The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-07-15
ALL SPOKE
/ DIFFERENT
LANGUAGE
ALFRED E. BENNETT

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~, ,rons-Paciic mail liner Mon
az, ro,ia Law for two days In MID
IAN helpless. from an ac-
cident in her fire rooms anu an,
ciue endod on her way. The FOL
~ fragments of an exhaustive
. a written account OF the
nj in the ships log;
II o'clock. post meridian
On 10; Longitude 1876 de-
% minutes W.; latitude
oos n. a quantity of escap-
III in the forward fire-room
al fire. When the firemen
nod on deck some one gave
fro alarm. In spite of the Ell
of officers and crew a panic
nod among the passengers
ond cutter was cast adrift
snmably By two steerage pas
rors that are missing. Hon.
ses weldon, Barrister' Lon
FIRST cabin. missing.
bnosed to have fallen overheard
Inc the excitement"
on morning broke on the drl1t-
hitter her occupants studied each
curIously. The English Jurlst
nbered the giant Slav and the
,oarse Italian. He had seen them
among the other steerage pas
re around the break Of the fore
when he took his daily prone
The Slav and the Italian turned
oh other, knowingly. ms was
little man with the side-whiskers
had nodded approvingly when the
kicked and swore at q steerage
niger for failing to observe the
rEERAGE PASSENGERS NOT
ALLOWED ABAFT THIS
NOTICE"
4 II was quite natural that this
rior person should even now be
10 after part of the boat while
found themselves forward. There
no attempt at conversation. BY
Frightened cries that had followed
separation from the liner the
learned that they all spoke a
rent Ianguage. The sea was
18th as glass, and there was moth
to be seen but the eternal sun
the sky's colorless ring.
was about the middle Of the fore
when the Slav licked his dry
swallowed hard several times,
leaned toward the water-beaker
box of sea-stores that lay in the
BIN of the boat. But the italian
I'D at the same time and the two
looked at each other. From the
watery, pale-blue eyes, and the
ox-like orbs there flashed a light
might blaze between a deter
ID hyena and a stubborn jackal
the body of a lamb, or a lone
bring place in the desert. Then,
turned to the white-haired jurist,
sat strangely still.
be men were hungry and thirsty.
aged Englishman was even faint.
food and drink-there were the
-box and water-beaker that are
in all the boats of an ocean-go-
vessel.
gain the two men forward gazed
at the precious provisions and
at the old man.
BE did not pull an oar; he is use
With this thought they both
Jed; their shoulders touched, and
thrilled at the contact-the
Wedge of comradeship. Here was
y of purpose. They were brothers.
Ot culver of this sinister PAN
me had escaped the Englishman.
felt great wave of self-pity. He
lied that he had been condemned
Fhe highest TRIBUNAL majority of
people-and that there was no ap-
His vote was the minority.
rasping at a last straw, his judicial
thought of mixing religion with
tics-it had been done to advan-
so keeping his eyes steadily on
now on-coming italian, he made
sign Of the cross on his forehead
breast. But the blackbrowed man
not pause. He climbed over the
thwart. There would be plenty
line for the cross. 1t would serve
n the water and food were gone
owly edging back until he crouched
the gunwale by the idly swing
tiller, the condemned man watched
executioners advance. Bending
shoulders together, hands claw.
the twin beasts crept relentlessly
men they put their feet together
NE coxswain's seat, the man on the
vale lifted his face once to per
ung heaven, and then, with the
nness and elaboration Of one get
into bed, let himself over the
into the sea.
.raightening up, the Italian drew
the corners Of his long mouth
wing two rows of ivory. sharp
ZIP as dogs and white as milk
Siav answered his brother by lift
a thick lip from dirty, irregular
H. after the manner Of a caget