The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-28


swered.
He smiled with glance at her beauti-
full figure, and said:
Turn to, then, and lend me a hand to
shorten sal"
Between them they manned the neces-
sary buntlines and clewlines, and Julia
dragged as handsomely as her sweet
heart.
'Give us a song, George, for time" she
said, and he started "Chillyman," which
sea air Julia had caught from hearing
it on board the Glamis Castle and her
voice threaded his like the notes Of a
flute:
Randy dandy, heigh-hol
Chillyman!
Pull for shilling, heigh-hol
Chillyman!'
In fact you may put any words you like
to these sea tunes and the sailors will
pull the better If you damn the eyes of
the quarterback in rhyme.
Hardy next thoroughly overhauled the
brig, so far as perception of her condition
was possible. He could not see why she
should not hold together through twenty
such gales as roared over her last night.
He stood with Julia looking at their only
boat, beside which there lay, as though
placed by some angel Of mercy, a watch
tackle. The sight of that watch tackle
sunk him into contemplation, and Julia
gaZed at him whilst he thought. How
weary were the motions Of the brig upon
that sulky sweep Of swell. Yet the fine
figure of the girl swayed to it with the
graceful ease of fgurehead curtseying
at the bow. She was shipwrecked; she
was in a dreadful situation of peril; this
time tomorrow she might be floating In
the sea corpse, and yet never on board
the Indiaman, on board the York. or at
home had she felt happier. She was low
ing him passionately, and he was always
with her, and she could not but be happy.
Presently he said:
''I will tell you how it can be dcne
when it reeds to be done, She is
small boat and not heavy, and you and
l will cant her on to her bilge with
handspikes, then I'll hook that watch
tackle to a strop round the foremos-
thwart and take the hauling part to the
winch and rouse her along to abreast
of the gangway. That gapgway there
unshns and we will sit low upon the
sea and we'll tumble through the gang
way overheard, smack fashion. If she
proves too heavy, we'll rig out spar =
here he cast his eyes round-"with the
watch-tackle made fast to her, and the
winch will do the rest. Yes, that Is my
scheme if it should come to it. Mean
while let us be patient and keep look
out for ships.
But the Imprisonment on board this
abandoned hull of MIR. George Hardy
and Miss Julia Armstrong was to con
tinue until the dawn of three days,
counting from Hardy's time Of finding
the girl All the while 1t was very fine
weather, and of a night they would SIT
on top of the deck house whilst HARDY
smoked and Julia prattlcd They watch
ed the sea lights, which glittered upon
the black breast of the ocean: they
watched the flight of the meteor They
talked of the stars, which nowhere wheel
in so much splendor as over the sea, and
of the Great Spirit who controls their
flight. Morally they were the least ship
wrecked of people. They were happy IN
each others company; If either one mad
been alone it might have proved mad
ness to him or to her, but the voice of
love, the presence of love even in the
gloom of calamity, makes a light of
their own which was as inspiring as the
hope that springs eternal. 1t was not
strange that no ships ever showed a
white rag of canvas, a cell of sooty
smoke upon the horizon in any point or
the compass, because the brig sat low
and her dip would be small, and
ship may be within the compass of boat
race and yet not be seen. Hardy often
went aloft and searched the waters; he
did not lose heart, because he felt sure
that something must heave In sight soon
err or later, and meanwhile, with great
care, the food they had would last them
a week or perhaps longer, and there was
fresh water for a fortnight, or perhaps
longer, for I am telling you what l have
heard. and, like the tramp in Dickens
Sketch nv squire Would not tell lie
for no man"
Hardy was also sure that the brig
would hold together, and, being Of tie
careless nature of the sailor, though prov
ident, willing and sober, he would not at
low his spirits to be depressed, and he
had eyes enough in his head to see that
Julia regarded her perilOus condition as
something in the way of an outing-ro
be enjoyed. She was fine girl, and we
are never weary of admiring her. [ have
told you that she was not pretty, but
her face, what with the cock of her
head, the hand on the hip, the speaking
appeal of her eyes, carried such CHAR
acter of romance that it not only inter-
ested you at once, when she looked al
you full and fastened her eyes upon
you with her slight smile, it made you
even think her pretty, and certainly
the truest beauty of woman's face
comes into it from her mind
Then broke the dawn of the third day.
and Hardy, who had been sleeping since
g. awoke and stepped out of the deck
house, and with the briggs telescope in
hand, CLIMBED ana searched the sea II
was again a fine morning; the heavens
were lofty with their freckling of sta
tionary small cloud; the wind was light
breeze, little TO the north of east; an
the sea, which streamed in thin lifts,
sparkled to the caress of hand that
could make it roar when it thought A..
Suddenly into the lenses Of the glass
there entered a fulI-rigged ship, showi g
nothing but three single reefed topsails
60. fIn trnI7 limo live y
her hull a little above the horizon. "A
full rugged ship under that sail in this
weather." thought Hardy. by he1ven,
it must be the York, and if so, she is
Abandoned
(To be continued).