Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-08-07

! StreWn Oeacn she lOokec mp again
and again into the weathcr-beaten
face of Saul Wilson.
1t was not bad face, but that
of a man who had suffered in secret.
HIS eyes, even now, bad dreamy
look, and he kept them steadily
turned away from her.
For he loved her.
He dared not look at her, for
she loved Ned Walton, and he
feared for himself.
Once or twice the thought came
to him:
''If he should die; if anything
should happen to him on the voy-
age -
But he drove the thought out of
his heart, and when they came near
the cottage of old Captain Dare, he
bade her goodbye as an elder
brother might have done, and hnr-
ried down TO the hoat, which lay
there i'll waiting with only three
men in it.
Two hours later the anchor was
hove, the head sails filled, and the
dolphin" hove away on her dis
tant voyage.
Long months had passed, and
again we see the ''Dolphin"
She is on the sperm-whale fish
ing grounds, and look at her is
enough to show that she has seen
service.
On either side of the ship a
strange object is suspended, the
head OF a gigantic sperm-whale,
and the men are working in the
great cells scooping out the rich
sperm from the depths.
"Id ike to get rid of these heads
as soon as we can, captain," said
Ned Walton. 81 don't like the
look of the sky
Saul Wilson cast a gloomy look
to leeward, and saw that a storm
was brewing.
"Lct it come," he said, in a surly
tone. 81 think sometimes it would
be better for me if the next storl
sent the "Dolphin" to the bottom.
Curse it why do you stand staring
at me +? I'd have you know that
you've got a man to deal with, Ned
Walton"
IL used to think so. SAUL SAID
Ned, sadly. "Well- well, this
voyage must come to an end some
time"
"Do you want me to send you
forward among the men g" cried
the captain, fercely. "By Heaven.
I'll do it if you dun't look out. l
won't stand a sea-lawyer, you
know"
Ned went forward withot word.
He did not understand all this.
For the moment the ship had
rounded Cape Horn, Saul Wilson
had begun to show his hatred of the
man who had been his friend.
Nothing he could do was right,
and the captain repeatedly inter
ferrcd with him in the line of his
duties, where no captain who has
any respect for his first mate will
interfere.
81 wish you would speak 20 the
captain, Benton" SAID Ned, as he
passed the second mate in the waist.
81 don't know what has come oyer
him lately. Try to do my duty
like a man, but, do the best | can,
it is impossible to satisfy HIM. He
has made the ship a hell to me, and
I can't stand it much longer
81 don't understand it, either
said Benton. "What have You done
to him e.
"Nothing whatever He has ac-
ted in this way for nearly a year
All / can say is when we get to
Honolulu, [ leave the ship. But
there is a storm brewing, and if it
strikes US before the heads are
gone, | wouldn't give penny for
our lives.
At this moment, the captain,
who had been glaring at them from
the quarterback, cried ont to the
first mate:
"Why don't you move, you Val
ron 2 Start those men lively"
Ned made DO reply, but went to
the rail and spoke to the men in a
low voice.
They loved him, and there was
not a man among them who wodld
not have worked his fingers to the
bone for the young mate. They
sprang to their work with a will,
and the work was nearly done,
when even the captain saw that
they could wait no longer.
''Stand by to cut awayr" he
cried. "The gale will catch us II
We don't look out. Lively there
with our axes y
The men saw that the storm was
rolling up with frightful rapidity,
aud the blows of the axes fell fast.
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