The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-02-02


showed them a rocky coast looming up |
close aboard-a blacker darkness
while ahead was jutting promontory |
The coast OF Maine." exclaimed the
captain. How'd we get up here!
Can We get sail on her."
To gallan's SIS gone. sir-all but TINS
mizzen"
set it--and the royals"
But the demoniac laughter filing the
air prevented this order being obeyed:
no one would leave the quarterback,
and with set faces and curdling blood
they watched the Jagged coast APP
proach closer and closer, while the tri-
umphant laugh tainted their ears, I'M
al the Cumberland. with grinding
crash and jolt that threw them from
ineir feet. struck the rocks a fun
guarter-mile from the shore. Rockets
we're sent up from the shelter OF the
companion way until the stock was ex-
nausted But no answering signal was
seen on the shore, and the wet chilled.
and despairing men strained Their
eyes for full hour before one OF them
called attention TO a grayish spot IN
he darkness astern, which disap'
reared even as he pointed 10 II. A mo
.nent later II came into view on the
crest of sea.
II was a heavy. turtle-ended govern
ment life boat. with eight cork-jack-
eted rowers.
The lee alley-way was crowded with
( men eager TO descend TO the saving
life-boat and among those nearest to
the rope was Capt. Gray. as eager as
any.
why don't ye waltz" growled one
as he hustled him away and threw his
leg over the rail.
Get back" snarled another. Back
wi ye. Yer cappen here. Stan by yer
ship"
We'll have TO swim for IT,
screamed the captain. above the din Of
wind. sea and crashing wood. Have
We any cork jackets?"
In NJ. Actors room"
Get them out"
The third mate descended and reap
peared with but one which he meek,
handed to the captain.
"All that's left. sir; my room II
washed away"
The captain began buckling on tn
cork jacket
NO. you don't" shouted the secon'
mate. climbing towards him on tn
now sloping deck Leave US to drown
,yill you? Not much Give me that.
his eyes shone as though with incipl
int insanity.
NO" was the answer. Then tn
% Jacket was torn from the captain
= shoulder. He clinched the frenzied OF
= hcer and they fell. arising each wit
: a firm hold on the life preserver th
~ straps Of which were now broken. tn
third mate watched them with a cur
Gus light in his eyes. The first mat
= had gone TO his room for a cork ma
tress which he knew Of
a AS he appeared with IL sea sweI
ne what was left of the halfsubmergt
t. hull Just as the struggling men reach'
he break OF the poop When II hs
"a PASSED over. two heads were discern
On ole in the receding hollow to leewar
n and the struggle was continued in q
10 water. then again-loud and clei
; - above the bowling of the tempest
nA was heard the knocking laughter al
1t the frightful ending: Die! Die"
I'd Actors done for" muttered the fir
mate. as he sprang overheard with h
bv mattress.
- But out OF the demolished cab
"a emerged the third mate. strapping
d. a cork jacket
Ter The light from a burning tar barr
shone on his face Looking to win
\ ward. at the black outline OF storl
" swept coast, and at the shaking. grin
90 ing fragment OF a once stately ship
M which he stood. he smiled. But in tn
smile there was no sweetness, no so
no ness All the agony and despair t
NJ misery and degradation Of his {
IN forced voyage was expressed in
en- end in the dark eyes-fashing ags
ed and defant-shone the triumph Of pi
70. Jess vengeance. Creeping down 10
ed rail he sprang into the sea and. I
ed ewing his plunge by a half-minu
an the wrecked stern rolled shorewa
aad the light from the tar barrel We
de- out in a kissing cloud OF steam.
in
Prospects were good for the first ma
MS Mt. Boswell He was promised a ship, |
he could not sleep. Insomnia had sell
II him, for an internal. hooking vo
IND vas in his ears night and day. As
sal- offset. after a weeks suffering.
thought OF the theater. Any would
Aft, and he entered the first play house
the came to. where he sat abstracte
md through a variety performance.
J. burst Of applause aroused him
to The applause continued and
creased and. when a man appear
- there arose a deaf,ning roar. The n
was in evening dress and, contrast
ird strangely. yet agreeably, with
Is" white expanse OF shirt front. was
the iace bronzed with the tan Of sun 1
- 49, hue NJ ma hoqaOV FIR