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THE DRE .N OF THE GKAYE.
Ill' JAMES K. FROST.
There are eyes we have loved and lips wo have
kissed—
Beautiful lips that love-words have spoken ;
There are hands we have pressed aud often
have missed—
For locked are they all in a sleep unbroken.
Lips that spake tenderly in th’ long, long ago;
Eyes that were brightest when on us they’d
beam;
Hands that caressed us—but, alas! we now know
They arc closed and lustreless—locked in a
dream.
Oh! the shrou I and coßin and grave hide from
view
Those lips, hands, and eye? —meek, gentle,
arid mild ;
Yet, in memory oft wo behold them anew
As they smiled and caressed and bcainod on
the child.
I'pon that dear grave bright dew-drop? are
falling,
And in our heart there’s a longing and pain ;
We turn to the world—its duties are calling ;
Away from (he dead, to the living again.
Farewell to ye all, then —lips we can not kiss,
Nor can loving words by them be spoken.
Bright eyes, caressing hands —all of re we miss,
l or locked are ye all in a sleep unbroken.
Farewell to ye all, then—your re.-f sweetly take;
Wo, too, shall steep—but th’ sleep shall be
broken ;
And together, at last, in heaven we’ll awake
But the dream of the grate will remain un
spoken !
April 27, 1873.
HE STORY OF THE SEEOSD MATE.
I do not remember when it was that
the second mate first began to show
his demonstrative admiration fur our
pretty fellow-passenger. It was Dick
Holliday who called my attention to it
as a capital joke, while we were yet in
the Mediterranean—a fortnight or so
after we had sailed from Leghorn. We
two were leaning on the quarter-rail
just before dusk, when Miss Ellis cainc
on deck. “There’s the candle,” said
Dick, “and presently you'll see the
moth.” In the course of the next five
minutes, Mr. Jones, bur second mute,
lounged over the opposite side of the
deck and entered into au animated con
versation with the young lady on the
interesting topic of sharks. At least
we judged so by her questions, which
Were put in such a pleat, sweet voice,
the wind, foth to part with the mu
sical toues, indiscreetly carried them
wifhin oqr hearing. “He’s a sort of
ideates Ijead in point of. beauty
pontinned my friend, “bi|.t he’s neither
too old nor too ugly to suffer an urn
pomfortable singeing.”
I had a half-formed idea that I
father liked the second mate,aDd a very
perta® convictiou that I particularly
admired pretty Mary Ellis. As I dis
liked to see the man make a fool of
himself, or the girl to appear in the
discreditable character of a
Dick’s moth-and-candle theory annoyed
me. I therefore took the liberty of to
tally disbelieving it, and should have
coutinued to do so had not the evidence
gradually become too plain to be mis
taken.
Tlmre was only four of us in the
cabia—Dick, Miss Ellis, her father,
and myself. Why we had taken pas*
sage from Leghorn to New York in a
slow sailing, marblo-laden ship, instead
of returning home by a quick and more
fashionable route, does not pertain to
the present story. As the oulv lady
®toe mnmitn.
BY FROST, LAWSON. CORKKR &. GRAY.
VOL. IH.i
passenger, Miss Ellis was naturally
the chief object of interest to nty friend
and myself. Her father was old, ill,
and unable to play whist, and was,
consequently, an extremely uninterest
ing follow-passenger. Fortunately he
kept his room pretty closely, aud we
saw very little of him. But his daugh
ter was the brightest and most bewitch
ing little woman that ever made long
sea voyages not only endurable but de
lightful. She was twenty-five, as she
frankly confessed, and had spent the
last three years in traveling with her
invalid father. She was never dull or
dispirited, and though frank and bright
in mauner,never transgressed the limits
of maidenly propriety. She was quite
aware of the fact that she was extremely
pretty, and she had an irresistible ten
dency towards innocent flirtation. —
Had I been a younger man, or had
Dick not possessed a wife and a quanti
ty bf children at home, odo or both of
us would certainly have rehearsed the
world old drama of idle love,Mary Ellis
in the leading female role, as the critics
would say.
As for Mr. Jones he was the last
man whom any one would deem ca
pable of sentiment of any sort. He was
old although he said he was only thirty
five.rough weather and a wild, dissolute
life had made him much old than bis
years. His complexion was nearly the
color of mahogany when it is well oiled,
though it lacked the polished surface
which is generally associated with that
article in its manufactured state. His
hair was grizzled and uukempt, and an
ugly scar, which stretched across his
forehead—the memorial of a desperate
fight with a mutinous crew—added
nothing to his beauty. Still his eyes
woro clear and piercing, and his figure
athletic and manly. I suppose there
are women who might possibly have
fallen in love with him. The Duchess
Jo.-iane certainly would.
When one came to consider Jones
spiritual, and distinguished from Jones
physical, it was still more difficult to
understand how he could have had the
amusing self-conceit to imagine that
Miss Ellis could regard him with any
thing but the barest toleration. He was a
bold, quick, skillful sailor; a man born
to command the refuse of humanity
that mans our merchant vessels. He
was hard aud cruel to the lazy and ig
norant, and as a swearer, fairly eclipsed
any one whom I have ever heard in the
devlish intensity of hie innumerable
oaths. He was a totally illiterate man,
and bis want of knowledge of naviga
tion made it impossible for him to rise
above a subordinate station in bis pro
fession. His conversation had a cer
tain spice of shrewdness and homely
good sense, but was a constant defiance
of Lindley Murray and all his works.
Ilis code of morality was comprised
in two rules—never to be drunk at sea,
and always to obey orders. This was
certainly a pretty sort of fellow to take
a fancy to a refined and delicate girl.—
To do him justice, he was brave and
manly in bis station; but what right
had lie to look, except from an infinite
distance, at sweet Mary Ellis?
It would have been amusing had it
not made me indignant, to note how the
man watched for her appearance. At
every step that sounded from the com
panion way, he would turn, with a look
of expectation in his face, that the dull
est witness could not fail to understand.
Wheu she did appear, he would soon
contrive to carelessly approach her, and
would nevop be absent from her side,
except fop a few moments at a time,
while the two were on deck. He was
perpetually bringing mattrasses for her
to rest upon, and shawls to wrap around
her, I have known him to keep a sailor
in the mizzen-elmins for hours at a
time, catching floating bits of sea-weed
and stray jelly-fish fbr her amusement.
What was more oreditable to him, he
never abused the men in her presence,
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and rarely swore while she was in hear
ing. More than once, at the warning
touch of her hand upon his arm. he
dropped his raised hand and suppressed
the half muttered oath about to be
launched at somo unhappy fellow who
had committed an unusually irritating
offence against the laws of good seaman
ship.
This morii-and-candle business went
on for several weeks. Mary Ellis was,
or affected to be, totally unconscious of
the • onquest she had made. Neither
Dick nor myself felt at liberty to re
monstrate with her in behalf of the
peace of mind of the second mate. I
did, however, venture one day to warn
Mr. Jones of the attention his con
duct had attracted. We bad grown
quite friendly by this time, and I fan
cied that the kindly interest I took iu
his welfare would rather flatter him
than otherwise. He listened to what I
had to say, with his hands thurst into
his pockets, and his gaze directed
miles away toward the distant horizon.
“And so, Mr. Jones,” I concluded, “you
must >ee that this sort of thing won’t
do. The lady is quite out of your
sphere, and either don’t suspect that
you care particularly for her, or else is
amusing herself at your expense.”
He turned and looked at me,silently.
“Mister,” said he, at last, slowly and
reflectively, “like enough you mean all
right, so I wou’t git insd about it. But
you’re making the d—est fool of j our
self ! Talking to me about your spheres!
Why, I am a man, ain’t I? and a white
man, too ? Aud she’s a woman, ain’t
she? What’s your sphere got to do
with my being perlite to the young
wornm ? I expect she gets tired of your
infernal jaw sometimes--I know I do,
anyhow—and she don’t mind listening
to me a bit, for a healthy change.
What I think of her ain’t your business,
nor anybody clse’s but I ain’t a agoing
to let any man say that she’s playin’ it
on me. Now you've got your course,
and that’s enough. I don’t allow no
inteferrin’ from passengers nor nobod v.”
And he walked away.
After tins failure, I tried him with
no more advice. Gradually I became
convinced that Miss Ellis was in reality
a heartless coquett, wito was amusing
herself with a conquest so out of the
ordinary way ns to interest her from
its very oddity. The conviction that
she was actually capable of this petty
cruelty made me necessarily revise my
original opinion of her; aud I ceased to
regard her with the warm admiration
with which she had at first inspired mo.
The vovage grew dull and tiresome.
As it drew towards a close I began to
chafe at. any lull of the fair wiud that
had followed us a cross the Atlantic,
and to lose patienoe at the first breath
of an adverse breeze. I have not yet
mentioned our captain, for the simple
reasou that ho had hardly been seen by
any one of us swipe we left Gibraltar.—
He was an ill-tempered, ill-mannered
fellow, who disappeared in his cabin as
soon as we were clear of the straits, and
entered upon a quiet course of retired
drunken uess, in which he persevered
throughout the voyage. The mate nav
igated the vessel, and was in every
way an intelligent and competent officer.
! I never dreamed that wo were uot pro
seeding on our course as rapidly and
as safely as the ship could be sailed,
until I, one day, saw the mate chalk
certain figures on a board and hold
them up to the sight of a passing ves
sel. Her people immediately answered
by displaying a series of totally diffe
rent figures, the sight of which elicited
ahearty oath from the mate who said: “I
knew our chronometer was wrong, but
when the odd man is sober enough to
talk, he swears a hlue streak if I say
anything about it.”
My newly awakened suspicions that
wc were not in the most enviable situa
i tion were unexpectedly verified that
same night. T had not lolt well dur-
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
ing the day, and, soon after dark wont
to my state-room, which was in the
house on deck, and laid down to my
berth. Presently l heard a voice from
the deck close to my room. Of course
I ought not to have permitted myself to
hear—for listening is not the proper
term to apply to my involuntary share
in the confidence which the second mate
was bestowing upon Miss Ellis—but I
could not easily help myself.
They had evidently been talking
somewhere else, and had sheltered
beneath the lee of the house is order to
continue their conver in unmolested.
Mr. Jones was speakr * when I first be
came aware of their close proximity to
me.
“I’m agoin’ to tell you this,” he said,
“because you’re not like the other wo
men that’ll holler and raise Ned the
minute they think there’s any danger.
You’re brave, if I know what’s brave
in a gal—aud I ought to by this time.
I want you not to say a word about this
to yer father, for it ain’t tny business to
tell passengers anything; but the fact
is we may go ashore any time to-night,
and I want you to be ready.”
“Go ashore to-night!” she cried joy
fully; “O, that is too good! Why, I
thought wo were a hundred miles from
land.
“You don’t git my mcauin’,’’ he re
plied. “What I mean to say is this
the mate’s chronometer is all wrong.
He and I’ve suspicioned it for a week
back, and to day we got the longitude
from the bark you was a lookin’ at, and,
if they was right, we’re close on the
coast.”
“And what of that! Shan’t wo get
home all the quicker?” she asked, gay
ly.
“Don’t you understand ?” he answer
ed. “The old man—the captain I mean
—is gittin’sober, and he's told his mate
not to change his course, or to take a
r.g off her. First we know, we’ll run
slan on to Hatteras beach; and if it
comes on to blow—as it’s agoin’ to, sure
—we’ll go to lie—ll so quick that the
old man won't-get a chance to get drunk
again.”
“Do you moan that wc are in dan
gar she asked in a lower tone.
“Yes, I do; but don’t you get fright
ened. Mebbe we’ll go through the
night all right; but if we don’t and any
thing does happen, come straight to mo.
I’ll be on deck, and I’ll lay down my
life for you, Miss Mary, God knows!”
She asked him quickly: Why do you
mind what the captain says, if he is not
sober ? Why don’t you and Sir. Cas
well (the mate) do what you think
best ?’
He laughed grimly. “I’ve been to
sea, Miss—man and boy—for twenty
years, and I never yet went again’ my
superior officer’s orders. The old man
says drive her, and that’s the end of it.
If he drives her ashore, it’s his own
lookout; and, if it want’s for you, I wish
he would. When he loses a ship or
two, m<ibbe his owners will get sober
men to navigate for ’em.”
“I am not afraid, Mr. Jones,” an
swered the girl, ‘lf we are wrecked, I
will do just as you tell me. You can’t
think how It 1 auk ou for telling me
the truth.”
Mr. Jorc.s was quiet for a moment,
and I heard her dress rustle, as though
she turned to go. “Wait a bit, if you
please, Miss,” said the mate: “I want
to say one word to you.”
After a pause, he begap: “Miss Mary,
you’ve no need to tell me what I am;
as one of them old chaps that’s in the
cabin with you did, once, since we’ve
been out o’ port. I know jest what I,
am, better’n you and be could tell me
if you try your best and keep it up,
right on end, for a week. I’m am ig
norant brute, that ain't fit to touch
your dress—let aloue vour hand. Ido
my duty when I’m at sea, and get
drunk and play ho—ll when I m ashore
—and that's all there is of me. But,
you see, I never had no bringin’ up. I
don’t even know who ray mother was;
and I’ve been kicked around at sea ever
since I’ve been big enough to know the
end of a uiarlinspike I aiu’t so bad as
some of the sailors thinks lam; but
I’m a hundred thousand fathoms below
you. All I want to tell is jest this.—
There’s never a man among all the lot
you’ve kuowed that could begin to love
you as I do. For God’s sake, don’t
look afeared of me. I ain’t such a fool
as to think that you could ever kecr a
straw for me; but I can’t help telliu’
you how true and honest I love you.—
I’d die happy for you, Miss Mary, even
if I knowed you’d never think of me
again. I never meant to tell you this!
aud I’ll never say another word about
it. But, my God ! when I think of how
I love you, and how there’s fifty thou
sand Atlantic oceans between us, I get
wild. I’ve thought of it some nights,
iss, till I couldu’t bear it any longer,
and I’ve jest jumped forward and gono
to lickiu’ the sailors, to keep from goin’
crazy, and ”
“Mr. Joues! Mr. Jones!” came the
sharp call of the captain, cutting short
the poor fellow’s coufession.
“Ay, ay, sir!” he answered and went
to meet his sober, but by no means sane
commander; “Why haven’t you got
the to’gallants’ls set sir? Didn’t I
tell you to give her all she’d carry. ’
“The fore-to’ gallant yard’s a little
sprung, air, and I wasn’t sure of its
bearin’ the sail,” answerod Mr. Jones.
“I’ll do the thinking for this ship,
Mr. Jones—if you’ve no objection” re
turned the captain. “Set the fore and
ruizzen-to’ gallants’ls, and don’t you
start a sheet until I give you word.”
The top gallant sails were sheeted
home, and the yards hoisted. The
wiud, which had been blowing strongly
all day, and freshened as the sun set,
was now blowing a stiff gale from the
eastward. The ship staggered and
plunged under the pres 9 of canvas. The
captain walked the deck with a quick
nervous step. He was intensely irri
table, from the effects of his long d
bauch, and though quite sober, was
goaded by his unstrung nerves into a
reckless impatience that found relief
only in the driving of his ship to the
uttermost of her capabilities, I listened
with uneasiness to the bowling of the
wind through the riggiug, and debating
the question, whether to go to sleep, and
to forget the danger we were in or to
go on deck and make myself uncomfort
able by watching for the disaster which
I apprehended. My decision was quick
ened by a sudden order from the cap
tain. “Mr. Jones, set tho main-royal.”
“Set the main-royal, sir ?” repeated
the astonished seoond mate, in a doubt
ing tone.
“Set the main-royal, sir. Do you
hear ?” roared the captain. “Loose all
three of them, and set thorn instantly.
If you don’t know how to sail a ship
with a fair wind I’lDshow you.”
Mr Janos hesitated no longer. In a
few moments tho royals were spread to
the gale; but before the yards were
trimmed I was on deck.
Miss Ellis had disappeared, and the
second mate was evidently averse to
conversation. I noticed thaf a man
lingered near the mizzenrigging after
the rest of the watch had gone forward. 1
So, too, did the oaptain, who walked
abruptly up to the sailor, and demand
ed to know what be was waiting for.
Mr. Jones ordered me to stand by
the lanyards, sir,” answered the man.
“Go forward 1” yelled the captain.
“Mr. Jpues, I want you to understand
that when Ijm on deck I can sail this
ship without auy of your interference.
Let me see any more of it, and I’ll put
you in irons for mutiny; by G—!”
Poor Mr Jones gave no answer. Hjm
self the most intolerenf and cruel of dis
ciplinarians, ho did Dot resent the rating
of his commander. When that amiable
officer turned away, his subordinate
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passed over the other side of the deck,
and leaned quietly against the bulwarks.
An hour passed away. It was a star
less night, and to the danger of running
ashore was added the other danger of a
possible collision with some passing ves
sel. I thought of this; and was just
about to pick my way forward, to satis
fy myself that the lookout was not
asleep, when the second mate suddenly
placed his hand to his car and bent
forward, as though listening intently.
In anotLer moment a sharp, piercing cry
rang from the forecastle— “ Breakers
a' ead!”
“Let go yer royal and to'gallant hal
yards, fore and aft P roared the second
mate. “Stand by yer top sail halyard.
Man the port braces, some of us ; and
stand by to slack the starboard brace ß
Cull all hands. ’Bout ship !”
But, while the light sails were yet
fluttering in the caps, and before the
yards could be swung, so as to change
the vessel’s course, she struck heavily,
bows on—the main fore top-gallant
masts going over the side, and drag
ging the miz7.entop-mast with them—
At the same moment,an enormous green
sea boarded us on the quarter, sweeping
away the wretched captain, several of
the crew, and the first mate,who was on
deck a few minutes after she had struck.
Luckily, I was too far forward to re
ceive the full force of the wave, and, as
soon as the decks were clear of water,
Mr. Jones made his way to my side,
and said, “Go below and bring the V*
forrard lo the fo’castlc. Steady, now ;
aud don’t get yourself overboard.”
By narrowly watching our opportu
nity, Dick, Miss Ellis, her father and
myself managed to gain the forecastle.
Mr, Jones, bareheaded, was busy super
intending the cutti jg away of the masts,
and the clearing of the wreck. Re
lieved from the weight of her topham
pei the ship rose somewhat, and drove
farther in upon the sand- The seal
boarded us less frequently but the
ship pounded on the beach with a vio
lence which placed her in immediate
danger of breaking up.
When lip had done what lie could
for our momentary safety, Mr. Jones
called the crew, and sjud :
“If any of you want to try the lg>at
you can do it. I shan’t. You oan’t
b: no.more use here, but it’s the saftest
place for you. However if yo wjsnt
the boat, I won’t stand in youp w^y."
“We’ll take the boat, Mr. Jones,”—
replied one of the men. “She’ll,gp,tf,
pieces in half an hour, and you’d better
come with us.”
“Not I,” returned the second mate;
“I dpu’t take no bpating excursions in
this weather. Wear away the boat if
you want to, and good luck to you.”—
And then turning to the passengers, be
continued : . “If you’ll take my advice,
you’ll stop aboard. She’ll last, some
time yet, but them fellows in the boat’ll
be swamped in ten minutes.”
“Wo stay with you,” said Mary,
walking up to Mr. Jones, and placing
her little hand in his rough paws.—
That settled the question for hpr an and
rest of us.
The men cleared away a leaky boat,
that lay bottom upward on the amjd*
ship, and casting off, vanished in the
darkness. Mr. Jones told us to keep
where we were, while he went aft fyr*,
moment.
We watched, him,,cautiously working,
his way aft to the wheel-house, which
was still standing. Presently, be
came in sight again carrying a life-buoy.
We knew for whom it was intended.
!Ejut just as he bad nearly passed bg*.
yond the line of danger, fye was struck,
by a mighty wave that toje him from,
his hold and dashed: him, against the.
stump of the raaiemnst. Receding,
wave left, him clinging to a, bolt, but,
unable to rise. Dick and.! I dragged’
him forward, and,(laidhim with bis head*
in Mary’s lap., Tfao brarp follow,.kadi
nover lost his hold of the life preserver.
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