San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-10
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1897.

certainly do know is the tnle1 Is IN the
ship"
At which end of her do you imag-
Inc. Captain Benson?" asked Captain
Trollope coldly and haughtily.
I'VE shall find out, SIR" responded
the skipper, speaking with so marks of
dislike and suspicion of the man.
But, good gracious. captain, are we
n danger?" said Mrs. Holroyd.
In no danger whatever, madam"
DO you suspect anybody" called out
~. Masters. jerking the words at the
oaptPin with petulance that was like
jnsoaence.
THE lock smashed, d'you say?" ex-
claimed Mr.. Storr. "That would have
made a noise. We heard no such noise.
BE advanced his head and looked up
and down the table.
ut was done when everybody was
on deck last night watching the fire, y
said the captain.
lis it some sleep walkers trick?' ex-
planned Mr.. Caldwell in his sulkiest
manner.
"What do you think?' cried Mr..
Dent, catching at the fancy and staring
eagerly.
There's Burn here, who talks and
sings in his Sleep" exclaimed Mr.. DAY.
enire, "but don't know that he
walks. D'you walk, Burn?"
ut would be horrible to believe it,,
exclaimed Mrs Peacock, looking at the
fat man.
II walk in my sleep, but I've not
done this, said Mr.. Shannon.
II am sorry to have to tell you, Ia
dies and gentlemen, here broke in the
captain roughly, "that in the interests
of the lives and property committed to
my charge every passengers berth must
be thoroughly searched.
The ladies'?' said Mr.. Weston in a
small voice, looking with his wrung
face as though after speaking he thrust
his tongue in his cheek.
II said every cabin, sir" Numbered
the captain
Old Benson walked the deck with a
resolved gait and as stern an expression
as the hearty looks of his face could put
on. He reasoned with himself thus, and
his lips worked as he discoursed to his
own heart: eff some of those gentry
have plundered the arms chest and dis
tributed the weapons among them, they
may throw them overheard through
their cabin windows before the search
begins l am in no hurry, therefore, for
want that to happen. Better that the
things should be hove through the win
dOws than secreted, or even portion of
them secreted- IF they are secreted, it
. is with d design, and that design
, THE horror of the fancy forced him
/into a quick walk, and the helmsman
grinned to see how the white haired old
man talked to himself.
Both mates were ON deck. Somebody
struck four bells-10 o'clock. Mr.. Storr
cahe on TO the poop with his wife on his
ann. Miss Mansel also arrived. Pres.
entity Caldwell, johnson and Hankey
lounged up the poop ladder from the
quarter deck The captain, on seeing
them, called to Mr.. Matthews:
begin the search, sir, and take Mr..
Poole with you
Wull6 tnSs5 WOruS WeT0 sJlll III Vn6
skipper's mouth Captain Trollope rose
through the companionway, and, step
ping across to old Benson, he exclaim-
ed somewhat stifiy, carrying himself
with well bred air, "If 1 can help
your officers in searching this ship,
pray command me. :"
"We shall be glad Of whatever as
distance the passengers will render us,
said Captain Benson, standing bolt up
right with his arms hanging down.
ut is uncomfortable" said Captain
Trollope, that this theft, or joke, as it
may turn out, should be the work of
anybody aft
"Wemust find that out, sir, +" answer
ed the skipper bluntly, and to rid him
self of the gentleman he stepped to the
pinnacle stand and watched his ship
from beside it.
One Of the most extraordinary Incl
dents that ever occurred on the high
seas followed.