The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-08-16

COOPER Cooper Cooper said hs, I'D give ' ali III
hsvs In the world II that bread aud water
were ON board the cutter instead Of the long.
boat"
The cutter had now two wings, instead Of
one: tia water bubbling loud under her
bows marked her Increased speed; and all
sort began to subside.
A slight sea.ffet camc ON, and obscured
tho sea In part; but they had good lantern
and compass, and steersd the course exactly,
oil night, according TO Wylie's orders, chung
ing the hslmsman every four hours.
Mr.. Hazel, without o word, put . rug round
Miss Rolleston's shoulders, and another
round her feet.
20, not both, sir, please" said she.
Am 10 be- disobeyed by everybody?
said he.
Then she submitted In silence, and In a
certain obsequious why that was quite now
and well calculated to uisarm anger.
Sooner or later, all slept. except the helms
map.
Al daybreak, Mr.. Ha.si was awakened BY
a loud hail from q man In the bows.
All the sleepers started up.
Long bout not in slghtl'
1t was too true. The otean was blank; not
q sail, large or small, in sight.
Many voices spoke at once
tie nus carried on I'LL he has capstzed
her.
HE has given us the clip"
Unwilling to believe 80 great q calamity,
every eye peered and stared all over the sea.
In vain. Not astreak that could bc bout Il
hull. not spsck that could be q saii.
The littlecuttcr was alone upon the ocean.
Alone, with scarcely two days provisions.
nine hundred miles from land, and four hun
dred miles to leeward Of the nearest sea-rond.
Hazel, seeing his worst foreb0dings realized,
sat down In moody, bitter, and boiling
silence.
OF the other men some rugged and cursed.
Some wept aloud.
The Indy, more patieat, put her hands
together, and prayed tn Him who nude the
sen and all that therpin IL. Yet her case was
the cruelest. For she was by nature more
timd thun tho men. yet sho must share
their desperate peril. And then TO be alone
with all these men. and one Of them had
told her ne loved hor, ind hated the mon,
she was beprotlled to! Shame tortured this
delicaue creature. us well US feur. Happy
for her that Of late, aud only oflate. she
had eafned to pray In earnest. 'Quiprecari
nOvit, premipOtest, non protest Opprimi !"
1t was now o race between starvation and
drowning, md either way death stared them
in the face.
CHAPTER Kill.
TnE long boat was, at this moment, nhun-
dreti miles to windwarti of tho cutter.
Ind been secretly perplexed as to the best
course. lie had decided to run for the island;
but he WINS not easy under his own decision:
aud. Mt night, he got mois and more ,lisron-
tented whit. Finally, at nine o'clock. y. NJ,
he suddenly give the order to huff, an,l tack;
and by dry break he wis very near the place
where tlle Prospcrpine went down; whereas
= Boo x1,< .,n
night was. at lenst, hundred miles to lee
ward Of him.
Not to deceive the rcntier or lot him, for O
moment think We do business in monsters,
we will weigh this act OF Wylie's Justly.
1t was just u piere Of iron egotism lie
preferred, for himself, hairs breadth bot
ter than running for an island, as to whose
benring lie was not very clear, after all.
But he was not snre he was taking tho hest
or safest course. The cutter might be saved
after all, and the long boat lost.
Meantime he was not sorry If an excuse to
shake of the cutter. She contained one man
Mt least who knew he had scuttled the Pros.
erpine; and therefore il was all.important
to him to get to London before her. and re-
ceivs the three thousand pounds which was
TO be his reward for that abominable act.
But the way to get to London before Mr.
Hazel, or else to the bottom Of the Pacific be-
fore him. was to get buck into tho sea-road
ut all hazards.
He was not aware that the cutters water
and biscuit were on board his boat; nor did
he discover this till noon next day. And, on
making this fearful discovery, he showed
himself human: lie cried out, with M oath.
"What have done? ! have damned my.
selfto all eternity"
the wind ngain; but the men scOwled, and
not one stirred Il fngor; and he saw tho
futility of this, and did not persist:
but groaned aloud; and then sat,
stirring wildly: finally. like true sailor, no
got to the rum. and stupefed his agitated
conscience for time.
While he 10y drunk ut the bottom Of tho
hout, his sailors carried out his Inst instruo-
tious, beating southwark right in the wind u
eye.
Five days they beat to windward, and
never saw sail. Then 1t fell dead calm; and
so remained for three days more.
Tho men hegan to suffer greatly from
cramps, owing to their number and confined
p"sition. During the calm, they rowed all
day. and with this, aud a light westerly
breeze that sprung up, ethey got into SEQ.
hundred and fifty miles to the southwark,
they found n grent chungsin tho temperature
the nights were 30 cold that they wero fain
to hu.ldle together, to keep little warmth
In their bodies.
On the fifteenth dry of their voyage 1t be.
gan to rain and blow, and then they were
never whole minute out Of poril. Hand
forever on the Sheet eye on the waves. to
ense her Mt the right moment: md, with all
this cure, the spray externally flying halfway
over her mast, and often q body of water
making Glenn breach over her, and the men
bailing night md day with their very hats.
or she could not have lived nn hour.
At last, when they were almost dead with
wet, cold, fatigue, and danger. IL vessel came
in sight, and crept slowly up. about two
miles to windward of tho distressed boat.
With tho heave Of the waters they could wee
little more than her sails; but they run up a
bright bandann handkerchief to their mast.
hcnd; and the ship made them out. She
hoistod Dutch colors, and-continued her
course.
Then the poor abandoned creatures went,
and rnved, and sursed in their frenzy, glaring
utter that cruel, shameless man, who could do
| such on net, yet hoist color, and show oil
what nation he was the nutive-and the dis.
grace.
But one Of them sold not word. This was
Wylie. He sat Rhivering. and remembered
how he had abandoned the cutter and all
on board. Loud sighs broke from his labor
ing breast; but not u word. Yet one word
was over present to his mind; and seemed
written in fire on the night Of clouds. and
howled in his ears by the Standardization
ships; a fenrlul night to men in boats. The
sky black. the sen on fire with crested pillows
TINT broke over them every minute; thci,
light was washed out: their provisions
drenched and spoiled; bail az they would the
boat was always filling. Up 10 their knee,
in water; cold as ice. blinded with spray
deafened with roaring pillows, they tossed
and tumbled IN n fiery fonmng hell Of waters
and still. though despniring, chung to theil
| Day broke, md the first sight 1t reveale,
to them WINS II brig to windwnrd staggering
along, and pitching under closc-rceiei top
sails.
| They started up and waved their hats ant
cried aloud. But the wind carried their voice.
to leewnrtl, md he brig staggered on.
| They ran up their little signals Of distress
but still the ship staggered on.
| Then the miserable men shook hands al
round, and gave themselves up for lost.
But ut this moment tho brig hoisted
vivid fag oil stripes and stnrs, and alteret
hercourte point or two.
She crossed the bouts track mile ahead
and her people looked over the bulwarks
and waved their hats to encourage thos
tossed ind desperate men.
| Having thus given them the weather.gage
| the brig hove to for them.
| They ran down to her. and erept under he
Ice; down came ropes to them, held b,
friendly hands, and friendly faces show
he went up the ship's side, and 40 In O yer,
short time, they sent the woman up. and TIL
rest being all sailors, and clever us cats
they were safe on board the whaling bril-
Marin, Cantain Clocunl, of Nantucket, u, s
Their 10y, compass, and Instruments wer