The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-22

| over brain. Quietly but firmly colnpelle
! the maiden to be seated, and bade her cor
! tinue. She went on:
Il am alone in the sea- can see no ons
| The captain must be drowned"
| This was sufficient. The fate of the An
dacious and her crew had been strangel
revealed by means of this occult art.
The vessel. like too many others, ha'
been run down by a passing steamer which
because merchants look on the time a
being of greater value than life, had inhu
manly left its wretched victims to perish.
Who was the destroyer?
This was not difficult TO discover
Almost Immediately the clairyvoyau
was placed upon the runaway's deck ant
her detective mission was made clear t,
her
With an air Of mysterious excitemen
! the pythoness twas she not this?l recon
menced:
! 81 am On board steamer. This is tn
| first time | have been in such place
J How did come here? What d wonderful
| ship it isl Larger than the whole OF oul
village
1.-THE crew are mustered on deck. Ther'
are forty of them-i,len and boys. The of
! ficers are present: all are talking together
1t is quite Babel, for not one-half of them
are English. They are blaming the look
out and say that be was asleep What
does he reply? am unable to say. He is
a foreigner, and his English is SO bad that
it is impossible to understand him. They
are swearing horribly; the officers at the
men and the men at one another.
1.-THE captain commands order.
"Now ali is silent except the hollow thud
Of the engines
1.-The captain is surely bad man. Lis
tenl He is Offering each man and boy an
additional weeks pay if they win swear to
maintain absolute silence about the col
lsion.
"They swear, and they win keep the &C.
cret of the sea locked up in their own
breasts.
1T is awful ] am among murderersl
81 shrink from addressing these men.
Yet must do so. A stronger power than
my own compels me to speak to them. I
ask the name of the ship.
1.-THE captain answers. He refers me to
the mate. That person is rude and boorish
He swears at me and bids me be gone No
gentleman would swear at woman.
at is impossible to discover what tho
ship is or whence she has come. I question
the men, but elicit no replies.
81 will search her.
81 am in the hold. The black, yawning
cavern is filed with barrels. These consti-
tute the bulk Of the cargo. They are filled
with sugar. Having discovered this re-
turn to the light of day.
what strange force impels me! I am
dragged by invisible hands to the side of
the vessel. They raise me. l am unable
to resist; the water is beneath me. stand
upon the waves as upon the solid earth.
Above me towers the great square stern;
upon it, engraven in golden letters, plain
ly see her name. 1t is-Alexandria, New
York.
'Once more returned on board. The
captain is more calm. AS he stands upon
the quarter deck approach him What do
see? The bows of the vessel are stove in,
the thick, outstanding foremost is broken
oil close. Are the men intending to repair
this?
NOW the captain replies to me, but he
evidently does so under constraint He
must be compelled by the same mighty
force which binds me TO do its bidding. He
no longer hides the name and destination
Of the vessel.
SLOWLY and distinctly he utters the
words. do not miss one. It is the steamer
Alexandria, from Valparaiso to the port of
Sunderland-last from Cardiff"
Then, with sigh. the clairvoyant said:
81 am very tired"
Do any doubt the truth of this simple
story? They need not do so.
l am aware that the evidence thus
strangely obtained would be valueless in
court of law. The testimony of my eyewit-
ness would be rejected as the cunning story
of an impostor. But Notwithstanding all
that may be advanced in opposition, am
persuaded that the Au0acious, with the
bodies of her i'll fated crew, rests off the
Southwald coast, and Cnat the steamship
was the guilty vessel which did
those men to death. When he whose hands
holds the scales of justice even shall bring
the hidden things of darkness to light it
will be seen that the closed eyes OF the
young clairvoyant rightly and truly read
the crime laden story Of this mystery of the
sea.
The sequel remains to be told.
Inquiry elected the startling information
that the Alexandria, when she entered the
port of Sunderland on the night of Feb. Is,
had her bowsprit snapped off, while her
bow plates were also started. No satisfac-
tory explanation of any accident had been
vouchsafed by the captain.
What further confederation Of the truth
of my story could be required or given than
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