Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-28

And what happened after that!
81 don't know. The hero went away
red hair and red beard and all. That was
after he had captured the galley, | think,
aud before the Hglt IN the harbor.
You never told me be was rcd-halred
before" | SAID after n discreet interval.
Charlie meyer raised his eyes. He was
a. red as a red bear" said he abstractcdly.
He came from the North they SAID so In
the galley when he was first chained
down. Afterwards and years after
wards-we knew where he had gone with
the captured ship. The news came from
another ship. or else His lips moved
in silence. He was rapturously retasting
some poem before him.
Where had ne been then?" | was
almost whispering that the sentence
might come gently to which ever section
of Charles brain was working on my be-
half.
TO the Beaches-the long and wonder
ful Beaches.n was the reply after a minute
OF silence.
ITO Furdurstrandi? I asked, tingling
from head q foot.
Yes. to Furdustrandi." he pronounced
the word in a new fashion.
"Do you know what you have said?"
shouted ncautlOuslv.
lie lifted his eyes-fullv reused now
No, Ilt SldIllcl. i WISH Nbl u ltl u
chap go on reading. Hark 10 this:
"But Othcrc, the OH sea-raptain,
lie neither paused nor stirred
tn the King listened, and then
Once moro took up his pen
And wrote down every word;
And To- the King Of the SaEons,
IN witness If the truth,
Raising his noble hand
il stretched his bro@n hand, and said:
Behold this walrus too.h.''
"By Jove. what chaps those must have
been TO 60 sailing all over tine shop. never
knowing whore they'd fetch the land.
Hah.'
Charlie" pleaded. at you'll only be
sensible for a minute or two I'll make our
hero IN our tale every inch Us good as
Othere."
"Cmph LonqfH o,r wrote that poem.
don't care about writing things any more.
| want 10 read" He was thoroughly out
of tune now. and raging over my own Ill
luck | left him. Conceive Yourself NJ The
door OF tho words t.CtsUr boise guarded
by child, on whose favor depends the
gift OF the key an idle. irresponsible
child. playing knuckle-boues and you will
imagine ono half my torment. Up TIL that
evening Charlie bad spoken nothing that
might not lie within the experience Of u
Greek galcy-slaye. But now, or there was
no virtue ia books. hr talked az some dcs-
perate adventure otthe Nik.ngs-of Ihosfn
Karseiores sailing To Nlneian1. which Is
America IN the ninth or ten "a century.
The battle in the harbor he lad seen and
his own death he had described.
But this was much more startling
plunge into the past. Was il possible thGl
he hal "skipped' half dozen lives and
was then dimlv remembering some episode
a thousand years later. f. was a madden
Ing tumble and the worst of il was that
Charlie Mears. in his normal condition. wa
the last person IN the world to clear II up.
/ could only wait and watch, but ! went 10
bed that night with my head fall of the
widest Imagination. There was nothing
that was not possible # Charles detost-
able memory only held good.
might Tewrte The Saga Of ThOsfn
Karlseforc' a. 1t had never been writ en- be-
fore-might tell the story of the first dis
covery OF America. myself the first dis
coyerer. | was entirely at Charles mercy,
and so long Is there was a three and six
penny Bohu volume within MS reach Char
lie would not tell. dared not curse him
openly; | hardly dared to assist his men,
DRY. for | was dealing with the experiences
Of a thousand years ago told through the
mouth of a boy Of to-day; and boy Of to-
day Is affected by every change of tone and
gust of opinion, so that he lies even when
he desires To speak the truth.
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