The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-12-07
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OhOO ooih uPOh LIZ IdCe, but oSle
nothing.
What sort Of ship is she?"
She looked a little piteously and ex
claimed:
Il would rather not answer any
questlons-not even yours. Mr.. Berry
though | owe you my life"
Why" said [, don't suppose that
if you are questioned it's from any
motive of vulgar curiosity. If youl
ships ahead and we overhaul her, the
captain will put you aboard"
She tightened her lips, but said
nothing
'All your clothes are in your ship"
said l, speaking with a sense ofright,
for felt | had some claim upon this
woman's candor, and her reticence was
a violence to ones sense Of kindness,
and, IN It's way, an affront to US who
were her delivers. You doubtless
have friends there, too, who would be
as much rejoiced as astonished at the
sight of you. But how are we to know
your ship you won't name or describe
her?"
Il wouldn't return toher for" she
cried, and clapping her hands to her
face she rocked herself, moaning a
little
felt my heart somewhat high with
the thought of having saved her, as
[ rounded on my heel with a short
bow to Mrs. Godbold, and made for
my cabin. leaving the pretty creature
! ,-pol-;Dc, horcoIf hon, focn l,1ll,, onJ
a yellow sheen trembling about her
hair, as though every fiber was ray
Of light.
Capt. Carter was a widower-a mid
die sized, brown, rather good looking
man. rather blunt OF speech, and he
had an expression of arch humor in
his eyes. L guessed he would fall in
love with this lady, though it could
never come to more than a frequent
seizure OF pensiveness, along with
stolen glances, and a plenty Of tobac-
co scented sighs, in the face of her
wedding ring and her silence. But l
was wrong. | mean he made no sign
i'll thay way at all. When he found
she would have nothing to say about
herself he seldom mentioned her In
his occasional chats with me.
Well, fortnight passed. and all
went well with us and the lady. 1t
was at the end Of the fortnight after
picking her up that we encountered
one long day ofvery dirty weather
This weather had burst in a flash
and a plain crushed into foam far as
the eye could measure; and it ceased
with Ike abruptness, falling dead, as
though the raging heart Of il had
| broken, leaving US tumbling hideously.
But next morning at eight bells it was
once more clear, fair and sunny, the
ship under all plain sail, and ahead
OF Us, a point on the lee bow Il star of
canvass.
By this hour it was easy to see she
was an Indiaman ola type that was
even then decaying.
We hauled up the mainsail, clewed
down some Of the lighter square can
vas and came o stand within hail
distance.
She was q frigate built ship, her
waist and forecastle crowded with sol
diers; a number of persons watched us
from the poop military officers, no
dOubt-and ! saw several ladies. A
tall man in a white coat and a wide
straw hat stood beside the mizzen rig
ging and hailed us. When Capt. Car
ter told what ship ours was, he cried
back that he was the Hinda from Cal
cutta, SO many days out, for the
Thames, with such and such a regi-
ment on board, giving us its name and
the number Of officers and men. He
then informed Us that on the yester-
day the ship had pitched ber foretop-
mast over the bows. carrying her jib
booms away with ii; three men had
been swept overheard by the fall of
the mast; his chief officer and four
seamen went III boat to pick them
up: the boat had capsized and drown
ed mate and two men, which, with the
first three. made a loss Of six.
When the man who was apparently
commander OF the vessel had shouted
this statement across the water to US,
he signed with his hand, bawling out:
III go aboard YOU" A bo'sun's pipe
chirruped. Several sailors tumbled
aft to one of the Indiaman's starboard
quarter boats and lowered her. and
in a few minutes the man with the
white coat and wide straw hat jumped
into our main chains and sprang on to
| the deck.
/ He was a well shaped, strongly
/ built, exceedingly handsome man. dark
J i Oh oh a L.
| You saw the tar in his blood in the pc
crlliar dusky eyes and yellowish whites.
red tinged. He Wore a SCISSORS trim
med black beard and mustache. |
now noticed that band of Grape was
stitched round his sleeve, while like
band round his hat gave a sort OF
mourning appearance to the whole
man. He approached Capt Carter
with smile which, though it exposed
a set of fine white teeth, rather harden
ed than softened his stern expression
His eyes bore no part in the grin he
gave.
! just when | was halfway down the
companion ladder, my sight being q
little confused by the brilliant light
was fresh from, piercing scream ran
through the cabin. At the same time
l saw the captain of the Hinda, with
his back toward me, take to or three
steps in slow recoil. His arms were
stretched out as though he warn
} ed off some apparition. Mrs. Cole
stood beside her cabin door. She hat
; evidently just issued from it. She i
was who had shrieked. l never coulC
! have pictured such picture of frigh