Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-19

gested that the party on ''the nameless' might have gone ashore for hunting purposes. and 1 at last consented that the next day he might take three of the crew. go ashore and spend twelve hours in looking for the deserters of the yacht.
 Bat overnight something occurred to render this inadvisable. We set light on "the nameless" and left one man to watch on our own vessel. which was all that was necessary since we were at anchor in a small bay in good weather One man watched till eight bells. midnight. when another man took his place. Wingate wished me to put a man on the namelcss." and did.
 At two bells in the morning Wingate. who had slept little during the night. looked out of the porthole in his state room for the yacht Not seeing her and supposing that he was not on the right side to see her. be got up and went on deck. "The nameless" was nowhere to be seen. He came to my room 10 announce the fact. l asked him what the watch reported about the disappearance. and he said that he had found the man sound asleep.
 Putting on bath robe. l went on deck. The first watch said that "the nameless' was in position when he was relieved. so she must have pulled out during the second watch. I asked if anything was known of the man who had been stationed on her. but was told that he had neither been beard of nor seen since he had heen rhe mysterious vessel.
 Among my crew there were several ignorant. superstitious men-sailors of low rating-who were paralyZed with terror. They rushed without orders to pull up the anchor. but stopped them, though I feared they were going to brain me with eapstain bars they had taken up. I didn't propose to take any action till had received further information and had consulted with my guest. Alec Wingate. One of my men said that during the night he thought he heard the sound of oars.
 Wingate was very much agitafed over this part of the mystery. Indeed. he seemed more disturbed at the dis appearance than he had been at the discovery of the yacht. I suggested that he make a reconnoitering trip ashore, as had been intended. but with different purpose. He might find traces of people having been there. He followed my advice, but the keen est eye in the party could discover no indications of human beings. For my part l believed "the nameless- had been taken possession of by shore des- peradoes; that they had been in hid ing somewhere near by: had gone aboard in the night. surprised the man yacht out of our hearing with untitled oars; then they had lighted the fires and steamed away. There was noth- ing agains: this theory except the fact of Wingate's having found one of his wife's dresses aboard. But I took no stock in this, for Wingate had suffered so much at her loss that probably his mind had become afflicted and he had himself created the remembrance of this dress.
 After cc1.Sultation with Wingate. whom I tod that I would adopt any course he wished. it was determined that we get up the anchor immediate ly and go out to the open sea with view 10 discovering if the nameless' was in sight This we did, running directly southeast in direct line from the coast. but notwithstanding that we had clean sweep either way and excellent glasses we saw nothing of her. believed she had got too much start but nearly all of my crew by this time considered her a phantom.
 Nor did we afterward hear anything of her. though we spoke every vessel We met, asking if she had seen her One vessel described her pretty well, but the yacht observed was the Acadia, with the name painted on her stern. We completed our voyage without any other information.
 But the mystery of "the nameless'' was destined to be solved. During the winter Wingate got wind of his wife's being in Montreal He went there and found her
 Though the story of her disappear ance was never made entirely clear to me. the mystery of the Dameless yacht was. To keep Mrs. Wingate from tes- tifying in litigation where British peo- pie in high life were concerned she had been Kidnapped and kept at sea in a yacht. Her kidnaper while on the New England coast saw by a New York so- ciaI paper that her husband had en- parked on a cruise with me. As soon as my yacht appeared his sailing mas ter recognized her. At the time leak in the boilers was being repaired, and there was no heat in the firebox, so :he yacht could not steam away. The kidnaper. supposing Wingate ! knew that his wife was on the Acadia and that he was on her track. ordered paint brush to be run over her paint | ing
 An idea occurred to him. There was at the time no one aboard but himself. an engineer and his captive. He drug ged the captive. carried her into the firebox and got in there with her. The engineer got in also. and the party, two on one side of the door and one on the other. were hidden from view of any one looking straight into the box. espe- cially as there was very little light