Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08

Yes, with oil my hearI!' L aHs"eFeu,
grasping his hand. "Thanks-a thousand
times thanks, Captain Peyton! have long
wanted to make deep-sea voyage, and
after the turmoil and anxiety OF the last !
few weeks the Diana will be a veritable |
haven of rest. When do you saiIS"
''In fortnight or So"
"All right; | shall be ready. l suppose
Bolsover is still with your"
Eyes, Crazy Tom is our boatswain; and |
q good one he makes. He will may be tell !
you that yarn of his, If you take him when
he is in tue humor. tried him one day, +
but it was no 60 He would not bite. l /
expect he thought l wanted to chaff him"
Yarn, yarni Oh, l remember. Some
thing about a galieon, isn't it,"
eyes; a Spanish treasure-ship, lost ages |
ago. The crazy beggar believes she IS still /
afioat He is sane on every other point, |
though. However, you get him to tell you !
all about it. 1t is a romantic sort Of yarn,
fancy"
"When we get to sea~
ayes: that will be the time When we
get into the northeast trades, all sails set
aloft and allow, and there is not much 60
ing on-that is your time for spinning
yarns"
Shortly after this heard a piece Of news
which completed tie tale of my mtsfor-
tunes, and made me wretched beyond
measure heard that Amy Mainwaring
was engaged to young Kelson! If my
mother had not seen it in a letter written
by Amy herself to a cOmron friend, |
couldn't have believed it; but incredulity
was impossible. ! was terribly cut up and
extremely indignant, and vowed that |
would never have anything to do with
woman again-in the way OF love.
Two days later we were at sea. The
DIANA" was a fine full-rigged merchant
man, one thousand two hundred tons bur
den, with an auxiliary screw and crew
of thirty-nine men, miscellaneous cargo Of
| Brummagem ware, Manchester cottons,
and Bradford stuffs. She had half adozen
passengers, with all of whom Except. per-
| haps, a young fellow who was taking sea
voyage for the benefit of his healthD time
was more plentiful than money. For all
| that or perhaps because of that, they were
very nice fellows.
| we nau Ious OF DOCKS among us, and
! what with reading talking, smoking,
/ sauntering on deck, playing whist and
/ chess, the days passed swiftly and pleas
| antly Now and again we gave Il sort OF
mixed entertainment in the saloon, at
which the skipper and as many of the
| ships company as could be spared from
their duties on deck were present Two
of the passengers could sing comic songs,
one fiddlcd, another recitcd; | played an
ACCORDION and performed a few cOnjuring
| tricks, and one way and another we amused
! our audiences immensely, and won great
applause.
naturally saw a good deal of Tom Boil
sover, but in the early part of the voyage
the weather was so variable and he so busy
that he had little time for conversation.
and we exchanged only an occasional word.
But when we got into the region of the
trades he had more leisure, and going for
ward one fine morning, | found him sit
ting on a coil Of rope, apparently with
nothing more important to do than smoke
his pipe and stare at the sails.
II was very sorry to hear of the busting
up of that 'erc company" he said, after
we had exchanged few remarks about
things in general
Yes; you saved us twenty thousand
pounds, and | thought that would pull us
through; but we lost twice as much by the
suspension Of our bankers, and then we
were up a tree, and no mistake"
al hope you did not lose much by it, sir?"
"WcIl, lost my situation and all my
y ,
"AlI your money! Dear, dcarl | am very
sorry. But you surely don't mean quite
allf"
Yes, do. / have very little more left
than stand up in. But what of that?
am young the world is before me, and
when get back shall try again mean
to make my fortune aud be somebody yet,
BoIsover, before | am very much older"
'Fortunel fortune! II we could only
find the Santa Anna we should both
make our fortunes right of. There is gold
and silver enough on that ship for hun
dred fortunes, and big 'uns at that.
1.-The Santa AuuaH What is the Santa
Anna and where is shet"
IL wish knew" said the old sailor, with
a sigh; 'I wish knew. 1t is what have
been trying to find out these thirty years
and more. III tell You all about it'-low-
ering his voice to Il confidential whisper
"only don't let the others know-they
laugh at me, and say | am crazy. But
never mind; let them laugh rs wins l
shall find her yet. don't think / could
die without finding her. You won't say
anything2"
Not word"
We'll" went on the boatswan, after a
few pensive pulls at his pipe, lit came
about in this way: My father, he was q
seafaring man like myself lie has been
dead thiTty-three years. he,d nave been
nigh on ninety by TINS time II he mad lVed
Well. my father-he was a seafaring man,
you IL remember-my father CHANGED to be
at Tine Azores-a good many people sees the
Azores, leastways Plco but not many iands
'here-out my lather ala' ana stopped
month or tWo-l don know what lor-tIhu
4
being matter OF siXty years since IL does
not much matter. Wen, While he was
there ne used 10 go about IN ooaU' al
alone' hShihS ana loohlh& rouhu-hS
tather was always cnr'"SiSn Sor, OF man
ara ne haa an eye IKE ha"A' wen, one
day he was saltlhg ROUND the island IheS
calls CorVo. very close 'nShore' Wheh ut
spies, IN creVlce OF cllh-lhe coast
uncommon ruEged-he spies something II,
dtdn look quite Ike steue-it was to'
round and regular like; SO he lowers MS
san, takes his scuils, ana goes ana gets 1t
What do you think 1t Was?'
i have no Idea a poIIle OF rum per
maps.
NO, no, not that,' sad lom' WIN
hurt look, as II had been testing with
sacred subject. 1t was TN case. lthac
been there matter or forty or htty years
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