The daily Alaskan., 1922-08-08

leFe WIS lNllN uldl lu 'll| wheeIhUuse when these things were spoken" Father Perron said, "the mate of the ship which had been laid up at Manistique."
 Henry Spearman," SherriIl sup piled.
 "Thal Is the name. Benjamin Cor vet told me of that man that he was young. determined, brutal and set upon getting position and wealth for him self by any means He watched Corvet and Stafford while they were speak ing and he, too. listened to the shoal until Stafford had come back; then he went aft.
 "I looked at him, Father Benjamin Coryet said to me, and let him go not Knowing. He came back and looked at mc once more. and went again to the stern; Stafford had been watch ing him as well as l, and Sprang away from me now and scrambled after him. The tug Ipuped suddenly; ihrre was no longer any tow holding it back, for the hawser had parted: and l knew. Father. the reason was that Sueurman had cut it.
 "I rang for the engine to br slowed. and left the wheel and went aft; some struggle was going un at the stern uf the tug: flash came from there and the cracking of a shot. Sud denly all was light ahuu. me as, aware of the breaking of the huwser and alarmed by the shot, the srarrh.tght of the Nuwaku turned upon the tug. The cut end of the h1wSur was still upon the tug. and Spoormmn had been trying Co clear this when Stafford attacked him; they fought and Suf'ori struck Sprurmau down. He turned and cried out against mp-urrusiug me uf hay ing ordered Sprarmun ro rUJ Jhe line. lie held up the cut end Iuwgri Rams dell On the MiwaEa and cried out 10 him and showed by pointing tmt it had been cut. Blood was running from the hand with which he pointed, for he had hcrn shot by Spcurmun ; and now again and a second and a third time. from where he lay upon the deck. Sprarman fired. The second of those shots killed the engineer, who had rushed uut where ! was on the deck: the third shot went through Stufrords head. The Miwaku was drift Ing down upon Ihe reef; her whistle sounded again and again the four long blasts. The fireman who had followed the engineer up from below. fawned on me, WAS safe for an him. he said: could trust LuEr-LUEe would not tell! ne too though, had or dered the doing of that thing!
 "From the Miwaka. RamSdeU yelled curses at me. threatening me for what he thought that I had done, l looked at Spearman as he got uD from the deck. and I read the thought that had been in him; he had believed that he could cut the hawscr in the dark, none seeing and that our word that 1t had been broken would have uS much strength as any accusation stafford could make. He had known that to share a secret such as that with me would make" him on the lakes; for the loss of the Miwaka would cripple Stafford and EamSIel and strengthen me: and he could make me share with him whatever I made. But Stafford had surprised him 8t the huwSer and had seen.
 "T moved to drnounce him, Father, as l realized this; I moyed-but stopped. He had made himself safe against accusation hy me. None none ever would believe that he had done this except by my order, if he should claim that; and he made plain that he was going to claim that. He called me a fool and defied me. Luke even my own man. the only one left on the tug with uS-helieyed tt. And there was murder in it now. with Staf- ford dying there upon the deck and with the certainty that all those on the MIwaka could not be saved. I felt the moose us if it had been al- ready tied about my neck. And I had done no wrong, Father. l had only thought wrong!
 "'So long as one lived among those on the Mlwaka who had seen what was done. I knew I would be hanged; vet would have saved them if l could. But, in my comprehension of what this meant, l only stared at Stafford where he lay and then al Spearman, and l let him get control of the tug. The tug. whose wheel I had lashed, heading her into the waves. had been moving slowly. Spcnrmun pushed me aside and went to the whee'house: he sent Luke to the engines. and from that moment Luke was his. He turned the tug about to where we s,Ill saw the lights of the Miwaka. The steam CT had struck upon the reef; she hung there for q time; and Spcarman-he had the wheel and Luke. at his or ders, was at the enginc-held the tug off and we beat slowly tO and fro un- i'll the NIiwaka slipped off and sank. Some had gone down with her. no doubt: but two boats had got off. car rving lights. They saw the tug ap- Droorhinp md cried out and stretched