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NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. I know you are,’’ he said, giving the old fellow his hand. ‘Tf Id known what you were up to I’d have told you to stay on the J/a/ia, but ‘as Iong as you’ve got your discharge, all ll say is that for as long as I’m in Africa we'll be chums. ”’ “That’s right, lad ; ye couldn’t shake me off if ye tried, an’ it’s better that we should understand each other. ~“T owe it to ’ee now to tell ’ee why them tascally Malays tried to murder me. ree s get away from here first,’? said Trim. They were still at the dock. Dobbin made no objection to the boy’s suggestion, and accordingly within - half an hour they were at a hotel. When they were in a room by them- selves Trim asked : ‘(Weren’t you on the look out for some- thing of this kind during the whole voy- age, Dobbin?” _. ‘‘Nay,’’ he answered. ‘‘T’d me eyes open for the first week of it, but I saw nothing to make me sus- picious. “There are thousands of Malays, ye know, who follow thé sea, an’ Pd no reason to suppose that these fellers knew ine. >» : _ > **They didn’t know you. _ It’s as plain as day now that they didn’t know who to attack until they got word from their friends in the boat. ‘“That’s right, lad, an’ this is how it came about: ‘Pen years ago I was before the mast ~~ on the Dunmore Castle. This was a ~~ steamer that touched at about every port thoes Indian Ocean as well as most of hose on this side of the Pacific. I was | that steamer for a long time. “She was a tramp, an’ as she had no - regular. sailin’ routes we were brought into stranger places than the ordinary traveler sees. ‘Well, to keep me yarn down | to just _ what belongs to it, there was a time when ie ate band of Malay pirates tried to session @ the ship. Wetliest them oft_and then pursued them "rae { tell? ee that often an’ had a good bit of a fight with ’em. ‘They escaped us because their vessel was lighter than ours, an’ so could go into shallower waters. ‘*At that time we had on a cargo to be left at Manila, an’ when we arrived at that port we found business dull an’ no cargo to be had at terms that would pay for the haulin’; so the captain of the Dunmore Castle, who was the principal owner of the boat, decided to look for freight somewhere else. “Tt was none of our business—I imean we in the crew—what he did or where he went, an’ ye must remember that as I go on to tell ’ee what happened. ‘©A common sailor, lad, has to obey orders; it don’t matter what the orders be, he must obey them.”’ ‘“‘T - understand that,’’ ‘(Where did the captain go?”’ ‘He took us straight back into the archipelago where» we had chased the pirates. ‘None of us suspected what he was up to, but as ve no mind to mystify ’ee I'll often, as we were spinnin’ yarns in the fo’c’sle, ave spoke of this adventure with the pirates an’ of the fact that on the deck of the pirate be we had seen a mighty handsome irl. “She was dark skinned like the Malays, undoubtedly a Malay herself; in fact, as we afterward learned, she was the daughter of the pirate captain. ”’ “So there was a romance mixed up with it?’ remarked Trim. ‘‘Ay, call it romance if ye will, lad; ye may call it different. when I’m through. ‘“As we Sailed along we had no thought of the pirates, except that once in a while some one would wonder if we should have another brush with them. ‘‘None of us thought it likely, for the very good reason that they would know jour ship an’ would be slow to attack us a second time.”’ Dobbin paused and Trim asked: ‘‘In spite of that ne you come across thein ?’’ “Ay, we did, but not by their seekin’. said ‘Trim... 7. ‘For two or three days the captain — - among the islands in Hikes aise mich cruised around among some small islands, PF ei his course at about every hot, * a - » F * < . 7 - - : ae ey 7 os <~= = EE . ; a i ce he + on * * « ‘ < <