The Argosy, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 — page 76: what you’re looking at

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76 | ‘THE BUNKEL MYSTERY, ‘“Shet up, Bob, or Pll punch you,’ said Tom, turning to look at the disobedient lieutenant. ‘‘I want to speak to him, and you make such a racket a feller can’t hear hisself think.’’ All right ; push it through, Tom,’’ replied Bob subsiding, “Pve got you now, Andy Lamb, and I guess we'll finish up !”’ shouted the chief. ~ ‘‘ Stop that boat quicker’n lightnin’ !”? ‘What shall we do, Andy?”’ asked Di Singerlay, when she saw how near the ruffian was to her. ‘Put the helm up, and let off the sheets,’’ replied Andy, quietly, and without moving from his seat. | | This change of course would not only give the sloop a free wind, so that she could sail faster than when close hauled, but it took the Diana away from the enemy in front. Di was frightened, but she did not lose-her head, and effected the change of coursé in a single instant. The boat felt the change, and darted off at a livelier speed towards the east shore of the lake. ‘Stop that boat! Don’t you hear me, Andy Lamb ?’’ demanded Tom, when the sloop began to fall off ; but as he was no boatman, he did not know what the alteration in the course meant. ‘I hear you; I’m not deaf,’’ replied Andy, apparently not at all disturbed by the demonstration of the hoodlums, for he was a thorough boatman, and had perfect confidence in the Diana—in both Dianas, for that matter, for he had been astonished at the skill of the young lady at the helm. Though circumstances beyond his control had placed Andy in the Barkpool party, he was not prejudiced against the fair skipper on this account. She had been to the high school with him, but he had known her only as a schoolmate, and had hardly ever even spoken to her, or she tohim. But she was a skilful boatwoman, and that was enough to excite his admiration even more than her pretty face. ‘ Stop that boat, I say !”’ yelled Tom again, more fiercely than before. ‘I know you say it,’’ answered Andy, with something of derision in his tones, for the expression was so clumsy and unnautical that he was disgusted with it, apart from its meaning. | | ‘Stop that boat! If you don’t mind what I say to you, I'll blow your brains out with my revolver !’’ shouted Tom, as he flourished the weapon in the air. ‘‘ Blow away !”’ replied Andy, still unmoved. , ‘’ But he has a pistol! I am frightened, Andy,’’ added Di. There was quite a roomy cuddy under the half deck, and Andy suggested that she should retire to this safe place. She did so. CHAPTER V.—THE BarrLe wrru -THE HoopLums. THE cuddy of the Diana had a woolen carpet, and was not encumbered with old rigging, or with anything else. On each side was a seat, quite low, still a full grown person could find head room enough. Di was as courageous as the average young lady, but in an encounter in which firearms were to be used, she believed that absence of body was better than presence of mind. 3 Eomichook 5