Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-01-16
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To the captains utter amazemen'
twenty other passengers shouted
lave, 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 a moment with both hands, then
wheeled round and, folding his arms,
,Said to his companion on the bridge:
'tStop herr'
AS if in anticipation Of this, the San
Pedro had slackened speed and was
now blowing white cloud of steam.
For ten minutes everybody on the
eCorinthian watched the vessels ap-
proach each other and, when they
were less than 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-
rsentad tie pirate had reached the deck
of the Corinthian he found himself
facing . crowd OF men and women in
every condition of alarm and anxiety.
He was dressed in blue shirt and
~oou1snon duck trousers and glazed cap;
In his belt he ca1Tieda regulation navy
revolver. He saluted the captain POI
aitefy and said, in pleasant voice:
81 am instructed, sir, to ask you to
order your people below. We will
-cUne alongside and remove your spe-
clio. No harm will be done and no in.
dignity offered to your crew or passen-
gers"
'<Damn your impudence, STRIP re-
tarted Capt. Jamison. 'sI'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 tbs first cowardly rascal he meets"
's'AS you please, sir" the young man
replied. sit would be cruel necessity
TO send this vessel and its people to
the bottom
He turned to go to his boat after
making another salute and one of the
passengers again interfered.
eve object to the arrangement" he
said, land are not going to be muir
~dered on the high seas to save your
gold"
Whereupon twenty other passengers
3rraed with revolvers stepped out and
repeated: "Aye, aye. Take the gold,
but we want to reach our destination"
The upshotwas that the captain and
his officers were locked in the cabin,
She passengers ordered below and the
asan Pedro dashed alongside. It took
"seventy-five men two hours and a half
20 transfer the gold from one vessel to
another, and sharp lookout was kept
13or 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
ang in the wind that had sprung up
from the northeast, as he shook his
ehst at them. And the last words thew
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
stiff wind blowing from the northeast
That was in his favor. But he ca1cu-
lated that if one of the westward bound
ocean greyhounds spoke the Corinthian
and got her story, the news would
reach New York and set the telegraph
In operation much too soon for his
sisafety. He had informed himself of
the position of all the government yes
seSs and be knew that there was at
last accounts q fast cruiser in Mobile
bay. He, therefore, calculated as close
ly as he ceEld the chances of the Cor
aathian being Intercepted; for, dis
nblcd as she was, it would be her cap
Sain's plan to put her in the route Of
Twestward-bound steamship.
He 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
asas TO throw his guns overheard to-
Mether with all his superhuous shot
Asd ammunition. He then got mp steam
sand stood off in a southeasterly direc-
-A6css nDtl the Corinthian was hull