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rART TWO.
A HIDDEN FOE.
A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY.
By G. A. HESTY,
Author of “THE CURSE OF CARNE’S HOLD,” “GABRIEL, ALLEN, M. P.” ETC., ETC.
[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED .]
CHAPMER XVIL
At 12 o'clock the party had in the boat
their first meal. It consisted of tinned meat
and biscui's, and there was a small keg of
rum afand each sailor received his half a
pint of water with a tiny measure rum in it.
The male passengers had the s ime, w die
for the ladies the kettle was set to work and
tea made. As the enginee had stowed away
two tins of preserved milk with the tea,
nothing was wanting. There were but two
cups, one of which was allotted to Constance
and Annette, and the second to the other
two women.
“I think, Mr. Solden, that I could manage
to rig up a sort of p irtition, six feet from
the stern, for the Indies. Two of them can
sleep upon the sheets and the other two in
the bottom of the boat. If we lengthen the
tiller lines a bit we can staar forward of
that.”
“It will be a very good plan if you could
manage it, Mr. Brown; but I doubt whether
you will find It easy, as we have no hammer
or nails.”
“I can cut the two uprights from one of
the bottom boards, and by jamming the end
in behind these stringers and cutting
notches for them to go Into they will be
pretty steady. I hive got a pocket knife
with endless contrivances. Among them is
a gimlet, and by making a couple of holes
in the upper plank I can with a bit of lash
ing fasten the upright perfectly firm and se
cure. When they are done it only needs a
line across the top and a ru j thrown over it.
Then when the Indies like to be alone they
can have the screen, and can take it down
when they cho.se to give us the pleasure of
thair company.”
“Capital,” Mr. Solden said, while an ex
clamation of gratitude broke from the
ladies.
Philip got up one of the bottom boards
and with his great jack-knife cut off two
strips three inenes wide and three feet and a
half long.
They would look better if they were not
so wide,” he said, “but that is no great con
sequence, but it is necessary to have the m
s long, or the wind would he too much for
them when we get the rag on. Now, Mr.
Uiffai and, do you cut a notch in your side just
the width of this strip and I will do the
same here.”
Half an hour’s labor and two notohes
were cut, and the supports when fitted in
these jammed firmly behind the stringers
seemed fairly stable.
“Now for the lashing,” Philip said, and
taking down his strip ne made two holes
through the upper part of the plank of the
boat, and then handed the gimlet to Mr.
Gifford to do the same on his side.
“Now, before we put them up, lash
them, and we we will make three holes at
the top.”
“What do you want three holes at the top
fori” .Ylr. Solden asked.
“One for tne oord to carry the rug, the
other two for stays. If we make a couple
of holes one three feet forward ana the
other three fe t aft we can then stay them
so that they will be as firm as posts.”
When the contrivance was finished it was
pronounced perfect. The rug was hung up
and two holes cut through it for the yoke
lines to pass. 0 e of tne boxes was placed
in the middle for a seat for the helmsman,
and the other three men sat in the bottom of
the boat.
“Tn? wind is freshening,” Mr. Solden said
in a low tone to Philip, “lain afraid e are
in for a big gale. You see it is heading us
already and we can't lie our course now
Wea; e two points off it,” he added, as he
looked down the c impass between his feet
“1 don’t so much mi and the gale, for she is a
capital sea boat, and th mgn she would be
better if aha were a couple of inches higher
out of water 1 have no fear of her liv.ng
through it. What I am afraid of is that
we may be blown altogeiber out of our
course. It may blow from all points of the
compass before it is done, and there will be
notmng for us to do but to run before it—
there is no lying to with a boat of this rig.
“If we are once blown away from the
island we may have a bad time of it. It is
some six hundred miles to Batavia, which
lies a little to the northeast of the point
where we abandoned I he ship.
“We have gotprovisio se iough onboard
to last with care for a mont .but I don’t
thins the water would hoi 1 out for any
thing like that time if we get hot weather,
(if course, we m ght be picked up, but the
sea is wide, and there is not a very great
deal of traffic upon it. I hope and trust we
make the Keelings.”
Toward night the wind rose and it was
blowing a gale. The sail had been reefed
now,i to tne smallest dimensions, and before
k all the b ;ats had bee i put dead
Delore the wind, and for some time the ian
tein in the jolly boat could be see \ when
ever they upon a wave. It was deiicate
work steoring,as it was necessary to keep the
boat dead beore f hefol.owing waves w.iich
would have filled her in a a instant had she
or ached to.
Before night had quite sat in the la lies
ned bee i trade as comf irtable as possible,
•o.ista oc had taken the seat on her si te.
Annette preferring t lie at the bottom < f
t e boat. All bad |le ,ty of wra s, as this
had bean strongly impressed upon them,
Mid -vhen they had been strongly impressed
kp'rn them, and whe i they had lain down a
n -|tf was tucked over them extendi g right
S'toss tee boat and complete.y sbu ting out
the whirl of the storm outside.
The light is fain er than it w s,” Philip
mu, as at midnight ho handed over tne
naes to the engeneer. “I think the j >liv
boat ts going fas er than we are aud is
gradually getti gout of sight.”
i 'hatis like enough; she has a lot more
am and can stand more .sail than we
sve Do you thiuk we could show a little
more?”
J'} don,t thlnk so,” Philip said. “As
aeiy as not we should carry the mast
way, and then we should b ouch to iiefore
7 9 .c0u1d get out oars. It will be far better
mice the otber boats than to run that
(bk, especially now as w 6 are altogether off
mr course aud are running nearly due east,
‘nave j U t struck a vesuvian to have a look
at the compass.”
As soon as morning broke Mr. Solden and
j-uinp io ktd round anxiously for the otuer
“cats, but eveu upon the top of a wave no
was visible
“There is no saying where they are,” the
engineer said. “Some mat ne in front of
*?P e ‘“bind, or they may he on one
nd or the other. When you are sailing
Übe iUfifning
close hauled boats will all travel about the
same line, but in running they will soon
scatter. One may carry her sail to port,
and the other to starboard, and as long as
they are ful. you cannot tell on a dark
night whether vou a e a point or two off
the win J or not. Well, it cannot be
helped, bat 1 wish we could have kept to
gether.”
For three days the gale continued, blow
ing in turns on all points of the compass.
The sea was a terri le one, and half the
men by tur is were kep . bailing, the empty
meat tins serving well for tue purpose. All
on bond were we to the sain day aud
night from the spray that dashed over them,
though Phi,ip's two waterproofs spread
over the women kept much of the water
from the n.
“I think it is nearly over,” Philip said on
the fourth morning. "Tne clouds seem
breaking up.”
"Yes, I think the worst is over. Thank
God for it. I thought several times yester
day that the end was come.”
“So did 1," Puillp agreed; “I thought
nothing could have saved her onoe or twice;
but she is a splendid sea boat.”
An hour later he got up, and said
cheerily:
“Ladies, you can look out now; thestorm
is breaking, and we shall have the sun out
in a minute or two.”
There was a movement among the mass
of wraps. Constance was the first to sit
up.
“I do not see much charge,” she said,
looking round, “the waves are as high as
they were yesterday. 1 peeped out then for
a minute or two, but it was too terrible to
look at.”
“It will he some hours before the 3ea be
gins to go down, but look, there is the sun,”
and as he spoke the clouds oleare 1 away aud
the sun burst out from among them.
“Tnat is better, indeed,” Constance said.
“Get up, Annette, here is the sun out. You
will soon get warm aud dry now. There,
let me pull you up.”
“IT you will pass mo the kettle and
spirit lamp I will make you some tea, Con
stance.”
“Indeed, you will do nothing of the
sort,” Constance said. “You and Mr.
3olden have been working for us for the
last four days. It is hard indeed if wo can
not m nage to boil some wuter for our
selves, nr rather for you, for I shall insist
that you lake the first cups. Now put up
the rug. phase, while we tidy ourselves up
a bit.”
They were indeed four dishevelled look
ing women. Fr three days and nig .its
they had been covered up, expecting ins.ant
death, wetted by the spray which in spite of
waterproof and wraps found it* way in.
Thrice in e ich day they had had a ration of
biscuit and meat passed to them, and water,
qualified with brandy from Philip’s flask,
which they received peremptory orders to
drink. But the heat of the sun speedily re
vived them. Handbags were opened, and
combs and brushes taken out, and by the
time the water was boiling they looked
comparatively fresh and bright Tremen
dous as the sea still was, it had lost its terrors
for them.
Constance kept to her determination.
Mr. Holden and Philip had to driuk the first
cup of hot tea. Then the four women par
took of it, and by the time they had done
the k ittle was boiling again, and Mr. Gifford
and his companion were served. The kettle
was kept at work until all the crew bad
been provided with a pannikin of hot grog.
By midday the wind bad dropped greatly
and the sea was sensibly calmer. The sun
had not again been obscured, and his pow
erful rays Had completely dried all the wet
clut .es, and with a re ewed sense of
warmth and comforts the spirits of all rose,
and even the woebegone looking Lascars,
who had lain almost wi.nout moving
through the gale, began to look cheerful,
while the Seedy boys, in a group forward,
cha ted and laughed in higb glee. The
screen had long since been taken down.
“ Where is this island, Mr. Solden? You
said two dav a id a half, and it is now more
than tour tlays since we left the ship. We
ought to have been there long ago. I am
sure we have been going fast enough,"
“You are asking m re than I can tell
you,” the engineer said. “We have been
going east, west, north and south, to say
nothing of the other points of the compass,
and I ha e no more idea where the islands
are than the man in the moon. You see, my
business is to drive a ship along but not to
navigate it, and even if l were u navigator
I could do nothing without a quadrant or
sextant.”
“Then do you mean to say that wo are
quite lost, Mr. Holden.” Constance asked in
dismay.
“Well, it is not so bad as that. We have
got our compass, and we know where i bouts
Java lies, and we bave n w got our head
in that d.reetion. Java is a big island, y u
see, and we are sure to bit it. We may
not hit it jus; at the port we want to find,
which is Batavia, but wo are safe to strike
it soraewuere, and must coast along until wo
do find a port. But 1 hope that wo shall be
picked up long before we are there. You
see all the shipping between Australia an l
India comes somewhere along in the line
wt.ere we are, and it will bo hard if we
dou’t in mage to get sight of something or
other before long.”
“I wiff set to work and pack these things
a litt e more ship shape,” Philip sud, “they
have shifted a bit, during tne gaie.”
Ho saying he again packed the barrels of
biscuits and cases of preserved meat, wmch
were piled across the boat just aft of tne
stro e oars thwarts, forming a s >rt of low
barrier between the passengers ind the
crew. Be.ween the nex: thwarts were four
eighteen gallon barrels of wtter.
‘’Just tap them with that toole pin, Mr.
Brown.” The first tapped was the one in
use, which was already three parts em ty.
The next two gave a h irasou and. “Full to
the bung,” Mr. Solden said approvingly,
but as Philip struck the fourth he uttered
a i explanation of dismay. “Empty, by
thnudehare, take the helm.”
He threw the rudder lines into Mr. Gif
ford’s hands aud sprung forward.
“ Wuat has happened?” he asked.
“Id >n’t know,” P .ilip sal i, “here is the
bungbole at the top all right.”
Tue engi eer passed his hand along the
barrel, the hoops atone end were loosed.
“ There is the mischief,” he said. “It may
have been they were loose before they filled
them, it may be that as the boat rolled
these two ca.lu may have bumped a bit
eaca time. However, there it i*; it has
allowed the staves to open a little, and
every drop is lost. This is a most un ortu
nate affair, Mr. Brown, most unfortunate.
Our supply before was short enougu in ail
c > scienoc, and the lews of tbis water may
cost us all our lives. You see, we bave git
now only thirty-fix gallons, and say eight
gallons m the cask we first broached—forty
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1890.
four gallons. There are twenty-two of us
fo that gives us two gallo s of water
ap ece, eight quart*. Sup;* so we allow a
pint each, .hat is only six een days* water.'*
“S.xteen days will take us to Java,”
Phiup said.
Ah, with favorable winds ten would
do, or even eight; but sup Dose we have
calns?”
What, then? Would it be best to trv
and find these island*?”
The engineer shook his head decidedly.
i bave not an idea of i heir position,”
be said. “My opinion is, as far as I have an
opinion, that we are not ve y far fr m the
point we started from. But that is little
more than guess work. Blown about as
we we were tor three day*, and running all
the time some seven or eight knots an hour,
1 don’t believe that any sailor could spot
our place on the chart within a hundred and
fifty tales. As it is. we know that we are
going in the right direction and that we
cannot be very far out of the course of
ships. I think our position is a bad one,
any how; but our best chances lie in holding
on our present course.”
‘That is settled, then,” Philip said.
Y\ bat do you say? Shall we say anything
abou the barrel being empty?”
“They know it forward already,” the en
gineer leplied. “Tuey know the difference !
bet ween a full and empty cask as well as I !
do, aud in any case I would have told them !
so as to i eeoncile them to being put on such
short allowance of water. lam afraid we
shall bave difficulties with them before we
bave done. I have my revolver in my coat
pocket, 1 always had it hanging in my
cabin, and I knew that on such a voyage as
this it might come in useful.”
“I have a revolver, too,” Philip said.
“I am heartily glad to hear it. You and
I with revolvers can keep all those fellows
at a distance.”
The very i ext day the number of mouths
was reduced by one. Oue of the passe gers
was making the voyage for the sake of his
health. Ho was iu a weak state when they
left the ship, and the three days and nights
of incessant wet had exhausted the rem
nant of his strength. After drinking the
hot tea in the morning he had lain in the
bottom of the boat with his eyes closed. Mr.
Solden, looking at his face had said to
Phil p, “I am afraid that poor young chap
won’t last long.”
They had from time to time given him a
little brandy and water, but he was scarce
able to swallow it.
Just as night came on Philip, beudmg
over him, touched his arm. He started
and put bis baud over.the young fellow’s
heart and lisenedfor his breathing.
"He is g. ne,” be said in low tones to Mr.
Solden; “don’t say anything ab ut it now.
It will be a shock to the ladies. Let him lie
where he is, and we can drop him over
board after dark. There are no means of
burying him."
“And no occasion, poor young chap,” the
engineer said. “It will make r,o difference
to him whether he sinks down in a ham
mock with a shot at his feet or whetner he
floats awhile. I don’t think in any case he
had many weeks to live. I noticed him
soveral times on the way down, and it
seemed that he was losing strength fast in
stead of gaining it.”
Tne body was quietly put overboard dur
ing the night, aud in the morning Philip
took the news to the ladies that one of the
number was gone.
Another week had passed, and as if the
wind had exhausted itself during the three
days’ gale, it had dropped into a dead calm,
and the sail had been lowered and the oa.-s
got out. There had been great discontent
on the part of the Lascars and Heedy boys
when they were informed that the allow
ance would te cut down to a pint a day,
for the sun blazed down with tremendous
power, and as soon as they took to the oars
they began to suffer severely frofn thirst.
Two of the Lascars and one of the Seedy
men understood English, and Mr. Solden
explained to them they had certainly six
hundred miles to go, and that unless they
happened to strike at the right point their
distance might lie considerably increased.
“We shall not do more than fifty miles a
day at the utmost,” he said, • ’though we may
do over that the first two or three days;
but we cannot rely upon it, so that we shall
anyhuw be t*el ve days, and unless we hit
the right point at first may be several days
more than that. We are a strong crew.
There are fourteen of you and only eight
oars to ma i. These two gentlemen and
myself will take it by turns to row, so that
we shall have a full relief, and can change
every four hours. We will ad
all rest for four hours in the
middle watch, which will give us all
eighth urs sleep at night. We shall wane
ihat to keep our strength up. If you are
patient, and you do your duty, we shall all
be save I. At any rate, you will have to
obey orders and do your bekt. The first man
that mutinies I shall put a bullet into his
heed.”
Ho the work began; but alth ugh for the
first two days something like fifty miles a
day was made, t.fis distance then beg in to
fall off rapidly. The boat was laden with a
number far beyond her proper burden, and
rowed heavily. The heat was exhausting,
and the wa t of water cold terribly on the
men.
The Lascars, by no means a strong race,
succumbed rapidly.
“ They are no good for ha-d work,” the
engineer said, contemptuously. "They do
welt e iougn for washing t,e decks of a
steamer, but that is about ail they are fit
for. Tne fellows have got no backin iei.
If you wero t • take one of these fellows by
ihe feet, Mr. Brown, and 1 were to take him
by the head, just as you would wring liuea,
I believe we could twist hi m up into a rope.
Those Heedy boys are worth three of them
when it comes to work.”
Fortunately, among the stores put on
board was a good stock of tobacco, and the
negroes when not at work sin ked inces
santly. Philip had also brought a large
ca lister, aid kept his pipe going, except
wne i at t..e oar.
"I envy you,” Mr. Gifford said “My
mouth is a* drv as a furnace as it is, if I
were to try and sino >e it would choke ne.”
“Ho it would me,” the engineer said, “I
like a pipe and a glass of gr< >g together, but
I could no more smoke with this sua pouring
down upon me than I cou.d fly.”
“It is quite the contrary with me,”
Philip said. "I am na. cr thirsty when I am
smoking, and even now Ido not feel any
great w ant of water.”
The ladies suffered ess. Philip bad on the
first day that the sun came out with full
po ver erected two wooden nine uo is iu
t e stern of the boat similar o those be bad
before made, and over these and the othe s
he fixed a large rug like a i awning. Hit
ting the. e quietly, and free from the labor
of ihe oar, they suffered less than the men,
but at tne time time they felt tne heat
greatly, and the fact that they knew that
until evening they oould get no water in
creased their thirst.
By Puihp’e advice Annette and Oou
etauce, instead of drinking their allowance,
wnich was made into tea night aud morn
ing, s akei their uiscuits in it, and so to >k
it gradually, keeping the tea tnat was not
aopp-d up. aud contenting thems Ives when
tuirsty by dipping a corner of their hand
ke. caiefs in o this aid sucking it. The
oc er two worn n.however.ha 1 n <t the same
se t-control, Outdrank off tne r p rtious as
soon as they received them, refusing even
to wait until they were made into tea. One
of tnem was from the first verydesp >nden ,
and was const intlv expr wing tier convic
tion tnat they would never see laud. She
presently sank into a state of dull de .pair.
“That woman will die unless we increase
her allowanc?," Philip said one evening to
the engineer.
•'Then sue must die, Mr. Brown,” be re
plied, sternly. “She is infinitely belter oIT
t an the men, or than we are, who have to
work ten hours a day at the oar. Ail our
lives are ilepeude t up m making our store
of water last. If she ch se to be patient
and quiet, as Madame Renand and her niece
are, she would do as well as they do; b t,
whether or uot, I am resolved that toe al
lowance shall not be exceeded by any one.
The water is common property, and if one
has more, the others have a right to have
more, too.”
On the ninth day after leaving the ship
the woman died. She was wrapped in a
rug. some lashing put round it, and was
lowered ove board in the sea.
The i .as ars now absolutely refused to
work longer, and several of the negroes
were wholly unfit for the lab r.
“What do you think, geutlemeu? Is it
worth wtiile to bring on a light over this!
If I thought there was a chance of reac.i
mg land before the water was gone I would
say ‘make them pull;’ but I don’t see there
is a chance of that. The last thres and iys we
have otdy been crawling along; we have
not made twenty knots a day on un average
since we began rowing. Two or three of
the Seedy boys have rowed fairlv, but the
rest have only just dipped their oars in and
taken them out agai.i. We had three
chances at first, one has gone. We have
but two left—one is that the wind may get
up and take us along, the other that a ship
may pick us up.”
“I agree with you, Bolden”—for in the
companionship of oonunou danger they had
become Soldeu and Pbiiipto each other, for
the latter had winced whenever he was ad
dressed by the name he had a sumed, and
hail ask.d the eDgiueer to oall him by bis
christiafl name instead. "I ha . e been think
ing for the past two days that we might as
well give up the rowing, for we could uever
get there in time. It we had as many
Englishmen oil board as wo have these fel
lows, we should have reached land by this
time.”
“Ay, perhaps we should; but I don’t
know. Thirst takes a terrible lot out even
of the strongest men. But we must look
out now, Philip. When they have once
given up rowing they will take to talking,
and we are pretty sure to have trouble.
You see, argument is not much good to a
man half mad with thirst. You may tell
him that if he is content to suffer a bit and
hold on, be gives birnself a fair chance of
Leing picked up. That is true enough; but
his view is, ‘X am dying of thirst. I may
as well die to-morrow as a fortnight hence.
Let me have oue big drink first.’ Well, if
they won’t work they must drink less. I
think, Philip, we ought to reduce the ration
to half a pint. We have got, I calculate, a
gallon a man left. That will give us sixteen
days, and even in these regions we may cal
culate on having a breeze before that. Be
sides, we have another ground for hope.
Some of the other boa’s are pretty sure to
have got separated from the rest, aud will
obey orders and make fur Batavia, and if
one of them gets there the Dutca are sate
to send out a steamer at ouco to search for
the rest.
“Yes, that is so,” Philip said. "I am
sure, as far as I am concerned, I can do
with half a piut of water, now there is n >
more rowing to be done, as well as X could
with a pint when I was workups away all
day in the sun. Besides, I
wonder we haven’t thought of it hef re—
the meat might help us: we haven't duelled
a tin now for the last six days, for nobody
would touch the last, but I "think that if
small quantities were served out it would no
to chew even if we could not s allow it.
There is a certain amount of moisture in
moat and it would give us strength too to
hold out."
"Yes, it is much the best plan," the en
gineer said. “I will tell the men that as
there will be no more rowing, and we can
rig up a sort of awning witti the sail and
shall only have to lie quiet all day, that I
shall reduce the ration to half-a-nint, and
that will enable them to hold out for nearly
three ’vee-s, and we are pretty sure to ge
the wind before that, even if we are not
picked up by the search steamers which
may bo sent out to look f. r us. But mind,
there is pretty sure to be a row. so keep
your pistol handy."
The engineer stood uo and informed the
meu of the determination that had been ar
rived at, and of their reasons for it. The
announcement that there would tie no more
rowing was received with sa isfaclion, but
there was a cry of dismay a id anger when
tuey understood the ration of waor was to
be reduced. There was a hasty consulta
tion among themselves, and then several of
them drew Knives and were about to rush
aft, but the sig nt of two leveled revolvers
at once quelled their courage, and they
threw themselves sullenly into the bo tom
of the boat. They roused themselves, how
ever, when Mr. Soldea oriered them to
Jower the sad and rig it up as an awning.
Tue yard was us and as a ridge poie, one e Id
being lashed ag dust, the mast and the other
supported by one of the lloor boards, eight
feec long, placed on end, and stayed to the
sides of the boat. Two oars wc.e cut in
half, and with t ese the sides of the awning
were stretched out.
All hands, including tho9enft, now poured
buckets of water over each other as they
had done several times a day since the ter
mination of the gale, as they thus obtained
considerable relief. The ladies had refused
to adopt tuis method.
“We are doing very well,” Constance
said. "Our clothes don’t dry as yours do,
and the discomfort would more tha i coun
terbalance the relief. We douche our h ails
two or three times a day, and keep our
bands and wrists bang! igover in the e ater,
ami I tnink tha dots us a deal of good.”
They had hea. and, in silence, the engine© -
address the men. “It is a hard thing to de
termine to ies-an our supply,” Fhiliu said to
them when rbe work of fixing the awning
was completed, “but 1 am sure it is the
best.”
“I should think so,” Constance said.
‘LVunette agreed with ms that we can do
with less water than wa have been having.
Itmu-thave be n terrible for you, work
ing so hard, but sittiug here quietly and
ta iug it so gradually it has been plenty for
Utf.”
The other woman had beard the an
nou icemeut with cries of a g lish, and
threw herself down in the bottom of the
and at, whore she was no w lying. Constance
looked duWn at her aud shook her head.
“Bhe v ould suffer no more tha i you do,”
Puilip said sternly, “if she would behave
as you do.”
lie nad for days been irrifatod by the con
stant complaints and outbursts of temper
on tier part. “If she will not behave as a
sen-ible being, she must suffer. She is no
w rse off than any one else, and I c nsitler
her conduct to be dis raceful. I saw her
snatch the cup out of your band this morn
ing before you baa finished it, and drink
the remainder, a id Bolden aud I bad de
termined that if she does anything of the
sort again we will send her fo. ward among
the natives, and you shan’t be annoyed by
her auy longer."
To Puliip tue change was a pleasant, one.
He bad between his spells of rowing been
too exhausted and too pai ched with thirst
to talk, bat he was now able to sit quiet aud
chat w.th the ladies.
Annette bore up w nderfuily well. She
bad aiwa s been of a conte tied dispositi .a,
and now did her best to keep up her spirit*
for the sake of Constance. Tue girl herself
was u foigoedly cheerful, in spite of the
h rdships hey were suffering she felt a
strong sense of happiness. Tbe cloud be
tween her and Philip had entire'y cleared
away. Bha saw bow lie oxer ©d ■ mireif to
keep up the spirits or the party, how
thougbtful he was for their comfort, aud
sho felt that n hatever had been the tem -n
--rary effect of the words she had spoken to I
him that his feelings t iward her wore un
changed.
Mr. Gifford was a light-hearted young
man and did his share in keeping up con
versation, and many a laugh rose from the I
Stern of the boat, siartli g the men forward, j
who muttered angry assertions to each
other that the passengers must have got a
secret store of water of their owu. They
had kept nigut aud dav a watch upon the
cask and were assured that it was never
touched except when the rations were
drawn and served out night aud morniug
ill equal qua .titles t > all.
Iu the evening Constance always started
a hymn, the others j .ining in. After half
an hour’s singing, M -. Solden offe.ed up a
short prnyer tnat help might bo forthcom
ing, aud taat they might be saved from the
penis ihat surrounded them.
Forward there was for the most part
gloomy siiencc. Several of the men had
taken to drinking sea water, which, tnough
giving temporary r-l.ef, enormously in
creased their sufferings.
On the twelfth day of the voyage two of
the negroes became delirious and Jumped
overb ard, aud on the next day one of the
Lascars and another of the Seedy boys died.
Constano* implored Mr. Holden to in
crease the allciwa me of water.
“We can bear it, Mr. Solden, because we
are paiieut and became we know that we
are in God’s hands, but th< se p ior creatures
have nothing to sustain them."
“I am sorry for them, the engineer said,
“but they have the same chance of life as
we have, and I won’t throw away what
chances we have. It is possible to support
life on the allowance e have. If they
choose 1 1 throw uway their chance by their
own mad conduct fa drinking sea water,
they must do so; but they shan’t throw
awav ours. You agree with me, gentle
men ?”
“Entirely,” Philip and Mr. Gifford said
at once.
“You see, young lady,” Mr. Holden went
on, “they ought to suffer less than we do
instead of more, for they are accustomed to
a hot climate, und do not feel the heat as
we do.”
All this time a vigilant lookout had boon
kept for a sail, but the line of the horizon
remained unbroken, and one of the party
aft watched by night as well as by day
a rai nat auy sudden movement on the part
of the men forward.
On the fourteenth day Mr. Holden, stand
ing up to look round as usual, uttered an
exclamation of joy.
“I here is a dark line on the water to the
west,” he said. “Thank God, there is a
breeze coming. Now’, men," he said, cbeer
fully, “get down theawning, lash the sail
onto the yard and get it up. Mr. Gifford,
do you take my pistol, and I will go for
ward and lend a bund.”
In a few minutes the sail was hoisted,
though several of the crew were too ex
hausted to be able to assist.
It was another half hour before the
breeze reached them. It was verv light,
but sufficient to fill the sail and make the
boat move t irough tho water.
The ladies’ awning was also taken down
to enable them to get the fuli benefit of the
br. cze. For three or four hours the boat
glided al mg, and the spirits of the ere v
ioso, and they took their rations of water
with more cheerfulness than usual, and two
or three took a biscuit, though for the last
three days these had been untouched.
“I am afraid,” the engineer said, stand
ing up ou the boxes to get a wider view,
“that ne shall lose this little breeze before
long; but you must not be disheartened,
ladies, the change his set in, and we may
reply upon wind b-fore long.
By 12 o’clock the light ulr had entirely
died away. The disappointment of the
natives was extreme, and although Mr.
Holden tried to iai>e their spirits by the
same assurance that he bad given to tho
ladies, it was useless, Homs of the men
threw themselvesdown a’, the bottom of
the boat; otber* sat rocking themselves
backwards aud forward*, groaning and
crying at intervals.
"Pray give them an extra ration, Mr.
Solden,” (Jons auce pleaded. “You say we
may hopo for wind now, so surely we can
afford a quarter of a pint eaon.”
“Wei, I think we may,” the ofllo-r
agreed; “and we will put a spoonful of rum
in each allowance. I have teen keeping
that for bad weather, and we can spare it
verv well.”
There was a cry of joy from the men
when Mr. Holden announced that an extra
allowance would bo served out, and ono by
one they came forwaid and drank their gill
of weak grog; some tossing it off at a gulp,
others sipping it little by little. To three
men who wero too weak to raise themselves
Philip carried thair allowance, a* the men
could not he trus ed to pats it forward.
The rest of the day passed slowly, no signs
of another puff of wind in their vicinity
were to be seen, but Mr. Holden several
times made out light flaws of air in tne dis
tance ami ns*ufed them that there wa* every
prospect of wind bofore many hours were
over.
That night Philip kept the first watch,
from 8 o’clock to 12 o'clock, Mr. Holden
tne middle watch, aud at 4 o’clock Mr. Gif
ford took up the duty.
Two hours later Pnilip was aroused from
his siep by a loud cry aud a heavy fall.
Ha sprang to his leet. Tue naive* were
nouriiig ft. He took the situaiiun in at a
glance, Giff rd must h ive and zed on iris
watch, aud the natives bad seized tue oppor
tunity.
Tuey were headed by two of the Lascars,
the leadiug man had struck down young
Gifford, and with a bound had t iro him
self upon tle engineer. Philip saw his
kuife descend, just as Mr. H ddeu struggled
1 1 his feet, a das ho sank back again and
bis assailant lifted hi* hand t > * nke again,
Philip closed wi h him, gro*piug the arm
that held the knife with one hand. He
heard a screa n from Constance, who had
torn d>w tne rug that served as an awn
ing, and sprung to her feet, and he saw an
ntner Lascar with uplifted knife close upon
him.
By a desperate effort he hurled the man
witn whom he was struggling against tue
new comer (list us nls knife descended,
sending him s agiering back, and tue next
m nnent flung hi* assassin overboard. At
the seme i istant the engineer's revolver
cracked, aud tne second in m fell dead.
1 e sound recalled to Philip the weapon
in his poexet. In a mome it it wa* ou .and
two sharp reports sounded, aud the nearest
of the Heedv boys fell. Tue rest, witn a
yell for mercy, dropped ti vir knives and
turew themselves down. At this mo nent
Constance joi ed PhiLp,holding Mr. Holden's
revolver in her hand.
“It is all over now, Constance. I knew
ire should h.ve it sooner or taler. VV e shall
have no more trouble with tho-e ftllows.”
“You are wounded. Philip.”
“Tuere is no great harm and in,” he said.
“It is only a gssu o i the shoulder. I wish
it were uo worse w.th the other two. V\ ill
you stand here, dear, ou guard, while I can
Sue what can be do ie for them?”
Const nee nodded. Hhe was tre r bling,
and her col*r bad faded now t at tae
da ger had passed, though there bad been a
flusn in her c eek, and her baud was steady
as she took her place by the side of Philip.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Thz touxiatz keeper can he very popular If
he coooses His friend* are untolied.—New
Orleans Picayune.
hONbOV RriSBIP.
What a Woman tees In the Graet
Foggy City.
(Copyright.)
London, Oct. 27.—A new fad will en
slave London absolutely, but it must bave
time. “Marie llashki tseiTs Journal" has
run its wild course In New York and is be
ing forgotten. In London Miss Mathilda
Blind, its translator, has beeu reading se
lect ravings from it a 1 summer as an
enlivuntncutut “afternoo s’’an l“at homes,”
and the interest, at first as weak as tue ten,
has now steeped sufficiently to g>
well with the “gunpowder” brand
of the natural beverage. Mins Blind
hersrif is more interesting tan
her readings, which rouse such beiated eu
tiiusiasm. ihe mot .er of the strange young
Russian gave her a c ipy of the journal at
Nice in the autumn of ISB7, a.d she began
at onoe to exploit her find iu print, thus
“di covering” the frank aud fascinating
Marie. Hue has wntteu lives of George
Eiiot and Mine. R laud, and that oracle,
ihe L uidou Timex, bus praised her poems;
she considers “The A-cent of Man” her
crowning eflort, and her admirers qu de
Mr. Alfred Russell Wall ice as comparing
that ambitious epic of Darwinism with
“the glori ius poetry of Tennyson’s ’ln Me
morialin' ”
Mias Blind is a pretty woman. Iler
home is iu a pleasant spot far altove the
smoke of L mdon, almost at the top of
Primrose Hill. Ivy clusters about her
study windows, birds twitter aud trees
wave. Here she will tell you stories of
Mazzini, in wbose little room at Brompton
she used to ait as a child listening to bis
talk open mouthed. Hhe is oue of the
modern athletic women who shoulder knap
sacks and explore the wildest nook* of
Europe, untroubled by tiain* and time
tables. Hhe was 18 when she went through
the Bernese Oberland ou foot and alone.
You would hardly suspect her of those u i
conveutional rambles, when iu pale green
silk, a i iiHGlietic and decorous figure, she
decorously recites to an audience of de
corous um'rous Marie Bashkirfaeff’s very
indecorous utterances.
It is odd, by tho way, that the statement
should tie going tho rounds of the press tha.
the French government has just bought
Marie bashkirLeff’s picture, '‘The Meet
ing.” Iu poiut of fact, tuat group of etrnet
urchins lias hung for some time in a very
good position in the gallcrios of the Luxem
bourg, where it is always surrounded by
emulous girl copyists. The Luxembourg
ha i also a second picture by Marie Bash
kirtsetf, a sketch of her mother.
MMK. BLAVATSKV AND CO-OPERATIVE
HOUSEKEEPING.
IwnsoutatHt. John’s Wood the other
day, that pretty and quiet suburb of Lon
don where, in the novels of the day, the
beautiful and wiekat sirens who alie ate
weak husbands’ affections commonly live in
bijou resid -nces. Ht. John’s Wood has in
good truth oue strange household at present,
that iu which Mine. Blavatuky, grown
stoat, slouehy and elderly, s.ts down at
meat with chipper and chirpy Mrs. Cooper
Oakley, tha Uirton girl who goas in ior
theosophy aud millinery. The establish
ment of these strangely mated
spirits is conducted on the co
operative plan. Not that ths higb
priestess has the physical e iergy or tho
fashionable milliner the time for much soil
ing of hand* with dishwashing, but it has
s 'Billed good to tne ladlei of the Theosophi
es! Sooiety of London to experiment with a
sort of Brooke farm, where thasophioal
sweetness and lig t shall pervade tne at
mosphere. Home proteges it Mrs. Cooper-
Oakley—poor girl*, one or two of them
broken down i.o London shops—woman the
kitchen, Mrs. Annie Besant comes out to
tea and Mine, fllavatizy smiles. Hhe has
reason, for since leaving New York she has
reposed in oiover Holds. Mrs. Cuoper-Oak
loy has implied her with a good deal of
money, and seems likely to continue, mani
festing her faith in the same agreeable man
ner The Ht. John's Wood establishment is
a modest brick bouse buried in trees.
MRS. HENRY M. BTANLFI*.
Mr. Htauley takes the greatest interest in
hi* wife’* first book, winch, it is exiiected,
will appear at just about the tune the
couple laud in New York. It is owing to
his encouragement and practical assisla ice
iu arrangement t at the work has been
pushed fur>var.i since their marriage. Tne
material for “London f-treet Arabs” was
gathared aud much of it put iu snapo for
publication before Mr. Htanley’s re
turn from Africa. The illustrations
are as humorous os they are
clever. They exercise Mrs. Btnu
ley’s pencil in a field iu which a* D iroiby
Te inant she was peculiarly at home. The
wife of the famous explorer is looking very
pre- y ainco the return from the wedding
trio to Switzerland. Ilur cheek* are pink
and one would tal e bor to be very happy.
At a concert a week ago or thereabouts, I
found her much m re interesting than the
music, which wa* stupid. Hhe was a grace
ful figure iu blue aud silver, face alert and
expressive, responding quickly to every
emotion. She wore great pink roses at hor
bosom.
THE MELANCHOLY VICTORIA.
If the face is a cle to the feeliu,’s Eng
land’* queen mu*t be in melancholy mood.
Hho seems absorbed iu moody though s,
and when something attracts i or attention
she lif. s E r hea I with a start as if in mind
she had been far away. Her fa ta is habitu
ally spiri.li!**, dull. Hhe seems heavy.
When she drives nobody clioer* her, but tho
po pie stand silently t > un - side and a hat
■ r two is lifted to which she pays no atten
tion. The E igl sh princes and princ
esses are a rather melancholy looking lot
this autumn with the I’riiio* of Wales half
an invalid and blue a* a wbetst me, the
Princes* of Wales ditto, especia ly as to the
blues, the Priuoess Louise used up, the
Prince s Henry of Batlentmrg sober and
uot robnst, tne Duke of Clarence long-faced
an l la guid, ard the Duchess ot Fife so
delicate that when she appear* In public
she lxiks fitter 1 1 go to bod and have a cry.
K, P. H.
THINGS TO b AT AND TO WEAR.
Eleanor Kirk Telia 'Ahere to Get Bea
Mobb for Blancmange.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Ndv. I.—Several
letter* have been received from
ladie* who have not been able to
buy nice sea mo** for the blancmange
which they are anxious to try for the cure
of dyspepsia. An en erprislug young
woman who ha* had a good reason for being
wide awake aud busy, picked up last sum
mer from the coast of Khode Island moss
enough to supply a considerable dema. and.
Sue put* up tin* pure, beautiful and boil
ing s uff in 25 cents and SO cents and (1
package* and sends them all over tue coun
try. I purchase ail that I use from
this source, and my frteuus will
tie well and promptly served. Addre-s Miss
Mary Seaiuon, 870 Greene avenue, Brook
lyn, N. Y. lam glad to be able to give
this information, both on account of t .e
readers who want the moss and the plucky
y mug womau who gathered it. Sea tn <ss
blancmange makes one of the simplest
deserts that cau possibly be connected.
Molded in a fancy form, or cooled in small
cut, it is equally pretty. The addition of
powdered sugar and cream makes a dish fit
for the gads.
rAGES 9 TO 12.
BROWN BREAD AS V DIET.
A gentleman from Virginia writes ms
that he has been for four leeks on an ex
clusive diet of brow n bread for the cure of
dyapei sia, and lie thinks be is not so well
as when he com enc and. The bread was
made of grahum flour, and rye and Indian
meal, sweets: ed with molasses. He was
obli .ed to send “way down coast for the
rye meal.”
For an irritated and a ‘cnsltive stomach
nothing could I e w.iroe than (his kitid of
bread. The meal i* too rough, and the
molasses is pretty sure to produce fei menta
tion. It is a conglome atton and con—
spqu ntly very hard t ■ and g-st. This is the
staple bread of the New England farmer:
ad when eaten with w*-il prepared and
well baked pork and beau* is not bad to
take. But it is not so rice half an hoar
later u le-s one is possessed of a perfect
digestive apparatus.
A PALATABLE 801'P.
Tho bread-maker of one • f our first-clast
New York boieis who is obliged to cater to
the dysi eptic arid has a decided genius in
that way, gave me a recipe for a soup and
for roll < which 1 have found delicious and
strengthening. Take a pound and a half
of perieetly lean beef—fr m the roui d—
anil cook it until It is tender, with a pint of
lima beans. Have enough *at r to keep
the beans from burning, and cook slowly.
Add salt, a stick of celery and fur whole
clove*. W ben the beef is done, remove
without breaking. If possible, and then pat
the contents of the put through a colander.
Add to this milk enough to make
the soup a proper consistency, and heat
UP again. Berve in hot plate* with the
rolls made as fol.ows: One quart of flour
sifted three times, a little ra.'t, a tea spoon
ful of g until ited sugar, and wa: m milk in
which a FleisclimamTs yeast c-akc has been
ditsolved, and half u cup of sweet butter.
Rub the nutter into the sifted fl ur, und
make a soft dough. Cover anil let rise.
When very light odd the wi ll bouton white*
of two eggs, and sift in flour enough to roll
i ut. Roil into strips about as thick a* a
knife blade, and a quarter of a yard long,
Twirt two of throe together, place in well
buttered pans aud let rite again. The thin
ner there strips can tie rolled the better.
Bake in a quick oven. Of course
the roll is all crust, and so the
offensive and destructive wad* of
dough are entirely eliminated from the
delicacy. This semis like a greaX deal of
work, but it re dly is not. The rule can be
doubled, and the roll* can be beautifully
warmed up for a week. My frio dly Ino id
chef had used the whitesof twenty egg* in
his batch the mur ing ] called upon him. t
saw some of the rolls takoo out of the oven
and despaired of attaining such symmetry
in home manufacture. But those made in
my kitchen taste Just as well as tho chef’s,
though i must confess that the twists are
not quite so regular. But perfection will
como with pracuot).
Pt’LLBACK DRESSES.
A Charleston lady is much exercised
about "pullback*.” Hhe thinks (that?
drosses which are tightly drawn rack c.vor
tho figure are vulgar, aiid vet “if s ich cos
tumes are to be woru by Ihe beau mo rule"
sho feels that sue cann >t aif .rd to disrugnrd
the style. Huch a confession i* almost tod
puerile for a moment’* consideration, bat f
will answer that the attempt to rovile •
very inconvenient and 1 nmodest fashion
has this time boon attempted by the dent*
mondfi. This piece of nows was told me by
ono of Nsw York’* best designer*, wno wa*
in a position to know exaoily what h*
was laiki’g about. Tue simple, graceful,
light weight, short ski t is now the universal
favorite. There is more trimming round
the bottom of the skirt than has litoly been
noon, but this is entirely a matter of taat*
with the wearer. Demi train* are wor iat
eve ;ing receptions, and it is astonishing ta
sen how popular it has become even in oui*
in st fashionable dressin iking establish*
mom* for eve y dose lotion of nklrt to lie so
fastened about the waist a* to bang from
the shuulders, t .us relieving the hip* aud
abdominal organs from ail strain and
weight. Klenor Kirk.
CHANGES IN THE LOAD’S PRAYBBI
It* Evolution Through the Centurion
In the Matter of Language.
From the New York Commerrial Actrrrtiier,
The f Bowing will exhibit in our vernacu
lar specimen* of the Lord's Prayer at dif*
feront periods:
A. D. 1300.
Fader cure in here e. Halewd be thl
name. (Jome tbi kingdom. Thl wilie be
and m a* in heven and erthe (Jure e< hi dayes
broil geve us t -day. An 1 forgeva us uur
delta*, a* we forgeven our ilstt mres. And
lede us not into temptation. Bute delyver#
us of yvei. Amen.
A. D. 1380.
Oure fadir that art iu twunes halowid by
tbi name, thi kingdom come to, be thi wilie
do..e lu ertbe as in beune, give to us this
day our breed,ouir other substau ce.furgeue
to V* our dettls, as we forgone i to our det
touris, lede us ot into temptacioun, but de
lyuer us from yuel. Amen.
a. n. 1483.
Father our that art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name;thy kingdome oome to us; thy
wilie bo dune iu earth f * in he ive.i; on re
every days bred give u-; to-day; and forgive
us oure tre passe*os wu forgive .hem that
trespas* against us: aud lead us nut into
tuuiptutiouu, but deliver us from all evil
sin, amun,
a. p. 1334.
O cure father which art in heven. hal
lowed be thy name. Let tay kingd me
come. Thy wide be fulfil ed a* well in ertb
as yt in heven. Geve vs this daye oure
dayly breeds. Aid f >rgeve vs our tress
pasw s, even a* we forgeva oure tresspa sera.
And icade vs not into le notation, bat de
lyver vs from evell. For thyne is the kyng
dome and the power and the glorye tot
ever. Amen.
a. n. 1582.
Our Father, which ar t iu heaven, sancti
fied be tbv name. Lot thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done a* in hauveu, in earth
Give us t -day our s ipe substantial bread.
And forgive us our dettee. as we also for
give our detters. And lead us not into
t-mptntioD. But deliver us from evil.
Amen.
a. D. 1600.
Our father which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Iby will be dona
even in the earth as it is heaven.
Give us this day oar and ul/ bread.
And f irgive u* our de its, a* we also for
give our debtors.
And lead us not into tempta’io i but
deliver us from evil; for t.iine it thi ki ig
dom, a id the power aud the glory for ever.
Ame.i.
A* D. 1653.
Our father which art In heaven. H ill j wed
be tny name.
Thy kingd m oome. Thy will ba done la
earth as it is in heaven.
UL e ns this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debt*, as we forgive
our debror*.
And ie>d us uot into temptation but
deliver u* from eyil; for tbi e is the king
dom aad tne power and the glory for ever*
Amen.
The attempt to* make the constitution ol
North Dakota excldae a woman from the ofiles
of school superiut*ient of the state has bee*
abandoned. ‘
