The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

reef would know sit was there till he
was going over 1t in boat and looked.
over the side. WeShad just got down to
the point when we saw the boat close to-.
She was being pulled very quickly by
four hands. and made q devil OF . row
coming through the water. The man
who was steering was standing up, and
showed white and CHASTITY in the moon
las soon.as she was within hundred
yards of the beach: / hailed them to keep
bit to stArboard, as there was a big
coral bowlier rightin front of the spot
they were steering for.
"'Aye, aye answered the man steer
ing, and he did as i told him. In an
other minute or tw0-the boat shot up on
the beach and we crowded round them.
"'Stand back, please says the officer,
speaking in a curious, hurried kind of
way, and then saw that he had a pistol
in his left hand, and that the men with
him looked white and scared, and seemed
to take no notice of us.
"But they didn't give us much time to
wonder Mt their looks. Two of the men
jumped out. land then we saw that there
was another person in the boat-a won-
an. She was sitting ON the bottom
boards. lying against the stern sheets,
and seemed Ito be either asleep or dead.
The officer helping them, they lifted her
ashore. Then the officer turns to me,
and saw that though he tried to speak
quietly, he was in devil of furry over
something.
"'What's all this?' said: what's the
matter? What have you got this pistol in
your hand for and what is the matter
with this womanT
NE1xa mt %i,o ,,iSfc1 ont Of ssvht
quick, and then. speaking so rapidly
could hardly follow him. said that the
lady was the captains wife, And she
had been taken i'll very suddenly, and her
husband. seeing my house so close to, had
determined to send her ashore, and see if
ANYTHING could be done for her.
didn't he came wth her h sae EooK
here, I don't believe all this. How the
devil did he know that even though the
house is here that a white man lives in
it? And want to have a look Mt the
woman's face. She might be dead for all
I know.
Rotau's wives had gone up to the woman,
and l saw that although she wasn't dead
she looked very like it. for her eyes were
closed. and she seemed quite unconscious
of all that was going on. She was
young about % or so-and was rather
pretty eose t,ke he, to xo,,r bonse, $, -
the officer. And as soon as we have
will come ashore and see YOU
"'Hold on says l. and grabbed him
by the arm. DO You mean to say you're
going off in this fashion, without telling
me anything further? Who are you,
anyway? What is the ships name?'
He hesitated just a moment, and then
ton; but !! can't stay to talk now. The
captain himself will tell you about it in
the morning. AS you see, his wife is
very ill. You will at least not refuse to
''And then. before l could stop him, be
jumped back out of my reach into the
boat, and the four sailors, two. of whom
and away they went again.
YOU'D better tell the captain to come
ashore at once I called out after him,
but although he heard me plainly
enough, he took no notice of me beyond
waving his hand.
'Well, we carried the woman up to
the house and placed her in Il chair, and
the moment my wife took off the wooden
wrapper that covered her head and shout.
ders, she cried out that there was blood
running down her neck. And it didn't
take me long to discover that the woman
was dying from a bullet wound in the
back Of her head.
the poor thing, but she never regained
consciousness, and toward sunrise she
died quietly. There was nothing about
her clothing to show who she was. but
she wore rings such as would belong to
a woman of some position. She appeared
to he about 25 years of age, as l said.
and when she was being prepared for
bor T took po rti c111nr notioo Of hnr
personal appearance: That she had been
murdered l could not doubt; and perhaps
some days, even after all these years,
the crime may come to light"
"But what: became Of the ship?' asked
| the mate of the Indiana.
''Out of sight by 8 o'clock in the morn
ing. AS soon as I saw what was the
matter with the woman, knew that we
need not expect to see any one from
the ship back again. The boats lowed
her. I suppose, all night; and just before
daylight a breeze sprang up, which soon
took her away from the land.'
Il wonder what the true story of that
woman's death wasp said Packenham
thoughtfully, as he looked toward the
place where she was buried.
Heaven only knows" answered the old
trader. whether it was mutiny, and
her husband was murdered, or whether
the officer who came ashore with her was
the captain himself and her husband as
well. cannot tells: My own! idea is that
there was a mutiny, and that she had
been shot, perhaps accidentally: in the
possibly recover, the t11untiheeers had de.
cided to send her ashore rather than have
to keep her prisoner on board, and then
perhaps kill her to-; prevent the discovery
of the ir crime. Any way, I have since
learned that there never was a ship
named the Inca Prince. I've told the
story to every shipmaster 1 We met since
that night. and it, was written about a
good deal in the English and American
newspapers. Then the affair was for
gotten, and like many another such thing,
the secret may never come out
Presently following the old man, Deni-
son and Packenham went with him in the
bright moonlight and looking over the
low white wall Of the little cemetery, saw
| the unknown woman's grave. A faint
breath of air swayed the pendulous leaves
| of the surrounding cocoa palms which
rustled softly, together. and then dropped
into the silence of the night-London
| Chronicle.
Morgan's Winning Sneech.
Senator Morgan is the Sir Loquacitur
of Congress. He talks great deal with
his mouth, and has reached an age when
his colleagues pay no attention to his
driveling. In the Forty-ifth Congress
he succeeded in getting a private bill
| through both houses, and it went to the
President, Mr.. Hayes: Morgan heard
that it was to be settled with pocket
veto. and his wrath waxed hot. Con-
gress was to adjourn in less than ten
days, and the bill would be lost. Sir Lo-
| quacitur delivered himself thus:
"All right. If Mr.. Hayes will not
sign my Bill there will be no more legis-
lation this session. l am going to speak
ON the next measure that comes before
the Senate, and will not finish until
the session has expired.
Thirty-six hours of the session re-
manned when Sir Loquacitur declared
himself, and many important measures
remained to be acted upon. He had
talked for four hours before his fellow
senators began to take him seriously;
then there was such hurrying and sour
rying as never before had been seen in
the chamber. A hasty conference was
held, and two Republican senators were
hurried to the white house to explain
the situation to the President. Hayes