Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-21

AS for his practical objections, they had
to be met of course, but ! met them.
showed him that fuel need be no consid-
Grafton as even if the island did not sup.
ply coal we could burn wood that If our
steam power was insufficient we could rig
sails on the island itself and build out a
rudder on the western cape, and told him
that if we made no more than quarter OF
mile day that would not 'faze' John
Grundinor | was willing to spend five
years on the tow, and it was worth fifty If
it was worth day. As n last argument
Appleby represented that we were too deep
! laden to take tow of any kind, and cop
pered him by ordering the whole cargo car
| rcd ashore in the boats and piled on the
beach. And that we did sir. 1t came
easy out Of the hold; it was all in small
boxes, and we started in to tow that island
with hawsers, and she moved.
ION the waters she moved, and I'll take
my oath TO it. For one week we had ST.
Brandon's isle in tow, and in that time
made 81 knots toward San Francisco. And
raised the American flag on the island with
appropriate ceremonies. And had an in
terview with the old monk and tried to
ease him down as matter of precaution,
but as he could understand nothing but
Latin, and as nobody on board ship spoke
a word of that language, we did not come
to what you might call an arrangement.
"As Appleby foretold, the men did give
trouble They were for settling on the is
land and permitting the civilized world to
90 hang itself. But | talked to them of
their wives and mothers and made liberal
promises, aad indeed it was plain that
somebody else might sight us and at the
very least claim salvage-so they gave in
They spent most of their time on shore,
however, eating bread fruit and fishing.
well, sir, everything seemed stretched
on dead taut line when, one morning
about bells, down came the old monk to
the beach. | was prepared for this and
gave the signal to slow upat once, and the
hawser dropped under water I've been on
canals in my time. The old man must have
suspected something, however for he stood
and looked at us for awhile and then
turned and walked away. Appeby gave
me heavy glance. could see the thing
preyed on his mind
And that night, whether it was monk
miracle or the ordinary course of nature
the wind gan to blow the hangman's jip
from the east And that hadn't reckoned
on. For should St. Brandon's isle have
favoring breezes or should it notS
midnight It was slip cable or be driver
ashore.
"'And will you 90 ashore with meY' says
Appleby between his teeth.
"'WhatY' says |, spend the rest of my
life there cursing the luck because coulC
not bring such IA prize to the United States
Neverl But no need of that, you fool, fo
we'll steam round to the west and lie Il
under the shore till the wind shifts
, "'Youll never set foot on St. Brandon
, isle again, then said Appleby
And so it turned out, for just as w,
steamed vest pfter we had rounded the COW
the isle fed faster into the darkness ant
when morning broke we were alone on thu
sea in the grip of an easterly storm anC
barely ton of coal left in our bunkers
f What was more, the opium was lost
stacked on the beach of St Brandon's isle
, where opates were about as useful rs blu
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