Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-06-09
that it was well her form was slender
and her cloak gray, or she would have
been discovered.


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| DIR. Percy Conroy had visited th,
captain that evening, and finding
threatened attack of fever, persuaded
him to abate his libations and join hin
In the cabin at game of cards.
1t was thus engaged that Helen founl
them both, and though her manner wal
a little nervous, she looked so charming
when she said she had boon to beg
that old Sherwood, once famed for gal
lantry, yielded at once.
| 1t was the freedom of the two prison
ers whom Malcolm had, she said, for
gotten.
While the captain gave orders fol
their liberation, she went to her fathers
stateroom and filed two glasses with
wine. Into each of these she poured 9
strong sleeping potion, and quietly
slipped out with them to meet the mutt
neers.
Every pretty woman knows her power.
Helen calculated largely on hers
with gentle words Of sympathy and
kindness she soothed the savage mood
of Manuel and Neptune, and with CRATE
full respect they drank her health in the
glasses they drained, allowing her to
fill them again and again.
When they retired, and she returned
to the cabin, she quickly locked the
door behind her, and, first of all ex-
torting from the captain signed par
don for the offenders, she told the story
of their wrongs, as only reused woman
can.
Day by day she had endured to see
her fathers ship the scene of basest
cruelty and meanest persecution. Hour
by hour she had shrunk more and more
from the ungoverned coarseness and in
science of Malcolm Sherwood.
"My father is i'll, and mine is a
friendless position" she said, bursting
into tears.
Percy Conroy's face was very pale ; its
changing expression betrayed many
powerful emotions, one Of the strongest
being sensitive pride and reserve,
which at last gave way with q sudden
burst of feeling.
Miss Herbert, if dared-if I might
presume-I would be only too happy to
devote my whole life to you," he cried.
She turned to him with streaming
eyes, but with light that like rain
bow spanned her tears.
"Oh, DIR. Conroy, help Captain Sher-
wood to gain his command of his men
Advise him to pardon every one, and as
tonish them at once by his decision and
his clemency; help him to save us all in
this real peril, and rapa will owe you a
lifelong gratitude; while II"
She sobbed and covered her face with
one hand; but the other was held per-
suadingly toward him. He seized and
kissed it fondly.
"First these two, Frero and Neptune,
must be secured" he said.
81 think they are perfectly quiet for
the night" Helen said, gently.
And she narrated the way she had
taken to quell the mutiny, or at least
gain time on the mutineers.
1t proved effective; the sudden and
prolonged siumber of the leaders de-
ferred the attack. Captain Sherwood,
reused to his duties, deposed his bully
ing nephew and took command in per-
son.
The plan proposed by Helen worked
like miracle, and Percy Conroy, whose
poverty (for his skill was his only for
tune) had held him aloof from the beau
tiful heiress, was made SO active in her
and her fathers defense that he never
retired into himself again, for he became
his patients son-in-law at the end of the
voyage, and was, in spite of himself,
made rich man.
"You saved papa and saved me, too, u
Helen said, when for a moment sense
of his own poverty made him uncom-
Portable. ''If you don't think we are
worth anything then ycN had better
have let us go with the mltineers of the
Albatross."