Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-18

CHAPTER ANlN.-tContinued
The mate held mp his hand, and we ali
listened for some fresh sign of the where
abouts of our scuryy neighbor. The wind
had freshened little, and we were
slipping through the water al four or five
knots an hour OF a sudden a hoarse
voice was heard roaring at our very side
Bout ship" it shouted. Bear a hand
on the lee braces, there! Stand by the
halyards! Bear a hand. We lazy rogues,
or III be among .ye with my cane, with
Il wannion TO yet'
1T is kings ship, sure enough, and
she lies just there said Long John,
pointing out over the quarter. ''MeT-
chant aAmRturers have civil tongues
It's your blue-coated. gold-braided, swiv-
el-cyed quarter-deckerS that talk of
canes. Ha! did | not tell YEP"
As he spoke, the white screen of vapor
rolled up like the curtain in playhouse,
and uncoRred a stately warship, lying
biscuit aboard. Her long. lean, black
hull rose and fell with a slow, graceful
rhythm. while her beautiful sparS and
snew-white sails shot aloft until they
were lost in the wreaths of fog which
still hung around her. Nine bright brass
cannonS peeped out at us from her port
holes. Above the line of hammocks,
which hung like carded wool along her
bulwarks, we could see the heads of the
scamen staring down at us, and pointing
us out to each other. On the high poop
stood an elderly officer, with cooked hat
and trim white wig, VINO at once whipped
up his glass and gazed at us through ii.
''AhOy. there he shouted. leaning
over the taffrail What lugger is
thatT'
The Lucy" answered the mate.
bound from POrlock Quay to Bristol
with hides and tallow. Stand ready to
tack!' he added, in a lower voice, the
fog is coming down again"
I'VE have one of the hides with the
horse still in it," cried the officer. Run
down under our counter. We must have
a closer look at ye.'
LAY. ay, sirn' said the ma te. aud put
ting his helm hard down. the bo0m
swung across, and the Maria darted off,
like a scared seabird into the fog. Look
ing back, there was nothing but a dim
loom to show where we had left the
great vessel. We could hear, however,
the hoarse shouting of orders and the
hustle of men.
Look out for squalls, lads,' cried the
mate. Hell let us have il row.
He had scarcely spoken before there
were half dozen throbs of flame in the
mist behind, and as many balls surg
among our rigging. One cut away the
end of the yard, and left it dangling:
another graZed the bOwsprit. and sent
puff of white spGnters into the air.
w arm MOEh. Cdpldlu, Gil Salu OlO
Silas, rubbing his hands. POUNDS, they
shoot better in the dark than ever they
did in the light. There have been more
shots fired at this lugger than she could
carry were she loaded with them. And
vet they never so much as knocked the
paint off her before. There they go
again.
4 fresh discharge burst from the man
of-war, but this time they had lost all
trace of MS, and were firing by guess.
That is their last bark. SIR said
Dicon.
No fear. They'll blaze away for the
rest 9th Of the day groTledi another of the
good exercise for the crew, and the 'mu-
milton is the Kings, so it don't cost no
body a gFoat.''
It's well the breeze freshened.'' said
Long John. Il heard the creak o davits
Just after the first discharge. She was
lowering her boats, or I'm a Dutchman."
The peter for You if YOU vas, you
seven-foot stock fish, cried my enemy
the cooper. whose aspect was not i'm
proved by a great strip of plaster over
his eye. You might have learned some
thing peter than TO pull on a rope, or TO
swab decks like a vrouw all your life
III set you adrift in one of your own
barrels you skin of lard" said the sea-
man. How often are we to trounce
you before we knock the sauce out Of
youy'
The fog lifts a little towards the
land; Silas remarked. "Methinks l see
ihC loom of St. Agstin'S point; 1t rises
there upon the starb0ard bow"
There it is. sure enough, sir" criet,
one of the seamen. pointing to dark
cape which cut into the mist
steer for, the three-fathom creek.
them H. said i'd the mate When we are
Clarke, we shall be able to land your
horse and yourself. You will then be
within few hours ride Of your destina-
ton"
led the old seaman aside, and having
thanked him for the Kindness which he
had shown me. / spoke to him of the
sauger, and implored him to use his in
t1ucnce to save the man.
1T rests with Capt. NenableS.' said
he, gloomily. IF We let him 90, what
becomes of our cave?'
rs there no way of nsuring his 81
Well: we might ship him to the plan
tati0ns," said the mate. I'VE could take
him TO the Texel with us, and get Capt.
'Dondcrs, or some other to give him a lift
across the western ocean,"
DO So" said /. land shall take care
that King Monmouth shall hear of the
help which We have given his messenger"
We'll. we shall he there in a brace of
shakes. he remarked. Let us go be-
low and load your ground-tier for there
- HOAIlhS llke StdELlDE wen trimmed
with plenty of ballast in the hold
Following the sailors advice, went
down with him and enjoyed a rude but
plentiful meal. BY the time that we
had finished. the lugeer had been run
into narrow creek, with shelving.
sandy banks on either side. The dis
frict was wild and marshy. with few
signs of any inhabitants With much
coaS:ng and gushing. Covenant was in
duced to take to the water. and swan
easily ashore, while / followed in the
smuggler's dingy. y few words of rough.
kindly leave-taking were shouted after
me; saw the dingy return. and the bean
r!fui craft alided out to sea and faded
away once more into the msts which
still hung over the face of the waters.
Truly Providence works in strange
ways, my children, and until a man
comes 10 the autumn of his DAYS he can
scarce say what hath been ill-uck and
VIVA. hath been good. For Of all the
seeming nisfortunes which have befallen
me during my wandering life. there is
rot one which | have not come TO look
upon as a blessing. And if you once take
this into V0lIr hearts II is n mighty helm