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FRANK MERRIWELL IN THE SOUTH SEAS. 17 and when he was attended to later it! ‘‘Gone where? Not dead?” was found that the pistol bullet had} Captain Dunbar spoke excitedly, but struck him squarely in the forehead, caus-| he paid no attention whatever to his own ing instant death. — narrow escape from a bullet. There was no time then to reflect upon| ‘‘No, not dead. It was he who saved us the horror of this tragedy. just now by checking the attack from be- There was no time even to feel it. hind.”? Action was demanded, for these two! ‘‘Good boy!” were but two, after all, and many more| ‘‘He’s gone to the engine room.” were plying their murderous work for-) ‘‘Well?’’ — ward, and possibly elsewhere in the ves-; ‘‘Alone, captain! He’ll——’’ sel. “Frank Merriwell is capable of It was, therefore, with a sense of grim| ‘'Taking care of himself,’’ the captain triumph that Frank leaped torward while! was probably about to say, but just then yet the bull’s-eye light was flashing and|there was another shot and the man who wrenched the revolver from the dying) had been stationed at the wheel dropped Celestial’s hand. - with a groan. ‘‘For Heaven’s sake, Merriwell! Isthat| Captain Dunbar leaped to the wheel you ?’’ cried First Officer Murray land seized it. | ‘‘Davidson and the chief engineer have: ‘‘I’m on duty here,’’ hecried. ‘‘If they been strangled,’’ shouted Frank in re-| kill me you’ll know it soon enough. ply. Take what men you can find and -recap- ‘Ah! ) ture the engine room.”’ “Are you hurt up there ?”’ “Ay, ay, sir!” “‘Not yet. Where are you going??? “Get word to the chief steward to have “To the engine room.’? | his men massed at the saloon gangways. " ‘Frank! don’t be a madman!’ ‘‘Aye, aye, sir!’? | ‘I’m going.’? “Don’t let one of the vermin be spared. ‘““They’ve got possession there!’ Pitch ’em overboard, knock ’em out any ‘*Are you for surrendering ?”’ jway!?? . ‘*Never!”? | ‘Aye, ave, sir!?? . ““Then send anybody who can be| Murray was descending the ladder. He spared to help.”? stil] had his bull’s eye in his hand, and Without waiting for farther talk Frank) he turned its rays again upon the two dashed off. dead Chinese. | | Murray spoke hurriedly to Captain} Then he realized what he had not no- Dunbar. ticed before: that both were dressed in “Shall we let young Merriwell go to|clothing similar to that worn by the Gias- his certain death in the engine room?’’ | gow’’s sailors. ‘Smash their heads with belaying} ‘‘I should know that coat,’’ he pins!’ shouted the captain, addressing|thought, with fresh alarm; “‘1f it wasn’t his men on the forward deck below. for the almond-eyed yellow face above it, “Captain,” urged Murray, ‘“‘young;l should say aaa that was Tom Meadows Merriwell——”’ lying there.’ . Hah 2? Tom Meadows was one of the seamen **Ffe’s gone " whose duty it.was to come on watch at A shot from below clipped off the vizor| eight bells. of the captain’s cap. How shall I know my. own men?” conchae (CO