The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07

jest cOmndnOef SAILING out OIL any
English port. No man ever wrenched
such a magnificent amount of work
from his hands. But it was those
other failings which kept him what he
was, the pitiful knockabout ship
master, living from hand TO mouth,
never certain of his berth from one
months end to another.
That afternoon Captain Kettle signed
on his crew, got them on board and
with the help of his two mates kicked
the majority of them into sobriety; he
received a visit and final instructions
from Gedge at 6 o'clock, and by night
rail- he had filed in his papers. warped
out OF dock and stood anxiously on the
bridge watching the pilot as he took
the steamboat down through the
crowded shipping of the river. His
wife stood under the glowing arc lamp
on the dock head and waved him
goodby through the gloom.
captain Kettle received his first
fright as he dropped his pilot just out
SIDE the Tyne pier heads. A man-of-
wars launch steamed up out of the
night and the boarding officer examined
ms papers and asked questions. The
little captain, conscious of having no
contraband of war on board just then,
was brutally rude; but the naval Of
ffcer remained Stolid and refused to see
the insults which were pitched at him.
tie had an unpalatable duty to per-
form; he quite .sympathized with Ket-
! ties feelings over the matter,
and he got back to his launch
thanking many stars that he
affair had ended so easily. But Kettle
rang on his engines again with very
unpleasant feelings. It was clear to
him that the secret was oozing out
! somewhere; that the Sultan of Borneo
was suspected: that his course to Cuba
] hO =
! obstacles; and he forthwith made his
1rst ruse out of the long succession
which was to follow. He had been
/ instructed by Gedge to steam off
straight from Tyne to a point deep in
the North sea, where a yacht would
meet MIN to hand over the consign-
ment OF struggled arms. But he felt
the night to be full of eyes, and for a
HaVana-b bound ship to leave the usual
steam line which leads to the English
cnannel, was equivalent to a confession
or her purpose from the outset. So
ne took the parallel rulers and pen
clled off on his chart the stereotyped
course which just clears Whitby and
FIamboro head; and the Sultan of
rorheo was held steadily along this,
S1eamlng at her steady nine knots:
/ and 1t was not until she was out of
sight Of land off Humber mouth, and
the sea CHANGED to be deSolate. that
he starboarded his helm and stood off
for the ocean rendezvous
hand on the foretopsail yard picked
up the yacht out of the gray mists of
dawn, and by eight bells they were
/ lying hoVe-to in the trough, with a
hundred yards of cold gray water tum-
ping between them. The transshipment
was made in two lifeboatS, and Kettle
went across and enjoyed an extrava-
CANT breakfast in the yachts cabin.
me talk was all upon the Cuban revo-
luton Carnforth, the yahlt's owner.
brimmed with il.
If YOU can run the blockade. can
tain" says he. and land these rifles
ana the Maxims and the cartridges.
they IL pe grateful enough to put I'D
statue to you. The revolution will end
IN snap. The Spanish troops are. half
OF them, fever-ridden, and all of them
discouraged. With these guns you are
carrying the patriots can shoot their
enemies over the edges of the island
into the the Caribbean sea. And there
is no reason why you should get
stopped. There are filibustering .expe-
dltlonS fitted out every week from Kew
west and Tampa and the other Florida
ports, and one or two have even started
from New York ITSELF
But they haven't got through" sug-
gested Captain Kettle
Not all of them" Mr.. Carnforth adj
mltted But, then, you see, they
sailed in schooners, and you have got
Steam. Besides, they started from the
states, where the newspapers knew all
about them, and so their arrival was
cabled on to Cuba ahead and Won
have the advantage of sailing from an
English port
don see where the pull comes
In, said Kettle gIoomily. There isn't
a blessed country on the surface of the
globe more interfering with her own
people than England. A Yankee can
do as he darn well pleases in the fill
clustering line; but if q Britfsher flakes
a move that way, the blessed law here
stretches out 20 hands and Dlucks him
back b. the tail before he's half
started. No, Mr.. Carnforth I'm not
sweet on the chances. I'm a poor man.
and this means a lot to me; that's why
m anxious. You're rich: you only
stand to lose the cost of the consign-
ment; and if that gets confiscated it
won't mean much to you"
Carnforth grinned. You pay NV
business qualities a poor compliment.
captain. You can bet your life I had
money down j., in hard cash before 7
stirred foot in the matter The weapons
and the ammunition were paid for at
90 per cent above list prices so as TO |
cover the trouble of secrecy, and l got
a charter for the yacht to bring the |
stuff out here which would astonish
you if YOU saw the figures No. I'm
clear of the matter from this moment. |
captain; but I'll not deny that 1 shall |
take an interest in your future adven- /
lures with the cargo-help yourself to |
a cigarette
Then it seems to me-" said Kettle.
acidly, that you look at me Just as a. |
hare set on to run for your amuse-
ment."
The yacht owner laughed. lyon mt
it brutally," he said, but that's about
the size of it. And, if you want fur |
Their truths, here's one; 1 shouldn't par
ticularly mind if you were caught
'How's that?"
Because, my dear skipper. if the
Spaniards captured this consignment
the patriots would want another and 7
should get the order. Whereas. if Won
land the stuff safely, it will see them
through to the end of the war. and NV
chance of making further profit will
be at an end
You have a very clear way of put
ting it," said Captain Kettle.
Haven't 1 ? Which will Won take
gren chartreuse or Yellow"
And, Mr.. Gedge, can you tell me. sir
how he stands over this business?,'
On, you bet, Gedge knows when To
come IN out of the wet. He's got the
Did Sultan underwritten by the insur-
ance and by the Cuban agents I'D tn
double her value, and nothing would
SUIT ms books better than for a Spanish
cruiser to drop upon you
captain Kettle got up. reached for
his cap, and swung it aggressiyely. on
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