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° WEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. over the ship’s side an’ took our places at the oars. The captain an’ the second _officer were in the stern. “Just. before we pulled away the cap- tain whispered a command to the bos’n who was leaning over the rail. ‘Send up a rocket,’ says he, ‘whe you hear a pistol shot.’ ** “Ay, ay, sir,’ says the bos’n. ’ = ‘< ‘Give way,’ whispered the captain. |- “We dug our oars into the water an’ off we went. Ss With our backs in the direction to which we were goin’ we couldn't tell - anythin’? about where we was comin’ to, but purty soon we got the whispered order to up oars, an’ the next second we were grating on the bottom. ‘‘We had landed on a Sandy beach. ‘here was the tiniest kind of a surf rollin’, so little that it made ‘tipple an’ would not have overturned an 7 ee eggshell if it had been floatin’ there. | “Two of the men was ordered to get eut an’ drag the boat higher up; they _ did this, an’ then we all got out. ne a ~ “We stood there for a minute on the men to go with him an’ the second officer. : igit was. oo 5 ee See _ “Presently the captain had his men ‘“Me an’ one other were to wait at the its height; boat. The tide was almost at it; ae: an hour it would begin to ebb. =~ = 2 we don’t get back by then,’ the ie ; ‘push the boat yhispered to me, 1e-tide runs so as to keep her water, an’ be able to Jump = ay nc ’s warnin’ an’ Tow for yer bo et that the captain an’ the second "ith the rest of the boat's crew, fay ee: into the woods at the top Stas ta pot eee ghePe ade but a faint) | wildly excited. |up from the ship. | pistol shots, an’. 9 tell, an’ they were so excited that I never could rightly make out just how they did it, so I suppose I’d better stick to me own yarn.”’ ‘Well, then, the captain an’ the men were a long time comin’ back; the tide n | began to ebb, an’ we had. to push the boat out to keep it from bein’ left high an’ dry on the beach. Se ‘“Not hearin’ no bells, we couldn’t tell anythin’ about what time it was or how long had passed, but I know that we had twice shoved the boat further out, an’ were just makin’ ready to push her out still further, when we heard a lot of sav- age yellin’ somewhere off in the woods. ‘¢ “The devil is to pay at last!’ says me shipmate. SS ‘ (Ay, ay,’ says I, ‘an’ if we don’t get this boat well into the water the devil will have us as well as the rest Of them.’ “Ye may guess that we were both. We shoved the boat out until we stood. up to our knees in the water an’ then held her with our faces eae toward the shore. | | ‘We heard the vellin’ continued, an’ beach while the captain picked out six | above it two or three pistol shots. | ‘The noise was comin’ nearer. While ‘we was lookin’ in the darkness for any \sign of our men we noticed a little gleam — upon the water beside us. : ‘Turnin? our heads around, we saw the flare of a rocket that had been sent ~ had heerd the captain’s. had taken it to be the” *’Phe. bos’n _ “The rocket, of course, was to show — just where the ship lay, an’ you under a stand by this time why it was that no lights were put outan’ why the bells were stopped. The captain didn’t want the _ people on the island ‘to suspect that a” a stgamer was so neat. 3 oe ‘‘Well, after the rocket went 1 pthere — was more pistol shots an’ more yellin’, an’ from that time on rockets went up — “Presently out from the woods there