The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-01

X kk~d broken upon the seas and When
NS&g|s more OF her three ~deckers lay
rotting In the Midway than
were to be found Ia Brest harpor' b '
her frigates and corvettes sun sco.i' 81
+ ti,e ocean, closely followed ever by those
\ =, her rival. At the utternost ends OF
the earth these dainty vessels, "itn
! sweet names OF girls or Of flowers, man :
I, rla1 and shattered each other for inc
5honor OF the four yards OF bunting Wh'Sl
81 ann,d from the ends OF their gafts
1tFhad blown hard In the night. but the
49,, 'hna dro,,ped with the dawnng. and
II ,,f,a The rising sun tinted the fringe OF
%the storm wreck as II dwindled INTO INC
vcst md glit1tetl OH the endless crests OF
5ihe long green waves. To north ana
south and west lay q skyline winch was
,,r1broken save by the spout OF roam
when two Of the great Auahuo seas
X dashed each other into stray. 70 me
enst was a rocky island, jutting out INTO
cragEy points, with q few scattered
S dumps OF palm trees and pennant q
mist streaming out from the bare. com.
y cal hill which capped It. A heavy s ,S
beat upon the shore, and, at sale as
b lance from 1t, the British thirty Wo-gun
D frigate I.eda, Captain A. P. Johnson,
raisof her black, Elistening side upon the
crest Of a wave or swooped down into
an emerald valley, dipping away to tho
,1or'ard under easy sail. On her snow
d white quarterback stood slit N little
3 brown faced man, who swept the horizon
with his glass. N,
sJgg...Nlr. wharton!. he cried. with voice
like a rusty hinge.
'i q thin, knock lsneed of1lcor shamoled
across the poop to him. AZ
Z Eyes, sir. !"
Eve opened tho sealed orders, M
iwhar ton.
A gllmmer OF curiosity shown upon tbs
meagre features Of tho first lieutenant
The Leda had sailed with her consort,
The Dido. from Antigua the week before
and the admiral's orders had been con-
tain ed In sealed envelope.
I'VE were to open them on reaching
.he deserted Island Of Sombriero, lying In
north latitude u.s., 80. west longitude, g, 2S
Sombriero bore four miles to the north
east from our port bow when the gala
cleared, Mr., Wharton"
The lieutenant bowed suffly. He and
the captain had been bosom friends from
childhood. They had gone to school to-
uler, Joined the navy together, fought
again and again together, and married
,nto each others families, but so long as
their feet were on the poop the iron dis
cipline Of tho service struck all that was
human out OF them and left only the SUI
perior and the subordinate. Captain John
son took from, his pocket blue paper,
which crackled as he unfolded It,
THE 32-gun. frigates 1leda and Dido
Captains A. P, johnson and James Mum
ROY are to cruise from the point at which
these Instructions IRE read to the mouth
OF the Caribbean Sea, In tho hope OF en-
countering the French frlgate La Gloire
t4s), which has recently harrassed our
merchant ships In that quarter. H, Nj
frigates are also directed to hunt down
the piratical craft known sometimes as
the Slappln Sal and sometimes as the
Hairy Hudson, which has plundered the
British ships as per margin, intlictlng bar
bar!ties upon the crews. She Is a small
brig, carrying ten light guns, with one
2i-pound carronade forward. She was
last seen upon the Esd ult. to tbs north
cast Of the Island OF ombriero
AtSigned) 4
f la JAMES MONTGOMERY,
Rear Admiral" i
III. NJ. s. Colossus. Antigua"
4 We appear to have lost our consort,"
said Captain Johnson, folding up his In
sstructions ana again sweeping the hori-
ION with his glass. She drew away af-
ter we rcefed down. It would BIO a pity