The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01

girls or of flowers maugled and shattered
each other for the honor of the four yards of bunting
which Tapped from the ends OF their gans.
1t had blown hard in the night but the wind had
dropped with the daWning. and now the rising sun
United the fringe of the storm wrack as it dwindled
into the west and gnted the endless crests of the
long green waves. To north and south aud west lay
skyline which was unbroken save by the spout of
roam when two Of the great Atlantic seas dashed
and, juttng out into craggy points with few scat
lereu eIumps OF palm trees and pennant Of mist
Streaming our Ifon the bare conlcal hin which capped
H. a heavy surf beat upon the shore and al a safe
distance from H. the British thirty two-gun frigate
Leda' captain A. r. Johnson raised her black. gis-
tenlng side upon the crest of a wave on sWo0ped
1oWn into am emerald valley, dipping away to the
loi ara unaer easy sail On her snow-white quarter
leck stood "a sth little brown-faced man. who swept
he horizon with his glass.
hinge
A thin znock-kneed officer shambled across the
poop to him.
Yes SIR
I've opened the sealed orders MT Wharton"
glimmer of curiosity shown upon the meager
features OF the first lieutenant The Leda had sailed
with her consort the Dido from Antigua the week
before and the admirars orders had been contained
we were TO open them on reaching the deserted
island Of sombriero. lying i'm north latitude rs 49,
the northeast from our port bow when the gale
cleared, Mr. wharton
The lieutenant bowed stifiy. He and the captain
lad been bosom friends from childhood They had
some 10 school together, Joined the navy together
fought again and again together and married into
each others families but so long as their feet were
on the pooD tba mon 5scinIrs 5f The se~via str-E
all that was human out of them and left only the SUI
perior and subordinate. Captain Johnson took from
his pocket blue paper which cracked he
"The thirty-tvo-gun frisates Leda and Dido
Captains A. p. Johnson and James Munro) are 10
cruise from the point no which these instructions are
read 70 the mouth of the Caribbean sea- iu the hope
of enc0untering the French frgate La Gloire eS)
that quarter H. NJ frigaes are also directed to hunt
down the piratical craft known sometimes as the
which has plundered the British ships as per margin
indIcting barharites upon the crews. She IS a small
DTS, caiIylns Ten llsht guns with one t"enty-tour-
the 23d ult TO the northeast of the Island of SOM
JAMES MONTGOMERY,
"H NJ S. Colossus Antigua"
eve appear 90 have lost our cOnsort" said Cap
tain Johnson, folding up his instructions and again
sweeping the horizon with his glass "she drew away
after we reeIed down 10 would De "a pity IL we met
this heavy Frenehman without the Dido. Mr. Whar-
ton. Ehf'
The lieutenant twinkIed and smiled
she has eighteen-pounders on the main and
twelves on the poop. sir said the captain. She
carries 400 TO our 2s Captain de Nlon Is she
,st man n the French service Oh Bobby boy ia
give my hopes of my flag TO rub my side up against
herr" ne turned on his heel, ashamed OF his mo-
back sernly his shoulder get those square sails
shaken out and bear away point more to the vest
"a brig on the port bow" came a voice from the
"A brig on the port bow" said the lieutenant
The captain sprang upon the bulWarks and held
On bv the mlzzen-shr0uds a strange little figure with
nying skirts and puckered eyes. The lean lieutenant
GRAINED his neck and whispered TO Smeaton. the Sec
ond. while officers and men came popping up from
below and clustered along the Weather-ral shading
their eyes with their hands-for the tropical sun was
already clear OF the palm trees. The srange brig lay
al anchor n the throat of a curving estuary and IL
was already obvious that she could not get out with
out passing under the guns Of the frigate. long
rocky point 10 the north OF her held her In
Keep her as she goes, Mr. Wharton" said the
raDtain Hardy worth our while clearing for acc
ZION Mr. smesf0u but the can stand by the gums
in case she tres pass Cast loose the bow-chas
ers and send the small-arm men 60 tbe forecastle.'