The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-26

as they watched her. A knot of workmen waved their
hats and cheered not enthusiastically but admrng
you re-aright fashionthe reception of the critical
to the unknown but likely stranger in the stsa tribute
to appearance, fattering but doubtful
'Hoot Sandy, mon, !" observed sailor, aloft the
foreyard of little Glasgow brig to his companion sthe
dell himself would have hard work to catch the likes o.
herr .-r
"a fee-er-a aee-er, - responded the other tbut tits
reesky business Speed and endurance, mon cool eye
f0rard steady hand at the wheel, and pinch o. guide
uc and there's fortune in the ownership o. sic craft
But a racehorse, and mair."
FAYE, mon' was the return Of the first, he shut
fed further out on the footrope- racehorse wi
q lass!O ...- FL. - ~.
fYou're mixed i your metaphor, Mcdonald wi your
horses and your foxes and the o. it. Did ye
mark her paddleboXes-eh, mon9' H.. ~
faye, and the power Of the wheels inside o. themi
She's churning now, mona wunder, wunder!''
The flying craft was sweeping out into the open
water Her speed had increased and the smoke oily and
BLACK traed out her counter for stiff breeze
blowing Forty feet in diameter her great paddle
did not hang between the laundering leapng turns after
the fashion Of most sde-wheeers. But like locomotive
the rails she forged evenly along gathering Roadway
fountainlike jet playing at her cut-water
Name she had none Her destination no one knew.
But her business yes There had been deal of it going
on Of late; honest enough to be sure such things go
fair exchange and robbery.
;, GIVE have gold, We have cotton; give arms'
the cry of the struggling confederacy the
ears of thrifty, bargain England where the mills
starving for cotton and the worken starving
of all these9 There profits Also That held Eng
lands ear and hammer and forge clamored and bazed
in the British shipyards Strengthening craft built
speed experimental construction type
from the ways to embark in perious venture and
tain enerprise-to play in the great game of chance
She promised WELL thought her (rich and re-
spected the city of London by the way and thew
put their trust in her. So three weeks later she
ing the wide Atlantic She carried things that would
give lives and fortunes to possess Swiftly the great
gnes had shaped themselves proper relations and IN
imbered and the miles reeed behind her. When some
forty miles off the island Of Bermuda the runner poked
her sharp nose into that closed
extingushed her. The bells nged in the engine-room
the engines changed their great stride quiet
ing jog and then, the mist cleared they struck
their again. and in few hours the lean gray
sci dropped her anchor the coral bottom off the port
Of Hamilton.
She lay in the midst of Strengthening fleet few
men-ofwar, with their tall masts and squared yards lay
opposite the fortress but all around and about
sells like hersefa painted dull leaden gray all flying
over their taras the flag of England sdewheelers
propeers twoscore and MORE every one
of them. And in the harbor Of the island New Prov
dence far to the southwest another stronghold her
majesty the queen off the peaceful town of Nassau lay
similar fleet, engaged in this precarious calling
feeding the conederacy Their names and tonnage their
speed their owners their commanders were known
to the government of the United States One hundred
and wentyseven vessels from these rendezvous to
Wilmington and Charleston outside Of whose entrances
lay the grim Gordon of the blockade.
The runner had a name now, and of all the vessels
there at Hamilton she the the fastest the
best equipped Her captain Gan officer half pay of her
ma5estys navy, as his vessel to anchor
called away his gig and went ashore to the owners
agents He had little say but there was much to re-
port on their part Three Of their had been cap
tured by the Yankee watchers Two however aided by
thick weather and dark nights slipped into Winning
ton and out again successfully The profits on these two
runs made for the total loss the other three vessels
tempting business this despite the risks involved No
wonder that Great Britain purse strings loosenedi
In four days the Falcon had recoaled taking on
three pilots who knew the coast blindfod she blew
blast from her whistle turned her PROV to the west
ward The hour Of her going timed to nicely and
reckoning her speed the time Of her arrival of the
Carolina coast known to minute At five O'Clock Of
the afternoon following she should be fifty miles off Hat
teras shoals At midnight it dark she would be in
well she would be up the inlet under the guns the
protecting batteries Two other had left the har
DOT at the same moment, The Falcon outsripped
tnen but there was an between their