The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-28
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CHAPTER MI,

| WGrdiaw senior was not what you
would call q tender-hearted man: but
Rollcston's distress, and by his forth
tuGo. The gallant old man! Landing
in England one week, and going back
to tho Pacific the next! Like goes
with like; and Wardlaw senior, eher-
getic and resolute himself. though he
felt for his son, stricken down by grief,
| gave his heart TO the moro valiant dis
tress of his contemporary. He manned
and victuelled the Springbok for a long
voyage, ordered her to Plymouth, and
took his friend down to her by train.
They went out to her in boat. She
| WAS II screw steamer, that could sail
nine knots an hour without burning
coal. AS she came down the Channel.
the Generals trouble got to be well
known on board her, and, when he
! came out of the harbOr, the sailors by
an honest, hearty impulse, that did
them credit, waited for no orders, but
manned the yards to receive him with
the respect due 10 his services, and his
sacred calamity.
| On getting on board, he saluted the
captain and the ships company with
sad dignity, and retired to his cabin
with Mr.. Wardlaw. There the old
merchant forced on him by way ofloan
seven hundred pounds, chiefly in gold
and silver, telling him there was moth
ing like money, go where you will. lie
| then gave him number of notices he
had printed, and paper of advice and
| instructions; it was written in his own
large, clear, formal hand.
General Rolleston tried to falter out
his thanks. John Wsrdlaw interrupt
| ed him.
"Next to you am her father; am l
not?"
you have proved it,"
"Well then. However, If you do find
her. as pray 10 God you mny, l claim
| tie second kiss, mind that; not for my.
self, though; for my poor Arthur, that
lies on sick bed for her."
| General ROllcStOn assented to that in
IL broken voice. lie could hardly
speak.
And so they parted, and that sad par
Gnt went out to the Pacific.
10 him it was indeed sad and
gloomy voyage; and the hope with
which he went on board OCZed gradual
| ly away as the ship Lraversed The vast
| tracks of ocean. One immensely CT wa
| ter to be passed before that other i'm
mcnsity could be reached, on whose
vast, uniform, surface the search was TO
be made.
To abridge this gloomy and monto-
nous part OF orr tale, suffice 1t to say
he endured two months of water and
| infinitY ere the vessel, fast aS she was,
reached Valparaiso. Their progress,
however, had been more than once in
terrupted to carry out Wardlaw's in
structious. The poor General himself
had but one idea; 10 go and search the
Pacific with his own eyes; but Ward
| law, moro experienced, directed him TO
overhaul every whaler and cOasting
vessel he could, and deliver printed
notices; telling the sad story, and offer
ing reward for any positive infOrma-
ton, good or bad that should be brought
in to his agent at Valparaiso. Acting
on these instructions they had over
hauled two or three coasting vessels as
they steamed up from the Horn. They
now placarded the port OF Valparaiso,
and put the notices on board all vessels
bound westward: and the captain OF
the SpringbOk spoke TO the shippers in
the port. But they all shook their
heads, and could hardly ho got 10 give
their minds seriously to the inquiry
when they heard in what water the cut
ter was last seen, and on what course.
One old skipper said, "Look on Juan
Fernandez, and then at the bottom OF
the Pacific; but the sooner you look
there the less time you will lose"
From Valparaiso they ran to Juan
Fernandez, which indeed seemed the
Iikeliest place; if she was alive.
When the larger island ofthat group,
the island dear alike TO you who read,
and to us who write, this tale, came in
sight, the fathers heart began to beat
higher.
The ship anchored and took in coal,
which was furnished ut a wickedly high
price by Mr.. Joshua Fullalove, who
had virtually purchased the island from
Chill, having got it on lease for longer
than the earth itself is to last, we hear!
And now Rolleston found the value
of WardIaw's loan; it enabled him TO
prosecute his search through the whole
group of islands; and he did hear at
last of three persons who had been
wrecked on Masa Fuero; one of them
a female. lie followed this up and at
last discovered the parties. He found
them to be SpaniarCls, and the woman
smoking pipe.
After this bitter disappointment he
went back to the ship, and she was TO
weigh her anchor next morning.
But while General Rolleston was at
Masa Fuero, a small coasting vessel
had como in, and brought strange
report. at secondhand, that in some
degree unsettled Captain Moreland's
mind; and, being hotly discussed on
the forecnstle, get the ships company in
ferment.
CHAPTER NLII.
Hazel had riZen an hour before dawn
for reasons well known To himself.
He put on his worst clothes, and a
leathern belt, his little bags round his
neck, and took his bundle of PUSHES in
his hand. Ee also provided himself
with some pieces OF raw fish and fresh
oysters; and, thus equipped, went uF
through Terrapin Wood, and got to the
neighborhood Of the lagoons before day