprising, a mutiny?" I questioned, "when this Is reported?" "What will prevent?" he asked, "The captain cannot stir; the mate Is dead ; the men nlready crazed because we take no prizes. They will murder us also and take control. Those devils amidships." "And who leads them? Who would be cnptaln?" "Manuel Estevan," ho whispered. "I thought as much. Then it Manuel Estevan we must secure first before they know. Whatever his men may know of what has occurred they will make no move until they get his orders. We must stop the possl bllity of his issuing any. Without a leader the advantage Is ours." "You mean to kill him?" "Only as a last resort. There is no good feeling between those quartered amidships and the crew?" "No, senor; it is hate generally, al though they are not all alike. The real sailors are mostly captured men; they serve to save their lives, nnd only for these others on board could not be held long. Your plan, senor, Is to set the one against the other?" "Yes, if possible. These sailor men are of all races. Can they be trusted?" "Some might be, sir; It is hard to toll how many. It Is not the race which counts so much, senor. ' There are those among them who would not care to return to honesty." "And you, LeVere?" He spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders. "There Is uo hope of me; I was born to the free life." "What then is it with you?" "Hate, senor revenge," and his teeth gleamed savagely. "I would spit on this Manuel who seeks to be chief, I can never be no; I am of black skin, with negro blood in my veins, and white men would never have it so. Rut I can hate, senor. That is why I am with you now, if the devil so will. Your plun might work tell me more of It." "What are the odds, say you thirty to a hundred? Ay, but surprise will overcome that. My plan is this: First to secure Manuel as quietly ns pos sible but at whatever cost. With him In our hands, or dead, the buccaneers have no loader. What then? There are men In the crew on deck and in the forecastle to be trusted Watklns is one, and he will know others, a dozen no doubt. They will be enough. We will whisper the truth to these, and have them ready fdr a signal. The forward door from amidships is closed by iron bars is it not?" "SI, senor," his eyes agulu sparkling with Interest. "The men quurreled, and there was fighting." "Then there Is no escape In that di rection and It can be no great task to close any passage leading aft. Lower the deck hatch and we have thoso devils below caged like so many ruts. There need be no lighting; star vation will bring them to terms." "Cut, senor, your dozen men cannot guard the buccaneers below nnd also manage the bark, Tho crew are not all lnmbs many will sympathize with those thus locked beneath deck. (Jo chose Is bad, and a friend of Manuel. He will fight, and there ure others to back lilm." "I know that, LeVere. The whole plan Is desperate, but there is no atk.r possible. Here Is my scheme. Tur Is a gun rack in the cub lu to uru the dozen men we can trust. The others have nothing but their sheath knives. The buccaneers can be secured below, before these other lads ever realize what is happening. As soon as we have control of the ship we'll round them up forward. They won't dare face, the guns. I'll give them their choice." And what will you tell them, se nor?" I caught my breath, conscious of his meaning. My secret hope could not be revealed to this fellow. The answer came quickly to my Hps. "The whole truth, Senor LeVere that Manuel conspired to seize the bark through a mutiny of the bucca neers; that these were to be turned loose with license to kill anyone on board who opposed them; that their real purpose was to divide among themselves all the treasure below, "Who Did It and Why?" then wreck the vessel and escape with It. That to this end Estada had al ready been murdered. I shall explain that we discovered this conspiracy just in time to save them from butch ery, and they must stand by us or else submit to those hell-hounds." "And after that, senor?" "Why, Porto Grande, of course," I admitted heartily. "The men will un derstand what that means a handful of gold for each of them and a run ashore. Why, LeVere, they will make more apiece than ,by looting h half dozen ships, and with no fighting. It will be a fortune for you and me." His somber eyes lighted up, startled by this new idea, and he sprang to his feet. "You mean that, senor! We divide whnt Is below and sail for Porto Grande? I hear you right? You not mean surrender? YoU stay pirate?" I laughed, my nerves tingling to the success of my ruse he1 had taken the tempting bait like a hungry fish, "Why, of course." I am not such a fool as to throw away this chance. This Is. our chance, LeVere. If we put the Namur into Porto Grande, with Sanchez on board and alive, and those hellhounds locked below, we'll get any thing we ask for. We'll be the cocks of the walk. If he shouldn't live through, why then we'll have a ship, and can run the game alone. Either way, If we win, the prize Is ours and If we stick together we win." My apparent enthusiasm "calight the fellow. I could read the working of his mind In his face. This new view of the situation promised wealth, power, the total defent of Estevan; everything he most desired. "You think Senor Sanchez live?" ' "What difference? It he lives he owes his life to us. If he dies the bark is In our hands, and the treasure. Once we have won we care nothing If he live or die. Are we together in this?" He thrust out a lean yellow hand, and I gripped it. "SI, senor; I a.a with you." "You pledge your word, Francois?" '"I pledge it, senor." "Good I And you have mine. Now to work first Manuel Estevan, and then the men on deck." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Tho First "White Way." When William NIblo opened his new theater at Broadway and Prince street, back on Independence day, 1S28, he celebrated the double occa sion by a patriotic display of gas lights which flaunted the name of "NIblo" far nnd wide and Immortal ized It In stage as well as gns history. An admiring public gasped from a re spectful distance, watching the red, white and. blue shadows cast by the rows of gas jets spelling the propri etor's name. Gas had been use! for the first time I Wiui Vnl-V JltV (1 ,1 r, r-a )i.,f -n 1 3iu io me owner or ixihius gnruen j foes the credit of first using gas for illuminating a theater. Gas Logic, COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Control of the international mercan tile marine has been definitely placed in the hands of England and English men, according to the Liverpool Post. With eggs at 85 cents a dozen, bur glars passed up the cash in a till at a Helena, Mont., grocery store early Tuesday, taking 22 dozen eggs. A plot to assassinate Premier Veni- zelos and overthrow the monarchy has been discovered in Athens. Many ar rests have been made by the authori ties. The British government has directed the Pacfiic Steam Navigation company to take charge of the German Bhips wheih were interned in Chile during the war. King Segis Pontia Alcarta, $50,000 prize bull, owned by John H. Arfman, of Middletown, N. Y., was killed by swallowing a nail) according to the report of veterinarians. Retail clothiers In accounting for the prevailing high prices of men's clothing, at a hearing before the com mission on necessaries of life, said that spring suits would cost even more. President Wilson has "materially improved," but is still very weak, Dr. P. X. Dercum, Philadelphia specialist, said Saturday when he paid his regular weekly visit to the White house. At a conference Saturday in Buda pest of the leaders of all parties, Karl Huszar was confirmed as minister president to succeed Stephen Frie drich. He is engaged in forming a cabinet. Catholics throughout Mexico were warned Saturday against the danger of radicalism as represented by "so cialism and communism" in collective pastoral letters signed by eight arch bishops and 20 bishops. The Southern Newspaper Publish ers' association, meeting in Birming ham, Ala, to consider the white paper problem, agreed Monday that consump tion must be curtailed. Otherwise, it was declared, the smaller newspapers could hot survive. Transcripts of the testimony of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, the "soviet ambassador," given before the Lusk investigating committee last week, will be submitted to the state department with a request for deportation, Samuel A. Berger, deputy attorney-general, an nounced. Ralph Deicken, of Springfield, 111., whose dollar tips to barbers and ex pensive clothes gained him the title of the "Beau Brummel" bank clerk, was arrested Saturday on a federal war rant charging him with embezzlement of $27,000 from the Ridgeley Farmers' State bank, where he was employed as paying teller until a month ago. 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Revival of the 2-cent coin, bearing the likeness of the late Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt with the dates of his birth and death, is the object of a campaign by the Women's Rdosevelt Memorial association. Eleven students at Madison, Wis., are said to be $35,000 richer as a re sult of the payment Thursday of their first educational bonus. So long was the line at timet that students were obliged to wait an hour before reach ing the paymaster's window. PRODUCTION IS FIRST Other Delegates From Neighboring State, However, Favor Plan to Shorten Hours. Washington, D. C. Consideration of the draft convention proposed by the committee to limit the hours of work in industry to eight hours a day and 48 hours a week was begun Monday by the international labor conference and enough progress made to indicate its adoption probably soon. The conference adopted the clause, defining the "industrial undertaking" to which the agreement would apply with an amendment which provided that questions relating to navigation on inland waterways be referred to a special conference. Opposition to the convention as a whole was expressed by S. R. Parsons, employers' delegate from Canada, who insisted the "general application of the shorter working day would, ac cording to actual experience, greatly lessen production." Now when the government of the country, he said, is calling on manufacturers to increase their output and exports in order to meet heavy national obligations noth ing should be done which would tend to hinder them in their efforts. "The cost of living," he added, "could be reduced only by increased production and to ignore this funda mental truth is to blind our eyes to the actual facts." "It is generally recognized," Mr. Parsons said, "that unless the United States accepts similar extension it would be placing an unfair burden upon Canadian employers and the country at large to be bound by terms of the proposed convention." Newton D. Rowell, government dele gate from Canada, disagreed with Mr. Parsons, saying he "feared" the posi tion of Canada might be misunderstood as a result, of Mr. Parsons' remarks,. He announced that he and the other Canadian government representatives would vote for the convention. "The action of the government of Canada does not depend upon the ac tion of the government of the United States in dealing with these matters," he declared. Mr. Rowell pointed out thai the Canadian parliament already had ap proved the treaty containing the labor clause and the league of nations cov- enant, and that since it had approved them the government of Canada would "carry out the obligations it assumed in the treaty, in spirit as well as in letter." 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