Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-10-05

thought III was the SnauoW OF MS urOWneu
Lucie he had seen, presenting itself be-
fore him while he was thinking of her,
but although the idea did cross his mind,
he at once dismissed it.
Nevertheless, the woman had been
seen by all on deck, and evidently she
was white woman.
Who then was she
This question, again and again men
tally repeated by the young man was the
cause of his uneasiness. He felt wild
craving, an irresistible desire to fathom
the mystery.
The captain now came on deck. A
sensible man, not given to superstitious
notions, he listened with surprise to the
account Of the vision.
At length the moon emerging from
behind the clouds, which had concealed
it for nearly quarter of an hour, all
eyes were directed towards the point
where the apparition had been seen, but
it was nowhere visible.
Strange P' said the captain.
Cosgrove advised him to lower n boat
and pull to the spot; but the skipper
answered that he would not care to do SO
until after he had tackled ship in the
morning.
Next morning early, the ship standing
along on the starboard tack, was kept
off little from the island, the captain
intending las he had informed Cosgrove, to
visit the spot where the woman had been
SEEN
He soon had his mainyard backed, and
his boat headed for the place, manned by
a good crew. Cosgrove accompanying
him. They soon reached the place where
the vision had appeared, but saw moth
ing to account for the strange fact of her
having walked and stood apparently on
the very surface of the water
The mate looked triumphant.
Il told you it was no mortal being"
he said to Cosgrove.
The latter was more puzzled than
ever. Even the captain shuddered.
They returned to the ship, which was
again headed on her course.
The wind, however, which had been
gradually falling, died away in few
minutes, and the vessel lay becalmed with
in less than league Of the island.
The night which followed was perfectly
clear with the moon rendering every OBJ
ject quite distinct. At about nine o'clock
the second mate uttered sort of super
stitous howl, pointing again towards
the mysterious apparition which was in
sight.
Yes, there it was, sure enough, that
female apparition in the white robe again
walking out over the surface Of the wa
ter, until it reached a certain point many
yards from land, when it paused, as on
the previous occasion, reckoning with its
white arms and shaking its long droop-
ing hair.
The feelings of the spectators may be
imagined A few Spanish and Portu-
guese among the crew crossed them
selves the second mate looked pale and
solemn Cosgrove and the captain as
tonished and puzzled.
"Now. then, I'll fathom this mystic
ry p said the latter.
lie ordered his boat lowered, but it
was only with the greatest difficulty that
he could get crew for it. At last, how
ever the boat was on its way, Cosgrove
again with the captain.
AS they drew near, the voice Of the
woman was heard 1t was mortal
voice, and the crew seemed to gather
courage.
A few more strokes and the woman,
stepping from off reef of rocks, extend
ing out from and under the water, was
in the boat.
Cosgrove and she looked at each other
as if spell bound
MY wife, Lucie p
"My husband y
The next moment they were locked in
each others arms, and soon after the happy
couple were aboard ship.
"But that reef" said the captain an
hour after; how comes it we did not see
it in the morning when VIC visited the
exact spot where 1t lay =
ut was high water then" answered
Lucie "and the reef fifteen feet under
the surface could not be seen. At low
water it is not half foot under and can
be easily walked over.
Other explanations followed.
Lucy, on the night the Reindeer found
cred, had saved herself by clinging TO a
plank, on which she driftod ashore, IN
seen by such Of the sailors as had con-
trived to save themselves by means Of a
boat, and who, in the darkness, went to
an island beyond the ono to which Luce
had been carried.
They were picked up next day by a
Sydney brig; but poor Lucie fell into
the hands Of savages, who would have
killed her but for the pleadings of some
of the women who wanted her for slave
Thus for two long years she had been
drudge for these wild women, who
watched her sharply to see that she did
not escape. OF late, howcyer--often at
night.-they had sent her to stream
near tho beach TO bring fresh water, and
it was thus she had found an opportuni-
ty 10 90 out on the sunken reef and sig
nal the workmanship Morning Star, not
dreaming of course, that her young hus-
band was aboard.
Soon after Lucio had reached these
particulars, fair wind sprung up. send
ing the. ship CALAMITY on her course for
Calcutta, where she arrived in due time.
A few years after, Cosgrove returned
with his vito to his native land, there to
pass the remainder Of bis happy life.
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