New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11

81 H
Deep Water Croghan, standing on top OF the
Drcadnought's pilothouse. II knocked nm
down: but he chung to it and made 1t fast
The Saxon King Of Liverpool was no
longer a dcrclict.
.ON a bleak December morning five days
" aftcrward the Black Stack Dread
nought. hauling fortune astcrn, staggered
through the Heads Of San Francisco. she
and the rusty, salt-crustcd brute at her tan,
and the Sea Lion, following her at flank,
looked as if they had been spcwed out OF the
NAV Of the almighty sea. Alongshorc some
-ca-wisc men paused in awe to watch them
go by; others, with inspired souls, ran down
To the picrhcads and chccrcd.
But the excitement meant nothing 10 the
man who. with blstercd face and cracked
and bleeding hands and feet, stood at the
Drcadnoughts wheel. One thought and
one alone possessed him, and that was 20
get ashore with little boy, who, since the
morning after the finding Of the saxon hing'
had been burning with fever and babblrng
in dclirum.
II was a week later on Christmas morning
that loci Warren stood at the foot OF Deep
Water Croghan's bed in Saint Mary's Hos
pital, telling him that the Black Stack low
boat Companvs directors had voted a trust
fund Of fifteen thousand dollars for Danny S
education and INFRINGING; that they had
made him. Warren. chairman Of the board,
and CrOghan general manager. A woman S
sob. coming suddenly from the hallway out
side. stopped him, and Margaret Mason en-
tered the room with the house physician at
! her side.
~What is it, Tell mel" demanded
Croghan in the voice Of master OF men and
starting up from his bed.
81 don't think it would do any harm now
| if Won went i'm and spoke to the little fellow,
answered the physician, with an effort at
calmncss. Doom was in his voice.
There was no harm from the beginning,
cried Croghan, and if we've let him gO-let
him Slip away without saving gOOdby, look
To- YOUR Godl@ There was something special
! ~ terrible about Deep Water at that mo-
ment. CARRIED as he was in a long white robe,
| his hands in bandagcs, and his head swathed.
~Out Of nv way. We sprat" and with a
sweep Of a long arm he brushed the ply
sician aside. and crossed the hall to Dan
ny's room.
As he entered it he let up the shade that
was keeping out the sunlight and peered
/ flDAll llllD llt AtlAlNN law ~ a 4t'' '''' 49,
bed. \ Quzzical smile seemed ready tc
burst from the boys dry, murmuring lips.
The man did not see Sister Mary Vim
cent. who knclt in prayer on the opposite
side Of the bed; he did not know that the
physicians and Warren were in the doorway
watching him.
For a second he stood, Strengthened to his
full height, as though measuring to grapplc
with the spirit Of death that was there, and
then slowly sank to his knees.
Sod Almighty" he prayed in anguish
between uplifted hands, and at the sound OF
his voice the two men in the doorway saw
the BOYS eyelids culver, 81 have lived by
the sword, and those who live by the sword
perish by the sword. | have cursed you
knowingly and unknowingly. have never
asked odds Of YOU, Of any man, by sea or
land, these thirty years. But am asking
odds of YOU now-for this little boy-tor
nv friend. Don't let him 60 out. This
worlds a sorry place; but twill be better
better and purer for his staying-a little
while | ask this in the name of Christ, who
was born this day"
As ne finished Danny's Pickering eyelids
opened, and he looked up. "Dcep Water
Cap'n Jim" he murmured, and then the
gray eyes closed again; but he chung to the
hand that held his.