The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-10

/ place on the lip OF the boiling surf;
( and then, With a gasp, it sank into
{ quietude, and a. gToat oily swell rose
| up as if by magic from the bowels of
/ the deep, and the little Saigon forged
! ahead and drew the helpless passenger
( ship away from the peTilous beach
/ Those tropical hurricanes of the east
! ern seas progress in circles, and Jhis
! one had spurned them from it's clutch
) and let them float on a charmed ring
! of calm.
| Cortolvin bowed over the wheel in
! silent thankfulness, but the shipmaster
/ rejotced aloud.
'How's that, umpire?' said he. by
! James, wasn't it worth hanging ON for?
/ I've got wife. sir. and kids. and I'm
! remembering this moment that they'u
! always have full bellies from now on
wards, and good clothes. and no more
( cheap lodgings, but a decent house
/ semi-detached and money to plank
down on the plate when they go to the
! chapel on Sundays. The skipper of
/ that Dutchman viii be ruined over This
/ last half-hcur's job, but l can't help
/ that It's myself L have to think OF
! first; one has to in this world or no
one else VIII; and, Mr.. Cortolyin, I'm
a made man. Thanks to McTodd"
| From below there came a sudden whirr
! of machinery, as though the engines
had momentarily gone mad, and then a
humping and a banging which Jared
every plate in the Saigon's fabric. and
/ then silence, broken only by the thin
distant scream of hurt man. Pres
| emily the boom Of steam broke out from
| the escape pipe beside the funnel and
minute later the chief engineer made
his way leisurely up on to the bridge.
He was bleeding from cut on the fore
head, and another cash showed red
among the CRIME on his Stubbly cheek
He was shredding tobacco with clasp
knife as he walked and seemed. from
his manner to be a man quite divorced
from all responsible occupations He
I halted q minute at the head of the
( bridge ladder. replaced the tobacco
cake in the pocket Of his pantaloons.
and rolled up the shreddings in the
palms OF his craekeled hands. Then
he filed short briar pipe. lit it and
surveyed the available universe.
-'Yonn be the tornado, way ahead
there, I'm thinking" said he.
Are those blame engines broke down
again." asked Kettle. sharply.
Aye, ye may put it, they've broke
down.
"Then away With you below again
mir. McTodd. and get them running
again You may smoke when we bring
up the Alden
McTodd pulled but twice more at his
pipe. and sDat on the wheel graf
ing.
by james, said Kettle, 80 you
hear me?'
My lugs are bit nuzzy, but I can
hear ye for a that, captain- Only
thing is that I can't DO as you'd like. >"
Captain Kettle stiffened ominousIy
''Mr. McTodd." he said. eff you force
me to take you in hand and show you
how to set about your work, youll re-
gret It,"
Man" said the engineer, 81 can do
some kind of impOssibtlities- Ye'Ve
seen me do them. we've seen me keep
those palsied rattIe-traps running all
through that blow. But if you ask me
iron and packing cases, III have to
tell YOU that yon kind of miracles be-
yond me
My great James," said Kettle" you
don't mean to tell me the propellers
gomez"
Either that or else all the blades
have stripped off the boss. If ye'd been
kenned it fine. When it went, those
puir engines raced like an auld cab
horse tryin' to gallop, and they just
got tied in knots and tumbled down,
and sDrawled IS ways at once. I vas
( on the platform, oiling. when they
jumped, and that niger second of
mine tried to get at the throttle to
close her down"
"WeH. get on. man. get on"
''Weel. he didn't; that's all: he's ly-
in in the low pressure crank pit this
minute and the top of his skullI be to
seek somewhere by the ash lift. Mon.
l tell We. yon second O mines an I'M
canny sight So 1 had to do his work
for him, and then l blew off my boil
ers and came up here. 1t would have
been very comforting to my profession
al conscience if I could have steamed
her into Alden. But I'm no as sorry
as I might be for what's happened.
have it in mind that yon Parsee owner
of ours in Bonbay'n lose siller over
this breakdown, and I want that beg