The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-29

and I are just in a build, and can
wear his suit
Very well, then, just give me your
hand for half a minute and look me
in the eye"
l did that.
Now" said he, you're a servant Of
the COrinth Salvage association ana
I'm another, Your father was a gen
tleman. wasn't hep"
He was that, sir, and one Of the
most honored Free Kirk ministers in
Scotland
Then you must be a gentleman, too,
though l dare say you are not always
treated as such. Now swear to me,
Mac, on your honor as a gentleman,
that you'll be true to those who are
employing you"
l looked him in the face and did it
cheerfully. When a man treats me
properly (and God knows few enough
of them have tried it, he's got a fell
low to work for him he ought to value
highly.
l got into the suit as the boat rowed
me out to the buoy, and when we
picked up the mooring the men screwed
on the helmet for me and started the
air pump. 1t wasn't a new experience
to me; I'd been diving before in the
Clyde to bore holes in a sunken piel
with ratchet drill.
l went over the side, took the roDe
and lowered myself hand over fist,
through the gray water, till the leaden
soles of my feet touched ground. The
oorky feeling was a bit new again at
hrst, but ! soon got over that and
then as my air valves were working
all right and 1 could breathe ouite
easily 1 set about looking for Cameron.
He was somewhere out of sight bur
q Ir~ IN . lrvs,z
amongst the sea shrubs like a thin
eel. and l followed that easily enough.
1t led me to the Corinth, where She
lay with her decks straight up and
down, and l saw it passing away
through the water blackness down her
companion hatch. There seemed some
thing wrong here. Where were all
the great moving banks Of slime the
divers had told us about? Where was
the filthy ooze which slid back against
the steamer as fast as they dug if
away? Slime there was in plenty: I
sank in it knee deep, in spite of the
buoyancy of the suit; but it was quite
manageable and the Corinth's com
panion lay far above its mark.
A rope lay against the upright deck
beside the white air tube. 1 thought
a minute and then laid hold and
swarmed up. Inside all was dark. but
| switched on light in the electric
lamp had with me and the glow lit
| the place like a foggy street.
The first step landed me on some
thing that crunched. l looked down
and saw it was a suit of bones, skinned
clean by the fishes. Some poor wretch
had been drowned here when the
steamer foundered. Well, of course. I
had seen a skeleton before, but some
how or other those bones didn't seem
to cheer me. There was something
wrong; the yarn the divers had brought
up and the real thing as it lay were
two entirely different matters. It oc-
CURED to me that 1 had stumbled
(by accident of Storey's paralysis upon
something intended to be hid, and 7
was quite man enough to know that
trouble might very possibly follow.
/ stopped where / was and thought.
I'd q big mind to go back then and
report what 1 had seen. / felt I should
be earning my pay by doing that But
at the same time l liked Cameron:
he was fellow countryman, and more
besides, and 1 didn't want to report
him as acting off the square, so I
stoutened my heart and went down be-
low.
The white trail of the air tube led me