The Calumet Chieftain (Calumet, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CALUMET CHIEFTAIN
A SCRAP OF PAPER.
Rynopald—fttacey Wnllen, first
mate of the burk t'polo, In the
Java era, Ih the sole Burvlvor of
the crew, all victims of yellow
fever. T!i k Wah, Chinese sailor.
Inst man to Ule, tella Wallen he
and five other Chinamen were sent
aboard by "Drink-House 8am," no-
torious character of Singapore, to
kill him. This recalls to Wallen an
Incident of his childhood which
seems connected with the confes-
sion. While delirious, Wallen en-
ters In the ship's lug the fact of
his death and abandons the vessel
in a small boat Wallen's boat
drifts to the Island of Ami and a
Scottish trader there, MacKnlght,
cares for him. Learning that a ship
Is In port on the other side of the
island, twenty miles away, Wallen,
thouKh unlit for the task, starts
to reach It, but falls exhausted on
the trail. There he Is found by a
man nnd woman who arc from the
ship he was trying to reach. Mott
llrst mate, and Helen MacKay, a
passenger. They convey him to the
vessel. The ship proves to be a
Bmall tramp steamer, tho MonlelKh,
Captain Laynton Laynton tells
Wallen the vessel had been char-
tered by Wallen's father to find
him, the father knowing his son to
be in grave danger because of a
long-slandlng feud between the
elder Wallen and a notorious pirate,
Bam Gulab Singh. Laynton also
Informs him of the death of his
father, explaining that the fatality
was believed to be an accident.
Wallen Instantly associates his fa-
ther's death with tho Chinaman's
confession on the Upolo. Ho takes
over the charter of the vessel and
sails for Singapore. Helen MacKay
explains that she Is on a visit to
an aunt In Sumatra. Wallen agrees
to take her there, Just touchng at
Singapore, where he Is determined
to fathom the mystery of "Drink-
House Sam's" enmity.
CHAPTER IV—Continued.
lighters, nffords a safe and convenient
anchorage; the other, land-locked,
fringed with wharves and warehouses,
lies three miles west.
It was already dusk when the Mon-
lelKh, finding a berth amongst a nest
of Junks, sailing and steam craft of
all descriptions and all nationalities,
dropped anchor In the roadstead at
Singapore.
Wallen paused for a final word on
the threshold of Captain Laynton's
cabin.
"It's understood, then, Captain Layn-
ton," he said quietly. "No shore leave
for anybody—and steam up. I'll only
be ashore a few hours, and we'll be
away from here again before morn-
ing."
Captain Laynton was pulling dubi-
ously at his chin.
"Yes; and by morning the customs
and quarantine officials will be looking
for the ship that slipped out without
any 'clearance!'"
"I hardly think the Monlelgh's ar-
rival will crente much of a furor," re-
plied Wallen dryly. "I've a fow hours'
private business ashore, nnd then we'll
get Miss MacKay right across to
Sumatra—and I don't want a rowdy,
drunken crew to do It with."
"All right!" said Laynton. "What-
ever you say, Mr. Wallen."
Wallen, with n nod, stepped aft
along the deck, entered the smoking
room preparatory to descending the
companlonwfty—and came face to face
with Ilelen MacKay.
"Of course," she said demurely,
think it's perfectly splendid that you
are going to run the ship all the way
to Sumatra on account of little tne;
but I think it's sinfully selfish of you
to go ashore all alone this evening
when we're only going to be here for
And so they hnd passed those days,
and it was the fourth night now since
he had come aboard—and tomorrow
they would be In Singapore.
He lay tossing In his bunk. A tumult
of thought kept ills brain active nnd
alert. Singapore! What would Singa-
pore bring him? Who was this Drink-
House Sam?
it mattered a great deal now—a
great deal more than It had mattered
before.
For before, with n sort of berserk
rage, he had been willing to take a
gambler's chance, and, win or lose,
stake his life against this devil, who-
ever he might be, that had tried to
strike him down without warning,
without a chance to defend himself;
but now his life meant more to him—
he wanted to live—'for her.
"Thank God," he muttered, "that
at least everything Is all right on
board here!"
He turned over and lay for perhaps
ten minutes, trying to compose himself
to sleep—but his eyes Insisted on re-
maining fastened on a queer little
white patch by the door. What was
It? It wasn't the moonlight through
the porthole reflecting on anything.
He raised himself up on his elbovy
►.evernl times to make sure of that.
Finally, in a fretful way, he got out
of his bunk to Investigate. It was a
piece of paper that had evidently been
pushed in under the threshold—-but
whether ten minutes or two hours ago
he had no Idea.
Wallen picked up the paper, switched
on the light—and suddenly it seemed
jis though his Immediate surroundings
had vanished, and he was living again
n scene of many years ago. He was
standing on the stairway of that grim,
gray, lonely house iu the dead of night,
n trembling chilli In his nlglitclothes,
nnd below In the hall, holding a candle,
was his father, and Gunga was bending
over n form on the floor, nnd his fa-
ther's voice was in his ears: "Look
figaln, Gunga. Hns he one linger on
the left hand?"
And then Gunga's answer; "I have
looked, sahib, and the hand Is whole."
Wallen's face was strangely white.
On the piece of parchment that he
held was crudely traced a human hand,
end the fingers, save for the forefinger,
liad the appearance of having been
Slacked away.
ml
the hours since that morning like a
hideous nightmare I
"I'll—I'll explain tomorrow, Miss
MacKay," he said hurriedly. "You
mustn't—"
"I'm not 1" she laughed. "I'm only
keeping you." And pushing hlrn play-
fully toward the coinpanlonway, she
ran out onto the deck.
A moment later, Wallen, at the foot
of the ship's ladder, was running his
eye sharply over the half score of
shore boats that pushed and bumped
against each other and the gangway's
platform, and whose occupants at the
prospect of a fare were screaming
and yelling In a frantic effort to nt-
iract his special and undivided atten-
tion.
A Malay boatman had tho strate-
gic position alongside the grating.
Wallen unceremoniously pushed the
craft away with his foot, nnd beck-
oned to a Chinaman who was next In
line. As he clambered Into the boat
he looked up. Helen MacKay was
leaning over the rail of the boat deck.
"Take good care of yourself!" she
ailed out merrily. "Singapore means
the city of lions,' you know. Don't
run your head Into one of their
mouths!" And with a wave of her
hand she was gone.
It brought a sudden, premonitory
shock to Wnllen—and then a grim,
cold smile. The city of lions I It
was only a joke with her, a little light-
hearted fling—with him, God knew It
might prove n ghastly reality!
At first, when he had found that
paper on his cabin floor, he had
thought, as he had told her, that he
would take her straight to Sumatra,
get her off the ship; and then second
thoughts had convinced him that the
danger which threatened him did not
threaten her. She was safe there on
board.
But this thing—It was not only the
personal peril—it rose a shuddering,
mocking barrier between them! Mock-
ing? Yes!
lie or they, the devil or devils who
had murdered his father, were playing
with hlu: as a cat plays with a mouse!
Why had nothing happened to him In
those three days from Pobl, while he
had been living in a fool's paradise of
Imagined security?
Ilis lips thinned into n straight line.
Well, perhaps they would play too
long! He would settle it tonight.
When he came back to the ship lie
would know—or there would be one
less scoundrel In Singapore! That
was what he was going for now—to
Drink-House Sam of Singapore.
Who was it aboard the Monlelgh
who had put that paper under his
cabin door? She had called him
grumpy nil that day—and all that day
he had been studying the crew, cata-
loguing In his mind every man aboard.
It could not well be all—a plot in-
volving the whole ship and crew
seemed out of the question.
Not one of the officers hnd he any
reason to suspect above the others!
though it was true, and a little dis-
turbing now, that Captain Laynton,
In turning over his father's effects,
had not Included the fatal pistol that.
If the story were true, was obviously
his father's property—but that might
readily have been but an oversight.
There was Mott, who had growA | QUICK!
more surly every day.
Wallen shook his head. Mott's at-
titude was easily accounted for—the
man, as witness the ride at Pobl, If It
had not been glaringly evident on
board since then, was attentive to Miss
MacKay, and resented his, Wallen's,
usurpation of what he evidently con-
sidered his prerogative.
What of the crew then?
They were a hard lot and a poly-
glot one!
The English and Americans amongst
them had every appearance of being
the sweepings of the slums of Lon-
don, Liverpool, New York, and, for
men of their Ilk, the more vicious sea-
ports of the far East. The rest were
of every nationality—two of the coal-
passers were Chinese coolies, the stew-
ard was from the West Indies, the
cook was a Frenchman from Port
Said, and two Danes, n Swede, a
Kanaka, from the Sandwich islands,
and three Japanese completed the ros-
ter.
Wallen looked up, nnd fixed his eyes
speculatively on his Chinese boatman.
They were almost at the landing.
"You sabe Drink-House Sam?" he
demanded abruptly.
The Chinaman smirked knowingly.
"Me sabe," he replied.
"All right," said Wallen. "You take
me there. But first, you take me where
the stores are, 1 want to buy some
things, and I don't know my way
about."
"Me sabe," said the Chlnamnn again.
"All same velly glood guide."
He proved to be. Within half an
hour after landing, Wallen had com-
pleted the purchase of an excellent au-
tomatic pistol and ammunition, and
was following the Chinaman back
along a dark street near the water-
front. Another few minutes of twlst-
ings and turnings, and the Chinaman
hai^ halted before an uninviting-look-
ing hostelry In an equally uninviting-
looking neighborhood.
"Dllnk-House Sam's," announced the
guide. "Blim-bly you all same go back
ship? Me wait?"
"No," said Wallen, as he paid the
other. "That's all. Good-night, John !"
The Chinaman disappeared.
Wallen surveyed the building be-
fore which he stood. It was one of
those Easternlzed-European wooden
structures, two stories high, the front
rooms on the second story opening di-
rectly onto the veranda. With the gen-
eral air of being disreputably out at
elbows, it bore all the earmarks of a
sailor's boarding house of the lowest
type.
Wallen stepped forward, pushed the
bar-room door open, and entered.
A bar ran down one side; a score
of small tables occupied tne main por-
tion of the room, and around these
were clustered some twenty-five or
thirty rough-looking hnnds, evidently
on shore leave from the harbor's ship-
ping—and making the most of It.
YOUR HAIR
NEEDS "DANDERINE"
Check uflly dandruff!. Stop hair
coming out and double
its beauty
A little "Danderine" cools, cleanses
and makes the feverish, itchy scalp
soft and pliable; then this stimulating
tonic penetrates to the famished hair
roots, revitalizing and invigorating
every hair in the head, thus stopping
the hair falling out, or getting thin,
dry or fading.
After a few applications of "Dander-
ine" you seldom find a fallen hair or a
particle of dandruff, besides every hair
shows new life, vigor, Brightness, more
color and thickness.
A few cents buys a bottle of de-
lightful "Danderine" at any drug or
toilet counter.—Adv.
Piker.
this all
the money
Footpad—Is
you've got?
Smith—Yes, but that's enough to
send you to prison!
Footpad—Here, take It back; It
ain't enough to keep me out, that's cer-
tain !
"CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP"
IS CHILD'S LAXATIVE
Look at tongue! Remove poison*.
„ from stomach, liver and
bowels.
Wallen's visit to "Drink-
House Sam's" saloon com-
plicates matters.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
CHAPTER V.
Drink-House Sam of Singapore.
There are two harbors at Singapore;
one opposite the town, which although
little more than an open rondstead
Where the ships discharge by meuus of
ELEPHANT MADE NO WHIMPER
Underwent Pain of Having Tooth
Drawn With Stoicism That Would
Shame Many Humans.
It does not require much Imagina-
tion to realize that pulling an ele-
phnnt's tooth Is something of an en-
gineering as well as a dental Job.
An example of this was when Albert,
one of the biggest elephants in the
Ringling herd at Madison Square gar-
den, New York, had refused to eat
nnd the circus veterinnry found a great
tooth envity which was beyond reme- j
d.v by filling.
The tooth that was giving Albert so !
much discomfort was as large as a
man's fist. After a ltbernl dose of co- |
caine had been injected, forceps as big
as Ice tongs were clamped to the tooth,
n rope attached to the forceps, nnd a !
squad of trainers made ready to sui>
ply the pulling power.
At a given signal the trainers gave
a tremendous pull, and out came the
huge tooth.
In this sort of dental work the un-
known quantity lies In what the ele-
phant will do. Albert had been taken
out of the menagerie to prevent panic
among the rest of the herd In case he
developed an Inclination to object to
the process. However, he underwent
the ordeal calmly, and ns soon as his
Jaw was dressed he was conducted
back to his stall.
Accept "California" Syrup of Figs
only—look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and mostharm-
! less laxative or physic for the little
i stomach, liver and bowels. Children'
love its delicious fruity taste. Full
! directions for child's dose on each bot-
I tie. Give it without fear.
Mother! You must say "California."
—Adv.
"Me Sabe," He Replied.
a few hours. Please, Mr. Yacht-Cap-
tain, won't you take me too?"
It was the first time he would hnve
avoided lier If he could have done so.
"I—you—that Is, well, you see. Miss
MacKay—I—I—can't very well. Look
here!" cried Wallen impulsively—and
caught her hands and held them. "I
know you're more than half serious,
and that you're keenly disappointed at
not going ashore. It's true I've been a
beast today ; but I—I've been worried.
Tills morning I had almost made up
my mind to run to Sumatra, and not
touch here nt all; but—there's a little
business that I felt 1 must attend to
this evening, nnd—well, that's what
I'm going ashore for. You—you un-
derstand, I'm sure. Miss MacKay."
Her eyes widened, partly In merri-
ment at this confusion, partly In a
puzzled way.
"Oh !"—there was only bewilderment
In her eyes now. "I—I'm not quite
sure I undorstaud. I thought It was
quite settled when we left l'obl that
we should come here."
"Yes, so It was,' he acknowledged | or singer to use his muscles Incorrectly
awkwardly. He bit his Hps. | nnd thus overtax the throat. The
He could not tell her that his brain j proper way to breathe Is to use the
was sick with the effort to grapple ; diaphragm and the lower ribs, keep-
How Word "Booze" Originated.
In the Pennsylvania museum, Memo-
rial hall in Falrmount park, Phila- i
delphia, can be seen n collection of
highly decorated old bottles, and the j
one which attracts most attention Is
the log cabin whisky bottle, molded In
the shape of a house. On one end Is
the Inscription "120 Walnut street,
Philadelphia," together with the date,
which is "1840," on the front of the
roof. On the back is stamped In bold
letters, "E. G. Booz's old cabin I
whisky."
This erstwhile vendor of spirituous
liquor is said to be responsible for
the use In America of the slung ap-
pellation "booze," by which all kinds , .
of Intoxicating drinks are known to- of Vacher-Balm, which is posl-
day. Although some etymologists give j lively the best remedy for Colds, and
It ns being derived from the Hindu- nanny other ailments.
Sandpaper.
Sandpaper should be part of every
kitchen equipment. It has many uses.
A piece of fine sandpaper will read-
ily remove the scorched portion from,
the bread, etc., and leaves a perfect-
ly smooth surface.
DON'T MISS
THIS OFFER
If we have no ngent in your locality,,
cut out this notice, and mail it to us,
and we will mail you FREE a 25c
stall! word "booza," mennlng to drink,
while others claim it is from the
Dutch "buyzen" to tipple. The term
was good English iu the fourteenth
century.
Speaker's Sore Throat.
"Clergyman's sore thront" Is, accord-
ing to Dr. John .T. Levbarg of New
York, due to nn incorrect method of
Ventriloquists.
Ventriloquism Is the art of produc-
ing tones nnd words without nny mo-
tion of the lips, so that the hearer of-
ten refers the sound to some other
place. The ventriloquist uses no in-
strument, nor does the art depend
upon nny peculiar structure of the or-
gans of the voice, but upon dexterity.
The name Is founded upon the mis-
taken supposition that the voice pro-
ceeds from the stomnch. The art of |
the ventriloquist consists mainly In j
tnklng deep Inhalations of breath, nnd
then allowing It to escape slowly, the
sounds of the voice being modified by
It is a harmless preparation, used
externally, and a safeguard against
the "Flu."
Write today for this offer Is only
fot a limited time, and ynu, or some
of your family are pretty sure to have
Colds this winter.
We know if you once try Vacher-
Balm you will always use it, that Is-
why we can afford to make this offer.
E. W. Vacher, Inc..New Orleans La. Ad.
Only Popularity Worth While.
1 wish popularity; but it is that
popularity which follows, not that
which is run ufter—It is that popu-
larity which sooner or later never fails
to do justice to the pursuit of noble
euds by noble means.—Lord Mansfield.
Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin
On rising and retiring gently smear
face with Cuticura Ointment.
breathing, which causes the speaker the muscles of the throat and palate. ' the
1 Ventriloquism is a very old art anil j Wash off Ointment in five minutes
was known to the nnclent Greeks as | %vlth Cuticura Soap and hot water. It
with a peril that he knew now beyond
question lurked aboard the ship, nnd
that, because it was unseen, because
he could not Identify It In the form
of any one, or two, or all aboard the
ship and fight it in the open, had made
lng the upper chest full of air.
Experts have estimated for the gov-
ernment that Holland's coal deposits
contain more than 5,000.000 tons, but
none of it is first grade fuel
well as to the Romans. The Greeks
ascribed it to the operations of de-
mons, and called ventrllokulsts "En-
gastrlmnntels" (belly-prophets).
The pear) Is the only gem that does
not require the lapidary's art to bring
out Its beauty.
Is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura
will do for poor complexions, dandruff.
Itching and red rough hands.—Adv.
Getting Together.
"IIow do you meet the high cost of
living?" "You are not supposed to
meet It. It overtakes you."
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