The St. Johns herald., 1889-07-11

she expressed hope that the men would not give in too soon, and seemed to desire an attack. When we had done all we could. we sat down and waited for the night to pass away.
 The schooner reeled off the miles at lively pace for the next four hours, and morning came without our having been disturbed. Then sail was short ened, the craft laid to, and, as soon as the men had had bite to eat, tho leader summoned us with:
 Below, there!"
 "Well?' answered the captain.
 i've will give you another chance to leave. You can have boat, oars, sail, water and grub, and no one shall hinder your going"
 Suppose we refuse to go?"
 'Then your blood be upon your own head! Rather than surrender the schooner we'll burn her and you with her! I'll give you half an hour to thinl- it over"
 Wedidn' want two minutes. We ewere determined not only not to leave the schooner. but to recapture her. We expected to be attacked first by the skyliglIt, but this was small affair, and did not command but portion of the cabin. And, as we afterward as- certained, the only firearm among the mutineers was a double-harreled pis- tol, which had already been dis charged, and could not be reloaded for want of ammunition. They would also batter in the doors of the companion, but we hoped to hold them at the bar ricade. They could not come at us by way of the hold. for that was fall.
 We got a bite to eat from the pam try. had glass of wine, and by that time were hailed for our answer. The captain replied that we would not go, and defied them to do their worst. We heard them moving softly about, and at her own request Jess was d. lowed to pull away portion of the barricade and creep up the stairs to listen, while tho captain anl 1 stood with our guns ready to repulso any at- tack by the slkylight. Jess was return iug to report when a battering ram drove in the doors hardly an arms length away, and tho mon who had wielded the spar raised yell at sight of her. Not one person in ten thou sand, man or woman, wouil have done as she did. Instead of springing over the barricade, she leveled her revolver and shot one of the men, the leader of the mutiny, through ths head as he tood above her. As he threw up his arms and fell she shouted to us to come up, rushed up the stairs, and we heard her fire twice more before we got over the barricad9.
 When we got on deck no one but Jess was to be seen erect. Two dead men and one wounded unto death were lying on tho deck, and the other three had fled to the fo castle. Two minutes later they were begging for their lives, and they cEawled like CUTS as they came up to be bound. Jess had killed two of the new mon and morally wounded the negro cook, and the mutiny had been put down and the craft retaken before you could count Q hundred. Her movements had been so swift and her aim was so fortunate that every thing had to go before her.
 It would have made your hair stand up to listen 10 the confessions of those rascals. Tho seizure of the schooner had long been contemplated, and a part of the plan was tO get hold of the girl. Had we accepted the offer of the boat we would have been killed as soon as we reached the deck. The leader was an ex-convict named Ike Reese, and he proposed to turn the craft into a regular pirate, strengthening his crew from such small craft as he might overhaul. The negro died within an hour, and we hove the three bodies overboard with out ceremony. During the forenoon we worked the schooner to the east, and about noon got a couple of hands from an English merchantmen and put into Melbourne to report and de- liver up our prisoners. One was hanged for the crime, but one died be- fore the trial and the other escaped and was shot dead by the officers in pursuit.-N Y. Sun.
 About Laying Up Grudges.