The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-09-14
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To the captains after amazement
tvect- other passengers shouted:
AVE, aye, shut off your steam
Even then some horrible suspicion Of
the truth must have flashed upon the
wretched officers mind as he looked
down upon this group. He caught the
rail moment with both hands, then
wheeled round and. folding his arms.
said 20 his companion On the bridge:
stop her..''
AS il liz anticipation of this. the San
Pedro had slackercI speed and was
now blowing white cloud of steam.
For ten minutes everybody on the
Corinthian watched the vessels ap-
proach each other and, when they
were less than a thousand feet apart,
every one could see the line of heads
along the smaller vessels taffrail.
The sea was unusually calm and
CLASSY, and presently boat manned
by six men put off from the San Pedro.
When the young man who repre-
scented the pirate had reached the deck
of the Corinthian he found himself
facing a crowd of men and women in
every condition of alarm and anxiety.
He was dressed il d blue shirt and
common duck trousers and glazed cap;
in his belt he carried 4 regulation navy
revolver lie saluIed the captain po-
litely and said, in pleasant voice:
Il am instructed, sir, to ask you to
order your people below. We will
come alongside and remove your spe-
Gle. No harm will be done and no in
dignity offered TO your crew or passen-
gers
Damn your impotence, sir" re-
torted Capt. Jamison. I've great
mind to chuck you into the sea myself.
Go back and tell your buccaneer that
a British captain sinks with his ship
and cargo. He doesn't hand them over
to the first cowardiy rascal he meets"
LAS you please, SIR" the young man
replied. 1T would be a cruel necessity
to send this vessel and it's people to
the bottom
He turned to 60 to his boat after
making another salute and one of the
passengers again interfered.
said, land are not going to be muir
dered on the high seas to save your
gold
WhereupOn twenty other passengers
armed with revolvers stepped out and
repeated: Aye, aye. Take the gold,
but we want to reach our destination"
The upshot was that the captain and
l.:
the passengers ordered below and the
San Pedro dashed alongside. 1t took
seventy-five men two hours and half
to transfer the gold from one vessel to
another, and a sharp lookout was kept
for approaching steamships. When
the task was accomplished, the en-
gineers were ordered on deck and
three of the Pedro's crew went below
and effectually disabled the ma
chinery of the Corinthian. This took
another hour.
The last thing the pirates saw was
the white hair of Capt. Jamison blow
ing in the wind that had sprung up
from the northeast, as he shook his
fist at them. And the last words they
heard were: I'll hang every dog of
you before die"
CHAPTER VII
No one knew so well as Hendricks,
who sat in the cabin of the San Pedro,
that all this was child's play to
what was to come. He had sixteen
hundred miles to run. He was loaded
heavily with coal and the gold had
weighted his vessel too seriously to
think of getting anything like the
speed out of her that he desired. She
was schooner-rigged and there was q
stiff wind blowing from the northeast.
That was in his favor. But he calcu-
lated that if one Of the westward-bo bound
ocean greyhounds spoke the Corinthian
and got her story, the news would
reach New York and set the telegraph
safety. He had informed himself of
the position of all the government yes
sells and he knew that there was at
last accounts fast cruiser in Mobile
bay. He, therefore, calculated as close
ly as he could the chances of the Cor
inthian being intercepted; for, dis
abled as she was, it would be her cap
tain's plan to put her in the route of a
westward-bound steamship.
lie betrayed his anxiety to the cap
tain, but that parsonage filed himself
with Medford rum and insisted that the
worst part of the job was done.
The first thing that Hendricks did
was to throw his guns overheard to-
gether with all his superfuous shot
and ammunition. He then got up steam
and stood off in a southeasterly direc-
ton until the Corinthian was hull
down, when he shifted his course and
went directly west
There was another source of anxiety
in his crew, but here his matchless
cunning and self-reliance stood him
well in hand. He knew what he could
do with them if he got within American
waters, and they We're equally anxious
with himself to get OFF the high seas
1t blew stiff gale all the first night
and his vessel labored badly. Finally
he took his On pfa .psc a e-;c., nh ;ob 80.