The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14

| though this they did not lenow-the Wal
| rus people were already in possession OF
II. Tom was lying unconscious Ut the
| foot OF the companIonway where Roscoe
| mad leTt him, and Jeanne. oblIvious to
| everything in the world, except the mar
| rattve she was reading In her fathers
| Journal. was IN the abandoned hut on the
shore.
That the Aurora's people were not sur
pr1sed by what amounted TO an ambush
ana beaten oil on their return 10 the ship,
| had been duc To two causes. one OF which
they did not even yet. suspect
CaylcyS warning, together with the
confession Of the Portuguese. Miguel, had
caused them To steal alongside the Au-
rora as silently as possible Not word
ana the sound of the rising wind had
drowned the crcak of their oars. Half a
dozen wcll-armed men had stolen aboard
over the bows To rsConnoitcr.
Making out the unfamiliar figures of the
Walrus people on deck and knowing that
they had light on their hands. they had
sition amidships. Here, under cover OF
a brisk reYolver-fire they had made il
possible for the rest of their party 10 get
aboard
The Walrus people, several OF whom
were below. came tumblng up on deck at
the sound OF firing, and their whole party
entrenched Itself in the after-deck house.
Ihey mad found arms OF various sorts
aboard the Aurora, and made Il spirited
resistance before they were finally over
powered.
The Aurora's people. under the cool
headed command of Warner and the elder
fanshaw. had proceeded In q brisk,
them many serious casualties. There
were n number of flesh wounds when it
was over, and one or two OF a more Sc
killed.
The Walrus people however, had not
surrendered until their plight was wholly
desperate Only five OF them were left
alive, and two of these were mortally
wounded when the struggle ceased.
The uninjured were heavily ironed and
locked up in the steerage. All the
wounded-lriends and foes alike-wcrc
turned over TO the care OF the yacht 6
surgeon and n couple OF volunteer as
slSulntS from among the crew.
Altogether, 1t was two or three hours
after the Aurora's people had regained
undlsputed possession OF the yacht be-
fore it was possible to form any definite
idea OF what had happened. IN the excite
meut and the necessity of everybody
doing two or three things at once Tom
fanshaw and his serious plight were not
discovered, until he himself. having partly
regaincd 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 Ut was not until dawn that
the horritied conquorors OF the yacht dis
covered 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. be-
ioTc uley redIlHeu lnaI tney were one
hundred miles away from their anchor
age OF the previous evening, and that
their return was hopeless
Old Mr.. F'anshaw gave his arm to his
son. helped him down from the bridge
and thence TO the now deserted smoking
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 II
Since that momentary outburst OF his
upon the bridge, the young man had been
unnaturally calm. His muscles, as he
laxed: his eyes were fixed almost dull
Through long silence his father sat
there watching him. but there was no
dawn OF Il corresponding calmness I'm his
face. 1t had aged whole years over night
1t had been gray and drawn and haggard
up there on the bridge when the captain
had uttered those hope destroying words