The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-30

At the thought he broke furiously
away and tried to climb over TO his
boat. but a dozen hands were on him
in an instant, and he was pushed aft
through the open door Of his own
cabin.
And it was all different TO the cabin
which he had left. The floor was diff
ferent, the ceiling was different, the
furniture was different. His been
plain and austere. This was sumptuous
and yet dirty. hung with rare velvet
curtains splashed with wine stains
and paneled with costly woods which
were Docked with pistol marks.
On the table was a great chart of
the Caribbean sea, and beside it. with
compass in his hand, sat a clean
shaven, pale-faced man, with a fur
cap n a cl~aret-colored coat of dam
ask. Craddock turned white under his
freckles as he looked upon the long.
thin. high-nostriled nose and the red
trimmed eyes which were turned upon
him with the fixed, humorous gaze of
n master player who has left his Op-
ponent without a move.
"Sharkey," cried Craddock.
Sharkey's thin lips opened n he
broke into his high, staggering laugh.
You fooI.' he cried, and leaning
over. he stabbed C~raddock's shoulder
again and again with his eompasses.
R0OA IL 4IkCd LOOAy WOOAu VI
match yourself against me. Now,
Craddock, you know where you are.
You are aboard my ship, the Happy
Delivery, and you lie at my mercy. I
knew you for a stout you
rogue. before you took TO his long
shore canting. Your hands then were
no cleaner than my own. Will you
and join US. or shall 1 heave you over
to follow your ships company"
dock.
rScuttled in the hay"
And the hands?"
In h bay. too"
Then I'm for the bay Also"
Hook him and heave him over, -
said Sharkey.
Many rough hands had ragged Grad
dock out pom deck, and Galloway +he
quartermaster, a already drawn his
hanger TO cripple him, when Sharkey
came hurrying from his cabin with an
eager face.
We can do better with the hound,p
ne cried Sink me if it is not a rare
pam. Throw him into the sailroom with
the iron on, and do you come here.
quartermaster, that I NAV tell Won
what 1 have in my mind"
So. CraddOek, bruised and wounded in
soul and body, was thrown into the
dark Sailroom, so fettered that he
could mot stir hand or foot.
Here's rum and biscuits" said the
voice of his late mate. tits at the
risk of my life, Master Craddock, that
l bring them TO you
1t was you who trapped me and
caught me as in a snare!' cried Grad
dock How shall you answer for what
you have done?"
What I did I did with the ooint
of a knife between my bIadebones."
God forgive you fog a coward.
Joshua Hird. How came you into their
hands?"
Why, Master Craddock, the pirate
ship came back from its c%areening up-
on the yer day that you left US. They
laid us aboard, and short-handed as
we were, with the best of the men
ashore with you, We could OFFER but a
poor defense Some we're cut down.
they were the happiest. The others
were killed afterward. AS to me, I
saved my life by signing on with
them"
And they scsttled my ship2'
They scuttled her, and then Sharkey
and his men, who had been watching
us from the brushwood. came off to
the ship. His mainyard had been
cracked and ished last voyage so he
had suspicious of us, seeing that ours
was whole. Their he thought OF Law
ing the same trap for you which you
had set for him."
Craddock groaned.
How came 1 not to see that fshed