The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-28


water was very wet, and that til,
steamer was lying on a bed of feather.
which was knee Deep
IF we dig the water away. the hol,
fills up almost directly" they said
We must searp 1t back, and pin ths
scarps."
4 do So" said Scuttle, certain in his
| own mind that the divers had seen the
mortgage and We're hiding it, O,Hara
came across and kissed him heartily or
| both cheeks.
Hang your imported manners" he
! said, reddening, "if ii was my wives and
child I'd not mind, but a. foreigner
| taught
o'Hara spoke United States remark
ably well for a foreigner and remark
ed:
Il forgot you don't speak foreign, but
I'm going down to look after those
divers. Something's up down there.
Seuttle thought il was down up there,
but he said little. a ~
I'm coming too, he mentioned.
OHara was visibly startled
What do you mean p he asked.
you've got a Siamese suit. You and
I go down in 1T. The pump will give
air for two. and if the tube gets cut
then you understand
Il wish you wouldn' t insist on this
said O'Haras persuasively. =
Scuttle crossed his arms, and knitted
his brows. 80 ~ e.
I'VE lose tins" he said stifly, and
threw the knitting needles down. re-
He soon had the heavy diving dress
on, and looked intently at O,Hara.
Was he jeering through that little
Window" he asked himself and then.
refused to answer. He shivered in the
aS,E#
foreigner puts his knife-and wondered
If a knife was I'M him. Both went
down together, and Scuttle felt the
chill of the water creeping above his
head, and the throb, throb of the air
upon his temples. 1t reminded him Of
a morning after a supper of fizz.
h Strange fish whispered soft nothings
as they came and peered in at the glass
of the headpiece, great hideous octupi
waved their long arms syrenically:
huge crabs appeared and spat venom
at the tortuous travellers, while on
every side Were beds bright with many
colored anemones and crimson and
green weeds: IT was weird, strange
sight, such as only an author has wit
messed, and Scuttle turned it over in
his mind and thought it would do to
embroider his tale with.
asAT he water was very muddy. and they
stumbled on the wreck, hardly know
ing it. Two divers were sitting on it
playing seven UP, and did not hear
their approach.
Scuttle raised one Ieaden-soled foot. |
and one diver went up to the surface |
O'Hara did the like with the other.
Then holding his knife in his teeth |
and determined to sell his life dearly. |
Scuttle crept after O'Hara until thew |
found the mortgage half hidden in the |
bank of feathers.
To put the dog hooks on and to /
hitch on the end of the chain runner
was but the work of a second, and by
his time the air was giving out.
Heavens, is there no more air in the
world, sobbed Scuttles, losing con-
iciousness. Then came singing in the
Vars, a rush of blood to the nose, and
lie sat up. He was on the orlop deck
# the jolly boat, and the foreigner.
, Hara, was flaming him.
Better" he asked Scuttle.
Heavens, man. aren't you a foreign
asked Scuttle.
Not much" said O'Hara, laughing.
/ never was; it's only the name de-
eived you. I'm American. the same as
-ou''
You're no foreigner, then?'
Great Scott, no. / never heard of
he animal
Nor more did II said Scuttle heart
", as his eyes fell on the rescued mort
age, but to use 1t sounds If we knew
Let's go to the Poll Parrot
nd get the taste of salt water out of
ur mouths"