Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-23

IoO AW048 - 00o0E1y - U0ooSUOR ~
. word had beea spoken ~ ny q ~
party. and the sound e To !s1slAg
wind he'd drowned the crosk Of thGlE
osrs. Halt . dozen woliarned men
had stolen aboard ~ the bsws -
rsconnoiter.
Making out the unfamiliar figures
Of tho WAlrus people On Asok. and
knowing that they had . light On their
hands, they had worked their way, un-
observed. to q position amidshiDs.
Here. under cover Of . brisk rovolvof-
IRE. they had made It possible for the
rest Of their party to get aboard.
The Walrus people, several Of whom
were below, name tumbling up %
deck at the sound of firing. and their
whole party entrenched itself In the
after-deck house. They lad found
arms OF various sorts aboard the Au-
rora, and made Q spirited resistance
before they we're finally overpOWorod.
Tho Aurora's people. under the cool
headed command of Warner and the
elder Fanshaw. had proceeded In .
brisk, scientific. military style that
had spared them many serious casual
ties. There YER q number Of flesh
wounds when It was over, and n or
two Of . moro serious nature. None
Of them had been killed.
The Walrus people, however. had
not surrendered until their plight WAS
wholly desperate. Only i've Of them
MORALLY wounded when the struggle
ceased.
The uninjured were heavily ironsd
and locked Up in the storage. All
the wounded-fr1euds and foes ALIKE
were turned over to the care Of tho
yachts surgeon and . couple q volun-
teer assistants from among the crew.
Altogether. It was two or three hours
after the Aurora's people had regained
%undisputed possession Of the yacht b.
fore It was possible to form any dsd-
mite idea of what had happened. In
the sscttemeat and the necessity q
everybody doing I've or threo thingD
at once. Tom Fanshaw and his serious
plight wrre not discovered. until he
himself, having partly regained coz
s~ciousness, uttered . low moan for
help, which was heard BY . chance
passerby.
The gale. which had been raging all
this while, had gone screaming BY
UNDECIDED, and It was not until dawn
that the Mortified conquerors Of the
yacht discovered that there vas no
land In sight.
1t was several hours after that. not,
indeed. until the captain had worked
out their reckoning from an observar
ton. before they realized that they
were 100 miles away from their
anchorage of the previous evening.
and that their return was hopeless.
Old Mr.. Fanshaw gave his arm TO
his son, helped him down from the
bridge and thence to the % deserted
smoking room, forward. Tom sub
mittsd to be led olindly along. and did
not demur whom his father halted BE-
side . big leather sofa and told him
to lie down upon it 4inee that NO
menta1y outbuRst q his upon the
bridge. the young maA had been vn-
naturally calm. His muscles. - ao
lay there now upon the sofa, seemed
relaxed: his eyes wsfo 1xsd. almost
dull.
Through . long Silence his father
sat there watching him, but there vas
no dawn Of . corrsspondinS calmnoss
in his face. Il had aged whole yeazs
yer night.
IT'S strange to me-" he said. that
We ever recovered possession Of this
yacht at all, let alone that We were
able to cover 1t without & costing
u the life Of q single . This gang
must have had q leader, and . clever
one. They way he Unanswered his
mon 70 kesD them out Of sight while
he drew away nrst one party and then
the other from the yacht was . piece
Of mastery strategy. He worked II
out perfectly In every detail He got
possession Of the yacht without losing
Q man, without even firing . shot that
might give the alarm. And sven with
the warning we had and With the
help Of tho fog. I don't . how ~
defeated q man IKE that. His success
must have conc 70 his hsad and maAo
him mad"
He was probably killed in the nrst
volley people dred when they got
aboard" said Tom DULY. HE alone
could have accounted for half . dozen
Of you. II he'd ever had q chance
giant like that"
"A giant!"
II think he must have bsen the
leader" said Tom. HE was the nfse
man to come aboard, certainly"
But what makes you call him .
giant?"
Because he literally vas. He
struck me down with Just one blow.
and as he raised his arm to strike I
saw that his shouldsr-caD wa above
the level Of my eyes; aud ! pass tor .
tall man."
His father abandoned the subject
abruptly, and for . while eontEivod to
talk of other things: Of the details o1
the tight and how different membsrs
Of the crew had borne themselves.
But his mind was Allied With . new
terror, and ~ loon % he could feel
that his son was In condition to be