Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-06

sail. I thought would get the body of the old Frenchman overheard, and so obta;n . clear hold for myself so far as corpses went I carried the lantern into the forecastle but vixen pulled the hammock off him I confess if, was not without stupid fear that should find him alive. Recollection of his astonnd- inc vitality found something imperisbabla in that ugly anatomy, and though he lay before me as dead and cold as stone, I yet had fancy that the seeds of life were still in him that twas only the current of his being that had froze. that if I were to thaw him afresb be might recover and that if I buried him r should actually be dispatching him.
 But though these fancies possessed they did not control me- I took his watch and what ever else he had ill that way, carried him on deck, and dropped him over the side, using as little ceremony as he had employed in the disposal of his shipmates, but affected by very different emotions; for there was not only the idea that the vital spark was still in him; could not but handle with awe the most mysterious corpse the eye had ever yiewed.one who had lived through a stupor or death sleep for eight-and-forty years, in whom in a few hours Time had compressed the wizardry he stretches ill others over half a century: who in a night had shrunk from the aspect of his prime into the lean puck cred, bleared eyed, deaf and tottering ex- pression of 100 years.
 All that day and through the night that followed the schooner drove, rolling and plunging before the seas, into the northeast, to the pulling of the spritsail I made sev- eral excurslons into the forehold, but never could hear the sound of water in the vessel. Her sides in places were still sheathed in ice; ,1 ping off her to the working of her frame in the seas, so that, since she was proving her. self tight, it was certain her stanchness owed nothing to the glassy plating.
 l should but fatigue you to follow the sev- eral little stories of these hours one by one how got my food, snatched at sleep, stood at the helm, gazed around the sea line, and the like.
 The sea worthiness of the craft, coupled with the reasonable assurance of presently falling in with ship, rendered me so far easy in my mind as to enable me to think very frequently of the treasure, and how I was to secure it. If I fell in with an enemy s cruiser or a privateer 1 must expect to be stripped. This would be the fortune of war, and I must take my chance. My concern did not lie that way-how was I to protect this property, that was justly mine, against
 
 fortune to carry the schooner safely into Eng lish waters7 I had brother-in-law, Jere- miah Mason, Esq, a Turkey merchant ill a small way of business, whose office was in the city of London, and if could manage to l knew, find me @ handsome account ill his settlement of this affair." But it was impos- sble to strike out plan. must wait, and attend the course of events.
 1 was resolved at all hazards to stick to the schooner; and, with view of providing against the curiosity of rummaging of any persons who should come aboard, 1 fell to the following work after getting my breakfast. I hung lanterns in the run and hatchways and cabin to enable me to pass easily to and fro; I then emptied one of the chests in my cabin, and carried it to where the treasure was. The chest I filled nearly three parts full with money, jewelry, etc., which sank the contents of the other chests to the depth wanted. I then fetched a quantity of small arms, such as pistols and hangers and cut lasses, and filled up the chests with them, first placing a thickness of canvas over the money and jewelry, that no glitter might show through. To improve the deception I brought another chest to the run, and wholly filled it with cutlasses, powder horns pistols and the like, and so fixed it that it must be the first to come to hand My cunning amounted to this: that suppose the run to be rummaged, the contents of the first chest were sure to be turned out, but, on the other chests being opened, and what they appeared to contain observed, it was as likely as not that the rummagers would be satisfied that 1 they were arms chests, and quit meddling with them.
 The wind at dawn had weakened and come into the west. There was strong swell- indeed there always is in this ocean-but the seas ran small. The sky looked like marble, with it's broad spreadings of high white i clouds and the veins of blue sky between. wished to make all the northing that was possible, but there was nothing to be done in that way with the spritsail alone. Had not the capstan been frozen should have tried to get the mainsail upon the ship, but without the aid of machinery l was helpless, So, with helm amidships, the schooner drove Ian. guidly along with her head due east, lifting as ponderously as line-of-battle ship to the floating launches of the high swell, and the albatross hung as steadfastly in the wake oi my lonely ocean path as though it had been some messenger sent by God to watch me into safety.