The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-30

had run down a ship In a fog. The
ship had gone down with all on board
before anything could be done to save
them, and this man had seen the last
or her crew leaning over the side and
cursing at him horribly, just before
ne was sucked into the water.
He promised to find me out and
10 do for me wherever | should go,
said the shuddering wretch, and he'll
do 1T, too. | look for him every night
and l know he'll get me before long
i warned him to keep quiet about
his fears and not mention his story to
Captain SJebbins nor to any of the
crew, for as luck would have it, with
such captain, we had on board about
as superstitious lot as | have ever
seen. Italians most of them, and SO
bound to tell their stories of appari-
tions that the captain had already
caught one of them at it and had him
logged as an example to the others
My man didn't look any more con-
tented as the days passed and I
caught him more than once whisper
ing with some of the Italians. l asked
him what they were talking about and
at first he mumbled that it was moth
ing, but at last he admitted that the
sailors had several OF them seen
strange sights during the night watch.
They all decided that again and again
they had seen a figure with wildly
waving arms appear from the dark.
ness. The man was always cursing
horribly, but he was gone in a second
and they could not tell exactly what
he said
Il tried to comfort Gould with the
idea that since the man had not ap-
peared to him there was no reason
that he should regard the apparition
as that of the man he had run down.
but he would not let this ease his
mind in the slightest 1t was Just
the night after our conversation when
he was on watch that the climax of
the thing came.
Il heard a terrific scream from the |
bridge, and so did everybody else on |
board. | was the first up there, but |
the poor fellow, who was winter than |
any human being | have ever seen. |
could not tell me what had happened |
before Captain Stebbins had run up |
on the bridge and was shaking him,
declaring that he had a relapse of the
fever, which we all knew he had SUI
fered after coming off the voyage
when he had run down a vessel.
The fellow had been too much
startled, however, this time to be
managed even by Captain Stebbins.
1 did see him. he declared. and
ne was cursing and waving his arms
at me just as he did when he went
Down. The ship came up just like
{ did before out of the fog. There
t was all of sudden a great gray
hing. and there was he waving his
arms and screaming curses at me.
And then we kept right on. running
straight through the ship
That was all OF 1t, and so far as |
Inow he never saw the apparition
gain and he had no more hard times
han fall TO the lot of most sailors.
But here was the remarkable part of
he thing. If he had been the only
ne to know that anything strange
lad happened, then you might think
just the Pigment of a brain over
wrought with fever. But il wasn't
My his scream that brought captain 2
nd crew running to his side. Just ar
he time when he saw the phantom
nip and as our own vessel went
trough ii, every man on board felt ,
peculiar sensation. Ii was some !
ming like an earthquake and some G
1ing like the shock that might come I
'om running a vessel down"
IL was on board the Marienne Not. {
ebohm. freighter sailing between +