Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-03
CHAPTER x.
CONTAINS THE THIRD AND LAST PART OF MY FATHERS JOURNAL; SETTING FORTH THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE BELLE FORTUNE.

CONTAINS THE THIRD AND LAST PART OF MY
 FATHERS JOURNAL; SETTING FORTH THE
 MUTINY ON BOARD THE BELLE FORTUNE.
 JUNE 19th.-Strange that wherever I am hospitaby entertained, I recompense my host by falling ill in his house. Since my last entry in this Journal 1 have been lying at the gate of death Smitten down with sore sickness. It seems that the long exposure and weariness of my journey to the Peak threw me into fever; but of this I should soon have recovered were it not for my head, which I fear will never be wholly right again. The cowardly blow upon Malabar Hill has made a sad wreck of me: twice. when I seemed in a fair way to recovery has my mind entirely given way.
 II trust did not bctray my secret ill my wanderinSS. Mir. Everslcigh tells me l talked the strangeSt stuff at timeS-about rubies and skeletons. and a certain dreadful face from which l was struggling to escape. But the security of my Journal and the golden clasp, which recovered to-day somewhat reassures me I am allowed to walk in the garden for q short space every day. but not until to-day have found strength to dig for my hoard. can hardly describe my emotions on tlndingit it safe and sound.
 July lst-Oh. this weary waiting! Shall never see the shores of England again? The doctor says that 1 only make myself worse with fretting; but it is hard to finger so-when at my journeys end lies wealth almost beyond imagination, and the sight of my dear ones "Julv lth.-In answer to my entrratiCS Mir. Evrrsir,h has ru.:srnted t0 mako inquiries about the homcwar!- bound vessels starting from Coomho. The result is that he has at | once allaycd my impatjrncc, and compaSsed his end of keeping me q litte longer, by select 1 ing an Fast IndiaNAn due to sail ill about for. nights time. The name of the ship is the Belle Fortune, and of the captain, Cyrus | Holding. Her cargo consists of sugar and 1 coffee and her crew numbers some eighteen hands. Tomorrow am going down with MT. Eversleigh to inspect her. but I am prepared beforehand to find her to my liking. The only i pity is that she does not start earlier.
 July 6th.-Weak as I am, even yesterdays | short excursion exhausted me, so that 1 felt | unable to write a word last night. have been | over the Belle Fortune and am moro than | pleased. especially with her captain, whose | honest face took my fancy at once. l have 1 most comfortable cabin next to his set apart | for me at little cost, since it had been fitted up for a lady on the outward voyage so that I shall still have little money in pocket on my return. as my living both hero and at Bombay, has cost me nothing. and the doctors bills i have not exhausted my store,
 | July Sth.-I have been down again to-day to see the Belle Fortune. l forgot to say that 1 sho bclongS'to MrSSrS. Vincent X HeXt, of | Bristol, Id is bound for that port. The only | other passengers are pr. Concancn and his | wife who are acQuaintanccs of MT. ETersleigh 1 pr. Concanen is a physician with good prac- | tice in COlOmbo or WaS--aS his WifoS delicate 1 health has forced him to throw up his employ ment here and return to England. MT, Ever | sleigh introduced me to them this morning on | the Belle Fortune. The husband is almost as tall as my host and looks a man of great strength. | Mrs Concanen is frail and worn, but very | lovely Altogether they promise to be most pleasant companions. I forgot to say that | Mrs. COncancn is taking q native maid home | to act as her nurse.
 | July 1lth.--We start in a weeks time. I had long talk with Captain Holding to-day he hopes to make q fairly quick passage. but says he is short of hands.
 | July l6th-We sail tomorrow afternoon. 1 I have been down to make my final prepara- tions and find my cabin much to my liking. Captain Holding is still short oi hands,
 July l7th, 7.30 p. m.-We cast off our warps | shortly after four o'clock. and were quickly running homcward at about seven knots an
 hour. There is fair breeze, and the hands, though short, do their work we'll to all appear anccs Thero were only fifteen yesterday,
 three having been missed for about a week
 before We sailed but have not yet seen Cap | tain Holding 10 ask him if he made up his
 number of hands at the last moment.
 | July lSth.-I am moro disturbed than l
 care to own by very curious discovery which
 I made this morning. AS issued on deck
 saw d man standing by the forecastle, whose
 back seemed familiar to me. Presently he
 turned and saw him to be Simon Colliver
 He has most strangely altered his appearance | being dressed now as a common sailor, and 1 wearing rings in his ears as the custom is | Cutching sight of me, he came forward with q
 pleasant smile and explained himself.
 ." It is no manner of use, Trenoweth, were
 fatcd to meet You did not expect to see me
 here in this get up; but learnt last night you
 were on board. You look as though you had
 seen ghost Don't stare so, man-1 should
 say sir" now, I suppose-its only another
 of fortunes rubs. fell ill after that journey
 to the Peak, and although Ration nursed me like d woman I woke up out of my fever a
 last to find all the money gone. I'm a fellow
 of resource, Trenoweth, so l hit on the idee of working my passage home; by good luck
 found the Belle Fortune was short of hands offered my services, was accopted-haNins
 been to sea before, you know-sold my ole clothes for this costume, and here am.
 "' Is Raiton with your asked
 .''Oh, yes. similarly attired. l did not set
 you yesterday, being busy with the cargo, st that it's all the more pleasant to meet here
 But work is the order of the day now. You'll l give me a good character to the captain
 won't you? Goodbye for the present. , II cannot tell how much this meeting ha:
 depressed me. Certainly I have no reasol I for disbeiieying the man story, but the ire
 quency and strGngcntSs ofour meetings mak' , it hard to believe them ait"""''''r accidental I saw Railton In the aftcrm ." is greatl, altered for the worse, and ll think, ha( been drinking heavily befor, shipped; bu
 the captain was evidently too short of hand to be particular. think will give the Con canens my tin box to hide in their cabin. o
 course I can trust them, and this will bafh theft; the clasp will wear about me. This i a happy idea I win go to their cabin now anc
 ask them. It Is g 80 p. m., and the wind i still fair, believe.
 July 20th.-We have so far kept up al Q average speed of seven and half knots al
 hour, and Captain Holding thinks we shal
 make even better sailing when the hands ar
 more accustomed to their work. I spend m.
 time mostly with the Concanens-who readil,
 by the way, undertook the care of my tin bo,
 and find them the most agreeable of fellow travellers.