The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-15


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IL vas oaly a hour siAoe thay ~
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1sube tAa9 Jeanne vas aat aboard ~
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sn1aaaoa a IL Hoetagzeaa. Aigssl.
AaA oaussd tAsm 70 stsA aloass11e
sAs Aurora - silsntiy - possible. Not
. vorl had bssn spoken By any of tie
paFty. and the sound of ths nsinS
VIA bad drowned the crsak a thsar
oAFv. Halt Q dossa wellaSmsA msa
AaA stoasa aboard over tAs bows -
rsooonoitAr.
Making out ~ unfamiliar figures
q ~ WahO DsoSas On deck. anA
hnoviag that they haA . AgAt On thsir
hands, hey haA worked their Wv, m
Observed. TO . positioa amidahips-
Here. uAAas eoves q bsisk rsvolvsr-
ira they had MADE II possible for de
rsst Of their party to ~ aboasd.
Ths Walrus pso0ls. several q whom
vsre below. came tnmbling " q
Asck q tAs SQUAD Of aring. anA thslf
whole party satFsacAsl ttssk 1. tAs
aftsr-Asek Aous& TAsy AaA feunA
arns oe varieas sorts aboard The A.
rora, aaA nAAs . splritoa resistance
bssors thsy vsFs 1nAily ovsepowsssd.
The Anroea's psopls. un1se The cool
headed command Of WaFnF sa4 tAs
elder Fanshaw. had proceeded in .
brisk. scientific. military style that
had spared them many esesoas casual
Ties There vsro . number Of hesA
wounds when It was over. and one or
two Of . moro serious nature. None
Of them had been killed.
The Walrus people. however, had
not surrendered until their plight was
wholly desperate. Only i've Of them
were left alive. and two of these were
mortally wounded whom the struggle
ceased.
The uninjured were heavily ironed
and locked up In the steerage. All
the woundsd-friends and foes alike
were turned over to the care Of the
yachts surgeon and . couple of volun-
tesr assistants from among the crew.
Altogether. 1t was two or three hours
after the Aurora's people had regained
undisputed possession Of the yacht be.
fore 1t was possible to form any den.
mite idea OF what had happened. In
the excitement and the necessity Of
everybody doing two OF three things
at once, Tom Fanshaw and his serious
plight were not discovered. until he
himself. having partly rsgained con.
sciousness, uttseed . low moan for
help. which was heard BY . chance
passsrby.
The gals, which had been raging all
this while, had gone screaming BY
unhssdsd, and It was not until dawn
that the Mortified eonlusron of the
yacht discovered that there was no
land In sight-
It was several hours after that, not
indeed. until the captain had worked
out their reckoning from IN observa-
ton. before they realized that they
were 100 miles away from their
anchorage Of the previous evening.
and that their return was hopeless.
Old Mr.. Fanshaw gave his arm to
his son. helped him down from the
bridge and thence to the now deserted
smoking room, forward. Tom sub
mitted to be led blindly along. and did
not demur when his father halted be-
side . big leather sofa and told him
to lie down upon It Since that mo-
mentary outburst Of his upon the
bridge, the young man had been un-
naturally calm. HIS muscles, - ho
lay there now upon the sofa, seemed
relaxed; his eyes were dxed, almost
dull.
Through = long silence his father
sat there watching him. but thsrs was
no dawn OF . corresponding calmness
In his face. II had aged whole years
over night
It's strange to me-" he said, that
We ever recovered possession of this
yacht at all. let alone that we were
able to recover 1t without It costing
u the life Of single man. This gang
must have had = leader. and a clever
one. They way he maneuvered his
men to keep them out Of sight while
he drew away nrst one party and then
the other from the yacht was . piece
Of mastery strategy. He worked It
out perfectly in every detail. He got
possession Of the yacht without losing
a man, without even firing . shot that
might give the alarm. And even with
the warning We had and with the
help Of the fog, don't sec how We
defeated . man like that His success
must have gone to his head and made
him mad"
He was probably killed In the first
volley our people fred when they got
aboard" said Tom DULY. He alone
could have accounted for half dozen
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