New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20

Observation-Disclosures. ~
HI! What'd tell YOU? It's all right old
ar girl The last was to the Tikvah.
ell EN- how to trim your ballast tanks.
won L.: That d stop the collie"
,ferlcleS thrust Johnson away from the
WHISTLE pull and blasted her message to
And there are some men who say there is
no Nod. exclaimed Pericles, flashing his
eyes round the sea. \ light Of unholy glee
orders ratified from his lips.-wcird. curt
cabaliStic sea words,-and Johnson went
Scurryng from the bridge \ word flung
forward through his cupped hands, and a
iiaXen-halred sailor went Laundering to a
lookout perch in the eyes Of the fore rigging
lie turned to Esther Kent long enough to
say:
Pray pray, that this sea holds out just
a hali-hour longer Just a half hour longer
Us dropping: but pray, Girl, pray. rs ii
Tor your liie. and, closing her big brown
eyes, she granted the hcathenish appeal
1t was not in her power 10 resist Still,
she felt she had hardly begun to pray when
a chorus OF wild cries over her head forced
her lids open. The Tikvah was rechng
across the Electra's bows, her s,arboard
side crowded with panic-stricken paSScn-
gers.
Pericles O'Brien was looking up into the
face OF Nils Sorcnsen, nephew OF "\llS the
Bull NcCked. and SorcnSen'S eyes were
bullying in recognition \ heaving line shot
out from the Electra's forecastle head. 1t
fell across the rail Of the Tikvah's bridge
Sorcnsen deliberately threw it overheard.
The passengers saw the act and walled IN
terror.
Want to drown al those people" Pcricles
megaphonel.
AM going TO drown Seas going down"
you'll drown everyone OF EN-. You
ought To- be hanged! You're a murderer!
There's another gale on the way.
Pcriclcs directed his mcgaphone so that
SorcnScn got only half Of II. but the pas
scngcrs all. \ roar went up from them.
"Shoo, him. Kill him. cried some at
/ SorcnSen. Save us-oh, save us cred
others az the Electra.
Were mending our shaft came from
Sorcnscn when quiet had been restored.
Its q liel They can't fix it, yelled a
red headed passenger Of Celtic aspect
Two sailors dragged him away from the
rail. Sorcnsen's night pallor turned to the
purple 81 rage.
Ten thousand Tow to Frisco he flung
al Periocs.
$40 bargainl Nobargain, Let the courts
decide"
That was O'Bricns answer. Nils Mil
sons nephew was out of his senses II he
dreamed he could catch Pericles OBricn
that way. He would stand on the salvage
the courts would award He remembered
what Laysan had SAID about a railway
charter Ship and cargo, as the sea held
them. must be worth from five hundred
thousand 90 seven hundred thousand dol
| lars One-,hird Of that would be the Elec-
tras if she put line aboard the Tiliyah
without a bargain.
~Twcntv thousand" shouted Sorenscn.
40 bargain. 40 bargainl
Sorcnscn withdrew from sight Of the
@Prav Gil, pray" said Periclcs TO
Esther. and then he called to one Of the
Tikvah's officers, when did they change
her name,
Last week. was the answer, and Soren-
sen thrust the officer aside.
~Thirtv thousand" he followed.
go bargain, 10 bargain!' the answer
rang.
Then Sorcnsen sent this shot into Pcricles,
I've wircessed for help There'l be a tow
along any time now.
As he mcgaphoncd this a wireless gear
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