The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-07
he looks after. and it's my opinion you
can't watch him too closely"

no iookb uIUers anu ~ my Opiuiou you
can't watch him too closely"
Here was confirmation Of my darkest
suspicious, and it will be a lifelong re-
greet that did not take advantage of
the opening presented. Captain Holt
could have been hired to take York
away by force, and with him out Of the
ship the convicts would have probably
given up their plan. think it would
have been au easy matter to exchange
six or eight meu with him for cash
consideration, and that would have re-
moved all anxiety and insured safe
voyage.
You ask why didn' take these steps.
First, because Captain Clark opposed
them, and, secondly, because the result
would have been an official investiga-
ton. Had we encountered an English
man-of-war the case would have been
far different. / haC suspicious, but no
positive proofs. To have forced York or
any of the sailors TO exchange into the
whaler would have been an arbitrary
act which would have cost us dear with
out we could prove justification. Again,
Mary Williams and Haskell were the
only two people aft who had "a suspicion
of anything wrong, and all others. in
Guiding the doctor. would have protested
and could have been used as witnesses
against us.
/ was, however, on the point OF ask
ing the American to keep us in sight
for couple of days, on pretense that
we were making some alterations in the
quarters of the convicts, when he stated
that he should run to the east for q new
cruising ground. 1t turned out even
better than that. At noon, when he
was about three miles in our wake, the
wind fell and dead calm came on
which lasted that afternoon and night,
all the next day and up to midnight of
the second night. During this calm.
with the whaler in plain view, / no.
ticed that almost every man of our crew
carried an anxious, excited look, but
they were unusually humble in their
demeanor.
York was asleep when the whaler' 4
captain visited us. but took care to drop
Hollis name so that it would be carried
forward to him. He also doubtless iden'
titled the whaler as soon as he set eyes
ON her, and it was plain enough that he
was greatly disturbed. After bit he
made opportunity to speak with me-
and when I did not tell him that his
name had been mentioned he was evi
IDENTIFY much relieved.
On the second day Of the calm hat
another talk with Mary Williams. Sh'
had been closely watching the two
young women, but they evidently sus
pected the espionage and had been OF
their guard. She had caught ON to bu
one suspicious circumstance. That yer.
morning, while my mate had the deck
she had seen Miss Foster pass some
! thing to York in q sly manner as sh
promenaded the deck. AS the younI
woman had just come oet Of the dis
|, pensary it was natural to believe tina
. the object was something carried fror
that room. The idea of poison fashe
, through my mind, but was discarde
when l remembered hearing the doc
tor say he had nothing of the sort anon
: his stores. Whatever it was, York ha
had annie time to secrete it, and it wa
, useless for me to cudgel my brains.
{ At about midnight of the secon
{ night the calm was broken, though tn
I breeze was very light. When mornin
e came, we saw that the whaler had a
' tered her plans and was bearing up fo