The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-22
THE ARTISTS STORY.


or water pipe, aromatic of sandal ant
rose water, and putting refectively fol
an interval, then finally praying again
1t was much like protracted meeting
Our cargo consisted mainly o.
horses-noble Arabian animals-fol
Kurrachee and Bombay; and they near
ly monopolized the deck space There
were, as it proved, eleven Arab horse
dealers in charge of the drove, to Q
man admirable fellows physically, with
the fierce, untamed look of a tiger
when pressed to bay by the elephants
A few Koords, dead-black Nubians
dusky Hindoos and dignified Afghans
an Armenian emmigrant or two, and a
motley contingent of natives from the
Persian interior brought the number
of deck passengers up to about twenty
five. These passengers lived entirely
on deck. They boiled their rice them
selves, which, with a few dates or other
fruit and frequent potations of black
coffee, furnished the simple diet of
4 most of them. They slep in the open
air along the scuppers or on some con-
venient hatch What with the horses
and the bales of forage, the passengers
and their always multifarious effects,
there was hardly an available inch of
deck-space that, was not occupied. r..
Besides the eight officers of the YES
sci L was the only English-speaking
person on board. Among the deck pas
sengers l had noted a handsome Arab
girl. l longed to put her face on paper
but I well know the stern antipathy
the Moslems cherish against having
their picture taken in any form. How
ever l ran the risk of resentment and
surreptiously made the sketch you are
| looking at 1t was Zuleika, daughter
of Sheik Abdul, the chief of the horse
| dealers.
81 had grown sleepy listening to the
third officers yarns, and in preference
to tossing away the night in a super
heated stateroom l brought my mat
tress up on the windward side of tie
promenade deck, where found the soft
eastern breeze delightfully."- cooling. 1t
was pleasant to be out where, when
happened to be reused momentarily |
could see the stars shining overhead
and hear the soothing splash of the
water against the vessels side, the so.
porific, even pulsations of the engines,
and at intervals the bell on the bridge
giving the hour of the watch, repeated
by the lookout in the bows with an ac-
companying alps we'll
'At midnight the chief officer went
below, and the second officer, Mr.. New
hall, took his place on the bridge We
expected to make Linga shortly after
daybreak, and as we had already come
out of our course Captain Sargent be-
grudged any unnecessary delay and
left orders to have everything put in
readiness for quick discharge of the
Linga consignment. To get at the car
go with a steam windlass it was neces-
sary to remove the forward hatch. This
had been appropriated as a choice pc.
sition by the somewhat overbearing
Arab horse dealers, and it was covered
with their PROSTATE forms. One of the
watch unceremoniously wakeAed the
sleepers, and with an imshi ('get out
Of the way ordered them off. They
resented being so rudely disturbed in
the middle of the night and refused to
move, glowering at the sailor with sui
len anger. Thereupon the second officer
called Captain Sargent, who promptly
came forward and proceeded to clear
the hatch by force. By this time the
Arabs were thoroughly enraged. The
sheik excitedly directed a few words
to his companions, and seizing a winch
lever advanced fiercely on the captain
before the latter could lay hold of any
thing to defend himself with. The
whole party rose en- masse, and brand
ishing their murderous-looking crooked
knives frantically in the air drove the
two officers before them into the sa-
loon and held them there in terror
of their lives. e
II was awakened by the uproar, and
without knowing just what the matter
was rushed below in quest of my revol-
yer. But found the way to my state
room cut off by two sturdy guards.
Suddenly it occurred to me that the
second engineer had shown me an an
cient pistol taken from the French in
the Peninsular war. l slipped down
the engine-room hatchway unseen and
found 1t was loaded and primed. With
it l mounted guard, leaving the senior
engineer free to watch the engines
Meantime the third and fourth Off
GERS and one of the engineers had been
discovered and added to the list of the
captured in the saloon. The mutineers
having thus become masters of the
ship, a posse of them invaded the
furnace room and scared the stokers
away. Next they set upon me. with
knives and sticks. But this time they
met with repulse, for | discharged
the pistol in self-defense and shot one
of my assailants in the leg. This seemed
to check the ardor and .quell the i'm
petuosity of the ruffians, and they with.
drew. dragging their wounded comrade