17The Volcano Starts To Make Noise

All aboard for the transcribed premier production, the crews of the Paul Parrot, that thrilling story of wailing days and buried treasure. Shortly after escaping from the ship's hold, you remember that Al Testi met his untimely end.

During a quarrel with Red Mohouli, who later met up with Ezekiel Kip, the man who years ago had sold the map and writes to the treasure on Galta Island to Ezra Grange. Red convinces Kip, he'll need help to keep Grange and his party from taking claim to the mineral mine, and Kip agrees to join forces with Moholy. In the meantime, Grange, Captain Dalton, Dicken,

and our young friends Sue Grange and Johnny Robbins have come upon the mineral deposit only to discover that someone had already been working it for quite some time. Then Dicken, with Paul Power at the top of his shoulder, fell in a brush-covered trench, dug to keep any possible trespasses away from the mine. Almost immediately a shot rang out, but upon close

inspection of the thick brush from which direction the shot was fired, no trace of anyone was found. As it was growing dark, the party decided to delay further inspection of the surroundings until next day.

It is night, and Grange, Captain Dalton, Sue, and Johnny are resting in their crude cabin that had been erected that day. Captain Dalton, someone is on this island, and whoever it is, he's working the mineral mine.

You're right there, Mr. Grange. But lash me to a yardom, for the life of me I can understand who the lover could be. And all right, the only ones who possibly could know this outside of ourselves are chained in the hold of the Paul Parrot.