Weekly Calaveras chronicle. (Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal.) 18??-1874, 1867-10-26

But it was evident that should she sue
coed in keeping to the wind, she would
eventually be driven ashore, for the
power of the n-setting waves was great
er than the wind.
"Boy, do you know what light that
is?' asked the captain as he stood hold
ing on to the main rigging to keep his
feet. dyes, sir" replied Robert; that
is Ballymore's Crag."
"What is it there for ?"
at marks the entrance to little har-
Dor, which lies in back of it."
"Can it be entered by vessel of this
size p asked the captain, while CLEAN
of hope shot across his face.
"Oh, yes, sir, large ship can enter
there"
"Do you know the passage?"
eyes, sir; l have spent my whole
life on this coast, and l know every
turn in ito
"Could you take the brig in there in
this storm Z"
eyes, sir" answered the boy.
"And will you do it ~ eagerly asked
the captain.
"On two conditions"
"Name them quickly"
'The first is, that you let me go in
peace and the next that you trouble
none Of the smugglers should they hap
pen to be there"
II PROMISE" said the captain; "now
set about your work But mark me, if
you deceive me, by St. George I'll shoot
you on the spot"
The brig was but before the wind,
and Robert Kintock stationed himself
upon the starboard fore, yard arm, from
whence his orders were passed along to
the helmsman. The bounding vessel
soon came within sight of the ragged
crags, and the heart of every man leap
ed with fearful thrills as they swept by
a frowning rock which almost grazed
them as they passed. On flew their
brig and thicker and more fearful be-
came the rocks which raised their heads
on every side.
"Port p shouted the boy.
"Port it is"
"Steady So"
"Steady it isl
"Starboard-quick''
Gay, ay-starboard it is.
"Steady, 500
"Steady it isl
At this moment the vessel swept on
past an overhanging cliff, and just as a
vivid flash OF lightning shot through
the heavens and revealed all the horrors
around, loud shout was heard from
the young pilot, and in a moment all
eyes were turned upon him He stood
upon the extreme end of the yard and
held on by the lift. In moment more
he crouched down like tiger after his
prey, and then with one leap he reach
ed the projecting rock.
"Revengc! revenge!' was all that
the doomed men heard, and they were
swept away in the boiling surge beyond
"Breakers reef l'' screamed man
forward. "Starboard, quick"'
But it was too late. Ere the helm
was half up, a low, tremulous grating
Of the briggs keel was felt, and the next
instant came a crash which sounded
high above the roar of the elements and
the heavy mast went sweeping away to
leeward, followed in a few moments by
large masses of the Inflated vessels
wreck and cargo. Shrek after shrek
went up from those doomed men. But
they were in the grasp of power that
knows no mercy. The storm king took
them for his own.
The next moment small party of
wreckers come down from the rocks
and moved along the shore. 1t was
strewed with fragments of the wreck,
and here and there ere scattered along
the shore the bruised and mutilated
forms of the briggs crew. Among that
party was Robert Kintock, and eagerly
did he search among the CHASTITY corpses
as though there was one he would have
found. At length he stopped and
stopped over the one upon the shoulders
of which were two golden epaulettes.-
1t was the captain of the brig-the
murderer of his father. He placed his
foot upon the prostate body, and while
a strange light beamed from his eyes,
and shudder passed over his counten-
ance, he muttered:
"Father, you are fearfuly revengedp
The boy spoke truly. Fearful in
conception and fearful in its consuma-
ton had been that PILoT's REVENGE.
81 SAY JIM" says one friend to an
other on meeting, 81 hear our friend
A. has been in the oil speculation heav-
lily; has he made anything?" eyes,"
said Jim, he has made an assignment