The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-18

if we'd been c1inging to the last ledge of the vo 1t lonely and dsnaE enough to make any one think twice fore deciding to kill anything Yet it all seemed big farce-for if acquitted him, there was no living in peace an we could only punish him one aFinay the arguments were finished The captain t told as the % 1 d that they s M ssg f t1 t0 bod o % and think over an he concluded by telling them what a serious business it was. They went down to the Mer He hadn't said word, an he just stared out now that 6 as on If bere % m es ne rd T n of those long days, an that sea coming in with the same hiss It was death watch we kept an we waited silent.
 Then heard hail from the men, and saw them and a.WeIIs %hjtf; anf asfsd tFeP6ly: fBs s.otain
 ~The captain e&a turned to BGe1e-dsM @
 en fo s every ones sarPrise n he stepped up from his Paes S 1d I begins } ord O talk M in sdd flair s5 Ens & o there astonisIed, and dont believe man of us could ade had happened # usa like yeh had caught big eel, an sudden he spoke to yeh
 says but have something to say There's right m fao 6S the af o en ERs % sSs re here, found the bones of three men-we7 living on bsehederner, just you have we found that we and Ge s asst ha oa to v: seho de no s F drew tots and the five left began to think that they =. When you came I didn't care much, I was, so Tek I but P ys 0u s ali and 11 he t ssT Ie sns t it. But you can't live beche-d e-de-mer, and .. y0a Em nss we s0 had haddered fo listen to him He worse than anything we had % befEed-a4d and at at that termined to live even though meant must die by ohe, him
 all stood up, solemn an, white while the captain spoke fessed is the sentence of this court that you must away, an stand guard over him. Then went off some distance while the captain paces up an down an ridiculous that yeh wanted to laugh, an then yesh couldn't laugh for ben' trebly, an for seeing the If.
 Now, there is one thing more to Be settled' For what? asked Wirt who was shaly.
 To who must act exect1tioner!
 'I wake up nights, sometimes cold an shvery, dream ing of 5 that i @ oad % & See !D D4da ed ana d 0d slowly we drew the little bits of wood captain had ing else but that and Marys white face staring at re an hear nothing but the long solemn wash of that captains voice, hard over. it all, saying,
 M MT & lohannesen you're the only oVs to carry out
 Then sn Mary B gave & cry and d fd back pack tst ts hole
 thing ought be done before she round to herself three figures, away of at the end of the reef t seemed long way to go .:.. - L; for the end of his story man does not care to detail
 Then you !. :. you did see a ghost-down there on Ha ShskkesReffs skeoR bjs .Stseetf Stsg
 Wish ha I he said bs sd sent t p9dd o7s 24d @ o know. You made fine fight to me didn't yenP Beche-de-Mer and he laughed lh1nk Of a man like that laughing Such thin crawIy laugh it was, and it unnerved And you're Iilln' of that T9nan he says ana the LOOK m & ms syes % out to sea agair-as if he didn't care.
 "sudden-I him pointing of his long skinny head, when heard hail And the captain comes run ming waving It stay of sentence, yeh see, for away off the seas edge showed scrap of sail
 The beads of sweat had come out on JohangHs@ssns ham @ the room now if he grew weak and nerveless, he reached for chair and fairly dropped into it.
 but the sail saved him We waited and wait ed and waited; it grew bigger and bigger;
 "She was a small vessel, one of the beche-de-mer feet think, an' so he had right to aboard Her men got waggng their tongues among the ships --yeh can trust sailors to tell their yarns and when, strange-hke within the houT' dirty WeatneE showed why there was plain nutiny. They were tor tossing him over the side The captain of the craft he weakened. They put back. They dropped boat load of supplies and that reef they marooned him drew away. The men said that was where he be- 1onged-down with his kind-the beche-de-mer. :"
 Johannesen stopped again, and then teVer1shy took up the story anew He pointed his finger at me and said in a tone of accusation:
 but Beche de Mer himself It's the second time I've sighted him. One night in Frisco, when She with still, him-but he didn't see me; And re called what he had said, an how he had said it. You're doin' this acause of that woman I'll re- member tP
 "We left Frisco that night, Mary and me--then but that was long time back an shes safe away from
 Johannesen seemed to have grown much older within the hour He started whenever there sounded noise, and his hand trembled close to the gum I tried to laugh away his fear told him that this no law shook his head and would take no comfort
 "Wrt died sudden in bigger city than this-NeT throtted in sailors boarding house in New Orleans; they said Dodd was drunk when he fell the quay at Liverpool but why should he have marks on him? Noi
 :" he said in a dry tone wetting his lips That Laa dOIvu m SbakeSDeaTe