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CHAPTER X.
TONIGHT.
Another day and another sky. Now the
blue gulf water was as leaden and denso
as that one looks upon in a hard North sea
gale, and the heavens overhead were as
full of lurid grays which raced one another
in sliding chase till they were lost in the
northern mist drifts. The steamer rolled
heavily to a steep beam sea, and when
they could be seen the iron of her lower
decks forward and afc gleamed as though
it had been new coated with ocher varnish.
But this was not often, for four minutes
out of every five they were filled with a
churning, hissing pond of green and cot
ton white, which the scuppers could only
empty piecemeal.
Tho time was evening, SO hours after
tho quelling of the mutiny, and the threo
tenants of tho upper bridge were the only
human beings pn any pf tho outer decks.
On the midship grating stood a higher
heeled quartermaster, holding pn to thq
spokes of the steam wheel, browsing on
plug tobacco and keeping his eyes mecbanj
ically fixed in tho jumping compass card.
Alternately climbing and descending
athwart ships as the bridge swung under
iim, tho third mate took his sea constitur
tional in rubber fhigl) boots, with hands,
thrust into the waist belt pf his breeches.
As officer of tho watch every time ho
passed the binnacle ho faced front and
'ook a regulation peer round the foggy
saucer lip of horizon, with an utter blank
Jack of interest, and a faco wooden and
gnarled ps n walnut shell, Hp was an eldr
crly man, the third mate, and tha sea licit
po more surprises fur him, and no murq
Interest, and no moro pleasures. If over
he had pmhition, ho had lost it years,
since. His aim in life was to hold a posi?
tion of small responsibility and earn a
monthly wage with tho ginallest possible)
outlay of exertion either mental or physr
Jcal.
The remaining occupant of the bridgo
eat on n campstool under tbo Ice of the
weather dodger with his red peaked b:ard
on his chest, his slippered feet stuck 01: t
in front, his elbows crooked out behind
him and hands deep in his jacket pockets.
Every time tho third mato's footstepj
n eared him his eyes opened and for an
instant flashed round to the right hand
anglo of their orbits. Between whiles he
slept. It was owing to this faculty of lit
erally snatching moments of rest that
Captain Kettlo at the end of his SO hours'
.spell on the" tipper bridge was as fresh as
though he had just got up from a clear
night's sleep. This watchfulness was nec
essary, for, as the experienced skipper was
quite aware, fully half the hands would
have gladly tossed him overboard if they
could have grappled him without danger
to themselves. Presently, however, ho
dropped his doze with n snap and slewed
.round to face the head of tho bridge lad
der, entirely wakeful. A head showed it
self, black paired, with I clean shaven,
bright, determined faco. The correspond
ing body followed, lean, tall, muscular.
"Ah, Mr. Cambcl, you'vo brought mo
some provender? Thanks, indeed. What,
sandwich and tea! Couldn't be better."
"I have whisky in my pockot."
f'iCot for mo now. Wait till wo gee
ashore, and then I'll boozo with any man
to his heart's content. Tho game I'm on
now is like a boat race if a man wants to
fin, he's g6tto diet himself accordingly."
Tho third mate, to show to any chance
pniopker that he was not in sympathy
with thp unpopular captain, planted him
self in the angle of tho lee dodger, which
was thp greatest distance that the If js of
duty wpnld allow him to depart Kettle,
with an pcrid griq, drew his companion's
pttontion to this move.
"What'll that chap dotonightwhen the
tun begins?" asked Cambel,
Bolt like a ratfat the first alarm. He'd
ihow pluck if he wps paid for it, would
Iny third mate, but not beiuir paid ho'lj
tako tho best care possible of his own ugly
tilde. He isn't n fellQW who'll ever like a
tight corner for its own sake. There's not
tro atom of the sportsman about him,"
Cambel laughed." "You're the other
Way on, captain." -
Kettle's faco clouded. "It's a fact," ho
said. "Times I am that way, curse my
cantankerous luck."
"Your wcasness in that direction camo
In handily for me yesterday."
"You're right, Mr. Cambzl, right all
through. By my soul, I'd half a mind to
chip in with these rogues and grab what I
could. It was a tempting chance and it
would havo been a heap more profitable to
toe than what I'm in for now. As for tho
honesty of the thing, there wasn't a pin
to choose between It and this racket of
yours and Mr. Shelf's. But it was that
Dutchman's gall that put me o 2. If he'd
held his silly jaw, and if those other blad
derhcndshad let'me understand I was to
hold the pistol hand over them "well, tSb
-Port Edes would have coral rock spouting
through her bottom plates this minute,
and I'd be a man owning a matter of 3,
000 to5,000. That's putting it straight."
"So," said Cambel, "I suppose I have
to thank the said Dutchman for carrying
s sound windpipe this minute."
o,1' replied Kettle thoughtfully, "I
don't think' it. I fancy you'd have bc
paved reasonably over the new deal, and
then I'd have stood by you, especially,"
ho added slowly, as though from .after?
thought, ''especially if thosodogs thought
that you'd liavo been safer out pf the way.
What," he asked, with sudden frowns, as,
though the subject annoyed him, 'wboi
have you "been doing with yourself this
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j 'Physiclnga sick fireman principally.
Tho stokehold temperature was 105do
grces, and as he amused himself drinking
cold condenser water by tho quart together
tho somewhat natural consequence was
cramp in the stomach. Thoy sent him up
by the ash li.t, and your steward dosed
him with chlm-odyno and laudanum and
tincture of rhubarb. The result wasn't
encouraging."
"Oh, thcic's nover any knowing what to
do with a sick stoker's insidu. But one of
these drugs ought to have fotched him. "
"Perhaps ono did, but the other two
didn't EC2m to fit his ailment."
"Well, ho had them for nothing, so I
don't see what call he had to complain. I
never saw such a crow f'jr physic. Thoy
havo drunk that big chest half dry as it
is, and if I'd let 'cm they'd havo drunk it
three times over. What; did you do to the
chap? Fill hi'ii up on this samo again or
try a pill? Thcru's ten sorts of pills in
that chest, beauties some of them. You
nhould have tried him on those little sil
ver coated chaps marked C. They're reg
ular twisters."
"Well, you see he was twisted enough
already, poor devil", and if it hadn't been
for the donkeyman holding him he'd have
been overboard through the ash chute to
jjo rid of his misery. So, as it was, I gave
him a tumbler full of raw whisky, and
that F?emed gradually to untie him again
put cf his kno'.s."
The enp'ain snorted. ' Ypn'ro greener
than I tin uj;ht, Mr. Cambol. If we'd been
poing on. you'd have had half the crew
pick on your hands fcradosoof that kind.
They'ro bad enough after our sour doc
tor's physic, but for a tumbler pf lkuor
tnd a'spell of idleness an old sailor wpuld
have tin ear and three tocscutpll any day.
However," ho added, rising stiffly to his
feet and stretching, the chief and tho
donkeyman '11 s.c ho doesn't malinger for
Jong. They aro nouo pf them sweat on do
ing another man's work, that gang.
Heigh ho! Seo that lino of surf wo're
bringing ovor tho lej auarter?"
"Tho Tortucas?"
"The Dry Turtugas. There's a Yankee
convict etatio.i ono of them."
"Don't mortion it." . .
Kettle grinned. Wo shall havo made
enough wstin: soon, and then our course
Will bo pretty nearly duo north, so as to
f.odgo the gulf stream as much as possible,
tind," ho added in a lower tone, ' to get
Ike ship as near as may be to your chan
nel into Florida before wo. jettison tho
crew.". T
"We shall run into tho ship tracks from
nil tho northern gulf ports to Europe."
"I know, and wo must tako our chance
nf not being spotted. For a western sea
Ihera's a regular string of trafilo trailing
Gown to the Dry Tortugas. There you
nro for ono. Look at that old wind jam
mer." He jerked with his thumb toward a
preen painted wooden Italian bark which
was squattering past less t!ian a quar
ter of a milo away, right athwart tho
last rays of the windy sunset. S!:e was
driving merrily homeward, sending her
bows into it til! tho seas creamed against
her catheads and darkening her jibs with
brine up more than half their height. She
was methodically reducing sail, and a
dozen many hucd picturesque tatterdo
. inalions were aloft on tho forctopsallanfi
' yard hammering tho struggling canvas in
to the gaskets.
''The cowardly Dagos' said Kettle.
''That's always their way. Snug down to
topsails as soon as it gets dark, even if
1 hero's only a catspaw blowing. By
tames, with a breeze liko this I'd ho car
lying royals on that old tub. And yet,"
j e went on, with his beard in tho heel of
L is fist and his eyes gazing out over tho
gambling waters, "and yet they cay there
used to bo poetry in a craft pf that sort,
while thero was never and ijevcr will be
With a steamer. I suppose tho reason is
that a poet haa.to be a man who knows
lothing whatever about what ho writps
tjpp'n. -I know that somo chaps who string
Vprso nowadays have been on a steamboat
and smellcd tho smells of her and seen her
lines and watched the men who do the
work, and yot they make "no pootry about
It. But of tho old crew who wrote about
moaning harbor bars, and fair white pin
Ions, and lusty wooden walls, ana trusty
hca-ts of oak, why, they knew no more
about the. thing than a London bobby does
of angels. And that, I suppose, was why
their stuff is called poetry and the lubberly
old wind' jammors poetical. You give mo
n smart steamboat, Mr. -Caml el. There's
all the romance on her an old sailorman's
got any use for, and he understands It,
too, oven if "he can't put it "down on pa
per." "I believe you'ro right," said Cambel
thoughtfully, "and somo day ancw Dana
or a new .Michael Scott will coma ashore
from the upper bridge, or from an clectriq
lighted forecastle, or a forced draft engine
room, and show it to us plainly, whereup
on wo shall swear that wo saw it for our
selves all along. But,", he "went on, with
4 sndden frown, "for the present let that
drift. You and I havo enough to think ol
In pur own immediate present -without
speculating over a possible prophet which
is to arise."
"We have, but so much must ho ar;
ranged by tbo chance of the moment that
I don't' sea wo can do much eod by talk
ing it over now. All arrangements tiiat
can bo made ahead, I fancy, we've got
fixed up already. By the way, I supposa
you .are -sun) that your explosion in the
forehejd won't be too big, It would bo an
ajvkward do for us If the old ship's bottom
was rcall7 blown out in sober earnest."
The sunTiad gone Entirely out alto
gether, and the young moon was sailing
high amid scurrying cloud banks. In tho
white and shifting light Patrick Cambers
faco looked pale and anxious.
"You'ro suro," Kettlo repeated, "it
won't be a case of the engineer being
hoisted with his own thlngammy?"
"No, I'm not suro, and that's what
bothers mc. You seo one couldn't quite
get an expert to measure out the precise
necessary dose, and I've had to guess at it.
I daren't undercharge my bomb. If our
explosion was a fizzle and tho crew didn't
get scared and run, why, then they'd take
her up to Now Orleans whether we liked
It or not, and she'd be examined. Then
that intako valvo couldn't be missed, and
It couldn't bo explained away. Man, as
you know, the thing's as big as a Eluice
gate,"
"All tho bilgo pumps in tho gulf of
Mexico couldn't make headway against
that valvo once it was fairly opened. It's
tho quickest and cleverest way of scut
tling a steamboat I ever heard of or Tead
about Bnt 1 don't quite see how the
valve is going to bo turned."
" You leave that to mc."
"You seem used to the game," said
Kettle, with a half sneer.
"No, I'm not," returned tbo other
quiljkly. "I've never had my fingers in
anything so ugly or so dirty before, and
becauso I don't want to havo tho experi
ence over again I'm going to mako this
turn to a big profit or get killed 'in tho
trying. I'm tired aud sick of this wild
bucketing life; . A woman drovo mo to it,
but I believe if I had tho means to scttlo
down in comfort now I could forget all
about her and wako up other new inter
ests."
"Well," said Kettlo, "I hope wo may
each of us buy a farm out of this racket,
but I tell you straight I'm not oversweot
on tho chances. To begin with, you and I
can't hahdlo this steamboat alone. It's
an absolute1 certainty we must have an
other hand to help us. You'll have to
take tho wheel and pilot her through, if
you can, though that's a mighty big job
for ono man, and tho odds are about ten
to one you'll pile her up somowhere. I'vo
got to bo below At a pinch I might drive
the engines, though I don't know much of
tno traac, nut x can't uo mat and nro six
two holo boilers and wheel coals out of tho
bunkers as well. Now I think tho don
keyman Is the chap wc want. Ho under
stands his way about down thero, he's as
strong as a winch, and I fancy ho knows
which side his biscuit's margarined."
"Yes, I'm i7ith you thero. We'll have
the donkeyman if he'll come."
"Then why not sound him now?"
"Because I'll hint of this infernal scheme
to no one till its fairly ablaze. Man, if a
ghost's whisper of it got about, tho crew
kwould riso and. grab us, pistols or no pis
tols. They'd havo that amount of scare
in them, they'd walk straight up to a
Maxim gun. They'd trample us out of
existence beforo we could fairly look
round. No, my neck itches enough as
things aro at present, and if another man
on board now besidesyou know what was
going to be dono tonight I should feel a
bowlino.noosc inside my collar, Avith half
a dozen hangmen beginning to tug at it.''
'?Scohere, Mr. Cambel," said tho ship
master, 4 aro you getting sorry you came
put on this trip?"
Tho other laughed harshly. "Sorry!
Whatever have you got in your head now?
If I dp a thing, I do it with my eyes open,
and T make a point of never indulging in
useless, regrets afterward. No, Captain
Kettlo, I'm going through with this mat
ter, whothcr it succeeds pr fails, whether
it is brought abqut without injury to a
single human soul cr whether it costs tho
jast pant cf breath from every man in this
ship. But I own to you I am nervous,
Tho only things which wo can bo suro
Will happon are the unexpected, and wo
pan't prepare for those, and tho want pf
preparation may rqln us,"
"It's a big ganjblo," assented Kottlo,
"and I wish I could say, 'May the Lord de
fend thorightP ButI can't, and you can't,
find least pf all Shelf can't. It's 0 devil's
job pnyway, and ho don't always stand
py his mcq. Tho only thing is even Nick
can"t diddjo my wifo and kids out of the
Insurance I made for them; so, personally
speaking, I don't much care what hap
pens. You go below to your room now
and get a calk of sleep. You'll want it.
And first, if you please, I'll shako hands
wfth you, We've never dono it beforo, be
causo a nod's been enough other times,
but this is different. You'ro n decontish
sort, and I fancy if that wonian hadn't
meddled you wouldn't havo been ship
mates here with mo tonight."
They exchanged a quick hand grip,
each looking rather ashamed of himself,
and then Cambel went down tho bridge
ladder whistling, and Owen Kottlo reset1
tlod himself in his campstool. When next
they met, tho tragedy of the Port Edes
would, have icgun, and in it perhaps both
would dio by any out of ten violent deaths.
CHAPTER XL
A DERELICTION.
Eight bells midnight.
Tho lookout in tho crow's nest forward
chanted his last melancholy "All's well"
and gave way to tho relief from tho next
Watch. Ho climbed down by tho cleats
In tho iron r.ipst and went tp tho starboard
door in tho forecastle. OCher men follow
ed him, jumping llkq cats along tho
streaming decks, and pthers came a littlo
later, dingy fellows, with neck clouts liko
dishcloths, who went In at tho port door,
these last being tho goats of shipboard
tho firemen and trimmers who wero di
vided off from tho more high casto deck
hands by a foro and aft bulkhead.
The $hird mate aqd tho guartermas,ter,
00, from tho upper bridge wero replaced
by another quartermaster pnd another
ninte, and thoy also went tq tho places ap
pointed for them, and the snores of their
breathing soon rattled pgainst tho bunk
coamings. Only two men op tho Port
Edes who wero not on tho roster pf duty
stood that windy morning's first watch.
Under the, Jeo of thp canvas shelter Cap
taip Kettlo sat huddled on his campstool
in a style which no man could distinguish
With certainty between wakefulness and
sleep, pnd below in his room, which open
ed off the main cabin and was next tho
specie room, Patrick Cambel was dab
bling in something which tho laws of na
tions would stigmatlzo as felony, and that
of complex degree.
Thero were two berths In tho room the
upper one against the window port, which
he slept in, and the lower, which contain
ed two spread out portmanteaux. Beneath
this last were drawers, in which tho cap
tain's steward kept table linen, disused
corks, the carpet which the chartroom
sported in harbor and other articles of
ship's use. Cambel had two of theso
drawers ont on tho floor, and from the re
cess of their site had drawn two fine green
silk covered wires.
He disentangled tho cpils, taking carp
to avoid a kink, and then unscrewed tho
porcelain switch which governed the
roomys electric lamp. Beneath were cer
tain pieces of metal imbedded in vulcanite.
Patrick Cambel gave his arms a prelimi
nary stretch, a baro wire terminus in each
hand. His fingers, were trembling, as
Whose would not have been iu thp same
situation.
He noticed, it and commented to himself
pn tho circumstance.
'That's'exciteiqont, I suppose; excite
ment pure and understandable. Not be
ing a mqn of stone, I can't help being
thrilled with the majesty of tbo moment,
tho sublime yagueness cf my knowledge
of what will happen when a current flashes
thrpugh these wires, I'm not a coward.
People who write about other men's feel
ings when death s beginning to paw them
on the ' shoulder write mostly from the
imagination, and so far as I've seen thy
all do It wrong. I've 'Been 'there, i'vo
felt that bony touch more than once, and
so I know. A man isn't of necessity ter
rified. Phantasms of ills past deeds do
not invariably flash beforo him, nor does
ho always lose his nervo and move as a.
wayward automaton. I can't speak for
I others, but what I personally havo felt
has been a dull carelessness for what Is
going to happon and a curiosity about
1 what will como afterward. It seems to
! mo that a thinking man with tho ambi
tion of a mouse should never fear, death,
because, once dead, he becomes wiser than
all the living remnant of the human race.
''There are men I know whom physical
danger turns into a helpless mass of pal
pitating nerves. Shelf, for instance, is
ono of those. By Jove!". he smiled grim
ly "by Jove, I'd give a finger to ha 0
Theodore Shelf in my shoes just now and
forco him to couple theso wires and sprl
tho mine with his own fat, white fingers.
I believe yes, I verily beliovc tho expe
rience would turn him honest. Ah, thero
fes one boll. Time's up."
Through a lull in the wind tho tennr
clang of tho ship's boll came down to him,
and on its hrels, moro dimly, tho look
out's'dissyllabic assurance in the dismal
minor key tJ at ho was awako and had
nothing to report-
Then Patrick Cambel made connection
and sent thro jgh tbo green, silk covered
wires a current direct from the steamer's
dynamo, and on that moment was thrown
against tho iron roof of the stateroom as
though thp infernal machine had exploded
beneath his very feet.
"c
Tho campstool was kicked into tho air,
tho wet canvas dodgers shed water in
streams, and Captain Owen Kettlo fell
spread eaglod on the planking of tho bridge.
From tho hatch in tho forodeck beforo
him had sprung a volcano of ruddy flame,
spouting through vast billows of smoke.
Tho iron plating round it buckled and
split, and tho wholo steamer gave a trem
bling, frightened leap. Presently from
tho black, windy night above there fell
an avalancho of debris which smote the
steamer and tho water round like canister
shot from a distant cannonade.
Then camo a thumping jar from the en
gine room, repeated twlco over, and then
tho engines stopped. "My God!" thought
Kettle. "He's overshot the mark. If sho's
broken down, wo'ro dono for." But for
all that ho did not lose for an instant his
presence of mind or instinct of command,
but picking himself up clapped a stumpy
leaden whistle between his lips and blew
shrilly.
At first no ono answered his summons.
From tho forecastle, from tho stokehold,
from aft, camo tho ship's company, mak
ing by instinct for tho high land of tho
bridgo deck, and from his eminenco tho
littlo captain scowled down upon them
and swore. It is not a wholesome sight to
see grown men screaming through sheer
terror, and the sooner they aro dissociated
cither by words or blows from this frame
of mind the moro thoy will bo able suhse-:
quently to respect themselves. By dint of
a" vinegar tongue and suggestive mov&s
incuts toward a pair of implements which
bulged his jacket pockets" Kettlo drove q
gang of five to set" the mizjen trysail to
keep tho steamer head to sea. She wag
rapidly losing her way, and if sho broached
to beam on, with that heavy sea running,
tho lower decks would bo filled with green
Water continuously, and that with such n
gaping rent where the hatch had been
meant simply a rapid swamping.
Then tho captain looked round him
seemingly for a messenger. Tho mate of
tho watch hung on to tho handlo of tho
engine room telegraph, which still pointed
to "full speed ahead," looking dazed and
helpless, Tho quartermaster's hands wero
mechanically sawing at tho 6pokcs of tho
Wheel, but it was equally evident that ho
also did not know what ho was doing. Just
then Cambel raced up the bridgo ladder
three steps at a time.
"Ah," cried Kettlo, ''now, you uro a
man who can keep his head in a bit of a
fluster, and, by James, you'ro tho only
one on board. Just tnmblo forward, will
you, and get down into that hold and
6eo what's wrong."
Cambel. nodded and turned to go with
out a word. From two or threo of tho
men a thin cheer roso as ho passed them,
and before ho had gained tho bottom of
tho ladder on to tho Iron' lower deck half a
dozen were on tho- top rungs after him.
Sailors will seldom refuse to follow when
a superior shows tho way, and besides
theso fcllowa were getting over their first
panic and wero beginning to be ashamed
of themselves for giving way to it.
Tho mizzon trysail was not then set, and
becauso the steamer's way had left her sho
was falling off into tho trough and rolling
bulwarks under to every sea. Sho was
shipping water fast. Tho creaming, solid
masses sluicing across tho deckplatcs
smote tho men breech high with tho
weight of rams, and he who, when tho
waters wero upon him, left his hold would
havo been swept like a cork to leeward.
-But by tho hatch coamings, tho winches
and odd wet streamers of rope they claw
ed their way forward and cowered round
the great holo made by tho explosion,
holding thero by the edge of the twisted
riven plates. Tho seas creamed over their
heads, falling in noisy cascades into the
black?. -ass below, and fro.n oui of thas
darkne.'-s, above all the bellowing of wind
and the clanging pf iron pud the other
din, camo a soddoq whistling of water
which seemed to confirm thq worst fears.
"Poh," said soiqp oio, trying to be
cheory, "that's enly tho small gup she's
shipped slnco tho hatches wero blown off.
Tho bilge pumps'H toon kick that drop
overboard,"
''Guess you lie, " said another, with a
Weary shako of tho head.
Then tho ink pf tho heavens overhead
Wns splashed with a vivid fork of light
ning, and tho men 6aw Cambel, with his
face as white as his teeth, lowering him
self over tho brink and gripping with his
knees otwisted irun pillar below. Tho
light above snapped out, and within thp
dim jagged outline pf where, tho hatch
had been all was blackness. And overhead
tho thunder rumbled liko the passing of a
Titan's gun train. The men shivered.
Ono of them, an old white haired ablcsea
man, was physically sick. And mean
while the Port Edes rolled through 42 de
grees, and tho gulf water flowed green in
and back over each bulwark alternately.
The men hung over tho dark abyss of
tho hatch listening intently, and abovo
tho noises of the gale thoy could hear the
ullen wash of water in the hold growing
Heavier ana more sodden with every roll.
Another flash of lightning blazed out
overhead, painting whito tho shaft of tho
hatch and sh-.wing at its foot a muddy
sea of water full of floating straws, and.
barrel staves and litter. Cambel was put
of sight, and tho lower hold was afloat al
most to Its denk beam. But presently thp
xplorec returned, swimming rather, thqrj
walking, as another flash shqwed thpm,
and he leaped tq tho battons'which made
tno stairway to pverhcad with tho haste of
a man who knows that the waste of mo
ments may well cost human lives. The '
men clustoreu about him round eyed as he
gained tho deck for a word of what ho
had seen, but he brushed through them
roughly and mado for aft. It seemed tQ
them that no spoken sentence could havo
given a wor?e report pf what had befallen
than this mute action, Thp fellows knew
that officers always mako tho best Gf
everything If thero is a best to bo made,
and so tho silenco was terribly suggcstlve.
At tho savio moment, as if to confirm
their worst fears, tho steamer took a heavy
sea clean over her forecastle head, and
above tho din of the water as it came cas
cading down into tho .lower deck thero
arose wild cries of: -"She's sinking!" "Her
bottom's blown out!" "She's sottling by
tho head!"
Yelling these tidings, the men scamper
ed, back to the bridge deck, where, saving
for tho few driven off to set the mizzen
topsail, all the rest of the steamer's com
plement vfero collected.
"She's settling by tho head! It's mak-
; ing a clean breach over her this minute!
tone'll be down with us It wo don't look
quick!"
Then another volco cried: "Let tho foul
old tramp go to hell by herself! Sho
shan't drown me, for one, while she's got
a boat that'll swim. Como along, boys,"
whereupon a mixed half dozen of deck-.
hands and firemen made a rush for tho
foot of tho upper bridgo ladder.
At the head of .that ladder stood Cap
tain Kettle, grinning like a tortured fiend.
Tho crow were acting precisely as it had
been planned that they should act. They
wero doing what a laboriously formed plot
had compelled them to do. But at that
moment tho captain's weakness for battle
nearly got tho better of him and was with
in an ace of making him attempt to upset
tho entire apple cart. The idea of his men,
tho despised all nation rabble whom he
had browbeaten into subjection all across
the broad Atlantic, taking the initiative
into their own hands now, was too much
for him to swallow in a single dose. Soon
er than submit ho would have ruined every
thing ten times over. Consequently he
drew on tho first man who advanced up
tbo ladder, and Tiis eyes lit up with the
steady passionless glare of slaughter.
Tho fellow was brave enough, desperate,
too, as a m 41 could be, but upon certain
death ho hesitated to advance. Indeed
when Kettle, coming down tho ladder him
self," thrust him furiously back he retreat
ed .to tho bridgo deck, us did those who
wero with him.
But the ether mcu of that worthy crow
had no mind to bo tyrannized over any
longer when tho steamer was momentarily
settling down under their feet and drown
ing was an immediate question. By tho
funnel stays and by ono another's backs
thoy swarmed on to the top of tho fiddle,
and thenco gaining tho boat platforms set
about cutting adrift tho grimy awnings
with their knives and clearing away tho
tackles and falls. They shipped rudders
and fitted tho plugs, and ono or two with
moro forethought than their frightened
fellows shouldered the boat's water break
ers and took them aft to whero the con
denser tap gavo upon the lower deck.
Kettlo did not interfere. Ho had held
tho bridgo deck ladders against all comers
and in somo cranky way felt that his hon
or was uusmirched. But ho gavo no help,
no hint, no further order, and surveyed
tho scene with folded arms and n sour,
thin smile. Patrick Cambel, being moved
by a different set of feelings, acted in.orp
humanely.
"Tako time, men," ho sung out coolly,
"if you will be cowards pud leavp tho ship.
I don't think she'll sink at any rate not
yet."
Thp men liad knpeked away tho chocks,
hejsted tho boats pnd swung the davits
outboard.
"Keep your heads, you trembling idiots.
Pass a painter forward beforo you begin
to lower and don't lower till you'vovio-
tualed tho bouts. You've at least 150
milo run beforu you can mako Charlotte
Harbor, which is your best porS witfi this
wind blowing, aud as liko as not you'll
miss your road whon you get Inshore
among the keys and reefs and bo a week
getting there."
A few of .tho men, ccelng tho forco of
this, ran below and raided tho galley and
tho steward's storeroom' cf what they
could lay hands upon. But they only
brought up ono load of tins. Thoy were
frightened lest tho others should in their
terror go off without them. So they bun
dled their gleanings pcllmcll onto tho
floor gratings, and with a dozen men in
each tho boats began to lower away. When
they touched tho water, tho falls were let
go, to overhaul as they chose, and then
uuhooked. Tho boats rodo by their paint
ers, swooping on ono sea up to tho level
of tho bridge deck, diving SO feet down In
the next trough and lying in great dan
ger of being stove to pieces.
A man in each was standing by tho
painter. Others wero getting out tho oars.
"Whcro's tho donkeyman?" cried somo
one.
"And" Mr. Cambel?
"And the skipper?"
"Oh, In tho other boat."
"Then cast off. Wo'vo got all. and we
must be clear of tho old ship beforo sho
founders, or she'll tako us down too."
Tho painters wero slipped, and from
either beam tho steamer's lifeboats diverg
ed under tho backing impulse of their oars.
Out of sight of ono another thoy dropped
astern, and each picking a favorable
chauco they slowed round in a pother of
spray. Then they stepped their masts,
and then, one under a jib and the other
under a cioso reefed lug, they drove away
before tho wind, leaving thp setting of a
course for after consideration.
Steamer sailors are not used to small
boat sailing in a heavy sea, and it takes
them some time to wear down tho novelty
of it, By a providenco there wa tho sec
ond mate In one, an old North sea smacks
man, to tako the tiller, and an able sea
man from the samo school in, the other
boat who also was competent to manago
her. The boats were built for the weather,
but they required handling, and excepting
these two mbn there were none other up
to the task. The rest trimmed ship, some
of them balling, somo too frightened to
do anything but cling on to athwart, these
last from tha fireholds mostly, and with
their complements in this danger and dis
order the Port Edes' two lifeboats drove
away into tho night and the north north
east. Threo men on the steamer from Inside
the chartroom watched the boats go away,
and ono of them, the donkeyman, wa3
wondering what kind of fool to call him
self for being left.
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Legal Notices.
"APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matter of Application of Lizzie Holer (Luke I"
Haley, manager) for Liquor License.
Notice is hereby given tbat Lizzie Haley (Luke
F. Haley, mannger) did upon the llth day of April.
A. D. IhOt), file her application to the City Council
of North Platte, Lincoln county, Nebraska, for
license to sell Malt, Spirituous and Vinous Liquors
00 Sixth street. Second ward, in the city of North
Platte, Lincoln county, Nebraska, from tho 1st day
or aiay, isye, to ine 1st day of May. 1537.
If there be no objection, remonstrance or pro
test filed vjthin two weeks from April lttb, A. D.
1S1H5, the said license will be granted.
LIZZIE HALEY, Applicant.
APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matter of application of William Landirraf for
Liquor License.
Notice is hereby given that William Landcrnf
did upon the 7th day of April, A. D. lfeftj, file Ma
application to the City Council of North Platte,
Lincoln county, Nebraska, for licenso to sell Malt.
Spirituous and Vinous Liquors on Spruce street.
First ward, in the city of North Platte, Lincoln
county, Nebraska, from the 1st day, of May, 18J6
to the 1st day of May, 1897.
If there be no objection, remonstrance or protest
filed within two weeks from April 10th, A. 1. 18S6,
the said license will be granted.
WIixiAil LANDGRAF, Applicant.
APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matter of Application of Guy A. Laintr for
Liquor License. -
t Notice is hereby given that Guy A. Laing did
upon tne 7th uay or April, A. D. lbVG, filo his ap
plication to tbe City Council of North Platte, Lin
coln county, Nebraska, for license to sell Malt,
Spirituous and Vinous Liquors on Front steet,
First ward. In the city of North Platte. Lincoln
county, Nebraska, from the 1st day of May, 1896.
10 me 1st nay or aiay, ibVi.
If there be no objection, remonstrance or protest
filed within two weeks from April 10th. A. D. 1S96.
the said license will be granted.
GUY A. LAING, Applicant.
APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matter of Application of Gertler k Waltemath
for Liquor License.
Notice Is hereby given that Gertler & Wallemath
did upon the 7th day of April, A. D. 1896, tile their
application to the City Council of North Platte,
Lincoln county, Nebraska, for license to sell Malt,
spirituous ana vinous Liquors on East Slue spruce
street, Block 103. in the city of North Platte, Lin
coln county. Nebraska, from the 1st day of May,
1838, to the 1st day of Slay, 1897.
If there be no objection, remonstrance or protest
filed within two weeks from April 10th, A. D. 1S9G,
the said license will be granted.
GEKTLEK & WALTEMATH, Applicants.
The Noeth Platte Teibdse newsnaner "will
publish the above notices for two weeks at the ex
pensd of the applicants. The city of North Platte
is not to be charged therewith.
C. F. SCHARMANN, City Clerk.
By John Sobensok, Deputy.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
U. S. Land Office, North Platte, Neb.,
April 2d, 1S96. ?
Notice Is hereby given that tho following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to mako
final proof in support of his claim and that said
proof will be made before the Register and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Neb., on May 5)th, 1S9S,
viz:
ERNEST J. BAKER.
who made Homestead Entry No. 1571G for tho
lots 4, 5, 0 and 7, Section 0. Township 10 N
Range S2 W. He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon and culti
vation of said land, viz: Wiley Mathews. Cfecar
M. Mathews, Billings P. Baker and Jasen R. Cos
selman, all of Dickens, Neb.
--76 JOHN F. HINMAN, Register.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER CHATTEL,
MORTGAGE.
chattel mnrtrrncre ittti nn th. ttYt ,i.. ,.f
O O " - " 'bU UUT VI
Octoner. 1S!)4 anil flrilv fil1 Ir. Vi. nia P
the county clerk of Lincoln county. Nebras-
uw vt vfi Auuau lovd, ami exe
cuted by W. M. Riteno'T to the North Platte
National Bank to secure the payment of the
ouui ul u.u, anu upon "wnicn mere is now
due the sum of $31.27; default having been
made in the Tinvment- nf 11 cum -.,! r,.
suit or other proceedings at law havingbeen
iiwmuicu iu ictuva auiuueuLur any part
lucicut, luciciutc x win sen tne property
therein described, viz:
One gray mare,
One gray horse.
One farm wagon,
One set farm harness.
At Tlllhllr' atirtton nf iYic nr-nt- Ctti.
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Fl.ltrp. in I.inrnln rnnnt-v- Wolirulri ,-., tv.,
2d day of May. 1896. at 2 o'clock p. m.' of said
MILTON DOO LITTLE. Receiver.
North Platte National Dank.
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Dated April 17th. 189G.
PROBATE NOTICE.
In the matter of the Estate of Anna Baskins.
deceased.
In the County Court of Lincoln County. Ne
braska, March 2Sth, 189tf.
Notice is hereby given, that the creditors of said
deceased will meet the Administrator of said es
tate, before the County Judge of Lincoln County.
Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said
County, on the 31st day of July, 189(3, on the 31st
day of August, 1S96, and on the 1st day of October,
1896, at 1 o'clock p. m. each day, for the purpose
of presenting their clalmsfor examination, adjust-'
ment and allowance. Six months are allowed for
creditors to present their claims, and one year for
the administrator to settle paid Estate, from the
31st day of March, 1896. This notice will bo pub
lished in The Tribune, a newspaper printed in
said County, for four weeks successively, on and
after March 31st, 1S96.
M-31- James M. Rat, County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING. '
The StAteof Nebraska, I
Lincoln County. 93
At a county court, held at tho county court
room, lh and for said county, April 15th, 189t.
Present James M. Ray, County Judge.
' In the matter of the estate of Mordcoal C.
Furnish, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Abigail
E. Furnish praying that administration of said
estate may be granted to her as administrator.
Ordered. That May 2d, 1836, at 1 o'clock, p. m.,
is assigned for hearing said petition, when all
persons interested in said matter may appear at n
county court to bo held ia and for said countr,
and show cause why tho prayer of petitioner should
not begranted; and that uotlce of the pendency of
said petition and bearing thereof, be given to all per
sons Interested in said matter by publishing a copy
of this order in The Tbibune, a legal newspaper
printed in said county, for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
a31 James M. Rat, County Judge;
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