Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-22

trade wind having died away, there
was not the sound of a leaf stirring in
the palm grove.
I'VE had been sitting like this for
about half an hour, when Nora, my
wife, just as she was coming out of the
door to join US, gave a cry.
TIE Kalibuke! Look at the ship
81 jumped up and looked, and there,
sure enough, was a big ship just show
ing round the point, and close in, not
more than a mile away from the reef.
For a moment I was a bit scared,
remembering that there was not a
breath of wind and yet seeing her
moving. Then 1 remembered the cur
rent, and knew that she must have
run up to the land from the westward
before dark perhaps, and that as soon
as the breeze had died away the cur
rent, which runs about four knots, had
caught her and was now moving her
along. l took her 10 be either a Yam
kee or a British North American.
Just as I had asked Rotau to get
one of his women to hunt up a boats
crew he sang out: Listen, Ted, hear
a boat
in another moment or two l heard
it myself plain enough-ciick, clack,
click, clack-and at the same time saw
that the ship was heading away from
the land.
Il knew the ship was right enough,
and could not get into any danger, as
the current would take her clear of the
land in another hour or so, so we all
went to the point to see where the
boat was coming
AS soon as she was within 100 yards
of the beach 1 hailed them to keep a
bit to starbOard, as there was a big
coral bowlder right in trout of the spot
they were steering for.
's'Aye, aye! answered the nan steer
ing, and he did as told him. In an
other minute or two the boat shot up
on the beach, and we crowded round
them.
Stand back, please says the Off
Ger, speaking in a curious, hurried kind
of way, and then l saw that he had
pistol in his left hand, and that the
men with him looked white and scared,
and seemed to take no notice of US.
1.-TWO of the men jumped out, and
then we saw that there was another
person in the boat-a woman. She was
sitting on the bottom boards, lying
against the stern sheets, and seemed
to be either asleep or dead. The Off
GER helping them, they lifted her up
and out Of the boat and carried her
ashore. Then the officer turned to me,
and 1 saw that, though he tried to
speak quietly, he was in a furry over
something.
What's all this 1 said. What's
the matter? What have you got this
pistol in your hand for, and what is
the matter with this woman
''He put the pistol out of sight pref
ty quick, and then, speaking so rapid
ly 1 could hardly follow him, said that
the lady was the captains wife, and
she had been taken i'll very suddenly,
and her husband, seeing my house so
close to, had determmed TO send her
ashore, and see If anything could be
done for her.
That's - queer / said. why
didn't he come with her himself? Look
here-I don't believe all this. How
did he know, even though the house is
here, that a white man lives in it
And / want to have a look at the wom-
ans face. She might be dead for all
! know.
by this time my wife and one of
ROtau's wives had gone up to the WON
an. and I saw that, although she wasn't
dead, she looked very like it, for her
eyes were closed and she seemed quite
unconscious of all that was going on.
She was young-about % or so-and
was rather pretty.
please take her to your house.
says the officer, and as soon rs we
have towed the ship out of danger the
captain will come ashore and see YOU
Hold onr says /, and grabbed
him by the arm. DO you mean to say
you're going off in this fashion without
telling me anything further? Who are
you, anyway? What is the ships
name?
HE hesitated just a second and then
said: The Inca Prince, Capt Brough-
ton. But I can't stay to talk now
The captain himself will tell you about
it in the morning
"And then, before could stop him,