The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
copyright, 1895, by the Author. ]


and FIVE women. I.-she is chased by a cut
ter which puts on board James Murray, who
wishes passage 20 England. HI.-A steamer
follows. Police board the Queen TO arrest
Murray who is absconding with money. Muir
ray commits suicide. ~. V and Wit is
discovered that the arm OF the Queer
has been robbed. VII and VIII. The cap
tain orders the rooms TO be searched, but
nothing is found ~ ard N.-Miss Margaret
Mansel, u passenger. overbcars plot OF the
pirate ten to seize the vessel. She is gagged
and thruwd overheard. XI MI and MIL
The pirate ten seize the vessel and turn the
crew adrift in a boat.
lCoNTINULD.I
81 hope those fellows Will have man
aged to keep their ship alive during the
late weather, said the commander. 1T
will be very veXatious should we ulti-
mately discover she has gone TO the
bottom, gold and all--not that the all
will so much matter, perhaps, as the
gold. "
''Mr. Matthews gives good account
of the mems smartness as sailors, con-
sidering who and what they are" an
swered Mr.. Hardy. "Some Of them
could furl sail as nimbly as a blue
jacket. There were ten of them, and,
plus one, that's the number the ship
sailed with out of Sydney"
The commander observed that Mr..
Hardy stopped to dodge and peer and
bob at the horizon, where, following
the direction of the mates stare, Boil
dock saw a white CLEAN Of sail coming
and going at the edge Of small squall
of gray rain passing slowly.
Eyes, l see her, sir" exclaimed the
commander, not waiting to be address
ed. He made bolt for the companion
and cleverly grasped it. He was safe in
the embrace Of that cover and took the
long brass telescope off the brackets to
view the distant sail.
No seaman was ever more expert in
the art of the glass than Boldock, but
so wild was the rolling of the brig, so
treacherously swift the antics Of the
distant sail, that many minutes passed
before the commander pinned her. He
then correctly judged that she was a
vessel in distress, first by the circum-
stance Of her having lost her fore top2al-
liant mast, next by her showing not a
rag Of cloth save fore topmast staysail,
which looked TO be very i'll set She
was bark, and Boldock thought 10
saw Il spot Of color at her gaif end. But
she was then four or five miles Off, and
her figure was lost in the shadow cast
by the clouds which hung over her.
''Sce what you can make of her, Mr..
Hardy said the commander.
The quaint sea dandy, with his lecr
and his shoes and bows. made q plungJ
Tor the companion DJ.rr ana swung in.
TO il as the commander sWuug oat. He
peered and peercd While he looked the
sun shonc little brightly and lighted
up the ocean in the direction of the
bark. Mr.. Hardy continued to gaze;
then, starting with a cry Of surprise, he
exclaimed:
81 beg your pardon, sir, hit caugh;
sight of the hull o. that ship just then,
and if she's not the Queen then I'm
Prince Albert, sir "
''Let me look again." said the com
nander hoarsely.
Long and thirstily did he stare. His
table Of red face, with one eye screwed
up, hung immovable at the telescope
The sun continued to throw his morn
ing brightness on the ocean, and the
color Of the blue between the clouds
was growing purer. After little the
commander looked round at Mr. Hardy.
with an expression of passing suffocH-
ton In the cast and color Of his features.
They stared at each other
Upon my word" exclaimed Boil
dock in that sort Of voice which he
would use in church, 81 believe You are
right. / caught the length Of the hull
distinctly when it was hove high--a
bark painted green, answering unques-
tionably to the burden Of the Queen.
Why should it not be she?" he roared
out, overmastered by excitement. "She
should be somewhere hereabouts. We're
inside Of a days sail of Halloran is
land Step below, Mr.. Hardy, and give
my compliments to Mr. Matthews and
ask him Co come on deck. "
While Hardy was gone BoldOck kept
bis telescope upon the distant bark,
which sometimes sprang her spars into
the lenses, and once or twice strip Of
greenish hull. The sunshine frightened
her flag. IL was red, but Boldock could
rot make out whether it was distress
signal. Now arrived Mr.. Matthews,
who had kept watch from a till 8, and,
having breakfasted, had turned in for a
snooze.
keep in the oompanionway, said
the commander, standing outside, "and
take this telescope and look ut yonder
vessel and tell mo what you think of
her.
Mr.. Matthews was scarcely wide
awake. He had tumblcd out Of his bunk
with seaman's hurry. After great
deal of maneuvering with the unwieldy
telescope he caught the object. A grin
Of amazemcnt that worked the flesh
about his lips into .hunchbaok's wrin'