The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-25

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the pierhead. whero steam launches are
often to be seen lying. 1t did not take
long to discover by the aid of fieldglasses
that there were two people on board the
cutter one of whom was evidently "a
paid hand and the other presumably his
employer.
That the latter in any way resembled
the man for whom was looking could
not-much as / should have liked to lay
that fiattering JUNCTION to my soul-flnd
justification for thinking, at all events
ON the evidence of the fieldglasses. And
as observed that he invariably went
below if any other boat passed close to
the cutter it did not seem worth while
to attract his attention and perhaps
arouse his suspicious by attempting to
come TO close quarters in order to make
nearer inspection. The fact that he
seemed anxious to keep out of sight was
in itself curious, although no one who
was not watching his movements very
narrowly would have noticed it. Some
what curious, toe. was another circum-
stance which happened soon after our
arrival. A small yacht. with three or
| four young men on board, dropped an
Choir about 100 yards from the brown
| cutter. She had not been there long be-
fore l saw that the cutter was getting
under way for cruise, but that the
cruise in question was taken chiefly as
an excuse to change her quarters had
reason to suspect, for after sailing lit
tie way out and circling once round
buoy, as if for the look of the thing, she
sailed in again and brought up quarter
Of mile farther west at spot where
no other boat was lying.
To any one who had watched this
maneuver as closely as l did it must
have seemed little strange, too, that
the boat was sailed entirely by the man
who was evidently the paid skipper. his
employer neither taking the tiller nor
lending a hand with the sheets. As a
rule. yaohtsman who yachts for the
love of the thing prefers TO handle his
boat himself and would not give a
"Thank you" for sail in which he
plays the part of passenger.
Probably should not have noticed
this trifling circumstance had not
learned from Gunnell that "Mr. Cross"
was no sailor. / had from the first be-
lieved that Cross story about his pick
ing up friend at Sheerness who was
to help him with the boat was fabri-
cation, and that he had in all PROBABLE
ity run in to shore as soon as he was
out of sight of Gunnell and had secured
the services Of one of the many water
men who are on the lookout for a job.
Anyhow the circumstances in connec-
tion with the brown cutter were suffi.
GENTLY suspicious to warrant me in
making sure that she was not the boat
was in search of, and decided that a
watch must be kept upon her not only
by day, but also by night. If Mullen
were really on board and had any inten-
ton of changing his quarters, the prob
ability was that the fitting would be
effected by night was ready to 60 bail
for the cutters good conduct by day,
but if an eye was to be kept upon her
by night it was very necessary that /
should have some one to share my watch.
The two men who constituted my crew
knew nothing of personally and was
SO ] sent letter to Grant, who was
still on guard over the Cuban Queen at
Canvey, asking him to come to Southend
by the first train next morning and to
meet MIC at the pierhead, whittier /
would row out to join him in the dingey.
He turned up true to time. And as we
had the pier head to ourselves we sat
down where we could not be seen by
any one on board the cutter, while
Grant related his experiences and l
mine. His were soon told, for no "Mrs.
Hug hes" had come back TO break the
nopotony of existence on the Cuban
Queen, nor had anything occurred at
Canyey which concerned the enterprise
in which we were engaged. Then told
my story, after hearing which and my
suspicious in regard to the cutter Grant
agreed with me that it was highly de-
sirable an eye should be kept upon her
at night as we'll as by day.
"I'll tell you what / think will be a
| good plan," he said. 81 know man
who has little boat down here which
he isn't using, and I'm sure can ar
ronB6 10 get tn6 loan Oh Qer IOr week
or two Suppose anchor her about as
far away on the other side of the brown
cutter as your steam launch is on this
side. Then can keep an eye upon the
cutter at night, and IL by chance she
tried to give us the slip and made. as
expect she would. for the open sea she'd
have to run almost into your arms to do
it. should, Of course, follow and hail
you to give chase as went by. when
you could soon overtake her. If, on the
other hand, che goes up the river, it'll
be as easy as driving COW into pen,
for once in she'll have us behind her
like cork in the neck of o bottle, and
even II she gets bit of a start at first
sailing boat would stand no chance in
race against steam. What do you
think of iti' t" stfa
i replied that I thought it capital, and
4 after we had arranged means Of COM
munication got into the dingey to row
back to the steam launch, and Grant set
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