The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-10-12
Trusted and TruStY.

| ''Over the side with ye quick; one min
utes delay may cost your life exclaimed
MIR. Gray to fellow passenger, lad of
about fourteen who appeared to hesitate
about swinging himself down by a rope in
| to boat which rocked in the waves below.
the burning ship The waves were raging
round mast and yard and sails caught fire,
blazed and shrivelled, thick volumes of
smoke hung like funeral pail over the YES
sci. and the awful, red glare was reflected
on the sea, which glowed like a fiery fur
mace. 1t was no time for delay, indeed AMI
yet Reginald drew back from the vessels
side. Il had forgotten it," he exclaimed,
and darted back toward the cabin.
| ''Madness-he is LOST" nuttered MIR
Gray no money was worth such a risk
That young life is thrown away.
/ Sailors aud passengers, with eager haste
low cred themselves into the boats, but there
was not room for all. Some, under the di-
rection of the captain, whose brave spirit
only rose with the danger, hastily dashed
spars together to form rude raft for the
rest Mr. Gray abored among these, gasp
ing and almost fainting as he was from the
heat which had become we'll nigh intoler-
| able. Often he glanced anxiously toward
the hatchway, with the faint hope of seeing
Reginald emerge again from the burning
cabin into which he had so daringly ventur-
| ed
| The raft, the last hope of the crew, is
floating on the crimson pillows, the crowd
ed boats have sheered off Mr.. Gray half
blinded and suffocated by the heat and
smoke springs on the raft; he is soon fol-
| lowed by the captain, and all who remain
OF the passengers and crew except the poor
orphan boy. Just as they were about to
push otf-Hold, hold cries Mr.. Gray, start
ing up from his place, as a slight form,
blackened with smoke, and with dress sing
ed and burnt appears on deck; he springs
over the bulwark, missing the raft and the
next moment is dragged out of the pillows
to lie gasping and exhausted with his head
on Mr.. Grays knee. #t
''Thank God, my poor boy, you are saw
ed" THANK Cod family uttered Reginald
Glare.
A strange appearance was presented by
the lad. His hair and eyebrows were sing
ed marks of burning were on his hands and
face his dress hung in tatters around him,
but he held in his hand a fiat parcel wrapt
up in oil cloth, and faint smile rose to his
have it all safe
1t was not until the vessel had burned
down to the waters edge, and the flames
had sunk at last from having nothing fur
tier on which to vent their fury, that the
captain dared 40 raise boat sail which he
had the foresight to cary with him. By
means of this he succeeded, after long hours
of painful anxiety, in reaching soon after
sunrise, the coast, from which the home
ward bound bad been not many miles dis
tant when the terrible fire had occurred.
When the worst of the peril was over,
and the raft, under favorab lie breeze, was
floating toward the land, Mr. Gray, who felt
a strong interest in Reginald Clar e, asked
the poor lad some questions regarding his
family and position. He knew already that
the boy was the orphan of a missionary.
who had died at Sierra Leone: he now
found that young Reginald, was returning
to England, to be dependant on an uncle
whom he had never seen
81 am glad that you have succeeded in
saving something, =" said Mr.. GRAY who had
himself preserved box containing his prin
fcipal treasures; doubtless that parcel fo,
which you risked your life contains some
thing Of very great value.
81 do not know what It contains. sir ,
was Reginalds reply.
''Not know what it contains" exclaimed
Mr. Gray.
1t is not mine, said the boy in explana.
ton, 1T is parcel trusted to my care >
'And you really rushed back into the
burning cabin to carry off what was moi
the slightest value to you, and perhaps, oil
II little to anv one else
The pale cheek of the boy flushed up AZ
if he were almost hurt at the question, anc
he made the simple reply, Il had beer
trusted had promised-what else could
have done -
The party landed safely in England. AS
the fire had left poor Reginald pennies.
Mr. Gray literally paid for his journey t.
London Reginald arrived home that eve
thing at his uncle's house, where he was r,
ceived first with amazement at his burn
and ragged state till surprise was changed
: to pity, on the cause of his strange appear
ance being known.
1t soon became clear to the boy that biz
uncle Mr.. Brown, and his wife were not il
easy circumstances, and they were likely tt
feel his maintenance very unwelcome bur
den. The thin sharp featured lady. in he
gown turned and dyed, looked graveIy a