The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

He is unjustly condemned" Carne-
gle repeated, as though he were quot
ing from a lesson. He is suffering
Imprisonment in this pestilentiaI place
-er-Cayenne for a fault which some
one else has committed; and unless he
is rescued, he will die there horribly
1 am appealing to your humanity,
captain. Would you see a fellow
countTyman wronged?"
Il have only to look in the glass
for that" retorted Kettle. Most peo-
pies kicks come to me when I am
anywhere within hail. And you'll
kindly observe, sir, that I've nothing
but your bare word to go on for Mr.
Clare's innocence. The French courts
and the French people by your own
admitting took very different view
of the matter. They said with clear
ness that he did sell those plans of
fortreSses to the Germans, and know
ing their way CT looking at such a
matter, it only surprises me he wasn't
guillotined out Of hand"
1T is my daughter who is sure of
his guiltlessness in the matter" said
Carnegie with a flush. And he adj
ded. ! may say that she is the chief
person who wishes for his escape"
Captain Kettle bowed, and fingered
the furnished badge on his cap. He
had a chivalrous respect for the other
sex
And it was she who made me ad-
vertise vaguely for q seafaring man
who had got daring and the skill to
carry out so delicate a matter. We had
two hundred answers in four posts;
can you credit such thing?"
Easily" said Kettle. L am not the
only poor devil of a skipper who's out
of job. But G100 is not enough, and
that's the beginning and the end of it.
There's two ways of doing this bust
ness, I guess, and one of them's fight
ing and the others bribery. Well, sir,
a man can't collect much of an army
for % pun notes and as for bribery
why. it's hardly enough to buy up a
deputy customs inspector in the or1i-
nary way of business, let alone a
whole squad Of Cayenne warders, with
a big idea of their own value and i'm
portance Then there's getting out to
French Guiana, and getting back, and
steamer fare for the pair of us would
come to more than a couple Of post
age stamps And then where do I
come in? You say / can pocket the
balance. But I'm hanged if I see
where the balance is going to be
squeezed from. No, sir, e100 is mere
foolishness. and the kindest thing ]
can do is TO go away without further
talk BY James, sir, 1 can say that
if you'd given me this precious scheme
as YOUR OWL THERE = a HAL III IfllS
room who would have had a smashed
face for his impudence; but, as you
tell me there's a lady in the case, I'll
say no more.
Captain Kettle stood up. thrust out
his chin aggressively, and swung on
his cap. Then he took it off again,
and coughed with politeness. The door
opened, and the girl they had been
speaking about came into the room.
She stepped quickly across and took
his hand.
NOT leave you alone with my father
any longer. 1 just had to come in and
thank you for myself. 1 knew you
wouid be the man TO help US in our
trouble l knew it from your letter."
The little sailor coughed again and
Redeemed slightly under the tan. I'm
afraid. miss" he SAID, q am useless 1
AS I was explaining to your-to Mr.
Carnegie, before you came in, the job
is q bit outside my weight. You see
when l answered that advertisement
I thought it was something with a
steamboat that was wanted, and for
that sort of thing. with any kind of
crew that signs on, am fitted, and no
man better But this
20. do not say it is beyond youi Other !
prisoners have escaped from the French /
penal settlements 1t only requires 1
matters from the outside, and the thing /
is done"
Kettle fidgeted with the badge on his |
cap. with respect, miss" said he. |
what any other man could do 1 would |
not shy at; bur the thing you've got
here's imposs. hle; and the gentleman /
will lust have to stay where he is and /
serve out the time he's earned"
But, sir" the girl broke out pas
sionately; ''he has not earned it. He /
was accused unjustly. He was con- /
dernned as a scapegoat to shield others. /
They were powerful-he was without !
interes:-and all France was shrieking |
for q victim Mr.. Clare was a subordi- /
nate in d government office through /
which these plans of fortresses had /
passed He was by birth half an Eng
lishrnan, and so il was easy to raise
suspicion against him. They forged
great sheaves of evidence; they drew
off attention from the real thieves; they
shanled him horribly, and then they
seslt him off to those horrible Isles de {
Saiut for life. Yes. for life, till age or