The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-07

the physician that the lad was by no means nsensble
of the great debt he owed to his preserver
One week in the beautiful garden worked wonders in
brought him into close relations with the poor
creatures who roamed in that earthly paradise with
roundings .~>.: =. =. -. ...e... ~ - .
Kings and prices dukes earls, lords Judges generals
and other titled innuerabe met daily in the
e1ed walks which were bordered with richly hued flowers
and luxuriant tropical plants. All full of absurd
concets and whimsical notions that would have been
tremely ludicrous had they not been so ptifu ~. :
1t was strange world in which to struggle back to
life and health and but for the CHEEKY talks with his
good friend the house lad might have had
sorry time while Commissioning But his sense of humor
nicely poised and the oddly the situation helped
him thru BE cheerfuly lent himself every new freak
that seized his companions and then treasured his expert
ence to recount to the doctor at their next meeting
Paul had made such progress in the good graces Of
dental, or as much lad of II could expect be
with of 49, Up to this time the boy had avoided
an mention OF the wreck but one evening shortly before
the day set for his discharge Paul told his friend the
story Of the loss Of the Koura and the part he had
played in that awful tragedy Of the sea: :.
The doctor heard the lad thru without comment aho
intensely interested listener Then excusing himself
for few minutes he went up to his private and
presently returned with bundle of newspapers. sus
pectng from the doctors manner they contained ref
to the wreck and possibly himself Paul eagerly
took the proered package and in very short time had
turah described to representative of the Melbourne
Argus by Tom Carey, who, it will be remembered,
thru the surf to shore after eapn from the boat sent
out in charge Of Mr.. Riley, the second officer.
Carey spoke Of his efforts to obtain relief the desc
late coast and his long tramp to the settlement
where succeeded inducing half dozen men to re-
turn with him to the beach, where they utterly pow
erless to render aid He told of their finding half
drowned wretch who had escaped from the first officers
boat when the blind roller tossed the into the
reacherous surf and who the only that managed
to get ashore alive Their long vigil the beach while
momentarly expecting the vessel to go to pieces
thrngy portrayed; also the starting Of the bonres
and OF thrown the survivors the wreck
It was almost O'Clock in the morning, he judged,
when the Koturah made her last plunge and slipped
backward from the reef under the turbulent waves which
at daylight covered every vesge Of the wreck except
of the topmost spar Aho they patroed the shore
managed to struggle thru live, and it not
until the day following that the bruised and swollen bodies
of the victims washed ashore. = =
In another column Paul read with feeling of deep
thankfuness that the second officer with his crew, had
pulled out to in safety and picked by the
sci futile efforts to reach destroyed
the hopes of those left board the Koturah The
tain s body recovered that Of the second engineer
the old minister, Paus little golden haired charge and
including that of his poor chum, Davy All had been
removed to the settlement twenty miles inland, and
given decent burial Out Of total of nearly two hun
dred passengers and Carey and the survivor from
the first officers boat together with Riley and his crew.
all that escaped nine out of two hundred.
oa haao n1 ~ raa1 frhe
Meantime the doctor sat stolidly putting at his briar
wood, but taking his eyes off his young FRIEND
Pected long before Paul gave him his confidence Dr.
Tolman had developed great liking for the lad whom
he had snatched from the very jaws of DEATH and since
his discovery of the shocking experience thru which his
protege had passed this feeling greatly intensified
Waiting until Paul's fit of weeping had worn itself
claiming: "Come, come, my boy, you must chirk up
bit or I shall have all my work to do again. We
know there yet another saved and you to
read what your FRIEND Captain Wilson, says whom your
absence has so greatly mystfed. -
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