Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-28
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/ Night had long since fled and the broad,
glorious effulgence of morning.
Fairfax recognized the shore as that of q
remote, deserted island, of which there are
many off the coast Of Maine.
His pains grew more and more intense.
Suffering the most exquisite torture, he
Strengthened out and set the bent arm,
while the bones cracked and grated and
gritted one against the other. Constructing
q rough splint. he bound it about the arm
with strips of clothing
Besides the torture from his wounds. the
pangs of hunger now began to trouble him.
His boat was gone adrift How should he
regain it! Deserts No man could swim
long in those chilly Maine waters and live
much less one in Fairfaxs coDdit!sn.
As Heaven would have it, the wind
changed and he saw the boat about quar-
ter of mile southeast OF the island, drift
ing back; but, evidently, so that it would
pass by, and not touch the shore
When the oppOrtune moment ar
rived, in he jumped and swan slowly and
heavily out towards it., making but poor
progress, indeed, with his broken arm and
tired muscles. Worn and utterly exhausted.
as he was, it was a most foolhardy attempt
him up Little by little the distance was les
sened, but so was his strength, for he was
barely able to pull himself up over the stern
into which he fell headlong, breathless and
chilled through and through to the very
marrow, stiff and benumbed with the cold,
his head aching as if it would burst.
But no man, buoyed up by the mighty
hope that inspired Fairfax, had time or place
to nurse his ailments or for falling ill., He
quickly recovered himself, and, being shut
off from the use of both oars, cut sculling-
notch in the stern and so propelled himself
toward Mt. Desert.
Three kilograms left Bar Harbor the same
I afternoon. The first was addressed to Fair
( faxs brother, Dana, bright young clerk in
a New York shipping-house. It read thus
I Secure passage, etc, for two, City of
Rome, and be ready to sail with me, to-
morrow. On no account fail me. Let all
else go to the Winds
The second was intended for Mr. James
+ Godron Nebbitt and ran as follows;
Please, without fail, cable me at once,
where / can meet you when / arrive, City
of Rome, also telegraph Oxford place and
\ time of meeting Be ready 10 sail at once.
I Let every thing else go. Business of the
utmost importance" -
/
| LOOK for telegram from Nebbltt. Drop
I every thing, and hold yourself in readiness
/ to act at once"
Just as it was leaving, he caught the 80
! D. m boat to Mount Desert Ferry, where he
/ took the night express to Boston. Next
/ morning at 6:20, he was in that city and,
/ by $3.50 that same afternoon, grasped his
4 brother Dana's hand in the Grand Central
/ depot al New York When the clock
/ struck six, Dana had resigned forever one
Of the best business positions ever held by
a young New York clerk and the two
brothers were pacing the decks Of the
/ City of Rome, which, in few hours, was
/ far at sea.
| The New York Herald for that morning
Dana showed it to Arthur contained this
interesting little item, among others;
! "a Mystery.
] Portland, Ne. oct. =. The fishing smack
/ Polly arrived tonight with the bodies of two
/ men, picked up near Schoodic Point. Papers
1 in their clothing identify them as captain
/ and first mate of the Italian tramp steamer,
/ vampa, bound to this port from Leghorn,
| ma Tangiers The bodies were horribly
mutilated, leading to the inference that the
men were killed by mutinous crew. No
tale nor tidngs have been heard Of the
vsmpa The affair has been creating much
excitement here
Thirteen days afterwards, in the hours Of
early morning a steam yacht was nearing
the extreme northwest coast Of Africa. The
spacious harbor Of Tangiers opened well &c
view on the left. and the white roofs and
mnarets OF the city CLEANED family on tn,
high ground in the distance.
''There is Ell Bahia, said Fairfax, pointing
to lofty tower, three or four miles to th'
right.
Nebbitt scanned the shore with his tel
escQpe,
FRO BE CONTINUED.