Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-27

Five minutes later, the stranger fired
again, but observing that no notice was
taken of the summons, she waited until
she was within range, then, yawing let
drive with such good aim as TO bring the
West Indiaman 5 mizzen tOpgaliant- mast
down with a run. The sight of the
wreckage struck a panic into the soul of
the little fiery captain.
f'DOn stun sails; man the braces?
he reared; bring her TO, or he III found
er US. .
In few moments the City of Glasgow
lay with her foretopsail to the mast,
docileiy waiting for what was TO happen.
1t was not long before the ship had
ranged alongside, and she then proved TO
be a a great fifty-gun man-Of-war, an
Englishman on West India cruise, with
crowds of pigtailed heads looking over
her bulworks forward and quarterback
brilliant with the quaint naval uniforms
of that day-if, indeed, it can be said
that any approach 10 a uniform was then
established a stout man in cooked
hat, white silk stockings, handsomely
laced coat and big white wig, mounting
on to the rail of the man-of-war, clauped
a huge copper speaking trumpet to his
lips and bawled out, - Ship ahOy! What
ship are yOu?''
The little peppery captain sprang on to
a hencoop and answered:
1.-The City of Glasgow Of London, from
Havana
keep your topsail to the mast; III
send boat, - cried the other.
GA boat?' cried the little chap, turn
ing to his mate What does he want to
send a boat for? Does he question my
papers? ZOundsi If there be any sort of
law still a-going III the old country, III
make him pay for that mess up there,
and he sent a fiery glance at the top-gal-
liant mast.
The boat plunged from the man-of-,
wars side; crowd of sturdy fellows,
armed TO the teeth, jumped into her: a
young marine exquisite, with q hanger on
his hip and cambria pocket handker-
chief in his breast his laced hat airily
cooked upon his head, and fash of
jewels upon his fingers, took his place in
the sternsheets, and with q few sweeps
of the long oars, the boat was along
side The dandy lieutenant stepped
aboard.
"'Why did you not heave to, - he
exclaimed in an affected drawl, when
you were summoned by our c4nnon9''
"How did ! know what SvoH fired
how Won we served me, and he pointed
aloft.
''As God IS m life, exclaimed the
lieutenant, you deserve that we should
have sunk you He applied the
scented pocket handkerchief TO his nose,
as though he could not support the smell
of the hot pitch and bllstered paint
rising into the atmosphere from off the
Indiaman, and exclaimed i'll voice is
if he should swoon, Muster your men,
sir. and for the Lud s sake be quick
about it. :"
The little captain, fully understanding
the significance of this order, was about
to demonstrate, but seemed to change his
mind on catching the glance that was
shotsat him from under the seemingly
sleepy lid of the languid, perfumed sea-
dandy and repeated the lieutenant S or
der to his mate, turning sulkily on his
heels afterwards, and starting off into Il
sharp fiery walk betwiXt the pinnacle and
the mizZen rigging.
The boatswain : pipe shrilled to the
silent hollows of the canvas aloft; the
men stood along the deck, and the lieu
tenant with six armed seamen at his back
fell to picking and choosing. The man
of-war wanted twenty men TO complete
her complement. and of these the India
man must contribute ten There was no
help for it; and the little captain had
presently the modification to witness ten
of his best seamen descend the side with
their bundles and bags and enter the boat
which forthwith carried them aboard the
fifty-gun ship.
One of these ten men was tail, hand
some Young fellow whom no one who
had before known him could have failed
instantly to recognize as Jeremy York
spite of his assumption of the name of
Jem Marloe, of his hair being cut short
in front and rolled into tail down his
back, and of the hue Of it, that had been
a sunny auburn, being now whitened as
though busted with powder. He was the
second Of the ten men to step on board.
1t was not only that he was the most
conspicuous of them all by reason
of his stature and beauty-for his frame
had long since erected itself into its old
manly port out of the stOOp and depres-
sion of i'll health: he was specially no.
ticeable besides for an air of profound in
difference. Most of the others glanced
insolentIv and mutinously about them,
savagely resentful of this impressmenU
and of their liberty as merchant seamen
being abruptly ended without regard TO
wages, TO cherished hopes, TO their
homes, to their wives, To their sweet
hearts, their children ashore A number
of the ships crew stood near the main-
mast watching the new hands as they
went forward, marshalled by the boat
swain. on sudden Jeremy York was
seen TO come to a dead stand with
his eyes fixed upon one of these sailors;
his bundle fell from his hand, his face
turned To n deathllke white, shiver after
shiver chased his form, they saw his fin
gers convulsively working, and his eyes
filled with horror, dismay, incredulity
seemed 10 start from their sockets with
the intensity of his stare. They believed
he was seized with a fit, and would fall
to the deck in a minute; and amongst
those who sprang to his assistance was
the fellow on whom his gaze was riveted.
He shrieked out TO his approach and fell
upon one knee, trembling violently,
swaying to and fro, to and fro, with his
hauds pressed TO his eyes in the posture
of one wild almost TO madness.
'.Is the man ill?'' bawled lieutenant
from thd quarterback. eff so, bear
him below, and let the surgeon attend