Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-11-08
And no trace was ever found of

Not Stlck nor SnreQ.
''But about this visitors book. You'll
swear they took it with them? See,
there's not a stain of salt water upon
it,
mo, there isn't; but I'll swear young
MIR Blake had it in his hand as he went
from my door /"
SAID "Mr Job, I've kept you al
ready too long from your dinner Go
and eat, and ask them to send in some
TO come with me and take look at
my yacht that is lying just outside OF
the haven.
As we started from the shore Mr.
lob. casting his eyes over the Siren,
remarked. That's a very pretty vawl
OF yours. SIR AS we drew nearer be
began to eye her uneasily
'She has been enlightened some five
or six feet said; "she was cutter 20
oeginwlth "
lord help usl" then said Mr. Job, IN
Sheba. I'd swear TO her run anywhere
ay or to that queer angle OF her
ha wse- holes"
A close examination confirmed Mr.
lob that my yacht was no other than
the lost Queen of Sheba. length
aned and altered in rig 1T per
suaded me, too. ] turned back TO
Plymouth, and leaving the boat in
Cattwater, drove to the Millbay station
and took tickets for Bristol. Arriving
there just twenty four hours after INV
~ ly~k1 n 10
10 Mrs Carlingford's lodgings.
She had left them two years before.
| nothing was known Of her where
abouts The landlady could not even
tell me whether she had moved from
Betlminster. and so ! had to let the
matter rest.
But just fourteen days ago received
the following letter, dated from a
workhouse in one Of the midland
counties:
DEAR SIR I am dying woman and shall,
probably be dead before this reaches you
The doctor says he cannot give me forty
eight hours 1t is angina pectoris. and suffer
horribly at times The yacht you purchased
OF me is not the Wasp, hut the Queen OF
| Sheba Myshusband designed her He was
man OF some property near Limerick and he
and my son we're involved in some OF the Irish
troubles between 1881 and 1884 1t was said
they-ha Joined one OF the brotherhoods and
/ betrayed their oaths This am sure was moi
true,s But it is certain we had to run tor feal
| OF assassination After O year IN Liverpool
we were forced to fly south to Port William
where we brought the yacht and lived fol
| some time In quiet. under our own names
| But we knew that could not last and had takei
! measures TO escape when need arose M
| husband had CHANGED while at Liverpool upoi
1 a a.
| MefSey, but OF about the same size as hl$
| own and STILL OF course. upon, the register
| he bought her OF her owner. MI CARING
! ford and stranger. for very few POUNDS
! and with her-what he valued far more-hei
| papers, but be never completed the transfer
| at the custom house His plan was, II pressed
| to escape abroad and pass his yacht on as tht
| Wasp and himself as Mr. Carlngford All the
| while we lived at Port William the Queen OF
! Sheba was kept amply proviSloned for voy
age OF at least three weeks. when the ne
/ ceSSity overlook US quite Suddenly-the name
| OF a man, Macguire. in the visitors book OF q
! small inn at Penleven We left Penleven az
! dusk that evening. and held steadily up the
| coast until darkness Then We turned the
| Yachts head. and ran straight across for Nor
/ lai3; but the weather continuing 6ne for a
| good fortnight Tour first night at sea was the
! toughest in all this time). we changed oui
| minds cleared Ushant and held right across
| cruised slowly down the coast and through th'
| straits finally reaching Malaga. There WE
/ staid and mad the yacht heightened. MY nus
| band had sold his small property before eve
| we came to Port William and had managed t,
| invest the whole under the name OF CARING
| ford There was no difficulty about letters o.
! credit AT each port on the way we had showr
I the Wasp's pa pers. and used the name o.
/ Garingford and al Lisbon we read in an EnR
| !ish newspaper about the supposed capslzlnS
/ ofsthe Queen OF Sheba. Still we had not only
| to persuade the officials at the various port
| that our boat was the Wasp We knew thai
] our enemies we're harder TO delude, and oui
/ uext step was to make her as unlike tn,
/ Wasp or the Queen OF Sheba as possible This
| we did by lengthen1ng her and altering het
! rig But IT. proved useless. as ] had Away
| feared it would The day after we sailed from
| Malaga. a Spanish speaking seaman. whom we
| had hired there as extra hand, came aft as u
| 10 speak TO my husband (who stood at thu
| WheeD. and. halting pace or two from him
| lifted a revolver. called him by name an6
| shot him dead Before be could turn
| my son had knocked him senSeless. and u
| another minute tumbled him overheard we
! buried my husband IN the sea- next day W.
| ueld on we too alone past Gibraltar steer
| ,ng and my son handling all the safls-and raj
| I'D tor Cadiz There made deposition
| our losses. inventing story to account to'
| them. and my son took the train for Paris, TO-
| we knew that our enemies naQ GFackeO en-
| Yacht. and there would be no escape for,him
| he chung to her waited for six days anf
| then engaged crew and worked the yach'
| back to F.. have never since seteyes or
| my son. but he ls alive. and his hiding Is
| known tomyselr and to one man only--a mem
| Der OF the brotherhood, who surprised the Sc
cret To keep that man silent spent all q,
| remaining money to quiet him had TO sci
| the yacht. and nov that money. too. is gone
and am dying in a workhouse God help %
| son deceived you. and yet think did yoi
| 90 great wrong The yacht | sold you was ms
| own. and she was worth the money The fig
! ares on the beam were cut there by my bus
| oand before we reached Vigo, TO make th
| Yacht correspond with the Wasp's certificate
| II have wronged you tmpore your pardon
| Yours truly CATHE ERNIE BLAKE
| Well, that is the end of the story. II
does not, | am aware, quite account
tor the figure saw standing by the
| SIRENS wheel. AS for the Wasp, she
.ong since rotted to pieces on the
waters of the Mersey But the ques
ZION is: Have right to sell the
Sirenp I certainly have a right to