White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-07-05

me ne saw our trSt snOt Splash into
the water in front Of his ship. and
thought It merely q whale sp0uting.
With our second shot he heard the
report OF the gun, and saw that we
were an auxiliary cruiser. The Percy's
cargo was so light that we did not use
bombs, but shot her full of holes.
We were worried about having fair
company aboard. There might be
rough work that would not be good
for the eyes Of woman. And then q
woman needs attention. She must be
treated with care and consideration.
Suppose. this new and undesired cap
tive should start to complain. Women
like to complain. Suppose she should
grow angry at being kept prisoner.
What could we do? You couldn't put
her in the brig.
"Well, Leudemann," said l, .the
only thing we can do is to treat her
so well that she will be happy all the
time"
II treated a dame we'll once"
growled Leudemann, "and then she
ran off with another man the first time
l left her alone"
The shippers bride turned out to be
the best fellow you could want. She
had one of those sunny temperaments
that simply spread nhirth and good
cheer everywhere. She had smile
for everyone and In every circum-
stance. She took her stay aboard the
Seeadler as an unexpected, exciting,
and appropriate phase of her honey
moon, and resolved to get the greatest
possible fun out of 1t.
When she got back to Canada, she
gave the newspapers long stories
about her stay on our terrible pirate
raider, the Seeadler, and told what a
delightful time the freebooters had
shown her. When returned to Ger
many after the war, found an en-.
velope full of clippings from her await
ing me.
We lay in the waters off Africa five
degrees above the equator and thirty
degrees west longitude. That region
| Is right on the path of all sailing ships
| llldl IuA DSlUI0 Iuc SOulIcuSl IIduO
| winds and head north. The weather
| is seldom bad there. the air is clear,
and from our masthead we had q
range of vision of thirty miles.
A Frenchman, no doubt of it. The
ship was scrupulously clean, her rig
giug trim and neat. Her hull was
decorated artistically with gunports,
after the manner Of an old-time war
frigate. Only the French keep their
ships so thoroughly shined up, and
there was one firm Of French shipping
owners whose custom IT was to deco
rate their vessels man-o'war fashion.
She was the four masted brig Antonin.
We came up behind her diagonal.
ly, and then after her. Our motor
was having one of its off days, but
we did not care.
sudden wind squall arose. lt.blew
like fury. The captain of the An.
tonin was a sensible skipper. He
Immediately lowered sail, took in his
royals and upper gallant sails. That
] was where we had II on him, for we
had no misery sllipowner to be afraid
| of. Our masts wouldn't break, any
way.
Keep every stitch on. boysl After
her.. my hearties!"
OF course, we gained rapidly on her
now.
The wind continued to howl. The
gale ragged, and the captain of the
Antonin thought we were quite mad.
| Gallants and royals up during wind
| sQuall-he had never seen such thing
in all his Gays at sea. The sight was
SO funny that he wanted a picture Of
it. We watched him standing in the
stern of his ship and gazing down into
the finder of his camera.
"Leudemann," said to my helms
| man, 1--WE must capture thai snapshot
for our collection of photographs, II
we have to take q trip to Davy Jones
doing It,"
We were attempting to keep a
thorough Photographic record of our
cruise, for the Imperial archives, and
picture of the Seeadler running with
all sails set through squall. particu
larly If that picture were snapped all
unwittingly by the captain of prize,
would indeed be gem for our col
lection.
We were close behind the Antonin
now. A machine gun began to rattle.
We were often bored during those
long days at sea. Anything for bit
of amusement II would be funny to
watch that captains face when he
heard the typewriter of Mars rafting
in his ear and when be saw us send
ing a stream of lead through his rig
ging. First he started, and then he
glared. What did these lunatics mean?
This kind of insanity was too much:
His rigging might be Injured, ropes
cut or spars smashed He began to
roar at US In the most profane French.
When FrenchmaD swears you can
hear 1t far off. Then he saw the Ger
man flag at our masthead. He stag.
gered back with dramatic gesture
that only Frenchman can achieve.
We sank the Antonin just as we sank
The others.
(To BE coNTINUED.)