The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-06-23


needle In the Indian Ocean.
"A life's job, my bullies," said their
informant. We'll be like the crew
OF the Flying Dutchman yet"
I'm wondering whether Spiller
came up this way. now" said old
Banks presently, with an interroga.
tive cock of his head.
And not by the channel?" asked
Green.
Banks turned about.
Mr.. Green, may the Lord forgive
me, but | just hate that Spiller with
an unholy hatred. Every time he gets
, show he brags he's run right over
where | located my rocks, and not
only that, but criss-cross in the lati-
tude where they might be. And he
set about that he'd herring-bo a
course on the chart on the longitude,
going back and forth on it like a dog
in turnip field. So now he'll be up
here again to have another shy for
it, If he Saw EN-, he'd swear he
never. And why he hates me so I
cant tell, unless it YVES did my duty
once, and let him know what Cod
fearing man thought of blasphem-
err"
Green nodded
That's likely it, sir"
$50 1t is, so it is" cried Banks pen
sively; che has no grace in him, and
he set it about, know, that | soak
at sea if I'm sober ashore He said
my rocks were delirium tremens; and
I'm discredited man, wounded in a
tender spot"
1t was just four bells in the fore
noon watch then, and soon after they
snugged her down, as the wind was
very heavy in puffs and the sky low
and dark. Just before eight bells
Green spotted vessel on the star
board bow, and called the old man.
He came on deck like a whiteheaded
jack-in-t he-box.
Keep her away he cried. 'Tll
bet she's the Palembang. Shake out
them reefs and hoist the main-t'gal-
Pn'sI again.
His grammar failed in excitement.
We're overhauling her hand over
hand, anyhow" suggested Green.
IF l can pass him going two foot
for his one, I'd run the Simeon un
der" screamed the skipper. "And
when we come up with him, if my
voice in trumpet can carry, I'll tell
him what think of him. He thinks
I'm soft because l sing hymns on Sun.
day. I'll let him know before l sang
hymns I was the biggest tough on
the Australian coast. Gods truth
was! And I wish was now-oh, how
| wish it, and him ashore with mel"
And Green believed it, because he
had to! There was something in the
old mans eye as he walked to and
fro, an unregenerate bloodthirsty snap
that was very convincing. So the
reefs were shaken out of the topsails,
and even that did not satisfy the skip.
per.
"I'll let him know that Saved and
repentant Christian isn't necessarily
a worm" said Banks. 'Mr. Green,
set the mainsail"
The Simeon was snoring through
1t now, and Green stared
What she can't carry she may
drag" said the skipper, with flashing
eyes.
And the Simeon lost her courtesy
with the sea under the influence of
the mainsail, for the monsoon was a
stiff one. She shouldered the Indian
Ocean aside like policeman showing
through a crowd; she scooped up
tons of it as scraper team SCOOPS |
sand, and ran at any extra sea like |
a bull at hedge. The men were
under the break of the t'gallant foc'-
sic, sheltering from the cataract
They knew the Palembang was ahead,
and were as eager as the skipper to
overhaul her. Through the bosom and
his mate it had leaked out that the
old man was keen for a palaver with
Spiller.
"He's like bull whale in a furry"
said one who had been whaling. "Now
my notion is that the skipper kin
if he wants to-"
The Palembang was visibly herself
and no other vessel by this time, and
she carried all she could stand.
I've half notion to have the t'gal-
l'nsails SET" said Banks, looking up
aloft.1 "And If we weren't overhaul
ng her twenty-three to the dozen,
1amme, but would"
For the Palembang showed moth
ng above her reefed topsails, and the
'oresail had reef in it, and the ST.
noon came after her like the inside
edge Of cyclone.
"Gimme my trumpet" cried Banks.
Mr.. Green, take the wheel, and run
Ter as close as maybe,
And the second mate stood at the
halliards.
"Palembang ahoy!" yelled Banks
through his trumpet as he came tear
ng up on the weather side of his
enemy's ship.
Where the blue blazes are you
coming to-" shrieked Spiller, who was
both drunk and angry.
Passing you as If you was standing
IT'LL, you low, uneducated swine,"
aid Ranks "And 7 coI,1d do r. undor |