The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-11-21
CHAPTER xxx.
A SEA PARLIAMENT.

WE had lost FIVE hands since we left Bay
port, counting the captain and mate This
reduced the number of souls in tho brig to
eleven in all, and they may be catalogued
thus:
Able seamcn: Sam, Suis, Savings
Beauty, Lucky Billy, Little Welchy.
Apprentice: Hardy.
Cook Scum.
Officer, carpenter, boatswain ana sail
maker; Mr. Banyard'.
Captain Jack Chadburn.
Passenger: Miss Louisa Franklin.
We were thus somewhat short-handea.
Old Windward had never disdainod to add
his weight to pull, and sometimes went
aloft Consequently, he was as good as an
able seaman gone. Five makes great
gap in a small company, and it behooved
me to drag the brig out of these ice.
bound, dirty ATTITUDES as soon as ever
could. lest sickness should still further inn
noverish our diminished stock of available
labor
After breakfast l had conversation
with lanyard, and asked him plain ques'
ton.
az consider you an honest man, Ban
Ys-a. and shall dea! with you openly. Ii
my intention TO save the brig If eau,
and carry her into port. Are you for
lasting in your lot with the crew, or will
you stand by me"
All his old shrewdness camo into his eyes
IS he looked at me.
Of you can save the brig said he,
eth be good job. But should like TO
know how you're agoin' to manage 1T.
MAY l count upon your help" ex-
.pu;, fl,o pt,pnrtlrpify nrrlveSs'
"Look here, mister he said, slowly. II
don't want to get knocked on the head.
You and me aren't no match for the men,"
81 shall not make a hand-to-hand affair
ST it,, [ interrupted. 81 have got
scheme working in my mini, which hope
will rid us of tho men without blow;
when the time comes I'll unfold it to you.
What now want 80 know is, at which end
II the brig is your heart
"Why, aft
i'Thatll do" said l.
"Stop bit. 1 'splained to you before
why / Joined this business. l goes where
the mob's biggest. But Tn no pirate. I'm
| for peace and 'spectability. There's bis
| o money in a savin's-bank belonging TO
| man as signs his name with cross, and
| that mans me- 1t amt pirates as saves
| an their money in savin's-banks agin the
| calls of old age. Get me out o. this mess,
mister, and LET the magistrate know as
had naught to do with it, and this here
arm is az your sarvice and welcome."
"An right" said |; ''anl now all you
have to do is hold your jaw and wait for
those blessed things called circumstances "
Banyari should have been a Scotchman.
| Never was there SO cautious an old hunks.
He had not yet forgiven the men for their
practical joke upon him, and the general
contempt in which they had held him, and
| this one guarantee of his sym 9athy with
me, not TO speak Of his real anxiety to get
away from the mutiuy and its consequences.
In word / had watched and sounded
him for some days, and was well assured
of his inclinations; otherwise | should have
b sen mailman TO put myself in his power,
and risk my life ON the chance of his keep
ing my intentions hidden from tie crew
Ii was worth my while however, to see
what thoughts Deac1n's death had excited
| In the IN N, and wat ideas they now had
respecting the island and the gold IN II.
So. going forward. nut nv bead down