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Woodville Advocate (1878), 12 May 1881, p. 6

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" My poor child !"â€"â€"â€"her tears fell with mineâ€"" this is terrible. indeed. But cour- age. I am here. We are on his ship, and cannot choose but go with him. Yetâ€"yet â€"I do not think he will dare to harm either of us. My dear, he is afraid of me." “ Are you indeed his wife?” ” It is my unhappy lot." she replied. “ to be the wife of the worst man. I believe. in all the world. Yet needs must that I fol- low him. whatever he the end." I waited to hear more. " I learned when the ship would sail, and I came aboard and hid myself. I ought to leave him to his fate." she went on. sitting with else hands. “ I have been beaten by him li e a disobedient dog; I have been cursed and abused; I have been robbed and starved ; I have been neglected and deserted. But I cannot abandon him. I am driven to follow him wherever he may lead. It may be I shall yetâ€"But I do not know. His conscience is dead within him: he is no longer a man. From the first week I knew him to be gambler. drunkard. and man- elsyer; a defler of God’s laws; one of those who work evil with eedinees; yet 1 can~ not choose but go ter him. even if my choice land me again on the shore of North Carolina." , .. And why do you fear to go there ?“ “ Child, on do not know the Southern States.“ 8 e laughedbitterly. " They are the home, in your English pa rs and your New York correspon onto. 0 the chivalry and nobility of America. They are also the home of the slave. There are black slaves. brown slaves. olive-colored slaves. and white slaves. I was a white slave. I am one of those unfortunates for whom theyY are ?fighting. I amadarkeyâ€"a Negro.“ H on II " Yes; I. You would not think, to look at me. perhaps. that I have been a slave. Yet it is true. The your: ladies with whom I was brought up b not whiter skin than mine. Yet my great~great~ grandmother was a black woman. So I was a slave. You are not an American. and so you do not shrink beck loathing. I was a s ave. and one day. being then seven- teen yearsof age. and unwillin tobe 'the mother of more slaves. I star on a lon journey byhthe Underground railway. an “Yen; itie true Iwent to Montreel where I hopedtoflnd employment end iriengle. There I mee pepmn \elentine journe by the Und go; _ o_ to Cunuls “ u.-. v "I: it pouiblo?" cried Avu. to ms [or a moment her own troubles. :3 n3 " Now." said Ohve kindly, when we were alone. “ tell me who you are, and what has Imp ned.“ “ h! he has stolen me! He asked me to come on board; he pretended to be m friend; and he has stolen me. And Jae is oqxping back_qx_z_S_§tu_rday‘to may); me 2_" " You can‘t, captain," said Stephen. " The men would see it: Avis would see it. Put it out of your thoughts. Now mind. When I said I’d be] the gall uboard, I npver jargoined for live as well. What stopped short. " You can‘t about Nssé'au ?" “ Even there." she said though she shiv- ered. “ I will venture. I know what is in our wicked brain. Yet I am not afraid. am here to protect this innocent girl. As for you," she turnedto the unfortunate pilot, “ I have heard of you. You are still. old man, as you have always been. the stupid tool of this man. At his bidding, and for no use to help yourself, you are ready to throw away your immortal soul. Get out of_our sight! Go. I say_ !_ _ Stephen straightened his back with an effort. and cleared his throat. He looked at me. who was now clinging to Olive, and than at his chief. who stood_ bi§ing_hia lip, " Come. cap," said Stephen, “ we San do no good here. Come on deck." He led the way, and mounted the companion with alaorlty. “Phew!” he whistled on deck. " Trouble a-hrewin' now. What shall we do next ‘2" ' The captain laughed. “ You shall," he said. “ Hang me if you shall leave the ship till I let you. You shall follow meâ€"whether you like it or not -â€"t0 Dixie’s Lend.” thh an angry flush upon his cheék. and '3 look_ that meagt rgyenge it he could get it. “ I weer your weddingâ€"ring still." She showed it on her finger. " Irefuse your divorce. I will not acknowledge the law which allows a man to put away a. wife without reason. I am still your wife. I shall follow you wherever you go. I came across the Atlantic. to Liverpool. after you. I came on board this ship after you. I shall make the voy a with you.” The captain“ eugheq. “ It's 9. lie 1" shouted theoaptain. empha- sizing his words in manner common among men of his kind. “ It's a. us! She has been divorced by the law of the country. I have no wife." “I am thewife ottheman who all: himself Captain Ramsay,” she replied. “Thanking! 19y blush?!“ . - “Who are you?" I asked. “ 011! tell me if you. too. arye in aplot with those wretched men ?” , afraid'ot her. W“ Tide," aeid Stephen. “ is the very deuce an' all. What’s to be done now ?" A Glory of Today. She was quite quiet; her face was very pale; he: 11p: were set. I leaned, ener- may. )9 love her. But at first I was Breaking in u n the hush profound Comes w ea 0 mild : What can cause that weird and woeful sound ? Surely 'twu 3 child. Suddeniyu n the puzzled brain Flashes i the truthâ€" Pefim'e hnnda are full tonight again; uby'a got a tooth. And. mm penance-doing monks of you. This a burden burs. While 1t looks I! it ’twu vex'd sore-â€" Overwhelmed with cues. 'Orou the light bend of the linen screen. and". as me ewired. A 1130:3339)” - tfully la seen “1h; imnjhrf iiiâ€"dds: flow't Hui pom: fur 6d. In bl: kennel down In yon Mahmud The watch Ile- “loop- snowy upon 0 bonlev Do" chew!» weep. Prom nu noun lamp on that window blind Pull: the olden light: Bole out- at the eye an and In the down night. The qulot o! the solemn mtdnlam hour _ Oyorhansn the wogld;_ “ It _I gouldâ€"“ the captain begun, but ‘â€"u be than «lied hiinullâ€"who {-35 N0 RELATIONS ; A “new and a. Belt. "I‘might put Olive eehore." eeid the eepteln; “end we could oeny the other on to Wilmington. Olive would ecreem e bit. but then ehe‘d heve to no. Ae for Neceeu. we ere not goingto New Provi~ denoe et ell. Don‘t on think, Stephen. efter lt‘e eoet me ell t e money to ehip my crew. hell peld down end ell. thet they're going to heve the ehenoe of getting eehore end eteying there. Why. once eehore. it might be efortnight beforel could get them ell beck ein. No: the ooel‘e lying on Stony Cey. w ere we‘ll teke it on board. end eoofl‘ egein. We might lend her on the Cey. to be euro. but there‘e no retione end no weter." .. You our: lmd the womsn there. mp‘en. The men wouldn‘t auni it." “I don't know. Steve. That is a fact. Your girl find me won‘t run one in harness no long on the other one in e ut; they must be eepereted before we can do any- thing else." Olive caught my hand. We listened for more. “ Lona ‘em both at Nelson. and be shut of the wholejob."oonnsolled Ste hen. " No good overcome to o voyoge wit a passe] 0‘ women ohoord. Mi ht as well have a bishop ox: 9 Jonas h‘ignac I: Then, day after day. the ship held her course. and we two women remained un- molested. wolking on deck or sitting' in the little saloon unnoticed. We tolked little‘ having too much to think about. hevin too much to think about. 80 t nt. in the silence. our senses seemed to qmcken. end one night. sitting in the eeloon otter n‘ htfell. we heard voices ebove us on the eck. One of the speakers was Stephen. “It‘s sbsdbnsineee. cay‘en." he said. " Look At iten way. no way I like it. Whet are we to 0 next ‘2" “ One thing," said Olive. “ my husband might have done. He dare not do it, though, because he would lose the respect of all Americans. He might tell them that he has married a colored girl. You would witness, then. for yourself something of the loathing which the presence of the negro blood muses among Americans." blood muses amon Americans." I have mention the bo‘s'n and quarter- muter. Liberty Wicks. who was often at the wheel. . Now. one day, goon after _ the voy pen. The captain was on the bridge, Stephen was for' ard. no one was aft except Olive and myself and the q-uuter master. who. as usual. was making his two eyes do double duty. We were sitting in silence. whegwe becgnae {were of} hoarse w_hi_sper. “ There’s friends aboard." It was Liberty Wicks. “ Friends. Don't fear nothing. \Vait till you get to North Car‘lina. Don’t look at me. Don’t anawer." After this we were comforted. on every possible opportunity. with the assurance thot there were friends aboard. The crew were lying about the deck, exoe t one or two, on watch in the bows. As e shi carried neither yards nor sails. there was 'ttle or nothinghto do, and they mostly sat sleeping or tel ‘ng yarns all the voyage. Olive led me for’ard. Stephen. although the pilot, and therefore a person of great importance, was among the com- mon sailors, sitting in the sun, his pipe in his mouth, with two or three listeners, foremost among the spinners of yarns. They were such names as sailors give each other, such as Liberty Wicks, who was ‘quarter-master; Soldier Jack. so called ‘because he was reported to have been a ‘deserter from an English regiment in Canada; Old Nipper. the meaning of whose name I do not know; Long Tom, a lanky thin man of six feet six, with a stoop in his shoulders caused by stooping continually 'tween decks; Pegleg Smith, who went halt; and the Doctor, as they called the cook. They grinned,made a leg. and touch- ed their foreheads; they knew that Olive was the captain’s wife; they knew that she was a stowaway, and had come after her husband; they knew thatI had been en- trapped aboard. That was what Olive The captain seemed to have no objection to our talking with the sailors. It was not his plan to show the least unkindness on the voyage: we were to be perfectly free. We found them a rough, reckless set of men, of the kind who would follow a leader anywhere. provided he gave them plenty to eat, drink, and to smoke. In a few days they wouldbe under the port of Wilmington. their cargo landed and sold, their private ventures converted into dollars. and their craft taking in cotton for the homeward “ For. my dear." she said. “ suppose my husband was to catch me by the heels some dark night and tip me 0v erboard. which he would very muchlike‘to do, those men wou!d miss me. and by degreés the thing would beoome known." “ That would not restore you to life." “ No, my dear; but it might make thiggs safar for you}: 5331: 77 iBVe'aideithe' helm 86011 the captain, who aoowled but said not a. word. , “ Lufly. my dear," sold Olive. “ among wild bout: it is well to hove other means of defence then a women '5 ehrieke. I have â€"-tor the protection of us bothâ€"this. " She produced“) 3 revolver. “ A prettyto y," she end, “ but it re looded.md1tehelibe used, itneedbe, for delenoep! you 99 well as ‘n‘ayeelf. " Froaonui we went on deck. The [and was nearly out of sight; we were on the broad Atlantic. The ship rolled in the [pug swoll; _t._ho {by _wa_.I hr13h_t;_the broom “ i‘i‘ifiug bég'ahfithis Vmiéerablé voyuge. where- in my heart was torn by anxieties and fun. What would be the end? ,, We then begun to consider how we could best protect ourselves on the voyage. Olive advised thst we should go on deck as much as possible, so that all the sailors should know thot we were aboard. sud w acous- tmned to see us; that we shoul never (or a moment leave esoh other :rthst we should so good a wall in love with me. and I with him. We were married. And now you know my story." 11 " find if you so book egein to North Gero- n. \l " In the old deye. if e runaway eleve wee oeuaht. they flogged him. Now. when the Northern eoldiere m gethering round them. end their oeuee in hopeleu; now. when they tremble lent freeh Itoriee of orueltiee to hleoh ehould he invented or found out. I think they would herdly dare flog 5 white women. Yet one known not. The feeling in very strong, and the women no cruelâ€"more cruel then the men." Ehirb‘ihb"skm{oabin; that we should rogue fig listen toz-oz- speak with the cap- tain or his «complies. u T.--b‘u mu Ann-I " .. I can't. been“ I've got 3 white-liverod beganJ'very sixfgular thing hap- Not yet. Ceptein Renee gene en order in his quiet voice.the wheel ew round. ind the next moment we were eetem of the vee~ eel.et1nll speed stamina in the teeth of the wind. With such way new” on the cruiser, The mist hsd thickened; the dsy wss slowly braking; we held our course but st hell speed; suddenly there seemed to spring out of the wster s cruiser three tunes our size, under stesm end esil. We were slmost under her bows ; they shouted to us: their men sprsng into the rigging to furl the nil; We sew hem hutily run out the guns. "Avis!" cried Olive. "you ere saved!" . 159* Ma Cephin Ben»! cm m nerds! In the morning. which was cloudy with a little fog. though there was s steady breeze from the northwest, we made our first escape. It wsajnst before dsy-hresk; we, who could not elee . were on deck egein. €11 leight 1th?“ h hbeen1 {feqnent elm-tale. nt sppi or an s piy WOW e denger. This time. hgwever. th ngs looked as if out run bed come to on end. I euppoee We altered our course, because we saw no more of that eteemer. We nu till noon without further adventure; then another. and another. and mother alum were given in quick succession. sad the wheel went round and the vessel changed her course. There wee no waiting to make out the gistent ship; every stranger wen u supposed enemy. " I dmmt hope." said Olive. “ that we nhgll got through thgm._" er um: I.â€" umwu-u I'vvv I could see nothing; the broad (we of “no ocea_n_ glowed m the right agnphine. " Hé'seee." said Olive: "a. faint wreath of smoke." “ Stephen," we heard thecsptsin say, “ I have got a note from Nasseu. The Yanks expect me ; they don’t know that I've arrived and started; but there's a. notion among the cruisers that I'm to be met with somewhere about this time. I know what their ships are, and where they‘re stationed. Twenty-five steamers are lying off Wilming~ ton this night as close as they can lieâ€"out oi the range of Fort Fisher. Bulf a dozen more are cruising about these waters. I make no count of them. Now, Stephen the col thing to decide is whether it's best to due through the line, or to creep along the We passed a sleepless night. Half a. dozen times, at least, the engines were stop. ped on an alarm being given from the watch in the fore-top. and we expected to hear a cannon-shot crash into the vessel, or an order, at least, to lay to. Presently the engines would go on, and the ship pro~ ceeded on her way, thou h perhaps on another task. We show no light; our coal gave out little smoke. and thst little. as I have ssid, was dischsrged from the stern._ the funnel lying flat glans the (loch. At do. break we erase and went on deck again. one of the men seemed to have gone below. Stephen and the captain stood together by the wheel; :11 hands were on the watch. though as yet it was too dark to see (u; and the men. if they spoke at all they spoke in whie rs. As the sun rose behind us. we fonn ourselves alone upon the own; not a. sail wee in eight. coast." “ Pray heaven 1" whispered Olive, " that one of those half dozen cruisers catch us." “ No cruiser yet." I whispeiéd to Olive. “ Shpll we raw}; Wilgniygton to-nigpt ?:' top. “ ofl' the starboard bow I" “ I eenfind the mouth of that river blind- fold; never fear that; what I think is the shifting spends along the count. if we have to “ The coast." said Ste hen, “ is a awk- ward coast. There’s not ing to steer by, there's sands, and there's never a. light." “ We can show a light from the inshore side. They will answer it; they are on the look-out a}! night." ‘ I would rather," said Ste phen. “ make a dash for it. Once inside their line they will _find it hgrdfq stop us.’ ,_ When the sun went down on the third day, the engines got up steam ; by midnight the Maryland was out of the narrow waters and rolling among the great waves of the gulf stream. The night was exactly the kind of night which blockade-runners. bnccaneere. privateere, and pirates always most delight in; a dark night With a new moon; cloudy. too. The steamer carried no lights. By the wheel stood the captain, and old Stephen ready to take his place as pilot. As for us, we were too annous to stay below, and were on deck looking and ‘ Can you find the Inouth of the river in the night? “ The danger may mean deliverance, my dear.” Olive said for Avis’ consolation. “ The cruisers may take us. In that case you ere safe; you have only to seek out the British consul, enfi tell him who you are. and why you were on board the ship. As for meâ€"â€"â€"-" “ As for you, Olive ‘2" asked Avis. “ I must follow my husband," she replied. “If we are taken, he will go to a. New York prison; and I must go, too,to look after “Patienoe. Avie." said Olive. Three days more will bring us to the end of this chgpter.'_ The steward told us. what we pretty well know before. that they were going to run the blockade into Wilmington. on the coast of North Carolina; that the place was about seven hundred miles distance from the Bahamas, and that the real gianger was about to begin: Ilithertofh‘ere had been none, except the chance of bad weather. for the Maryland, built for noth~ ing but speed, and just heavy enough to stand the waves of an ordinary stiff breeze. woulj ingallibly hnve gone Goyyn in a gale. channel. name sixty miles northth of Nansen. The smell mops do not notice so insignificant a rock, but on the chute it is celled Stony Cay. Two or three men were there in charge of the stores, end, as a. warning to American cruisers. the Union Jack was kept flying from a. meet. Thither we steered. and here the men made their finel‘preperetione. .. " wont-co. nvu." wullpercu uuvu 3 " wur. age. child; we ere not so eted yet; there in dweyn hope. Even g at between wind end weter. end e elnkina of the Ihip with all her wicked crew. would be better then such 3 fete u the men intends to: you. But thet fete will not be yours. Some women, my deer. are ropheteeeee: I think I m one; end I see. at I know not how. a happy ending out of this for youâ€"but not for me." There is an inlet among the Behemes lying inst st the_entrenoe of Providence lot ahead who'd mm 3 fun. I could it I ha: tho crew with me that I had twenty mmwheu we made thut hmous run. on h no lo“ than. " “ COWFO Ava." whispered Olive . “ opur. “ A “gamer." cried ithve man at‘ihe {ore- ' The Cuptuin drew his revolver; the chief omen knocked up his hand. The Captain, still silent, went down the com ion, followed by the first ofiioer and the tewain. Olive had lit our lamp 1) this time. " Courage, Avie I" she w ispered. “ Now is the moment of your deliverance l" “ Come." he said roughly. " The ship is aground. Avie, and you other, come on deck and get into the boats." “ No," said Olive; " we shall remain here." “ I tell you, come." Olive stood before me. " She shall not ooms !" " Stand aside 1" He added words of loathing and hatred which I will not write down. " Stand aside. or by the Lord I will murder on." ~ ” She she] not go with you. Oh.villainl aha shall not go with you I" “ Cap'en, there's no time," growled the quartet-master: _ _ _ _ _ Cgptein Ramsey replied by a volley of out a “ They re putting off a. boat from the Yankee. air. Shall we lower boats ?" The Ceptoin made no reply. “ A New York prison or a run in the Southern States it is. Cep' en. " Still his Cap tun mode not reply. Then the oheef omoer came up. " There' 13 no time to lose. air. The men are lowering the boats. Shall we put in the women first 7" On deck we heard sgrest trampling. The crew ran aft and jumped to ease her off ; the engines were reversed. but the ship was hard and fut. z‘Ca ‘en," said the quartermaster and bo'a'n. iberty Wicks I) name, of whom I huge glrgmly spoken, "-. i_a js a bad _j_ob.“ _ The men la on the deck, thinking to get shelter from t e bullets if any should come giant wey ; but the Captain stood by the i at. “ Plenty of water. Pilot ‘2" he asked. “ Deep water. air. Only keep her head straight. As for them lubbers with their guns whyâ€"" Here he stopped, and fell heavily to the deck with s groan. The wheel flew round ; the little steamer swun round with it. and before the Captain eon] put up the helm, she ran bows .on heavily into a send-bank and step d. “We are ashore." said live quietly. "I “We are ashore." said-Olive quietly. "I thigk,_my dong. tbs} we argrsaveqi" No one took any notice of the unfortunate Pilot. the only man struck by the shot. He 13y potionloss.‘ _ ,. We went below; but we could not escape the horrible banging of the cannon. which seemed to be firing all around us, nor the rattling of the rifles. They fired at random. begeuse they could not _see_ us: A ‘ _ Then there was a snapping as of wood in the bows. acry of alarm; and the next moment a. rocket shot high in the air. On our starboard, not a. hundred yards from us, was lying one of the cruisers, and the rocket had gone up from a. rowinf barge sent out to aignalize a chance b ookade- Emmet, which boat we had nearly run own. It would have been better for Captain Ramsay had he run her down altogelljahar “ Put on all steam." shouted the captain, an the rocket was answered by a. gun. and then another. “Let them blaze ewe Now, then. Five minutes' run lads, an . we'll be out of danger. Steady, pilot, ateléyl"_ “ If there 13 to be fighting," said Olive. " we had better be below. where, at least we shall be a little safer. ” We were moving so slowly that the motion of the screw oould hardlybe felt; the night was very still and dark; the sea. a dead calm. We were as close to the shore as the pilot could possibly take her; the men in the bows were soundin perpetually, and sending the depth aft in w lspers. We had shown a light on the inshore side ; this was answered by two lights, so faint as to be invisible farther out ; they were the lights to guide the pilot into the harbor. Success was already in the captain's hand; a few minutes more and the last few yards of the long voyage would be run in safety. “ S'beedy it is. air." answered Stephen, as another cannon shot étruek the water close to our stern, sending the spray flying. A long, eting sound as the bottom juet touched t e and. The ship cleared the shallow, and continued .her slow, silent crawling along the shore. I suppose it must have been 2 o'clock in the morning, or rather latex-Y the ship still cautiously hugging the dark line of coast, that the and came. captain. ' " “No. sir. Idaren’t do it. We are as near Itsâ€"What‘s that? See now.“ Stephen now took the wheel himself. and the captain became a sort of chief officer. At the helm. proud of his skill and new employment. Ste hen looked something like that beautiful 0 d man whom I had found sleeping. The cunning. sensual look was one from him; he stood as steady as a 'on, yet eager and keen, with every sense awake. Presently he ordered half speed; then we sounded; then be forged ahead a bit; sounded again; then before us I saw. low and black in the night. the coast of America. Stephen kept her on her way slowly and cautiously: the screw never ceased, but we crept slowly along, hugging the shore as near as he dared. “My lade,"he said, -- I had intended to make a. dash for it, as I have often done before. You are not the men to be afraid of a shot or two; but this unfortunate tall- ing in with one of their ships makes it seem bent to try creeping along shore. for the alum} _will be given. _Theret_ore. every north horizon. but we were invisible to her. That ni ght we were to run the blockade. The bloolmdint fleet was ohiefl eonoen- treted round port of Wi mington. There were. as the osptsin ssid. twenty- ilve vessels lying or cruising. in a. sort of semi eirele. ten miles round the mouth of the river. on one bank of which was Fort Fisher. it was prudent to mIlseegonteigie the range of that tortreee’ nd without the circle were some h f- dozen fest steam- ing cruisers always on the lookout. That evening_ the eeptsin_ called the men ef_t._ imin to his post. End not a word a' kea'; and, with good luck, we will be insi a Fort Figher before dqy-prealg" The men retired. Then night fell, and we could hear the beating 01091: hearts. the won out 0! night in the mist ulmoet before we had time to look. There we: 3 t po ing of guns. and one «anon-shot. at no am e wee done; end when the mint groan y olenred. and the sun rose, we con d indeec} see her smoke eygy on the few yards nearer, pilot 7" asked the Vennor. in concluding his essay on " Forecasting Weather." and more par- ticularly referring to the presence of birds as a sign of spring, ssys : " In line, birds. either considered as a whole or as individuals, do not afford us any clue of valueto the making out of the ‘ weather problem.‘ They know bad weather when it comes; so do we. They fly before it and find better quaflersmhile we r mortals. as a majority. have to grin an bear it. In by far the greatest number of cases the movements of the birds and the changes of the weather are too simultaneous to permit of our attaching any weight to the arrival and disep arance of our winter visitors; but. on t e other hand. there are times when, could we, we would most assuredly warn these birds of msnya ' relapse of the weather ' yet to come. concerning which, it may easily be perceived, they remain blissfully ignorant, and during which they often perish in numbers.“ George Fuwceu Rowe hu completed a new comedy. in which he will u u the {other of I thentrlool hmilym oh will he produced u the Filth Avenue Theatre. New York. in August. The rosecution of one of the authors of “Sooto Sermons" for heresy seems now to be inevitable. The Presbytery of Glas- gow. by a small majority. lately appointed a committee “to confer" with him. and this decision. on appeal to the Synod. has been confirmed by a substantial majority in_that body. 9 second appeal has _b_een VThe voyage wee over; the ehi wee ashore; the cargo was lost; the bloc e-runners were disappointed; and we were standing. friendleee and helpless. on the shores of the New World. taken to the General Assembly in May, but probably without much hope oi altering the result. Should the General Assembly sustain the Presbytery and the Synod in requiring a. conference, ever thing will depend on the explanations t at may be offered by the incriminated clergyman. His prosecutors have hinted that they will be satisfied with very little in the way of an apolo y. and a statement that the heretical octrines complained of were not put forth as the author's own views would probably meet all the difiiculties of the case. This would be the best. though not the most heroic. way out of what threatens to be a ver awkward afl'air.‘ The Kirk cannot afl‘or to trifle with her reputation or orthodoxy. nor can she very well sus- tain the distractions of a great polemical ttruggle.â€"-Pall Mall Gazelle. We were closer to the shore than I thought. In ten minutes the sailors stood up to help us to land. Then they put off aggip. “Come." cried the ofiicer, “we have no time. Bo'e‘n." “ Sir." "Put these ladies into the boat, and lend them a quickly as you can. Have you anything you wish to take with you ?" “ Nothing," said Olive. " Thenâ€"" He raised his cap. and we followed the boatewain. 7‘ Tell inc.” I said; “ was that story true about the raft?" - "' Is that you. Avis? Keep clear of the captain.” he whispered slowly; “ he's well. nigh_d_e_aper9_u;." “You was." he said, “a Pick-me-up, off a raft in Torres' Straits; wropped in band. annex-s; and your mother was a Enabling. Your father, he was admiral to the Sultan of VZgnzibgr.” _ liege hejainted agqin. “ The pilot. is he? Well. if he recovers. he will find out what the inside of a prison is; because you see. ladies, a pilot must know the shore. and a pilot must, thew fore. be a Rab." He felt Stephen’s pulse. , “ It is very low. I doubt he is dying.” I gave him the water, and he opened his eyes. “ He is the pilot," I replied, thinking no haml‘in tglling the trujh.” “Which of them is this?" asked the Federal. " We would rather.” said Olive. “ that you took us to New York,even as prisoners." He shook his head and laughed. Here a deep moan interrupted us, and we became aware to: the first time thst 1‘ old Stephen was lying wounded at the elm. where he had fallen. “ WFWE" he stowed. “ This is her'flrst run." " And her captain " " Captain Ramsay- The oflioer whistled' “ I wish I had known,” he said. “ Well. ladies the best thing I can do, as you havo come all the way gto the coast of North Carolina.‘ 1a to put you ashore on it. No doubt that is what you want; and I wish_3_rou joy_ of pixie' s Lam}? Olive told him thatlwaa an English lady who had been brought away against her will. that her own business was my protggtign. ' “ We have no business in the South," she said; “ and we have no papers." “What can I do with you?" he asked, evidently not believing the statement. “ It I take you aboard. we shall not know whe~ the: to treat you as risoners or not. It I land you. you would worse 06 than be~ tore, What is the name of this ship ?" He was greatly aur rind to find two ladies on board. But a was civil, asked us who we were. and what we were doing on board a. blockade-runner. In ten minutes they came along-aide. end we saw them climbing on deck. There Were twenty of them. armed with outlast»: and pintola. heeded bye young Fedenl oflicer. play)! shot. and”. sound '0! one “The Yanks ore on us I" cried the man. They seized the Coptoin. one by each m. and drugged him up the companion. Wo boon} I_tromplipg on (look. 9 ohouging._o aid Olive. “ The "will be beck Emmi! to scuttle the shit" yend destroy t Let us go on deo It we: too duh to see much. We heard in the distance the regular full of the om . we saw a. flesh trom time to time. Then there was silence for awhile, and then we heel-g the cage egeiu. "The omiser‘ls men are coming back." said Olive. “No murder. Cupuin tummy." he said. “ unless you murder mo and the bo‘a'n too." :‘.T.h.9we9h_sains mablooiwdsa-ruw re. What is the name of this ship ?" :Iflz‘hg hiatyjahd. of Lfivorpool,” and Olive. I fetched hiin watei'. Olive raised his More Herc-v In Deena-d. To be continued. in

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