The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-11

was not the SOUND o. 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
II jumped up and looked, and there,
sure enough. was big ship just show
ing round the point, and close in, not
more than mile away from the reef
For a moment l was bit scared,
remembering that there was not
breath of wind. and yet seeing her
moving. Then l 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 to be either a Yam
kee or a British North American.
Just as l had asked Rotau to get
one of his women to hunt up a boats
crew he sang out: Listen, Ted, hear
a boat
I'm 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
ha toll nj fIn
land in another hour or SO, so we all
went to the point to see " here the
| boat was coming.
LAS soon as she was within 100 yards
Of the beach l hailed them to keep q
bit to starboard. as there was big
coral bowlder right In front of the spot
they were steering for.
AYE, aye! answered the man steer,
ing, and he did as l told him. In an.
other minute or two the solt shot up
on the beach, and we crowded round
them.
Island back, please says the Off
Ger, speaking in a curious, hurried kind
of way, and then l saw that he had a
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 l saw that, though ne tried to
speak quietly, he was in furry over
| something
"'What's all this 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 could hardly follow him, said that
the lady was the captains wife, and
she had been taken i'll ve-y suddenly
anL her husband. seeing my house SC
close to. had determined 10 send her
ashore. and see IL 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 |.
here, that a white man lives in it
And want to have look at the WON
ans face. She might be dead for al
l know
by this time my wife and one OF
Rotau's wives had gone up to the won
an, and saw that although she wasn't
dead, she looked very like 1t, for bel
eyes were closed and she seemed quite
unconscious of all that was going on
She was young-abOut Is or so-anc
was rather pretty.
"'Please take her to your house,
says the officer, and as soon an W.
have towed the ship out of danger TIKI
captain will come ashore aud see you.
"'Hold on' says l, and l grabbed
him by the arm. DO you mean to say
you're going of in this fashion without
telling me anything further7 Who ar,
you, anyway? What 10 the ship'i
Manner
"He hesitated just a second and thel
sail: The Inca Prince, Capt Brough
ton. But 1 can't stay to talk now
Tit, captain himself will tell you abou
it In the morning
] "And then. before / could stop him