San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-17

master was somewhere lashed Oh deck Sc
cundra had eaten of some drug and lay in
sensible; so you may say passed these hours
IN an unbroken solitude. At first | was ter
rified beyond motion and almost beyond
thought, my mind appearing TO be frozen.
| Presently there stole in on mo ray of com
! fort. Ii the NoneSuch foundeEed, ShS would
carry down with her into the deeps OF that I'm
sounded the creature whom we all so
| feared and hated, there would be no more
Master Of Ballantrae, the fish would sport
| among his ribs, bis schemes all brought to
| nothing, his harmless enemies at peace. At
| first, have said, it was but q rSy Of com
| fort; but IL had soon grown 10 be broad sun
shine. The thought of the mans death, Of
his deletiOn from this world which he i'm
FILTERED for so many, took possession of my
mind Rugged it, found it sweet in my
belly. | conceived the ships last plunge, the
| sea bursting upon all sides into the cabin, the
| brief mortal conflict there, all by myself, in
! that closed place. | numbered the horrors,
! had almost said with satisfaction; | felt i
| could bear all and more, if the NOnesucb car
ried down with her, overlook by the same
ruin. the enemy of my poor masters house.
Toward noon of the second day, the scream
ing Of the wind abated; the ship lay not SO |
periloUsly over ard it began To he clear to |
me that we were past the height of the tenn |
pest. As hope for mercy, | was slngIy dis
appointed In tho SeliShneSS of that vile
absorbing passion of hatred, forgot the case
of our innocent shipmateS and thought but
of myself and my enemy. For myself, was
already Old, had never been young, | was
not formed for the worlds pleasures | had |
few affections; it mattered not the toss Of
l. - !
and then in the Atlantic. or dribbled out a
few more years, to die, perhaps no less terri
bly,, in a deserted sick bed Down | went
upon my knecs-holding on by the locker, or
else had been instantly dashed across the
tossing cahin-aud, lifinS up my voice in the
midst of that clamor Of the abating hurri
cane, impiously prayed for my own death.
oh, Godw | cried, Il would 10 kkar &
man if rose and struck this creature down
but thou nadest me a coward from nay ,
mothers womb Oh, Lord, thou naGsst Lac
SO; thou knOWest my weakpGss Bhsa know sst
that any face Of death viii Sst ms shaking in =
my shoes. But 10! here is tAy ssay ant rssSy,
his mortal weakness Laid aside. Let me give
my life for This cCeature's; take the tive Of Z
them, LoIdl take the two md have nsrey
on the innoceatl" la some Sbch words a. .
these, only yeB more Breverest sad WITH .
moro sacred cd srttioDs | Oonpin ReA to pesa r
forth my spirit; God heard NE NOT | must
suppose in mercy; and [ was still absorbed | {
i'll my agOsy Of Supphcati0n, rhsR seAs enc Q
removing the tarPaulin cOyu, lot she ESht Of z
the sunset pour into the cabin stumbled | =
to my feet ashamed, and was ssizsd wsh sur | (,
prise TO lind myself tOtter and sOas like one X
that had been stretched upon the rack Sc
cundra DaSS, who had slept off the sfsctS Of I
his drug, stood in corner not far off saxin.
at me with Wild ewes; and, from the open B,
skvliSht, the captain Uhanlied ms for nv sup :
DhrajiouS. G.
It's you that saved the ship Nj Nackel y
lac" says he There IS no craft Of seaman z
ship that could have kept her floating Well y
may we say; Except the Lord the city keep I,
he watchIncn watch in vsinr'
| was abashed by the captains error.
FLASHED, also, by tho surprise and fear with
which the Indian regarded me- at first, and ia
he ObseQuious CiyilItieS with which he soon c.l
'egan to cumber me. | know now that be h.
must have overheard and oomprehendsd the G
peculiar nature Of my prayers, 1t Is certain
# course. that he at once disclosed the mat
er to his patron; and looking back with
.reater knowledge, | can now understand 81,
what 50 much puzzled me at the moment, those "a
ingular and $50 TO speak, approving smiles ~
With which the master honored NE. Similar Nc
y, | can understand a word that remember W
o have fallen from him in cOnversat ton that yo
anne night; when, holding up his hand and Of
milling, "Ah, Mack3!lar, said he, mot every V
nan is SO great Il coward as he thinks be is ST.
or yet 81 good Il Iuri>,ian" lie did no, w
u",. now Jrue he spCSe For tie Tact Is. Tie =
hOughtS which had come 20 me- IN TIE vio
,nco Of The storm retained their holt upon
~ spirit; and the words that rose to NV Ijp, he
nbldden in the inStancy OF prayer continued .un h
, sound in nay ears. With what shameful "a.
onSrquence~, it is fitting | should honestly Gu
elate, for could not support part Of such no
i5lOyaIty as to describe. the sins Of others W
nj conceal nay own.
The wind fell, but the sen hove ever tn.
iGhcr All night the NGuesuch rolled out (
lSe"u~ly: the next day dawned. and tn. y"
ext, and brought no change. 70 cross the
iblm vas scarce possible; Old experienced ri
'alneu were cast down upon the deck, and Be
ne cruelty mauled in the conclusion: every pa
'ara ana DlocH Lno old ship cried out w
loud; and ne great bell by the anchor bits wv
and uolefully rang. One Of =
lese days tho master and | sat alone To- I
ether at the break OF the poop | should
" the Nolesuch carried high raised poop
bout the top Of it ran considerable buluarks
hrh made the ship Unweatherly; and these.
they approached the front on each side | ad
III down il iue, old fashioned, carveu | p.,
roll 10 JOIN the bulwarks of ths waist | 90,
rom tins disposition, which seems designed | "a
'lIer tor ornament than use, it followed | 90
l"re was diScOntnuanco of protection. | oo
ld mat BESIDES, at the very margin of the est