The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27

more promises from me was com
P-et7iy IN his power and he knew it. He
looA MS knee OF my chest and allowed
ne % get W. Then. without z word. he
walked over TO the dead body Of the mate.
| pi-hed IL UP and threw IL overheard.
be careful, or YOU will follow him
lne captain Kissed in my ear as a hnal
warning
Then he called two other members
q me crew and ordered the three of US
70 put water and provisions in the lifeboat.
! beIore we had finished the task he came
oE Qeck with the log and other papers
OF the vessel and threw them overheard
MN shipmates did not know that the
vessel was scuttled and fast hHing with
water. They were plying me with aues-
IONS as TO why the boat was TO be pro
SIs'oled' ana 1 got no chance 10 give them
even an mixing Of the real situation.
As soon as the boat was ready the can
tam got in and told US to follow and then
lower away
But the crew I started 10 ask
ABOUT the ten sailors who were asleep
IN thsir berths below deck
smut up" Numbered the captain.
with terrible oath
BY this time the two man v,bo had
helped me in the work Of getting the hos
Ieaay realized that something was wrone.
| Ihey saw that the captain was going 10
| doahuon the ship with more than bsIf
Ihe crew asleep below deck At the same
tlne the heavy lurching warned them
that the vessel was sinking.
They started to raise an outcr,- Tbe,.
were too late. ''i'S
Leaplng back on deck with an oar in
ms hand' the captain felled the two men
az single blow. Then he picked one nm
III escn nand and dropped them overheard
WIN eyes blazing like Goals OF FIRE. no
turner 10 me and order me to get in the
Z RI
"ofd. He followed me- and then We
lost no time in lowering the boat. We
were none too soon. Five minutes after
| we had pulled clear of the doomed bric-
she lurched forward and went down. bow,
first
i turned my head away at the sieht
OF the vessel going down. with nv shin
mates going to the bottom without q
chance to help themselves but the can
taln laughed aloud. That's good lob
wei done, and it's worth a tholIsend
pounds to me" he said aloud
Very little wreckage foated from the
decks, and after rowing around for some
time TO make sure that none of the sIeep-
ing crew had awakened in time to Get
on in one of the other boats the captain
was apparently satisfied that his lob was
complete
Turning to me with a look of exulta-
N-~44 A-N tDA4 Allt ~ let Lile boat Urlft- II q
said we We're right in the track of YES
sells bound to and from Australia. and
would soon be picked up
The next day passed without our hay
ING sighted vessel, and as night came
on the sky was obscured by black clouds
and there was every indication of a storm
coming on during the night.
The wind was not high. but there was
a strangely oppressive feeling in the air
which is often the warning of storm
IN that latitude. We were not using the
oars, merely drifting about in the course
of passing vessels. When it got dark the
captain lay down in the bottom of the
boat and soon fell asleep. As sat there
watching him several plans of escape
from the position ! was in flashed through
my mind, but the only one that appeared
to have any chance of success was to
kill him as he lay asleep, and I could not
do that
The captain had been lying down an
hour perhaps The wind was moaning
and signing over the waves but still the
sea was smooth. Turning around and
looking back, we were drifting before the
wind. / made out q sail approaching
l called the captain at once He got up
and. seeing the vessel approaching, pre-
| pared to send up a rocket 7 was steer
ing the boat. and again had my back to
the approaching ship.
IT saw the captain stand up as if to
signal. Suddenly his face, which I could
barely make out in the darkness, seemed
to grow thin and white, and with an oath
! he sank down In the bottom of the boat
Il turned to see what had happened
! The sight that met my gaze almost froze
the blood in my veins. There close by the
stern Of our boat. and on the port side
was sailing the Flying Gull Every line
I A--s-r
clear between the black clouds above and
the dark blue water below. The sails
were white as shrouds. ! had seen the
! Flying Gull go down the night before, and
knew that 7 was gazing at phantom
ship. But I could not turn my eyes away
As looked closer I saw a white-robed
form at the wheel Slowly the face Of
that form was turned toward me It was
| the face Of Mcbride, the mate, who had
been murdered.
When 7 caught sight of the face of my
dead friend I uttered a low cry of horror
Capt Murray, who had been crouching
in the bottom of the boat since he first
caught sight Of the ghost ship, looked VI
when he heard my voice The moment
he did he too, saw the ghost of Mcbride
seated at the wheel of the phantom Fly
| ing Gull.
With a hoarse cry he fell down to the
| 0OIICm OF the DOdL anu DuI4CQ Ills lace III
| his hands to shut out the horrible vision.
Again and again l rubbed my eyes TO
make sure that was not dreaming. IN a
! little while the first horror of the vision,
that had left me numb and helples. passed
away and I could look at it with some
thing like calmness.
The phantom stood out clear and life
like there in the darkness, keeping straight
on her course. and that course right along
side the stern of our boat A sort of ghost
light seemed to glow over and around the
vessel, and it lighted up our boat until I
| could see every object in it distinctly. All
the sails of the ghost of the Flying Gull
were set, and our boat was drifting with
/ wind and tide. but the two kept together.
| ITO this day that terrible night seems
to me like some horrid nightmare, but at
! the time it was very real in one way. The
| captain. who had scuttled the ship and
| murdered the crew, was there in the boat
with me, and he, too, could see the ghost
! shin every time he dared to look up, which
was not often.
y said little to him; in fact, it was a
| long. time before l could speak. After he
! caught sight of the white, wan face Of the
murdered mate at the wheel Murray lay
/ AT the bottom of me boat for an hour be-
| fore he again looked up. At last he asked