The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-30

'You will find him, Capt Layard.''
AT this he looked up at her, started
to his feet, and his face was eager and
impassioned with emotion not communi-
caole, for who can expound sthe workings
of the diseased mind?
Tell me-" he cried, and she saw what
Hardy had also seen-the baleful sparkle
OF mania In his eyes, you're fresh from
the sea, and God may have sent you to
me. Tell mep
| she could not sneak Her consolatory
! phrase had exhausted imagination, and
her heart refused its sanction to the
mates humane idea that 1t was good to
keep up the poor fellows spirits.
Tell mer' he repeated, and he advanc-
| ed step and his eyes devoured her
face.
GOD will comfort you and help you,"
she replied not knowing what to say.
he sighed, and, turning his head, fast
ened his eyes upon the little bed, then
! looked at her again, this time with his
painful expression of superiority, the air
OF man whose soul is exalted by con-
! temptation of something of a heavenly
| Importance dfvulged to him and to him
only, and, wearing this face, he opened
the door and she passed out, which was
lucky for Hardy, because had the cap
| tain gone first he would have found the
mate standing close and listening.
The captain remained In his cabin.
The others stood by the table and the
western light, rich and red as a deep
bosomed rose, flowed down upon them
| through the open skylight
Poor mani Poor mani" the girl ex-
claimed. Il fear that what I've said will
where his child is''
His moods are like the dog-vane,'' said
Hardy. Il could not hear what passed" I"
She told him. He frowned with the puH
zle of his mind
You can judge now for yourself said
| ne. Is it right that. q man like this
should command ship whose safety be-
came doubly precious. to me this morn
| ing?"
She smiled gently, but gravity quickly
returned; she could not but reflect his
face OF worry and uncertainty. The great
| dog was lying at his masters door, and
all was silent In the captains cabin. This,
In the pause, made her say:
He may commit suicide"
mot whilst he believes his son is alive
and to be found answered Hardy
| He walked to the door of her berth,
| opened 1t, d-7she saw that it was as
comfortably equipped as the ship would
allow
You shall have hair brush and what
| ever else possess to give yon,' said he.
| But how about the clothes? / can't dress
YOU
| 'I am saved" she answered, .'and that
is enough to think of at present
| = This was a spirited answer for a girl
| who was talking to the man she loved,
| for would not any girl, addressing the
man of her heart, grow pensive to the
| thought that she had but one gown to
| wear in the whole world?
He felt a certain sense of independen-
| cy, owing to the captains state, and con-
| sidered that he was entitled to act beyond
| his rights as mate. BY which / mean
| that 1t could not much concern him If the
/ captain came out and found him talking
to the girl, and generally acting as though
he were a passenger instead. of an officer
| of the ship.
| Come on deck" said he, .the air will
| refresh you"
And they went up the companion steps,
whilst the Newfoundland continued to
| sentinel the captains door,
A glorious evening, sky in the. west like
| a city on fire, clouds with brows glowing
/ into scarlet as they sailed intosthe splen-
/ dor abeam, the ship leaning with the
| breeze, and the white spume. stw1nk!ing
! on the eastern blue in a aatrembling, heav-
en-full of the lights Of foam Two sail
We're in sight, fairy CLEANS upon the
| lens-like edge on the port bow.
4 oh cried the girl, with a swift look
along the deck, latter an open boat! and
| one man groaning, and then lying. dead In
heri''
| They walked Slowly tn and fro to lee
! ward, leaving Mr.. Candy, who ogled them
betwixt his white eyelashes, to pace the
weather-Quarter deck in the loneliness OF
| command. The sailors had Immediately y
seen how things stood. Nothing that nap
pens at sea astonishes a sailor, unless 1t
! Is the expected, which is often a real sur
| prise; so full of disappointments of lee
111ae~f
| Here was the chief mate who had fallen
in with girl whom he knew.
| "'They might have kept company
| ashore says Bill to Jim. 'She was bound
one way and he another. Amt that sail
or fashion?"
"Ain't she got figure?'' says Jim to
| Bill Wouldn't 1 like to put my arm
| around her waist If Dick and TIE little
| 'un was playing, It's damned hard on Us
sailor men that no female society's al
lowed aboard a ship"
There's the figure-head, if it's female" "
says Bill. 1--WE known a man 50 ard up
that of a dog-watch, when there was plen-
ty o. light, he'd slide down the dolphin
striker just to talk TO the woman on the
| stem-head. He'd say 1t was the next beSt
| thing
Perhaps it was, for some fguse-heads
| in those days were little gorgeous I
have seen ladies under the bowsprits with
long black hair and swelling bosomS,
| bright with golden stars. Their blush was
/ Deep their lips scarlet, their smile aliur-
ing, they were always curtsying, and
the sea, in its loving humors, flung snow
| white nosegays at them.
| But the shadow of the boys death was
still upon the ship and so far the cap
tain had treated his men as men, and
| they were sorry for him. You may take
/ it that a mans not a sailor who i'll treats
| a sailor and, despite tradition and the
| presence of the sea lawyer, your ship 8
| company, if they are British, will serve
! Won honestly if their food is fit even for
sailors, and if they are numerous enough
| to do the work of one man and a half q
| man added per head, as against the one
man work which the shore exacts without
| expecting more.
! AS Hardy and the girl walked the deck
| whilst the ship sailed along stately in
] the beautiful light Of that evening, they
| talked again of home and then OF the
country to which they were voyaging.
The sail upon the port bow leaped like
tinv lets aof red flame, and no star of
| heaven could have filled the liquid dis
| tance with more grace.
1T was certainly your destiny to make
for Australia" said Hardy, "and 1 now
say what 1 thought from the beginning,
that your chances lie there. But we had
| to find you BERTH
] Capt Snedley was very kind to me, .
| she answered. He would sometimes
| invite me into his cabin and talk to me
| as pleasantly as though he had known
| me all his life. He gave me an introduc-
ton to the bishop of Calcutta, and begged
him to do everything that could be done
for a. girl placed as l am. I believe he
talked to the passengers about me, for