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

"These are days OF peace, SAID ne,
"but / fancy there's prize money to be
got, all the same. Three hundred thou
sand, I think she said. What should l
say to a salvage benefaction of $4,000,
while you, dare say, would cable to
control your temper if they offered you
So, O00."
He faced the forecastle and lifted his
hand in reckoning gesture. Several men
started from their lounging, watchdog
pastures.
"Johnsonw called the commander
The man came aft. "Can't you make
canvas shoes, Johnson" said Boldock.
eyes, SIR"
81 WISH" said the commander in his
pleading, aggrieved way, THAT you'd
make the young lady we've rescued a
pair of shoes.
eff can get the size, sir, I'll turn to
at once" said the man.
at will be impossible TO get the size.
Suppose you measure an imaginary
boy"
The man touched his forehead and
was going.
"Stop," said the commander, speak
ing as though he was much hurt.
you're very smart with your needle,
believe? The lady will want a cover for
her head Suppose you turn to and
make her a round canvas cap like a
Turkish cap"
eff it comes to that, sir, said John
son, "I'd undertake, with nothing else
to do, to fit her out in three or four
days"
"What would you give herr" said
the commander, while Mr.. Hardy leer-
ed at the seaman with interest and Gu.
riosity.
"There's quantity of light duck in
the sail locker, sir. She shall have a
jacket and dress and two undergar-
ments.
You were tailor before you were
a sailor, weren't your" said Mr.. Hardy.
The man, with a grin, said, "Aye,
sir
"Use what duck you please and go to
work at once and keep all your watches
below till this little jobs ended" said
the commander.
81 shall want to measure the lady,
SIR"
"Aye, aye. but not for shoes. Let me
have a pair of boys shoes by tomorrow
morning"
"I'll do my BEST" said the man, and
went forward grinning with high de-
light. He knew he would be tipped for
this work and have nothing to do but
stitch, blow high or blow low, sleeping
''all night in" while his watch loafed
under the stars OF ran to the braces and
up to the mastheads in the wet.
While the sun continued to sink
northwest, filling the heavens and the
sea with burning gold, and while the
brig continued to break her sluggish
way onward, with crowlike Tapping
Of her canvas as though she drowsily
flouted the warm light breath that want
ed power to steady the sails, Boldock
and his mate stumped the deck togeth-
er, talking earnestly over the story that
the girl had related. By and by, and
the sun was then like a vast rayless tar
get hung up in corner Of the sky over
the water that sank in shaft of fame
for leagues under him, the colored cook
came out Of the little caboose with the
lady's clothes. Mr.. Hardy took them,
felt them over, and, finding them dry,
descended into the cabin with them,
and there he acted with gentlemanlike
delicacy. He pulled off his hat, neatly
folded the clothes, then knocked. He
was told to come in. The sun was al
most gone; the light was very dull
down here; as he could scarcely see aft
er knocking and opening the door, he
smartly trimmed and lighted bulls
eye lamp, which he hung open upon a
nail This made plenty of light, and
Mr.. Hardy, giving the lady bow, ask
ed how she did.
e 81 am very much better. l believe
have slept. What have you there? Oh,
my clothesl Are they dry?"
"They are, miss, said Mr.. Hardy,
and he politely placed the neatly folded
heap at the bunk side.
Observing the poor lady's anxiety to
be alone, Mr.. Hardy gave her another
bow and said he would look in upon
her again in half an hour, with pair
of slippers belonging to himself. She
asked for number of convenience
towels, hairbrush and so forth. All
these things he procured, much pleased
with the brightness of her eyes as they
reflected the bullseye and the looks of
animation in her face, to the very chin
of which rose the blanket, completely
mummifying her.