The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-10

down the Id ''P. &. O., Mr.. Cuctolvin,
and don't you forget having seen it,
/ Have broken my machinery; That
means ! want immediate assistance
You seem 10 know Ill by heart" said
/ Cortolvin
There's not a steamboat officer on
( all the seas that doesn't. When things
are very down with US. we take out the
( signal book. and hunt up P B. q. and
, tell ourselves that some day we may
! come across a CUnaFder in a broken
( tali-shaft, and be able to give up the
! SEA and be living politely on 9200 a
! year well invested, within a fortnight
I It's the steamboat officers dream, sir.
but there's few of US it ever comes
true for
Skipper" said CortoIyin. ~ needn't
/ tell you how pleased ~ be if you come
( into a competence over this business.
! In the meanwhile, if there is anything l
can do, from coal trimming upward.
1 III your most obedient servant"
L thank you. sir" said Kettle And
! If you'd 90 and carry the news to the
chief IN be obliged. I know he'll say
( ms engines can't hold out Tell him
they must. Tell him 10 use up any
thing he has sooner than get another
: breakdown Tell him to rip up his soul
! for struts and baekstays, if he thinks
( IT II keep them running. It's the one
/ chance of my life, Mr. COrtolViu. and
I the one chance of his and he's got TO
/ know il, and see we aren't robbed Of
what is put before us. Show him where
( the siiler comes in. sir. and then stand
! by and you'n see NIr. Todd work
( miracles
/ Cortolvin went below. and Kettle
( turned 10 the old mate. ''ATr. NTurga-
troyd. said he, get a dozen hands TO
! rouse up that new manila cut OF the
/ store [ take you from the foredeck
and give you the afterdeck to yourself
( III have TO bargain with that fellow
! over there before ne do anything. and
I therein be little enough time left after
( We We liked upon prices. So have every
thing ready to begin 10 tow. Wen use
/ their wire"
Aye, aye" said the mate. But it
I won DO to tow with wire. captain,
/ through what's coming. There's no
Slfe IN Wire. a wire haWser would jerk
] the CUTS out of her in 10 ul4aUtes';
Kettle tightened his lips. MI. Mur-
( gauoydl' said he, II am not a blame
( fool. Neither do I want dictation from
my officers. l told you to rouse up the
manila You VIII hack the wire with a
! double bride of that
Aye, aye" Grunted the mate. hut
! What am | 10 make fast to? Them boil
/ lard6 aft might be stepped in putty foY.
oWboat through what's coming. l be-
lieYe they'd draw if they'd a fishing line
made fast to them"
/ should have Thought you'd been
/ long enough at sea 10 know your b11Si-
( ness by this time. said Kettle unpleas-
antiy Dye think that every steam
boat that trades has a bran-nev Yar-
land & WIFI ?''
Wei, said the mate sullenly. I'm
waiting TO be Iaughf -
Pass the manila round the coabing
/ o. the after hatch. and you won't come
and tell me that's drawn While t1ds
/ steamboat stays on. The water TOP"
Aye, aye, said the mate, and
! stepped INTO his slippers and shuffled
( away. Captain Kettle walked brielSlv
J 10 the center Of the upper bridge and
/ laid 4 hand on the teIegrapb. Re save
crisp orders 10 the Iascar at the wheel
4 and the Saigon moved in perfect obedf-
+ ence to his viii
Ahead Of him. the great slate colored
amer lay motionless on the oily sea. Her
rail was peopled With the anxious faces
4 OF passengers. Busy deck hands 1vere
stripping away the awnings. on the
J hlSh upper bridge we're three officers in
] S0n-helmetS and trim uniform Of Nbjff.
/ drill talking together anxiousIY.
/ The little Saigon curved m from
( astern; stopped her engines. and then
! With reversed propeller brought NJ,
dead. SO that the bridges Of the two
steamers were level and not more than
( ~ yards apart. II was srnartly done
and las Kettle had intended) the Ger
mans noticed it, and commented. Then
J began the barter Of words.
Howdy, eaptain!" said Kettle. 7
/ nope its not funeral you've broughs
! up for" This heats been very seea
1 has IL knocked over one of your pas
/ sengers?"
4 large. bearded man made reply:
We haf seen a slight mishap NIT d.
machinery, captain. Ny ingeneers viii
mend" " -
20, that's all right. Thought it might
! be worse. Well. wish you luck. can
! tain. But I'd hurry and get steam IN
( her again if l We're you. The breeze
may come away any minute now, and
! you've the shore close aboard. aud
! you'll be on it if you don't get vo,r
steamboat under command again hr
/ then, and have a big loss OF life. II vny
! get on the beach it viii surprise me- r.
/ you don't drown all hands,
/ Captain Kettle put a hand on Tho
( telegraph. as though 10 ring on his
/ engines again, but the bearded German,
} after a preliminary stamp Of passion
/ held up his hand for further Darlev
/ But for the moment the opp1rtunitV
/ Of speech was taken from him. The
! passengers we're either English or. for
the most part, understood that tongue
I when spoken; and they drank in every
word that was said, as Kettle had in
tended, and now they surged in a