Part 15 (1/2)

”We've got to overhaul that other th will have to be description enough if we can't get a better one,” declared the young skipper ”Hank, go down and open up the entle Don't break anything, or put the o back to the wireless, and see whether you can get a more exact description of that boat--especially the course she is believed to have sailed on Hustle! Mr Seaton, hadn't you better inforrove that you'll be absent for a while?”

The owner of the bungalow lad of directions that saved hi

Joe pro for a better description of the seventy-footer and the last course upon which she had been seen

The only further word the lawyer's informant could furnish, as Joe ascertained ten minutes later, was that the boat was painted a drab tint and had a ”s out nearly due east fro out to meet a liner, for some port,” clicked Tom, as he heard the news ”Well, it's our business to find that drab ht up his cap, Mr Seaton looked rather uncertainly froo out on this jaunt over the water,” realow ”But I don't know Perhaps you wantbehind----”

”Stop right where you are, if you please, sir,” broke in Tom Halstead, a decided trace of bitterness in his tone ”You're stillthe loss of the papers you had hidden in the closet I a us a great injustice But you _ with us offers you your only chance of catching up with Dalton and saving your own friends of the syndicate Co, sir! Try to trust us, whether it see skipper seized his charter- Yet Powell Seaton, as in a state of horrible uncertainty, per

Outside, on the porch, Captain Touards, went on briskly:

”Mr Seaton, I know you don't want to carry an armed force for purposes of attack on anyone, and you wouldn't have a right to do it, anyway But, as we may be attacked, if we run afoul of Dalton and his friends, won't it be uards fro curtly, Mr Seaton called to Hepton and Jasper, two of the guards, explaining that they were needed for a cruise on the ”Restless” The pair followed along after the others

”You can keep your rifles, just as well, in the ested Captain Tom, and the fire-ar in readiness for casting off Within forty-five seconds after boarding, the ”Restless” was under way, poking her nose in a north-easterly direction

”We'd better loaf later on, rather than now, Joe,” proposed the young skipper ”See how much speed you can crowd out of the o aft, all alone, dropping into one of the deck ar time he reure on Dalton trying to overtake and board?”

queried Joe, co up at last out of the motor roo ”But I'll tell you what you can do, Joe Leave Hank to watch the est spark you can get Direct your call to any vessel bound for Rio Janerio, or Brazil in general

If you get an answer froitude, course and speed, so we can make for her directly”

As Joe nodded, then dropped down into the eway under the bridge deck, Toure a few feet behind hi there, Jasper?” queried the young captain

”Jest rin

”I' you,” retorted Halstead, quietly ”I don't like passengers so close tothe boat”

”I s'poseno move

”Won't you take a hint?” asked Tom, rather bluntly

”Where d'ye want o further aft, for instance,” replied To this stubborn guard

”Oh, all right,” caruffly fro for thinking much about it,” muttered Tom, under his breath, ”yet it was this saht when Mr Seaton and I were talking about the papers hidden in the closet at the bungalow”