Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-02-25

the mouse or my K1nsman, James of the
Glens, where | must get my clothes and
my arms and money to carry us along,
and then, David, we'll cry Forth, For
tuner and take cast among the heath
err"
So we sat again and eat and drank in
a place whence we could see the sun 60
ing down into field of great, wild and
houseless mountains, such as | was
now condemned to wander in with my
companion. Partly as we SO sat and
partly afterward, on the way to Au-
! charm, each of us narrated his adven-
lures; and shall here set down SO much
| of Alan's as seems either curious or
needful.
| 1t appears he ran to the bulwarks as
soon as the wave was passed, saw me
and lost me, and saw me again as |
| tumbled in the roost, and at last had
one glimpse of me clinging on the yard.
| 1t was this that put him in some hope
| i would maybe get to land after all and
/ made him leave these clews and mes
/ sages which had brought me (for my
/ sins) to that unlucky country of Appin.
! In the meanwhile those still on the
brig had got the skiff launched and one
| or two were ON board of her already,
/ when there came a second wave greater
/ than the first, and heaved the brig
out of her place, and would certainly
/ have sent her to the bottom had she
/ not struck and caught on some pro-
| lection of the reef When she had
Struck first, it had been bows on, so that
the stern had hitherto been lowest. But
| now her stern was thrown in the air and
/ the bows plunged under the sea, and
with that the water began to pour into
/ the fore scuttle like the pouring of a
milldam.
1t took the color out of Alan's face,
even to tell what followed. For there
were still two men lying impotent in
their hunks, and these, seeing the water
pour in and thinking the ship had
foundered, began to cry out aloud, and
/ that with such narrowing cries that all
! who were on deck tumbled one after an
/ other into the skiff and fell to their oars.
/ They were not two hundred yards away
when there came third great sea, and
at that the brig lifted clean over the
reef, her canvas filed for a moment,
/ and she seemed to sail in chase of them,
but settling all the while; and presently
she drew down and down, as if hand
was drawing her, and the sea closed
over the Covenant of Dysart.
Never word they spoke as they pulled
| ashore, being stunned with the horror
OF that screaming, but they had scarce
set foot upon the beach when Hoseason
woke up. as if out of muse, and bade
them lay hands upon Alan. They hung
back indeed, having little taste for the
employment, but Hoseason was like a
fiend, crying that Alan was alone, that
he had great sum about him, that he
had been the means of losing the brig
and drowning all their comrades, and
| that here were both revenge and wealth
upon single cast. 1t was seven against
one. In that part of the shore there was
no rock that Alan could set his back to,
and the sailors began to spread out and
come behind him.
"And then" said Alan, 1.-The little
man with the red head have nae mind
| of the name he is called"
"Riach," said |.
AYE" said Alan. "Riach! Well, it
was him that took up the clubs for me,
asked the men if they werenae feared of
a Judgment. and says he, bod, I'll put
my back to the hielandman's myself.
! That's none such an entirely bad little
man. yon little man with the red head"
said Alan He has some spunks of
| decency."
"Well," said |, "he was kind to me in
his way"
"And so he was to Alan" said he;
"and by my troth, | found his way a
very good one! But ye see, David, the
loss of the ship and the cries of these
poor lads sat very i'll upon the man, and
! I'm thinking that would be the cause
of it,"
"Wen, | wouldNhink so," said |, ''for
he was as keen as any of the rest at the
beginning. But how did Hoseason take
! it?'
at sticks in my mind that he would
take it very ill.," says Alan. But the
little man cried to me to run, and indeed
| thought it was a good observe, and
ran. The last that | saw they were all
in knot upon the beach, like folk that
were not agreeing very well together"
"What do you mean by thatF" said l.
"Well, the fists were going" said
Alan; "and saw one man go down like
a pair of breeks. But thought it would
be nae better to wait. Ye see. there's a
strip of Campbells in that end of Null,
which is no good company for gentle
man like me. If it hadnae been for that
would have waited and looked for ye
myself, let alone given a hand to the
little man." 1t was droll how Alan
dwelt on Mr.. Riachs stature, for, to say
the truth, the one was not much smaller
than the other. 49," says he, continu-
ing, 81 set my best foot forward, and
whenever met in with any one cried
out there was wreck ashore. Man,
they didnae stop to fash with me! You
should have seen them linking for the
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