Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-30

| passengers, | viii be obliged 20 you for
the use of it until such time as they quit
the ship"
Sir. it is at your disposal, ard we
shall be most happy Of your company
You will of course mess in the cabin? ?"
NO, sir, returned Sutherland; '.the
strangers would be private. and ] am not
disposed to interrupt their seclusion; you
will see that their wishes on this subject
are not thwarted. They must not be
liable to the slightest intrusion while
they may remain on board"
Yarnall bowed in reply. and the com
mander, after scanning we'll the appear
ances of the weather, descended to the
wardroom.
The strangers would be private" mut-
! tered the officer of the deck; and, for the
first time during the evening, that gentle
man commenced a series of reflections
upon the probable cause of their coming
on board. But from this spirit of inquiry
he was quickly aroused by the increasing
| heayiness of the weather. The sky had
assumed pitchy darkness, and the phos-
! phorescent sparkling of the water seemed
to render its blackness more visible: the
| wind was gradually gathering strength,
and the sea had risen to the full tide of
its swell. Still the Sparrow Hawk CON
| tinued plunging and driving through it;
at one moment sinking in its boiling
depths, as II she was about to succumb
to its mastery in despair, but rising in The
next, and shaking the spray from her
frowning sides as if she spurned the ter
rors and the trammels of the angry ele-
ments.
Daylight came, but brought with it no
cessation of the storm; and by s o'clock
Sutherland ordered the ship to be hove to
under her closereefed main topsail fore
storm-staysail, and storm-mizzen.
Dull, cherries and disagreeable was
the prospect. The sea had lost its azure
beauty, and the music of its waters was
changed to- the terrific roaring of the
| tempest; dark clouds shut out the beau
| tiful armament, and not one spot os blue
! greeted the eye from the horizon upward
! The winds came shrieking over the driv .
| ing spray with a strength and steadiness
| that gave no promise of immediate calm.
Sutherland was melancholy, but his
sadness was the result of sympathy for
/ the feelings of Carlotta; he knew that
every day she was detained on board, UNI
/ der the present circumstances. would add
| to her unhappiness; and he saw no pros
pect of the storm abating in the many
signs that foretell the vicissitudes of the
weather.
With reluctant step he sought the
cabin, and with a heart beating with agi-
tation he was admitted; Carlotta was
seated upon the sofa, paler than usual.
and with an expression of melancholy
/ upon her countenance that it had not
often worn; she had resumed the attire
of her sex. and with it that dignity and
gracefulness of department that she could
| not, or dared not, have summoned to her
aid when attired in the disguise of the
night before. With a languid smile she
welcomed him to seat, and sweetly.
| though sadly, she responded to all his in
| quiries; he told her that as yet there was
no indication of fairer weather, but held
ont to her many hope that the storm
would break ON the morrow. But that
morrow came but to falsify expectation.
| Another and another succeeded, and still
/ it ragged. Seven days passed away, but
/ their termination was attended but with
an increase of the fury of the tempest
| The experienced wisdom of the off
RS of the Sparrow Hawk could not be
| induced to doubt that the land lay not
| very far to ,leeward of the corvette, and
| that her position was one of considera-
be. if not imminent danger. The ship.
however, rode the seas bravely, nor did
| she labor so much as might have been ex-
| pected being a ship of singular capaci-
| ties. and famous for looking we'll up to
| the weather. She was under snug sail.
too. and no seas came on board her, so
beautifully did she swoop into the trough.
and then soar again. as if she were
| winged thing over the crest of the long
succeeding rollers.
Nothing more could be done for the
safety of the ship; no further precautions
remained to be taken; and when Suther-
| land assembled from the ward-room, in
which he had now taken up his quarters,
in order to see with his own eyes how the
night went. before retiring to his wear;
some and sleepless pillow, though he saw
nothing TO reassure him, nor to remove
| his apprehension of perils close at hand.
he saw nothing to be done beyond reiter-
ating his former Instructions, and desir-
| ing that he should be at once awakened
should anything occur unusual during the
hours of darkness.
This done. with the usual courtCsies. he
| left the deck in charge Of the first lieuten-
ant and descended the after-companion.
in order to pay momentary visit to his
| fair passenger before retiring to his own
nerth.
To those of the gentler sex who have
braved the dangers of the great deep, and
who know what it is to have groaned in
the overwhelming agony and heip.essness
Of that most crushing of maladies, sea-
sickness, it will not appear wonderful
| thar. from the first day Of that wild tenn
pestuous uproar. Carlotta de Silva had
no leisure to beStow on mental cares or
sorrows, fanciful or real; that the physi-
cal sufferings of the body. exhausted and
worn ont by WEAKNESS and pain, had
paralyzed the moral sensibilties of
mind. than which none was more awake,
when not distorted by the vehement and
| fiery force of the proverhial Spanish pas
sion, to all the nice and delicate percep-
tions of feminine propriety.
So utterly, indeed, was sne outdone and
overwhelmed by the yearning throes of
that annihi.ating ailment that she lay
unable almost to move hand or head.
scarce conscious of her own identity. and
wholly careless of the past or future.
both of them merged in the intense an
guish Of the present: so that TO have
been told that she was about 10 die would
have been a source to her neither of ap-
prehension nor rejoicing.
Juanna was stout. healthy maiden
| from the morntaius. WHO - more yielded
| TO the attacks Of seasickneSs than the
| peaks of her native hills 10 the runy as
saults of any lesser influence than the
Earthquake: and having By Satheriand's
advice retained her masculine altirt-
which was not i'll adapted 10 her darby
| imbrownea skin. her lofty aud wess-tii.ed
stature. and her strongly marked. though
handsome featnreS-was enabled 70 CONF
municase with the steward and Other ser
wants. dispensing with their attendance
| IN the cabin. without beirayiag her own
/ sex or thar Of her youthful mistress.
/ This had moreover. been facilitated NJ
the absurd invention az lasna!l IN rcla-
/ ton to the quality and condition Of the
Sparrow Hawks passengers. which had
heen communicated by Tonaloek. under
fs~.4 ~ ss,..x-,4sx M loss - eErn shan that