Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-04-17

men, beside the girl, was seen emerging
from a channel in the icel
1t was soon alongside. One of the
young men was Roberts, and the other,
to his joyful surprise, the captain recog-
nized as the person he had so long
searched for-his beloved nephew, Carl
Refer.
As he embraced his handsome young
relative the ewes of the white maiden
sparkled brighter than ever, and now,
for the first time since they had seen her,
the men noticed that her cheeks were
suffused with rosy color.
Explanations were made by Roberts.
The girl-waif had OWNED, by marks
on the captains charts, that he was go
ing to change his course on this day.
BY signs she had, therefore, on the pre-
vious night, given Roberts to understand
that she wanted him to go to a certain
part of the coast with her. Her wish to
him was law. ILAhad consented, but,
in order that the captain might not too
quickly notice that he had gone off with
the girl and start in pursuit he had re-
sorted to a stratagem.
To execute this, he had resolved to use
the wooden image of Apollo, lying near,
but on his lifting it with great difficulty
and placing it upright against the cap
stan, the wood all burst apart and fell
off, leaving the ice, which had filled the
hollow, uncovered. He had then thrown
the wood overheard, and the white
maiden having made large SNOWFALL,
placed it on the shoulders of the icy
form to serve for a head, after which he
had put on his cloak and hat, as already
shown, thinking that, should the skipper
happen to come up to take brief look,
he would not notice the deception, but
would believe the figure to be that OF
his second mate. Having then donned
another coat and hat, which he had in
round house Roberts had entered the
sealskin canoe with the girl, who pad
died it through channel in the ice to
part of the coast not far off, where, tc
his surprise, he found an underground
hut, containing Captain Robinson'S
nephew and fifteen men-the crew ol
the bark 'Walrus," which had beer
stoven in the ice months before. Enough
provisions and other useful things were
saved, however, to last the sailors for
long time.
The white maiden, with her father,
{ was aboard the "Walrus" when it was
, stoven. Her name was Catharine Laskof
8 and she was the daughter of Russian
mate, whom Carl Refer had shipped a
. Halifax, where the vessel touched for re
pairs q few weeks out from port. Th
r young captain took this manin place of hi
e other mate, who had been lost over
Y board The Russians s daughter accom-
/ panied her father, and as Carl knew
little of the language, he was able tt
a converse with her. The two fell in low
n with each other, and were engaged to b
married.
c On the day before she was picked u
r by the crew of the "Apollo," the gir
t had ventured out in the ice in the sea
f skin canoe, which had been bought b
8 Carl from a native. The ice closin
: round her had hindered her return, an
t she had lost her way.
When at last the "Apollo," with he
# aboard. as described, reached its preser
J. locality, she recognized the part of th
=. coast near which the castaways ha
y their quarters, by rock, the top 0
Is Whicn was snapeu sounetAluS ANe
e cross.
le She was therefore anxious to go to te
o her friends of Captain Robinson's arriv
y before he should leave the place, and 81
in took Roberts with her in order that
might help her in case she should nee
n- assistance to work her light era
" through the ice.
~. Thara 10 LITTLE tn add
All the castaways were finally take
IN aboard the "Apollo," which then sale
t, for home, where she safely arrived
ID last.
,g Not long after Carl Refer marie
Catharine Laskof, the white maide
m who proved to be an excellent wife.
is AS for Roberts he pined for whi
y, but'fnally consoled himself by marryi
* a pretty, tiaxen- haired Prussian girl
of seventeen.
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