Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-04

you, Il you will return to the state III which Iound you, that 1 will not repeat the of fense."
 lie eyed ne from top to toe in silence, hiied and lighted his hideous pipe, and smoked with his back turned upon me.
 Had there been another warm place in the schooner l should have retired to it, and left this surly and scandalous savage to the en- Joyment of his own company. Alter sitting a long while sullenly smok- ing in silence, he fetched his mattress and some covers, lay down upon it, and fell fast l asleep. l admired and envied this display of confidence in me, and heartily wished myself as safe in his hands as he was in mine The afternoon passed. I was on deck a half dozen times, but never witnessed the least alteration in the ice. lily spirits sank very low.
 sat before the furnace extremely deiected, while the F'rcnchman snored on his mattress l could no longer 1atter myself that the ex- >plosions had made the impression had ex- pected on the ice, and my mind was utterly at a loss. How to deliver myself from this horrible situation I could not imagine. The sole ray of hope that gleamed upon me broke out of the belief that this island was going north and that when we had come to the height Of the summer in these seas, the wasting of the coast or the dislocation of the northern mass would release us. Yet this was but poor comfort too; it threatened a terrible long spell of waiting with perhaps disappointment in the end, and months of enforced association with a wretch with whom l should have to live in fear of my life.
 l. When l was getting supper Tassard awoke, quilted his mattress and came to his bench.
 ''Has anything happened while I slept?" said he.
 ''Nothiug," answered.
 "The ice shows no signs of givings" he ssked.
 q see none," said I.
 "Wen,' cried he, with a sarcastic sheer, 'have you any more fine schemes?"
 "'Tis your turn now," I replied. "Try your hand. If you fail promise you shall i not be disappointed" ''But you English sailors,' said he, wag ging his head and regarding me with great deal of wilt!ness in his eye, "speak of your selves as the finest seamen in the world. Justify the maritime reputation of your nation by showing me how we are to escape with the schooner from the ice."
 'sAEr. Tassa1d," said l. approaching him and looking him full in the face, ''I would advise you to sweeten your temper and change your tone. l have bOrnemyself very moderately toward you, submitted to your insults with patience, and have done you some kindness. I am not afraid of you. On the contrary, I look upon you as a swagger- ing bully and hoary villain. Do you under stand me? am a desperate man in des- perato situation. But if don't fear death, depend upon it I don't fear you; and take God to witness that if you do not use me with the civility 1 have the right to expect, I will kill you!''
 My temper had given way; I meant every word 1 spoke, and my air and sincerity rendered my speech very formidable. I ap- preached him by another stride: he started up, as I thought, to seize me, but in reality to recoil, and this he did so effectually as to tumble over his bench and down he fell, striking his bald head so hard that he lay for several minutes motionless