Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-03
CHAPTER xNXIy.-tContinued.)

7sd rs the tempest is, the calm will
ever come afterwards if you viii but ride
r out with your anchor placed deep in
Providence. All. lad that is good hold
f,e-ground But if / know you right,
,our grief is more for these poor wretch
rs around you than for Yourself"
1T is indeed a sore sight to see them
suffer 80 patiently and uncompiainingly.'
answered, ''and for such man, toor'
"Av. the chickea-livered swabr'
..rowled the seaman. grinding his teeth
How are my mother and my father:''
asked; land how came you so far from
Nay. / should have rounded ON my
hapfhones had | waited longer at my
mornings. / cut my cable therefore
and maxim nOrtherly tack as far as
Salisbury, | ran down with a fair wind.
Vhv father hath SET his face hard and
.aes about his work as usual, though
much troubled by the justices, who have
vice had him up to Winchester for eX-
auination, but have found his papers all
light and no CHARGE 10 be brought against
hlm Your mother poor soul. hath little
time to NOPE or to Dlpe her eye, for she
}atb such a sense of duty that were the
shin to founder under her. it is n plate
.aeon to China orange that she would
,raud fast in the caboose curing mari
colds or rolling nastry. They have taken
warm their hearts with it when the wind
ut misfortune utows chill. They Were
right glad that ] should come down to
vau and ] gave them the word of a
sailor that | would get you out of the
bIhnes if it might anyhow be done"
sect me out, solomon said |. may,
that may be put outside the question.
How could you get me Out?"
There are many ways, lie answered,
sinking his voice TO a whisper, and nod
ding his grizz1ed head as one who talks
upon what has cost him much time and
thought. There is scuttling"
"Scuttlingg"
'.Ay. ladl When | was quartermas-
Ter of the galley Providence, in the see
ond Dutch war, we were caught betwiXt
lee shore and Van Tromp's squadron,
50 that after fighting until our sticks
we're shot away and our scuppers were
arun with blood, we were carried by
boarding and sent as prisoners to the
Teyel We We're slowed away in irons
in ne after hold, among the bilgewater
and the rats, with matches battened down
and guards atop, but even then they
could not keep us, for the irons got
adrift, and VIII Adams, the carpenters
mate, picked a hole in the seams so that
the vessel nearly foundered, and in the
confusion we fell upon the prize crew,
and, using our letters as cudgelS re-
gained possession of the vessel But You
smile as though there were little hopes
from any such plan!'
If this wool-house were the galley
Providence. and Taunton Deane We're the
Bay of Biscay, it might be attempted
said.
Il have indeed got out o. the channel"
he answered, with a wrinkled brow.
There is, however, another most excel
lent plan which | have received, which is
to blow up the building"
To blow it up!' / cried.
''Ay! a brace of kegs and a slow
match would do it any dark night. Then
where would be these walls which now
shut We ing'
Where would be the folk that are
410Wf inside tbenfgs | asked Would you
not blow them Up as wellgs
Plague take IT.. I had forgot that"
ried Solomon. NAY then, leave it
with you. What have you to propose?
DO but give your sailing orders. and,
with or without a eonsort. you will find
that will steer by them as long as this
Old hulk can answer to her helm"
Then my advice is, my dear old
frend,' said I, that You leave matters
n take their course. and HE back to
Havant with message from me to
those who know me, telling them to be
of good cheer, and to hope for the best.
Neither you nor any other man can help
NE now, for l have thrown in my lot
with these poor folk, and | would not
leave them if l could. Do what you
can to cheer my mothers heart, and
commend me to Zachary Palmer. Your
visit hath been a joy to me. and your
return will be the same to them. You
can serve me better so than by blding
here"
Sink me if / like going back without
blow struck" he growled; vet, if it IS
your viii, there is an end Of the matter.
Tell me, lad-has that lank-sparred, slab
sided. herring-gutted friend of yours
played you false? for if he has, by the
eternal, old as l am, my hanger shall
Serape acquaintance with the longshore
tuck which hangs at his girdle. | know
where he hath laid himself up moored
stem and stern, all snug and shipshape,
waiting for the turn of the tide.
What, Saxon!'' | cried. do you in
deed know where he is? For Gods sake
speak low. for it would mean commis-
sion and 500 good pounds to anyone OF
these soldiers could he lay hands upon
him"
They are scarce like TO do that said
solomon. "On my journey hither l
Glanced to put into port at place calico
Bruton, where there is an inn that WIN
compare with most, and the skipper is
wench with a glib tongue and merry
eye. | was drinking a glass of speed
ale as is my custom about six bells OF
the middle watch, when | Glanced TO no
nee great lanky carter, who was loac-
ing up wagon in the yard with cargo
o beer casks. Looking closer. it seemed
10 me that the mans nose, like the beak
Of a goshawl, and his glinting eyes, with
the lids only half-reefed were known. to
NE but when / overheard him swearing
10 himself in good High Dutch, then
his figurehead came back to me in a mo-
ment. / put out into the yard, and
touched him on the shoulder. Zounds,
lad! YOU should have seen him spring
back and spit at me; like a wildcat, with
every hair of his head in a bristle. He
whipped a knife from under his smock,
Tor he thought, doubtless, that l was
about to earn the reward by handing him
over to the redcoats l told MIN that ms
secret was safe with me, and l asked
5in if he had heard that you were lald
tiy the heels. He answered that he knew
IT, and that he would be answerable thar
no harm befell you, though in truth It l,
seemed to me that he had his hands fuli
10 trimming his own sails without act
ing as pilot to another. However, there
left him, and there / shall find HIM
gam if so be as he has done you an
Nay" | answered; II am right glad
5.9t he has found this refuge. We
NiO separate uDOn difference of opinion,