The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-13

. SqudflnS the yardS Win YOU
Saying which he lounged out of sigh
into the shadows about the galley.
: Old Benson's lungs pumped with al
engines power with passion. The mat
few feet distant heard him blowing
like grampus. But what could he do
Prudence not to be neutralized by tenn
per was one of his several useful nava
qualities. Surprising he locked Captain
Trollope up, laid him in irons, as his
present rage dictated. The news would
spread on the ships arrival. The papers
would comment with their usual i'm
pertinent freedom on the subject. Cap.
tain Benson would be known as the
skipper who clapped his passengers in
irons for venturing to take the air of a
hot night. A man who knew Benson
well once said of him to another, "There
is not much sentiment in Benson. I"
"Yes, plenty" answered the other,
"but they call it fifty per-centiment. +"
The old skipper hoped to sail the seas
few years longer and to add to his
dividends, which were already not in
considerable, and so after blowing at
the rail for few minutes he threw his
cigar away and went to his cabin.
Seven bells were struck at that mo-
ment-half past IL. Johnson and Han
key were beside the skylight. No other
passengers were on deck. The man at
the wheel stood solitary aft. The two
men lighted their pipes when the cap
tain went below, and the mate said
nothing, for why should he stop men
from smoking when the ladies had gone
to bed?
The shadowy figure of Captain Troll
lope came and went Oh the quarter deck
within sight of the mate, who watched
him as if he feared he was going to
blow up the vessel. Not till eight bells
did that tall shape disappear. Mr.. Mat
thews, with some relief of mind, then
saw 1T stalk into the cuddy and close its
own cabin door upon itself johnson
and Hankey had by this time smoked |
their pipes out and vanished The girl
had not shown herself. One or another |
had found an excuse to listen tiptoe |
fashion at her door, Once Hankey did |
so; Shannon, too, and Caldwell all |
under the pretense of drawing water
from filter abreast of Miss Mansel's |
berth. but no sound had been heard, and
1t was then felt and understood by the
conspirators who were sober that the
girl, for good reasons she would doubt
less be able to explain had resolved not
to communicate what she had overheard
till the morning.
1t was now Mr.. Poole's turn TO take
charge of the ship He arrived PROMPT
~, and when the mate was gone sent q
lazy glance at the sea, and to thoroughly
awaken himself for the four hours duty
fell to pacing the deck. There had been
some hustle forward at eight bells when
such OF the watch below as were in the
forecastle turned out, but all was quiet
again.
Scarcely was it o'clock in the morn
ing when most dismal, melancholy
walIlng was heard proceeding from the
sea, apparently right ahead. II was
something like the cry of the jackal ia 1
II sneaks 10 the rivers edge for a meal
d black meat, bat startling and amaz.
ng because so sudden, so uncommon. so 6
unexpected and wild and beastlike.
WHAT'S that" said Mr. Poole aIoud !
o himself, and when that strange CRY @
vas repeated minute after, clearly pro. S
eedlng as before from the sea right a
mead, he yelled out again, What's i
hat:" loud and shril.
The lookout man leaped TO his foot
hu sprang INTO the head to look over n
ne bows. The watch tumbled on 20 y
helr legs and ran confusedly to the 4
orecastIe. Again sounded the melan- a
hoiy' long drawn, heart subduino.
'alllng noise, and Mr.. Poole, wild with n
npatlence and excitement. unable IN q
otaln reply from the men, jumped ON n
ne quarter deck and rushed forward !,
nus were the principal decks for a
'aoe rendered vacant. The helmsman r
as Tar aft. Nothing happening on the /
lafter deck would be visible to him.
what IS it!' cried the second mate.
trusting III among the men and look 81
= over the bows. 3
don see nothing" said gruff 90
nee. What the blazes is il or was +,
y, =" Az VI was NJ
Amt that like raft out tbero2u ~
another.
Kart III your eye" grumbled Tom o
lhere's another man gone mad and M
other soul gone lost. "
AGAIN 1t sounded, always ahead. vet NJ
iht and seemingly in the air. What is 10
Q 10 compare that melancholy. af.
ghtlng note to? Probably the Afri. NJ
explorer may hear something like IL
nen the cathedral gloom of the mighty IL
rest has blackened into midnight g..
Seems TO be drawing ahead of u.s."
"a a man in hoarse whisper of fear tb
d awe. i0"i III
where's the gale blowed ms to,u %,
q another "smite my eyes if the cir cir
q sea amt aboard a.
mold your jaw" cries the second ,va
'te, and use your eyes. What d'vou hi
'Dummed IL I don't think IL como.
m aioft?' said sailor And turning
back on the rail he lifted his chin
stared STRAIGHT M, "A A. g.. lal