Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-30

U with you" The Mate stood close ur to the Captain when he spoke, and i'm mediately started for the handcuffs.
 The strain and suspense of such { moment is exquisitely painful. All on that deck felt it. though with different thoughts and emotions. The mate was certainly not gone two minutes but the time that passed before his head emerged above the deck as he ran up the cabin-stairs seemed an age.
 The attitude and appearance of one man there ought to be mentioned. This was Louis Hunter. He stood at the right of the Captain. leaning up against the quarter-rail, smoking cigarette. He looked on as carelessly as though he had not the slightest interest in what occurred.
 The mate went directly to the negro.
 :" Hold out your hands," he said With motion like a flash, the fel- low seized the handcuffs and tossed them overheard. One sweep of his powerful arm thrust the mate aside. His clasp-knifc was plucked from his waistband, opened and brandished; with yell he sprang toward the Cap tain. His eyes were bloodshot and glaring; those who saw his face saw something more pitiless and ferocious than is in the faces of wild beasts.
 Some of the men on the deck shud- dered; some closed their eyes. Some rejoiced like fiends. Two, at least started forward, brandishing capstan. bars. Yet they could not have been in time to avail against the agile, sudden movements of this mad human animal.
 There was a loud report; the negro suddenly stopped. His eyes rolled hor- ribly in his head; his knife dropped from his grasp. He threw up his arms, plunged forward, and fell in heap on the deck-dead. with a bullet through his heart!
 The Captain advanced single step. A great navy revolver, still smoking, was in his hand.
 "You see what mean" he quietly said. "Now, to your duty, every man! You all know who is Captain, by this time.
 There was not an instant's delay. The crew fell back, dumb and con quered by this stern exhibition of au- thority. The mate speedily assem- bled them at the capstan, the anchor came up, the sails were spread, slowly and awkwardly, and the bark with wind and current in her favor, so that nothing was needed, sailed out past the frowning guns of Moro Castle. and to the open sea-
 The Captain paced the after-deck. and watched the mate as he moved about among the crew. Cool as the man had been through this exciting scene. he now began to feel the revul- sion as the strain was removed. He wanted some one to talk to, and looked around for Louis, but he had gone down into the cabin.
 In few moments the mate came aft and touched his cap
 '.They're doing fairly we'll, sir" he said. "Lubbers, the most of them, but they don't hang back mow. I reckon we shall get all out of them that they can do."
 ''Very well, MT. Hardy. Who's at the wheelp"
 ''Dick Purvis, sir.'
 ''Right again. We're we'll out of the harbor. should think.''
 ''Quite outside, sir''
 keep her east by north for the pres. ent."
 ''East by north, sir.'
 And l say, MT. Hardy, just see if there is any life in that fellow on the Heck there. meant to shoot him straight through the heart, and think did."
 The mate went and turned the cum- brous body over on its back. A pool of