Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-20

the Kansas In NO. llfeDoat Tell Into the hands of the sayages early on the day of the ships arrival here. Suarez slipped his cable that night, being aware of the time that eleven white captiyes were still alive. Yet he said no word. not even when he heard that we had seen one of the boats water casks in canoe. What sort of mean hound can he be?" Suarez needed no translation to
 grasp the purport of Courtenay's
 words. He besought the senor captain
 to have patience with him. He had
 escaped from a living tomb and felt
 that he would yield up his life rather
 than return. Therefore when he SAW
 how few in number and badly armed
 were they on board the ship he thought 1t best to remain silent as to the fate of the boats crew. In the first place, he
 fully expected that they had been kill
 ed by the Indians, who would be en- ragged by his own disappearance; sec ondly, he alone knew how hopeless any attempt at a rescue must prove; final ly, he wished to spare the feelings of those who had befriended him. Of what avail were useless mind tortur- ings regarding the hapless beings in the hands of the savages?
 There was certain plausibleness ill this reasoning which curbed Courte- nays wrath, though it in no way di- unfinished his disgust.
 Ask him to ascertain if the Indians believe the white men are still living" he said. A fresh series of grunts and clicks elicited the fact that the smoke column seen the previous day on Guan- aco hill had not been created by the tribe. Suarez begged the senor captain to remember that he had spoken truly when he declared that its meaning was unknown to him. Probably from what he now learned the girl who threw in her lot with the sailors had built fire there.
 Courtenay turned on his heel and quilted the cabin. Christobal, we'll knowing how the demons of doubt and despair were aftiicting Courtenay, fol- lowed him to the upper deck. Boyle was in the chart house, and Tolle- mache. Each man noted the captains troubled face.
 Courtenay obtained telescope. With the tact which never failed him, even in such desperate crisis as this, he handed the doctor his binoculars. Then both men looked at the summit of Guanaco hill. Though it was high noon and the landscape was simmer ing in the heat mist created by the un. usual power and brilliance of the sun, they distinctly saw thin pillar of smoke rising above the trees. Courte- nay closed his telescope. He made to approach Boyle, evidently for the pur- pose of giving some order, when Chris tobal said quietly:
 Wait. I have something to say to you. You ought to remain on the ship. Let me go"'
 You"
 Yes, I. After all, it is only matter of taking command. One man cannot I go alone. He could not even pull the lifeboat so far; hence what you can do can do. and have no objection to dying in that way"
 Why should either of us die?
 ''You know better than I how little l chance there is of saving those men,. You may deem me callous if l suggest | that the reasonable thing would be to forget the miserable statement you | have just heard. Oh, please hear me to | the end. I am not talking for your sole | benefit, believe me. Greatly as I and 1 all on board are beholden to you, do | not propose giving my life in your stead because of my abounding admi- ration for your many virtues. We'll, | then, since you are so impatient as to be almost rude, I come straight to the point. If you take command of a boats | crew and endeavor to save the men imprisoned over there. you will almost certainly throw away your life and the lives of those who help you. In that event a lady in whom we are both in- terested will suffer grieyously. On the other hand. if I were killed she would weep little, because she has large heart, but you would console her. And the odd thing is that you and I are fully aware that either you or I must go of on this fools errand. There is none other to take the vacant place. Now. have l made myself clearT'
 While I command the Kansas I am responsible for the we'll being of the ship. her crew and her passengers. could never forgive myself if I left those men 10 the mercy of the Indians. I cannot permit either you or ToIle- mache to take a risk which I shirk. Boyle and Walker must remain on board-lest I fail. Now. Christobal, don't make my duty harder. Shake hands! am proud to claim you as friend"
 Huh" said Boyle. stroIling toward them. What is it-a betT"
 Yes" laughed Courtenay. from whose face all doubt had vanished. "a bet indeed. and you hold the stakes. Have you seen the smoke signal yon- derT' And he pointed across the bay.
 Yes. Tollemaehe found it again twenty minutes since"
 Tt means that eleven of our men are there. expecting us to save them. Hoist the ships answering pennant from the main yard swung out to star board Build a small fire on the poop and throw some oil and lampbIack on l. If they don't recognize the pennant they will understand the smoke. Get