The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-03
] lt was immovable
oHApTER N.

/ HI II.
Horrorl It was immovable.
CHAPTER XII.
Thefearful, the sickening truth bursts
on him in all its awful Significance.
Some miscreant or mailman had lock.
ed the door, and SO fastened him to the
sinking ship, at a time when, in the
would be apt to forget him, and leave
him to his death. .ss5g y ..li
be tried the door in every way, he
hammered at II; he shouted, he ragged,
he screamed. In vain. Unfortunately
the door otthts cabin was OF very un-
usual strength and thickness.
Then he took up one of those great
augers he had found in the mates cab
in, and bored q hole in the door; through
this hole he fired his pistol, and then
screamed for help. 81 am shut mp In
the cabin. shall be drowned. o, for
Christie sake, save mel save mel" and q
cold sweat otterror poured down his
whole body.
What is that7
The soft rustic OF a womanss dress.
o, how heithanked God for that mu-
sic, and the hope It gave himi
II comes towards him; 1t stops, the
key is turned, the dress rustles away,
swift as winged bird; he dashes at the
door; 1t flies open.
courage in part, fetched out his bag
and his tools, aud ran across to the star
board side. There ne found the captain
lowering Miss Rolleston, with due care,
into Sthe cutter, and the young lady
crying; not at being ship wrecked, if
you please, but at being deserted by
her maid. Jane Holt, at this trying
her husband. This was natural; but,
as is the rule with persons or That class
she had done this In the siliest and
cruelest way. Had she given half an
hours notice Of her Intention, Dono-
van might have been on board the cut
ter with her and her mistress. Bot no:
being a liar and fool, she must hide
her husband to the last moment, and
then desert her mistress. The captain,
then, was comforting Miss RolleatOn,
and telling her she should have her
maid with her eventually, when Hazel
came; he handed down his own bag,and
threw the blankets into the lstern-
sheets, Then went down himself, and
sat on the mtdship,thwRrt,
"Shoye off," said the captain; and
81 Q fell astern.
But Cooper, with boat hook, hooked
on TO the long boat; and the dying ship
towed them both. st slt.-
Five minutes more elapsed, and the
captain did not come down, so =Wylie
hailed him.
There was no answer. JudsonShad
gone into the mates cabin. Wylie
waited a minute, then hailed again.
'.tHy on deck there /"
d"Hullolr cried the captain, at last.
why didn't you come In the cut.
ter 2" 4Sgt -rtrt u.s. 81.
The captain crossed his arms, and
leaned over the stern.
"Donit you know that Hiram Hud-
SON Is always the last manSto leave q
sinking ship ?"
"WeIl, yon are the last. p said wylie.
$50 now come on board the long boat
at once. dare not tow In her wake
much longer, to be sucked in when she
goes down."
Come on board your craft and desert
my own?" said Hudson, disdainfnlly.
KNOW my duty g m employers bet;
These words alarmed the mate
Course itallr he cried; 1.-THE fool has
been and got some more rum, Fifty
the tow rope, and throw tbat mailman
1. TO tho sea, then we can pick him up.
He swims like a cork 155, y 5,ft,
} A sailor Instantly darted forward TO
the rope. But, unfortunately, Hudson
heard this proposal, and IL enraged him.
He got TO his cutlass. The sailor drew
the boat under the ships stern, but the
drunken skipper hourishsd his cutlass
furiously over his head. BOARD mel
ye piratesl the first man that lays
finger on my bulwarks or goes his
hand at theNwtist." Suiting the action
to the word, he hacked at the tow-rope
so vigorously that 1t gave way, and the
boats fell astern.
Helen Rolleston uttered shrek OF
dismay and pity. 20, save him r. she
cried.
MAKE sail I" cried Cooper; and, In
few seconds, they got all her canvas set
upon the cutter. ysi5.r9
shells to sail after that dying monster
with her cloud of canvas all drawing,
allow and aloft. III
But 1t did not prove so.l The gentle
breeze was an advantage TO light craft,
and the dying Proserpine was full OF
water, and could only crawl. -.
After a few moments of great anxr
let y, the boats crept up, the cutter on
her porL and the long boat ON her
acknowledgements.
wyIie ran forward, and, mailing
Hudson, implored him, in the friend
Hest tones, to give himself a chance.
Then tried him by his vanity, "Come,
and command the boats, old fellow.
How can we navigate them on the
Pacific, without you ,"
Hudson was now leaning over the
tatfrail utterly DRINK. He made no
reply to the mate, but merely waived
his cutlass feebly In one hand, and his
bottle in the other, and gurgled out
"Duty 70 m'employers." E3FzIflE ~
Then Cooper. without a word, double.
Teefed the cutters mainsail, and told
Welehto keep as close to the ships
quarter as be dare. Wylie inst ctiYelY
did the same, and the three crafts
crawled1 on, in solemn and deadly ST.
lence, for nearly twenty minutes.
The wonnded ship seemed to receive
9 death blow. She stopped dead, and
The next he pitched gently
Forward, and her bows went under the
water while her Rfterpart roseIinto the
air, and revealed tofhose lin the cutter
two spllntered holes In her run, Just be-
low the water line, l - - =, - -
The next moment. her stern settled
down; the sea yaWned horribly, the
| great waves of her own making rushed
over her upper deck,. and the lofty
masts and sails, remaining erect, wenl
down with sad majesty Into the deep
and nothing remained but the bubblinf
and foaming OF t1e 7Vurhcious water
that had swallowed upG the good shiI
and her cargo, and her drunken master
All stood up in the boats, ready e
save him. But either his cutlass snnl
him, or the suction of SO great d body
drew him down. He was seen no NOR
| Ia this world -sTfssa - ~
a loud Sigh broke from every Twins
bosom that Witnessed that terrible On
ItastHophe.
IT was hey iona words: ana none wer
uttered except by Cooper, who spok
50 seldomi yet now three words ofterri
BILE import burst from him, and, utterei
in his loud, deep voice, rang like thu
sunk ships knel over the still bub
bling In water IE g g