The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-11-13
A MYSTERY OF
 FORT FISHER

mNmUeEDN kuAl lANAN mN' N A-' --- -tt tack by bluejackets which was repuls- ed with considerable loss. Hervey's bodv was found in a depression in tho sand in the extreme advanced position reached by his men of Che Juniota. A handkerchief (not Hervey'sl had been used for tourniQuet to stop the flow of blood from the commanders Ter, ankle. which had been shattered and the artery cut by a rifle ball. The wounded man must have been killed subsequently, by a fragment of a shell which had struck him in the head Who had saved the captain in the first instance? It must have been some one who had been killed in the action for no one claimed the credit
 Some time before the Juniata, which Heryey commanded. joined the fleet she was redttcd at the Portsmouth navy yard. Commander Hcryey's fam uv were there in one oi the officers residences, including his daughter Irene. a girl of seventeen. There was a petty oHcer-not commissioned. bui am enlisted man-named Edgar Fori- stall. who was cocbswain of the cap .ain's dingey. He used to carry Irene in the dingey to and from the Juniato On such occasions she sat in the stern of thc boat beside the cockswaiu. Though very young. she knew well the duercucc in station between enlisted men and officers and that 1t was not becoming to have anything to say lo| tl.e cockswaiu. When any of her fam ly. associates or officers were in the diuecv. she never made remark to young For.stal but when none ot. these was present she waXed quite friendly. Later Foristan was in the action at Fort Fisher was severely wounded and was promoted for bray. cry.
 Ton years passed. One day Irene Hcryey was present at the launching Of United States cruiser A su- 7,r.ntcndeut of one of the dopart- rrn,s of the works that had built llc vessel stepped up to her and ese-i her if she remembered him. She l G.I uot. and he informed her that le ! was tho cockswaiu who used to carry her iu her fathers diugcy to and from .r, Iuuiatu. Ireue's face lighted mp .t once. She was especially pleased at meeting Foristal as a citizen and not as un enlisted sailor
 -I have never seen you.' she sai4 ".Irce the Juuiata left us for the at- tack on Fort Fisher. | saw the notice of your promotion for bravery bow ever."
 -Cl everybody was brave ou that occasion. said the young shplu.Iior
 "But lt Is pleasant to be s.nsied'ou- from tbe throue
 At that moment the ship was launched and the remarks were inter ruuted. Nevertheless they were ,lc be- ginning of a renewed acquaintance on a different basis from that of blue jacket and captains daughter Irene had treasured a rememurUuce of the black eyed boy who used Co sing out the orders to his oarsmeu SD .usr.'T though he had changed SO much 10 appearance that she had not reeos uzad him. The new maa proved sp attractive to her that her hear, slipped into his possession. Then she was pleased that he offered her his own in exchange. But what was her delight when le oreucd the case of his watch and showed her a little lock Of her hair tlat he had suwopudously cut from her "pigtaiI' one morning when she was on bis dingey.
 They were engaged. and iu time the day was set for the weddm- Du- un. fortunately. one evening when Irene was in a bad humor she let llu re mark indicating that she suu had some or Che feeling that a captains daughter might have for a blueiac6e- IoristoN at once broke the engagement Irene when she had cooled longel to recall him. but it Is not am easy thing for a woman thus to humble herself. So she puoJ and mopcd un her mother found something for bcr Go do in getting up material for a biography of her father to 1e published with those of other naval officers who had fallen in Che civil war;
 She was thus engaged when she oume upon a packet marked "papprs found on Commander Ucrvoy's body Open ing it. she took out several letters -iujdaruc that they had been draHeh 0d in her fathers blood. and examined thcm in turn. Suddenly sho came rpoE a few scarcely lcgibIe words ou tlo . back of one Of che letters s-raw'ed ViJh some blunt iustrumeut possibly fn- ger tip:
 "Cocksvain saved me. They win hit me yet'
 Like a flash from heaven tho secret attending her fathers death burst m 1n her. For years she had wondered ] who was thc man who bad carried laI father to a less exposed position and had bound up his wound Was ha young or past middle life: Was hC dark or fair3 Why had fate deprived her of the satisfaction of taking his hand and expressing sometl.H-o OF what she felt with her lips and her eyes. And now she knew that this man va7 the young tar who had stolen lock O. her hair whom she had wounded .v ! reference t their former relative posi- flora.
 Come to me at once" she wrote. i love the bIuejacket herter thsH ih. gAipbuider"
 After the first transports of tlcu uer,