Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

ue ueck, climbed after it before the Others of the
party sFIy, mad IA, reached the deck.
i tb you please, said Captain Briggs, as soon as
CLIO poaC was taken up. "The cholera is raging
49, 49, at fearful rate, and the English and
Americans Ans are the first seized I'm almost sorry
'naI at we touched here at ALL"
put who's your friend there?" asked John,
noddbblns nodbns at the sailor, who, shouldering his
cloGRes 1tnt Dag, was going forward
fSI1o Th! replied Captain Briggs, ri forgot He's
a a. leiiow % that left the Sooloo, there, as soon
as she got in, which believe was yesterday
morning; n,,1 Says he was beaten by the mate,
ana couldn't stand it, and he begged so hard
7 70 o De aliowed to work his passage with us that
agreed to take him"
noot 40 not not like his eye though" briefly said
face. '''e pei 'pii a'i0ii iioiii Ai'
EarIe IL G,nd IedaTftuly black one, anyway laughed
f. t;Giie & ana It must have been pretty scien-
'ine nHaf1 bl1w to have colorged it that way"
Briggs we ;mnst;Gnt MEYER mind interrupted Captain
turn that fellow out to man p the windlass.
wei DRIFT out on the ebb, and catch the land
now"
=, For at about eight o'clock in the morning
the breeze comes in from the sea in these
ATTITUDES, else it would be, almost impossible
70 I'VE After sunset it dies away, and the
wind blows softly off shore all night, so that
down:
"Wott kind oav a packet is this here, any,
way, shlpmet? said the newcomer, in fa-
mlllar voice, the moment Fred entered the
forecastle.
And in the battered, surly face before him
Fred recognized his former townsman and
woqldbe antagonist, Dan Leary.
NOW was the time to put into practice some
OF the coolness which he had SO enyied in
Vandyke Brown
TN take my knife, Leary," said Fred, with
out appearing in the least surprised, "and then
oi the captaln a l says you're to come on deck and
We'll, I'm bowed!"
with which expression of astonishment, Mr..
neary, IN whose coarse face was exhibited the
lyehes5 astonishment, mechanically drew the
Fred,s extended hand.
How came you here?" Fred asked, as they
shipped the windlass brakes and stood waiting
for TT the rest of the ships company.
,sn al went on to New York the day .afther-
aftherIl seen you, Dan answered, with lit
tie confusion, an shipped in the Sooloo fur
Melbourne. That's her beyant, an foine ship
she was, on'y fur the mates gettin' down on
me by reason ay the capn's thinkin' av sndin'
him for'rud an givin' me the mates BERTH"
which was not exactly the case, as Fred after
ward found out.
Dan,, in a rage at being reproved for some
Thing Saiing had drawn the knife on the mate, who,
Delng dlsclpllnarian of the sternest kind had
knocked Mr.. Leary his full length on the deck
And the Soooo, having arrived at Mauritius
the day before, Dan had deserted, got drunk,
and received severe drubbing ashore, all in
the {, short space OF twenty-four hours.
But on the following morning, when ne
heard of the terrible epidemic which was rag
ing in the city, he was frightened half out of
ms ms wits, and knowing that they would not
take him on board of the Sooloo again. he
had told such pitiful story to Captain Briggs
that, as we have seen. he was brought on board
the Borden.
A very few moments served to heave short,
and the sails being hoisted, the anchor was
taken up to the hawser pipe, and hoisted on
to the rail.
With the faintest breath of the land breeze
astern, the Borden drifted slowly out of the
harbor in the gathering twilight, but as the
moon began to rise over the rim of the sea the
breeze freshened, and once more the pleasant
ripple OF the water was heard under the Bor-
den's bows.
As they passed Kiza, little island near
the mouth of the harbor, a singular looking
vessel, which appeared to have been lying un,
der, the lea OF the rocky islet, was just getting
under way.
''Luff little" said Captain Briggs to Fred,
whose wheel it was "Ihat will do; steady,
now. L want to run as near as I can to the
craft. there's plenty of water anywhere round
here"
Steadily the Borden glided on, until within
a stones throw of the strange vessel.
She was apparently about fifty feet long,
low in the water, and spread an immense Ia
teen sail on mast composed Of one enormous
stick of bamboo.
"Aboard, there!" sung out John Palmer, as
the Borden passed close to her quarter; ''Who
are you, and where bound!"
"Dis boat no name-go to. Philipin' Islam
for trepang an turtle SHE'LL" replied dusky
individual whose voice, strange as it may
seem, was not unfamiliar to Fred-though, for
the life of him, he could not remember when
ba had hoard If