The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

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hess to see her craft sent to the
bot tom before the mutin0us crew
should benefit by their acts. Capt.
Wheeler was pretty we'll along in
years, very careful on The question
of insurance, and his mind was not
made up until after breakfast.
Then he decided to luff up toward
the Andaman Islands in search Of
the schooner, and he almost prom
ised TO give her taste Of our met
al it she would not surrender.
The little woman managed to
eat dozen mouthfuls of breakfast,
and then returned TO The deck TO
almost assume control, She or
dered a man aloil, bossed the job
of casting loose the guns and get
ting mp powder and shot, and every
ten minutes she was hailing the
lookout TO know if there WAS any
thing in siaht. Luck was in her
favor. While we had been jogging
along all night the schooner, beng
furl her TO the east, had been al
most becalmed. We raised her
almost dead ahead about noon,
and as luck would have il again
we had plenty of wind, while she
had none until The vessels were
not over two miles apart. The
schooner could have no suspicion
that the woman was aboard of us,
and we flew signal that we want
ell to speak to her. She lay to,
and as we ran down to her | saw
Mrs. Thomas, grit her teeth, clinch
her hands and show other evil
dences of Eer feelings. She had
borrowed The mates six shooter,
donned hat and coat 10 disguise
herself, and as we lay to at ca
ble's length away 10 eye could
have made out her sex. "Schoon-
er ahoy y called our captain.
"Ay, ay. sir! This is the Nancy
Lee, bound from Sumatra to the
mainland"
Are you the captain ?"
"No, sir. He's very sick in his
berth"
Run out The gunsY' whispered
the old man TO us, and down went
the port shutters, and out went
the biz barkers, and such of the
crew as were not at the guns rest
eG their musketS along the rail.
I've got your captain here, and
she'll be put aboard Of you !"
shouted the captain. "lf you at
tempt any resistance I'll sink youw
The Nancy's mate ordered his
crew TO one of the guns, but they
refused TO obey, every man of
them sulking forward and disap-
pearing down the hatch. The iel-
low LEFT the deck long enough to
arm himself with a cullaSs, and aS
we lowered a boat he called out
that he would split The head Of The
first man who attempted to b0ard
the schooner. Our first mate, the
boalswain and two of US foremast
hands went in The boat with Mrs.
Thomas, and as we hooked on to
the schooner's chains the boat
swain pulled revolver, and climb
ed in over the bows. The mutt
neer retreated aft, and then we all
boarded. The woman had not
spoken word since leaving the
ship. She was pale as death, and
her eyes glared like a tigers. AS
she dropped from the rall to The
deck she cooked the weapon in
her hand, walked ait and right up
10 the mate, and as he fourshed
his cullass and commanded her 10
keep off she shot him dead in his
tracks.
"It's The law of the sea-" she
queilly remarked, as she turned to
Us. "Now to rOut out those Las
cars !"
"But you won't kill them !" said
our mate.
mo, not gutter was her grim
answer, as she handel him The
smoking revolver.
Casting look at the dead mutt.
neer, to he sure that he was dead,
she went forward, took a belay-
ing pin out OF the port rail and,
going to the hatch, called down:
Son deck here, every cowarlly
man of you, and be quick about it,
toow
They came up one after Ire 9th
er, and as each man touched the
deck she gave him a crack over
the head which made him see
stars. They went down on their
knees aud begged for their lives,
and after knocking them about in
a liberal way she finally agreed to
extend pardon. Under her direc-
tiOns the mates body was searched
and, as she had anticipated, all the
money aboard the schooner was
found. She then ordered the body
flung overheard, and as it touched
The water one of the biggest white
sharks | ever saw seized il and bit
II in half. While The Lascars we're
cleaning the deck the little woman
ran down into her cabin and
brought up a dozen bottles of wine,
six boxes Of cigars and a lot of
dried fruits for us 10 take back TO
the ship. Then she gave each of
rs a shake Of The hand, and as we