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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1898)
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" 'I 'Twos , " nItl McTold , "Ilut , as It hap- encd , I didn't get the sack. I ran from her here tn GIb , because l'tl no wleh to get back tO ngInnd an have thu newa usWcss In my pocket. And , of course , I had to let ailde the 8 In wages that was duo to me.,1 " "By James , It's beginning to look Ilko , busIness when a cottIe runs away from BIller that lie's ' rIghteously earned. " "S'elI , I'm no' denying It was a specula- tlon , It's a bIt of a speculation , If ye come , to rcckon up , asking a nowly-aaclftd sirn cap- , thin to jolii In such a venture , " "I tlon't suppose you'tl have much choice hero in GIbraltar. " 'linybo you'l not have hcarl of either mo or the wreck if I hail , " said McTodtl. - Kettle's face hartleiil. "See here , " be enlil , "keep . civil tongue In your liea'l ' , ergo go out ot this lodging , I'm to be treatoti with respect , or I 4lon't deal with you. " ; "Then let my clothes alone and be civil yourself. lt'A a mighty 1IY shop this , cap- thin. " "I've no whisicy In the place nor spare money to buy it. If we're to o on with the plan or yours , we qhnll want cvthy dot- mr th.tt can be raiseL" , "Tliat'B true , anti neither me nor Tonlo have 10 shillIngs betwccn us. " : Kettle gave up pacing the room and sat himself on the edge of the table nntl frowned. : "I dbn't see the use of tiikiiig either Antonio , If that's his caine , or your oUier dago. I don't 111cc the breed of them. You and I would be quite enough to handle an open boat , and quite able to take care of our. selves. It the wreck's got Urn money on her , and we flnger It , we'll promise to brng them back their share all right ; and If the thing's a fizzle , as it' very likely to be , well , they'ii be saved a very unpleasant boat . cruiec. " 'Its no go , " 201(1 tilO engineer , flflj you may nutle UI ) your mind to have them us shipmates , captain , or sit hero on your tail where you are. D'ye think I've any appetite - petite for lagocs myself ? No , sir , no more than a stripped threah. , And they don't trust rue. They wouldn't trust 'ou , They wouhl not trust the provost of Edluhoro it ho as to make sImilar ProPoanis to them. ' 'l'hen have you no idea where this steamboat - boat was put on the ground ? " "Man. I've telled ye 'no' already. " . A "Seems to me you don't know much , Mr. McTodd , " "I don't. What I know is this : I comae ugliorc here after a 'vera clmausting tr1p . down the Mediterranean , Just for a tirhuhc t fortify the system against time dulls on the run home. The brandy is poor here on time m rock , though I'll admit it's cheap , e ad as for the whisky- " . . . . , _ "Never mind that ; get onwith your yarn't ' , , "Dinna hustle a maim scm. . Wed , I vent tel l little dark shebeen , whPe I kenned thi cutthroat in charge , and. gave the name of ' the ship I wanted SOflhing back to in cmse : sleep overcame me , and settled down for an afternoon's enjoyment. Ye'hl ken what I mean ? ! ' "I lnew you're ' a drunken beast when you ; got the chance for an orgic. " " 1 have my weahncmscs , captain , or maybe . I'd no' have left ihahlindrochater , where my father was Free Kirk nicenister , We both I t have cur weaknesses , Captain Owen Kettle , and it's they that have brought us to what. 1 are , " "If you don't. heave mo alone and get on with your yarn , " said Kettle acidly , "you'll find yourself In the street. " " 0 , 1 like your hospitality , fine , and I'll I , stay , thanks.cel , I'd just settled mysel' ' ( lown to a good square drink at this Span- , lard's shebeeii , when out of a dark corner ' conies 'Toijo and the other dago , bowing and takIng art their hots as polite as though , I'd been an archbishop at the very' least. It's. extraordinary how the lower classes instinctively - stinctively go to an officer when they need help. " "It Is , Mac , It is. " c "I'll met Tommto in Lagos. Ito was greaser on a branch boat there , aimd I was her see- onml engineer. Ho's some Inglish-coast t English-and ho did the talking , The other dago knew nothing but his own unright- I cous tongue , and just said sesea when Tonio explained to him what was going on , nod grinned Ilko a bagful of monkeys. I ' give Tonio credit ; ho spat out his tale like a mean , Ho and his mate were In ( ho stoke hold. of a dago Bteanlboat coming from the lttvcr Plate to Genoa , ElflI calling at some I of tbo western islands enroute. Ono night they vero just going off watch and were t leaning over the rail to get a breath of cool air before turning in. They wore steaming past some rocky Jslands , amid there in plain sight of them was a vessel hard and fast ashore. There was no mistalco about it ; 4 , , , . . , I' , , , , . _ . _ . . . _ . _ _ . _ _ _ . _ _ . - - u.'J "U , " UUIj LI DeemuuuaL UL jCVU tons , And what was more , time other Portu- J gee , Tonion friend , said ho knew her , According - cording to hilni she was the Duncaneby Ilcad , he'd served in her stoke hold three voyages , and be said he'd know her anywhere - where , " "A tInge's word Isn't worth mutlm for a thing like timat , " said Kettle. "Watt a bit. The pair of them stayed ' avhero they were nod looked at ( be rest of the watch on deck. The second mate on the bridge was staring ahead sleepily ; tIme quartermaster - termaster at time wheel was nodding and blinking at the binnacle ; the lookout on the forecastle was seated on a fife rail , snoring ; no one of these had seen ( ho wreck , And so they themselves didn't. talk , Their boat was running short of coal and so she put Into Otb here to rebunker ; and from another 1)ago en the coal hulk , who caine aboard to help trim , they got some miews , Time Duncaneby llead had hlttcd her cargo at sea , had Picked tip heavy weather and go ( unmanageable , and had been left by her crew in the boats , The mate's boat and the second imiate's boat were picked up ; the old amen's boat hiatt not been heard of , It 'as supposed thmat the Iuncausby Head herself - self had foundered Immediately after she waim deserted , " "Yes ; all that's commnon gossip on the Rock Mulready was her skippcr-J , It. Muiready ; I'd known him years , " "Weel , toor dccvii , It's perhaps good for imlmq be's drowned , " "Yes , I suppose It is. lie's saved a sight of trouble , D'yo know , Mac , Jinuny Mmml- ' ready and I passed for mate the same day and went to sea with our bran imow tickets in the same ship , him ems umate , mae as seeolmd , " "I'be ea'a flu awful roor profession for : except U. shipowuer lhmat lIves ashore , " .4 'Tie , Yes , timat's a true word , It is , And so ntonIo and his mate tout the other dago ( limit thmcy'd seen the wreck ? " "f'ol much , , They kept their heads shut. There , ' ; ii money in thu idea if it could only be vorkud and a l'ortugeo likes a dollar as much as a white man. f3o there you have ) ( be wlmoie yarn , except timat tiey got to know ' that the Duncaneby was on her way twine after a long peIl at tramping when she got I into trouble and carried cli the money she'd earned In good solid gold in the chart house drewer. " "It sotinds like a soft thing , I'll not ileny , " aithi Kettle. "Uut why should Me , Antonio and his friend come to you ? " "They ran from their ship hero in Cub and laid low till she hind sailed. It was the natural thing for them to tb. But when they began to look round them in cold blood they found themselves a bit on the bcsch. They'd no money ; there's smith a shiflchy crowd here In Ilb that everything's well watched , and they couldn't stcl , so there was nothing for it but to take a part- tier Into the concern. Of course , being mingos , they weren't likely to trust one of their own sort. ' "Not much , And so they caine to you ? " "They knew mc , " said ( ho engineer , "And I enme to you because I knew you , cap- thin. I'm no navigator myself , though I can make shift to handle a sailboat ; so a navigator was wanted , I said to myself the mann in all creation for this job Is Cap- tmtln Kettle and then what should I do but run right imp against you ? " "Thank you , Mac. " "flut there's one other thing you'll have to do , and that's buy , beg , borroW or steal the ship to carry the expeditIon , because the rest of us can't ralso a blessed shilling amongst us. It needn't be a big outlay. That old P. & 0. lifeboat , whichm I was talk. lug about would carry us fine , and I think three five-pOUnd notes would buy tier. " "Very well , " soul Kettle. 'And now let's get a move on us , Timere's been enough time SlIelit in talk , nail time sooner we're on that wreck the less chance there is of any one ; else getting there to overhaul her bcfore us. " It. would be unprofitable to follow 1mm detaIl the fitting out of a s'rccking expeditIon UPOII iflsuiIlcient capital , and so be It briefly I stated that the old lifeboat ( which had iasscd throui1i many lIUflls ( since she wan cast trout the P. & 0 , service ) , was pur- I I chased by dint of hagghitmg for an absurdly amimnhl sum , and victualed and watered for eighteen days. The Portuguese , who still refused to disclose the precise location of time wreck , said that it immlght take a fort- imight to reach her , and prudence would have suggested that It was ndvisnbie to take at least a month's Provisions. hint the Imleager- ness of their capital flatly forbade this , and they were only able to furnish the boat wIth wimat would spin out to eighteen days on an uncomfortably short ration. They trusted that what pickings they mIght find in tile storcroomns of time wreck herself would pro- lmlo thmeni for the return voyage. With ( lila slender qutpment , then , they sailed forth from GIbraltar hay , an obvious narty of adventurers. They were bombarded by the questIons and tim curious stares of all ( ho shipping interest on time Rock ; they were flatly given to understand by a nnval busybody ( who had been bidden carry his lmmqtmlsittvemmcss to the deuce ) , that they had earned official usplcIon , and would be watched accordingly , and if ever ill-wishes P & 0. lifeboat - could simik a craft , that ancient boat woe full to her marks. Time voyage ( lilt not begin with prospemity. There is ulways a strong surface current running in through the straits , and just then tile breezes were light. The lifeboat was a dmihl sailer , and 'her people , in consequence , lmmI the mnortiflcation of keeping Carnero point and the frowning rock behind in sight for three bakIng days. The two Portuguese were first profane. then suilemi , then fright- coed ; sonic saint's day , It appeared , had been violated by the start , and they began Oret to hint at and then to insist on a return. To whtchi Kettle retorted that he was going to 500 the matter through now if he hma'l to hang in the straits for the whole eightnoil ( lays , and subsist for time rest of the trip upon dew and their belts , aemi in this Mc. Todd hacked him up. Once startcd and away from time whisky bottle , there was nothing very yleldimig about Mr. Me'l'odd. ' Ommly enc compromise did Kettle offer to make , lim would stand across and drop his Portuguese partners on the African almoro if they. on their part , 'would thlselosa the whereabouts of the wreck , and in dim' time , 'when th dividends were gathered , he faithfully rromn- Ismi them their simare. hint to this ilmey would not consent. lb fact , there was a good deal of mutual distrust between the two narties , At last , however , a kindly slant of winil tonic the. litcbn , In etmcrgz 011(1 tmmrl lm'i , t'er wetly out into the broad tlaymmic , miami when . . . . . THEN LEANING HIS IIIAD OVER TH1 IIIUlWARK liE CALLED DOWN "JIMMY , " they bath run the shores of itimop' naIl Asia out of sight , and there wmms nothing band theim but the blue heaving water , wIth hero antI timers a sail an I a sl'mmner a smnolco , then Senor Antonio saw fit to give Captain iCettle a course , , , , \\e wan steamla' from 'runeritf , to Madelra when we saw thommea rocks with Duncanshy head asho' , " " 1Pm , " said Kettle. "Those'ii be time Salvage Islands , " "Steamaim was pile up on (10 first. 'Notimer island we pass alter , " "That's Piton island , if I remember. Let's have a look at the chart , " lie handed over the tiller to McTodd , took a tattered admiralty - miralty chart frame one of the lockers , and spread it O the damp floor gratings , The two Portuguese helped with their brown paws to keeim it from fluttering away , "Yes , either Littio I'Itoim or Ureat Vltou , Which side did yeu vass it. on ? " Antonio thumped a gunwale of the life. boat , I "Kept it on the port hand going north , mIld you ? Then that'li be Oreat Vitae , and a sweet shop it is for reefs , according to this ebart I wish I'd a directory , It wiil be a regular cat's dance getting in , lint , I say , young mann , isn't there a light there ? " "Lighta ? I not understand , " "You savvy light In dark ? " " 0 , yes , highta house , I got there , No , no lighmta house , " "Well , there's one marked here as 'pro' Jected , ' and I was afraId it might have COllIe. forgot tIme Canaries were SpanIsh , and Madeira was Portuguese , and that these rocks whIch Ito half way would be a sort of slack cross between the Pair of them. Manana's time motto , isn't it. Toolo ? Never do today what. you hope another that vill do for you tomorrow , " I "Si , at , Manauu" aald .tho I'ortugueso , - - - - who ba4 sot tmndertbod one word in ten of all this. "Menaima we timid rith , plenty , too ranch rich. God save quesni" "Those Canary fishing sch oacrs land on the salvages sometimes , " said McTodd , " o I heard once in Las Paimne. " "Then there'll be fleas on the islands , whatever else there is , " said Kettle. "I guess we got to take our chances , Mae , If the old wreck's been overhauled before we get there , It's our bad. luck ; It she hasnt been skinned clean we'll take what there is , and I fancy we shall be men enough to stick to it , It isn't as if abe was.ptiemi up on tome civilized bench , wIth coast guarila to take possession , and nil time rest of it , The islands are either Spanish or t'ortu- guese they belong to a paek of thieves anyway - way , and we've just as much right to help ellrsel'es as any one else has. What we've got to do at present is to shove this old ruin of a lifeboat along as though she were a racing yacht , At time shortest , wo'va got 700 miles of blue water ahead of us. " Open-boat voyngirmg in the broad Atlantic may have its pleasures , but these , such as they ere , did not appeal to either Kettle or hIs companions. They were thoroughgoing - going steamer sailors : they despised saIls , and the smallness of theIr craft gave them qualms both mental and physical. fly day the sun scorched them with Intolerable glare and violence ; by night the clammy sea mists drenched them to the bone , For a larger vessel the weather would have been accounted favorable : for their cockle shell it was once or twIce terrifIc. In two squalls timat they ran Into , breaking combers filled' the lifeboat to thc thwarts , and they had to bale for their bare lives , They were cramped and sore from their constrained positiomi and want of exercise ; they got sea sores en their wrists and salt-grimnon every inch of their persons ; they were growing gaunt eu the scanty rations ; and in fact a better presentation of a boat full of desperate castaways it would be 1ard to lilt upon. Flotillas of Iridescent pink-sailed nautilus scudded constantly beside them , dropping as constantly astern ; and timese made their only company , Except for the nautilus the sea seemed desolate. In this guise , then , they ended their I voyage , which had spun out to nigh UpOn 1,000 miles , through contrary winds and the necessity for Incessant tacking ; and in the height of one blazing afternoon there rose the tops of the islands out of a twInk'ing ' turquoise sea. Thcso appeared first as mere dusty black rocks sticking up .out of the calm blue- Great Salvage island to the northward , and Great Piton to the south and beyond-but they grew as the boat neared them , and presently appeared to be built upon a frieze of dazzling feathery whiteness. The lifeboat - boat swept on to reach them , vlimnbing and diving over time rollers. It bad canvas decks , quarter-mast high , contrived to throw oft the sprays ; and over these the faces of its people peered ahead , wild and gaunt , salt- crusted and desperate. Great Salvage Island drew abeam , and passed away astern ; Great Plton lay close ahead now , fringed with a thousand reefs , each with its sproutIng breakers. The din of the surf came to them loudly up tle wind. A flock of sea fowl , screaming and circlIng , sailed out to escort thorn in , And ahead , behind the banks of breakers , drawing them on as water will draw a choking man , was the rusted smokestack and stripped masts of a derelict. merchant steamer. Thieve is a yarn about an open boat which had voyaged 1,200 malIce over the lonely Pa- ePic , coming upon a green atoll , and being sailed recklessly in through the surf and drowning every soul on board , and the yarn is easy believable. Captain Kettle and his companions had undergone hprrible privations ; here at last was the isle of their hones. and the treasure ( as It seemed ) in of apes , and then With one accord they made for the pantry and the etewrd' store- i'oom. The gold which bad lured them was foroiten ; time immediate needs of their famished bodies were the only things they remembered. They found a cheese , a box of musty biscuit andea filter full of stale and tepid water , tmndithey gorged till they were filled , and swore they had never sat to so delicious a meal. With repletion came the thoughts of fortune - tune again , and elf they went to the chart house to finger the coveted gold. But here was a disappointment icady and waiting for them. They had gona up in a body , neither nationality trusting the other , and together they ransacked ( ho pIece with thoroughness. There were papers in abundance , there were clothes furry with mildew , there was a broken box of cheap cigars , but of money there was not so much as a bronze piece , 'Eh , well , " said Kettle , sitting back on the musty bed clothes , "we have bad our trouble for nothing. Some one's been here first and skinned time place clean. " McTodd pounced upon the counterpane , amid caught something which he held between his black I thumb and finger. "Look , " ho said , " ( hat's not a white man's flea , That's Spanish or Portugee. And imeither Tonio nor his mate brought it hero , because they have been washed clean on I the trip , You remember what I saId about fishing scbooners from Las I'aimas , skipper - per ? " "thy James , yes. And look en time floor there , See those cigarette ends ? They're ' I now , and dry , If the old man hail been a I cigarette smoker lie wouldn't have cliucked lila butts on his chart house ( lock , and even ' I if he had done they'd have been washed to bits when she was hove down on her beam enils , You can see by the decks outside that she's been pretty clean BwepL No , it's those 'b. : i : mm t t ' ' ' . L . ' . ? ' THEIR FACES PEERED AHEAD , WILD AND GAUNT , SALT-CItUSTED AND DES- PER ATE. lull view , but by sonic intolerable fatethey were barred from it by relentless wnlla of surf. Kettle ran in as close as he dared , and then flattened in his sheets and sailed the lifeboat close-hauled along the noisy line of breakers to the norrard , looking for an open lug. Time two Portuguese grumbled openly , and , 'when not a ghost of a landing place showed , and Kettle put her about to saIi back again , oven the cautious McTodd put up his word to "run in and risk it. " flut Keith' , thought equally sick as they were of time boat and her voyage , bad all a sailor's dislike for losing his ship , whatever she might be , and at last his forbearance was rewarded. A slim passage through the reefs showed Itself at time southern end of ( lie island , dad down it they dodged , trim- mning their sheets six times a minute , with an escort , pf dangers always close on eitlmer hand , anTI finally ran Into a rocky bay , which held comnpaatively smooth water. There was no place to beach the boat , they had to anchor her otT , but with a whip on the cable they were able to step ashore on a ledge of stone and then haul the boat oft again out of harm's way. It may be thought that tlmoy capered with delight at treading on dry laud again , but there was nothing of this , With their cramped limbs and disused joints It was as much as they could do to hobble , and every step was a wrench. flut the lure ahead of them was great enough to triumph over minor difficulties. halt a mflo away along the rocks was the Duncansby bead , and for her they raced at the top of their crippled gait. And time seafowl screamed curiously above their heads , They scratchcd and tore themselves in this frantic progress over the sharp volcanic - canic rocks , they choked with thirst , they panted with their labor , but none of these things mattered. The deserted steamer , when they came to her , was lying oft from the shore at time other side of a lake of deep water. nut they were fit for no more waiting , and each , as he came opposite her , waded in out of his depth and swam off with eager strokes. Davit falls trailing In thio water gave them an entrance way , and UQ these they climbcmi with th quickness fishermen , as you zay.who have been here before us. " "W'eel , " said McTodd , rubbing his thumb tightly into his finger's end , "if I were a swearer I could say a deal. " "Time dagos are swearing enough for the whohecrowd of us , to judge by the splutter of them , The money's gone clean ; it's vexing - ing , but that's a fact. Still , I don't like to go back empty-imanded. " "I'm as kcea as yommrsel' , There's that .cs of my wages I left when I ran 1 Gib that's got to be made up somehow. What's wrong with getting oft the hatches and seeing - ing how her cargo's made up ? " "Silo's loaded with hides , I saw it on thu manifest. There was Jimmy Mulreacly's scrawl at the foot of It. That photo there above time bed foot will be his wife. Poor old Jimmy. He got religion before I did , and started his Insurance , too , and if he's kept them both up he and his widow ought to be all right-by James ! did you feel that ? " McTodd stared round him. "What ? " he asked , "Slio moved. " "I took It for sure she was on the ground. " "So did I. But she isn't , There , you can feel her lift again , " They went out on deck , The sun was already dipping in the western sea , behind the central bill of the island , anti In another - other few minutes it would he dark , There Is little twilight so far south. So they took cross bearing on the shore and watched in- tcntly. Yes , there was not a doubt about it. The Duncansby Head floated and she was moving across the deep water lake that held her , "Men , " said the en'ineer , enthusiastically , "yo've a great head and a great future before - fore you , _ ii : never have guessed it. " "I took It for granted she's beaten her bottom out in getting here , hut she's blundered - dered in through the reefs without touching , and if she's coma in she cnn iret nut iwnln and we're the fellows to take her. " "With engines. " "With engines , yesTlf she's badly i5ifi dowa in time hardware shop , we're thone , I'd forgotten the machinery , and that's a fact , We'll find a lantern and I'll go down withm you , Mae , anti give them an inspect. " The two Portuguese had already sworn themselves to a standstill , and had gone below and found bunks ; but the men from the little islands in the north bad more energy in their systems , and they expended it tirelessly , McTodd overhauled every nut , every bearing , every vaive , every rod of the en'Iines with an expert'acriticism , and found nothing that would prevent active workIng ; Kettle rummaged the rest of the ship ; and far Into the morning they foregathered again in the chart house and compared ye- suits , She bad been swept , badly swept ; everything movable on deck was gone ; cargo had shifted and then shifted back again till she had lost all her list and was in proper trim ; the engines were still workable - able if carefully nursed ; and , In fact , though battered , she was entirely seaworthy , And while with tired gusto they were conipar- log these timings weariness at last got time bettor of them , and first one and then the other incontinently dropped off into the deadest. of sleep. That time Duncanaby Head hail come in unsteored and unscathed through the reefs , and therefore , under' steam and control , could go out again , was on the face of It a very simple and obvious theory to make ; but to discover a passage through the rocks to make It practicable was quito another matter. For three days the old P , & 0 , lifeboat - boat plied up and down from outside time reefs , and had twenty narrow escapes from being smashed into staves , It looked as it nature had performed a miracle and taken the steamer bodily In her Arms and lifted her over at least a dozen black walls of stone , The two Portuguese wore already sick to death of the whole business , but for their feelings neither Kettle nor McTodd had any concern whatever , They were useful Ia the working of the boat , and therefore , they were taken along , and whoa they refused duty or did it with too much listlessness to I please , they wore cuffed into activity again , I - - - - - - There was no ! erbal argument about the matter , " \'ork or suffer , " was thin impIe motto the two islanders went upon , and it answered admirably , They knew the breed of the Portuguese of old , At. last , by dint of daring and toil , the secret of the passage through the noisy spouting reels was won ; it Was sounded carefully and methodically for sunken rocks , anti noted in all possible ways ; and the old p. & o , lifeboat was hoIsted on the Iun- cansby's davits , The l'ortuguese were driven down kilo the stokehohi to represent double watches of a dozen men amid make a requl. . eito steam ; MeTothi fingered the rusted engines like an artist , anti Kettle took his stand alone with the steam wheel on ( be : Upper bridge. They had formniy sIgned articles , and apportioned themselves imny. Kettle as master - ter , McTodtl as chief engineer and the Portuguese - tuguese an fireman , because salvage is apportioned - portioned pro rain , and the more pay a nina is getting the longer is his bonus , On which account ( at MeTodmi's suggestion ) they awarded themselves paper stipends which they could feel proud of , atiti put down the Portuguese for the ordinary fire- man's vages then paid out of Gibraltar , neither more nor less. For as the engineer sail , "There was a fortune to be divided up somehow , and it would be pity for a Imir of unclean dngoes to have more than was absolutely necessary , seeing that they would not know what to do with it. " Captain Kettle felt it to be one of the supreme mnomnents of his life when lie rang on the Iuncansby's bridge telegraph to "half speed nhmead , " here was a bit of fortune such as very rarely came In any simipmas- ter's way not getting salvage , the larger part of which an owner would finger , for lucre assistance ; but taking to port a vessel which was derelict and deserted , time gremit- eat and time rarest plimiti that the seas could offer. Itm'as a thought ( hint thrilled him , flut he had not flinch time for seittImenal musings in this strain , A terribly nervous bit of pIlotage lay ahead of him : ( ho motive power of his steamer was feeble and uncer- taiti , and it Would require atl his skill and resourcefulness to bring her out into deep blue water , Slowly she backed or wont ahead , dodging routni to get a square eim trance to time fair ray ; and thmen with a slam Kettle rang on his telegraph to "full. speed ahead , " so as to get her under the fullest Possible command. SIte darted out lath the narrow winding lane between , the walls of broken water , and the rear of time surf closed round her , Rocks sprung u out of time deep-hungry black rocks. as deathly as explosive torpedoes. With a full commiplenient of hands and with a pilot for years acquainted with ( lie place , It would have been an infinitely dangerous piece of navigation ; vlth a halt-power steamer vimlch had only one man all toid upoll her decks , and ho almost a stranger to the place , it was a miracle how she got out unscratclmel. 'that it was a miracle assisted - sisted with the most brilliant skill , Kettle had surveyed time channel in the lifeboat and mnmipped every rock in his head , and vhon the test come he was equal to it. It would be hard to come across a finn of more iron nerve. Backing , and going ahead , to get round L riglmt-angled turns of the talrwny , shaving reefs so closely that the wash from them crezmmned over her rail , time battered old tramp steamer faced a million dangers for every fathom of her onward way ; but never once mild she actually touch , anti in the end she shot out into the clear deep water and gaily hit diamonds from the wave tops into the sunshine. It Is possible for a man to concentrate himself - self so deeply upon one thing thmat lie is deaf to all else in the world , and until he had worked the Duneanaby Head out Into the open Captain Kettle was in this condition - dition , lie was dImly conscious of voices hailing him , but he had no leisure to give them heed. But when tile strain was taken nit , then there was no more disregarding the cries , Ho turned his head anti sass' a half-sunk raft which seven men with clumsy paddies were frantically laboring toward him along the outer edge of the reefs. Without a second thought lie rang off engines , mmd the steamer lost her way and fell off Into the trough and waited for them. From the first he had a foreboding as to who they were ; but the men were obviously castaways - aways ; and 'by all the laws of the sea artd humanity he was bound to rescue them. Ponderously time raft paddled up and got under time steamer's lee. Kettle came down off the bridge and threw them the end of a hahhlard , and eagerly enough they scrambled up time rusted plating , and clambered over the rail. They looked around them with curiosity , but vitb an obvious familiarity. "I left my pipe stuck behind that stanchion , " said one , "and by gum it's there still. " "Fo'c's'he door's stove in , " said anotimer ; "I wonder it they've scoffed my chest. " "You Robinson Crusoes seem to be making - ing yourselves at home , " said Kettle. One of the men knuckled his shock of Imair. "We was on her , sir , when she happened - pened her accident. We got off in the cap- tam's boat and she got smashed to bIts landing on Great Salvage , yonder , We've been living there ever since on rabbits and gulls and cochlea till we built that raft and ferried over here. It was tough living , but I guess we vero better ott tima' , the other poor beggars , who got swamped In the other boats. " "The other two boats got picked up. " "Did they , though ? Then I cmiii It beastly hard luck on us. " "Captain Muiready was master , wasn't he ? Did he got drowned when your boat went ashore ? " The sailor shrugged lila shoulders. "No , sir , Captain Mulready's on the raft down yonder. lIe feels all crumpled up to find the old ship's afloat and you've got her out. She'd a list on when we heft her that would imaVe scared Beresford , but shies chucked that straight again , and who's to believe it was ever there ? " Kettle gritted his toOth. "Thank you , my lad , " he said. "I quite see. Now get below - low and find yourself something to eat , amiti then go forward and turn to. " Then leaning - ing his head over the huistark , Imo called down , "Jimmy ! " The broken man on the raft hooked up "iluhlo , Kettle , that you ? " "Yes. Come aboard , " "No , thanks. I'm off to time island , I'll start a picnic there of my own , Good luck , old man , " "It you don't come aboard vilitngiy , I'll send and 'have you fetched. Quit fooling. " "O , if you're set on it , " said ( ho other tiredly , and scrambled up the rope , lie looked around imim with a drawn face. "To think she should have lost ( hat list and rigimted herself hike title. I thought siw might turtle any minute when ve quitted her ; and I'm not a scarey man , either. " "I know you aren't , Come into the chart. house and have a drop of whisky. There's your nilsais' photo stuck UI ) over the bed- foot , How's she ? " "Dead , I hope. It will save her going to the workhouse , " " 0 , rats. It's not as bad as that , " "If you'll tell me , why not ? I shall lose my ticket over this Job sure , when it comes before the board of trade , and what owner's likely to give me another ship ? " "Well , Jimmy , you'll have to sail small , and live on your insurance. " "I dropped that years ago , and drew out what ( hero was. had to-with eight kids , you know , They take a lot of feedimig , " "Eight kids ? fly Jamnesi" " 'es , eight kids , poor little beggars , and the Imlissls and me all to go buogry from now onwards , But they tb say work houses are very comfortable nowadays , You'll look in and see us sometlnmcs , won't you Kettle ? " He lifted tIme glass which bad been banded him , "here's iuck to you old man , and you deserve U. I bougbt that whIsky frox V chandler In Rio. It's a drop at right , isn't it ? " "here , drop it , " raid Kettle' , "l'imt sorry , " 551(1 aptaiii Mulreimdy , "flut you shouldn't have imud nie on hoard. I should have been better picnicking by myself - self Ia Great i'Iton yonder. I can't make a cheerful shipmate for you , old man , " 'firnee imp , " said Kettle. "thy the Lord , if I'd only been a tIny ear- 11cr with that raft , " said the ether miisingiy , . 'i could have taken her omit , as you have done , and brought her home , and I believe the fIrm would have kept nie on. There need have been no inquiry , only 'delayed , ' that's all : no one cares so long as a ship turns up some time. " "it wouldn't have made any difference , " said Kettle , frowning , "Sonic of ( hose lousy l'ortugucstm have been on board and scoffed all the money , " " \'hat money ? " "Why , what she'd earned. What there was hero in the chart house drawer , " The disheveled man gave a tired chuckle. " 0 , that's mmli right. I put in at Las Palmas anti transferred it to the bank there and sent home the receipt by the B. mnd A. mail boat to Liverpool , No , I'm pleased enough about the money. But It's this other thing I maile the bungle of , just being a day too late with that blasted raft. " Kettle heard a round and sharply turned his head. lie saw a grimy nman in the door- way. "Mr , McTodd , " Ime said , "whmo the male- chief gave you leave to' quit your engimmo room ? Am I to understand you've been standing there In that doorway to listen ? " " 11cr own engineer's come back , so I handed her over to him and came on deck for a ape11. As for hisenlng ( , I've heard every word that's been said. Captain Mmml- ready , you have my very deqpeat condo- lencee. " "Mr , McTodd. " said Kettle with a sud- deim blaze of fury , 'I'mn captain of this ship , anti you're intrmmmling , Get to Hamlet out of here. " lie got up and strode furiously omit of time door nnd MeTodmi retreated before 1dm. "Now keep your hands oft me , " said the engineer , when he. had been driven as far [ Is time end of the iimldley. "l'ni as mad about the thIng as yourself , and I don't mind blowing off a few roumitla of temper. I don't know Cmiptaiim Mulberry , and you tb , but I'd hate to see any man mmli crumbled UI ) like that if I could help it. " "iltt could be helped by giving him back his ship , amid I'd do it if I was by myself. lImit 1''e got a Scotch hartner anti I'm not goiug to try for the impossible. " 'Diummn abuse Scotland , " salt ? McTodd , waggimmg a grimy forefinger. "it's your nm vit and balms ye'm-o thinking about , " "I ought to be , Mac , but , God help me , Ini not , " "Varra'weel , " said McTodtl , "titan if that's tile case , skipper , just set ye ( loon here and wc.'ll have a palaver , " "I'll hear what you've got to say , " said Kettle , more civilly , anti br time next half hour the palm' of them. talked as earnestly as only poor amen can talk when they are do- hiberateiy making up tlmeir minds to resign a solid fortmmne which is already within their reach. Amid at time end of thmrit talk Captain Kettle put out his hand and took time en- gineer's iii a heavy grip. "Mac , " lie said , "you're Scotch , but you're a gentiemnaim right through under your clothes. " "I was born to that estate , skipper , nnd I no more wanted to see yon pair dccvii pulled down to our level than you tb. Better - ter go mmml give him ( be news , an(1 I'll get our boat in the water again and re- victualled. ' ' "No , " said Kettle , "I can't stanch by and bo thanked , You go. I'll see to the boat. " "I3o hanged if I do , " said time engineer. "Write the man a hotter. You're areat on tile writing line ; I've seen you at it. " And so , in the tramp's main cabin below - low , Captain Kettle penned this epistle : "To Captain J. R. Muiready : "Dear Jimmy-Having concluded not to take the trouble to work Duncansbyllead home , have pleasure in leaving her tttyour : charge. We having other game on hand , have now taken French leave , amid shall now bear up for Western islands. You've no call to say anything about our being on board at all. Spin your own yarn ; it will never be contradicted. Yours truly , " 0. KETTLE , Master. "N. A. M'TODD , Chief Engmncer-O K. , , P , S.-Wo take along those two Dagos. If you had them they might talk when you got them home. We having them , they will not talk. So you've only your own crowd to keep from talking. Good luck , old tintacks. " Which letter was sealed antI nailed up in a conspicuous plata betere the lifeboat left onroute for Grand Lanary , It was ( ho two Portuguese who felt themselves - selves principahhy aggrieved macn , They hind been made to undergo a great deal of work and hardship ; they had been defrauded of much plunder , which they considered was theirs , for time benefit of an absolute stranger , in whom they took not the slightest - est interest , and filially they were immduced "riot to talk" by processes which jarred upon them most unpleasantly , They mild not tnlk , and in the fullness of , time they returned to the avocation of shoveling coal on steam vessels. But when they sit down to thlmtk neither Almtonio nor his friend ( whose honored name I never icarned ) regard mvithm affection those little islands in the Northern sea , which produced - duced Captain Owen Kettle and his sometime - time partner , Mr. Neil Angus McTodd. lInt at the same time they have a very proper and wholesome awe for the locality amid its inhabitants. .4. Li'I"I'l.lI SLlitl'HISE 1'lIt hIM , Inz'crl'lice of nMzfl iie FIrMt 'I'lmiau H , ' t'IIMMI'tl time l'htte In Church. "Time first time I over passed the plate in church , " said a reminiscent man to a New Yorlc Simim reporter , "aommietiiing very unexpected happened. I got half way imp the aisle and was getting along as nicely and smoothly as could be , when a nmami sit- timg in time end of one of the pews ( lint i canto to indicated a desire to speak to me. "Now you know that was something I had never dreamed of , It had always scented to me that time man passing the nlate walked straight up time aisle in em aol- cmliii kind of a way , while time whole church was still , never pausing except to hand thu phate In time pew and get it back , and time idea that anybody could ever speak to hminm had never occurred to mae , and so this man's indication that he wanted to speak to mao caine as a great surprise and sonic- thing of a shock , Bmmt I didn't drop time nlate , amid I Imatl gumption enough to Incline my head to him so ( lint hit' wouldn't have to shmout to make mu imear , and what lie saId was : ' , 'Can't you have that window over there TAPE WORMS & , t tape worm eighteen ( Oct long ah least came on the scene after my taking two CASCA1tE'I'S. This I am sure has caused my bad health for the paa three years. I am still taking Casearets , the only catbartlo worthy of notice by sensible people , " Gao , TI , Jiowce , Baird , Mass. 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