Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-10-20

not unless we could fly through thu
air"
1t was only an hour since they bat
ascertained, beyond the shadow of {
doubt, that Jeanne was not aboard ths
consciousness. the others had enter
tanned little doubt that she was safely
hidden somewhere about the ship.
Cay1ey'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 q 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.
he ~
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 1t was over, and one or
two of more serious nature None
of them had been killed.
The Walrus people, however, had
not surrendered until their plight was
wholly desperate. Only five OF them
were left alive, and two Of these were
mortally wounded when the struggle
ceased.
The uninjured were heavily ironed
and locked up in the steerage. All
the wounded-friends and foes alike
we're turned over to the care OF the
yachts surgeon and a couple Of volun-
teer assistants from among the crew.
Altogether, # was two OF three hours
after the Aurora's people had resainsd
undisputed possession of the yacht be- |
fore IT was possible to form any def |
mite idea Of what had happened In |
the excitement and the necessity of |
everybody doing two or three things
at oace, Tom Fanshaw and his serious
plight were not discovered, until he
himself, having partly regained con-
sciousness, uttered low moan for
help, which was heard by q chance
passerby.
The gale. which had been raging all
this while, had gone screaming by
1nheeded, and 1t was not until dawn
hat the Mortified conquerors of the
Tacht discovered that there was no
and In sight
1t was several hours after that, not,
indeed, until the captain had worked
tut their reckoning from an observa-
ion, before they realized that they
we're 100 miles away from their
anchorage OF the previous evening,
nd that their return was hopeless.
Old Mr.. F'anshaw gave his arm to |
is son, helped him down from the
ridge and thence to the now deserted I
moking room, forward Tom sub 6
1itted to be led blindly along, and did
ot demur when his father halted be-
ide a big leather sofa and told him
D lie down upon it Since that mo-
lentary outburst of his upon the
ridge, the young man had been IN :
aTuralIy calm. His muscles, as he !,
" there now upon the sofa, seemed
sla1ed; his eyes were fixed. almost
uIl
Through a long silence bis father =
It there watching him, but there was !.
D dawn Of a corresponding cslmness \
/ his face. 1t had aged whole years
yer night =
Its strange to me-" he said, that :,
e ever recovered possession of this =,
lcht at all, let alone that we were :,
lie to recover 1t without it costing
! the life of single man. This gang !,
ust have had leader. and clever :,
le. They way he Unanswered his q,
en- to keep them out OF sight while .,
drew away first one party and then n,
g other from the yacht was a piece y,
mastery strategy. He worked 1t :,
t perfectly in every detail He got ~,
secession of the yacht without losing ~
man, without even firing a shot that os
ght give the alarm And even with
Q warning we had and with the =.
Ip of the fog, l don't see how we ~
feated man like that. His success
lst have gone to his head and made 70
n mad"
He was probably killed In the first w,
ley our people fired when they got ar
oard," said Tom duly. HE alone
I'D have accounted for half dozen ~r
you. If he'd ever had chance-a IN
mt like that" ~
a giant
! think he must have been the alb