The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25
The Adventures of q SupercargO

despair; then the vision would fade and
| ing heart
I'VE worked cur passages out to sgd
ney in a sailing ship, for we had only
/ q few pounds between US. But I felt
sure that PatteTmOre would not, dared
not, refuse to pay me the one thousand
pounds he had promised me, cruelty
and meanly as he had treated my poor
wife for whose dreadful fate l held him
to be responsible. 1t was my intention
/ to make him pay me the money-wh-ch
was to be divided between us four
and then give the scOundrel a thrash
| ing.
con reaching Sydney, 1 went direct
/ to Pate. more's offices in Pitt street.
/ In that I made a mistake should
/ have waited and gone to his house at
/ Parramatta. where our converse ton
would have been private-but / was too
! impetuous and spoilt everything, at
! least as far as making him pay me was
| concerned
! I sent in my name by clerk. who
returned and sad Mr.. Pattermore did
not wish to see mel was no longer in
| his employ. and he had no time 20
waste. l pushed the clerk eside and
stepped into the private Office. Pat
| termOre was there and certainly was
busy, for there were two other men
seated at the table with him.
What do you mean. sir, by coming
in here after receiving my MESA ge p
he said. leaning back in his chair and
! Sowing at me- What do you want?'
81 want that one thousand pounds
you owe me for delivering q cargo of
arms for you to General Valdez, three
and a half years ago., 1 said, trying to
| speak calmly
Bah! the fellow is mad-or in+Oxi-
| fnH hln -1f
IN old gentleman rext to him Now,
| look here. Christie, take yourself off as
| quickly as possible, before I SIND for a
policeman
"a mad fury possessed me. Muir
derer Of my wife and child I cried.
and then SpTang at him and seized him
by the throat with murder in my
heart.
I have no doubt but that I should
have strangled him had not three or
four of his clerks rushed in, and one
of them, Selling a heavy ruler, struck
me blow after blow on the head until
I became Insensible, and my grip was
taken from his throat. When / came e
i found two policemen beside me, and
4 doctor attending 20 PattermOre.
las I was led away to be charged al
the police station / turned TO PatteT-
more, who had recovered consciousness
and said: You heaTtless scoundrel,
have not done with you yet. Some day
shall have my revenge
Il was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonmen-. That, wearisome as il
was, was heaven compared to the nor
rcrs I endured in Caracas, for the of
, ficials treated me not only kindly, bu
considerably.
THE day I was liberated the COVER
: nor handed me sixty pounds, which haC
been sent to him for me in several sums
. from time to time by Terence Clancy
| Rocket. and big Sam, who had al
/ written to me during my Imprisonment
All three had stuck together, Clanc!
, getting a berth as chief engineer OF
one of the Melbourne boats, and Rock
] EFT and big Sam were Quartermasters.
F They were away when I came out o
Darlinghurst. but week later we met
and I then told them that I meant Z
+ have my revenge on Pattermore, am
explained how I meant TO carry it int
: effect. They agreed to join me whe1
> I was ready-n0 matter when or where
: within a few weeks I got the com
mand of a South Sea trading barqu
: named the Petite Jeanne, running be
! tween Sydney and Fiji. and during tn
following two years I was Datent
o watching for my chance. At last
r came Clancy got the berth of chic
. engineer on the Warriga1. which ha
just been bought by PattermOre. an
, he and I made our plans definitely
: How we got possession of her, Clan
cy will tell you.
: tom. dear lad, goodbye. and try {
Q think kindly of poor Jim Christie"