Smyrna times., 1901-10-16

the crime Of sending a man afioat I'm
that manner and of pity for the victim
when his mate touched him on the arm !
and shouted in his ear:
II | was ashore, captain, all the !
money in England would not bribe me !
to set foot on this deck again"
whats the matter with you?" was |
called in reply. Its only bit of shore |
villainy that we must report to the ten |
DER
Its nothing that's happened ashore,
sir. Did you take notice that the craft
was driving right in the teeth of the
gale? 1t wasn't live man in that boat.
She was going to windward with a
ghost, and I'd give the bit l have in the
bank if I'd not seen her.
The captain would have given the
man good dressing down for his silly
notions only that the boat had actually
been heading to windward in the teeth
or a gale which no ship could have
made an inch of way against. Being
positive of this and not being able to
explain it, he could say little or moth
ing. 1t was agreed between them, how
ever, that nothing should be said to the
other watch when it turned out, and
they went on duty without knowing
that anything out of the way had hap
pened. While carrying the affair out
with pretended Indifference, Captain
CrOX was, as matter of fact, pretty
! thoroughly upset over it, and on turn
ing in he found that he could not go to
sleep. He had been lying in his bunk
and turning the matter over in his
mind for an hour or so and the gale
was still bowling and the lightship
bouncing about when he realized from
the movements of the watch that they
had been hailed. He was out of bed
and on deck just as one of them had
lighted port fire, and you can judge
of his feelings when he saw the former
scene reacted. There were the yawI
and the man, and the boat slowly
forged past and disappeared to wind
ward. Three pairs of eyes saw her this
time, saw the bound victim and the
terror and despair on his face, and it
was absurd to think it a delusOn. The
lightship had been hailed, as before,
and one of the watch had thrown a
rope which landed fairly across the
yawl.
There was no more sleep for any one
aboard No. that night, and next day
when the gale broke and the tender
came alongside all demanded to be put
ashore at once. The captain was as
badly ratified as any of the others
They were guyed and ridculed, OF
course, but they stood so firm that the
tender brought off another crew, anC
they were relieved from duty. They
were no sooner ashore than they 60
the bounce. Trinity board wanted NJ
old women or children in it's service
The story got into the papers, and tn,
men were laughing stock for a week
At the end of that time there was an
other gale, and the man and the boa
appeared to the new crew twice in tin
same night and drove them ashore, a
they had the old.
third crew went out, and for tw
weeks the weather was fine, and til
board began to prepare to remove tn
wrecks. Some progress had been mad
when three days gale set in from til
uOlAA lntlG were luOIc MI6Ck
than had been known for ten years bt
fore. For two days the lightship hun
to her anchors, though having a sigma
of distress out after the first day, bu
when the gale abated she had disaI
peared. She had been swept dew
channel and opt to sea and a week la
er was passed bottom up more tina
200 miles AWAY The same storm hrOk
: up and removed the wrecks, and thel
was no longer need of a light at IL
. spot. Trinity board would have noI
- of the men back, though there wei
eight of them to tell the same grev
= some story. but none of them repine
:. overmuch. They had been drive
= ashore by a specter. but it had been
y warning to save them from the ia
= that took the last quartet