The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-09-14

gone, and she seemed to be rapidly
breaking up. Yet the sea ran SO high,
and the danger Of launching boat was
SO imminent that the oldest sailor feared
to risk it.
Then John Tagscrt stepped forward.
s'Will any man go with me, - he said,
s'to save yonder fellows %
No one spoke. OF all races the Manx
are the most superstitious and if John
was really murderer, they did not wish
to share his fate so no ono answered
his appeal by word or movement. John
set his lips and frowned darkly.
els there any man here, then, who
will help me launch boat, and l will
go alonel'
ssI will" said the old man who had
spoken to him the day before.
Now, If ever human being was in {:
mood to command winds and waters,
John Taggert was that morning. He
leaped off the quay into the dropped
boat, and all thought for moment that
he had found his death, but presently
they saw him grasping both oars, erect
and firm. Just then the rector reached
tho anxious crowd.
Good bless you, John - he cried.
But John heard not the blessing his
face was set sea ward, every muscle, ev-
| ery sense was strained to the uttermost,
and vet he afterward said he was sensi-
| BILE of no exertion. He rowed as man
| in a dream might row. Through mar
velous dangers and difficulties he reach
ed the wreck then, as he neared it, he
gave a great shout, for, clinging to
remnant of the mainmast, WAS a fair fig
lre he knew but too well. He could not
doubt his eyes-it vast certainly was
Philip Saville
Here was his vindication. John never
| doubted but that Heaven had sent it,,
and even as he toiled in rowing, he did
not forget the uplifting of his heart in
unutterable gratitude. How he got the
| men off the wreck and brought the
crowded boat back to Castletown quay
was always mystery to John. He was
always inclined to regard the whole at
fair as somewhat supernatural. In truth
he was possessed by feelings far beyond
those that move us to ordinary action,
and the enthusiasm that filled his OWL
soul he impaired to the half-drowned
men he came to save. They oheyed him
as if he had been God, and John hao
part of his reward in the shouts thai
greeted the boat as size slowly and dan
gerously neared the land.
But when John himself lifted Philip
Saville out of it, and in his strong, low
ing arms carried him as a mother wouli
, carry child, men were afraid to speak
for there was an exhaltation in his man
ner that awed them so also when TIL
rector drew him into the square, and
o great crowd gathered around the JUST
| fed man, there were more tears am
6 | nd-shakings than words, for the Man
are silent people, more given toaction
= than professions.
Philips explanation was very natul
+ al one. Early one morning he had me
out on the sea the yacht of an old CON
;, panion. and leal ned from him that h'
. brother had been killed by railroad az
cident And that the family lawyer wa
looking for him. AS there were onl
two steamers q week between the Islan
II xun11l6 ha
T possible to catch the one sailing thf
,r day, his friend had offered to run hil
e across to Liverpool in his yacht Will
d out much thought he had accepted th
IS offer, leaving note in the boat to inforl
his landlady what to do with his effects
t if any one found the boat which was a
"A most certain to be the case. He ha
lr also instructed his lawyer to write
Castletown, but both directions had fal
O. cd j; probably the note had been blow
10 away, and the lawyer amid the more in
OF portant business of settling up and tran
IS. ferring the estate, had not thought ii
u fe V 50 yereigns lying in Castletown of
is gent interest, and of graver eonaeque
ces he was totally ignorant.
Mt Then Philip had boen compelled
OF leave England Immediately with sist
SO whose delicate health the shock of h
,e, brothers. death had greatly injurc
Amid the delights of Rome he forg
lis his Castletown life, until one mornll
it. about a month previous, in package
rk delayed English letters he found o
Us from the Rector Of Castletown detailii
re, the wretched consequences of Mr.. 5
IN ville's disappearance. This letter h
It'll been sent to the family seat after Pl
ad ip's departure for Italy, had been IL
,ea warded to his lawyer in London, and
I'd ter many days finally reached the rig
let person.
al Without moments delay Philip h
lot started for England, and finding that
his winter steamers only run once a we
between the Island and Liverpool,
hit. had hired small craft to bring him O
at once to Castletown and thus met
storm that had SO nearly proved fatal
gin There are some calamities that ne
ear meet adequate compensation, for
does not always recover his sons {
Md daughters, but everything that frie
ship consecrated and scaled in the V
presence of death could devise, and
ohn erything that abundant wealth co
for perform, Philip did to recompense
the weary, shameful months that were il
claimable. Henceforward John sal
his own shin. and Mary received as