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VOL. X.
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 1887.
OLD GRIDLEY’S
GHOST
•Why, Dunham, what’s the mat
ter? liow your hand trembles! Are
you siok?"
* No, not exactly.”
“W hat %ilB you then’ Speak out,
man. Have you been seeing a
ghost?”
‘To tell the truth, Maggie, I do
feel a little nervous this morning
I haven’t made a trip these twenty
years that I dreaded like this."
“Seen old Gndley again?"
“Yes."
“Pshaw! I thought that was it.
Haven’t you seen him a dozen
times before and nothing came it?’’
“This time he had his sextant.”
All this wss at the breakfast
table. Dunham was mate of the
Ore Fmo, making tri-moutbly
trips between Portland and San
Francisco. He had sailed thirty
years,been round the world twice,
been C iptain about six years, but
lost his ship and couldn’t get an
otner, and so wss glad to be First
Mate of ihe Oro Fino.
Dunham had a habit of seeing
ghosts, or, rather a ghost, for he
never saw but one; that was old
Gridley. Gridley was ma'e of the
vessel on which Dunham made his
first trip as a ship boy. That trip
was Dunham's first, but Gridley s
lasi Gridley had a passion for
beating ship's boys with a ropes
end. Gridley was taking an ob
servation with the sextant, and, as
the boy was passing him with a
bucket and swab, a sudden larch
of tbo ship threw him against the
mate Gridley seized a rope’s end.
and was belaboring the boy sound
ly when a boom, providentially left
loose, struck him and knocked him
overboard. Ever since that, on
numerous occasions Dunham had
seen Gridley s ghost—usually with
a rope’s end, bat sometimes with a
sextant. He had never been able
to see any particular fatality por
tended by the vision with the rope's
end He had teen it a dozen times;
and on some occasions, his best
luck bad seemed io tnllow the ap
parition. Not so when the ghost
with the sextant appeared. He had
seen this only twice—once, the
night before he fell from the fore
top and broke his leg; the other
time, the night before his ship was
ca-t away.
Last night was the third time.
He bkd waked up and found him
self lying on his back The room
was perfectly dark; it was also per
fectly still. Dunham could see
nothing and could hear noth'ng.
Nevertheless,ho felt that something
or somebody was in the room that
ought to be out of it He also
felt a draught of cold air. Dun
ham w»| no stickler for ventilated
a; artments, and had carefully clns
ed and locked the * indows before
retiring. The air could not come
from the win' , ows; neither coaid it
ccme from tie bed room door, for
that opened into the sitting room
just opposite to a window, and if
the door had been open he could
have seen the Window. Despite
his n. t ral courage, Dunham was
frightened. He raised himself on
his e bow very catiousiy He looked
about the room; he could eee ab
solutely nothing. He reached over
to where Maggie, his wife, slept
she was there. He moistened his
finger in his mouth and held it up.
He could then sensible feci the
dr..ft of air coming from the foot
of bis bed. He got up and struck
a light. Looking over bis shoul
der as he did so, lie saw, at the
foot ol bis bad, old Gridley. It
would do no good to shoot aloud
—his wife would only laugh at him.
He had often waked ber up to look
at the ghost, but she professed nev
er to see it. It would do no good
to go up to the apportion and try
to seize it—he bt-d often done this;
and it only diaappea-ed for an in
stant to reappear in another pait
of the room So he left the lamp
burning and got into bed with bis
eyes fix# 1 on the figure.
This time Gridley had his sex
tant, and seemed busy bringing an
imaginary sun down to an imagina
ry horizon. The operation coraple-
Hd, the figure turned to tbe bureau
and seemed,to be making the cal
culation. Then he turned to Dun- j
ham, and shook his head negative |
ly, an 1 dashed the sextant to the 1
floor. A sudden crack startled
ihe mate He had turned the
lampwickjtoohigh,and the chimney
had cracked and fallen to the
floor.
In the morning Dunham was a
little nervous. However, having
taken a eup or two of stroug coffee,
he felt more composed.
Joey Dunham, the mate’s only
child, a boy of ten years of age,
almost always accompanied his fa
ther on bis trips. This time Dun
ham proposed to leave him at
home; but tbe boy seemed so dis
appointed Unit his father finally
gave way, and they started togeth
er down to the steamer.
Joer was perfectly at home, and
while his father wai busy, stole up
into the wheelhouse, which had
incautiously been left unlocked.
The wheelman, coming along soon
alter, met Joey stealing down the
steps, looking scared and guilty.
In an hour the Oro Fino was at
the mouth of the Willamette, and
struck the strong, full current of
the Columbia Having move sea
room now, she began to use her
strength. The flame roars through
die flues, the engineer turns on a
full head of steam; the clear, sweet
water of the river, cut cloan and
neat by the prow, •is dashed irnif
snowy foam by the paddles, ana
sinks and rises in a swelling wake
for half a mile to the stern. Fishing
boats and Indian canoes glide past
her like shuttles, and before you
can fairly turn to look, are tossing
and rocking on the swell many
rods behind.
A black hull, supporting a cloud
of dingy-white canvas, is seen
ahead. It is the Hudson Bay
Company’s store* ship, bound for
Vancouver. A flash, a cloud of
white smoke, a heavy thud, aud
she uas saluted the Oro Fino. A
jar and a thunder-cap that startles
the old ones, aDd sets the ladies to
screaming, and the Oro Fiuo has
saluied hr. Three cheers fvom
the stranger as the British flag
runs up to the masthead, and three
cheers as the stars and stripes curl
and snap in the stiff breez i from
our gaff. Now that she has passed,
and the sun falls fuff on her can
vas, she seems like a great bank
of scow floating up the river.
Nearly everybody is tired of
watching her, aud many have
gone into the cabins to avoid the
wind which is growing chilly, and
others are composing themselves
in twos and tbrecs’about the deck ,
when a new and more thrilling ep
isode calls them all to tlieir feet
again. Dunham and two m n
come tearing up tbe staircase to
the quarter dock. The bell tinkles,
and the paddles stop.
“Man overboard!” is the cry.
Every one rushes to the stern;
every or.e roans the boilir.g cur
rent. “There, I see hind” cries
one. “He’s treading water!” cries
one. Everybody can see Idm now;
hpt by this time the tremendous
momentum of the vessel has left,
him a little speck a quarter of a
mile behind. It takes an age to
lower the boat. Finally it is off—
Dunham in tbe stern, and tbe
sturdy sailors bending the ash
dangerously. “Can lie hold out?”
“Ob. yes; can’t you sei him? He’s
treading water.” “No, he's float
ing.” “Anyhow, he keeps up
bravely.” “How slow the bout
goes?" “Why don't they pull?”
In fact, the boat was cutting the
water like a frightened fl b. Men
on ihe ship involuntarily bene and
strained as if they could help iu
that way. Tbe boat nears the
floating object, nov onlv a speck
in the distance. A joyful murmur
goes up from the ship. “He's
saved!'’ “Ob, those strong m«n!"
But Dunham sheers tbe boat
! around, aud picks up only a hat
| and holds it t igb in the sii. The
! owner had long since sunk By
| tbe time the tired crew bad ben.
taken on board an t the vessel put
' under head wav it was dark They
made Astoria by midnight and lay
to alongside the wharf.
Tne wind freshened during trie j
night, and hr morning a heavy |
gale, filled with salt spray, was
driving in directly fl'on the sea
The pilot reported that it w. uld
be impossible to cross the bar ill
such a blow. So they waited.
Duuham's presentment of bad luck
had been strengthened by tbe loss
of the man from the ship, and he
was more uervous end gloomy
than when be left home. So he
took Lis boy und went ashore. He
went to the house of a friend and
left Joey there, with orders to re
turn to Portland by the first
steamer that should go up. He
also wrote a letter to his wife—a
little longer than usual, almost two
pages and a little more affectionate
than uiual. Ho excused himself
for writing kyitolling her thut the
bar was so bad they couldn’t cross
and it was a little 100 dull to slay
there doing nothing.
By ten o’clock tbe squall had
abated, and by noon the pilot eai 1
he thought he oould get over the
bar by taking ihe north channel.
While the firemeu were getting up
steam, Dunham ran over to bis
friend’s house—it was orily a few
steps—and bade Joey good-byo,
and told him to be a good boy ahdi
mind his mother, and gavo him
sundry other items of good advice
which I fear the young scapegrace
did not attend to closelv, being
engaged in the very amusing game
of see-saw with the little girl of
the 1.0 u.-e.
By'tbreo o’clock the ship was fair
ly under way again. By five, she
was safely over the bar, and bad
put her pilot aboard a steamer
which was waiting on the outside
to enter. The captain, having
been up all the pervious night,
went to his ca'un and turned in for
the night. The passengers were
all either soa-sick or chilled by the
cold wind, and lind gone to their
rooms nndinto the cabin. The
wheelman, by order from Dunham,
made out Capo Disappointment
und Tillamook Mead, and toqk
his ranger from them and put the
ship oil her course. He had only
lime to do this when a fog rollel
up so dense that oven the light on
Cape Disappointment oould scarce
ly be seen. Dunham assured liiin
6olf that the ship was on the right
cource by going into the wheel
house and looking for himself
Having done this, and knowing
the coast perfectly, lie felt pretty
safe. He was a little confused
and nervous, however, and so he
went down to the cabin and over
hauled his charts, and road the
sailing directions just as though he
had never made the trip before.
He seemed to be a}l right, “Bring
your vessel in range with Cape
Disappointment and Tillamook
Head, and then put her about
southtby east,” He had done
this fifty times before, aud hud
come out nil right. To be si ro
that no mistake had keen made,
lie climbed up to the wheel house
aid quietly asked the man at the
wheel hew he had got his range.
He BBswered'prcmpfly aud satis
factorily. Everything was accord
ing to order. Bo Dunham cursed
his nervousness, and walked back
to the smoke-stacK
The wind had gone down with
the gun. but a heavy sea was run
ning, and it was as dark as Tur
turns. Durham paced the deck
f»r half an hour, tl en went below to
get bis cloak- Being chilled, he
wi nt up to the burrican dock and
sat with his buck to the sraoko
stacK. Being nervous, he lit a
cigar. Being careful he walked
I rward to see how things were
moving. He thought be beard
u distant roar. He listened, and
could bear nothing. Ha walked
back to tbe smoke- stack. In ten
minutes he errae foiwanl again.
He thought he heard the roar < f
the surf. He ca led to the mun
at (he wheel;
“Abbott!”
“Ay, ay, si;”
“How does she stand!”
“3ou’ by eas:,s»r,”
That was ill right; that was the
course Dunham hud put her o.i.
He went to toe puddle b>x anil
; signaled the eugine tr> stop. Then
.he called a man aud bad the lead
i thrown, “Twenty four. Plenty
|of water, ” thought Dunham, and
NO. 57
stared tl ecngin. He than wont
to tin* Ca| tain's cabin ami knock-'
cd. The ('»i t tin did not hear the
first time, and he knocked again.
“Who’s tbeM"
“The mate."
The Captain opened a port near
tLe head of bis berth, and ask“d
him whnt the matter was. Dun
ham reported. The Captain told
him it was a 1 right; that it was
foggy, and the roar of tlu) surf
with such a sea on and no wind
could be heard ten miles. Dun
ham rather thought so, too, and
went away During the parley,
and while the mate stopped a few
minutes to look after things below,
the ship had made more than two
miles headway, By the time D m
ham got on deck again the r nr of
the snrl was frightful. He fairly
scroaned at the helms man.
“Abbott!"
“Ay, uy, sir.”
•‘How’s her bead?"
“Sou by cast, sir.”
Amazing) Dunham ran to the
paddle box and jerked a signal.
The ongin stopped. Then he ra sh
ed to tlie Captain’s door and call
ed him out in the name of the god*
Both flew on deck. There was no
mistuke about it; there were the
breakers not half a mile ahead,
judging by the sound, thundering
and boiling against the Bho.'o.
Dunham had almost run the ship s
head on shore, andtha', 100. when
she was holding precisely the same
aourse by compass that no »ad put
her on fifty times before.
The Captain roared: “Whnt’e
her course?"
“Sou’ by eas', s'r.”
“l'ut hor sou’ west."
“Sou’ west, sir,” echoed the man
at the wheel, and (lie wlieo. spun
round and the chain rattled.
The Ciptain rushed t> tbo sigual
heil and started the engine, and got
the ship under good steering h lad
way. 8 aroely had she started
on her new course when a scraping
sound was heard and felt—-tnen
hump, bump, bump, as though the
ship hud been lifted up and set
down lard three times; then a
crash tliut sent the captain und
mate uu their faces, and brought
the smoke stuck crashing through
the deck, and snapped off the top
musts like pipestems. The ship
hid struck a sunken rock, and be
gan to till at oncu.
Wbo got to shore, sr.o now they
got to shore, matters not. It is
the same old story. The news
spread on wings. Men came and
dragged the swollen corpses of
their Iriende out of the surf, or dug
them out of the sea or identified
them in the shed, or paced the
beach duy after day, looking out on
the reinorseluas sou tliut, sullenly
clung to its dead.
'J he captain and the wheelman,
Abbott, went to Portion l together
—Dunham they never found—und
there they talked over the straugo
affair and exhausted all their mge
uuity in vain to account for the
loss of the ship when on the rigb’.
course ou a still night, When the
wreokiug-tug was ready, they went
ouk to the wreezk. It still hung on
the rocks. The b >wa were liign
Oit o r water. The two men o'im
bed up into die wbcelbouae. They
unscrewed the compass-box from
its iasteuing ar.d brought it on
shore There they opened it, and
lifted up the card and mod e, and '
there Juy the little instrument of ;
death—a bro:<en knife blade
Tue handle and the test of the
blade were in little Joey Dunham’s
pocket He had tri dto pry out
the glass, to see what mude the
card s-ing around so when ho held
his knife by it, und in doing so he
had broken the blade. He con
cealed the mischief and stole away.
—Ar s «mut.
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