The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-02-16

yesterday mornin. Maybe tits pure joy
of heart. I'm not knowing rightly, but
it's sufficiently remarkable, as you
must be thinking
This was new, surely, M | gratitied
the good fellow my admitting as much.
Looks as though she was running
a bit short of ammunition, Balaam,"
l said; has there been anything else
you have noticed?"
"Naething in particular, sir. She's
fired a popgun or two, but maybe she's
over merry the morn. You can hear
chem f2r yourself, Bide here a mo-
ment and I'll show you"
He took his stand by the taffrail
and pointed with a tarry hand at the
distant ship. Day had broker propt-
tiously with a fleece of cloud high in
the heavens and a simmer of splen-'
did sunlight upon the chattering wa
tiers. The Diamond ship herself lay dis
tant perhaps a couple OF miles from us.
She had sails set to prevent her roll
ing, but not a vestige of smoke es-
capped her tunnels, nor was there any
indication of her being under steam.
When | spied out her decks through,
my powerful glass, l perceived that
they We're crowded with men.
Good God!" l said, they are fight
ing among themselves! Go and call
Captain Larry at once!"
Larry" l said. when he came up
from the cabin-McShanus upon his
heels-"they are shooting each other,
Larry!"
He did not reply Immediately, but,
focusing his glass, he directed it upon
the distant ship. Timothy, in his turn,
took his stand beside me.
And of what would happen to Joan
Fordibras if they quarreled amongst
themSelves?"
q dare not think of it, Timothy
she would be in her cabin. Good God!
why do you make me think of it?"
l stood by the taffrail to watch the
puffs of heavy white smoke and try
to depict the tragedy then
mated on the decks of the Diamond
snip. What a scene of horror and
.bloodshed it must be!
1 could readily imagine that there
had been two parties, and that they had
come first to word and then to arbit-
rament of deeds.
Larry" l said. Il am going to see
what is happening yonder. Let Mr..
Benson know that we shall want all
the steam he can give US.
It's stalking much, sir"
so little, Larry, that Wen have our
breakfasts while we watch them. Even
Mr., McShanns, Q observe, is not dis
turbed. I believe that he imagines
himself in a theater."
But Timothy McShanus answered:
"lndade and l do" said he, land no
more disturbed han a man at a hang
ing. Set q dish of parritch before me-
and We shall see. Faith! should l weep
tears because one thief is cutting an
other thief's throat?'
We laughed at this splendid earnest
ness, While Larry went up to the
bridge; and Timothy himself came up
to me and spoke a more serious word.
"Ye are easier in your mlG41," he
SAID, scanning my face Glossy tits
good to see it, Fan, me bhoy! Ye don't
think Miss joan will suffer, now, do
YEP"
She will suffer, but only her fears
Timothy. The danger comes later,
when this is over. l do o think OF
it, because I hope to share it with
her, -
Good God! ye are not going ON
board, man?"
Il am going on board, Timothy-that
is, II my Judgment leads me to be-
Neve 1t possible. TIL tell you in half
an hours time"
Taking my stand upon our forward
bridge. l could clearly discern a group
of men defending the fo'castle and an
other in ambush behind the superstruc-
ture amidships. A powerful glass dis
closed the prone figures of such as had
already fallen, hill the Intervals
when e restless breeze carried the hha5s
OF smoke to the eastward, permitted
a fuller view Of the spectacle, revolt
ing in it's detail.
The Williams were evidently god
beyond all measure. I could see them
IN the death grip. here wrestling as
athletes upon a stage, there fighting
upon their hands and knees, as savages
who cut and slash at the face and head
and heart in indispensable lust of
blood and life. But beyond this, the
greater terror was to, know that the
ship sheltered Joan Fordfbras, and
t1at n must be the witness Of this
debaach. What could it mean to such
a one to suffer that? Again I say hat
l had no courage to think of it.
we mad come to no agreement upon
the nature of our approach, or upon
the limits which prudence should set
to 1t. | left it to Larrv's wise head.
and could nave done no better. Not
until we were within a cables length
Of their poop did he bring White Wings
to-&nd there we lay, rolling to a gem
tie swell, half the hands on deck
ON on the rigging, two officers with
Timothy and myself on the bridge, as
amazed a company as sailed the At
lantfc that day. Z
dead weight is going under.n said.
larry, with an Indifference to the sur
ferfng we witnessed I had hardly looked
for; I shouldn't wonder If you are re-
sponsible, sii. A thieves, crew is for
IIaT weather. L.s a cloud come up as
big as a mans hanG and they'll run,
for port though Davey Jones takes the
tiller. They've had enough OF it-any
man could see that with half an eve.
And GOD help Imroth if he hauls down
his f1ag!"
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