CHAPTER XXI

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13487, 30 July 1907, Page 6

CHAPTER XXI

KEXTOX TAKES THK KISK.

Catheart stooped and picked up tin battered glnsst-s. He was j>erler-tly ca!:n again. "For the liie of me J cannot uiui i stond it at al!," he said. "Despite :< certain attempt at dii;guLe and cluin-'-iiess, 1 ix-fo^'ii-e the ' i.oi.e Star' at .1 glance. You c.iuuot deceive a man v. !m> has once sailed a ship. JJut li<>w w;^ it done?''

'• It was done as I suspected irom the beginning," ljeuton replied. '" li 1 the first phiee. you had a most indilferent erev. Kuii your ofii's'rs were no 1 above suspicion. \'uder your eyes tl 1111 * 1 ' Lono Str.r ' was 1< .• '«h1 v/ilh a vs.luable cargo, ami eve '-'hing Avas :*.: *. "ly I'"' sailing. X 0... in tl'f !-:nve yoit^ v.\^ another horn cileil J tlu> " Lono Star.' which was mwr«» or lcs tl:e p-ojA-rty •>! Mostyn & Co. She wi^s not much oi :. bc<at," and so dirty tiiat ir was next t.. impossible to read her uiMiie. She a\:)fillod with any rubbish, ami ia a ii:>y was ready V> lall, with a crew, such ait was. AYS.en J.unes Steven.-! drugp-d you he hud you^ carried to the shan "'Lone Star.'" v/hVli -{.one Star' w.r, put away by your scoundrelly chief mate, alias James Stevcnr,. when you v.vr" supposed to be lying drunk in your cabin. " Stevens got away lor the simple reason that a certain yacht that was fortunately handy happened to be Mostyn's own, or, railMT, one th:<t Le had hired in New York, lie took c.ire, also, to have a witness or two. Once in N< w York again, Stevei'S di'-ert-etl.v disappeared, and that is viiy then- v. ::s no chief mate to give t \ ider.'-e j.t your trial." Cathcart nodded :he \' a - ?K,;ir;nii^r, t>> see things.

(To be continued.)