West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-04-08

tuic every one OF you.
Wen be Shot down before wen be
taken" erowlcd the villain. "How.
mmcyCr perhaps we can como 20 terms.
Give MS ;be Hul, aud toe mu.e, and the
GOATS ana wei give up the doctor and
leave the ship"
mo, sirr'
well give us tho boats and we'll
pass You over the doctor"
You can't bHve the boats!"
"lIarkee, captainH' said Johnson,
while the Rng behind him growlcd
sld cursed and shifted about. 1--WE are
- ready to die "a You arc If you won't
make fair terms then wen all go TO
the bottom together. II yod won t take
the doctor and give US the boats, then
overheard he goes, and we'll set fro TO
the ship. Think it over for ten minutes
and give me an answer
Cam you realize the position Captain
Clark was placed in? That was no idle
threat OF Johnson's, at least as far as
the doctor WAS concerned, and humani-
ty demanded that his life be saved. But
II they wcrc permitted to come Gr5 to
take the boats, who could tell " hat trick
they would play on Us to get possession
of the cabin? IL would bo like them to
set fire to the ship rs they showed off in
Che beats. They might disappear i'm the
darkness TO return and attack US. And,
above all, what would the government
say if we turned loose gang of con-
victs to capture the first ship they came
across when we had all the ADVANTAGES
CT the situation? After three or four
minutes of discussion every man and
woman saw matters in tho same light
as the captain did. Rc-onforced by Rob
erts, we were better situated than be-
fore. Nothing was moro certain than
that we could hold that cabin. When
Johnson showed himself again and de-
manded an answer, the captain replied:
You cannot have the boats. IL you
murder the doctor, it viii be hanging
matter FOR every mothers son Of you.
If you want TO fro the ship, 70 ahead"
scream of rage arose from the bow
Of tho ship. and johnson shook his fist
at tho cabin before no jumped down
from his perch. 1t is hard for mo to tell
you that they carried ont their threats
against Dr. Haxton, but within ten
minutes they had him on deck and
flung him overheard. You would have
thought they would have spared him, as
they had seven or eight wounded men
Co De looked after, but in their despera-
ton they cared for nothing. The poor
man made no cry az they sent him TO
his death, but we who were intently
listening plainly heard the splash when
he struck the water. Ten minutes later
there was "a great fiame forward and
shouts and cries from tho mutineers,
but We judged that it was only bluff,
and SO it turned out
Had 1t come on to blow hard, our no
sition would have been many times
worse and perhaps untenable. Tho bark
would have needed looking after, and
we could neither have done it ourselves
with that gang ready to pounoe down
on US, nor allowed them on our side of
the barricade for fear of results. 1t did
seem as if the hand of providence was
III 1t as we went drifting away before u
breeze which hardly brought a white
cap to the sea. That night passed quiet
ly away, and still we drifted. Not a
move was made ON either side next day
nor the next. The mutineers slept, sang.
danced, ate and drank, and all quarrel
ing was at an end, and in the cabin we
watched and waited and grew more
hopeful as the time passed ON.
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