Part 30 (1/2)

Topsail, Ar, Grimm & Company, Aboard ”Spot Cash,”

Tilt Cove

Still three thirty-five No rise probable

Ar was hurt He could hardly conceive that his father had planned the ruin of his undertaking and the loss of his honour

But as left to think? Would the skipper and clerk of the _Black Eagle_ deliberately court discharge? And discharge it would be--discharge in disgrace There was no possible excuse for this ae in prices No; there was no explanation but that they were proceeding upon Sir Archibald's orders It was inconceivable that they should be doing anything else Archie would ask no quarter of his father; but he would at least let Sir Archibald know that he are of the difference between fair and unfair competition

Before he boarded the _Spot Cash_ he dispatched this& Co three eighty-five Underselling flour, pork, tea, sugar Why don't you play fair?

Topsail, Ar could have been in the little office which overlooked the wharves to observe the effect of that e upon Sir Archibald he would not only have been aood deal less time than he actually did The first item astounded and bewildered Sir Archibald; the second--the brief expression of distrust--hurt hihty-five for fish? What was the ar and tea? What was theof _that_? Sir Archibald saw in a flash what it , Gri & Company? Sir Archibald flushed and perspired rath He pushed buttons--he roared orders--he scribbled telegrae, so intense his purpose, it was known from one end of the establishle_& Cole_ direct, it seeht, however, communicate with the _Spot Cash_, now at Tilt Cove and possibly bound north Doubtless by favour of the clerk of the _Spot Cash_ Ar & Company would be able to speak orders in the ear of Skipper George Rumm

”Judd!” Sir Archibald roared

The pale little clerk appeared on the bound

”Rush this,” said Sir Archibald

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Archibald Ar II, On board ”Spot Cash,”

Tilt Cove

Please oblige order ”Black Eagle” St John's forthwith

This your authority

Ar & Company

CHAPTER XXVIII

_In Which the ”Spot Cash” is Caught By a Gale In the Night and Skipper Bill Gives Her Up For Lost_

It was blowing up when Archie returned to the _Spot Cash_ There was a fine rain in the wind, too; and adenser on the face of a whitening sea Nothing to bother about yet, of course: only a smart breeze and a little tumble, with thick weather to make a skipper keep his eyes open But there was the threat of heavy wind and a big sea in gray sky overhead and far out upon the water

Tilt Cove was no place for the _Spot Cash_ to lie very long; she ht

”Archie, b'y,” said Bill o' Burnt Bay, in the cozy forecastle with the boys, ”there's sole_”

”I should say so!” Archie sneered ”It's the first time I ever knew my father not to play fair”