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CHAPTER XVI
""ORLY proved to be a icora of
shabby fishermen huts located
to the right ot the King's Highway,
between marsh grass and booming
sea. Their excuse for being was a
shallow harbor that all but van
ished at low tide. It was a de-
. Jected spot
Polly, having been put down
there with her dog and trunk,
looked after the departing coach
with a regret that bordered on
panic
She noted one house In the vil
lage that seemed to be an Inn.
Though not less ramshackle than
its neighbors, it was larger and
carried a sign. Polly dragged her
trunk from the roadside and
pulled It along a sandy path to this
building. Arrived there, she left
Nuisance to stand guard while she
entered the inn. She was leaning
heavily on her stick and frowning
sharply.
"Where can I find John Mc
Gean?" she asked the room at
. large.
A man in a dirty apron, evi
dently the keeper of this unwhole
some place, answered her. "Ye'r
in luck, old dame. The Sea Ser
pent, 'is boat, is anchored off Corly
today. Just in, 'e is, from a little
trip, and soon to put out . . .
Look! There 'e comes along the
wharf."
DOLLY went outside and stooped
x to give Nuisance a reassuring
pat for the little dog was looking
uneasy and restive. -
The skipper, who had just come
ashore from an ugly two-masted
lugger with patched brown sails,
was large and forbidding. He had
heavy handsome features, coal
black hair that he wore in a queue,
and bold prominent eyes.
"If you are John McGean," she
said to this man, "I have business
with you."
"Then speak it Time's valu
able." He stared hard at her.
Folly spoke her business,' as
commanded. She talked to him
urgently; but since money talks
best in the long run, she offered
him what she could afford to pay
and still keep enough to carry her
to Cherbourg. For this he grudg
ingly agreed to convey her across
the Channel to a fishing port near
Calais. He was sailing that night
be said, it the wind was favorable.
Sometime around ten he would
come to the wharf in a dory and
get her.
"I've a small trunk," Polly told
him in a voice that she strove to
make old and weary. "Ill have it
here on the dock." But she did
aot speak of her dog. ,
WHEN black night had fallen
" Polly dragged her trunk to
the wharf and sat down to wait
It seemed safer here than in that
evil inn, and the air was certainly
better. This was the same star
filled sky, she reminded herself,
that had covered her at home, and
these waves were but a part of
the same restless Atlantic that
broke in white foam on the coast
of Connecticut This water was a
part of the sea, and the sea to
night bore Jerry on its breast
she must love this water and not
fear it Whenever Nuisance gave
one of his low ominous growls she
soothed him, being calm herself.
After a while she heard the
grating of oarlocks and the
muffled splash of oars. A dory
appeared, and when it had docked,
the smuggler's large figure loomed
out of it and approached her.
Though he handled the little
trunk as though it were a feather,
he grumbled his displeasure at
having to take it into the boat
and when he saw the dog his
grumbling turned to oaths.
"Ye can't take that beast
aboard," he decreed, "with its
barkin' and yippin'l"
"You've not heard him bark or
yip. The worst he does is to growl
a little. You'll take him or I'm
not going. You've not got my
money yet"
FLAPPER FANNY
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I 17 w THM OF LLY TKi OF TO &L ALONE
Would it help any if I ate your desserts so you won't be
, temoted?"
A pause, then, "Come aboard,
but if 'e barks, 'e gets the bclayln'
pin to quiet 'im."
Nuisance lay on Polly's lap in
the rowboat and made no sound;
and when they reached the lugger
Polly carried him on board with
caution and apprehension.
The crew, she calculated, num
bered a dozen men. They looked
like the dregs ot France and Spain
and Portugal, picked less tor
strength than cunning. They eyed
her and the dog with lowering
expressions, and she deemed it
best to glare back at them, giving
them as good as they sent in ill
wilt
She followed McGean aft to the
cabin. The swinging lamp had a
sooted chimney but it managed to
reveal as dismal a skipper's re
treat as Polly had ever set eyes
on. The scarred bulkheads were
hung with weapons muskets,
cutlasses and knives; torn rigging
lay about; boxes and bales stood
everywhere. In one corner was
an iron, strong box with heavy
padlock.
The man now opened this with
a brass key he carried. "I'll 'ave
your passage money," he said; and
when Polly took it from her
pocket and counted it out for him
he clutched it hastily and locked
it away. : "I've 'ardly asked ye
enough," he added thoughtfully.
Polly turned inside out her vol
uminous pocket and said like an
irritated old woman, "Not enough,
you robber? You've got it all!"
' This mollified him and he told
her to make herself at home.
"Well be sailin' inside the hour."
. a a a
T EFT alone in the cluttered
cabin, Polly leaned back
against a pile of canvas and lis
tened to the tramp of feet the
harsh voices and the running up
ot sail that was taking place
above. Presently the small lugger
was under way and the shouting
ceased. Weariness overcame Polly
and she slept
T She wakened to a low growl
from Nuisance. Stilling him, she
got up and looked from a porthole
that gave to landward. The lug
ger was at rest anchored off a
cove which a rising moon showed
to be cliff lined and chalky, but
broken by a dark ravine. A laden
rowboat was approaching the lug
ger from the cove; in the dark
ravine two lanterns bobbed like
fireflies. ... So this was the way
smuggled goods was landed and
sent to sea! .
As a keg was hauled aboard.
Nuisance barked. Folly, in con
sternation, slapped him so violent
ly that be retreated behind a bale,
howling in a very injured way.
Polly dived after him and brought
him out catching a lock of hair
on a bayonet point as she did so,
and pulling off her wig.
As ' she arose with the dog in
her arms, the door opened and
McGean entered. He stared at her
as she stood ,at bay, tall and
straight and 'surprised. Short
brown hair covered her head, curl
ing stubbornly in the damp sea
air. Her - cheeks and lips were
scarlet her eyes wide. A torn
sleeve revealed a round white
arm. .
"So ye be a young one," he
laughed - unpleasantly. "And a
French aristocrat to boot I'll be
bound. "Well, I'm French too, but
not your kind. From now on call
me Jean Clitte!"
He took a bright-striped scarf
from a sea chest and bound it
around his head, transform ine
himself, by that simple act into
a Latin. It was evidently what he
had come into the room to do.
Yet the thing that he did next
had not been a part of his plans.
Alter ne nad gone from the
cabin and closed the door, he
looted it alter him.
(To Be Continued)
' In eight years the Tulsa, Okla.,
municipal airport has accommo
dated 613,000 persons coming
and going in 140,000 planes
without a casualty or minor in
jur. A new mirror especially for
women motorists Is an Illuminat
ed . vanity mirror for the car.
One type is mounted on the rear
of the glove compartment and
automatically lights when the lid
is opened. .
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