The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-09-30
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Heaye TO. You're passing MS
That's bloody hard luck. Mr.. Elmer
son; 1 can't help myself" the captain
declared. But again Boyd blocked him
as he started for the telegraph.
II won't stand It. sir. IT'S con-
spfracy to ruin me"
"But; my dear young man.
Don't touch that instrument!
From the launch came cries Of grow
ing vehemence, and startled murmur
OF voices rose from somewhere in the
darkness of the deck beneath
'.Stand asfdel' Peas1ey ordered gru1f-
~. But the other held his ground,
saying quietly: VI
II warn You. am desperate"
shall stop her, sir?" the quarter
master asked from the shadows OF the
wheelhouse.
..No"' Emerson commanded sharp
". and in the glow from the binnacle
light they saw he had drawn his re
yolver, while on the instant up from
the void beneath heaved the massive
figure of Big George Bait, n behemoth.
more colossal and threatening than
ever in the dim light. He wrenched
open the door and with one sweep Of
his hairy paw flung the helmsman
from his post, painting.
Keep her going, cap. or III run
them down."
The launch was abreast of them
now and skimming along so close that
one might have tossed a biscuit aboard
of her The sputter of the craft along
side was now punctuated by a yolley
OF curses.
The police launch sI1eered or. and
the sound of her exhaust grew rapidly
RoEV nj M 4
had wholly ceased did Big George give
over his post ut the wheel Even then
he went down the ladder reluctantly
and without a word of thanks, of ex
PLANTATION or of apology. With him
this had been but part of the days
work. He saw neither sentiment no:
humor in the episode.
From the crows nest of the Bedford
Castle week later the lookout stared
down upon white expanse thai
stretched beyond the horizon At dawn
they began their careful search. feeIins
their way eastward through the open
lanes and. tortuous passages that sep
arated the foes, now laying to Tor the
northward set of the fields to clear q
path before them. now stealing through
some marrow lead that opened into
freer waters.
Captain Pcasley did all the navigat-
ing in person, but eventually they were
hemmed In s0@closely that for q day
ana a night they could do nothing but
drift with the pack. In time. how
ever, the winds opened n creydce
through which they retreated to follow
the outer limits farther eastward un'
til they were baked again.
Late one evening they discerned
smoke on the horizon, and the next
mornings Hight showed a three masted
steamship fastSIn the Ice few niles
to the westward.
That's the Juliet" Big George In
formed his companions. "one OF the
North Americans Fuckers association
tenders"
''She was loading when we left Seat
tle," Boyd remarked.
''It is Willis AIarsh's ship, so he
must be aboard,b supplemented Cher
ry. '.She's a wooden ship and built
for this business. If we don't look out
he'll beat us in after all.
a'|yhat good win that do him J"
clyde questioned "The fish don't bite
Il mean run-fOr sixty days yet"
Emerson and Bait merely shrugged.
70 Cherry MaIotte this had been
voyage Of dreams. for once away from
land Boyd had become his real self
again-that genial. Irreprcssible self
she had seen but rarely-and his man
ner had lost the restraint and GOODNESS
which recently had disturbed their re-
Iations. OF necessity their cramped
environment had thrown them much
together, and. their companionship had
been most pleasant.
Two days after sighting the Juliet
they raised another ship, one OF the
sailing dect which they knew to be
towering in the ofFinE, and then on the
5th OF the month the capricious cur
rent opened way for them. Slowly
at first they pushed on between the
does into a vast area Of slush Ice,
.hence to n stretch as open and placid
IS country min pond. The lookout
,otnted path out OF this. into which
they steamed, coming at length 20
clear water, with the low shores OF
the mainland twenty miles away.
At shutdown they anchored in the
wide estuary Of the KalyIk river. the
uoisy rumble OF their chains breaking
the silence that for months had lain
ike smother upon the port