Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-05-05
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re might get BACK 10 fleldlns pay py
,he first of July. Then we can find
sbateyer there is to find"
His own voice faltered there, and
,here we're tears in the deep weather
.ooten burrows of his cheeks. God
t,ous." be concluded, "if there were
.nv possible chance | would take it..
,rt there is none-none in the world,
not unless we could fly through the
air"
# was only an hour since they had
.ocertained, beyond the shadow of a
acubt that Jeanne was not aboard the
Aurora Until Tom had recovered
consciousness, the others had enter
famed 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
tbe Aurora as silently as possible. Not
a word had been spoken by any of the
sarty. 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
recOnnoter.
Making out the unfamiliar figures
Of the Walrus people on deck, and
knowing that they had fight on their
hands they had worked their way, I'M
observed, to a position amidships.
Here, under cover of a brisk revolver
fire, they had made it 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
bfter-deck house. They had found
arms of various sorts aboard the Au-
fora, and made 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 a
brisk, scientific, military style that
|had spared them many serious casual
ties. There were a number of flesh
wounds when It was over, and one or
Two Of more serious nature. None
II them had been killed.
The Walrus people, however, had
pot surrendered until their plight was
wholly desperate. Only five of them
we're left alive, and two of these were
nortally wounded when the struggle
teased.
The unintured were heavily ironed
Rnd locked up In the steerage. All
the wounded--friends and foes alike
were turned over to the care of the
yachts surgeon and couple of volun.
feer assistants from among the crew.
Altogether, it was two or three hours
|after the Aurora's people had regained
|undisputed possession of the yacht be-
fore It was possible to form any def
mite idea of what had happened. In
lfhe excitement and the necessity Of
everybody doing two or three things
at once. Tom Fanshaw and his serious
phsht were not discovered, until he
himself, having partly regained con-
sclousness, uttered low moan for
help, which was heard by a chance
passerby.
The gale, which had been raging all
'Als while, had gone screaming by
uhheeded, and it was not until dawn
mat the Mortified conquerors of the
yacht discovered that there was no
land in sight.
II was several hours after that, not,
ipueed' until the captain had worked
out their reckoning from an observa-
uon' before they realized that they
were 100 miles away from their
anchorage of the previous evening,
@na that their return was hopeless.
old Mr.. Fanshaw gave his arm to
ms son, helped him down from the
ofdge and thence to the now deserted
smoking room. forward. Tom sub
l1i''ed to be led blindly along, and did
W. uemur when his father halted be-
/. .U9 Dig leather sofa and told him
" lie down upon 1t. Since that mo-
hIen'sry outburst of his upon the
'use the young man had been I'M
,a'urally calm. His muscles, as he
-; 'nere now upon the sofa, seemed
s Tl@Aed' his eyes were fixed, almost
trough a long silence his father
wv wv .nefe watching him. but there was
,V lawn of corresponding calmness
nr. MS lace. 1t had aged whole years
over night
Ne rs strange to me-" he said, that
W.. ever recovered possession of this
.t, ,N' at all, let alone that we were
nc " recover it without it costing
mn .Ae HE of single man. This gang
ono '' nave had leader. and a clever
n.y. Ihey way he Unanswered his
hut ns1 to keep them out of sight while
tho nc" away first one party and then
Of olner from the yacht was 4 piece
On, 1,'Sterly strategy. He worked it
pos- peItectly in every detail. He got
moa 9''oh OF the yacht without losing
nipt. without even firing a shot that
tho sDl give the alarm. And even with
| heln "Siuihg we had and with the
defo,t ol the fog. I don't see how we
must ~ man like that. His success
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