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HAPPY DAYS.
of the Forsaken Land.. Much is. covered
by water, it is true, but there is enough
left to make you and I very wealthy men.
Do.I have your consen!
It was plain that Ellis was completely
staggered by this. audacious proposal, For
a J oy moments he stuttered and stam-
sara of course, my laa,” he blurted. “T
know you're honest by your looks. “I'll put
the papers in your hands now. {you shall
have a half interest. 8 it fair?’
“Yes!” replie ied Jack. “But t am going
Well you are entitled to at.
- Say, iwoth ir .
t that!” Septied ‘the young miner. with
mich, embarrassment. ~ The old scientist
whistled in surprise.
“You don’t want it all?” he as Ked.
“Oh, no, sir, I am not referring to that. ”
The y young girl's
face was illumed with a rare light and her
eyes were shining. She placed a hand on
her father’s arm.
“He wants me, father,” she said.
-The old scientist started as if dealt a
blow. He stared at the young miner for
moment in a stony .way. Then his gaze
grew kindly. Something like a sob burst
from his bosom.
Rising, he led Grace forward, and placed
her hand in that of Jack Haynes. He s:
norning, put they knew that his heart was
with
5
a
ai “Grace,” said Young Frank Reade,
a ittle later, for a teasing mood was on
him; “you’ve jilted me in good fashion. I
always supposed you would wait for me!”
“Why didn’t you speak before,” said- the
young girl with a jolly laug!
.The airship a few hours ‘later was on
its way to St. Michaels. There . Jack
Haynes and Joe Smith took their leave of
the others. Jack “had the claim papers
and at once began to organize his mining
compan;
A tow ‘months later, with a strong force
of men he returned t e Forsaken
and began the development of one of the
righest gold mines in Alaska.
e is to-day one of the wealthiest of all
Alaskan miners, and not far
distant when he will return to the United
States and claim lovely Grace Ellis for his
vThe Polar Star returned to Readestown
safely, after a propitious aerial voyage.
Frank Reade, Jr., and Young Frank’s moth-
er, it is needless to say, welcomed all back
with intense joy. .
The project had been a complete success.
Harvey Ellis was restored to his family
and his iriends, and from that hour fortune
smiled upon him.
The fate of the Lesters and Luke Snyder
was never definitely known. The report
was current that Sam Lester was shot in a
barroom brawl at Dawson
r Lester returned to Reades-
town only to dispose of his property there
and leave the place forever. Nobody re-
gretted this move on his
Small and Hynes were never heard of
again, but doubtless are to-day plying their
nefarious calling as gamblers in some pot
the mining camps.
The North Star Mining Company, ‘ot
which Jack Haynes is president, is a boom-
pe success, But Jack will persist in say-
na owe it all. ‘to Young Frank Reade and
his air-shi would all have left our
i
Certainly credit was due
tor, who was now the pride of his father’s
heart. As the Polar Star was his first
prodigies performed by oung Fran’
Reade, the Boy Inventor.
* [THE END.]
oo
Next week! ‘*Tony the Torment at
Home; or, Waking Them up Again,’’ by
Tom Teaser.
(This story commenced in No. 261.)
Doctor Dick:
on,
_ Ten Weeks on Lunatic Island.
By J. G. BRADLEY,
autor ot, “Captain Thunder,” psindad
cond,” “The Hero of the
SSiaine,” etc., etc., etc,
- ‘CHAPTER XXII.
LEM SIGNALS THE STEAMER.
was no sleep for any one on Luna-
~ tic sland the night after the Submarine
Ram blew up, for the boys were very busy
burying the body of the poor lunatic who
had died so suddenly in the excitement, and
the inmates of the shanties were in the
wildest possible state of commotion.
t is wonderful how King Flappy-Doo
a his head to-day, wasn’t it?” said Ned,
the boys came slowly back from their
sad errand down by the water. “I expected
to see him kick over ‘the traces every min-
ute, and if he had { am sure the Chancellor
and Hercules would have joined him very
promptly.”
“Sometimes I think there is a chance for
the old fellow to regain his senses entire:
ly,” answered Dick. - “He certainly seemed
more rational to-day than’ I ever saw him.”
“Sometimes big excitement will restore
the reason instantly,”. said
sadly. “Just think of all ee, dreadful
things ¢ that have happened to-d:
bad enough for that “wonderful
boat to blow up,: but it was dreadful to
think of all those little fellows being killed.
I feel tenee about it,” Dick remarked
with a
“Well, vo couldn't. jbelp it, 50 there's no
use to mourn. © pad. off ourselves
to weep over others wiueh,” em.
It was a somewhat fosey. night, and the
boys began to feel anxious as they saw that
the shanties looked hazy, although they
, were so near
at steamer will never see our signals
in tha fog,” groaned Ned. “Oh, it does
seem as if everything was against us!”
“UH £0 up ¢ on that knoll and build a big
fire,” said Li “It yu geare the luna-
ics, I supped, but T’ve got
“ll go and tell them aera it’s all about, ”
said Dick, as he started for King Flappy-
Doo’s shanty, “It’s high time, anyway,
that I was paying a professional visit. ”
“T hope we'll be successful,” Ned called
out after him, “for I’ve got the horrors to-
night. It don’t seem to me that I can stand
it to hear those fellows jabbering.
. “Poor chap! He’s homesick,” Said Dick
to himself, but he,only called back: “I’ll
see that they are quieter in a minute!”
Lem started up toward the knoll, which
was the highest point on the island, and be
gan collecting material to make his bon-
fire.
“It’s too hazy to even see our flag of dis-
tress, ”’ said Ned, who had followed Bim.
jo you suppose it will clear before t
morrow momin 2
\ “Great Si I hope so!” said the sailor,
eruffly. “I’ m feel ike cutting my throat if
I miss that steame:
“How long have ve been here now?” ask-
ed Ned, after a m
He was helping ‘Lem collect his sticks
and cut a wide brake around his bonfire,
“Pretty near ten weeks, Dick says,”
the answer. “He’s made a memorandum o}
the date every day and wound his watch.
I don’t see how he ever remembered to do
ity, op couldn't.
ere never, was, another~ chap “like |
Dick, said Ned, quickly. “Won’t he be a
hero if we ever get back home! Wis rh
sound his praises from the Battery to Har
lem! [’ll tell everybody we know about his
being the doctor.of Lunatic Island!”
“I doubt if they’ll believe you,” said the
sailor, shortly. “You've got to see this
place yourself. before you'll believe any
stories about e heard about the Mys-
terious Islands for years, but I never real-
ly believed in their existence until the day
he Pirate of the
. i he was a fake in
spite of the fact that T knew of ships that
were lost when the sky was perfectly clear
and the water like a mill-pond.”
“Well, we know now that he was the
genuing article, gad a mighty bad brand,
0, don’t we? nly good "nines about
high were his jewels nd his boo
And those he sto.e from sunken steam-
ers,” said Tem, with a sigh. “I wonder if
we will ever be expected. to hunt for the
true owners?’
“By Jove! I didn’t ‘think of that! Why,
that would mean that re would have to
give them up!’ cried Ned. “Oh, well, I
don’t know as I'd care if @ could only get
away from Lunatic Island.
“It ain’t at all probable that we'll ever
find out whose it was at all,” said the sail-
or, “and there’s nov way in the world of
identifying mone:
Just then Dick came up with his arms
full of fagots.
“They are quieter now, but I can’t make
them go to sleep. I think they sare all up-
sere over the death of ‘the Bab;
e sat down on a stone aad watched Lem
as ue lighted his pile, and alter aa minute
Ned came and sat down beside
“I think the haze is clearing a little,”
said Ned, after a minute. “I can almost
see the flag.”
“I can see it plainly,” said Dick, follow-
ing Ned’s gaze, “It will be clear in an
our; you see what I tell you.”
The pile of leaves and fagots began blaz-
ing and the pieces of bamboo started crack-
ling merri
The lunatics gave a few sharp yells,
when they saw the blaze, but the boys
heard King Flappy-Doo scold them into si-
nce,
Tn less than an hour the fog had lifted
and from the knoll the boys could catch a
faint eumpse of the ocean.
“ p in the tree just as soon as it
is light. enough, ” said Lem. “My eyes are
better than yours; | it there’s a Steamer in
sight I can see
The boys took turns in dozing and feed-
ing the fire until morning, and the hours
were jenlivened by many encounters with
lizards, snakes and bugs which crawled out
of their holes when the fire began to warm
things up arlittle,
The monkeys bad scattered at first, but
they soon came back, and watched the fire
as curiously a though it had been lighted
tor their ben
With the haitering of the monkeys and
an occasional yell from the lunatics the
night was pretty noisy, but by daylight the
island was quiet again, and Lem was up in
the tree on the lookout for a steamer.
and Dick sat below on a rock and
waited, but they were, very busy making
garments out of the biggest leaves we put
on as soon as their shirts and coats, and
perhaps their, trousers, were needed for
als,
"My suit is” going to be a dandy,” said
Ned, holding it “It's a claw-hammer
tail coat and “Epring-bottom trousers,
What's yours, Dick? I hope they'll be
stylish.”
“Oh, mine's a Tuxedo,” laughed Dick, as
he whittled some more pins out of tough
little sticks. my trousers will be
knickerbockers if 1 don’t hurry and make
them longer.”
“Poke up the fire a bit, boys,” came Lem’s
voice from the tree. “That smoke can be
seen a good “qeal farther than my signals.”
“There comes lappy with some coffee.
Ain’t he a darling! o eried Ne
He got up from his seat and went to meet
“Breakfast will be ready very soon,” said
the old fellow, quietly. “The ¢ ren had
a bad night, Due they are better this morn-
ing.
San thanks to you,” said Ned, patting
him on the shoulder. “You are a rattling
Bod king, I tell you, Flappy!
octor’s medicines make em
a cy said the old fellow quickly. “T nem
scold—but it helps a 1 ig
“You bet it does!” said “Ned. “But now
go and get yourself some coffee. You look
pale and tired,” he said, looking sharply at
the old fellow.
ig went back to his subjects and
the boys drank their coffee, calling up to
to come down and have some. _
There was no answer from Lem, so Dick
called again, then he looked up, quickly, for
he knew that something must be the mat-
sure he sees something! Look at
a he whispered as he punched Ned it
vesed Tooked up and saw Lem gazing fix-
edly out on the ocean with an expression on
his face that could not be mistaken.
ouddenly the sailor shouted at the top of
=
Uunes
“Quick! Peel off your duds, boys, and
hand them up to me! I see smoke on the
‘horizon, and I’m sure tvs a steamer!"
boys climbed and handed
their coats and what was eft ot their whirls
and in a few seconds Lem wig-wagging
from the very topmost branches,
“Oh, she must sea us!” eried Ned. “It
would be cruel if she didn’t!”
climbed bigher in the tree, but not
high enough to interfere with Lem and his
signals.
“I see her! I see her!” he cried out ina
minute. “Come up higher, Dick, quick,
and take a look at her, old fello
Dick crawled up bigh enough to take a
look and then dropped down again.
ustn’t get excited,” he said, “for she
may not see us, And above all, I must try
and not excite my patients.”
Ned dropped down to the ground | leo,
and both stood and watche
waved his black and white signals at Hi
ervals. es
* Suddenly he gave a shout that could have
been heard pretty near all over the island.
_ “She sees me! She sees me! She has an-
swered my signals!”
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE RESCUE.
Lem continued his signals until he was
absolutely certain that the steamer had
headed for the island, and then he came
down from the tree and gave the boys back
their clothing.
.°“I can't see that you’ve injured them
much,” said Ned, crawling into his rags.
“And I’m not so sure but what the leaves
would have been more comfortable.
lon’t matter much now,” he cried, as he
turned ‘a Somersault: “we are going to be
rescued, ai id I can buy some new ones.”
“Yes, and we'll buy some for the lunatics,
too,” said Dic) “Oh, I can hardly believe
that we are going to get away from this isl- |,
“It will take them some time to get
here,” said Lem; “so don’t stir up the luna-
. I'll go down to the
shore and wait for their boat, but first we
must plan what to do with the money.”
“That’s so,” said Dick. “We've got’ to
look out for that sharp. It was safe enough
here, but on board ship it will be different.
We'll pack part of it in the jewel casket, so
at if won't be too heavy, but m a afraid of
those ete they look suspiciou
ave to do, said ‘Lem;
haven" t anything else. ‘on, I guess we
Protect them while we have our band
as sure that it was an
ste: camer I wouldn't be atraid. ” said "Bick,
“for I would put oar reasure in care of
the captain immediat
s, we know that there is no Pirate to
“se
a
“y.
sink the ship and loot her coffers now,”
4
said Ned. “Really, I think we have done a
great favor to the navigators of these
ers.
“Well, I should say so,” said Lem. “why,
we've even found the Mysterious Islands!
That’s more than any one has done that I
ever beard of.”
“And we've helped a lot of wretched a hi.
man beings to be more comfortable,” said
Dick, *‘and now we are going to save them
from dying on this island.”
“The Go vernment or somebody ought to
reward us,” said Ned, laughing; “but if
they don't, we can reward ourselves by just.
keeping all that money.”
“Ob, but won't our folks be astonished
when we come home rich! cried Dick. “I'll
tell them I got it bile 1 aw practicing
medicine on Lunatic d.
“They'll believe that as quick as they will
anything else,” said Lem; “they'd hardly
believe that you found it in an under-
ground passage on an {island that had 1 never
been visited before except by a lot of ship-
wrecked d sallors who went Crazy before they-
got oF
“Nor that a pirate had put it in the
passage in the first place,” chimed in Ned.
“A rascal who sailed the ocean in a Sub-
marine Ram manned by imps no bigger
than a good-sized baby! Gee! Fput won't we
have a tale to tell! But for goodness sake
burrs, up, Lem, and get back to your sig-
als!”
Lem had been packing a lot of gold in
the jewel casket, and now took it on his
shoulder and started for the shore.
When he got there he hid the casket in
he bushes and began looking around for-
the steamer.
her in a very few minutes, mak-
then went and got the Pirate’s barge ready. ©
“It’s too bad our own boat isn’t on this
side of the island,” he said to himself;
“there's a lot more room in her than there
is in this, but I expect she’ ‘Ss most too dry
now to be very seawor'
ed and Hercules
with the rest of the gold, and
Lem directed them to hide it as he had the
casket.
Hercules is as cool as a cucumber this
morning,” said Ned. “I’ve been talking to
him all the way over, and have told him all
about. the steamer. There she is now!” he
cried. clapping bis hands for Jey “What a
bles: - for, we. poor ..
shipw
“Hereules 13 tak too, just look at him?
cried
Ned turned to the Junatic and saw that
he was smilin,
“T tell you, she looks grand, doesn’t she?”
Ned sald, pointing to the steamer. “It
on't be many days now before we'll be
Back in civilization.
“That is if they are not are to land,”
said Lem. oberly, “ y may not t lke
our looks ‘when they get hear enough to see
us.” -
“VI keep Hercules out of sight. We
won't scare them,- we, Our
clothes may be ragged, but they are neither
leaves nor feather:
. We don’t Too! k bad to each other,”
said Lem, with a laugh; “ poe it’s a question
how we may look to other:
“There comes Dick!" cried Ned, as he
heard a whistle. He ran back and met him
and pointed out the steamer,
“It’s too good to be true,” said Dick, with
ears springing to his eyes. “I'm as glad’
on King Flappy-Doo’s Account as I am on
ours, poor fellow! He’s had a mighty
herd time of it for thirty years on this
n
oThey" ve all had,” said Ned, “but ee
good days are coming. Hello! What's th
steamer about; is she heading away trom
the island?”
he boys waited a moment, and then
Lem replied:
“She Ta as come as near as she dares,” he
said, very slowly. “She's not going to take
chances of striking the rocks as the Ram
did yeste:
Ina very ‘short time the steamer dropped
her anchor, She was near enough ‘ow for
the boys to make out her captai
Pretty quickly a boat manned by sailors
was swung loose from the davits and the
boys saw one of the under officers take his
position in her.
“Here, ‘take* Hercules back the
bushes!” cried Lem. “I don't want those
sailors to turn back when they see him.
Dick explained it to Hercules as quickly
as he could, and the fanatic gan willingly
and hid himself in the bush
In less than two mninutes | the ship’s boat
was within hailing distance, and Lem
swung his cap around his head as he ran.
down to meet i
“Ship: ahoy!
yelled the boys.
Dick threw his cap up nobly, but Ned °
almost burst out erying.
“Cheer up, Ned, and hurrah with your.
whole heart,” cried Dick, and the next min-
ute he was fairly bugging ine officer who
had just sprang from the
Lem could hardly talk fast enough to ex
piain the situation, and both the officer and
the sailors had to wipe away their tears
when he told them of the poor fellows who
ad gone crazy on the island.
It was indeed the Adelaide, an English
steamer, and every man on board-a gentle
ft
Hurrah! We are saved!”
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