Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-25
XI-Continued.

Nothing more developed for long time
except a savage fight between Pulz and
Perdosa. l hunted sheep, fished. wandered
about-always with an escort tired to death
before he started. The thought came to
me to kill this man and so to escape and
make cause with the scientists. My COM
mon sense forbade me. / begin to think
that common sense is very foolish faculty
indeed.
1t taught me the obvious-that all this
idle vaporing talk was common enough
among men of this class, so common that il
would hardly justify murder. would hard
Iy explain an unwarranted intrusion on
those who employed me. How would II
look for me to go to them with these words
in my mouth:
= 1.-THE captain has taken to drinking to dull
the monotony. The crew think you are an
alehemist and are making diamonds. Their
interest in this fact seemed to me exceS-
sive SO l killed one of them, and here
am"
"And who are you?" they could ask.
Il am reporter would be my only
truthful reply.
You can see the false difficulties of my
position. I do not defend my attitude.
Undoubtedly a born leader of men, like
Capt. SeIover at his best, would have
known how to act with the proper decision
mutiny. At heart l never doubted the
reality of the crisis.
Even Percy barrow saw the surliness OF
the mems attitudes and with his usual good
sense OWNED the cause.
you chaps are getting lazy" said he
why don't you do something? Where's the
captain?"
They growled something about there be-
ing nothing to do. and explained that the
captain preferred to live aboard.
Don't blame him. said Darrow, but
he might give us little of his squeaky
company occasionally. Boys. IN tell you
have long, stiff whiskers-a foot long. Dc
you know there's a market for those whis-
kers? Well. there is. The Chinese mount
them in gold and use them for cleaners fol-
from six bits to l dollar and quarter
Why don't you kill few bull seal for the
trimmings?
"Nothin' to do with voodoo?" srunted
Handy Solomon.
barrow laughed amusedly. mo, this ID
the truth" he assured. "I'll tell you what
Ill give you boys six bits apiece for the
whisker hairs, and four bits for the gails
I expect to sell them at profit"
Next morning they shook Off their leth-
argy and went seal-hunting
1 was practically commanded to attend
This attitude had been growing Of late
now it began to take definite form.
Mr.. Eagen, don't you want to go hunt
mgr or Mr.. Eagen. ! guess I'll Just 60
along with you to stretch my legs" had
given way to. Were going fishing; you'd
better come along"
had known for long time that I had
lost any real control of them; and that
perhaps Inundated me a little. However
my inexperience at handling such men. and
the anomalous character of my position to
some extent consoled me. In the fllaments
brushed across the face of my u T>~stand.
ing l could discover none so strong as to
support an overt act on my ply. I tanno,
doubt that had the affair cone a focus
should have warned the sc.-S1 Its even
at the risk Of my life. In fact, = shall
have occasion to show you. do my best
But at the moment, in all policy I could
see my way to little besides acquiescence
We killed seals by sequestrating the bulls
certain point of the forehead. It was sur
pristng to see how hard they fought. and
how quickly they succumbed to q blow
properly directed. Then we stripped the