The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-14

1t does not kill you, and reason with
many is Immediately active when slum-
Der is ended but the captains face alone
would have sufticed to stimulate the most
sluggish consciousness into clear percep-
ton, and without understanding the rea-
son of it she grasped her situation.
She was alone in a boat with the mad
captain of the York, and there was moth
ing In sight save the everlasting circle
of the sea girdling a small broken vessel
towards which the boat was running. for
the captain had his hand upon the yoke,
and the little fabric was dead before it
once again.
Despair laid the ice cold hand of death
upon the poor girls heart. What could
she do? What would he do?
AS the sun slowly tfoated down the
slope he was clarifying the moon bright
ened her broken face. Julia's lips were
dry; her tongue had the rasp of a cats
upon the roof Of her mouth
is there water here?" she asked.
on, yes. You shall have water Put
your hand upon this. What shan't Won
have who helped me to find him?"
She extended her hand and held the
yoke steady; and he went into the bows
with the glass and filled it from the
breaker, all as sensibly as though he wa c
ght in mind; but he stood two or three
moments to look at the vessel thev were
nearing and talk to her
she drank with the thirst of fever. and
then perfect realization possessing her
q lttIe impulse of hope quickened the
yea Oh her heart, for she thought to her
sell, made cool by hope there are neo-
pie IN that ship and 1 shall be saved.
lie vessel was a small brig, floating
on cargo of timber. She showed a toll
eraoIe helght of side, and, judging from
Her cohdltlon, she had started a butt.
and the thrush had overmastered the
pump, and, as her davits were emptv. her
people had. no doubt got away in the
ooats. she made a church yard picture
Ior iorIornness with the broken moon
hanging over her, though daylight still
throbbed in folds of cloud In the deem
west.
JuEa saw with fainting heart that the
orlg was deserted, and she turned her
eyes up to God and asked what should
she do?
The captain stood in silence, with one
hand backward upon the yoke. his head
stare.
He may be in that brig" at last he
sald. what moved then? No, twas the
swing OF the forebrace. And if he i NOT
In that vessel" he continued in VOC
OF cunning, you who know where he is
Will tell me where to Steer''
She brought the whole of her wits to-
gether in her resolution to live and re-
membered that she had given some order
to this mans insanity by her system Of
answering his talk. She exclaimed with
all the tranquility she could summon:
II he is not in that vessel, Capt. La
yard, You will let ne rest in her for the
night because if you keep me sitting in
this open boat 1 shall be worn out. or I
might die-I am not strong-and how.
then, could l help you to find little John
ny?"
Right! You are right he answered
swiftly; you shall rest in that brig if ha
is not there; but if he is there changing,
his voice into note of triumph, he added,
we must rejoin the ship, because I want
the men to see him. And l am dying for
his company at night and for the sound
of his drum
AS he spoke these words the boat was
alongside the abandoned timberman, and
with the deXterity of a sailor-for in all
professional work he was as sane as the
sanest-he put the helm down, sprang IN
let go the halliards of the lug, and Sc
cured the boat by passing her painter
through channel painter.
The brig had oid-fashioned channels.
which were platforms secured to the
ships side, SO as to give a wide spread d
to the shrouds and backstays. The boa
sat close beside the main channel. With
the resolution of one who works for life
the girl seized the lanyards of the dead
eyes, and with the ease which her grace
ful figure would have promised game /
the platform of channel, and a minute
later the deck.
With alteration disciplined by profe 8
sional habit the captain went to work, his
intentions being perfectly sane save that
he discovered an extraordinary anxiety
and eagerness to get on board the BRIG.
He knew that he and the girl were 10
pass the night in the vessel, and so. with
the quick motions Of madness, and with