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.w Lmking over into her I saw some- thing that made me start back with fear and loathing; for there. prone in the bottom. lay four bodies. their fea- tures ‘mtdist'inguiehable from decay; and. worse than all, scattered about there were terrible signs that. before their own deaths. they had been driven to the last dread resort of the caste- way. But for thee ghastly. mutilat- ed fragments. there was not a thing in the boat with the corpses save her ears. Two of the men Hay under the midship thwarts. nearly! doubled up. as if thetir. last. moments had heem spasms of agony; a third was right in; the bows. eyeiess from attacks of sea- birdsâ€"«a shocking and a heart-tending spectacleâ€"with features run together and discoloured until the face seemed a hideums putrid mask. {mocking all ”ambiance of humanity. The fiourth 30rp:e lay right aft. on the grating. in mueh simiiar case to the other, only that in his hand he grasped a bare sheath-knife. All four, from their clothes. were men‘ before the mast. There must. I could too easily see. have been others. Ugh! it. was a. gruesome eight; and giving the boat a shove off. I had slipped my oars to. return. when. elueing to my push, she came round. stern towards me. and. to my unutter- eble horror. I read on it the words. “'LAlltgelope-Alondon." In a moment she jumyed to the dav-E ibfansz in another four or five I was; pulling arrow the ralm water. And; then it seemed to suddenly dawn on her what a fatally foolish action her: aileult; furging had led' me into; and' I saw her wave her hat. and heard her voice coming to me in recall. But al-; ready Inwas halt-way; and. determin-' see that she yearned as it were. to the sight. at the helpless. tossing thing. and prewntly she Spoke. almost to herself. but not so low as to pre- vent me catchlng her exclamation: “If there should be any one sick and help- less-nigh dead in her I" And I knew by the sob she gave as she turned her eyes away that. she was thinking of her father. ' : ' It was a. mad thing for me to do. but. 1 could. not stand idly by and wit- ness her distress. so I said: "If you will help me to lower the dingey. I’ll prull over and see if there is anybody in herfi’ ed to allow no room' for after selfâ€"ac- cusings or regrets. I kept steadily on 1mm: 1 “as alongside the little dere- not. Ahuut this time it was that being be- calmed one evening. I sighted on our euuhuard 11¢sz a boat about three- qwuters of a mile away. The Hebe herself was motionless, or nearly so; but the boat: seamed: drifting astern pretty quickly, probably in the set of some small current. In Helen’s eyes, as she gazed. there was a perfect fev- er of sympathy and pity. And I could We were very much together during this. time. [How could it be otherwise? And the mare I saw of her the more I dimovered what a fine character it was; what a noble soul and stainless mind gave grace and light and dignity to the beautiful being that I felt my- self gradually gaining {vasession of. Hut alwaySâ€"Jalthou'gi) In talking to ynu of her I have called her "Helen"â€" it was. between us. Miss ,b‘ortescue and Mr. Valrance. Most punctiliously did “e keep up appearances; and if our eyes. now and then spoke a language unmistakable. they were quickly low- ered. Still. often, when her soft white hands met mine as we pulled on a rope together, and the breeze brushed a stray curl of ha'Lr across my cheekâ€" ol‘tem l 5.8 y. did! I feel the need of self- :ontrol merge into a very torture of refraining from taking that graceful. welding torm into my arms and then 1nd there declaring my love. But ever I fien-ely fought against; such tempta- tion and Leat my heart back into sub- gection. gaining the victory, looking at the last to my reward. I think. without using any extrava- gant figupe of speech: I may say that, as my eyes caught the above inscrip- tion my very soul shook within me at the new and terrible interest raised by. it. But what could I do? There was the host and its burden floating soft- ly away! It I had possessed en axe. or any tool whatever fitted for the wart. I wanllk have pursued it. and «him 3 hole through its bottom. and a without having to come to the old Mfle for help. What! Why, the cider alone from the big orchard at. Bm-h Grove ought to keep us! And so I dreamed. building my cas- tles in the air. Romance! Why. air mm mean in these days were filled with the glamour of itâ€"and of my new I never in this connection thought of anything the Major might have left. Well. there was a farm that I was to have worked..- had I not chosen to seek an livelihood instead on "these barren fields of wandering foam." The lease woqu shortly be up. and I could re- sume it for myself and Helen; and it would be hard indeed if I couldn’t knock some kind of a support out of brooding sadness the girl had regained much of her cheery. hepeful nature. and 11de to keep me sweet and plea- sant company whilst we sailed the brig. sometimes into the small hours. Then, when she went below. after giving me a hand to swing the yards, and I lay down for a brief rest with Nan at my feet. I would go over all our talk to- gether treasuring up every kind word every deep and moving glance of my sweetheart’sâ€"ior that such she was I more than hoped. although neither time nor place served to put the matter to the test. Of seeing the Major again I had quite given up all expectation. Helen as she told me, had not another relative in the world. Clearly. at the very first Opportzunity I must marry her and take her home to the vicar- uge. What should we do for a living? Although subject to intervals of a I Within the last few days we had. itoo, struck an easterly current. and ithe Hehe’s drift 0’ nights was pretty _con:iderahle. Clipper as she was. the brig, under her present canvas was heavily handicapped. Not, even with 3 Helen for a relief in; the wheel, could I sail her day and night. In fact..I nev- er seriously attempted to do so. A day or two after this incident, whilst at: work in the galley, I heard Helen. at the wheel. cry out and point away on the port bow. Jumping on to the forecastle-head. I saw a vessel which like the Aurora. .had altered her course no speak us. This one. however, had crept up dur- ing the night. unrerceived until now. We still kept our distress-signal flying â€"not so much with the hope of speak- ing ships and borrowing men as to Obtain information respecting the long-boat. Truth to tell, I think we were getting a little careless as re- garded the keeping a strict lookout. especialty after our experience with the Aurora. Evidently. to get the loan of men from any ordinary vessel was well-nigh hopeless; and, unaided. I legal) to think that our chances of arriving at Capetown; or anywhere else. were quite problematical, even if the weather held as fair as it had done for so long‘ which was quite too much to exyect. (But what of the Antelope? What. awful misfortune could it he that. had overtaken her, to send that ghastly boatload of corpses to roam the sea unburied '? Whatever it was, it must have been disaster. sudden and pitiless. blur a moment it struck me as just pos- sible that this very boat might have been lowered for me when I fell overâ€" board. and that the ship had failed to pick her up. But on going back and thinking over the state of the weather at the time I saw it. was well-nigh in- credible such a thing could happen. And surely [must have seen some- thing of them next. day! No. I felt certain in my own mind that the An- telope had (some to grief in some terrib- ly complete manner-a fnreboding. as you will see later, fully realized. From ralloft I' could' now see the stranger plainlyâ€"a huge mass of can- vas that at first it rather puzzled me to define. so bizarre did it look. But. presently, as she swam more plainly into view. I made her out? to he a four- masted barquentine, with enormously square fore-yards and towering main, mizzen. and jigger masts, clothed in great stretches of lore and aft canvas. whilst from lzetween them. and off her howsprit and jib-boom, sprang regular flights of staysails and jibsâ€"on the wlhole a very remarkable figure of a ship. I had, however. seen. the rig be- fore. mainly in timlser-vessels hailing from Puget Sound or Vancouver, and had never felt any inclination_to be shipmates with three forty-foot booms an: a craft that a jib might shake all the sticks out of at once. As I watched her she luffed till all her widespread wings fluttered and shook like those of some monstrous sea-fowl preening it- self; then jihbing, she hoisted British colors and headed straight for the Hebe; although on the other tack she would have passed quite close enough to speak As I diamlzered on deck a dim figure came swiftly towards me, making with wide-open arms as if to embrace me; then all at once, with a quick cry. it seized both my hands, exclaiming: "Oh. I thought I had lost you. and it near- ly killed me!” Then, still holding my hands and laughing and sobbing hys- terically, she led me aft. and brought food and drink to me, all the while, by turns, upbraiding herself for sending me on such an errand, and giving thanks to God for my safe return. And. secretly. it made me proud and happy to see such depths of emotion stirred for my sake in one usually so calm amd wolf-possessed .B'ulb not: until I found her. at last, soothed and tran- quil would I tell her the result of my trip. and then not in full; although I think. I need not have feared. had I so wished, seeing that for a time all things seemed swallowed “up in deep tlhwnlkfulness for my rescue and un- harmed presence beside her. Scanning the eastern horizon, I saw athwart the sky a faint stain of smoke. evidently from a steamer. but too far away to tell just yet in what direction she was travelling. For the' last couple of days we had been steering a south-west course, the wind allowing us to look up no high- er; and that morning. for the first time . had noticed such a marked in] h the barometer as Rapidly the mother thickened as. forgetting aught else. I pulled madly towards the noise of the shotsâ€"all the guidle I had. for the brig was by this time invisible; and but for those dull echoes out of the mist I should have been quite bewilderedâ€"as likely as not making away from, in place of to. the Hebe. And how I blessed the pres- ence of mind in my darling that had induced her to think of the only pos- sible mode of indicating her where- dhokuhs! Even: when actually; close alongside almost hitting her, so thick was the tag, but. for the report over- head. '1 mlust have missed the vessel. let those rotting corpses sink to the depths below rather than wander the ocean in such terrific guise. But I had; nothing; and the idea of grOping for her plug beneath that festering mass repulsed my imagination to the verge of retdhing. lAnd npw‘ glancing to- wards the Hebe... I noticed. with a thrill of alarm, how distant she appear- ed to be, looming indistinctly, a pale smudge. the very phantom of a ship. athwart a mist that was fast rising off the hot, oily water. Even as I stared there came to my ears the faint report of a gun. then another, and another, beaming something in. the sound ob them to my ears of quick impatience and distress. I said nothing to Helen, who, having helped me to back our maln-topeail, was now standing near me; but tak- ing the glasses, tried to make the thing, out more plainly. Yes, there was no doubt. about the device; but then othâ€" er boats besides the one might carry such a mark. And, owing to the deep shadow cast by the main-boom and part of the sail, I could observe only a portion of the stern; the rest lay almost in darkness. On a small monkey-pony, but for which she was flush fore and aft. stood a group of three men all whites, who devoured the Hebe with their eyes. staring aloft and amund in a gaze that wine always hack and settled on Helen and myself and Nan) who. as was her custom now when anytthtg was to he seen, stood near us, her two fore-feet cocked Up on the bugs um. and by the expression of her knowing face, crjticising the strangex with might and main. ens; and the three oonversed appar- ently with some little excitement, to judge from their animated gestures. Then the tall one shouted: “ No, [hav- n't. seen W boat like the one you describe; but We’ll keep a good look- out. Who did you say was in her when she went adrift 2” “Hello!” shouted one of the men in response “to my hail of ‘Barquen- tine, uhoy 1' “ What‘s the matter with the brig! Where’s your crowd got to? And what do you want ?” The speaker was a tall, sunburned. not ill-looking man, with black mous- tache and whiskers, clad in a sack suit of gray tweed, wearing a Cape “smash- er" but of soft felt, and puffing lei- surely at a big cigar. He might have been an Amerman or an Englishman from his speech; as a matter of fact, he. was, as we learned later, an Afri- kanderâ€"father and mother Dutch- Algoa Bay. Now, I had not mentioned that any one at all was in ’her. And my eye wandering ,whilst he spoke, over the barquentine. {noticed that the main- gaff had been quietly lowered until the sail completely hid: the boat; and this rendered me more than ever sus- picious that there was something wrong. However, I replied that it was just ‘possible that Major Fortescue, the owner of the brig, might have been In the long-boat. “ You ain’t sure about the matter, then, eh i" asked the tall man. " Well, no,” I said; " we can’t be sure as nobody saw him go overboard. Still, there’s every chance he .did manage The barquentine was strongly man- ned, for fully five-,and-twenty faces peered at us over her bulwarks. And such faces were they that, as lglanced at the-m. I made up my mind at once. in this case at least, to forego my usual application for assistance. There was not a single white man amongst them â€"-American negroes, Kunakas, Malays, â€"and half-castes of varying grades of yellow, from that of a new saddle to the deeper tint of a roasted coffee-bean. No, no, Jwanted no such cattle as those on board the Hebe! Very ehmtly I gave them the head- lines at our story; asked the usual question about the boat; and explain- ed that I'd be obliged {or as much help as would shove another reef in our topsails. A5 I finished the man, without giv- ing me any answer, turned to the oth- ers; and the three oonversed appar- u evv ouw ”Cl. At the they had another oonfab. two of them apparently urging the speak- er to d9 something that went against hm gram: As they spoke they pointed to the brlg repeatedly. It was all very cartons; and I would have given much for a clear view of her decks, beginning {A ninnmnf n.â€" 1' Ac.) Ll.“ L 1 All at once, annidehips on her decks, I caught sight of something that made my heart jump half-way to my mouth. The object. was the stern of a boat, with on it a large gilt rising sunâ€"an emblem the memory of which Iwas nqt. likely to forget. to suspect, as I did, that they had; the i118 her tremendous boom amidships. she lay stationary, or nearly so. not a hundred yards away. Big and heavy as she was, her,“ crew handled her like a. top. Of fully 1200 toms burden, she was down the water aft, with asheer in her from the elliptic stern to well forward of the, fore-rigging, curving to 5» fine, free, gameoock-headed, gracefgl ned ensign, stfemrrling how her hal- yards, the air of a great bird of prey about to pounce on the naked, defence- lees Hebe. bow, which, added to her immensely lofty, raking masts and spreading breadths of canvas, gave her in some measure, to my eye, in spite of the As the burquentine drew closer, she let go the sheets of her three fore and aft tapsails, letting them hang to the crmtrees in great bunches of canvas. (Then: squar’mg her fore-yards and haul- l-"Vmu W WU LVN. w -.-- ~~ -â€" A.B.'s dumpin down their round-bot- tomed bags in the Hebe’s forecastle. swarming up her ratlines, and putting all she could carry on her. Howeyer. the vesesl and cargo I had by this tune got to look upon as a kind of trust committed to my care for Helen and myself. and I was determined to take no risks. Help, I argued, must come at last,’ if only by means of vessels, reâ€" DOIting me at their destination; and meanwhile I would do the best I could. without killing myself by unnecessary labour and worry. Truly, I had seen enough of ocean’s awful work lately to mhke me careful; and that last ex- [heriencel Why. even still, 0’ nights, I awoke wet with cold sweat, after dreaming that I :was in the dingey. lashed alongside the other boat, with her dreadful, grewsmne crew of dead and rotting men, whilst through the haze afar off came to me Helen’s voice "Wing faintly and more faintly as we drifted away from each other. yelp to put. an: extra reef or. two "n our toIllwi'ls. and also get the dmgey on board. for we had. let it. tow aster!) 0?“ time my mad trip after the dere- I‘Pt boat. At the best ours was only mgghdy'l’iggledy sort. of navigation; and although far from tired of it in such W as my beautiful ship- mate’e, I would have been heartily pleased to see four. or five strapping CHAPTER VII. me little excitement, to Heir animated gestures. ’ne shouted: “ No, [hav- boa‘t. like the one you Well-preserved flowers discovered at Dahsourh in Egypt, in tombs of the imes of the Pharaohs, have just, been placed in the Cairo Museum. The com- monest of these were the white or blue lotus. the red poppy, the leaves and flowers of the pomegranate” of the saf- fron and of the orocue. An old man named George Russel. who has died in Aberdeen, bps left pro- perty valued at £13,000. The interest is to be distributed yearly among the policemenend scavengers of the city, Mamie, said the father, who looked as innocent. as he could. I accidentally overheard some of your conversation with that young man in the parlor last evening. Why didn't you sit right I'M-m nâ€" L:â€" What a. beautiful laying! exclaimed the specimen of in- to say that water was accumulating in the cutting in front. and that if it broke‘thropgh the demis which served as a. dam. ituwould wash t.h;_train out of the tunnel. Th9 passengers hast- ened to leave the rum. and in walking through the water in the cutting found it up to their breasts. Remarkabie Experience «fa Train In the Island of Ceylon. The railroad which. with its branch- . connects Colombo. the capital of Ceylon, with the interior of the island, is remarkable for the engineering skill shown in its construction, and for its prosperity. It makes an ascent of thirty-five hundred feet by a succes- sion of looms and curves. with here and there atunnel. The chief difficulty in running the. railroad is due to the way in which the. ram comes down. A recent book of travel. "A Run Round the Empire" describes whwt the. rain did to a train crawling up the moun- tuinside. “u“".' Just as the, train entered the tun- nel. down came a huge mass of rock, which carried away the embankment. 8.3 well as the last car of the trainâ€" a. goods van tortunntely. Close be- hind the funnel the ends of the rail were hanging free over a precipice. and a similjar condition existed not far ahead. domfn on him wh'ln he séid you could 139,111 etcomomlzing by both using the same chair? I did papa. and she also looked as in- nownt as she could. On December 27 1896. eleven and a half inchzu-x of rain fell in twentyJour hours. The engineer of a train saw: that beyond a certain tunnel the line was washed away. He Mapped 1he train and the. passengers got out One of whom. seeing stones rolling down the mountainside above them, advised thg. engineer to push {or the tunnel; vâ€"'- be so sure of the thing bothered me. But she kept repeating, ‘It’s my fath- er! my father!” with a very insist- ence of certainty that there was no re- sisting. Glancing at the head of the swimmer, bobbing up and down in the little waves, my first notion was to jump for the dingey’s painter. slip down it into the boat, and scull to the man’s assistance. But just then Ino- ticed the barquentine lowering her quarter boat. and by the shouts and commands, plainly audible at that short distance, I made. out that, at all risks, the escaped one was to be captured and brought back again. So, pausing right at. the taff'rail. Ibent another line to the one already fastened to the painter, and telling Helen to run be» low and bring up the big express rifle. I let the ding'ey drift down towards the swimmer. who, I could see, was go- ing well and strong. And now that I had a [mod View of his face coming to- wards me, I saw that it really was the old _Major himeelf. The harquentine’s gig was. with three hands in her, pulling for the man. who had already covered half the distance between the vessel and the Hebe'a din- gey, but who, of course stood no show against smh odds. and was being rap» idly overhauled. Asking Helen to tend the line. and keep veering it out, i caught up the rifle and taking careful aim. so as to injure none of the men, I sent a ‘bullet clean through the hut- tmn of the pursuing boat. making the white chips fly where it struck. ANCIENT PRESERVED FLO\VERS A PAIR OF INNOCENTS. SINGULAR REQUEST. to have loan the outlay it re- I-h INLAY AND OUTLAY. A WET COUNTRY. To Be Continued. THE BRITISH ARM! “Dd Navy for 1897 “as 1.41. thi‘ £5,180,089 £095 tn {er " tive army and na\'y"-â€"tbrd 1 Pensioners. etc. The mtuazl W men. As the great m'DC Don and all the arliHery ww 0011“;er useless without Tm kins. be may be said to ”’5' “on the total sum. 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