Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-22

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1cieur away.' There was a great Inrch. a
half cry from Fanny, who was standing
+ down ON the stairs. ran to her. 51I =
"Or, she said in an agony. : .sDid ;,vo,l
l-see? Ouick-ouickl Save him That
wretch 7 i saw him do I'll o. moor. moor
/ ,,Dan--,, -, o -
I'll knew at, once what she meant. and
rushed to the bows, where I met Clarke
| coming 10 me. I could not see his face :
sO!b he said din a low. thick voice" asIIe
/, ist0ene.-gone overheard. moor wretch. =
/ and with all his sins on his head 7" - 9
i could not speak for a second. 80 ny nv, q,
l a, JAPalt the vessel about-onick % I said.
/ ~ shall save him." - - 'f.l,.-. =
"Save him - said he, almost contemptu-
l,ouslv., "Tbat is beyond Yts. The Almighty
!, may do, something for him. Why, do FyoIi
], know how far behind the p6or wretch is
| now I sn5nose three miles > ~, =
|, syYPut her rabout r' said, furiously. gssThis
/ is too infamous 70 ~. 80. -, o..
=, sYou will sink us ~ the villain said eff
I we turn a hairs breadth from this course,
J. we are lostl''rfi-vs.,,+.,f. g v,..,,,ss5 .
~ SPut her about!n I said. And the boy
/ at the helm did so. But Clarke was right;
| for, as her head came round, a tremendous
sea came tumbling over her with t ne force
of afdiseharge of stones from, q M oupt tain.
There was a sound like smash. thougl t
we were 'sgone" at that moment; and tor a
moment more our little boat was quite
stunned. She recovered herself slowly.
We found our bulwarks heap of laths.
Uriah was right. We saw it would not do.
Poor Dan 10 5s. ..5j soi1smGa. Tl5ai
81 "Go aft,"iI said to him sternly, but in a
voice that trembled. .,,-f..r "'
He did so calmly. Fanny and held a
hurried consultation. OF course, now,
nothing could be done until the storm
abated, if it eods to abate for as. We could
not do Without such help as he could give
| US. So, until we reached Cherbourg, if we
| ever did reach it, we should dfssemble. This
was the only thing to be done; though
Fanny was for no such temporiztng.
81 cannot look or speak to the wretch.-
TO think we are shut up here with -" 3D.
She covered her face. .. 81.
L went to him. ''What do you think
now" 1 said, forcing myself to speak
calmly. t' 4sf'- T.
Another hour" he said, "if we pull
through that, there might De change.
That poor wretch" he went on, ''what
Judgment! l knew might leave my case
70 the LORD. 1et poor Dan' my heart
bleeds for him, and do repent he stop
hands of Him who rules the storm. There
! declare there is abreak yonder"
came to an end. Morning broke at last.
But though the storm broke at last, the
wind had not gone down; through the
whole day we had to go before II, and We're
blown on steadily. Clarke was, it must be
said, admirable in regulating our vessel.
Indeed, we owed our safety to his skill.
But Fanny, In the .dayilght, now kept De-
low. She could not bear to look upon him.
1t made her shudder 10 speak OF him. we
beat about the whole Gay. and towards
evening the Wlnd Degan 10 iall, tnougn tne
waves remained very high; aud then we
saw land, and little port with arms
stretching out, as If made OF basket work.
(,larkn tt
"Dieppe, Sir, he said. we Shall be
all safe ashore In halt an hour. And let
our first thing be to think OF thanksgiving
to the Almighty, VINO has literally ana
truly plucked US this night from the Jaws
OF death!"
was confounded az the rufhans cool
ness. "And poor Dan" | said, with my
eye on him, Nv hat had he done that lie
should not share in this benehtT ="
'.Ah, sir p he said, those are the unseen
mysteries Poor Dan though he injured
me, from my soul forgive him. l. 10 in
deedrs And he turned up the whites OF
his eyes to heaven with look OF piety that
was really appalling. ~ -.-7 80 s.
AS for going ashore" / said, "that shall
be seen. You stay In the boat. You
mustn't stir. These are my orders, and l
shall be oDeyed; 5; ana touched revolver
that had placed In my DelC. Il am pre-
pared, you see, to enforce what wish"
with all my heart he said, without the
least surprise, and walked forward very
carelessly. - E.s-ry
Here was the wicker-work pier at last,
with the great mariners erucihX looking
out to sea, and some women in caps and
red petticoats. With what delight we $. W
land again! We got within the wicker
work pier, came round corner, anu saw
the little town. There we dropped anchor.
AS Walked up the wee aud .battened
decks (our poor little, elegant craft was now
all beaten, bruised, manned aud draggled),
my eye tell on black rag lying i'll a pool
of water. picked it up; it was black
silk handkerchief, now mere ribbon. 1t
was torn. put it carefully by. Poor
Dant He had made struggle at any rate,
it would be some evidence.
There war boat coming out to us with
the custom-house people aboard. So Fan
ny, fresh and as brilliant as IT she had not
passed through such night, called out to
me- In another moment she gave cry.
Look! look ~ she said. A deeper voice
near said devoutly, God God be praised %
l did look, and declare if there was not
our brave fellow Dan standing up in the
boat, waving new glazed French hat.
He had leape6 on board in a moment
0Where'S Clarke ?" her cried.