Evening journal., 1898-10-08


then down with your helm an put into
the first port as we comes to along the
English coast I'll make all the ar
Iangements,' he says, AN I'll come
down tomorrow mornin an see as the
time an tides all right.
"Well, up he comes at tho same
time next morning with face as happy
as any / ever seed, an with arrange
ments as we was TO start with tho ebb
tide at O'Clock that everiin. You
never seed a chap in sich state as he
was, but, bless you, he was the right
sort, an if hadn't liked him already
I'd ha' sworn to ha' gone anywheres
with him then. Nc an Tom had q
busy day ON it altogether, cleanin an
gettin tho Seabird shipshape for the
v'yage Tom, he was just as anxious
for it as was. COS know he'd allus
admired the young lady like the rest Of
'em, an he was a strong an handy young
chap-bein a nevvy of my own an
brought up in my own house.
cat o'clock down comes Master
Egerton with a bundle Of wraps, just as
il no was a-goin hshin, an sure onuff,
just as / was about TO ask for the lady,
he goes back an fotches a tall young
woman in blue yotting oostoom an a
little straw hat with heavy white veil.
Down he comes agen an helps her in,
an we pushes Off. but didn't feel sure
as no had got the right un, not till she
lifted her veil an showed the prettiest
an handsomest lool1in face you ever seed.
as made my old heart thump in spite of
myself an sent Tom into tho bows with
face as rcd as the Seabird's gunnel.
Away we won't at a good rate Of speed,
with steady breeze from the nor'east
as made the ovenin cold an laid the
Seahird over TO it like the beauty as she
is. Tom was a-managin the lug, an
was a-steerin, an of course the two young
peoples was sittin side by side with q
tarp lin jacket round 'em, both just as
happy as they ever wanted 10 be.
"Just as wo was congratulatin our
selves ON gettin away unobsarved an
nfore we'd got couple of miles from
shore, sees Tom stand mp in the bows
with his hand a-shadin his eyes an
lool1in back toward the jetty.
=" Bill, he says suddenly, it's the
sylphr
" 'Whereg says the young feller an
me at tho same time.
" Just a-beatin out he says. An
she's a-comin for us with every scrap
she can crowd ont
"Now, didn't tell you as tho colonel
him as took the house for the season
.roo tho ,,,lx- man oo I ovar foornd
ngen tho Seabird. He was good sailor,
too and that craft as he brought down
the Sylph-was the prettiest thing
I'd seen since the Seabird was built
Her lines was just as beautiful as q
I swan an as graceful as a piotur', an tbs
, only fear I'd ha' had in owning he,
was as they might be bit too fine. l.,
never sailed tho Seabird agen her, for
! allus reckoned as she was the tastes
: craft on the coast, an 1 hadn't got Il
4 recognize no equal
I "Well, there she come with her whit
d sails just as neat an as pretty as q meI
a maid-beg pardon, sir, it's true story
Y shall we say as young woman
a Inow'd her in a minute, for ther
wasn't another craft like her, an whei
, l gets the glasses could see two per
sons as was worlzin TO get every bit on
) of her they could.
"'Let her have another, Tom, say
; as looks at tho lug, an tho Seabir'
lifts herself out Of the water as easy a
0 a gull
' master Egerton, he sat there witt
his arm around the gal a-loolKin back a
q the Sylph, an 1 sec him whisper in he
4 ear summat as cheers her up immediate
Then he turns an asks mo how soon
n would be dark, an whether we oouldn'
Y run ON without light But / could sc
r us the Sylph was a-gainin on us fast a
n sure, an / never felt so miserable in m
life sir as did then, when felt th
a Seabird, as I'd sailed in and sworn by
r was no match for the neat little craft O
s was a-oomin up behind. Yes, there sh
come, leapin an duclzin just like th
a beauty she was. took out my watol
It was just past an wanted two ful
7 hours to dark, an atore that time
IS knew the Sylph would bo alongside.
n "'Beggin your pardon. sir, an your
Il miss, ! says, but that there crafts Ia
n nuCn lOf luo CtADlIut an iAtfb tlu y
a doubt as wo'll be overhauled before "
IL can get away
N "In half an hours time the Sylp
!. was less than half a mile astern, an
could see tho colonel a-standin in I'll
n bows a-wavin his hands like a ma
!. thing. The wind had freshened consiC
n 'rable, but held the Seabird TO it, a
y We was both a-dancin over tho wave
n like petrels, though fancied as l see
tho Sylph take a deal of water. A
7 still them two sat there a-comfortin on
is another as ! could see, though nev,
y heard a word Of what they said Ono
,s I looked at 'em, an 1 thought / sec
Va her a-prayin, an it quite took the stare
out Of me for time 20 think as I'd bi
IN a-trustin all the time to the Seabird q
never thought Of the God above. / nev'
m was no Christian, sir, an l never toe
,r no heed of them sky pilots as con
ts among us, but think did say som
thin for her sake then, though
~ couldn't put my hands together prop
n. like, seein as I'd got hold OF the till
fsObt and fast