Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-11

OF their party to get aboard.
Inc Walrus people, several Of whom
were below, came tumbling up on deck
at the sound of firing. and their whole
party entrenched itself In the after
deck house. They had found arms Of
various sorts aboard the Aurora and
made a spirited resistance before they
were finally overpowered.
The Aurora's people, under the cool
headed command Of Warner and the
elder Fanshaw, had proceeded in a
brisk, scientific, military style that had
spared them many serious casualties.
There were a number of flesh wounds
When 1t was over and one or two Of a
more serious nature. None of them had
been killed.
The Walrus people, however. had not
surrendered until their plight was Who'll
ly desperate. Only five of them were
left alive, and W Of these were NOR
tally wounded when the trouble ceased.
The uninjured were heavily ironed
n locked up in the steerage. All the
wounded-friends and foes alike-were
turned over to he care Of the yachts
surgeon and q couple Of volunteer as
sistants from among the crew.
Altogether, it was two or three hours
after the Aurora's people had regained
u~ndisputed possession of the yacht be-
fore It was possible to form any def
mite idea of what had happened. In the
excitement and the necessity OF every
body doing two or three things at once,
Tom Fanshaw and his serious plight
were not discovered until he himself,
having partly regained consciousness,
uttered a low moan for help. which was
heard by a chance passerby.
The gale, which had been raging all
this while, had gone screaming by un-
needed, and 1t was not until dawn that
the Mortified oonquerors Of the yacht
discovered that there was no land IN
sight.
1t was several hours after that. not.
indeed, until the captain had worked
out their reckoning from an observation.
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 now deserted smok-
ing-room forward. Tom submitted TO
be led blindly along, and did not demur
when his father halted beside a big
leather sofa and told him TO lie down
upon 1t. Since that momentary out
burst of his pom the bridge the young
man had been unnaturally calm. His
muscles. as he lay there now upon the
sofa, seemed relaxed; his eyes were
fixed, almost dull.
Through a long silence his father sat
there watching him, but there was no
dawn of a corresponding calmness in
his face. It had aged whole years over
night. 1t had beer gray and drawn
when the captain had uttered those
hope-destroying words. but now as he
sat beside his son there was dawning
in his eyes a new look of terror.
MY boy" he said. at last. unsteadily.
I'm going to ask you TO make me a
promise, a solemn promise, upon your
honor"
The young man did not meet his
fathers eyes. He made no answer at
all, u he paled a little.
h old gentleman tried TO say some-
thing more. but a great sob escaped
his lips before he could speak again.
Don't think that I don't understand,
my boy; that 1 don't know how in
tolerabie the agony is. It's hard enough
for NEAL I can bear-and I know it's
worse for you I know you loved hev.
1 know you hoped that some day she
would become your wife-and-well, l
understand. But, Tom, l saw the look
that came into your eyes when Warner,
up there on the bridge, said-said that