 Log entry to catch Scarlet Queen position 33 degrees 14 minutes west 32 degrees 6 minutes north gyro compass course 257 Wind fresh sky there Remarks Deported Kobe Japan with three crew confined to sick Bay due to mutinous actions of first officer reason for mutiny the Boston Geisha and Chesapeake Bay It was mid-afternoon when the Scarlet Queen stood into the broad Harbor of Kobe Last time I'd been there to been teaming with merchant men and busy with lighters wallowing between anchored ships in the crowded docks That was before the war Now there was only a scattering of native craft flying in and out a few American liberties and victories And the rusted hulls of sunken Japanese freighters breaking through the dirty water The industrial section of the city behind had been fire-bonded into a skeleton of lonely chimneys and portions of single walls I cleared in through army occupation officials We found dockage at a half collapsed pier that somehow gave you a sense of the apathy of the whole nation to which it was connected After night fell my chief mate Gallagher and the rest of the crew Except one sad eyed gangway watch headed up a path through the ruined warehouses towards town. I Settle down in my cabin The night was stuffing and hot And the whole picture was helped by the Sam Pan that splashed her anchor on my winward The faint breeze sweeping across her came to me full of the stink of rotting fish rancid soybean sauce and souring rice Couple of hours went by I heard the clatter of feet across our gangway. I had my head out of the cabin door just the three of my crew stumbled aboard They weren't drunk. They were hurt The clothes were ragged and their faces were torn and bleeding. I called one of them over. Yes, sir That will happen Nielson you guys pick a sumo wrestler or something. It was a chief sir Gallagher. Where is he at the rose bar? He's roaring sir. He's off his nut. I had it start I don't know three of us were at the bar and the chief come in from someplace and just started in on this like he was off his nut But he could bring better than that sir. I'm sorry I haven't tangled up before but the guppy had to give us along with it says Captain Carney can look for a new chief Maid he ain't going any farther. He what has rights, sir As he's jumping ship here in Kobe of all places. I shouldn't have left the ship, but I knew what Nielson meant Kobe's no place to be in Gallagher's condition In my log Kobe was about number three in the tough ports of the world And so mutual continues the voyage of the Scarlet Queen written by Gildowd and Bob Talman and starring Elliot Lewis The Scarlet Queen proudest ship to plow the seas bound for uncharted adventure Every week a complete entry in the log and every week a league further in the strange voyage of the Scarlet Queen I left instructions with my gangway watch drop Nielson and the other two at an army first aid station for some stitches and Anti-Tetanus shots and headed for the Rose bar myself. I Shouldn't have gone. I was under contract to a Shanghai firm called Kangin Sun And their contact here in Kobe was to meet me on the ship To supply me with more instructions for my voyage after a ten million dollar prize somewhere in the South Pacific So far on the trip wherever there had been Kang men there had also been others working for Constantino and bribing stealing and murdering to stop the voyage of the Scarlet Queen This sticky Japanese night held a lot of potential I fought my way along Kobe's streets crowded with smells sounds and humanity The elbowed past street urchins beggars professional riff-raff Finally found the garish front of the Rose bar a block or so down from Motomachi Street Gallagher wasn't in sight Squat bartender grinned at me when I walked up to him Put a greasy glass in front. Hello young. Oh, what do you drink? Nothing. I looked for man big red hair. He fights three other men here. You see him Oh, yes, I see him. All right. You know where he is. Oh, yes. I know where is he? Why you wanted he's my chief mate. I want him to go back to the ship. Oh, yes, very good All the things very high now in Japan in the pressure Okay, how much all the things very high Chief of mate the cost Was a hundred dollar max. You're a real comedian Charlie. I'll give you a ten. Oh, no, I give you ten You give me ninety ten. He's a low-type chief mate. Oh, then why you want to find him, huh? I'll see you later Charlie. You're too funny for me. Oh, those are those are pretty sweet a minute yank Make me offer. I thought that's what we were talking about. I Said ten didn't I ten dollars max wait to work the more a wreck 20 Ten now and ten if he's where you say Yeah, I got the aggregate coeximus Go up the stairs in the back first room on that side If you throw you down, I still get them out of the tent The stairway led to the dim whispering second floor of the building. I knocked on the first door to the right I Heard another door closed softly inside the room someplace when I knocked again There's no answer so I went in Gallagher sat slouched to the table and held two glasses and a half empty bottle What are you? Pending on a pretty good one. Aren't you red? Come on, it's time you went back to the ship. Get out of here I'm not going with you. Yeah, yeah, well, we'll talk it over in the morning after you slept this off I don't like the food. I don't like the work. I don't like you. I don't like the whole stinking thing Come on red. Get out of here. Connie. You're a brain you with it. I quit acting like a teenage punk. Yeah, like a Get out of here Get on your feet your rum hound Go a bit. I'm telling you Connie. Let go or I'll toss you out of the window. All right, red Now get up we're going back to the ship. I'm not going with you Stay in here Full of rolling liquor red. I'm fed up with you So yeah, I'll pair up by Take it easy read. That's enough. I haven't even Got it All right, Gallagher sleep it off here then that's the idea and the queen sales have gone With you a border without you. I Started back to the ship trying to figure this thing out There were two things wrong in the rose bar outside of Charlie the bartender Gallagher's eyes didn't look as drunk as he acted and he could hit harder than he hit me But from there on it was his story and I couldn't see any payoff coming to my knocking each other around That room for the rest of the night Stumbled down the path toward the warehouses and onto our collapsing pier I picked up the friendly sound of water soaking the sides of the wooden hoe The lights of the queen gave me a feeling of warmth after the trouble and the subdued uneasiness of the Colby nine It felt like I was coming home as I walked up to it then I stopped Part of coming home was seeing the gangway watch standing at the after-starboard corner of the main house and ready with a smile as I came aboard But he wasn't there. I Started running I was in the middle of the gang When I heard the shots by instinct I went into a crouch and hugged the plank The first set of footsteps came fast he jumped in the rail the key side faster than I could draw and aim my automatic Two slugs were all I wasted in the darkness. I had to see what he'd left aboard Part of it was in sight when I looked up a man in a white jacket with one red sleeve staggered out of my cabin The informality skipper You are Connie aren't you? Yeah, who are you? I'm Chalmers that mean anything to you that depends on the story that goes with it Yeah, come on in. I'll take a look at that. Oh, no wait. I went there. I don't know how dead he is Oh, there were two of them Stopped one in there with the other one Well twist a handkerchief around it. What's the matter with you? Look at that deck pardon me if I bleed to death Forget it. You know who he is. Yeah, his name is McAllister Yeah, let me see that arm Does he work for me? You're brighter than that Connie How do you think he picked me? Constantino don't answer that All right, hold still we 25 caliber Scorched your coat. Where were you? Told you there were two of them After the one who grabbed my briefcase you brought it in a briefcase. That's great. Why don't you wear a Chinese flag? Yeah, look don't tell Kang how it happened. I Been trying to save up enough to get back to the states. I'll never get another job out here if this gets back to Kang this rate. I'll never get to Kang What were the instructions you know instructions? I don't know they gave me a package wrapped in oil skin I just threw it in your briefcase Here use your good arm hold this light on them. I'm gonna frisk them ah My name is McAllister that shakes. Yeah, I've seen him around 3 yen 15 cent The key ring. Yeah, maybe those keys will lead to somewhere. We're already there, huh? This one unlocks my cabin. This one's the food stores paint stores sale locker Bosun's chest I don't get it. Those are your keys. No, but I got a set just like them I had these made for my first officer mr. Gallagher After that key ring hit me I tore into that stiff like a grave robber I ripped out his pockets coat lining shoes trying to find something to follow The only thing with an address on it was a folded-up square of rice paper printed in English black letters It said the new Chicago Palace of Joyful Dancing your welcome management madam Tallulah Nashi Moto home cooking The new Chicago Palace of Joyful Dancing was a sagging bomb scorched frame and paper building on Motomachi Street Front of the building was draped in red white and blue bunting and under a star spangled slant-eyed imperial likeness of general MacArthur was a sign that said Pleased to come in and dance with beautiful democratic geisha mr. Yank to music of Leroy Suzuki in his hot jumper Below that with fewer words, but more meaning was another sign out of bounds the military personnel At the door a blast of stale air hit a sickening with rice beers sucky poisonous whiskey and cheap perfumes A square-built porcelain-faced Niponese doll who might have looked a track of the native hairdressin Pomona had put on a cheap western-style rayon dress and crimson hair into a bad permanent way To entertain the conqueror With a song she was never born Chalmers and I were supplied with a marble top table and two giggling gaites Brilliant conversation. I found time to look the joint over for a face that looked intelligent enough to answer some of my questions None of them slant-eyed or straight even looked sober Then behind a portier of eucalyptus beads that partitioned off the bar. I caught a glimpse of what I was looking for She was at least two heads taller than any other Japanese girl in the place The way she fit her Western clothes you could tell she hadn't suffered from any vitamin deficiencies as a child. I Guess that this was the welcome management madam Kalula Nashi motto I Left charmers in the clutches of Rose Brassum and red hot mama went into the bar Are they treating you right? I not come to dance. I come look for man friend other man named McAllister you can stop the funny pigeon talk. I'm a Boston girl myself Yeah Should have known you didn't get this way in ski hockey you like it Well enough to pity the poor GIs. It's out of bounds for we got a back door What's the password? Constantino, I wouldn't know What does that mean in Japanese in English? It means a dead man on my ship Why are you telling me this because he had an ad from this place in his wallet is that good enough? Now you are disturbed again So often confused between friend and enemy Do you agree? Samson's sister and Honolulu What are you giving me San Francisco and Honolulu your chief mate? No places. He was not for dishonest when you thought him to be and here in Kobe at the Rose Bar He was not as drunk as you thought I know that but I don't know why you will Think you better explain it himself You're telling me he's here. I'll tell you nothing. I only ask you to look come What brought him here there are men who hang around here to do all kinds of little things for a few yams One of them was named Chalmers. Chalmers. Yes I recommended him for the job. Why he was tired living and I wanted to help him out Kind of missed on that one didn't you? Not at all The dead man on your boat That is Chalmers The man who killed him Man who brought you here. Don't tell me. He's McAllister a Constantino man and I let him pull a switch on it. You see I Told you you were confused between friend and enemy. Yeah I'm still confused about you. You won't be Come on in Connie Don't put on the surprise like teller I halfway expected this thanks for the lift to Lula you give good service in this joint Don't think me think Mr. Gallagher think nothing of it, but it's going to cost you Mac Pay as you go out. I'll be waiting in the bar All right boys put them in the chair He's not gonna talk with his hands I guess we're ready to get down to business Connie Watch his eyes Mac. You want him to be able to see that thing, don't you? I can see I'm seeing plenty. We'll get it down to dollars and cents Connie so you can talk, huh? I got the stuff from King and now you're gonna tell me what it means, huh? I am Better tell him skip room won't cost you much Sure, I can believe that I hope you can Connie You will start out with the map now look at it go on look at it skipper. You got nothing to lose What's funny what is it? Looks like a lousy chart of a body of water between the peninsula in the mainland doesn't I know that where is it? No position on the thing No latitude or longitude don't be smart Connie. You know where it is come on Okay, put down the club McAllister you can have it and I hope you get a lot of good out of it That's a chart of Chesapeake Bay Why you I knew you'd like it looks like it was traced out of a ran McNally Atlas if that'll help Leave him alone. McAllister. It's not his fault that Kang has a sense of humor. All right Gallagher You put the finger on Chalmers. You knew where he was going when he'd ride Yeah, but I didn't know the math was filming but you knew where Chalmers came from didn't you yeah? That's where we're going in where is it between here in Osaka about 20 miles up. You got a car. I can get one woods You stay here with Connie leave him in the chair the way he is, but stay here till we get back, okay? Yeah, okay, nice Goodbye skipper We might have made quite a team if we've been born on the same side of the dollar sign I sat there Lashed to the straight back chair And watched woods for a half an hour waiting for a glimmer of something beside gunman to show through his eyes But he didn't have it Court around my wrist started to dig in its circulation was cut My arms began to swell I Tried to cover up the pain with thought but they didn't help because I couldn't skirt the fact that I've been Suckered in by McAllister with a simple switch of identities And the rest of it didn't make sense Especially that pencil chart of Chesapeake Bay Finally got around asking woods for a drink of water When he refused I shut up Spent another 20 minutes watching the moors whispering in to die in the flame of an oil lamp. I Didn't hear the door as it was cracked open, but woods did He was on his feet with a belly gun cut in his hand Then all the fight went out of him. I didn't blame him a new kimono walked in wrapped very neatly around welcome management Am I intruding depends on what you want to Lula. I've got your drink and a phone message. Oh Max says everything is under control, but to stay here till he gets back. Good Thanks for the drink. I hope you like it That's insane. I Don't know whether I like it or not with me so busy. You stay where you Are your drink. Hey, what's fast? What is it that come on? Drinks God to me that was the first time I'd ever watched a Boston geisha work The girls on Beacon Hill should have picked up a few pointers while she was there In 20 seconds, he's melted from tough gunman Two sides in a murmur after that he'd forgotten. I was in the room By the time she finished with him, he didn't know he was there either He still had a slightly surprised look on his face, but something new had been added was made of ivory and had fancy carving on it It was a knife. He'll jutting out at an angle from just over his heart Don't you enjoy the new Chicago Palace of joyful dancing after that performance sister. I got nothing but respect Maybe sometime in a letter or something to tell me what the devil's going on There move them You didn't hear me didn't you? I'm glad all the yanks aren't like you With no time for anything My hands hurt But I can lessen Noted that about you Nothing to worry about me more you brought me here, didn't you and I got you out of it Yeah, that's a good part of the way But McCallister and the others are headed for what I need Instructions from Kang. No, they aren't We heard different stories. There are many different stories. Shall I hear your version? I think you'd like it I think it would make you feel better From here I could stand that Your information from Kang is in good hands. Who's that she's make Gallagher's You're calling that good. Yes, I am You are still confused between friend and enemy. What's your payoff in this deal? I don't need to pay off hanging son. He made a good salary You're my Kang contact here in Kobe. What did you expect pot-bellied office workers? Well, I don't believe me Really, I don't blame you after what has happened. Let me explain. I was to meet you on your ship That's right But McCallister and the others have come since you know, I could not move so with a messenger Contacted Gallagher when he came a shorter night Chalmers was my idea But your Gallagher was the genius who drew the map of Chesapeake Bay What which they so cleverly stole from Chalmers on the Scarlet Queen. Yeah Where's Gallagher now? Outwasting enough time so that I could make fatal love to Mr. Worth You know, I believe all this when I wake up on the Scarlet Queen tomorrow morning well into the inland sea You think it's a dream. I Think it's a nightmare To wake up you were waiting your chair with your arms behind like before only here This time you have mr. Woods gun in your hand and The last conversation I had with Tallulah Nashi Moto was in regard to the safety catch on the 25 caliber Sambu automatic We tugged wood buddy at a site And she left as quietly as she'd ended I Sat there more comfortable this time with my finger curled over a trigger And I went it that Connie you were smart now. Let's talk sense about that shot I don't know Mac things have changed in Chesapeake Bay. What do you mean? Hey, where's woods? Hey, Red? Gallagher come in last he's plugged a man behind McAllister when I shouted and I brought my son Move forward and got to my feet McAllister made it to the door and out toward the entrance. I sent three shots after him I wasn't sure my aim in the dentist, but I thought I heard a body crash down the stairs I Went back into the room and time to see Gallagher pick up the other guy for the last time Well, give her a you're proud of me proud of you What for putting on that drunk act for beating up three of my crewmen for sending that poor Chama's jerk to be a pigeon on the Queen For planting your keys on him so I'd follow them into this trap I had a given those keys so he could get into the cabin. What's it got us a bunch of busted heads and Another black mark against Americans in a foreign boy. Oh stop it skipper. Oh, what are you nuts? Yeah, here's what our sailing orders out of here Here your instructions from Kang you mean you've been carrying these things around your hip pocket all That's another thing the risks you take and listen. I'm not forgetting you hit me According to maritime law, that's mutiny By dawn the next morning Kang's instructions were safely memorized and the Scarlet Queen left her collapsing birth and headed To the clean sea outside the rubble-filled harbor I swung the boughs to starboard and we headed into the inland sea that splits the island group that is Japan a Good breeze swept up across Shikoku on our port. I cut the motors The main sheet climbed skyward cut the wind Swelled out with it The jib snapped out the miz and Phil Scarlet Queen healed over Filled with life and movement again. How's the rig giver enough canvas? We got the narrows to do See how she moves with jib and miz just so we get through them into someplace else. I didn't like those people Listen rat Speaking of people I was gonna ask you about that second glass on the table at the Rose bar. Oh, that yeah Are you said you had a friend on motor mushy street, didn't you? Well, you weren't a show. All right And didn't send you stay aboard. I'll go ashore. Yeah, I guess that's even Steven Drink giver after you mate after you Log entry catch Scarlet Queen 5 30 p.m. Miles traveled five thousand five hundred and ninety one wind brisk sky Hayden See smooth with high cross swell Mainland miz and reefed ship secured for night signed Phillip Carney master Mutual invite you to sail into further adventure on the voyage of the Scarlet Queen next week at the same time Porto call Jinsen Korea The voyage of the Scarlet Queen stars Elliot Lewis as Phil Carney with Edmax as Gallagher Bob Bruce was heard as McAllister. Jack Krushan was Charlie the bartender Nielsen was Frank Gerstle and Madame Tallulah was paid by Virginia Greg Music scored and conducted by Richard Oran The Scarlet Queen a command radio production directed by James Burton is written by gilded out and Bob Talman While Jarlington speaking, this is the mutual broadcasting system