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NEW YORK, June 3.-Flour..jDull and
unsettlsd PoTkMFir9 mess s34a1a sfa
sussr@Raw. unsettled ee test, 4,s9c
asked; refined dull; :, granulated SIUm
No; 4, 1914 @15Ac.1 ,TsdlI9oYy:.ouietHi , spe-
Firmer; No. ]. 81 80 a 80: No. ., Si;Oo
Oils; clover ST q 20, Dressed poggnltry
Firm; turkeys, 25 a Acc; chickens, 2 Soa.
ducks, f8@22c: Long Island ducks. 239
24c. Live poHltrys[-Irregplar: geese; n 1 1sc
turkeys, 500 32c: ROSTERS, 13c; broilers.
$50 45e Cheese@98get vor state SsmeT %ils,
25c. Butter-Steady: receipts, 20, 0S6;
creamery extras, 43c: special market, 4 esoa.
n ne arb; w fht fancy fancy go sic; nearby
State ,whites, "a @2sc: fresh o tirsts' gig
acc: western whites. 246 26c;. nearby
bFGGns 60 g soe 9cta S9 ReE%Tas
m1O. Sweet potatoes-Jersey basket
S1.75d3.
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BU IHlffd FrfSs -, ,-,-, ~
TOLEDO. June 3.-Close: Nheat-No.
=. .44G1.45. Corn-No. g. 81 OF y a
1891 Reno. .. S115. Oats-No.
"a n55c Clover-Cash imported.
SI35O: October. Sl8.65: December domes-
tic. Sie Timothy-Cash new. So; so:
cash old. 50 so. Butter-43 Acc. Eggs
-1sM20c. Hay-S25.
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ycHfCAGO, june Cash grain: Wheat
No. = bard. $I47is cGr5-S;9 90 !, ys =
low. 81 Oh NJ > Seeli,qow"aa a. l.oNN5a g
I lGS% a rs G yelG%' N sS Se S9 NS
n qasc. No. mixed. Sl.ol al o4; No. 3
mixed. 81 n OF a. No. MIXED. PSI n
nae: No. . white. 81 O5is No. 3 white.
II o. No white. 81: No. white. e6c:
No white. a5c; sample grade. So y a
No white. 46ia q 53hc c; sample grade,
ASA 4ac. Barley-s9 G95c. Timothy -
S4M525.
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CHICAGO. June 3.-Produce: Butter-
Receipts 1880; creamery, 80 a 4Oc;
standards 40iac; frsts 81 a 3s &c: sec
onds. 35 a 36l5c: extras. Ale. Egg1oRe-
ceipts. 23 $500: ordinaries., Is q rs y c;
22%c. Chees-Twins, 2213c; Americas.
23c. Poultry-Receipts. car: fowls
heavy, 22s light e3s; springs 33c; ducks rs
spring geese 23G2 5c; turks. 23c;
BOOSTERS. 14c; broiiers, i Il to | = pounds,
90 a 24c: Leghorn broilers, 20 24c; Po-
tatoes-Receipts, arrivals new. 81 on
track, old. 90; new, 102; in transit. 500
Minnesota and Wisconsin sacked round
whites. 81 .25 a $50: Canada sacked
whites &3.5064,25 Alabama, Texas,
Georgia and Louisiana sacked Irish Cob
blers and Bliss Triumphs. So 20 a $50 ;
poorly graded, heated $3.50 6. Sweet
potatoes-S1 az.
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LOUISVILLE. June 3.-Hogs@-,oR Receipts
Receipts. 200: market steady. Calves
Receipts, 300 market steady: good TO
choice So n 10. medium TO good 80 I;
outs s6 down Sheep-Receipts, 500 ;
springers quarter higher; others steady
springers. $1,000; seconds. Sl2.5O; sheep
S4M5.
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TOLEDO. June -HoEs-Receipts
500 market 1Oc higher: heavies, $500
o mediums, 1925 a 800: good pigs. S9;40
G9.75. Calves-Receipst. light; market
strong. Sheep and lambs-Receipts, light:
market steady. Cattle-Receipts, hght'
market steady.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Bp United Press
ooS SG fGo. f Ssianc ssng sis, 100000.
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HEAVIEST SELLING
ON WALL Street
IN MANY WEEKS
Rail, Industrial Leaders De-
cline SharpIy-Steady
Before Trade Ends.
Average Stock Prices

Average of twenty industrials Thursday
was III So off 10. Average OF twenty
rails was 1877 10. off Is. Average of forty
bonds was 81 32, up oil.
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RU United Press ra;
NEW YORK, June 3.-Forelgn *
f frsnes ? ssi 4 !; ira 5b$Se off
BelgaI 13.S9c; marks 236S1a off .oo1a
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Ru Times Special -. -.
p"CEiCt GO. June 3-Carlots. Wheat. 10;
corn SIS oats. Sc. rye =.
BIZ Times Special
CHICAGO. June 3-Prmary receipts
wheat 14s. 600 against 4al 900: corn. :
1i3 600, against L-235. 900. oats,3o0 600
arsinst $50 900 Shipments Wheat.
53I 900 gainst 737 900: corn. 4l4.Q00.
against 464 900: oats. 100000. against
762 900.
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appraised at $3.50: Motley Moreland.
6. $1.270.20; George Washington
Young. SO. $17.771.s5 three slaves ap-
praised as follows: Mamie Bell,
S547.50; Clement Sims. $3.50, and
Sally Sims. $54750).
Margaret G. Barber, thirty.four.
$9,351.s0 -four slaves appraised as fol-
lows: Richard Williams, $591.30; Henry
foyer, $613.20: Joseph foyer, $613.20;
and Andrew Yates. ss69. 4o): Edwin Fl.
Edelin,, fourteen. $3.963.90; William
Hickey, sixteen, $6,745. 20 three slaves
appraised as follows: Dick Massi or
Lee, $613.20; Henry Can't, 1857: Au-
gustus Fletcher, $63510; and half a
dozen others between $500 and $780,
Ann M. Biscoe, Angelica Chew and
Emma Biscoe, twenty six, $6,54S.l0
lone slave. Cecilia Bell. appraised at
$525.60); Emeline Sheriff. seven, g.
146.20 two slaves appraised as follows:
BENJAMIN Watkins. $5ss.4o and
Martha Johnson, $547.50l; Lucy e.
Mattingly eight, $1,795.s0; Anthony
Addison, seven, 81 ,401.60: Benjamin s.
Bohrer, thirteen total sum missing
from my notes. but two OF Bohrer's
slaves, Alexander Green and George
Green, were appraised at 1857 and $669,
respectively; Mary c. Dean, six.
50, 124.31 lone slave. Albert Clarke, ap-
praised at $613.20G Pierce Shoemaker.
twenty, $5,S03.50 zone slave, Leander
Lyles, appraised at $780, 0); Ann Pick.
rell, seven. 81. 1921. 40 tone slave, Samuel
Collins, appraised at $700.SO, next I'd
the highest appraised slave in the Dis
trictl: John Fl. c. Coffin. seven. 81
Ia &xnya afHy-n
$1,000 two slaves appraised as FOL.
lows: Archibald Regency, S569.40. and
Edmund Herbert, $591.30); John A.
Smith. fourteen, $5,146.50 -four slaves
appraised as follows: Henry. $657;
Leonard. 1891; Bill Woodley. $6l3.20,
and Anthony. $657l; George w. and
John s. Hopkins, executors and trus-
tees of John Hopkins. ten. $2,912.30;
Leonard o. Cook. eight. 81 $3.50 tone
slave. Susannah Harper, appraised at
$525.60G George w. and Catherine A.
Wren, nine. $2.14G.20 tone slave, Os
car Lewis, appraised at S613.20E Caro-
iins =. Sanders seventeen. $4,94e.40
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lone slave, Sylvester Brooks, appraised
at s657): Aloysius Graham. ten. ST.
1880; Mary and Elizabeth Queen,
twenty-four, $S,256.30 lone slave.
Louis Taylor, $59f.30) Jane f. Beali.
Matilda B. l.. Beall and Margaret j.
Beall, seventeen, $3.S10.6o; Rebecca
Sears, eight. $1.8S3.40; Emily Beale,
fifteen, $2.606.10 two slaves, Susan
Chase, S4S1. and Rachel Ross. $459);
Lucy B. Walker, thirteen. $5,168.4o
-four slaves. John Hall, 1857: Hilleary
Speaks, S657; Philip Bruce. S6l3. and
Sophia Ross, $525.60); Henry MAYOR.
Stephen Dixon, $613.2O; Mary Jane
Diggs, $525. go; William fancy, S525.60):
Martha A. Linton, eight, $4,000
tone slave, George p. Mudd, $6l3.20j;
Baden Forrest, eight, $2,62S; Richard
slaves, Alfred and Thomas Smith. $6l3
each): Philip 4. Berry, thirteen, So
1913; Clark Mills. eleven. $1.e16.25;
John Little, twelve, $3.635.40 three
slaves, Leander, $613.2o; Hortensii,
S525.60. and Benjamin Purneil'
S613.2O; Thomas Young. eight, $3,285;
Joshua Pierce, ten. $3,635.40 two
slaves. Thomas Rhodes, $61320; and
Ellen Beckett. $525.60).
Leah L. G.. Wilson, nine. $2,671.80
two slaves, James. S569.4o, and Iobey,
S525. COY; Rebecca Williams, eight, 81
$1,000: executors of William II. Tur-
ton, sixteen. s4,13s.10: j. Fenwick
Young, fourteen. S3.21s.2o lone slave,
Anthony Lewis. $3.50; Charles Homil-
Ter, twelve, $3.26310 two slaves. Kins-
ley Etchison. $657. and Dallas Etchi-
son. S6132O). Ariana J. Lyles. thir-
teen, $3,679.20; Columbus Alexander,
fifteen. S4,Sts a slaves. Beverly Da'
Wis. $657; Nancy Holmes. $503.70;
George Singleton, S613.20, and Frank
Diggs, $744.G0--the last the highest
appraised slave in the District;
Charles e. Mix, nine, $2,715.60; James
Selden. trustee for George l.. Selden,
$1,Ss3,40
\ r
THE Sister of the Visitation owned
IL slaves and were awarded s4,-
073.40. From that sum the Commits.
sioners deducted $29s.75. as having
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Officers Imprisoned on Warship When Manhole Closes

lit again. And we discovered that the
bottom was slanting and cramped at
that point. But we took UP our
Ewretched vigil in earnest. Our lives
depended on the chance that some
person would come and enter the
storeroouf and hear US banging.
We couldn't tell time. We had to
guess at the intervals. BAIT when the
one on watch considered that about
10 minutes had passed. he beat q
tattoo with the heel of his shoe, our
only hammer. on the small metal door
overhead. 1t wasn't much of a noise.
But we staked our lives on 1t. Hours
crept by, each one years long. We
mea sured time by pulse beats.
The second phase act in after we
had spent a night-at least we judged
| it so--in that horrible place. We
| both went to sleep several times.
breaking the steadiness OF our vigil.
We fell silent.
| We BEGAN to quarrel about the time
intervals between tappings with the
shoe. We began to look for the
Eup. We Scraped our pockets for
crumbs, and went over carefully the
place where we had eaten the cake.
I At different times we both GOT lost.
Then we began to explore and MEM
orized our lightless catacomb. We be.
came depressed and irritable. In a
word, we lost hope. Our little tap
pings on the manhole door might not
even be audible from the outside. IL
so, we were lost.
4 GEES passed. We lost count OF
days and nights; not that we ever
had real count of them. But the first
4S hours must have been fairly well
delineated by our desire to sleep.
Then sleep became irregular and
neither of US knew which was day
and which was night. 1t was all
night for us; impenetrahle, inky
night. filed with only the increasingly
frightful horror of our imaginatiOns.
We had lost all sense of time. Our
sufferings had become acute. Both
were suffering physically from thirst
and cranfp and hunger; and mentally
from the despair that had overtaken
our early courage.
| We were both asleep, on the third
day, when a flood of binding light
poured down upon us from the man.
hole, which suddenly opened. Dazed
and blinking. we opened our ayes.
Thank Godv' heard some on en-.
claim.
Helping hands dragged our aching
bodies into the storeroQm.
Five minutes later we stood In the
shippers cabin. Capt. Usher looked
very grave.
4 You young gentlemen should bc
hung at the yardaFm for such beA
havior," he rasped. CHANGING over his
spectacles, he added. not without q.
twinkle Of human In his weathered
eyes: Or equipped with nursemaids
to follow you about"
/ Yes, sir" said we both sheepishly.
But I think you've learned your
lesson, haven't you?''
Again, humbfy, we murmured, Eyes,
sir
I Then YOU may CO."
| We melted away through the door.
Outside we met the executive ofiicer.
+ You both might get a lire on the
old mans estimate Of your characters
when 1 tell you he suggested locking
in the double bottoms The minute / let
him in on the secret of your disap-
pearaRcs"
tc0oyriRht 1877
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hoods. But they also went in for rich
business houses of the center of the
city. SO that, in fact. half Paris, like
half France, was deman ding their dis
covery and arrest.
Each national crew Of 1.-The Pisto-
leros'" big band had it's favorite
method Of working. The Italians EN-
pleyed by preference the circular saw
and the shears The Poles used
oftenest the blow-pipe, while the
Spanish had the machines recon-
mended and invented by Jiminez, in
GLIDING his famous ripper" with
which he could open a safe like a
box of sardines."
In France they were called "the
foreign anarchists" but it is now es-
tablished that Jiminez was in relations
with the French garage owner. Leo
pold Dancart, in whose place, twice
at Is months apart, in Paris, were
found veritable arsenals OF war. Dan
cart furnished arms and bombs to
Jiminez through intermediary Of an
other Frenchman, the junk dealer
Peyart. Recently $50 bombs were
transported in the suburbs by Peyart.
Jiminez and others and were tempo
rarity hidden.
NIUE, AOWt tkldL III L1tC tkk1E Va tIIC
Catalan plot. in which Garibaldi's
grandson was said to have been i'm
plicated. they say that these bootleg
gers Of arms furnished Col. Macia
largely. OF course, neither Macia,
Garihaldis grandson nor the Catalan
revolutionists had any real contact
with the anarchist burglars as such.
The revolutionists pursued a political
ideal, while the anarchists dreamed
OF money, rapines and terrorist explo-
sions. 1t would be an insult to Col.
Macia and his friends not to state
this clearly.
On the other hand, the judicial IN
quiry shows every day new collisions
between the anarchist organization
and the Communists of France, Spain
and Italy. Dancart has always re-
NAMED in relations with the French
Communists. He does not belong to
them openly, but he is their secret
agent and the secret agent of the boil
shevfks, and all the more dangerous
for the secrecy Of it.
OF course. the French police, par.
ticulariy want to know IL these ban
dts. acting Separately and instanta-
neously with bombs and reyolvers,
are not in touch with the militant
Communists and b0lsheviks
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been paid on account by Ignatius
Tighlman, one of the slaves. for the
purchase of himself and family. wife
and seven children.
The Rambler told you last Sunday
that the report of the Emancipation
Commissioners shows that three Dis
trict slave owners were negroes
Robert Gunnell, Gabriel Coakley and
James w. Mcdaniel. Gunnell owned
10 slaves and was awarded 81 10.
His slaves and their appraised value
were: Paulina Booth, $43S; Sarah Fair
fax. $43S: Florida. $503.70: Anna.
$2S4.7O: William, $153.30; Frank.
$131.4O; Thomas, S1O9.50; Joseph.
S43.S0; Sally, $43.S0,. and Charles,
$21.80.
Gabriel Coakley owned slaves and
was awarded $1.4S9.20. His slaves
Mary Ann Coakley, Genera Coakley,
Veronica Coakley, Sophia Coakley.
Sarah Coakley and Gertrude Coa5ley.
Mcdaniel owned slaves, Jemima,
$438, and Lucy, $175.20.
There may be something about these
cases of negroes owning slaves which is
not shown by the record and which
the Rambler does not understand. 1t
may be, for example, in the Coakley
case, that Coakley after buying his
freedom or being freed in some other
way, bought the 10 slaves, who may
have been his own family, and that
the title to them was in him as
owner. do not know anything about
it except what Is in the record. or the
report of the Emancipation Commits
Sioners.
Slaves of high value belonged to
Small slave owners" or to persons
who owned from / to 6 slaves. Four
slaves belonging to Joseph G. and
Henry A. Willard were appraised as
follows: William Thomas, $569.40: John
Thomas, 1891; Jack Bowie. $547.50. and
James Montgomery, $547.50. Other
high-appraised slaves were: Jesse
Mitchell belonging to William A. T..
Maddox. $657: William Mills, belonging
to Thomas A. Newman. 1913; Clara
Bowie. belonging to William II. Dou.
CAD, 1913: William Caesar, belonging to
samuel Shreye. $531.se; George King
belonging to Augusta McBlair, $613.20;
William Bateman, belonging to Mar.
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BY FITzHUGH GREEN, U. S. n.

r t was not a good day to die.
mean by that, it was one of those
sparkling May mornings when
4 the waters of Hampton Roads re.
fiected the blue sky in every wave
let. and the big battleship Michigan
rode merrily to a fresh breeze out of
the clear-weather north.
Also we were too young to die,
Gates and /. We were two carefree
midshipmen who had not been out of
Annapolis long enough to feel the
burden of professional responsibility.
But careleSsness and death go hand
IN hand, whether its victims are young
or the day is full of sunshine.
How death and careleSsness must
have grinned when young Gates came
to me after drill was over and said:
The old mans going to give us a
lecture" CThe old man was our COM
handing officer, Capt.-since ad-
niraI and Observation-Disclosures Usher,
hero of the Spanish-American War
and one of the finest old sea dogs
that ever trod a duarterdeck) But
he doesn't check up on attendance.
Let's go down and have ourselves a
nice little party in the fifth division
bottoms
think my nose must have twisted
at the thought. Double bottoms of a
battleship, or of any ship, for that
matter, are about the most uninviting
setting for party that can think Of
Great, dark, clamnry steel cata.
combs they are, far below the water
line. Bottoms are formed by the in.
ner and outer skins of a ship. There
is usually too little room for man
to stand erect in them. A maze of
steel bulkheads pierced by circular
apertures act as braces to support the
outer bottom upon the inner one.
To protect the ship by forma ton of
watertight compartments, one set of
bottoms is separated from another by
g. complete surrounding wall of IN
pierced steel But any set of bottoms
comprises in itself labyrinth Of wind |
ing, unIighted eaverns, which are un- |
nervfng to the novice.
Bottoms are never opened at sea |
except in cases of emergency. In port |
they are rarely opened save for in |
spection and cleaning. Thus there |
exists under every modern man-of- |
war regular sepulcher. which for |
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YOHN HARRY of Georgetown was
one Of the large slave owners"
of the District of Columbia. He
~ owned % slaves in 1862, when
the commissioners on emancipa-
ton were sitting in the grand jury
room at City Hall and putting in oper-
alton the terms of the District eman.
cipation act, approved by President
Lincoln April 16, 1862. The Rambler
knows little of John Harry. He does
not know whether he lived in George
town or Washington County west of
Rock Greek. He does not know
whether he worked his slaves on his
own land or hired them to other men.
The emancipation commissioners took
early action on John Harry's petition
for payment for his slaves, Congress
having appropriated 81 900 900 to COM
pensate the slightly fewer than 1000
owners of 100 slaves in the District.
John Harry had all his slaves pres
ent before the commissioners, and APP
pFaisal of their value was mainly on
the Judgment of b. NJ. Campbell of
Baltimore, a slave dealer. The price
put on the slaves by Campbell was
that which they should have brought
at public sale in 1883 or 1860. when
slaves had sales value" The price
80 put upon District slaves was then
scaled down by the commissioners.
that the appropriation by Congress
should not be exceeded and that the
average price per slave for the 5000
or 3,100 slaves i'll the District should
not exceed 800. John Harry was
allowed $s,168.70 for his % slaves. and
the list Of them and the price allowed
for each follow: Grace Butler. $3.50;
Martha Butler, $3.50. 40; Eliza Ann But
le-. s4S1.s0; Jane Coney. $2l9; Walter
Butler, s3oS.60; Lydia Meredith,
$131 40: Edward Meredith. $262.so;
John Meredith, $569.4o; Philip Mere
dith. s569.40: Lizzie Meredith, $4S1.S0;
Adeline Meredith, s43S; Henry Mere
dith, $153.30; Alfred Meredith. $219;
Charles Meredith, $43.S0; Maria Mere
dith, $394.20; Kate Meredith. $3.50;
Rogers Meredith. $3.50; Henrietta
Crusey, $175.20; Eveline Crusey, $438;
William Crusey, S569.40; John Lewis
Crusey. 1857; Martha Crusey. S43S;
James Crusey. $3.50: Anna Cru
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Rambler Continues Story of Slave Owners and Slaves in Ds

Senator Lot NJ. Morrill, offered the
following amendment. which was
agreed to:
That no claim shall be allowed
for any slave brought into the Dis
trfct after the passage of this act:
or which originates in or by virtue
of any transfer made or which shall
hereafter be made, by any person
who has in any manner aided or sus-
tanned the rebellion against the gov
eminent of the United States"
Senator Morrill, offered another
amendment. which was agreed to. 1t
was:
That any person who shall kidnap
or In any manner transport or pro-
cure to be taken out of the said Dis
tFict any person discharged or freed
by the provisions of this act, or any
free person. with intent to re-inslave
or sell such person into slavery, the
person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and on CON-
viction thereof in any court of COM
petent Jurisdiction in said District
shall be imprisoned in the peniteR-
t1ary not less than five years nor
more than twenty years."
The next amendment offered was
by Senator Garrett Davis of Mount
Sterling. Kentucky. It started some
thing. The amendment was:
THAT all persons liberated under
this act shall be eolonized out of the
limits of the United States, and the
sum of 100000, out OF any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated. shall be expended under
direction of the President of the
United states for that purpose"
That amendment provoked discus
sion between Senators Davis, Ny:
John Parker Hale. N. H.; Samuel C.
Pomeroy, Kan, and Doolittle OF Wis
consin. That discussion will make
good beginning for next Sundays
story. and besides. the time Is now
IL something o'clock Saturday, June
IL. and the Lindbergh parade is in
the Avenue. crossing Seventh street.
My window Ii jammed by friends
who come to see me only on days OF
big parades. / want TO see some-
thing OF the remarkable show my
self and get glimpse of the wonder
man, so will end this story here.
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For some minutes Gates voice had
been getting louder and louder. At
last, to my intense relief, I heard
him but few feet away in the pitchy
darkness.
THANK goodness, you're back, old
SCOUT L exclaimed, gratefully drink
ing in with my ears the intimate
sibilance of his brea h and the NUT
tered impreeations that still dripped
from his lips.
ME, too" heard him say. Surely
he was right in front of me. I reached
out my hand to touch him, but even
as l did so, realized there was some
thing wrong with his voice.
My hand touched no human body.
The vestigial hairs OIL my backbone
raised and stayed that way when, alb
yruptly, my reaching fingers came into
contact with the cold. unyielding sur
face of steel plate knew what had
happened to Gates voice: it had to
pass through steel to reach my ears.
Nervously, l fel1 along. AS Gates
said nothing, inG /: ned he was doing
the same. But i, was of no use. A
bulkhead separated Us.
Work along it. old man." told
him.
We did. We each went as far as
we could in both directions. But there
was no opening.
THAT means well have to work
back and around" were my next In
structions. I tried to make nay voice
as cheerful as I could. But / wasn't
very successful. Afterward Gates told
me that I sounded as IL + had given
up all hope, then and there.
II y y 4
RUT If our case seemed hopeless
then. it was desperate an hour
from then. For in the course Of his
wanderings Gates found the manhole
could hear his shout of triumph
when he did so. Then next instant
all the joy went out of life for us
botn.
tits lockedr' he yelled. Its lock-
ed" he repeated. "Dogged down
hardr'
My heart sank. This could mean
only that some one had come along
and seen the little open entry door
and decided that some careless sailor
had forgotten to close it. II this was
the case, then the door to the store
room was probably closed, too. And
that wuld mean it's being locked.
Not only. was it unlikely that the
bottom would be visited again for
days even weeks, but the chances of
our being heard if we banged on the
manhole were terrifyingly remote.
There was air enough to last us for
an indefinite time. But this was not
"a negligible factor, for bottoms are
made watertight. which means they
also are impervious to air.
We had Just eaten; and we had
some crumbs of cake left. There was
at least one small pool of scummy
water which we had passed when we
entered. Sweating of the bottom would
no doubt give us a few drops more.
But I knew enough about bottoms,
and the merctless certainty of the
fragile items that stood between us
and death. TO see very clearly the
fearful peril Of our situation. Only so