Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-08

You are very thirsty?"
Very. But I've been troubled
worse before"
And you're hungry"
"Ravenously so. l am starving.
But I've suffered more than this"
Weak, too, terribly weak?"
"Of course. and"
And you'd better not talk" said
the officer.
Better not talk? l tell you l will
talk. Do you know how long I've been
floating around here without a soul to
speak to?"
No How long is it?"
Il don't know myself | think l have
somehow lost my reckoning. But it's
been a good while. / am going to talk
now. I don't think it would bore me
now to have"
"Wen?" suggested the officer, when
the pause had lasted for some time.
Never mind" said the rescued man;
Il was thinking of an inquisitive old
fellow who was coming to visit me!
ran away from him."
Ran away from him."
Yes. in my yacht"
In a yacht? And at this time of
year? You got tipped over in a storm,
| suppose"
No. sir. / didn't. I'm no fool in the
management of Il vessel, | can tell
f,,lt e, I S.Ic
too. as far as anything of that $ 'rt
vas concerned. as | would have been
IN land"
We'll, what did happen?"
I'VE got cut down in the night.
Some one ran an ocean steamer
Squarcy over us think the yacht
was cut clean in two and went straight
To the bottom. | never SAW one of
the crew after we were struck and |
supp, So they went straight to the bot
tom. too"
"You were the only one who escap-
ed. them"
Il think so. The man l was train
ing came to me. and"
he man YOU were lIllHiIlS w nat
do you mean?"
MY private secretary, l called him,
though the name was given in sport
instead of in earnest. He was young
fellow I'd taken a fancy to, though he
was under a cloud and hadn't many
friends and thinking I'd test the stuff
that was in him, before l made him
the friend and companion l intended
he should be. took him with me on
this voyage, and
And you may tell the rest another
time" said the officer: here we are at
the vessels side. and you need food
and drink and rest before you try to
talk any more"
1t was an hour later. The steamer
was again upon her way. The new
passenger was installed in comforta-
bile quarters, and had been given food
and drink in plenty. He had been
made Il hero of by the other passen-
gers. although most of them were
compelled to indulge in their hero
wol ship at 4 distance. as the captain
promptly forbade his being disturbed
condition. But at the end Of an hour
after the time of reaching the steam
er. the waif Of ocean asked for the
young officer who had had personal
charge Of the party to whom his res
cue was due. The officer came. The
man he had served held out his hand.
My name is Jasper Jahnway," he
said, and l have sent to ask for you
thank you for the part you had in my
rescue; second, l want to know the
name of the man who took me into the
boat; and third, since you seemed in
tereSted in my story. l want to tell
you the remainder of it-that is, the
remainder Of the story of my being
shipwrecked."
My name is Bolton" said the young
officer, taking the extended hand:
there is no necessity for thanks, as
was only doing my duty; but your
story was interesting, and, if you
will promise to lie still and not over
exert yourself, and to stop if l see it
| is wearying you. ! shall be glad to
hear the rest of it, You were speak
ing of the gentleman you called your
private secretary. | think you eX-
pressed Il hope that he had been
saved?"
No. | dare not have such a hope.
only said he came to me. after the
stroke which destroyed our vessel
will tell you all about it,"
Yes. please do"
Il was in the cabin when the disas-
ter occurred. | was cleaning a rifle:
an ammunition belt was buckled about
my waist, and l had a ramrod in my
hand: | suppose it isn't necessary to
tell you. after the part you took in
saving me. that without the one to use
in fastening myself to the raft on
which | escaped. or without the other
IN which to raise the signal you saw
and answered. my story would be very
different from what it is
Very different indeed" said Mr.
Bolton.
| Mr.. Jahnway WINGED 4 little at the
tone in which Mr.. Bolton had spoken.
81 don't mean that should have
died" he said; Il only mean that the
manner of my rescue would have been
different"
Il understand YOU. You are not
willing to admit that you might not
have been Saved?"
"I-dOn nt-knOw-exactly. At any
rate l was saved. and. as Pm not in a
philosophical mood today, I'll go back
to my story"
Yes. Let me hear the story
1.-The steamer struck US amidshipS
cutting our vessel in two. | was
thrown into the sea. falling out at one
side of the cabin. where it was cut en-
tirely open. and fortunately falling
clear of the splintered wreckage which
was. | fear. the cause of the death OF
more than one of my brave crew.
| went down. Of course. and | think