The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-18
be Ships. Nd1enfure.
BYw CLARK RUSSELL Copyright. 1899. .bvs 5 mocm. g.,

cause she was unadorned. She pressed
her lips to her sweetheart's cheek.
Let me take the Wheel said she,
while you rest"
Can you light a t1re?' he answered.
She looked at him with reproachfuI
wonder.
What cannot 1 do?, What has not
poverty made me do?''
Will you light the galley tire?" said
he, and fill kettle out of that scut-
tie butt, boil some water, and give us
a hot drink of coffee? Poor old Crum-
mie is dead and gone, put her spirit
survives in tins and 1 believe there is
some preserved milk in the cabin
She did not waste much time in light
Ing the galley fire. Everything was at
hand Whilst the kettle was boiling she
fetched some food from the cabin, and on
top of the dogs kennel made some little
display of table cloth, cup and saucer.
and knife and fork L his disturbed Sailor.
who at once beheld the distant sail and
saluted it.
You shall be even more useful than
that, said Hardy to the dog. This
morning 1 will look for the key of the
safe and judge of the value of the con-
1T is pleasanter than yachting" ex-
claimed Julia.
We have to cross the bay" replied
BASTARD and blow US to Boston"
Is 1t always rough in the Bay of
Biscay?" said the girl.
nave swept up and down 1t often
In my life" replied Hardy, "and five
times out of ten we were becalmed on
1t and thankful for catspaws The
thunder of the Bay continues to roar
loud In the song, and alarms the man
IN the street who talks of taking ship
ping south. Let him be hove to off the
Horn in 5S degrees south. Suppose YOU
see If the kettle boils."
Ihey made an excellent breakfast, and
so did the dog. Hardy ATE and held the
wheel, the ship as though in love with
her people, almost steered herself. There
would come change, the God-g1ven
mood of the sea is sweet it is the weather
that breaks her heart. AS a drunken
husband seizes his pale and pretty wife
py the hair and tiogs her into shrieks
ana madness, so does the weather serve
the ocean 1t is good for the fish who
breathe thereby, but bad for the passen-
ger at whose white, overhanging face the
invisible eye Of the fish is upIifted lam
guishingly.
NOW, Julia" said Hardy, "hoId the
wheel whilst l teach the dog a lesson in
practical seamanship."
lie stepped to the mizzen-royal hal
Iafds and called to the dog which fol-
lowed. He cast the rope off the pin. but
Kept one turn under the pin, and said to
the dog: -
slack
The dog. with much wagging of tail. as
thougn ne reckoned that Hardy meant
some caper-cutting, seized the rome witt,
MS teeth. 1t was now a job. He wanted
the dog to pull at the rope, so that
When he swigged off at the halliards the
dog by dragging would keep the slack
taut as though strained by human hands
Inc intelligence of the Newfoundland is
IroYefbIal and marvellous, but it took
Haruy all an hour to make the noble
creature see what it was expected to do
He then did it, and Julia, whose laugh
mad been constant throughout the pro
cedure' let go the wheel to clap her
hands, whilst Hardy, with purple face
sWl2ged or upon the halliards, and the
dog, with forward slanting legs. strained
the slack. All three then rested: Hardy
steered sitting. for, as 1 have told YOU.
d httie movement of the spokes sufffced
After smoking pipe whilst Julia look
eu 10 the galley ffre-not with a view to
cooking, there was plenty to- eat-tbe
sailor yielded the wheel to his sweet
heait and went below INTO the captain's
capn to explore the contents of the safe
! Fst oI all. he was to find the key; this
proved hunt, running into ten min
utes' then, OF course, he found the bunch
.! heys exactly where he looked last and
should have looked at first-in the can
tain's desk. The key of the safe was one
OF few on ring. When he opened the
sale ne found several large metal boxes
ike cash boxes. All these boxes were
70 be ntted by the keys on the ring
Inc Ilrst was flush with magnificent lew
eliy-pFacelets, e eli earrings, rings; and the
HaSh OF diamond was like the sparkle of
the sea under the sun. The second metal
oo& was 1ilIed with gold chains of all
sorls OF pattern, some massive. some
delicate as twine, of very beautiful work
manship. In the third box were watches
ana seals, all gold, of splendid manu-
lacture, lor in those days the watch
was handsome, the mechanism exquisite
as the chrOnometer of today and the
goic case was heavy. The fourth and
last box contained curiosities. such as
Jew dealer with a yellow grin of awe
would steal out Of some mysterious hid
ing place and show you with something
OF breathlessness and frequent glance
to right and left, and sometimes over his
shoulder.
How am I to describe these thingsq
A. discolored Nelson, tall as a thuInb
commanding the combined fleets in
cooked hat on large seal on which was
~ - e'AeilSdT ~ Itlle Napoleon in
duiI ivory on a massive gold seal. with
lndistinguishable initials. Very old rings
very old gold spoons-but this is not an
aueuoneer catalogue. Hardy locked
everything up
Julia s and mine,'' said he. laughing
softly by which he meant the value of
the salvage Of the precious faI-IaIs.
He restored the ring Of KEYS to the
desk, at which he glanced with a rever
ential eye, for he saw little packet of
letters in faded ink, and he knew that
there, too, lay in d little circular box
small curls of the hair of the dead-tha
Wlfe and the little drummer The can
tam had shown them to him. and the
nalr was the boys when two years old.
i1aroy looked at the drum, at the little
pea, at the medicine chest, at the little
clothes hanging at the bulkhead. ard
stepped out with sigh, thinking in
sort of blind way about the mercy of
6od' the sufferings CT madness, and the
death of little children
Have You found any jeWels?" asked
juIla, as she stood at the wheel
More than you could wear nv dear :,
he answered, IF you were as ranv-
hmbed and manyheaded as an Indian
Are they worth much?"
am not pawnbroker,'' he answered
Besides L have been looking at the lit
tie drum and it has drummed the iewelrv
out of my head.
ed?' 1ii'eii''-
There is always a market for trash
OF that sort in the colonies" he re-
piled.
why don't you lie down and get some
jn1n