The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-19

at this, and notify the keeper OF the
morgue, but concluded to examine the
patient to see whether he really was dead,
and on laying his hand over the mans
heart found it still beating.
Among the tlotsam and jetsam of the
street that has swirled in behind the am
bulance as it headed out on the pier were
The. Kelly, the keeper of sailors board
ing house in Peck Slip, and Sitter Of
Rumors. Kelly looked at the face of the
half drowned sailor in queer way for
moment and then said hastily to the sur
geon:
''Its Jack servenmalet, surgeon. He's
a friend O moline, and if yous can pull
i'm through OIL take im."
The surgeon thought he could pull him
through and the man was accordingly
bundled into the ambulance and carried
to kellys house. AS the vehicle left the
pier Kelly turned to the Sitter Of Rumors
and said;
Its Jack Servenmalet as wint last out
of this port as carpenter into the Nucleus,
Captain Mcdonald. for Rio, and she given
up for lost and the insurance paid on ship
and cargo more nor year agone. How
be cit here VIII yez tell me that, now?"
That was a question no one about the
ship could answer. The mate of the big
ship, tile men about her deck, the loung
erS on the adjoining pier, were all ques
toned, but not one of them had seen him
before Spook Mcguire, one of the loungers,
so-called because of his affection for the
mysterious, saw him struggling to get his
fingers into the seams between the planks
near the water line OF the big clipper
The Sitter of Rumors followed the am
bulance to kelly's place along with the
usual ritfratf that forms the wake of these
vehicles as they plough their way about
the streets of New York. Kelly place
was fouI-stoly brick building, painted
yellow, with a cheerful saloon in the base
ment and barren sitting room on the
first floor front. Above this the floors
were cut up into little rooms with two
beds in each of them, except those at the
front ends of the halls, which had but one
bed each. These We're for the use of the
mates and captains who sometimes patron
lied Kelly.
Into one of these hall rooms Jack was
carried and there cared for by the sur
geon. Then Kelly and the Sitter of Ru-
mors helped to remove the mans cloth
ing and rubbed him with dry cloths and
did such other things as ale commonly
done for the partly drowned. After
while Jack opened his eyes, and the sur
geon gave him a stimulant of some kind
that still further revived him. After look
ing at each of the three men present
severely, he recognized Kelly.
Its all straight and reg lar, he asked,
''about this bein New York?'
'.Yis, hyar y are, jack said Kelly.
''What Oil III wantin' to AK yez is, how d
yez Git hyar, and whar yez might ay left
the Nucleus?''
AYE, the Nucleus," said Jack, in
low voice, with his eyes on the ceiling as
if he We're looking through it to something
d good ways beyond. ''She's in port,
The. | don't understand it, bnt I'd a
been there now eff l had kept my eye on
the Atlantic steamship when we bumped
alongside of her. | was picking a rope
yarn as was dangling about on the spanker
boom, Ontidy as a cobweb in a parlor,
when her guard rail struck us on the star
board quarter and the shock threw me
into the water. While | was tloundering
about some one grabbed me by the hair.
and the next | knew | was ON the deck OF
that ere big clipper at the foot of Wall
street
"Ie's wandering yet" said the sur
geon to Kelly 1.-The Atlantic, you know,
was the big steam packet that sailed for
&
never heard of again. There were sever
al hundred passengers on her
cave" said Jack 1.-THE deck was
covered with EN-, bur l was under water
and out agin that suddin | don't know
| whether she lowered boat OF not
TELL Us all about it, said the surgeon.
whose curiosity haplaned just then to be
stronger than his professional zeal.
GIVE it to us straight, jack added
Kelly. Take yer de preacher from the
Hook, see? Did spencer thump all hands
before yez dropped the Neversink as Oh
promised yez?"
AYE" said Jack, rallying, at the
thought, spencer was as handy with his
daddies as any mate l was ever shipmates
with, and he didn't limit himself in no.
wise in the matter O implements for the
crackin' of a sailorman on the nut. Bein'
somewhat quicker on my pins than the
most of 'em, eff | do say it, | didn't get
my sheer of the hard knocks, but don't
none Of you go to thinkin' he was that
partial as to neglect me altogether 1t
was heap more knocks nor doughboys
for all hands.
''Hows' ever, that's nither here nor
there. We had fair slants of wind till we
began to strike the no theast trades, some
where III dOOul y degrees OF latitude, and
mayhap 81 of longitude, and the weather
began to thicken and the glass went down
ter BILE. The wind, as had been singin'
sweet for a week Or more in the riggin'
begin for to tune up. That was during
the afternoon watch, and we on deck.
somewheres about June p. The watch
began to get in the kites suddn', see. and
then all hands was turned to to snug her
down.
"Twant no reg lar storm, dye mind
that The weather just thickened till
the sun got the color of ghost, then
went out like fog had covered it, and
the wind increasin sure and steady like.
and the waves rolln' up faster nor Z m
tellin' of it. Not that we had much time
for noticin' these things, that ere Spencer
were right after US. First he scattered us
about stowin' the flying jib and the fore
and mizzen p-gallant- sis. Then he
punched us into two lots and driv' one on
EN- to the main top gallant and t. other to
brazil the spanker
''By the time that was done the wind
was boomin' and the rain comm down in
solid chunks fit to knock a man off the
yard, and things was gettin' lively.
Lower away yer fore and mizzen top
sail halyards. Lay aft to the main clew-
garnets and buntlines. Ease away yer
taolz ~