Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-13

rings unuer tne eyes. II beg your par
don, Mr.. McTodd for being so mat.
tentive. I'm afraid my thoughts are
under the sea instead of on top of it.
Is this diving very dangerous work
Their air tubes might get entangled. "
They're too old hands to let them
foul"
cor they may get swept away by
currents /"
"Their life lines will keep them in
tow"
cor sharks.
''Sharks are always feared at divers,
Miss Bradbury. No, miss, you may be.
lieve Inc, those two men are as safe
down at work below as you are here, or
safer, seeing that they can't get sun.
stroke, and you very likely will If you
stay here away from the awnings with
no hat OH.
She shivered. and thanked me, and
went away into the shade, and l turned
again and watched the boats and the
two moving patches of muddied water
which they were following. 1t struc,
me at the moment that the Steamship
Corinth Salvage association were put
ting vast deal of trust in the two men
whom they employed as their divers
G2iO. 600 worth Of gold is very vast
bulk of wealth for poor men TO be near.
They did not find the wreck that day
or the next Indeed not till a week hal
passed did they come across her. and
then they found that >hI had settled on
her bruadside into little gullay on TIE
sea floor where II current had Carried
silt over her till she was almost uuY,I,i
out of sight. They buoycl her whoa
she was found and that day went 81
in Cameron loaf and tried to see il
could make her out from above. Bot
she lay in 10 fathOns. and the water
was gray with mud from them WORKING
below. Looking down into it was lie
! peering through mist
The Cleaner swung. at her anchor
over the western ocean swells, AMI tire
sun bleached her awnings to the whit.
ness OF new fallen snow For mysel,
but for ono thing | never had such uu
easy time on full pay during all my
seaeoing. There was no work to do. \
lot of grog was served out. coast fash.
'''' "p NiSh' 'NiiNs lus Sup tItNl
tobacco burnt slowly and cost only
shillings pound But there was one
thing worried ne and that was Miss
Bradbury. She had Joined at Liverpool
as rosy lassic us one coull wish to
meet, and here she was getting winter
and thinner every day You could al.
most see the flesh slip away from her
bones, and she'd an appearance Ct scare
and worry about her face that mad one
sick to look at. All hands saw it, There
was no avoiding srch u thing But they
put it down to anxiety about Cameron
Tho pair Of them were openly ell
gagged To marry lay this time, and |
mast say the way that be and the other
diver worked was caution OF course
the water was warm, Int il was fairish
deep, and ! never saw men stay down
longer. They never seemed to give IN
while they mad strength left to lift
hand. and when they came TO the sur
face and had their gear taken off they'd
lie almost fainting with WEAKNESS from
what they'd gone through. And it was
not one day occurrence either They
were always the came, and the weeks
slipped away till they had run into n
month. and still none of tho gold had
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