Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-15
prisoners and Capfives
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BY II. s. MERQIMAN

80: % yet entirely puzzle TO him on5
oa.1,, was only a new complication. He
not understand it, inst az bot+or
i,ien than Claud Tyars have failed 70 rn-
ue,s land 1t all through. For no ono r
axe IT, does understand love. and NO nov
can say whittier it will lead
!here need,'' continued Oswin crooO
iioidllhg series of small holes in his
$3.50 .oesIHs paper with the point of a cedar
80 pencil be no nonsense of that sort
80, an gong TO take it upon myself to
"atIn over Heien's interests: thew are
''iocu SAFER III your hands than in mine"
S'iil 1yars said nothing and after q
'i'lie pause, Grace went on, in measured
'nough1lul tones, carrying with them the
weight of deliberation.
mere is one point" he said. "upon
when L think there must be an under
standing"
es' said Tyars anxiously.
Any rlskS-eXtra risks, such as boat
"oih' hlSnt-Work up aloft-these must be
lilne. FROM what you have said, I gath
u .hat your intention was to be skipper,
anu yet Go the rough work as WELL When
anything hazardous is to be done. I shall
40 II. You must stick to the ship"
| l nave no doubt" said Tyars. seating
| himself at the table and beginning TO
open his letters, that we are all con-
structing very fine mountain out of ma
terlaIs intended for molehiu. I. for
one, have no intention of leaving nv
bones in the far North. There is no rea-
son why we should not all be back home
by this time next year."
| None at ALL" agreed Oswin somewhat
pertunctorily, adding, with a suspicion of
doubt the next minute: Suppose we
succeed?'
well, what them"
Suppose we get there all right, rescue
the men and go on safely; we get over
the elemental danger, and then we have
to face the political, which is worse"
Il do not see it," replied Tyars. I'VE
sell the ship at San Francisco. Half
the crew expect to be paid off there, the
other half will dispense with their passage
money in their pockets, and very few of
them will find their way back to England.
| Our doctor is a German socialist, with
| several aliases our second mate a sim
ple-minded Norwegian whaling skipper.
The exiles do not know word of Eng
fish, or pretend they do not, and none
of the crew speaks Russian. There will
be absolutely no intercourse on board,
and only you, the doctor and myself will
ever know who the rescued men really
are The crew will imagine that they
are the survivors of a Russian ivory hunt
| ing expedition and if the truth ever
comes out, it will be impossible to prove
that you and / knew better"
But it will not be easy to keep the
newspapers quiet"
1--WE shall not attempt to keep them
quiet 1t will only be a local matter.
The San Francisco papers will publish
Iibelous woodcuts of our countenances and
column or two purporting to be bio
era phical, but the world will be little the
wiser. In America such matters are in
teresting only in so much as they are per-
sonal, and there is in reality nothing
easier than the suppression of ones per-
sonality. There is no difficulty in kick
| ing an interviewer out of the room, just
as one would kick out any intruder; and
we are quite Indifferent as to whether
| the American newspapers abuse us or not
fter having been kicked. AS to the de-
tails of the voyage, l shall withhold those
with the view of publishing book, which
is quite the correct thing nowadays. The
book shall always be in course of prepare
ton, and will never appear
In this wise the two men continued
talking. planning, scheming all the morn
ing. while they worked methodically and
prosaically.
The eleventh of March was fixed for
the sailing of the Argo, exploring vessel,
and Easton's chief thought on the sub
iect was a vague wonder as to what he
would do with himself after she had gone.
The Argo was to pass out of the tidal
basin into the river at one o'clock, and
~ half-past twelve Easton drove up to
tba dock gates. He brought with him the
Ios+ items of the ships outfit in the shape
of nile of newspapers, and bunch OF
ho+borse roses for the cabin table, for
+bora was to be luncheon party on board
while steaming down the river.
He found Admiral Grace strolling
aho,t tbe deck with Tyars conversing in
Ito friendly way, and endeavoring
lornstlv to suppress his contempt for
-oomanship of so young growth as that
&c his companion. The ladies were below,
;nsnocting the ship under Oswin's guild
ance.
..sha isl he said, addressing himself to
adr,iraI with transatlantic courtesy,
q: .a' strange mixture of the man-of-war
and the yacht-do you not find it so,
| sir?"
..she is" answered the old gentleman
rdadlv. lone of the most complete yes
sals | have ever boarded-thoush her
outward appearance is, OF course against
her"
"One can detect" continued the Amerl-
can, looking round win Il nusins ese'
"+ba influence of a naval officer.
The old gentleman softened visibly. AT
n,omant the ladies appeared, escorted
nv oswin Grace-Miss Winter first with
~ searcbing little smile in her eyes. Eas-
~ saw that she was very much on the
alert.
u feel quite at home" she said to him.
looking round her, although there are SO