The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-03

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! and Firms in high boots with turned-up
! toes, and lazy Russian fishermen, with
/ hair on their shoulders, and the dirt fair
| ~ peeling from them.
My Cod" said the chief fancy living
in such a place all the year round half of
&c when there's no night like we have now,
and tOther half all darkness Fancy al
ways breathing up these stinks. Fancy
marrying even the pick of the women.
! Ugh, aren't they brutes?"
Every one to his taste" I said.
They're women you could leave in safety
when you went away TO sea. No one
would run away with them"
lie laughed. I'm sure l don't know why;
but he did laugh.
You're funny dog at times, Mac" he
said though l don't think you know it.
Well, you're right in a way, but I don't
banker about gong to sea continually all
the rest of my days. What did you say 10
that girl yesterday
| I told him.
And you didn't let her know I'd set you
on"
Man, I am not quite fool"
You're far from that. Well, Mac, I'm
your debtor, and if l bring il off you shall
find that / can pay what I owe"
Then, it's not a settled thing yet?'
Its not.n It's the thought of what Sir
Rupert will say that's keeping her hanging
in the wind. But there's time enough yet,
the cruise is far from its end, and you'n
see me engaged 70 that girl before you
swell Southampton mud"
You've plenty of confidence in yourself, +"
l said.
81 have that" said he. I'm going nap
on this hand. I'm either going to win or
bust"
You're talking above my head
Perhaps you'll understand it better
and you don't feel shame" I said,
picking up this rich girl just to live on
her?''
MIR. McTodd," he says hotly, you've
my subordinate officer, and you're insolent.
If you don't stop that talk I'll break your
blasted head By Moses, if you want to
! fight come up back street and put up
your hands, or else don't speak again like
that 10 me.
| you needn't make fuss" I said; st
meant no harm. l thought 1 was merely
repeating your own ideas upon the mat
ter. don't think quite understand your
way of looking at TIE business"
II don't think | understand it myself"
he said. sourly which way are you go
| ing, Mr. Mc1'odd?'
straight on
Then I'm going straight back 1 don't
want your company any more just now Mr.
! MeTodd l believe I've tod you too
| much"
/ "Weel," Thought, the chiefs a strange
man at times, and L took a plug of slop-
| chest tobacco from my pocket and shred
! ded up aapipe-load@ 1 watched him stride
away amongst the Gods bones which
| strewed the street, but-he did not go down
/ to the yachts boat, He turned off in
! stead toward tbs other side, where the
/ t1aked rocks OF the island back in upon the
! wooden town; and ne passed through the
! great lays OF wooden racks, where the
| split cod hangs up 10 stink or dry as the
reathcr chooses, and he went ON TO the
peat and the hummecks beyond where the
! breeze comes in sharp and clean from the
Arctic, and the seafowl screams amongst
the crags He got LOST there to my view,
nor did / see him again till twenty hours
later, which was his next appearance on
the yacht. A small rain mad been falling
ali of the time, and he was wet and chill
cd to the bone His face was white aDd
/ drawn, with black rings around the eye
| sockets but there was grim look on ris
mouth which let me know he had uot
| changed about going on with his scheme.
| Well, if he married our eldest young mss,
! il was his concern and not mine There s
no man that likes siller better than me.
| But for all the marrying a swell like her,
no not even if she loved me, like it was
clear our eldest miss did the chief.
! Archangel was to have been our farthest
! port but il seems Sir Rupert got so sweet
on his Gods head fodder for cows that be
wanted to see every variation of it before
| he took the idea home to lay before the
| House of Commons. So we made steam,
4 unmoored and put her across the Varauger
to a bit of narrow inlet called Jar Fjord
on the southern side. But lot of things
/ crnf
The watch changed a midnight when
we were nalf way over, but instead of
going below when the chief relieved me
| strolled forward, got under a lee and
stared ahead. There was a cold glaring
sun high in the sky, and wind blowing
raw out of the north. In front of us was
a great fan of mountains glittering with
snow where they showed through the
| clouds, white right down to where they
| grew out of the water. On the sea through
which We passed were few boats OF
fisher Laps, riding dry over the short
| steep combers.
! must have kept my eyes on these for
! well-nigh an hour, instead of turning in
! like a seuseful man 10 gather my spell of
sleep when of 2 sudden there was a ring
| ing crack, as though some one had fired
a grass gun close handy, and afterwards
there came a roar which there was no
mistakins. / take credit for myself that
Dy the time / nau turned my mead my
| feet had already broken into a run aft.
Something had burst; l didn't know what;
the steam was coming in a grey noisy
| cloud out of the engine room, and before
anything else was done Il had got to be
| turned off from the boilers. That was the
one thing l had got in my mind as |
rushed aft, and l was going 70 do ii If
/ got killed for my pains; afterwards l
could see 10 the chief and the fireman on
| watch
But who should 1 meet coming out of
the hot cloud beside me as l got foot
on the engine ladder bat the chief himself,
| with face savage as a devirs. 1t APP
| peared he'd been sitting on the skylight
with the eldest Miss when the explosion
! happened below. and he'd seen her aft
first before he came to do his work
Get you out of that" he shouted when
he saw me move to go below. les my
| job
Very well, I'll relieve YOU" 1 said
by Godr he cried "if you won't listen
to words take that,H and he upped with
| his fist and send ma dyrinp 7 sa4nv bi,,,