St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-04-25
THE WHIT e .CAP'T1VEs.
A STORY OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

He came up over head on to the fo' cas-
tle.. .-"@
I've done it, says he. .r .,..~
What did you say in the letter?
Asked 'em if it was all true that o. Con
mel said-told 'em that | was English.
and that I'D try and help 'em. l c:.u-
toned 'em not to make noise if they
saw me, nor appear any different to the
captain.
Anything else? ...
Yes; to leave q letter in the port to-
morrow, and I'D come for it; I've seen
her, Charley, says he, and she's a clipper,
and no mistake-Pd die for her, ! would
any time. ~ 80. -.
That's lucky, Ned. .>,.
Why, Charley? 8.
Why, it's most likely you'll do it, and
it'll be pleasant to think you meant it..
If l go, there shall be somebody else 20
first, says he, and he touched his sheath
knife saw he meant this eyes got
small, and showed the white all around.
Next night he brought away the letter,
and he'd kissed their hands-both of
them--and was nearly mad with joy.
Let's SC: the, letter? ,.,.:.. s,a.
/ read it as walked up. and dawn, and
it said that it was all true, and that they'd
feel grateful to him if he'd let them have
a knife to kill themselves with, rather than
20 on shore on the coast. ~ I'll
Kill themselves! They're plucky ones
-eh, Charley? But they shan't do that
yet. ..f ..:: :""1. - 49,:
Now, what do you mean to do?
. I'm hanged if I know. 1855: ,.,:
I told him that I thought our best
chance was to hoist blue shirt if we fell
in with a cruiser We could do that be-
fore they could interfere with u.s.. aud so
make the cruiser believe we were in dis.
tress, when Of course, they'd send boat
to make inquiry, aud we could tell them
she was SLAYER, and they'd take the ship
and.the women too 80: IL ,I,t T., ~,
This seemed to; suit him, and things
went on as usual, till we were within a
weeks said of the coast ,.,,;. Il iciJ.. -,
Ned had been a good many times to see
the girls. They'd never spoken word.to
him, nor he to them, but they called him
their dcliverer, in their letters, He, read
them, and read them again, but thero
seemed no chance Of escape yet, to tell
them Of in answer. He began to look
pale, and grew as cross as bear. One
night he says to me:" ~. :~.a>,g35 ~
Charley, were you ever in love, as they
call it? ri, IT, j
1 don't know, says I, for I never remem-
ber1 feeling as bad as people I've read Of
in books. .:,>...,tgi 49,. 4".gl., !:..,:.
l think am, says he, I, see that dark
girls eyes before me all day and all night
II feel q sort Of sickness come over me
when I see her--and | had . near squeak
Of it the other night, for I nearly fill off
the stirrups when she gave me her band
to kiss: feel, too, that it's as much as
I can do to pass that captain Of ours. -
-. 1t was my dog watch wheel last night,
and he, was sitting with bis back TO me,
and the top. maui lay right on the deck BE-
fore me. It was as much as / coul6 do to
keep my hands on the spokes, I did 50
long to have u good grip: Of the handle Of
that hammer, ,!': ;, and ' serve serve him as he served
7 dia *h.t espla p keep bin him quiet,
but he was in q bad way; his eyes were
blood4hot, and his face was va thin ). be
scarcely ate anything, and the fellows told
him be was gting On the sick * list. itss,.l ad1 ;oI
Worst oft IS, says ,l b, she Gan. never be:
anything to me; she's born lady. ls00ss, ],
at that, aud .he pulled out her note
ret'shewritiug for Jacks wife. I wish