San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-17
The Daily eight.
FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1890.

saw many pitiful sights, but never that ono.
1t was decided we should trsvsl on all
night, and it was singular once the dusk had
fallen, nay spirits somewhat rosa. The bright
lamps, shining forth into the mist and on the
smoking horses and the holding post boy,
gave me perhaps an outlook intrinsically
more cheerful than what day had shown; or
perhaps my mind had become wsariod of its
melancholy At least, | spent Soms waking
hours, not without satisfaction In my
thoughts, although wet and weary in my
bodyS and fell at last into a natural Slumber
without dreams. Yet | must have been at
work even in the deepest Of my sleep, and at
work with at least measure of Intelligence,
for started broad awake, in the very act of
crying out to myself,
Home was home then my dear, raply for tho
child
stricken to find in it an appropriateness,
which had not yesterday observed, to the
masters dctcstable purpose in the present
journey.
We were then close upon tho city of GiaS-
gov, where we were soon brCakfaSting to-
gether at an inn, and where lqS the devil
would have i9 we found ship in the very
article of sailing. We took places III the
cabin, and, two days after, carried our eff
fectS on board. Her name was the None
such, a very ancient ship and very happily
named. BY all accounts this should be her
last voyage; people shook their heads upon
the quays, and | had several warnings offered
me by strangers in the street, to tho effect
that she was rotten as a cheese, too deeply
Ioaden, and must infaibly founder if we met
a gale. From this it fell out we were the
only passengers; the captain, McMurtrie, was
a silent, absorbed man with the Glasgow or
Gaelic accent; the mates ignorant, rough
seafarers, come IN through tho hawsehole;
and the master and I were cast spon each
others company.
The NOnesuch caITieI faU wind out of
the Clyde, and for near upon week wo ell )
Joyed br CHIT weather and a sense OF progress
/ found myself to my wonderl born sea
man, in SO far at least as | was nsyer sick |
yet was far from testing ths ssual serenity |
of my health. Whether ID WAS tks motion If |
the ship on the pillows, the confinement the |
salted food, o. AN Of these together, suffered |
from a biacknesS of spirit and painful |
strain upon my temper. The nature Of my |
errand on that ship PERHAPS coaHibated | |
think it did no more; the malady whatever
II was sprung from my environment and if
the ship were not TO biame, then it WIS the
master. Hatred and fear are in bsdfsIIovs.
but Ito my shame DO 10 spokexI | have tasted
hose an other places, lain down and got I'D
With them and eaten and drunk with thenn.
md yet never before nor after have bees
20 poisoned through and through in soul and
body as was on board tbs Nonasuch
L freely confess my eaefny set uao o fair ex.
nipple of fOrbeaUaHce, in our worst DAYS dis
played the most patient gaAlsLby, holding
ne in conversation as long ~ [ would suffer,
md when | had rebutfed his civility, stretch
ng himself on deck to read The book he
lad on board With him was Ma. Richardson's |
amOus "ClaTisSa," and among othsr small
ttentiOns he would read me passages aloud.
or could any elOCutiOuist have Sivon with |
reater potency tho pathetic PORTIONS Of that |
,ork. l would retOr5 upon him with pas.
igeS out of the Bible, which was sill my IL I
rary, and very fresh to me my religious du.
es Il grtevc to say ito being always and even
} this day extremely neglected He tasted
10 merits of the work like the connoiseur
9 was, and would sometimes take it from
" hand, turn the leaves oror like man
nat knew his way, and give me. with his
l
ut it was singular how little he applied his
fading to himself; it passed high above his
cad like summer thunder Loyslace and |
larissa, the tales Of Davids generosity, the
'aIms OF his penitcnce tho solemn questions
tie boz: 80 = y, the tou"hlns poetry Of |
aiah-Lhry were 70 him sources Of cntcr &? .
inment only, like the scrapns OF Il fIiI. in
change house
This outer sensibility aud InHor toEghucSs |
t me against him; it seemed Of 8 piece |
it'll that impudent grOSsn-ss which / t
lew to underlie tho veneer Of his fine man {
rs; and sometimes nv gorge rose against +
m as though he were defOrmed-and some | c
mes LwOuli draw away as though from | q
nothing partly spectral | had moments |
Zen / thought IF him as Of a man of paste |
Iard-as though, if Onesh0uld strike sRIurtIy | r
rough the buckram of his count%nnnce, | l.
ere would be found a mc's Vacuitv within c
lis horror mot merely fRncifu I think | 5
Stly increased my deteStaion %, hi, neigh G
rhOOd | began TO feel something shiver /
thin me on his drawing near; / had : t times u
longing to cry out; there were days when c
ought rv.i.t have struck him. This frame t
mind w;ls .JuDLlesS helped bv shame, he Z
use | had dropped during our last days at 5
Irrisdeer into certain liberation of the !
an; and if any one had then told me | y
Ould drop it again, must have laughed a
his face +
1t is possible lac remained UNCONSCIOUS of s.
is extreme fever Of my resentment; yet | +
ink he was too quick; and rather that he | r
d "a, =, i'll Il long life of dlsmess, INTO a t
sitiSe need Of company, which obliged him a
confront and lOlelat" my uncOncealed | e
ersion. Certain at least, that he loved the | 0
te OF his own Tongue, as indeed he rn:iIrlv v
red all tho parts and properties Of himself, d
nrt of irniLaliItv which alInn.t 11nn.s..,.iIr, a