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DEVIL'S MANTLE ER8e Hela] i: i A them. There was something grimly ironical in the unexpected turn of events--and Captain Jose- phus Mumm in a passion was quite capable of anything! "You haven't got any pearls, have you?" Peter inquired coolly. "Why should I want to murder you?" "What're you doing with that knife, then, and where'd you get it?" retorted Captain Mumm fierely. "It's merely 'Exhibit A' in the case,' answered Peter quietly. He tossed the knife on the table. "I'm not positive, but 1 have a very back to life by natives. is taken away by Captain Jo- sephus Mumm, master 5 the good ship Break o' Dawn, for teh reward offered because of a ervime he never committed. A storm comes up at sea and the native crew blames him as the Jonah. 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"The omly thing that's going down, by God, is the sea--not the Break' o' Dawn! By tomorrow the tail end of it'll have passed." Peter made no answer. Captain Mumm sniffed angrily. "Now, what about that knife? You say Yar Lal heaved it at you?" A "Or one of the 'others," amend- edd Peter. "I'm not prepared to say which." "Humph!" exclaimed Captain Mumm roughly. "Well, yor know why! And I ain't altogeth er sure I don't side with 'em. © all the scrougy luck that ever I've had since I went to sea, I've had the worst since you came aboard here. "They've made up their minds that you, being taboo with the blood of a man on your hands, are at the bottom of it, and, damme, I ain't prepared to say but it be- gins to look uncommonly like i," "I assure you," sald Peter short- ly, "that T did not come ahoard throngh choice; and, if I remem- ber correctly, your idea of 'luck' on that occasion was quite differ- ent from the view you appear to hold now." Another Dead Man Captain Josephus fiercely, "You keep a civil tongue in s2owled vour head, blast you!" he snarled. "You ought to have a knife heav- d 'at you on any account, a doz- 1 of 'em, and I--" Captain Josephus Wy. Peter, a hard smile tightening 's lips, straightened up tensely. A figure, a strangely grotesque 'igure, was descend 'g the com- nanfonway to the cabin. Yar Lal! The man had on a pale of duck trousers that clung wetly to a pair of skinny legs; a thin shirt, equally as wet and torn in a doz- en places, covered the upper por- tion of his body; a mass of drip- ping hair hung over a lean, hrown, working face, and out of it, as though ypeering out from behind some treacherous ambuscade, glit- tered a pair of black eyes, as ven- omous as a serpent's. Yar Lal made an obeisance. "What it 1s in the power of man to do, that have I done, O master; and it is very ill with the ship, but even so it was when the sahib left her in my care." "Well, then?" prompted Cap- tain Sahib ungraciously. "Sah!b'"--Yar Lal's voice grated paused sud- '| the certainty class. harshly -- *a little while ago Mir Dass came to tell me that Durga was dead, and I went and looked, and it was even so. And the toll s now three." "Ah!" ejaculated Captain Mumm sharply. "Dead, is he? Well ,there was no hope for him. And the toll is now three, eh? And so you tried to knife Blake : her to make It four--is that it?" "Sahib," said Yar Lal, his eyes smoldering, and fixed on Peter now, "it is in the mind of Putab Singh, and Selim Dey, and Mir Dass, and also it is in my mind, sahib, that it is an ill thing that all should die, and Mumm B3ahib likewise with the rest, hecause that which is an offense to Allah should remain amongst us. By the law he who has killed sooner or later die. Let him die pow, therefore, lest he bring more evil upon us, and we all perish before the night is done." Captain Josephus Mumm scowl- ed meditatively for a moment at Yar Lal. "Think he's at the bottom of it. do you?" be grunted. "Ain't chapged your minds any, I take it! And with another one of y»u cashing in it's put the business in That's your argument, ain't it?" "Sahib," said Yar Lal passion- ately, "as Allah lives we are sure. The man is accursed -- and the curse has fallen upon us all. Give bim to us, sahib--and so even the law to which the sahih journeys with him will be fulfilled." The scowl on the little red-haired man's face grew deeper. "I am not the law," he growled. "And I am no murderer, Yar Lal!" "His blood shall be on our heads, sahib," Yar Lal answered swiftly. "And no man shall know what bas come to pass--for even as it was with Wajib Abdur and Chui- der Kheyl, who were swept over- board in the storm, =o shall it be reported of this man." Captain Mumm tweaked at his beard, eyeing through lids that were narrowed to slits mow, first one and then the other of the two men in the cabin with him. 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"D'you hear, Blake?' he gruffly, "I hear," said Peter. "Well, what am [I to say?" Peter eyed the other for an in- stant and could read nothing save a sort of gathering, unfriendly fury on the other's countenance, His glance traveled to i.e motionless figure of Yar Lal. The man looked more like 2 beast thun a human being--the eyes were strangely hot, as though reasop had fled from them. » "What pou damned please," said PePter quietly--and, reaching out suddenly, possessed himself of the knife that, a litt'» while before, he had flung upon the table. A silence fell for an instant in the ¢~*n; th a Japtain Mumm too': a step forward--toward Yar Lal. "Mutiny, wc ald you! And make a murderer out of me, would you!" be roared. "You try any. of your dirty ga..es on (Captain Josephus Mumm, and I'll teach you what's o'clock!" He took another step forward, shaking a clenched fist. "Get out of here, damn you! Get back to the deck, you dog, where you belong!" Yar Lal retreated slowly up the companionway. "The sahih uses Bard words," he snarled.' "Aye!" bellowed the little red- haired man. "And I'll use harder-- you scum of the pest-holes of Asia! 'i-- A laugh, ugly, di cordant, sinis- ter, came from Yar Lal's tight lips. "Sahib," he said, "in my country there is a saying that he who rides tiger c:nnot dismount. Let it be so then sahib, I go." sald The companionway was empty. "Then, sahib," said Yar Lal, and | Yar Lal had vanished. For the fraction of a second Cap- tain Mum stood staring up the companio..way;; then he turned, and with a jump, quick and agile as a cat's, reached the after end of the cabin, and, unlocking a small cupboard, enched the door open. Peter moved impulsively tow- ard the red-haired skipper. "Look here," Ite said, "this is rather decent of you, for if I'm any judge of a S..anic r:ug that chap's got one, and--"' "Shut your jaw!" Tawled Cap tain Mumm furiously. He whirled around with wo revolvers in his hands and pushed one across the table to Peter. "Are you going to teach me what that snaky lot'll do when they run amok? Not Cap- tain Mumm---who'. lived among 'em, boy ar . man, for forty years! They'll be on us as soon as that blasted mate can carry the tale to the fo'c'sle, and it's us or them pow, and that's ail there is to it." "It's all the more decent of you, then," said Peter earnestly; "if you think it's as bad as that." "Hell!" = .norted Cari.in Jose- pphus Mumm. "D'you think it's on your account? D'you think I'd lift a finger for you, you swine? No blasted fear! I ain't fighting for you--I'r> fiz nz for tuiat 5000 pounds! Aye." and he laughed raucously, "so'll you, too, unless you want to go overboard with a knife in you! Come oun now-- quick! If they trap us down bere we're gone!" Peter had no opportunity to re- ply--the red-haired man with the gargoyle face was already half way to the deck. But be was not sure that he would lave made a reply anyway. No earthly use! He was cc "cious merely of a certain grim and mocking sense of irony per- vading everything aboard the Break o' Dawn. Fate was having a bit of a laugh. It made him think of a herd of cattle on the way lo the slaughter--that fought among themselves for standing room in the pens! An interesting prelude! A tum' ling sea drenched him as 'he reached the deck; am iron grip on his arm saved him from being vied of 1 't. Captain Mumm scream-1 in his ear over the howl of the wind: "Don't waste none of your am- '| maset, and, munition, y'understand? When you shoot--shoot straight! Now, stick close and follow me." It was utterly black. Peter could just make out the little skipper"s form ahead of him as, a yard be- hind the other, he ran staggering and lurching along tlc Ditching deck in the direction of that glim- mer of light at the binnacle apd the shadowy form at the wheel. Whether the man there heard them or not Peter «did not know, but an instant later Captain Mumm"s re- volver was 'lapped azainst the Las- car's head, "Search him!" shouts. Captain Mumm. "And keep an eye for'ard!" Peter went swiftly through the man's clothes, possessed himself of 2 long, keen- bladed knife, and a4 he searched heard Captain Mumm snarling at the other, but in the storm coud only catch snatches of ..2t was =a.d. The i 4 po other wea; .n but the "nife. Peter strained his eyes forward. He could make out 'the stun ~ of the fore- beyond, everywhere, wild, rearing crests of waves-- nothing else. Another sea swept thé deck--swept by him knee high. A lightnicg flash split through the black. "Theye they come!" Peter cried. "They'fe tumbling up out of the peak!" Captain Mumm"s out over the storm, "You leave that wheel," he warn- de the Lascar, "and I'll come back and drop you if it's the last thing I do!" A tiny spurt of flame came oui of the darkness forward; and, faint- ly, down with the wind came the echo of a report. "Armed!" boomed Captain Mumm again. "One of 'err is, any» soy! That * vil Yar La' th. one --sncaked a revolver aboard some time or other, did he! Come on-- work for'ard! Fire at the next flash Dive 'em back. There's only three of 'em and a dead man with a broken head!" Peter laughed in a low, grim way, as, with the red-haired skip- per beside him, he began to make Lis way along the crazy heaving deck. Why shouldn't he laugh? All hell, itself, must be screaming with Celight! Blindman's-buff on a scui- voice boomed tling ship! They were all mad-- himself, the kipper, and those men out there with the murder lust upon them. Nevertheless he would like to settle account with Yar Lal! Let the afterward take care of ite self! (To be continued) NEW CABLE LAWS AFFECT CANADA Commander C. P. 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