SYNOPSIS
Released on =a charge that he
was captain of a slave ship, Cap-
tain Nuggin Taylor, an American
conspires with British Navy Office
to trap one of the slave ringlead-
ers, Lieutenant Tarryton of Her
Majesty's Navy. Tarryton deserts
and sails for America on the Wii-
liam Brown. A pyromaniac sets
fire to the ship. Its food and water
stores are ruined. Taylor takes
charge upon the death of the Wil-
liam Brown's captain. He sets up
kangaroo court to select passen-
gers for the two lifeboats. A. mu-
tiny ensues but Taylor quells this.
Tarryton becomes enraged at Tay-
lor’s attentions to his sister, Mar-
garet, whom Taylor loves. Tarry-
ton in a blaze of anger attempts
to kill Tay:or but Powdah, Tay-
lor’s devoted friend, stops the bul-
“et. Taylor then hurls Tarryton
into the sea. The lifeboats put out
to sea and are picked up by an-
other vessel.
CHAPTER X
Taylor, with half-shut eyes, endur-
.ed the babble of a Boston court-room.
Words. .words. But they must play
their little farce out, these attorneys.
“Marine laws play no part in this
tragic situation,” the prosecuton was
saying. “The accuser was not Captain
of this unlucky ship. He was not even
a member of the crew. No law under
God can shield hirm from the consequ-
ences of his actions. They were cold,
merciless. ..But clever, your honor.
Oh, very clever, gentlemen of the jury.
But is he to profit by them? Is he
after all to have his miserable iife ”
Margaret, in black, at the prosecu-
tor’s table, dropped her head, twined
her fingers hard together.
“Po I understand”. .this was the
bland Judge. .“that England found the
accused guiilty of being Captain of a
slaver?”’
“Captain of a slaver, yes, your hon-
; ¢
or,” the defense attorney said, “But
onity by chance of his having been
wrecéked and rescued by a slaver. He
took command-_because 'men look to
take command..And let me
say again the sea is not just that
blackboard hanging there, with lines
of latitude and longitude. ‘Ships are
not just chalk marks in the shape of
ships. These walls are not masts to
fall and crush”
“Right,” cried an old
milking his beard.
“It is easy for us, of counsel, to ex-
hibit seamanship, to remain c00l-—so
long as the planks do not move under
foot.”
“But it is alleged that he ruthiessly
condemned a part of the ship’s com-
pany.”
“Does a surgeon stand his trial, if
he cuts off a patient's leg to save his
life?” J
Words. .words..The hornet-buzzing
of human voices, accusing, condemn-
ing, execroting. A. woman, Taylor saw
wag testifying. Her face was shadow -
ed by a green silk hood. She was the
widow of one of the condemmed. Her
low voice throbbed with hate. She
collapsed from the stand.
There was a scratching of pens, a
crackle of paper. Tay.or stared at that
blackboard sea without a ripple. Lin-
don was on the stand now. The spiked
hand was still bandaged. The defense
attorney was badgering him.
“Mr. Lindon you were given your
chance to live..Did you not say to
this defendent, “You
court condemn me, because I know
too much?” And did not this defend-
ant say, ‘Lindon must live, because of
those who earn their bread in his fac-
tories?”
him to
sea-captain,
“I—I don’t know the issue before
us,” Lindon cried vindictively. “It is
murder. Recal: Miss Tarryton. Ask
her if the accused d‘d not throw her
brother into the sea before her very
eyes.”
Taylor sat like a stone shape, Mar-
garet was as far from him as the stars.
There was no bridging that abyss, and
he did not attempt it. Margaret, he
saw, was taking the stand.
“God help him now, he’s got a wo-
man in his hair,” croaked the old sea-
captain, with a skillful shot at a spit-
toon.
“It is true. .Captain Taylor killed my
brother,” Margaret uttered in a stif-
red voice. “He was wounded and sank
without a struggle.”
,“Take the witness,”
cutor.
“Miss Taryton,” said counsel for the
defense “ is it mot a fact that your
brother was a mutineer?”
“He was acting—against Captain
Taylor ,” Margaret murmured.
“And Taylor was in command of the
ship?”
“He had seized command.”
“From whom? From dead men? Ex-
cept for your brother's action would
any have questioned that command *
“I—I do not know..My brother was
only doing—what he thought was
right,” Margaret faltered.
“And. can you prove that the ac-
cused was not equally doing what he
thought was right?”
“He killed him..He Kkilled..Stanley”
Margaret said, dazed.
And now Taylor himself was on his
said the prose-
will have your:
SOULS
THE DALLAS POST,
T SEA
novelized by
RICHARD MATT
HEW HALLET
from the Paramount Picture co-starring
GARY
COOPER
feet, and that clash of angels’ and de-
vits’ wings over his head was all but
visible,
“Why do you bedevil this girl?” he
cried. “She has told you that I killed
her brother. Let it stand.” He saw. the
toy-maker staring at him, sitting on
a rear bench with little
- GEORGE
« RAFT
~denly that twisted shadow of a cross
fiung on the saiils of a ruined ship.
“No, I do not condemn,” she whis-
| pered. The court-room was frozen to
| attention. “Once I did condemn. I cali-
led hitn coward..murderer. I did not|
'know him, I know him now..I am not |
Gretchen. | fit to tie his shoe-strings,” the girl
“Schmidt there will teil you that if he { said with a stormy sob. “Take his life.
breaks a tool, he throws it away. Well Strike the head from his shoulders.
I am that broken tool. But you must] There's no other way to turn him from
|
not think, gentleman, that yous can
his purpose. He drives straight for the
judge me. There is God—and there is | mark. He is terrible—but he is real.
one human soul who can judge__and| He is real.”
she condemns, Let that suffice.” |
“This testimony is a surprise to me,
“Let that suffice. Good. The prose-|your honor,” the prosecutor said. “I
cuion is willing to rest on that ver- | claim the right to cross-examine my
3 |
dict of a woman’s heart,” the prose- |
cutor said. with an oily smile of tri. |
umph. “And that heart condemns.” |
sud- |
Before Margaret's eyes stood
PHOTO-FLASH
own witness.”
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1937
verdict will be “Not guilty.”
Little Gretchen ran towards
judge’s bench.
“Let him go dear Mr, Judge,” she
cried pleading. In her distress, she
dropped her lamb which uttered “Ba-
the
“They died with a song on their lips
hair,” the old sea-captain muttered to |
a friend, “Look at the jury's faces. The |
a-a-a-" as valiantly as of old. The
power of this appeal touched every
heart,
Taylor took a step towards Margar-
|
i growled the old sea-captain.
E 3 % SS a REEL i fa
Before Margaret's eyes stood suddenly that twisted shadow of a cross
flung on the sails of a ruined ship
1 et.
‘Not so fast,” said the court bailiff,
stepping between.
| But the bailiff had not
with the crowd’s mood.
“There’s a ship in distress there,”
reckoned
The fat bailiff felt a gathering men-
ace in the air, and fell back.
Taylor's arm was round Margaret's
PAGE SEVEN
snatched him out of it by the back-
“He was hung over hell by a brit-
tle thread, but these women have
hope for. Have you heard him ask for
mercy?..But I ask it for him.”
You ask it,” Taylor muttered
strangely moved.
“Because I love him..and I thought
I hated him,” Margaret whispered with
a blurring of her eyes. “I loved him
with my first giimpse and I shall with
my. liast?’
“So do I love him, and my lamb
does too,” Gretchen’s childish voice
shrilled.
They were nobie souls, happy in their
sacrifice,” Margaret cried, with a fix-
ed light in her eye. “George Martin,
where are you? Why can’t you speak
for him, your benefactor You died
happy in your love—”
“But de Bastonet. He drowned him-
stlf from hurt vanity,” Margaret flash-
ed. “He could not endure even a pass-
‘ng jeer from his companions, Yet
Captain Taylor could live, . knowing
this dreadful scene was alt he had to
sinking body.
“Steady. Steady over the shoals,” he
whispered. “Traitor, have you come
over to the enemy?”
“Yes, but I bring you ho little,”
Margaret said for his ear
a choking little sob.
“You bring me life,” he whispered,
taking her close. “From what other
hands would I accept it?”
THE END
alone, with
ES of fle Weel
proaches Consumers
mation points
graphically shown
thoroughfare in
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Now perfected modern ca
what their
Avenue. Then and Now.
As the annual auto show ap-
[nfor-
to 30 year
development of industry. asj:
in pic-
tures of New York's famous
1907 and
1937 Advertising, which cre-
credités with major part in
raising American car owner-
ship from a few thousand to
28,000,000 in three decades.
can be bought for one-fifth
grand-daddies
(you can see a few among
the carriages) cost in 1907
is
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Chicago Girl Makes
Good — Lovely
blonde Louise
Seidel has been
awarded an acting
contract as the re-
sult of her work in
a small role in
Cucumbers by the
Million—This nursery,
at Chestnut, England,
is an’ averad » of
proximate number
house is 1,920,000.
said to be the largest in. the world, holds
1,000 ciicumbers. From each cucumber there
in the spring of next year will produce an
average, of 5 dozen cucumbers.
Iss
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200 seeds and each seed
The ap-
produced from the green-
Hat Fashions for Fall Follow the Trend of the Gay Nineties—
Lillian Russell, famous “American Beauty’ of the nineties,
shown at the top left and center below, wearing two of her
1900 models which inspired the chic offerings of today as
shown in the corresponding pictures.
wash, rinse and damp-dry
much as it hurts you,
Painless Extraction—'This is going to hurt me as
says the young dentist who
{feels in tull sympathy with his patient =
Lis Birdie Singl — The bull-terrier looks at a |
feathered friend expectantly in the hopes of a song.
Leaders of
Banishes "Wash Day” — Vincent
aviation and appliance king with his latest development,
the home laundry, first home machine which will soak,
Bendix, automotive,
the family clothes auto-
Above:
football
look
my
Coach Gar
Davison, the Army's
coach, and
Captain James Isbell
forward
great year as they
start workout at the
U S. Military Acdde-
for the coming
season. Captain Isbell
plays tackle and is a
bulwark on the Army line. Left: Coach Elmer
Layden and Captain Joseph Zwers discuss the
prospects for 1937 as they begin pre-season. prac-
tice of the Irish at South Bend. They play nine
games this year. Captain Zwers is an end.
fo a
matically without attendance on the part of housewife.
nedy’s Romance,” revealin
plain girl who develop
the romantic’ lead opposi
Owen Craig. This dram
the "Heinz Magazine of
Broadcasting System.
Sweethearts of the Air—Blonde Gretchen Davidson,
radio star, who plays the title role in "Carol Ken-
‘winning the hearts of all men she meets.
handsome young Lochinvar of the networks, as Dr
novelist, Marie Blizard, is heard five times ‘weekly on
g the adventures of a once”|
s charm and loveliness,| &
Playing
te her is Carleton Young
atic serial by the noted
the Air” over Columbia