Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-09-21

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ing. But Spanish, or, rather, Cuban,
otherwise, for she was born and
reared in Havana"
Now, L call this n bit of news" l
said, with lively interest. 80 you
are the same as my countrywoman?
This, to be sure, accounts for the color
of your hair, which | have all along
thought rather extraordinary for
Spaniard. But jeremiah Hope? 1sup-
pose | must be wrong, yet-nay, +
think / have heard the name. Let us
see what the captain has to say. Capt.
Sellinger," called to him, 'have you
an acquaintance with one jeremiah
Hope? He lives in Havana"
"Why," was the answer, the captain
looking up in little surprise, mo ac-
quaintance, but he is the person to
whom am carrying the letter. | mean
Capt. Torrycorn's letter"
1t was instantly clear to me. OF
course | had heard the name, and it
was a wonder l had not recognized it
before. l FASTENED to explain why l
had asked the question. and added
what the scnorita had previously told
me.
Naturally my companions were as
greatly surprised as |, and we
all agreed that we had seldom heard
of, "A more singular circumstance.
Then" said SeLlinger, as we con
cluded, "it may come to it that we
shall carry Mr.. Hope his niece as we'll
as his letter, for otherwise it would
be much the same as cutting heb,
adrift." 80 +,
"To which l say amen" said I. very
heartily. At other times. l had. been
wont to let Mr.. TSIn speak first, but
now | dfd not wait. E.
Both Mr.. Tym and Mac Ivrach, as
might be expected, were prompt to
agree with us. J.
This being our decision" said /,
greatly pleased, 81 will make 1t known
to the senorita. She cannot fail to be
relieved by it,"
l returned to her with the news ac-:
cordingly, and had the great satisfac-,
tion of finding her as rejoiced and
heartened as | had anticipated. In;
deed, she was deeply moved and gra te-
full, and in her touching manner of
saying SO fairly brought the tears TO,
my eyes. r.
This matter, then, being so well set
tied. we addressed ourselves anew to
the business of continuing the voyage.
We had decided, ! should say here, to
run first for Buenaventura, which SeE
linger thought was not much above a
hundred leagues distant. From there,
should need require, we could make
further voyage in the boat, but we
hoped to light upon some way of con-
tinuing in larger craft. Once in one.
of the important southern ports, and
we could not fail to find ship sailing
to the Atlantic side of the continent.
The next day and the next passed
without incident, and we continued to
work slowly but steadily south. The
third day something rather important
happened, for the wind, which had
hitherto SO greatly favored us, quite
abruptly changed. 1t was now almost
dead from the southwest, and at once
reduced our speed at least three parts.
In fact, with our shoal keel and, high
bow we could make no more than a
knot an hour. This was rather dis
couraging, but the captain said it was
to be anticipated, for we had now come
to the region where there were pre-
vailing southwesterly and southerly
winds, and these, we should find, con-
tinued to the equator. This was more
philosophical than comforting, but we
could do no otherwise than make the
best of it, and so the noon of the third
day drew on. | was at the helm, which
/ had recently taken, and was shak-
ing out a k;nk in the mainsheet, when,
happening to glance to windward, |
saw that which instantly suspended
my operation and brought me with
leap to my feet. Low down on the
water line, but perfectly distinct, was
the white, unmistaksble canvas of
ship.
| did not wait for a second look, but
bawled out, as though / had been at
the masth cad, sail ho!"
They all sprang up, like so many
puppets in a show.
where away?" cried the captain
and Mac Ivrach together.
Mr.. Tym, who was on the ether side
of the boom, scrambled under, and we
all stood in a group.
''Yonder,' l. said, pointing at the
speck. Thank God, she is not from
the direction OF Panama." =.
mo, she cannot be a buccaueer, com
ing from that quarter" said the cap
tain, with a breath of relief
THE next thing is to determine her