Part 14 (1/2)

On leaving the lawyer's office, Captain Beauchamp went at once to the office of Samson & Co, where, on presentation of the order, the Marjorie was turned over to him Thence to the Barbary coast, where he had little difficulty in picking up the crew he needed, including a man of his own type as ineer was ordered to get everything in readiness for iave directions that on the following afternoon he should set out for Playys, a s

Selecting two of the crew upon whom he could rely, the captain hired a team of horses and a driver and set out upon the road to San Matteo

They traveled without incident, stopping over night at a hotel on the way, until they came within about a mile of San Matteo Here the driver with his horses was sent back, they proceeding the rest of the way on foot

San Matteo Bay is a point at which it will be seen

CHAPTER X

AT SAN MATTEO BAY

”I thought you said that the rendezvous was somewhere in the South,”

drawled Berwick

He was standing with Ji, watching away in the north the fast disappearing Sea Eagle

”So I did, and so it is,” answered Ji to the north is only a ruse on Broo direction”

”Hope you are right, but--” returned Berwick, leaving the sentence significantly unfinished ”I a new transpires”

”Which way shall I lay our course, sir?” asked the captain, co

The professor, before replying, looked at Jily

”To the South!” insisted Jim

”South it is then,” directed the professor

”South it is,” answered the captain, going back to the bridge

”We will keep on that course until ,” added the professor ”And as there is a fair breeze bloill proceed under sail Ask Mr

Berwick to bank the fires in the boiler”

It was now dusk The stars were showing in the sky, and the lights of the Sea Eagle were lost in the ers sat around on the deck listening to the professor's stories of his experiences in the South Seas, but it had been a long and arduous day and they soon began to groeary

”I think,” began To a yawn ”I think I shall turn in until tied that some one of the four should always be on deck

”A very sensible idea,” agreed the professor; ”I think ill all be better for a good night's rest”

Without incident of note, all through the night the Stor sped on her way south

The party were all on deck early the nextaround that they were alone on the wide sweep of water Way off to the west the sails of a vessel shohite like the wings of a bird on the horizon, and far away to the north was a blur fro in thewhen the bold headline of the cliff that marked the entrance to San Matteo Bay calided into the bay and sought an anchorage