The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-07

er wanted the snip. Inc second mare
had managed to spell cut the flags
which, in Marryat's code, signifed,
Important; must communicate. F"
Bring the ship to the wind, sir"
said Captain Benson TO the officer
She was a small clinker built boat.
with green paddle boxes, and the foam
fed from her sponsors as the foot OF
a cataract hurls into its channel. Three
men stood on her bridge and as she
came alongside with beat OF paddles
that, with the arrest of the wheels. sank
into sullen roar of water, a man in a
white wide awake and long, lean, yellow
face and linen jacket hailed from the
bridge.
"Ho! The Queen ahoy"
"Hello!" sang out Captain Benson.
"Has e'er stranger been put aboard
your ship since you sailed from Sydney"
"Yes. SIR shouted back Captain
Benson.
"Was he put aboard by the cutter
Wooloomooloo?"
The captain lifted his hand.
"You must allow me to come on
board if you please" exclaimed one of
the men who stood upon the bridge. He
was dressed in sort Of uniform-a bell
| shaped cap with naval peak, and light
cloth braided jacket of military cut. The
captain of the steamer shouted down her
call pipe. The paddles were Unanswered,
| the tug drew close alongside, and watch
ing their opportunity as the slight swell
rolled the two vessels To and from each
other the official looking individual
and another sprang on to the bark and
came aft.
"Good gracious mep' exclaimed Mrs,
Dent to her husband. "It's Superintend-
ent FoX!'
The other might have passed for a
Bow street runner His nose was like
the end Of bludgeon, the left eye was
twice the size of the right, and as he
stepped aft with the superintendent he
gazed with grin of ragged black teeth
round upon the people Yet he was
some sort of official, too, to judge by
his clothes. The superintendent walked
right up to Captain Benson and said
quite audibly:
"You are the master of this ship, sir3'
"That's so,' answered the captain.
putting and straddling, and firmly set
thing his tall hat.
J 81 am here said the other, "to ar
rest Mr.. James Murray, manager OF the
such and such bank, Sydney, for EN-
bezzlement.
Lori" said the captain. what
! the amount, STRIP
"Seventy thousand pounds.
Captain Trollope whistled long ant
; low. The fellow with the horrible grii
of teeth turned slowly and looked "a
him.
1T seems as Il others are TO have th'
D innings" said III. Caldwell in hoars'
3 whisper in the car of Mr.. Cavendi2h
3 who was staring with his congenita
Q grin, made loathsome through the FRO
! lection of his upper lip by his eyeteeth
4 81 don't see my mG-, said the su
a perintendent, runnir~ eyes over th'
group of passenger owing ON Wit
t "a level, penetrating t.sre at the seame'
forward, who had struck work for th
: moment to gaze att.
@ $50 and tell Mr. Murray he is want
t ed, sir" said Captain Benson to tn
t second mate who, knowing where {
r look. ran down the companion steps
g He was instantly followed by the super
Y intendent and his assistant,
o Captain Benson remained on deck
: The passengers talked III whispers. In
n sensation was profound. Mr.. Mark Dav
s enire and another went stealthily t
z the skylight and peered down. Thei
| L., hax ma
: them. 1t was about 4 O'Clock In TN
n morning. The sun was shining wit
J. strong heat, and there was sense a
of being in harbor with that tug lyin
@ close alongside painting in her heart
J, The blue water stopped noisily betwee
: the two vessels as they rolled at eac
other, and Mr.. Burn, leaning over tn
i rail, seemed able to forget what wa
1 going forward in the ship in laughin
L at the tugs helmsman, whose thin shar
shot out of pair of compasses into
g mere pellet of head, mere rope {
!, onions, the least on top.
y "This state of suspense is dreadful,
q whispered Miss Mansel to Mr.. Shannon
a "What will they do to the wretche
n man,
''Put him in chains" answered tn
h ships surgeon. who stood near.
\ "The brutality of itl' exclaimed MI
= Shannon with "a face that was suddenl
q dark with passion 'Did you ever see
S chain gang?"
The girl with shudder answere
). that she had seen men on railway plat
q forms in England linked together an
4. that had been sight that sickened hei
% Mr.. Shannon was about TO speak whe
% he caught q look from Captain Trollopt
r. III was "a look of menace, almost of fur,
"a 1t had but the life of an instant. Mex
r breath the tall soldierly looking ma
N seemed to be listening at the compar
il ionway at what was passing below.
b All Of sudden up rushed Poole, tn
second mate.
r "Where's the doctor?" he shouted.
"Here, answered tho ships surgeon
i "You re wanted, sirp'