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JACK AND BIS SEVEN FOES. —~ -—~ oF the captain,” said Slocum, grinning all over his face, ‘‘ he'd make arrangements to ease your mind.” ‘“N—no, don't speak to him,” mered the Swaggerer. ‘It’s consequence.” stam- of no ‘Bless you, no, not in the least,”’ said Slocum, sarcastically. ‘Tt don’t matter a tie to you whether he’s alive or dead. Shall I tell you something?” “Tf you please.” ‘‘T wouldn’t be in your place,” Slocum, impressively nodding his head, “ for all the money that was ever carried over thesea. Shall I tell you something more ?”’ “Do as you please,’ gerer, frowning. “ You'll be left to the last,” said, “as a choice bit, and he’ll make the most of you! Lor’! I wouldn’t be in your boots if they m ade me King of said the Swag- France and Emperor of all “the Rooshias.”’ He went away chuckling, and the Swaggerer, not in any way Gieered b the interview, went on with the job he was engaged upon—burnishing the compass-box. A few minutes later, when he saw the reflection of his face in the polished brass, 1t terrified him. There was more than the natural elongation and distortion which rounded metal gives. This was nothing; it was the stamp of horror upon his face that appa him. } said. | Sloeum | — It was hke some ghastly comes with troubled sleep. What was to be his fate ? He was to be saved till the last and treated as a choice morsel to appease the appetite of vengeance. Was Slocum Kerry jesting ? taken upon himself to speak authority, or had Jack really his purpose to him ? It irritated him to think that, after all, it was only a boy he was afraid of ; but then there was so much that fought on the side of that boy. First, he had right to support him. And circumstances favoured him in the second place. <All things seemed to play into his hands to the confusion of his enemies. . Kiven their own cowardice and terror helped him. And then again, the Swaggerer had never forgotten the story Jack had told him on board the “ Albatross.”’ Had Captain Boldheart indeed been his friend to the end ? Was he ready and willing to help him if be could only have known whom he had on board P The Swageerer tried to shake off the belief that it was tr ue, and he could not. It clung to him, vision that Had he without confided and showed him what chances of happiness he had lost, _and what misery he had gained. | So he brooded and brooded, and the “ Rattlesnake,’’ with a fresh breeze, went upon her way, but still Jack made no sign, and was not seen or heard. IVDED LINDA DVT DD tT A ee PEDO UWIND A IVI NDVI VITA CHAPTER XXII. HARD TIMES ABRAHAM SPANKER snake’ was at times and he was blessed extracting fun out promising materials. He also could see the humorous side of a thing when others were disposed to regard it with extreme oravity. For instance, his treatment of the Swaggerer had twosidestoit. Helooked at one and the Swaggerer at the other. of the ‘“ Rattle- a mirthful man, with the gift of of the most un- AGAIN——“A SURPRISE—TILE ““ RATELESNAKE ~ DISAPPEARS. “T’m a jockylar man,” he said one aan when they were nearing the Cape, ‘and I must have my larf or bust. A chap of your humour allus docs me good to look at.” The humour just then was that it was bitterly cold, and he had put the Swag- gerer into the chains to heave the lead where the bottom of the sea could not be found with such appliances as the “ Rattlesnake ’’ had on board. “My fingers are frozen,’ said the CconnicoookKks (C@)