The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-03-27
The Story Of Mrs.
Rescue"
By ~ QUAD
Copyright. 1Sll, ~ AssociaheA, L.
erary Press.

when 4 curious thing happened one
morning about an hear before day.
light. was digging my eyes and
lighting away sleep when a curious
sound from over the bows caught my
ear. As l listened tn the noise the
only thing l could compare it to was
the noses Of sharks humping mp
against 4 small boat. 1t would have
been ridiculous to call to the mate and
give him any such wild explanation.
but l finally called his sttestion to the
curious noises and left the cause to his
swn perception.
There's a raft Or q beat out there"
be said after q moment. and the noise
may be made by oars. III burn q port
Are"
The port fire lighted up the sen for
4 hundred feet around. and the first
thing we saw WAS a ships boat within
forty feet Of us on the port bow. In
the bottom Of the boat wer. two hn-
man figures. and n sf them was Il
woman, and all around h boat the
yea was alive with sharks, AS soon rs
We caught sight Of the boat the mate
ran to call the captais. BY the time
the captain arrived the beat had drift
cd right down against US. snd n OF
the crew lowered himself into her and
made fast the painter. Then ! got
down to assist him. and W. passed up
the bodies-the man first. We might
just as we'll have dropped him into the
sea. for he had been dead for twenty
four hours at least. he was recogniz-
ed BY oil ~ 4 sailor. As We picked MP
the woman. having not 4 doubt that
she was dead also. she moved and ut
tered q groan. We had her On board
after a couple sf niHutes, and the
small boat. which was . captains gig.
Dew and without . name. wss later
holsted up.
The woman awOke to d0d herself
aboard Of u strange ship. with strange
nen around her. She was a handsome.
we'll formed woman. English In looks
and speech and abeut thirty years Of
Ago. Her apparel was One and costly.
but she wore no jewolry and had
neither 4 purse o q cardcase. When
asked how she came 30 DO At - in
the gig. what her name was. II she
had visited Aade4n q The Asores. IL
she lived In England. she could tell
nothing. She began 4 new life whea
she opened her eyes n tie cabin Of
the Joyce. After three " four days
both cabin and to'cast3e came 70 the
same conclusion, which wHS this: The
sailor must have been rowing the
woman OF to q ship n, from . ship
10 shore at some Of the islands.
That's the WY We figured 1t out.
and It looked reasonable enough. and.
Of course. the right thing b Do was
- leave the womaa ut Trinidad ana
report the case a. widely Is possible.
Queerly enough. she fought and banned
this plan. Our captain was a gooA
booking man. and. feeling thst she
swed him her life and doubtless being
rather romantic by nature. what did
she do but fall in love With him! That
h only half tho story. He fell head
I'VE heels in love with her. The POSI-
tion was most embarrassing for him.
however. All OF US agreed that the
woman was 0r had been wife,
though she had no finger ring to Prov
1t. I think he saw things rs an honor
able man should. and yet he could not
help loving Der. When We reached
Trinidad be notified the English col-
sui. placed the woman In the house.
hold Of a friend and then sailed for
the port OF New York.
The story Of our picking up the Nv
ing and the dead was published far
and wide. The publication Of that
story all yer the world did not solve
the mystery. No husband came for
ward: no relatives wrote.
When three years had elapsed and
still no news had come the two were
married. The woman had not recovered
one single point OF memory. She WIS
q stranger to herself. She had NJ
country. no relatives. no name except
By chance. After marriage the cap
s2in left the sea and went into The
ship chandlery badness In Brooklyn.
One evening two years after the we'd
ding the captain Of an English tramp
OCChaAASE JOS& ~ S0sICO W AOA lVS UOUO
Information. He complained Of not
being well. and. one thing leading -
another, be 6nally related a tale e
woe. Several years before. while Ais
ship was at the Azores. his wife. whe
had been sent ashore IN the morning,
attempted to return about nightfali.
just as a squali was coming up. The
boat upset. and the occupants weso
lost. They found neither the boat nor
the bodies. but there was no doohe
Of the calamity. The ioss az the Wiz
20 affected the husband that he VS. n
Of brain fever for months. and he haA
never read 4 line Of her rescue IN mid
ocean. There was the husband at MT.
and Captain Clark realised that - hnA
rights before him. They were alone II
the ONCE. Ind perhaps he thought ee
killing the man who bad come 70 bs0ek
up hs happy home. It was only q
step b the edge Of the siip. and poe-
haps he thought Of suicide - the be&