The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19

with the exception of Candereau, the
Frenchman, who remained at the
wheel. Those who were innocent had
to pretend approval of the crime to
save their own lives. The captains
effects were laid out upon the table and
divided into seventeen shares. Watto
insisted that it should only be eight
shares, as only eight were concerned
in the mutiny, but Leon with greater
sagacity argued that everyone should
be equally involved in the crime by
taking their share of the booty. There
We're money and clothes to divide, and
a big box of boots which represented
some little commercial venture of the
captains. Everyone was stamping
about in a new pair. The actual
money came to about SO each, and
the watch was set aside to be sold
and divided later. hen the mutineers
took permanent possession of h cabin
and the course of the ship was altered
for South America, n the Inflated
barque began the second chapter OF her
infamous voyage.
The cargo had been preached and
the decks were Uttered with open cases
of champagne from which everyone
helped himself as he passed. There
was a fusillade of popping corks all
day, and the air was full of the faint,
sickly sweet smell of the wine. h
second mate was nominally command
er, but he was a commander without
the power to command. From morn
ing to night he was threatened and in
suited, and it was only Icons inter-
ference and the we~ll-grounded convic-
ton that they could never make the
land without him, which saved him
from their daily They gave
a zest to their champagne c~arousels by
brandishing their knives in his face.
All the honest men were subjected to
the same treatment. Santoo and
Watto came to the Norwegian
carpenters milestone to sharpen their
knives, explaining to him as they did
so that they would soon use them on
| his throat. Watto, the handsome lad,
declared tina he had already killed six
teen men. He wantonly stabbed the
i~noffensiYe Chinese steward through
the feshy part of the arm. Santos said
to Candereau, the Frenchman, I'm two
or three days I shall kill you'll"
xii me them" cried Canderau with
spirit.
This knife" said the bully, will
serve you the am that it a the
captain"
There seems to have been no attemps
upon the part of the nine honest men
to combine against the eight rogueS.
AS they were all of different races and
spoke different languages, it is not sur
prising that they We're unable to make
head against the armed and unanimous
mutineers.
And then there befell one of those
incidents which break the monotony OF
long sea- voyages. The topsails of a
ship showed above the horizon n
soon they rose her hull. Her course
would take her across her bows, n
Tho ,,oota q Sl-a6 lea va ~ hail her as he
was doubtful as to his latitude.
You may do So said Leon. But
if you say a word about us you are a
dead man."
The strange ship hauled her yard
aback when she saw that the other
wished to speak her, and the two lay
rolling in the Atlantic swell within
a hundred yards of each other.
1--WE are the Friend of Liverpool"
cried an officer. 'Who are you?"
1--WE are the Louisa, seven days out
from Dieppe for Valparaiso answered
the unhappy mate, repeating what
the mutineers whispered to him The
longitude was asked and given, and
the two vessels parted company. With
warming eyes the harasSed men looked
at the orderly decks and the well
served officer of the Liverpool ship,
while he in turn notices with surprise
those signs OIL Careless HdLpullHS WHICH
would strike the eye of a sailor in the
rig and management of the F1owery
Land. Soon the vessel was null down
upon the horizon, and in an hour the
guilty ship was again alone in the vast
ring of the ocean
This meeting was very nearly being
a fatal one TO the mate, for it took all
Icons influence to convince the other
ignorant and suspicious anne that
they had not been betrayed. But a
more dangerous time still was before
him. 1t must have been evident to him
that when they had made their landfall
then was the time WREN he was no
longer necessary to the crew and when
they were likely to silence him for
ever. That which was their goal was
likely to prove his death warrant.
Every day brought him nearer to this
inevitable crisis, and then at last on
the night of the I'd Of October the look