The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-09

his body upon the French mate and bore
him to the deck with a thump~ of lead, like
The fall of twelve-pounder ball, and they
thought that the brute's teeth had met in
the wretch's throat Hardy and the can
tain made rush and dragged the animal
OF the fallen man, and the captain.
grasping the creature by the coat Of his
neck, hauled him, growing flercely, to iha
companion and drove him below.
The man rose; his nose was bleeding
and after he had run the length of his
sleeve along it his face looked like de-
capltated head placed on the upright BODY
1t had been struck from.
Il want to swing my yards" said Cant
Layard. I've been hove to ali niIbt
through you. Take that man away: I
don't parley-vous myself and don't fol-
low your talk. He'll navigate you home
he looks a good navigator" And he
smiled with some sense of superiority of
meaning, which made his face litter for
comedy than for the tragedy of this pas
sage.
The French boatswain swept his hand
rail- ING
IF go with this man he will kill me ;,
said the blood-stained French mate
Not he The ship wants a navigator ),
replied Capt. Layard, with a cheerful
ness supremely inconsequential.
II you do not come,' said the French
boatsWain, in his native speech. II will
call the men up and they will throw
you into the boat
why can't you speak in English ?''
said Capt. Layard. He'll understand
you and we can follow your nearing
Inc French mate turned on his hoe,
ana was beginning to walk SLOWLY for
ward. AS cat springs when started nv,
oog so sprang the barques boatswain
upon his brothers murderer. With +ha
strength OF the fiends before thew were
cast out he rushed the bleeding scoundrel
TO the rail and yelled to his men Tba
french mate grasped the mizzen-shrouds
anu struggled and kicked in awful 81
renee; but In less than a minute threo
STOUT sailors, out of the four who manned
the BOAT oars, swarmed up Eight en-
ragged hands then tore the French mate
from the mizzen-rigging as the sween Of
the hurricane uproots a tree. All IN q
heap, struggling, wrestling, grooming
they got MN past the after-swifter. and
10 an order, shrieked through his teeth
by the French boatswain, thew hoisted
nm lengthwise to the rail and dronnad
him into the boat. The French boatsw1o =,
then made sort of saIaam bow To tha
captain and Hardy, and the whole four
disappeared in the twinklins of An ove
over the side amid shouts OF laughter
as,1,f,
down the deck. p
Get all sail upon her, Mr.. HARDY, J;
said Capt. Layard, but I shall keen INV
topsal TO the mast for a while min
see what they mean to do with no.
barque'' 'nae
Inc sailors dropped their buckets on0
scrubbing brushes and fell to bauldno ~
the halnafds Top-gallant and roval
YARDS rose, the mainsail was left to swing
! lnfk
now a rull rtgged ship, hove 70 hu+
clothed to her trucks, leaning with the
swell as though by swaying she was
knitting her frame together for the start
snip when under sail on the ocean
is ahve; watch her closely and YOU VIII,
discover that she has human intelligence
| In her methods OF helping, and at the
same time influencing, the reason that
governs the helm and incarnate wake
the quarter deck, or bridge 1t was ahou,
quarter-past z; the sailors resumed ths
business of washing down: the dacl,c
| spanked as the brine flashed along the
planks, and the boatswain stimulated thj.
sWeetenlng process by the inspiriting Ian
| guage of the land of the slush-lamn The
captain stood right aft watching the re-
| ceding figure of the barques fat boat
| The placid heave of the deep was crisnad
| by the delicate crumbling foam cur1tne
| from low, blue brows to the gentle suah
ing of the pleasant breeze, like some
! scene of swelling land enameled with
| white flowers; the darkness to leewa rd
had melted into azure, and it was all
blueness and brightness, and you heard
song that was swept with its summer
note upon the harp Strings of the lofty
spars
What will they do with him?' said the
| captain going to the companion and rest
Ding bis hand upon 1t as though in a mo-
menJ he would descend
II am wondering, sir answered Hardy.
! who stood near. II should not like to be