Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06
The Sun King
Continued from page 4

bold and addresses the men. just she did
when preaching to them aboard ship.
BY the infinite mercy of God, says she,
who spared the lives of the saints in the fiery
furnace l spared from death in the sea!
Just He sent the ravens to feed His prophet
in the desert. so He sent the steers to save me
when was drowning. One of them swan to
shore with me clinging to his back. There l
lay on the beach like one dead
"'Who found you. Miss Elston?' l asked:
but she took no notice OF me, but went on,
speaking to the men:
You see that it pays to trust in Heaven!
I've counted you ALL and seen there's none of
you missing except him that was the bias
phemer-all spared as | was spared! 1t was
my poor Dodge that found me. she went on,
found me when lay half dead and near naked
on the beach some miles from here, with twelve
of the steers wandering loose on the shingle.
He barked and licked my face, and then raced
away and came back with the Indians. They
made much ado over me and carried me up into
the hills into green valley and drove along
the steers. And there l found that the love
and goodness of God attended me still just as
my faith had told me in my visions. for there
found my Goldylocks!'
She walked up to him and put her thin arms
about his waist. The poor little dried up thing
seemed to bloom back into girl, with her love
for the man lighting up her whole face And
Karston, with queerish look in his eye, also
went up to his old shipmate and shook Hanss
hand and Martha's and said something to the
two of them"
HOW in the name of the seven wonders did
Goldylocks happen to be with the In
dians?" asked the Captain.
Her Visions he made answer, were as
sure as mathematics. Goldylocks. having
escaped from the ship, fell in with the Indians
and hoped to leave the island with their help.
But that native tribe kept him prisoner and
made him their chief for there was a legend
hat fn r,,1a
them for season. tall, white King, Sun
King with golden hair. and he would stay until
his Queen came with gift of cattle. Naturally
they looked on Goldylocks as the King that
Martha Elston be but his Queen-no matter
how or when she came? And there were the
bullocks too. the very bullocks they'd prayed
for to increase the size of their small long
haired cattle!
"Goldylocks was shy and sheepish toward us:
but she buzzed about him as though he was an
infant to be mothered. There we were, my crew
and l, Martha Elston and her Hans, and the
Indians. We were somewhat more comfortable
for what the Indians brought from their village
in the heart of the island, and for what she
cooked for us: but all of us were burning and
chatting to get away
The seas were bad, or we might have tried
to reach the mainland in the ships boat So we
only the Gloucester woman and her engaged
giant being patient and content. was fretting
myself sick over the loss of the Mistassini and
the fifty thousand dollars.
ONE morning near the end of the second
~ week one of the men yelled out that there
was dead whale floating off shore. We ran to
the beach and saw a long, black, roundish shape
Just little above the water close to where the
steamer sank. ordered out the boat, we made
toward it, and what-by the eternal!-do you
think it was? 1t was the barnacle covered
hull of the Mistassini. bottom up. She'd turned
turtle in the very spot she sank" the Captain
said solemnly
But what floated herr"
well, it puzzled us sore," said Captain Har-
lingson, till Karston and l studied out that it
must have been the carcasses of the hundreds
of cattle in the hold swelling enormously with
the gases of decay, stopping the hole and buoy
ing up the ship.
Every day the old Mistassini rose higher in
the water Karsten and worried our brains
as to how might salvage the fifty thousand
dollars.
Only way says he, by diving under