Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-12-05


to spend the day Nothing more
passed. They had their tea, and paid
for 1t, and went off to their yucht. |
saw that book in the young mans hand
as he went down the passage.
"Wcll, sir, 1t was just dusking in as
they weighed and stood up towards
Port William, the wind blowing pretty
steady from the southland. Ataboutten
minutes to seven o'clock It blew up In
a sudden little squall-nothing to men
ton; the fishing boats just noticed It
and that was all. But it was reckoned
that squall capsized the Queen Of Sheba'
She never reached Port William, and
no man ever clappcd eyes on her after
twenty minutes past six, when Dick
Gregg declares he saw her off the
Blowth, halfway toward home, and 60
ing steady under all canvas The
affair caused lot Of stir, here md at
Port William, and in the newspapers
Short-handed as they were, Of course,
they'd no business to carry on as they
did, specially as my wife declares from
her looks that Mrs. Blake was feelin'
faint afore they started. She always
seemed to me weak, timmersome wo-
man at the BEST small and ailin' to
look at"
"And Mr.. Blake?"
"Ohl he was q strong-made gentle
man; tall, with a big red beard"
1.-THE SOM"
"Took after his father, only he hadn't
any bearl fine outstanding pair"
And no trace was ever found O.
them?"
"Not n stick nor shred"
"But about this visitors book. You'll
swear they took 1t with them? See
there's rot q stain Of salt water upol
It,"
mo there isn't; but I'll swear young
Mr. Blake had it In his hand as he wen
from my door,
said "Mr Job, I've kept you al
ready too long from your dinner u
and eat, and ask them to send in some
thing for me. Afterwards want yol
to come with me and take look a
my yacht that is lying just outside o
the haven"
As we started from tho shore Mr.
Job, casting his eyes over the Siren
remarked. That's u very pretty yaw
Of yours, SIR As we drew nearer h
began to eye her uneasily
"She has been heightened some fv
or six feet" said; "she was cutter +
begin with"
Lord help us!' then said Mr.. Job. i
a hoarse whisper. "Shes the Queen 0
Sheba. I'd swear to her run anywher
-ay, or to that queer angle OF he
bawse-holes.
A close examination confirmed MI
Job that my yacht was no other tha'
the lost Queen Of Sheba, length
ened and altered in rig 1t pei
suaded me, too. turned back t
Plymouth, and leaving the boat !
Cattwater, drove to the Millbay static
and took tickets for Bristol, Arrivin
there lust twenty-four hours after IN
interview with Mr.. lob, made my wa
to Mrs. Carlipgfords lodgings
She had left them two years befor'
nothing was known Of her wher'
abouts. The landlady could not eve
tell me whether she had moved frol
Bedminster, and SO had to let ii
matter rest.
But just fourteen days ago receive
the following letter, dated from
workhouse in one Of the indian
counties:
DEAR SIR: I am o dying woman and sha
nrohahlv he dead before this reaches 70
rhe doctor says ne cannot give me iort
eight hours. 1t Is angina pectoris, and sun
horribly at times, The yacht you purchase
OF me is not the Wasp, but the Queen
sheba, NV husband designed her He was
man Of some property near Limerick; and
and nv son we're involved In some OF the lri
troubles between 1881 and 1884 1t was 30
thew had Joined ono Of the brothcrhoods o.
betrayed their oaths This am sure was n
true. But II Is certain we had to run Tor 10
Of assassination After q year In Llverpo
We were forced to fly south TO Port Villa
whore we brought the yacht and lived
some time In quiet, under our own nam'
But We know that could not last and had YAK
measures 10 escape when need arose. ,
husband had CHANGED while At Liverpool UP
an old Yacht diamantled and rottlng In !
Morsey, but OF about the same slze ss
own, and still. OF course. upon the regist
He bought her Of her owner, MT, Carl,n
ford, and stranger. for very few pount
and With her--what he valued far more-h
papers; but no never completed the transi
1t the custom house His plan was, II press'
! to escape abroad and pass his yacht OF as
Wasp and himself as Mr.. Csrlingford. All
while we lived ct Port William the Queen
shebs was kept amply provisioned for . W
ara Of at least three weeks. when the
cessity overlook US quite suddenly-the mo-
OF q nan, Macgulrc, In the visitors book Of
small Inn at Penleven. We left Penleven
dusk that evening and held steadily up
coast until darkness Then We turned !
Yachts head. and ran straight across for M
laix bu, the weather continuing fine FOL
FOOD fortnight Jour 6rst night at sea was
: toughest in all this time). we changed
minds, cleared Ushant and held right acr
n for yigo; thence, after revictual'ng,
9 cruised slowly down the coast and through
, straits, finally reaching Malaga, There
i stald and had the yacht heightened NY D
band had sold his small property before o
We came TO Port William and had managed
Z invest the whole under the name Of Carlil
ford, There was no difhculty about letters
credit, Al each port on the way wo bad sao
The wssp's papers, and used the name
earIinsford. and at Lisbon we read In 30 ~
IS lish newspaper about the supposed espsh
OF the Queen Of sheba Still We had not .
o persuade the oticials ct the various 20
mai a, haat usa thu Wash. Ws-fnsv