Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-25
WHOLE NUMBER 24s.
"what is to be done now a'' exclaim-

g "What is to be done now ?'' exclaim-
ed Haywood.
Fill your boots, men," cried Sim
clair, with energy. I" Memphis, you
pass up the stuff"
1 did as directed, and soon we had
our boots full of the coin, which was all
old Peruvian gold. We then hastily
replaced the stone, threw back the
sand, and collecting material, made q
fire upon the spot, prepared coffee,
etc., and eat a lunch, so that no one
might suspect what we had been at.
After this we gathered up our imple-
ments and started for the tug. Gold
may be very nice thing to have in
bank, handy to have in the house, and
convenient to have in the pocket, but
it is neither of these to carry in ones
boots. We got on slowly and with diff
Guilty. / wore large half cavalry boots,
and the weight of gold pressing around
my ankles was exceedingly painful. We
got through the shrubbery and in sight
of our tug just as the crew of the cutter
had landed and was about to start out
in pursuit or quest of US. When we came
up Capt. Sinclair haughtily inquired
| why it was that the cutter was thus
| SOALlAud1ly oOSSluS 0S d0Ou11 lOAkOW1uS
us wherever we went, while we were
acting under Spanish papers? The
captain, of the cutter replied that he
had his reasons for what he did, and
was responsible only to his superior off,
GERS, We exhibited our marble speci-
mems and the captain of the cutter
seemed satisfied, and we prepared to 60
aboard the tug, in doing which Capt.
Sinclair's foot unfortunately slipped,
| and coming in contact with an iron
point, the side, seam of the boot
was torn open at the ankle and
out rolled the yellow boys, scattering
ards eyes glistened at the sight In an
instant their cutlasses were drawn. and
in voice of au hority. their captain
called on us to surrender at once. In
less time than it takes to write it, after
] the accident to the captains boot, we
were, with our revolvers drawn, stand
1 ling, in line along the waters edge,
! fronting the foe, who stood facing US a
| few steps out on the sand.
4tUpon what terms do you call upon.
US to surrender? ?" asked our captain of
the Spaniard.
"Never I'' replied Sinclair. /" Look
to your pistols, men," said he to US.
".Prepare to charged" cried the
| Spaniard to his followers.
confess I felt little shaky just
! then, for the Spaniards outnumbered
| us two to one and their bright cutlasses
| cleaning in the clear sunlight present
ed no inviting appearance but with
| ive-shooter in one hand, and an car
kansaw tooth-pick" (bowie knife) in
the other was determined to stand or
fall with my friends. The Spaniard,
however, is cautious in rushing on
| loaded weapons in the hands of deter
| mined men, and this case proved no
exception "What terms do you ask?''
questioned he of Sinclair.
"We will give up our gold and arms,
and surrender ourselves prisoners to the
civil authorities, before whom you will
at once bring US for trial" s, |
Granted" replied the Spaniard,
who was only too eager to finger the
gold.
We now drew off our boots and emp
tied them of their contents, and also
gave up our pistols and knives. The
Spaniards searched our tug, and LASH
ing her fore and aft to their cutter,
placed us aboard of her the tug) in our
respective Eplaces-Haywood at the
wheel and me at the engine-and or
dered us to make all possible speed for
Havana. They placed a watch or
sentinel on their deck. where we could
be overlooked, and then, thinking all
safe, abandoned themselves to that ease
which the Spaniard so much loves. It
was now late in the afternoon. We
had been under way about an hour. 1
had been busy trying to devise some
means of escape, but the brass gun
swung on the pivot, and the watch, who
was the rascally mate of the cutter,
IL, khof T
could coniure up. While busy cogitat-
ing, Quimbo came quietly up TO me and
4" Massa, got sufin to tell you"
"Well, Quimbo, what is it ?'' 1 care
lessly asked. ..f..,-..-,.. -,.,si,s.
"Dat brass gun on dat cutter amt no
count nohow," he whispered. So. B9l
What do you know about it?" ex-
claimed. 91-'l'i '''f
az know dis much," replied he
dat while dem ,Spaniards was busy
wild dat gold, jes got a rat-tail file out
of de tool box and slipped up under de
tarpaulin dat's ober de gun, an | ies
druv dat file in de vent and de debble
hisself couldent get dat gun off no
how" -.-. ..-..st .ss
Bully for you, Quimbo," exclaim-
ed; "ten Capt. Sinclair to come
here"
The captain soon came sauntering
carelessly along. "Cap;'' called out,
loud enough to be heard on the cutter,
here, Cap, watch this engine, please,
a moment; 1 want to speak to Hay
wood about the backing bell, which is
out Of order 80
GAIL right,,' he replied ego along"
| saw from his glance that Quimbo
had told him about the gun, and that
| he understood we'll what 1 wanted
to see Haywood about. 1 soon
returned, and we arranged q
plan of escape, which was this:
| We had an axe aboard and Sinclair
had pair of duelling pistols which had
escaped the search. Hayward was to
take one pistol and Sinclair another
and the axe. / was to accumulate a
high pressure of steam and at a certain
signal Sinclair was to cut the fore LASH
ing and to put on all the steam SO as
to bring the two crafts stern to stern as
rapidly as possible to prevent boarding
before Sinclair could get the other rope
cut, and if necessary either or both
were to use their pistols. gave Mike
the hint, and commenced to scold at