The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-13

OarreI down at the wharf wondering
what was going 10 do, and whetbeT
, aiter all, IL would not have been vieer
Oh me to have put up with that brute
u cdPtaln until we got down to Val
We viii talk all that matter ger
| IateF' the Mexican said. Il am STAYING
with some friends. who will : am no c,i irls
MAKE you welcome when I tell them
ina you saved my life.''
thank you very much" the sailor
SdIu' out no doubt I shall be able tn
llilu some little inn where 1 can obtain
a nights lodging"
such thing is not to be thouob+
OF senior Harland, and I shall feel verv
offer" "OO0p1 lily
They were now in a wider street. and
passing wine shop from which th1
light streamed out, Harland saw that
the Mexican was a young fellow brIt
Two or three years older than himself
ana MS dress showed him to belong to
the upper class. The Mexican's glance
mad Deen as quick as his own. for he
said, why, YOU are vo1,neye,. ~, i
am" 'ii''H
I am just 49,"
Ship" Oi- } oui
NO. Ny father IS one of the leading
cltlzens of Boston; he absolutely re-
Iuseu to allow me to follow the sea. as
PROFESSION, although he is a large ship
owner hlnSelt; however, my mind was
MADE up, and as l could not 90 as an
ofhcer, l came as sailor. This IS not
my nfst voyage, for two years ago he
let me sail IN one of his ships as an
apprentice, making sure that il would
nave the erect Of disgusting me with
the sea. However, the experiment failed
ana TO his anger 1 returned even fonder
OF 1t than when l started. He wanted
me 10 90 into his Office, but l positively
refused, and we had a serious Quarrel.
al the end OF which l went down to the
river and shipped before the mast.
KNOW now that l have behaved like 2
fool. The captain was a brute of the
worst sort, and the first mate was
worse and between them they made
the ship he'll. l stood it as long as I
could. but three days before we got to
TINS port one of the young apprentices
whom they had pretty nearly killed
Jumped overheard, ard then l made IN
my mind that as soon as we landed I
would bolt and take my chance of get
ting a perth on board some other ship"
senior
Well, the last ship I was in traded
along the western coast. putting in at
every little port so / picked up a good
deal of the language, for we were out
here nearly six mOaths The ship I have
just left did the same, so l have had
nearly year on this coast, and having
learnt Latin at school, of course it
helped me very much. And YOU. senior,
how do you come to speak English?''
i have been down for the last six
months IN Valparaiso, staying with a
relation who has a house there. and
my greatest friends there were some
young Englishmen Of my own age. sons
of a merchant. Ny father had spoken
or my paying a visit TO your estates
some day and therefore I was glad of
the opportunity Of learning the Ian
guage- This, senior, is the house of my
friends"
As Harland saw that his companion
would take no denial he followed him
into the house. The young Mexican
led the way to pretty room with win
dows to the ground, opening onto a
garden.
You are late. Senior JUAN" a gentle
man said rising from his seat. but be-
fore the young man could reply a girl
Of Is or l6 years cried out, ''Madre
Maria, he is wounded"
tt is nothing serious, and I had
almost forgotten it I'll Just now it be-
gan TO smart / have two, or, 7 think
three stabs on my left arm; they are
not very deep, as 7 twisted my cloak
round il when 1 was attacked. Bur if |
would have been a very serious bust |
ness had it not been for this gentle |
man, whom l wish to introduce to |
you, Don Guzman as the savior of nv
life. He is an American gentleman. |
the. son of a wealthy ship-owner of /
Boston, but owing to some slight dis
agreement with his father, he has /
worked his way out here as a sailor. I |