The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-04
THE DIVERS STORY.

THE DIVERS STORY.
Waiter, salt for six herei Wild
ezspin's 8 going to give US that deadly
experience Of his. Now, captain,
forge ahead. It's glasses round for
the first man who interrupts Touch
and go with death, you say, and yet
ycur hair kept its original color.
How on earth was it7"
Another laugh rippled along the
saable;~ hut it'soon subsidized. The, old
divers twitr hing lips made it clear
mat his Ahoughts were elsewhere.
ne simply sat back, stared fxedly
at fhashaded candle before him and
Eroks into the silence with a steady
impressiiveness that soon had the
company spell Inbound.
You'll please yourselves about
swallowing this when you' We stood
in MY parlor and seen the newspa-
per cuttings on the wall, framed in
! bit OF The Witch's timber. As for
settlement you mightn't care to
deep through a few of the dreams
Tve had since. Aye. but the real
extraordinary part about it was, if
you like, that / should have walked
into Lacy Truman s Office il Hobart
Town as the clock struck Il that
morning, for r d Leen hanging about
the docks hungry and savage for
weeks. and I'd left Jess young
wifi with the words that. come no
luck, j was simply going to steal the
money to take us back to England
by the next weeks steamer. And I
meant that.
They were ship brokers, Lacy
Truman and his brother. walked
into their outer Office without being
invited. up to the boss clerk and told
him IN so many words I'd come to
Tie end OF my tether in that coun-
Try. The old tale! What are you9
Anything, .eh2 Sit. down there, he
says. 4 went to do it when the door
dies open and the senior partner-I
Snew fh s1ns both by sight sfaggers
ssii si wis "a &; q face Like ike death:itself.
fHa stood tLere and ratified out:
siN qnicki She's gone down
SOs5n, within q mile Of dockl
atswas it. Bang:gaes' 'fhs6nner
sDCs, and the other steps out, white
enough, too, in q trice. What. the
ne says almost lower than
'issas w sFEzSsner. .Ill never believe it.
ghtsa at 2 this morning and foup-
Lacy, you'r no f0olingi We've
covered her FOR sSs 900.
& 3 sOns doWns' repeats his broth
I; af as H he wanted to catch some
lady q throat met Eoorn6ss' clerk
coming up here. Raced back and
saw the owners and the captain him
self There's no log saved thing
at all. They simply say that water
was pouring in at the fore hold all
day yesterday, no one knows how,
end they JUST had time to put off in
HE boats before she lurched and set
lied down at 10 o'clock. That's four
siince Marcbl We're absolutely
ruinedl'
The clerks sat there like bits of
stone. The two partners stared at
each other. Youconld have heard a
feather drop. They were rich, as
things go. I'd heard. But four since
Marchi
Never believeit, says winTru-
man again, waking up. There's
something wrong. Old she'yvas, but
good for years yet. I'll swear. My
hatl Within a milea Lacy, surely
we can get some of the cargo up be-
fore
YES. to light fires with. This
salt will spoil those silk bales in less
than three days, man. BE was
sight, / tell you. ITO go down like
that in smooth water! {! told Coombes
plainly I woludn't pay out a faruhing
until an investigation had been
made, andif I suspected anything
I'd take action at once.
".You were fool to hint at any
thing Of the, sort.
!. .'Aye, perhaps ] was. We ought
10 have sent man down straight
away to look at her. Who is theres
Here, johnson, run to Saunders, the
diver, in Market street. Tell hint
come here this minute. I'll know
the truth of this
;. "They. went into the inner Office
together. sat there hanging on to
The buzz Of their talk and fairly
itching to do or say something Then
In about is minutes back tears their
clerk with the word that Saunders
was very sorry, but the owners had
that very minute engaged him to
make, an investigation next morn
Ing, and he didn't think there was
another diver worth cent in the
place. just then He'd find out.
"The two partners spun round
and looked at each other, and it
aidn,t need worda TO -shoW' what