The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-08-02

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brows and lowering look Instead of
answering at once, he took turn across
the deck, stopping & moment at the
other rail, and bowling his head as in
thought. Presently he returned, his
look less harsh and the lines of his
sunken mouth relaxed.
"Now here is shrewd trick of bar
gaining" he began. "How you must
have overhauled your brains to COM
pass it! You would make compact
to last to dot as long as your necks
are in danger. Well, well, it may be
all that | could have expected of you
and ! will not balk at it. Let us fetch
the matter to a head, then. You will
swear to me 10 impart nothing what
ever of the matters concerning the
mutiny, neither to Morgan nor to any
person, till such a time as you shall
take ship for England. In return, l
shall do you no harm, and shall recon-
mend you for places in Morgan's COM
pany or some other. Is this as you
would have it?"
why, yes" said Mr.. Tym. who looked
a little surprised at the ease of the vic.
tory. "You ratify this, friends?'
Mac Ivrach and promptly assented,
sand you swear accordingly" went
on Pradey.
eve do" the three of us replied.
"As do I, for my part" he said, with
a satisfied nod. "You are now safe,
and I am free of my complications.
Thus all ends we'll"
He smiled blandly, and I supposed
the interview was over, but Mr.. Tym, it
seemed. would have question.
what is our present destination?"
he inquired.
"Chagre," replied Pradey, promptly;
"but first l will run a bit to the east
ward" he added, "hoping to fall in
with homeward-bound Spaniard.
Such one might deem it favorable
time 20 slip out of some Cuban port"
Mr.. Tym thanked him for the infor-
nation, and we returned to our own
parts oflthe ship.
at is clear" said I, as soon asve had
withdrawn little and could exchange
word in private, that Pradey has
fetched around, as we guessed. He has
tied our tongues for the present, and
before they shall be loosed again |
means to stop them forever"
"Aye, It's so, indeed" replied Mr.
Tym, "and we must henceforth be on
our guard. He is dangerous to the
limit of his ability"
1t was now well into the evening,
and as we had settled our plans and
were weary we gave over further dis
cussion and went below.
We awoke the next morning much
refreshed and likewise in improved
spirits. Our mates of the steerage
were all on deck and we had an op-
portunity for little comforting talk.
Taking everything into account, our
prospects were not, after all, so very
bad. The main question was how to
'outwit the treacherous and.dangerous
Pradey.
When we reached the deck we found
the ship making but small headway,
the wind having much declined. In
deed, 1t soon fell to calm. We looked
vainly for the Pilanca, for she had
clean dropped us, nor was any other bit
of canvas in sight. Well to the S.uth
the seaboard was broken, for there we
made out whif must be land, and on
Inquiry wers told it was one of the
northernmost of the Wiudward
Islands, Our course was now due west,
and Lieut.. Phibbert told us we were to
till we raised Cuba. If we
fell in with no prize by that time, he
said, we should stand directly for
Chagre.
We had an easy voyage across the
Caribbean, and finally made the land
fall Of the isthmus. All was now stir
and excitement, for we could not say
how matters had gone, nor whether
Morgan and his feet we're here before
us. 1t was approaching nightfall as
we drew in, and it would be hard mat
ter to determine much without stand
Ing dangerously near, but Pradey did
not finch. The wind was almost from
the north, but he coolly held his
course, taking desperado's chance Of
getting out again, apd SO the Black !
!