San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-31

while she looked up at him with eyes
of dismay and horror, her figure half
starting from its resting posture.
81 think it may end in your discov-
ering," said the commander with q
smile, "that you are the best off Of
them all +"
''There were several ladies.
"You are lady, but that did not
seem to appeal to them," said Boldock
in deep, lamenting voice.
"The wretches, to throw me into the
sea, gagged and almost chokedl What
had / done?"
Boldock paused in his walk and stared
at the ocean in silence. Miss Mansel's
words had reused the spirit of roast
beef in him. She saw his face hard,
with that heart of England which no
nation can resist at sea- It was the
working, burning, triumphing face #
the boarder who waits for the instant
of collision to spring into the chains.
81 sincerely trust" said he, breaking
with jerk of head out of his fighting
mood, "that you will remember the
name Of the island or that we shall fall
in with the Queen. have seen few
men hanged"
His gaze went thoughtfully to his
weather main yardarm, and there rest
ed, as though he considered height
and scope of fall His sight was still
aloft, when cry from the fore topmast
crosstrees made him start.
"Sail ho!"
"Where away?" bawled Mr.. Hardy,
running forward and leering.
Broad on the lee bow" answered
the voice high in the song of the wind.
81 see her, sir, Numbered Boldock
He lifted the immense brass telescope
off its brackets and resting it on the
rail took aim at the working breast Of
soft dark waters on the port bow.
at is no ship" said he, ''but boat
with shoulder Of mutton sail. One Of
the Queens boats for millionl If so,
the ten men have seized her, and where
is she?"
He handed the glass to Mr.. Hardy.
The girl rose to look, and the COM
mander, seeing she needed support,
gave her his arm.
The brig was thrown up into the
wind, the boat was cleverly sheered
alongside, her sail melting into the bot
tom of her as she rounded, with sea-
man in her bow stretching out his hands
to catch the ropes end.
Miss Mansel shrieked.
cit is Mr.. Matthew'S" she said to
the commander. she is the chief mate
of the Queen, and the men are five Of
the crew of the vessel. f"
"Then the ten have stolen the ship,
said Boldock.
There was smart wabble of sea on,
and the boat danced friskily alongside.
The sailors sprang into the main chains
and clambered with the silent hurry Of
shipwrecked men over the rail, Mr..
Matthews staying to call out to Com
mander Boldook, "Will you take this
boat, sir?"
AYE, she is good boat. Well hoist
her aboard.
There's plenty of provisions and
some wine and spirits in her, sir, sung
up Mr.. Matthews
"We'll have them-we'll have them
all. Pray come on board.
Mr.. Matthews, with pale, funeres'
countenance, watching his chance, got
into the main chains, and, with the lei
sureliness which spirits sunk to the sui
cidal degree will sober the limbs to,
made his way over the tall bulwarks.
Meanwhile the five seamen, observing
Miss Mansel, had come to halt and
were lodging and duoking at her as
they shouldered one another in 20 mimi
table pastures.
''Smite me dark il it amt she her
self, Joe'' said Tom.
"No, no. She's too tall. She amt got
the others color, muttered Joe. ''She's
what they call her factotum-her iden-
teal
''It's the girl who was lost, bet your
blooming boots" exclaimed th1zd.
seaman of the Queen.
Mr. Matthews dropped laboriously on
to the deck. Instantly Tom called out;
There's Miss Mansel, sir"
The mate was slowly walking aft to
the commander when, hearing these
words and seeing the lady, he halted as
though withered by lightning dart
Miss Mansel made an effort to approach
the astonished man, exclaiming, 'It is
1 indeed, Mr. Matthews-Miss Mansel
none other.
"Well, / am bubbledP whispered
Mr. Matthews to himself in one OF the
deepest breaths his lungs ever fetched.
and he went straight up 10 her. "h
isn't your ghost then, hey?" he exclaim-
ed, taking her hand with half note,
almost comic, of blubbering in his
voice. "Well," said be, so astonished
that his eyes met in a squint as he look
ed at her, "this, to be sure, is among
the miracles. You herel It's enough,
said he, turning upon the commander
and letting go the girl hand, "to make
the whole previous business feel like q
nightmare ont of which the second