Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-05-25

doubt, that Jeanne was not aboard the
Aurora, Until Tom had recovered
consciousness, the others had enter
tanned little doubt that she was safely
hidden somewhere about the ship.
Cayley's warning, together with the
confession Of the Portuguese, Miguel,
had caused them to steal alongside
the Aurora as silently as possible. Not
a word had been spoken by any of the
party, and the sound Of the rising
wind had drowned the creak of their
oars. Half a dozen well-armed men
had stolen aboard over the bows to
reconnoiter.
Making out the unfamiliar figures
of the Walrus people on deck, and
knowing that they had a fight on their
hands, they had worked their way, un-
observed, to a position %amidships.
Here, under cover of a brisk revolver
fire, they had made 1t possible for the
rest of their party to get aboard.
The Walrus people, several Of whom
were below, came tumbling up on
deck at the sound Of firing, and their
whole party entrenched itself in the
after-deck house. They had found
arms Of various sorts aboard the Au-
rora, and made a spirited resistance
before they were finally overpowered.
The Aurora's people, under the cool
headed command of Warner and the
elder Fanshaw, had proceeded in q
brisk, scientific, military style that
had spared them many serious casual
ties. There were a number of flesh
wounds when 1t was over, and one or
two of a more serious nature. None
o. them had been killed.
The Walrus people, however, had
not surrendered until their plight was
wholly desperate. Only Ave of them
were left alive, and two Of these were
MORALLY wounded when the struggle
ceased.
The uninjured were heavily ironed
and locked up in the Storage. ALI
the wounded-friends and foes alike
were turned over to the care Of the
yachts surgeon and a couple of volun-
teer assistants from among the crew,
Altogether, 1t wal two or three hours
after the Aurora's people had ~regafned
~undisputed possession Of the yacht be-
fore it was possible to form any def.
mite idea of what had happened. In
.ba ovojfopoopf opd Tho Oooascjfv nj
everybody doing two or three things
at once, Tom Fanshaw and his serious
plight were not discovered, until he
himself, having partly regained con
seriousness, uttered a low moan fol
help, which vas heard by a chance
passerby.
The gale, which had been raging al
this while, had gone screaming BY
%unheeded, and 1t was not until dawI
that the Mortified conquerors Of thC
yacht discovered that there was nj
land In sight.
1t was several hours after that, not
indeed, until the captain had WORKED
out their reckoning from an observa
ton, before they realized that the!
were 100 miles away from thei
anchorage of the previous evening
and that their return was hopeless.
Old Mr.. Fanshaw gave his arm Il
his son, helped him down from tn,
bridge and thence to the now deserteI
smoking room, forward. Tom sub
mitted to be led blindly along, and di,
not demur when his father halted be
side a big leather sofa and told hin
to lie down upon 1t. Since that me
mentary outburst Of his upon tn
! bridge, the young man had been III
: naturally calm. His muscles, as h
lay there now upon the sofa, SCENE
relaxed; his eyes were fixed. almos
dull.
= Through a long silence his fathe
sat there watching him, but there wa
no dawn Of a corresponding calmnes
: in his face. 1t had aged whole year
= over night.
TITS strange to me-" he said, "tha
= we ever recovered possession of thi
!, yacht at all, let alone that we wer
: able to recover 1t without 1t costin
, us the life of a single man. This gan
: must have had a leader, and a cleve
: one. They way he Unanswered hi
men to keep them out Of sight Will
= he drew away first one party and the
: the other from the yacht was a pieC
i. Of mastery strategy. He worked
: out perfectly in every detail. He &
: possession of the yacht without losin
a man, without even firing a shot tht
: might give the alarm. And even wit
= the warning we had and with ii
help of the fog, l don't see how "
defeated a man ike that. His succeI
must have gone to his head and mad
"a him mad"
HE was probably killed in the fir
volley our people fred when they 6,
aboard" said Tom DULY. He alol
y could have accounted for half a dozt
: of you, If he'd ever had a chance
"a giant like that"
~ "a giantl"
II think he must have been Il
leader" said Tom. He was the FIR
=. man to come aboard, certainly"
"But what makes you call him
= giant?"
Because he literally was.
ID struck me down with just one bio
r. and as he raised his arm to strike
I'd saw that his s~houlder-cap was abo