The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-07

would look at 1t and then refer to the
book.
In this singular study, fearful with the
menace of the light in his eyes, tragically
portentous with the lifting look of tri-
umph and the insane smile, he spent
about half an hour, and then closing the
lid of the medicine chest he stood up and
looked at the drum, and softly wrung
his hands with a heart moving expression,
whose appeal lay in the souls perception
seeking to pierce in vain the torturing
and bewildering veil of disease; for 1t is
not the immortal soul of man which is
mad in madness, and this belief is God
sent; the soil buries and resolves to ashes
the mania that destroys, and the purified
soul is liberated to await the judgment
of God-its. home.
After few minutes he stepped into the
cabin and called the attendant, who was
handling crockery and glasses in the
pantry. The fellow stepped out.
Jump below into the lazarete," said
the captain, land draw bucket of rum.
I want plenty. This is my birthday, and
all hands will drink my health"
The man was not at all astonished he
had got the news from the forecastle.
He was sort of steward, and knew the
ropes in the laZarette. The little hatch
was just abaft the captains chair, and
was opened bya an iron ring. The man
| accepted the captains orders literally dis
appeared, and returned with a clean, big
bucket
The lazarette Is an after-hold, com
partment of a ship in which in those
| times all sorts of commodities used to
! be slowed, chiefly edible, and for cabin
use The man lifted the hatch cover
| the hatch was no more than manhole-
and by help of the light which shone
| down upon cask that was almost i'm
mediately under pumped the bucket near
ly full.
The captain went to the hatch and
looked down, and exclaimed:
Hand it up; I'll help you" He re-
! celyed the bucket and placed it on the
deck. and the man sprang through the
hatch and replaced the cover
Take it into my cabin, said the can
! tain, and bring it on deck when send
for it,
And this was done, and the man went
on deck whilst the captain entered his
berth and closed the door
I have drawed enough to swim ye.''
said the cabin attendant to Bill.
Tain't like being ir port, though, .
answered Bill, whilst Jim and several
others like him grinned at the news OF
the grog. when l takes a drop I'm for
dancin', and where are the gurls?"
'Ah! echoed Jim, in sigh born of
lobscouse and livid fat of diseased pof k
| Finding that the captain did not make
his appearance Hardy kept the deck VITA
Julia. Again they talked Of the cd M
the drunken stepmother, the withe1ing
indifference of the retired commander r.
n. to the loneliness and helplessness of
/ his child, and to her prospects in life
Hardy spoke of it with heat. and the
girls face was often hot with the pas
sion of memory.
What should I have done without
j your she said once and again. and sill
again. But if I cannot find employment
1 in Australia must return on this shin .
and she looked at him with the eyes OF
a sweetheart.
IF anything happens to Capt. Iayard. .
said he, mo doubt ] shall get command. =
Now, if anything should happen i.
| the roundabout of if he should die and
| people modestly thus speak of death as
though 1t was anything, as though it was
not the only thing that is real to be ex-
pected without fear of disappointment.
I believe he will grow quite mad long
before we arrive at Melbourne" said IN.
| liza; but even taking him as he IS wol1ld
I the agents trust him ?''
You want to come home In this shin
Julia?" said Hardy
You are the only friend I have in tbe
! world, she answered; and thus thew coo-
ed without billing, for Jack was n
strength forward, and the second mate
walked the deck to the windward. and q
sailor stood at the wheel.
! About a quarter before neon hr+ ,o4
| till then, the captain emerged with his
sextant. If he had come up with a fac
of madness, the sextant- he held won
! have clothed him with all the sanitv he
needed in the sailors opinion. Buf his
| face showed no distinctive marks of the
condition of his mind, the expression wa
even calm; he seemed as one who was
about to realize the consuming hcpe Of
MS life; the shadow of the coming event
subdued him. The crew were on deck
gathered forward in all variety of sprawl
ing posture, smoking and talking. " n
teeth sharpened by the hard and bitter
! fare Of the sea. Alsosseven bells hay:ne
! been struck some time since, they I,neW
that noon and a bumper of old Jamaica
We're at hand. and every. eye was directea
aft.
Hardy disappeared and returned with
his sextant, and Candy fetched his. and
tue three men fell to screwing down the
sun till its lower limb was like wheel
] upon the ocean line. The captain never