Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-08-05
The Story of a Wreck.
Thrilling and Romantic Account of
 a Mutiny at Sea
BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.


 did not wish 1iss Robertson to sit at the cuddy table at meals and directed the steward to serve them with the best the ship afforded in their cabin.
 When Stevens came to the table he sung out to the Steward to tell the old gent and his darter that dinner vos a. vaitin'r' Whoroupon l explained that the old gentleman was too ill to leave his bunk.
 "Well, then, let the gal come," said he.
 "She can't leave her father" I re- piled.
 Perhaps it ain't that so much as be- cause ain't genteel enough for her. It's the Vest End O London as won't have nothing to do with Mapping. The tobaccy in my breath is too strong for her"
 'Nothlng of the kind The old man is ill, and she must watch him. As to yoursmanners, dare say she is better pleased with them than you ought to be told. It is not every ships carpen- ter that could talk and look like a skip per, and keep men under as you do."
 You're right there!' he exclaimed, with broad grin. Come, sarve us out dollop O that pork, will yerP Roast perks never too fresh for me. !"
 And he fell like an animal to the meat, and forgot, as wished, all about Miss Robertson.
 In the first watch from eight in the evening until midnight, which was the boatswain's, sat for an hour with the old gentleman and his daughter, n0- ticed that as his body grew stronger his mind failed and that his memory was almost gone. About nine o'clock 1 left them and went on deck. It was quite dark, which suited my purpose as I could converse with the boatswain with less danger of discovery.
 walked to the quarter boat and stood under the lee of it where he soon joined me.
 ''Boson," said I. ''the moro think of your scheme, the better I like it. Whatever may happen, your being in the hold will prevent any man from scuttling the ship"
 "Yes, so it will; I'll take care of that. One blow must do the job-he mustn't cry out The piano-fortes are amidships on merely two feet of dun mage; all for'ard the cases run large, and it's there they'll find space.
 My intention is not to wait until we come to the Gulf in order to carry this out," said l; '1'll clap on sixty, eighty, a hundred, miles, just as I see my way, to every days run, so as to bring the Gulf of Mexico close along side the Bermuda Islands. Doyou un- derstand, boson"
 "Yes, understand. There's no use in waitin'. You're quite right to get tover. The sooner the better, says r."
 ''We shall average a run of three hundred miles every twenty-four hours, and I'll slip in an extra degree whenever can. Who's to knowp"
 ''Ne'er a man on this vessel, sir," he answered. There's not above two as can spell words in a book"
 ''So l should think. Of course l shall have to prick off the chart accord ing to the wind A breeze like this may well give us three hundred miles. If it fall calm, can make her drift six ty miles west-sou west, and clap on another eighty for steerage-way. l the crew, one for myself. You, as chef, will know it's all right"
 ''Leavo that to me-" he answered, with a short laugh. They've found out by this time that the ships a clip PSlS anu II 1Cb CHI uHuCTSldnu there never was a better navigator than you. It'll be for you and me to keep as much canvas on her as she'll carry in our watches, for the sake of appearances; and if 1 was you, sir, I'd trim the longtime afresh."
 "A good ldea," says I. "II give her double dose. Twelve knots shall be nothing in a moderate breeze"
 Wn hnfh lnTCbnI ot to make my presence on deck appear reasonable, walked to the pinnacle.
 l returned and said:
 'In nine days hence we must con- trive to be in longitude 62 degrees and latitude 33 degrees about it. If we can average one hundred do it. ''
 What do you make the distance from where we are now to the GulfP
 '1n broad numbers, three thousand miles"
 "No more."
 Averaging two hundred miles a day, we should be abreast of New Or leans in fortnight. said three weeks, but l shall correct myself to Stevens tomorrow, after l have taken observa- tions. I'll show him 8 jump on the chart that will astonish him. i'll pun ish the scoundrels yet. I'll give them the direct course to Bermuda when they're in the boats, and if our plot only succeeds and the wind serves, one of us two will be ashore on the island be- fore them, to let the Governor know whom he is to expect"
 "That may be done, too," answered the boatswain; "but it'll have to be a dark night to get away from 'em with out their seeing of us."
 They'll choose dark night for their own sakes. Boatswain, give us your hand. Your cleverness has, in my opinion, as good as saved us. I felt a dead man this morning, but was never more alive than I am now" :
 grasped his hand, and went below, positively in better spirits than l had enjoyed since first put my foot on this ship.
 The first thing did the next morn- ing was to mark off the log-line afresh, having smuggled the reel below during my watch. I shortened the distance between the knots considerably, so that @ greater number should pass over the stern whi1n tho can1 xuoS