The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-15

~ tno upper punk WhereAt stood the
ships doctor, the steward and the
stewardess. I saw the corpse Of the Ital-
IAN with his throat most horribly gashed
and cut. The doctor was holding q
knife.
What's this?' asked.
As foul q murder as was ever done
ashore or at sea, answered the doctor.
NO imagination could figure
ghastlier corpse. 1t lay in check shirt
and white trousers, with kind of
white sash round its waist There was
q shocking look as Of sudden terror on
4 the face. The fiat of the cabin port was
covered with blood. still liquid and
draining down the ships side.
Is that woman murdered, too?
said ], looking at the figure on the deck.
No, answered the doctor, she's
in a dead faint.
The stewardess said: She rushed
into my cabin about ten minutes ago
and told me that she had found that
man lying dead with his throat cut, his
head and shoulders in the port, as though
he had been talking to somebody out
side. She was trembling and seemed
sick and mad. sent the steward for
the doctor. The woman came with me
here, and when she saw the body she
screamed and fell down dead as / be-
ieved.
She's in faint, said the doctor
See this, captain.
He handed me the knife saw at
glance it was one of the cuddy cary
ing knives. label was attached to the
handle on which was written in hand
like print:
" Non 81 scampa dalla vendetta d un
Dio ettraggiato.
What the meaning of it?' said l.
s Italian, answered the doctor,
and, SO far as understand it, signifies,
There's no escape from the vengeance
Of an outraged God. -
81 This is the work of an italian,
.hen,' said l.
There's no making sure of that,
Sir. by this legend only, answered the
doctor, taking the knife from me and
looking at the writing, but one thing IS
certain. This man was stabbed and
gashed as you see while he held his
head in the open port.
Was the body SO posed when you
entered:'
{ Eyes. He lay with his shoulders
and head in the port. The first thrust
killed him.
Who's his murderer said l, look
ing at the stirless figure on the deck.
Not she-no, exclaimed the doc
krSs ct,s ts \ IA =
from withoutAthat's quite certain.
Where was she, said /, when the
man was killed? Not in this berth any
how
No, captain, she never did it, ex-
claimed the doctor, looking again al
the woman. Her hands are clean. OBJ
serve by those splashes how the blood
spouted. Then what woman incumber.
ed with petticoats is going to get over
the side Of the ship and crawl to tina,
portfolio holding only what?'
is he dead?' said /.
D s.As. this knife. he answered.
...See that woman, stewardess,
$500 80 ~ 5ctor, keep her alive. must
clo :. lysr story
losOT ordered the stewardess to carry
M1er into spare berth, and then wen
on deck i'll, and with face wet with
sweat and with heart on fire with
amazement and horror and wrath.
1t was a secret impossible to keep
The second and third mates and til,
boatswain, several of them graspins
brightly burning lanterns, entered til,
tween decks and started on search
among the male emigrants, married ant
single. The females were left unvisited
for the mate and l, while overhangine
the side under which the blood STAINED
port was situated, had satisfied our
selves that no female hand had don,
the deed. The squares Of the ports wer'
wide enough to easily admit of TIN
passage Of body. The port Of thi
tragedy was little way abaft the miz
zen channels. 1t would have been pos
sible for man, by standing with on,
foot on the nut of chain plate bolt ant
holding by the plate, to swing off clos
enough to the port to stab the throa
Of one who should put his head into tn
square of it. No woman had done it.
while they ransacked the 'tweel
decks conversed with the mate an,
the doctor. What number Of Italian
did we carry among the emigrants?
forget the doctor answer. The numbe
was small. How came tween decl
passenger in possession of cuddy cary
ing knife? Well. it might have beel
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