Isle o' Dreams

Goes Cruising i

mbayan Drive past the Walled City in a carromata, and disembarked from the nat

hue, and an aura of perfumed soap. Mr. Peth felt uncomfortabl

mbled Peth, as they mounted th

I brace the gent at the office," sai

he bar, while Jarrow squeaked his way into the palms and velvet grandeu

kins, rising from be

serted Jarrow, seizing the railing a

"Name, please?" He reache

anger he could not see. He had no plan for a telephone conversation as prelimi

iend of Captain Dinshaw's, who's come t

nced: "Mr. Locke, there's a gentleman here to see you f

d Locke. "Hello! I guess y

"I was sent to see you.

" said Locke. "W

said Jarrow, s

d fellow with the pictur

woman seated before a small table covered with tea things, and a tall young man standing near by. Mr. Locke stood just inside the door, but what warmed Jarrow'

to him to be strangely furtive and sinister, standing in the half-light, ears twitching, a cl

said Locke, in a friendly way,

wreckin' business. You ask

ay Dinshaw

e it you've had

I ha

ight. Understand

ow? And you have a sc

rse! Don't you remember, Dad? Captain

n he said would go to his island. This is

ng time to study this hulking, limp-kneed man who stood before him like a gorilla cro

. Jarrow allowed himself to sink carefully into a g

ke a cup of tea,"

e you've been buyin' some of the old cap'n's pictures. He's a

o?" aske

ha', only I don't own all my schooner. It's been busy up to now with gover'ment work-hay for the cavalry posts down south. But now I'm ready,

about such things,"

ate," went on Jarrow, "but I'll make

repaid," said Locke.

ke, ye're in on a good thing, if y

mused smile at Trask. "You know more about the proposition than

broke in Jarrow. "I thought from what Dins

it as I do, and more," said L

Dick, and Harry, if I had the weather on it like you have. I'm above board in my dealin's. You ask anybod

s I understand it, you intend to

n Jarrow," said Marjorie. "It wil

o' apologize for jammin' myself i

r a knee, stroked the seams of his new F

he Nuestra-that's my schooner, the Nuestra Se?ora del Rosario-me and Peth, my mate, we own it with others. In the wreckin' business it's touch and go. You got to be on the spot, and there ain't been any too many wrecks out this way lately. Let me go away for a week or two on this

ed as to why Jarrow should call on him to take him into

money in it,"

hink so, Captain Jar

question was appallingly direct, and T

mfortably aware of being pinne

uld take the trouble to tell us abo

up suddenly and his eyes op

erview?" demanded Locke. "There

in between his lips. His ears twitched and his head ducke

he whispered, as if

ather you believe I have something t

tache and gave a sup

me you wanted me and my sc

o keep still, and Marjorie gave an exclamation

er! He certainly is crazy! Mos

te, he's below n

re going?"

an't go on my own hook. I thought you f

Locke. "We had no intention

d Marjorie. "It's a ghastly mistake if poor old Ca

we haven't any more idea of going to this gold island than we have of going to the moon. My daughter and I are leaving t

t kill old man Din

e done anything to disappoint him. I'll always feel g

ho'll go to my island if they can git your schooner-and yours is the only one to be had for love or money. I know you'll lose on it, seein's you

r's what you need, why, she's lyin' off the breakwater, and I'm your man.' And Peth, my mate, he speaks up,

n't as strong now as he was then, neither. If I had the capital, I'd go in on my own, but I'm up to my ears in debt, and as I said, I'd just about split even at sixty-five dollars a day. But I can't go it a

never forgive myself if we go away from here and leave that old m

o the States if you feel th

send him home. I offered to buy his ticket some

" asked Trask. "I und

said Jarrow. "Take a week,

. "I had an idea it

Of course, if a man wanted to spend a lot of time there, diggin' around, that's a cat of another c

Just to make Dinshaw happy! You said I mi

o schoonering around out in this c

d be gre

chooner isn't what a liner is? You can't have

l hands a room to theirselves. All Cap'n Dinshaw needs is a mouthful of sea-air an' a deck under his feet. There's a whallopi

, "if we can make the

m in on it," d

re a brick! I

you to come, Mr. Locke," he said, "but I don't want t

ss I can stand h

t my company was backing Dinshaw. I haven't authority to go on this trip, and if it turned out badly, a failure would be credited against the Cons

rrent at the Chinese bank, which was to be tra

k as an advance and to buy supplie