The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-22

lookout day and night, telling Oziel
tfey were near at land.
At last, one still eve there anne a
black 4 starless night, with but a
breath Of wind, so that they drifted,
making Murrin mad with impatient de-
sire. All night they could not see a
hands breadth from the bow, where
bristled a long, brass gun. And when
morning an at last they looked
eagerly, and there she lay, but half a
mile away, Dixey Lynch's craft. Oziel
recognized it with a shout, but Gabriel,
on the deck with a spyglass, saw more
and shook his fist impotently = Lynch,
pacing his planks with ~long-legged
stride.
The ruling elder, so orderly and puri-
tanical in meeting house and in the
street of staid Boston, whom Oziel
remembered once as a bright and shin
ing light for little awestruck New Eng
laCders to reverence and initiate, had
startled the young fellow in New York
by the vehement fury with which he
was found attacking the raiding ruff
fans IN the ship chambers house. That
passion was little TO his rage now, so
that OZiel was constrained to consider
where good Master Murrin'S time had
been spent in the periodical trips on
business matters which the trader had
been wont to a k from Boston on his
own VesseiS. Certainly he seemed at
no loss how TO bear himself now. To
Oziel's arnazement, he lost little time in
idly m%enacing DiXey Lynch. In a trice
he leaped TO active command of the
schooner, the master and his men
obeying him promptly and with that
apparent confidence in a leader which
men only show who have followed a
chief to success before. Gabriel was
transformed. No rant flowed from his
ling British Tc~aaI r-oC fOrCoftan onH
its peacefulness ignored. Rippingly
came the commands with sailorly
bluffness, and Oziel noted how cum
ningly he egged his men 20 quarters
by proclairling loudly that the other
schooner was the most notorious pirate
on the seas and would make them all
walk the plank if they themselves did
not disable her. Oziel made no objec-
tions TO GabTiel's SPEEDY resolve to
fight. but he remembered what Gabriel
forgot, or thought little of-that Justin
WosiG ne ngEung on the otner ship.
That reflection fretted him, as he pick
ed a cutlasS and loaded a brace of
pistols.
"Susannah, ahoy.'' came suddenly
gently ripping swell. II Gabriel
leaped like a monkey UP the shrouds.
on recognition Of Lynch's voice, and
answered it by a gesture OF 'vengeful
fury, so exaggerated that even Oziel
laughed.
a good morrow to YOU, friend
Gabriel came through a speaking
trumpet, and it was plain Lynch had
recognized old Murrin. rs thy sore
head healed?"
I am about to pay you for thai and
all else, Dixey Lynch" screamed Ga
bTiel. You would outWit me, would
you, you thief? You would steal a
march. YOU pirate? O seek treasure,
you red dog. do you? You shall find 1T
maybe in sharks bellies, Dixey Lynch,
but nowhere else, you unhung, gibbet
lOoSed"-
What else one could not tell, for the
raiders wrath shook him so that he
lost his hold and came tumbling to the
deck, amid a shout of laughter from
DiXey's boat. That made him so fren-
Zied, the yellow blOtches on his face
now black with venomed blood, that he
could not speak, but ran himself TO the
forward gun, for the Susannah was
now heading to the other, and himself
touched her off. There was d fash, a
"a T a belching of black smoke,
and that defiance one could mistake,
as the great ball struck the water a
fathom in front of the enemy's ship
and skipped into the distance, as peb-
bles go from a boys hand on the sea
shore. 1t startled Lynch, or at least
surprised hin. That Oziel could see.
While the schoOnerS lay so near in the
morning light, for the crew of his ship
were at once TO be seen running here
and there in haste to man their guns.
Dixey must AVE been taken aback, no
doubt imaging that Gabriel would
rather treat than fight. There was no
suspicion of the intrisUer in the old
mar now. So active was he, so daring.
so much at home. that OzieI stared in
establishment, almost adniring him.
and forgot to call him hypocrite, if he
thought at all, of the same man in
town meeting.
Dixey was taken so
hat twice the long gun in the
bows was fired before he re-
turned the compliment. The sec
ond o did no more damage than
the first, at which Gabriel hoped in
~dignantly, n condemned the gunners
with no lack of brine favored words.
The breeze of the morning was yet so
faint thai the distance between ships
remained about the same, though each
a al canvas set, and only gentle