Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-01-19

moose or caribou. But Wingate sug-
gested TINT the party on 1.-THE nameless"
might hnve gone ashore for hunting
purposes. and | at last consented that
the next day he might take three Of
the crew. go ashore and spend twelve
hours IN looking for the deserters OF
the yacht.
But overnight something occurred
to render this inadvisable We set a
light on THE nameless" and left one
man TO watch on our own vessel
( which was all that was necessary since
we were at anchor in Il small bay In
good weather one man watched Til
eight bells midnight. when another
man took his place. Wingate wished
me to put man on The nameless."
and did
1 At two bells in the morning Wingate,
who bad slept little during the night
looked out of the portfolio in his state
room for the Yacht Not seeing her
and surprising that he was not on the
right side to see her. he got up and
went on deck. The nameless" was
b nowhere 10 ne seen. he Hdule 10 my
room to announce the fact. asked
him what the watch reported about
the disappearance, ana he said that
he had found the man sound asleep
Putting on Il bath robe, went on
deck The first watch said that "the
nameIess" was in position when he
was relieved. so she must have pulled
out during the second watch. | asked
If anything was known Of the man
who had been stationed on her, but
was told that he had neither been
/ heard OF nor seen since he had been
put aboard. He had disappeared with
the mysterious vessel.
Among my crew there were several
ignorant. superstitious men-sailors Of
low rating-who were paralyzcd with
terror They rushed without orders to
pull up the anchor. but | stopped them,
though | feared they were going to
brain me with capstain bars they
had taken up. didn't propose to take
any action till | had received further
information and had consulted with
my guest, Alec Wingate One OF my
men said that during the night he
thought he heard the sound Of oars.
Wingate was very much agitated
over this part of the mystery Indeed.
he seemed more disturbed at the dis
appearance than he had been at the
discovery Of the yacht | suggested
that he make a reconnotering trip
ashore, ms had been intended, but with
different purpose. He might find
traces of people having been there
He followed my advice. but the keen
est eye in the party could discover no
indications Of human beings For my
part | believed the nameless" had
been taken possession of BY shore des-
peradoeS: that they had been in hid
ing somewhere near by; had gone
aboard in the night, surprised the man
on watch. killed him and towed the
yacht out Of our hearing with mufled
oars; then they had lighted the fires
and steamed away. There was moth
ing against this theory except the fact
of Wingatcs having found one Of his
wife's dresses aboard. But | took no
stock in this, for Wingate had suffered
so much al her loss that probably his
mind had become afflicted and he had
himself created the remembrance of
this dress.
After consultation with Wingate,
whom l told that l would adopt any
course he wished, it was determined
that we get up the anchor immediate
ly and go out to the open sea with a
view to discovering if the nameless"
was in sight. This we did. running
directly southeast in a direct line from
the coast, but Notwithstanding that
we had a clean sweep either way and
excellent glasses we saw nothing of
her. | believed she had got too much
start, but nearly all of my crew by
this time considered her a phantom
Nor did we afterward hear anything
Of her, though we spoke every vessel
we met, asking if she had seen her.
One vessel described her pretty we'll
but the yacht observed was the Acadia,
with the name painted on her stern
We completed our voyage without any
other information.
But the mystery of the nameless"
was destined to be solved During the
winter Wingate got wind of his wifes
being in Montreal He went there and
found her.
Though the story of her disappear
ance was never made entirely clear to
me, the mystery of the nameless yacht
was. To keep Mrs Wingate from tes-
tifying in litigation where British PEG
pie in high life were concerned she had
been kidnapped ana kept III sea in a
yacht Her kinaper while on the New
England coast SAW by New York so
cial paper that her husband had en-
parked ON "A cruise with me. As soon
as my yacht appeared his sailing mas
ter recognized her At The time a leak
in the boilers was being repaired and
there was no heat in the Grebox. so
the yacht could not steam away.
The kidnaper. supposing Wingate
knew that his wife was Oh the Acadia
and that he was on her track. ordered
a paint brush TO be run over her paint
ing.
An idea occurred TO him. There was