Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-23

A slice Of young moon, with a few
attendant stars. slowly climbed into
luminance against the last ardors of
the sunset, as he leaned modify
against the deckhouse.
How the miserly hour caught up its
golden coin of minutes and fed!
s"Time-tfme, time-time, time, time,n
sang the watch bell monstrously soon.
Its got to be done!' he muttered
between his set teeth, as he stepped
unsteadily out of the moonlight along
the engine-room passage, once more
unpacked the fatal lump, turned the
key five times, and with a flying
heart descended the steam ladder to
the engine-room, the bomb ticking in
the loose breast OF his shirt us he
went.
"Hullo, Tudor. Forgot your jacket?"
sang out the chief, MS he stopped over
the rails and tried the heat Of his bear
ings.
AYE" replied the third engineer, as
he passed.
In the fierce tunnel of light from one
Of the open furnaces the nude stokers,
and trimmer plling forward the coal
to them from behind, seemed like
gnomes Of some Eastern legend. Poor
chaps! A chatter like the sound Of
sewing-machine from the thing in his
breast seemed to chant their requiem.
He slipped the black thing Of evil
below an end Of one Of the boilers.
caught up his jacket and ran on deck.
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lifeboats he stood, sick with terrible
expectancy, awaiting the end with his
gone! - Three!
Then little figure in white came
forward out of the darkness Of the
poopdeck. 1t was the captains daugh.
ter.
rs that you, Mr.. Tudor?' she said,
sweetly.
EYES," he replied hoarsely. Three
minutes and half gone.
II want to tell you how sorry I am
for being nasty with you last night. 1
II didn't mean 1t.
"Alice, Alice! Quick, for PHYS sake.
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