The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-10-14

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anchor we had left, creating fiutter among
the inhabitants Of the hamlet. who were
nightly alarmed at seeing a schooner bear.
ing no flag sail up within gunshot of the
shore and round TO as though for broad,
side. Heretofore they had not been mo.
Tested, but perhaps il was an inward sense
of trouble impending which made them
quake at the mysterious action Of the Phan.
tom, for barely a fortnight was to elapse
ere Grey. the "IIand Of Iron," sailed up az
i had done, and under the guns Of the flee,
demanded the usual tribute Of blood and an
Unusual one Of forage.
But now, saving few fishermen drawn
up on the beach, there was not craft in the
harbor. The peace OF the evening, the
quiet beauty Of the green land, and the feel
ing Of safety fell on my spirits like bene
diction after an impressive sermon, and
breathed as one breathes on waking from the
horrors of nightmare. War and danger had
vanished as had vanished the storm cloud.
OF the day before, and, indeed, so far a,
the events of the past few days had affected
me, they had been but as nightmare OF
as had been the storm to the land, leaving
but few marks TO tell OF its fearful reality
In week had recovered from the ter
rible strain to which / had been subjected
noticing only that my head had taken on
q few white threads l had never seen be
sere, but my nerves. which had been my
malnstay through life, were neither loosened
nor fraycd by the desperate tune circum
stance had thrummed upon them.
l had suddenly shot from an era OF con.
hict to one of peace, l thought, nor did
dream / should be aroused again, unless
voluntarily took the field. / became a
hero, too, nor was my notoriety cheap one
From Edgartown to the heights of Gay'l
head the fame of my achievements spread
even the half-breed Indians, whose ground
lay about the latter point, being unstnted
in their sober congratulations to the big
Thorn" as / was called by them.
Seafarers and those drawing their sub.
sistence from the sea are stolid TO apparent
indifference as TO the fortune. be il good oil
bad, fate deals out TO them. They become
Injured to the fickleness Of the great element
which is at once threat and mainstay
and the rack of uncertainty on which they
are stretched for most of their lives makes
wild demonstration impossible, be their joyi
mighty or their griefs deep.
And so. when i appeared before my moth.
er, who, as feared, had given me over al
dead, there was no violence Of emotion
only a stunned, ghost-seeng look on hel
white face as / entered her presence and
opened my arms to her, and the single ar
ticulate cry of my sonl my sonl" as she fell
into them. II was but little more from my
sister, who had been brought up in the
same stoical school, and by the time my Ions
story had been told, much as / am telling il
here, the quiet round of daily life had been
regained, the sick and wounded transferred
to the small house overlooking the sound
and the doctor, full of protestatons as to his
good intentions, and yet surly withal, in
stalled medical attendant.
After my arrival my earliest business was
to clear up my mind of two responsibilities
weighing thereon: the first TO get word to
Gen. Sullivan of the intended move Of Sii
Henry Clinton, as l feared that by some
slip my first message through the Jenny's
captain might have miscarried; the second
TO have the Phantom's cargo delivered al
New London.
The news Of the arrival Of Howe and the
departure from Newport of the French Ia