The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
COPYRIGHT. 1898. sy w, Ausos.


the commander, with "a look of stupefac-
tion. "lt is always the wrong weather
at sea. Why doesn't some air come
along?"
"Most undoubtedly the Queen, re-
peated Mr.. Matthews, who continued
TO seesaw with the long brass tubes as
they rested on the edge of the cover,
himself standing inside.
forward, there' bawled the COM
mander.
"Sir," answered voice.
"Send the Queens men aft"
"Aye, aye, SIR p"
The five Of them presently arrived,
staggering and lurching like drunken
seamen on the slope of tho deck as they
walked.
"Here," said Boldock to the first of
them, who happened to be Tom, "get
you inside that hatch, my man, and
look through that telescope and tell me
what ship that is. "
The instant Tom caught her he howl
ell out, with his eyes still at the glass,
"Blowed if she amt the Queen. All
allowance was to be made for great ex-
element. If that ship was the Queen,
/ the mems clothes were on board of her,
their certificates Of discharge, seven
pounds of tobacco belonging 10 them
were in their chests and few pounds
| in money.
"Out you come" said the command
er. Next man. -
One after another the five stepped i'll
TO the hatch, and after lodging and
ducking and moving and sweeping
with the immense telescope declared
that the bark yonder was the Queen.
They then went forward and looked at
her in little crowd upon the forenas-
tie.
The heavens were clearing, the hori-
zon opening the atmosphere brighten
ing, the colors and lines of the bark
stealing out clearer and sharper.
eff she's not the QUEEN said Mr.
Matthews, "this briggs lot the Welles-
ley. "
Are the scoundrels who stole her
aboard of herr" exclaimed the COM
mander.
"She looks to me to have broken
adrift from her moorings," said Mr..
Hardy.
"Moorings! Where would you moor
herr" said Boldock.
"Off Halloran island. ~
"And why not?" cried the command.
er, instantly seeing the point. ''There
has been lot of dirty weather of late "
THAT fore topmast staysail looks as if
they'd been tending her at anchor"
said Mr.. Matthews
'But if there are people aboard" ex-
claimed the commander, "why do they
let her lie without a rag save that stay
sail?'
"They may be waiting for wind?"
said Mr.. Hardy.
"Will they show fight, / wonder,
when we bear down?' asked the COM
mander, and his nostrils enlarged while
he glanced at his one gun 81 rather
hope so. They're all armed with re-
volvers, you tell me, Mr.. Matthews? I'll
lead the boarders, Hardy"
"You il not find me far off, sir, said
Mr.. Matthews. Nearly all that own
in the world" he exclaimed, with pa
thetic gesture at the bark, sis in yon-
der vessel. 1 blush to own it. l blush
to think l should have been such fool
as to lead for years the life of dog for
no more than what you may pack in
sea chest
Mr.. Hardy lightly groaned.
Are you talking Of the Queenf"
cried Miss Mansel's voice at the foot Of
the companion ladder.
AYE, that is right" answered the
commander, putting his great red face
into the companion. "We've fallen in
with your ship. We're waiting for moth
ing but little wind. For gracious sake,
mind, Miss Mansel. We are rolling
frightfully. Hold on like grim death
till get at you.
He sunk down the steps, and, clasp
ing the young lady firmly around the
waist, half carried her to the top Of the
ladder, where they stood together, he
bolstering and snoring her up most af-
fectionately while she looked at the
bark, but not with the glass, for that
was beyond her. The sea admits of sit
uations which the land provides no
apologies for. Her robe still consisted
of her dressing gown, her hat of the
white cap of sailcloth.
The truth is the dressmaker forward
had proved failure. "His fits would
give any woman fits" Boldock said,
bursting into loud laugh when Miss
Mansel, attired like windsail, arms
crooked out with tightness and without
a waist, stepped from her cabin. HE
shall be sent to Paris. The French love
originality in cut. The dressmaker of
the Wellesley will charm them" So
the young lady was obliged to stick to
her dressing gown, though she contrived
some undertaking for herself out of
the seaman's insists. The man was
greatly mortified by his failure and was
much laughed at forward He was UNI
usually profane for two days and was
heard to say, with several imprecations
In tho old style, that eff ever he was
caught cutting out for another woman,
might he be cut up himself.
H.. a. Al.