The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-12-07

which We bad seen In the frst dog-watch dead
70 leeward. was rather uneasy for a while at
not icing able 20 make out her lights, and We
slipped fast through the water, when all at once
both Jones and Westwood called out from for
ward that they saw them, and I walk Il 70
the bows. "All right paid |; "but no-Jy
heaven That's the signal named 10 tn, cap
tain! Bet stunsails, Mr.. Jones, AMI maxi her
wals, 70; O0d.@ke!" TU1 lights IL was, alofs
In the gloom, right TO leeward ~ before. there
was something wrong, or else sho wantol to
speak u; 20 away we tcw befIre the wind. under
crything that could be set. ! Look d and
LOOKED, when n thought struck me; not another
light was 10 bo seen b,low, ami they weren't
high enough from the hcavo Of the sea for oven
q ships lOwcr-m1st.
aye, by Gcorg,!" said ], hu redly, To West
wood and JOncf, " that's trick The
fellow means 10 give Us the slip. Clap the
helm down, Mr. Smelling, aud haul aft the
sheets thnro--luf, lun =" W. were losing
our weather-gage IN lct, the Ind am an
must actually be TO the Wndwird OF us ere then,
and II the breeze frcshenrd we might lose them
altogether The thing that troubled me most
Wa, that couldn't believe the mau had thought
Of such Ian HIMSELF snd If he once took a
liot from any Of the scOuudrcls ] knew were
aboard why, there was no saying VIA might
he the up.hot in the end FinCh was common
enough character at UOttOm but with such
notions A. | wB sure wep working In his head
about Mss Hyde one step might lead him on to
another, till any chance occasion might make
d rspcrate villain OF him, especially 70 he sus.
JeCted myself Oi aUghb Ike good fortune with
the young lady.
II want much past Midnight, the air was
wonderfully heavy aud swctctiug, aud the
swell going down. when we heart n muir
muir amongst the men ~ the iOreCas,lo, and
saw u rcd frc-hall pass high over to Ot'drd iuf
hall minute, leaving = trail in the dark sky
beyond the hcad-rals. A queer ghistly sort VI
fuddy grey streak opened out in the black Of the
| horizon, where some al them thought they
made out the ships but soon afler we could ar
"a low hollow kind Of hum, rushing "a II were
fr IN east to west, ill it grew almost like tho
boun Oi waves on beach; which made us DO
gin to look to Ourscly,e. There was a bright
line Of light dlr,t ly IN tho opposite
quarter aud the tc1 far away seem 81
getting on FIRE, with a noise and hub
hub coming along below, that nobody ap
| pcatcd to know the meaning of while alolt 10
| was as st,ll az n church Tor moment I siw
the SetngBpaitIn quite plainly several miles OIL,
| but from the confusion, ! never cDuli siy
| whether it Wa north ~ cast; ~ i.ci, We Kept
| watching the canvass, " pectin' to 10 ave hue
fiCano Into II next M nun. Sud ituly the goa
came glcnm- cleaning, and flick rns on, ~ II
were, with washiag bubble aul u kissing
| smother Of foam, till It epli-hcd night against
our latboa,d bulwnk, hctping up like perfect
! fro upon the schoOnors EIDE, and running past
both stern aud bows, away with long rolling.
nrh to the other hoiizon. All was pich-dik
again sitUr thai, 0ul u whisper went about 0lv
| decks and round tho binnaCa limn, Of I:
The r'jytss - rs the ripple ~ Nothing
/ more, sir ~ snid jones, even he seeming taken
| by surprise as tr.l. Twice asnin We had IL ,
though clcl Time fainter, right out Of the mi 1T
| Of tho gloom; after which IL vas A. calm ~ be-
| fore. "Thani & d. aid ], breathing hard
| "wc1l have iha' In liamin IN the morning, at
MI IuI III H. m. 49, r.I
thoul;h'lully, "ni,cr This We are likely to hav'
| n" southwest monsoon upon us ere long ID.
| Just the place and the season for H.
And 10 it was Instead Of sighting tho Scr
| ingapltam at dayb!oak, hal u ,ituug suspi-
CiUn sho had gone to eastward; but Of course
| the faster the schooner was why IT. 10 were the
wrong way We should only ge, i,,m her TIL
| farther, and MRS her altogether without ever
| knONius how matters went, even IL she got
! quietly into port; 80, bcin thr h. plan 0Ild
think of for the mcantime nv y W. droy,
, nOrthWrstwltd, swe, pug The horizon with the
gllss every morning. We bad run so Tar, in.
| deed, without success, that | was sure she
Couldn't be ahead; when one day asked NJ.
Jones to bring me up the Quart Tor thos,
| parts, as we took the lat iIdc. W. were a lon,
! way to eastward OF our OYn cpur nj thu
| time aud Jones' fingers went along eastward
Ill, II stopped right up II the NJ diive i.h1i,,
| while he looked up With a sudden shlrp Il nco.
story altog'ihcr-he 50 good ns TO send that
man n ere, Jacobs, to me ~ Jacobs, sail ]
(which oI the officers clothes did tha' fellow
Foster Use 10 scrur lately, ia the lndilman
Jacobs gave hi. hair rub rccon 'clod a mo
mcut, and answered, "Nhy. sir tho cIutIin'
own Oh :" slil, swell, that II 10. Jlco -.
and jacobs walk Il forward again. Mr.
Jones said l. quickly 'WtR chart belonged I,
vie captain In hl,cg look at that d,ser
island, SIR W. found aJrcthing an,v erns {,
II on thD chart; aud in u low mimi, e., the schOpn,
| cr wa. bowling before the drc..s Of the moon
soon 10 eastward. AT al ovcn's,' added /,
| "Wu'll scr II lhcs" yIgthruds m AN 10 keep
| their word and lmn lrmit---ciihor We catch
them there, Mr.. JOue', Or else We must i'm that
! Indi,mau, though shn were Ia sight Of Cola
hlbT ligh house - Jonc, eve lighted, anil he
tlrncd Ia. uo,lrls to the monsoon as h. snuff
| oil ~ IN; in fact, hc WAS thai sort of man that
II edcd somewhat ont OF the common way TO
he = him right.
" No, WcstwoOl, sail l. " it can't he Nr
| right OUe--nor any Ui these, indeed ~ Andb
! looking ut the chart, Nh.cn WIS on, not M, /
! for ANYTHING but ntv'aiOn in open water, " tn
! the channels laid down clearly enough, but eve
! IDENTIFY rathr III hand as To tn, ISLANDS, Jones
| himstltsccmcd 10 gc. uncertain about IN, m At.
ter partly owing to thr short glimp hc d had
Of the othor chart, AID partly 10 It's being MS h,
though, an oil One miia Tor a plrpO, !, by a
haud that knew the Islands well. Aicr'2 or 3
days sail, We were geitiug into the Thu h OF the
Mldiycs, where the reefs and ,andbault. stretch
ing out on every side, and beginning to hp Ia
upon each O.her made II mO.e and more dlu-
gerous work but nj any rate the isl lnd,
| We saw were I'll her very sm III, or else low aud
muddy.like wi h n few sCruhhy-l Looking 90 ,ols
| upin them, like bulrushes growing ont Of a
marsh No runaway sailors would ever think
| Of taking up their quarters hprclhOu's even II
we hadn't caught SIGHT Of n smoke now AMI
th,n, and once Of some native craft with a cou-
pl, OF brown mlt-Sails aud an Out-rigl;5r, that
showed tho clusters hercaway ~ have people
about them. Besides, thrIe was no protest any
lndiuman could have for steering ue Al cnou "a
to such jungle OF mud and water to givo a
| boat the chance OF mixing towards il with any
| certainty. ! saw at once that the spot in uues-
! ton must lie tVlerably for the course Of chip
! to Western lndia, o,h'rwlse they wolldn't have
| appeared 50 sure of their mark N Jones said
| they did. All this at the sans time, kept m
| the more bent On searching the mI'ter out
ore | did aught Else, seeing thai In fact the
| lndiamans attempt 10 get rid Of the
schooner was the very thing likely to bring her
On this rack: iancyin, as sho would, In. We
| were either in chase OF her toward Bombay. or
oil on our own course again. Now, on tho one
hand nothing could H. better for the said run
away scheme Of Harry Fosters aud on the
other hand ro,hing would have pleased m,
more, and greatly eased my mind too than to
catch him and his chums on th,ir spree ashore.
The worst Of 1t was that he gan 20 have my
doubts Of Jones again. Ilo was tho only AN
thar could put MS On the right scent yet he
seemed either to have lost il, or to have soma
thin creeping on his m.ad that mad him nm,