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Tom. the Old Tar;

Jack Northrop’s Long Cruise.

BY ROGER STARBUCK,
AUTHOR or “JACK, THE COAST DETECTIVE,"
“ TEE Donrnm’s YOUNG SKIPPER,"
uro., 21's., mo.

CHAPTER I.
‘* A. YOUNG- GUARDIAN.
\ “ THERE, it’s all ready!” cried Jessie Howard
' leefully, as she pulled the tablecloth; “won’t
hfmbg’glad to find such a. nice supper waiting for

 

"_' The speaker was a (young girl of fourteen,
with soft, but spirits brown eyes, smooth,
3 , v round cheeks, a neat, graceful figure and dimin-

1, ‘* utive feet, incased in morocco boots. She wore
' a little silk apron, which, though somewhat
faded, was the most becoming thing in the
world with its two frilled pockets in front, and
its strings tied in a pretty knot behind.
She was alone in the humbly-furnished room
of a. house in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
From the front windows of the apartment could
 ' ' be seen the tall masts and rigging of the vessels
 anchored near the wharf, and also the forms of
 a. number of men at work on the yards of some
of the ships.

As Jessie spoke, the clock on the mantel pro-
claimed the hour of SIX, and going to the win-
dow, the young girl saw one of the workmen
alluded to waving his cap to her.

Returning the salute with her handkerchief,
she tripped down-stairs, and opening the hall-
door, glanced up the street—a. pretty smile of

tation dimpling the corners of her mouth.
n, a quick, firm tread sounded along the
pavement, a flue-looking youth of eighteen,
wearing the garb of a rigger, came in sight and,
a minute later, held both hands of the fair bessie
his own.

“There, Jessie!” he exclaimed, tossing his
head likeayoung Newfoundland dog. ‘ Isn’t
this quick work? It is only a few minutes since
I waved m cap to you.”

“Poor ask,” she replied, "ldon’t wonder

were in a hurry. You must feel very
fig: , after working so hard all day.”
" “ twasn’t that that hurried me so much,”
answered, as he followed her lip-stairs. “No,
' Any child, it was—”

'Hold‘!“ she playfully interrupted, turning
and shaking a flu er at him. “You romised
nottocall me ‘c ild’ any longer. esterday
V 3;; my fourteenth birthday; please remember
3 , “But it comes so naturally,” he replied. “I

« have been your guardian now for four years,
and have learned to look upon you as my daugh-
ter. Nay, even when your uncle died and left
you to my care—young as I then~wus—-I felt a
atherly interest in you, and. so I suphose I
fihall’continue to feel toward you as long as I
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a Tom, the Old Tar.

Jessie pouted mischievoust and tapped the
floor With the heel of one of her little boots.

“ Oh, you will, will you?” she exclaimed; and
he then drew himself up with such a comical air
of parental authority, that she clapped her
hands and laughed quite merrily.

“ \Vhat are you laughing at? Haven’t I been
a father to you ever since you were left in my
charge?”

“ You are a dear, good Jack 1” she replied,
“ and I respect you. But, somehow—I don’t
know why, though I suppose it is because you
are so young—you don’t seem like a. father to
me. It’s very droll, isn’t it’l—instead of feeling
like your daughter, I feel more as if I were your
little mother."

“ Hol hol hol
than I am!”

“ We will change the subject,” she said, with
womanly dignity. “Sit down and eat your
supper.’

And she poured out his tea.

While he was sweetening it, she uncovered a
large dish in the middle of the table, watching
him, meanwhile, very slyly out of the corners
of her eyes.

“ Lamb and peas!” he exclaimed, his face be-
coming radiant. “ Why, what a nice little
housekeeper you are. Jessie l”

“Ikuew you’d like them,” she said, with a
bright smile.

“ Yes, but what a world of trouble it must
have cast you to cook such a meal!”

“ And you can an that, my noble Jack—you
who work so her for me. You who were
obliged to leave school in your fourteenth year
in order to labor for my support!”

“ You make too much of it, Jessie. Your
uncle died poor, leaving you to my charge.
Being your only living relative—your third or
fourth cousin, 1 could never make out which—
I did nothing more than my duty when I left
the boarding-school in which my parents had
placed one, before their death, in order to go to
work. It isn’t worth speaking of; and now, to
change the subject, have you finished reading
those books I brought you?”

“ Yes, and I found themdelightful; they were
so interesting, so full of useful information.”

“ Well, then. I have ordered some more. "

“ Oh, you noble—hearted Jack l”

“ You will need them to wile away the time
when I am absent."

“ What?”

“ While I am away. , I am going one whaling

vo a .”
zlggu are jesting,” she said. turning very

pale.

“ No, I’m in earnest. You see, Captain Bluff
has offered me the situation of fourth mate in
the‘Walrus.’ It’s a lucky ship, and I shall
earn lots of money. When I come home I can
buy you plenty of dresses, bonnets and all that
sort of thing; perhaps I shall be able to pur—
chase a nice little house for you to live in.
While I am absent, you will board with our
neighbor who has taken such a liking to you;
the young widow, Mrs. Gray.” . '

“Oh, Jack, dear Jacki”,  ,

And she burst into tears;

" Why, bless yourslittle heart, Jessie, don’t

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grieve about it. I shallbe home in three or four
years.

“ But you may be taken sick; you may be
killed or—or—ohl there are a thousand dreadful
thin that might happen to you.”

“ ell, now, I didn’t ex 1: that of you; I
thought you’d bear it bet r,” cried Jack, the
tears starting to his own eyes. “ In reality,
I‘ll not be in danger any more than if I had
staid ashore. And 'ust think of my being able
with my earnings—J

“ Who will ta 8 care of you if you should be
sick?" she mournfully interrupted.

“ I am never sick. You know I’m always in
health. I shall have no bad feelings except
what will be caused by my parting with you.
That will make me heavy—hearted for awhile, I
own. If 1 should hap on to be sick, there’s the
captain’s wife, a very ind-hearted woman, and
quite a doctress, they tell me. She is going with
her husband.”

Jessie wiped her eyes, her face brightened; she
even smiled.

"Now, then. that’s what I call behaving like
a brave irll” cried Jack. “ You’ve got over
your grie , and I’m glad of it.”

Nevertheless, there was a shade of disappoint—
ment in his tone.

“ You have concluded that I was jesting, per-
haps,” he said, after a moment’s pause, noticing
that she still seemed finite happy and contented.

“ No,” she answere , calmly, “ I feel sure you
are in earnest.”

“ The vessel sails a week from today.”

“ So soon?” . ‘

She said this with a quiet smile.

“ You seem to take the matter easy enough
now I” he exclaimed. ‘

“ And why should I not?”

“ True enough, child, why should you not?”

“ I shall continue to be your ‘little mother,’
as I am now, for I intend to go with you l”

“ Oh!" and his face brightened.

“ The captain’s wife being a friend of ours,
will let me go with her, I‘m sure.”

But Jack now shook his head.

“ The sea is no place for you. Jessie. You
must not go. The storms, the cold and hot wea—
ther, the—7’

“ Not another word!” she interrupted, smil—
ing;, and holding up her little finger. “ I will

0|

“ Disobedient child l”

“Yes, Imust go. so as to be on hand to saw
the buttons on your jacket when they come off.”

“ But, Jessie, you may have to endure hard-
ship. There’s no knowing what may happen.”

‘ I can endure it as well as the captain’s vlffiifcg1
l 8

In fact," she added, assuming a very di
or the

air, “what will a mother not endure
sake of an onl son F’
Jack open his_eyes Very wide‘ then he lean-
ed back in his chair, andlaughed long and loud.
“ You shall go,” he said. “ Ay, ay. you shall
go. I don't know how I could get along with-
out you; you amuse me so much.”

CHAPTER II.
A QUARREL.
Mus. BLUFF, the captain’s wife, being applied
to, said she should he very glad of Jessie’s com~

 

 

pany in the ship: so the young girl proceeded at
once to make the necessary preparations for the

vogage. ,
he and Jack were ready in good time.

On the morning of the 10th of July, 18—, the
Walrus was towed clear of the wharf; at noon,
she went bowling out of the harbor before a
spanking breeze; at eight bells, the dog-watch,
s e plunged into the broad Atlantic.

The pilot who had come of! in the ship now
took his leave; the sail of his boat soon became
a mere speck in the distance.

“ Set the main-royal, and the main-topmost
studding-sail, Mr. Winthropl” said the captain,
turning to Jack, who was at present oflicer of
the watch.

“ Ay, ay, sirl” and he gave the order.

“A smart lad, that fourth mate,” remarked
an old sailor, named Tom Blake, as the men
{jumped to obey. “ Nothing of the puppy about

1m.

“ Ay, ay, Tom," was the answer, “he knows
his business, though he’s rather young for an
oflicer.”

“ 0n the whole, mates, I think we’ve got into ~
a good craft,” continued Blake. “The skipper
seems of the right stuff, and they say his wife‘s
an angel. As to that other wee thin that they ,
call Jessie, she puts me in mind 0 a canary
bird. She’s looking at us, now.” '

In fact, with the natural curiosity of her sex,
Jessie had perched herself upon a spar lashed to
the bulwarks, in order to see what was going
on. By her side stood the captain’s wife—a
pleasant'looking, middle-aged woman, with blue
eyes and auburn hair, and behind them both,
the skipper—a sturdy, broad—shouldered,
weather—beaten fellow, wearing a green pea-
jacket and pants of canvas duck.‘

“ Oh, isn’t he a nice old man,” muttered Jessie,
alluding to sailor Tom. “ Who’d think a man
of his age could go aloft so feet. He must be
nearly fifty—eight. ’ «

Mrs. Blufl‘.’ dglanced toward the main-rigging
to see the ol sailor running aloft like a cat,
Witk the end of the studding-sail halliards. He
was rather queer looking, with a big, round.
head, and a form hearing some resemblance to a; r _
marline-spike. His gray hair falling in natural
ringlets about his temples looked like the
twisted strands of as many little ropes, and his
eyes protruding from his head, resombled those
of a locust.

Darting aloft, as mentioned,~with the halliards
secured around his breast. beneath the armpits,
he had gained the cross‘trees, when the captain ’
ordered him to lay out on the top-gallant yard,
and “do up” a shot which had got loosened.

Accordingly, t 9 old sailor lowered himselfrto
the foot-rope, and sliding out toxthe weather-‘-
end of the yard, be was on theflpoint of soizing
the gasket, when a sudden roll of the ship
pitched him headlong from his position. ‘ - ,-

The two females shrieked; a hoarse cry of
alarm burst fmm the other spectators; but the
next moment, they beheld poor Tom dangling"
about ten feet below the yard, by the studdiug—
sail halliards, a bight of which had caught-

 

,around the end of the spur.

There he hung, swaying to and fro, ahnosta 
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regain the yard, Owing to the tightness of the
rope about his elbows. The bight above was
liable to slip off, any moment, in which case he
must be dashed to death upon the deck, as he
was too far inboard to strike the sea.

Thirty-three pairs of eyes watched this living
pondulum swinging so far aloft; a fearful shud-
der crept through every nerve; the suspense was
terrible.

“ Get hold of the rope and draw yourself up,”
shouted the skipper, from the waist.

“ I can’t do it," was the answer; “ the rope
has caught around my arms."

“Ay, ay, God help him," exclaimed Bluff, “I
don’t see what we can do to save him. If we
try to haul him up, the halliards will slip around
his neck or over his head.”

As he spoke, he saw Jack pick up a long piece
of rope, and take a running bowline hitch at
one end.

Then he sprung into the rigging, ordering
three or four men to follow him.

“ What are you going to do?" queried the
captain. “ You can’t throw that hight over
Tom‘s head. The halliards are in the way.”

“ I know it; you shall see how I shall throw
it, sir, when I get aloft.”

So saying, the young sailor darted swiftly up
the ratlines, and was soon near the end of the
top-gallant yard. Leaning over the spur, he
lowered the bight he had formed about ten feet,
when, b a dexterous 'erk‘ of the rope, he slip—
ped the wline over t 0 legs of the imperiled
sailor. Afterward he drew upon it until it rose
and tautened beneath the man’s armpits.

“ God bless you." exclaimed the old tar, grate-
full , “I’m as good as saved now."

The men below testified their approbation of
this remarkable maneuver with cheer upon
cheer ' and tears of pleasure rose to J essie’s eyes.

Jack and his companions now pulled lustin
upon the rope, and soon had the satisfaction of
helpin Blaketo the yard. Soon after he was

,on doc , shaking hands with every man in the

‘ ship.
‘ I feel more proud of you than ever, son

Jack,” said Jessie, half an hour later, when the
young man came to her side. “ You are a nice,
noble animal."

“ Thank you. And now you had better go
below, as the spray begins to fly over the quar-
ter, and you may get wet.”

“Are you coming below, too?"

“ Not yet; it is my watch on deck.”

She moved toward the companionway, when
a sudden lurching of the vosscl caused her to
stagger; and she would have fallen, had not
Mr. Warren. the second mate, who 'ust then
emerged from the cabin, supported er with
outstretched arms. He was a handsome young
fellow of twenty-one, and the color deepened on
Jessie’s cheek as she thanked him and passed

on.

Jack felt as if a knife had pricked his heart.
Something in his glance, as it encountered War-
ren‘s, made the latter curl his lip. They had
never before met, and yet they disliked each
other at once, as if they had been enemies for
years.

So far impersonal appearance was concerned,
a greater difference could not have existed be

 

tween two of the male sex. The second mate
was of middling stature. slender, but compact-
ly built, With dark eyes, full of fire and darin .
His black hair curled closely around a Weil-
formed head; while his full but firmly—closed
lips and wide nostrils betokened strength of will
and force of character. He looked like‘a man
who would move mountains to carry out a pro-
ject once formed—who would not be turned
iASlde either by danger, entreaty, or the voice of
ove.

Jack, on the contrary, though resolution was
stamped upon every feature of his frank, honest
face, gave the impression that he might be made
to ield throu h his affections.

e was tall, road-shouldered, blue—eyed, and
full of magnetism.

Turning abru tly, after the two had surveyed
each other in si ence for several moments, the
second mate moved to the binnacle and looked
at the compass. Then he walked to the waist
and directed a quick, scrutinizing glance aloft.
Everything was as it should be in that quarter;
but, as his practiced gaze swept downward,
along the intricate lengths of running rigging,
he suddenly frowned and stamped the deck im-
patiently. The studding-sail halliards were se-
cured to a pin so close to that containing those
of the topsoil that great inconvenience might
result from it. Such carelessness, naturally
enou h, revoked the temper of a man who had
been re to the ocean from his childhood, and
who, like all thorough seamen, was fond of
neatness and order on shipboard.

“ Who belayed those halliardsl” he inquired,
in a quick stern voice, glancing forward among
the men as he spoke.

“I did,” answered sailor Tom, approaching.

“ I wouldn’t have believed it," said Warren,
scrutinizing the man from head to foot. “ You
look too much the sailor to perform such a lub<
berl trick.”

“ t was accordin’ to orders, sir,” answered
Blake, coloring deeply. ‘

" And who ordered it?”

“ I did,” answered a clear voice behind him
and he turned to confront Jack Winthrop. “
did, because the captain ordered me to. The
proper pin is rotten.”

“ It was a lubberly order, at any rate; one, I
should have refused to obey.”

“ I always obey my captain, sir.”

“More the fool you, then. If my ca tain
tells me to do what 1 know to be wrong, dis-
obey him."

“ If a‘ crime, or anything of that sort, of
course; but—”

“ No, no, even in such a matter as the belay-

ing of a rope. Suppose a nail should come up-

aud we were in a hurry to at 0 either of these
halliards—don’t you permive t ey would be apt
to get foul owing to their being so close to-
gather?”

“ Ay, ay, but that’s the captain’s lookout. If
he tells us to belay ‘em that way it is our duty
to obey him, as he’s master of his own ship.”

“ No, I say, a thousand times no; at any rate I
don’t think so; and to prove it, _I‘ll now
take the studdin sail halliards off this pin and
belay them who they belong.” .

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bound to see that the halliards are not dis-
turbed. You must get permission from the
captain to remove them before you attempt to
do so."

“Nothing of the sort. I shall remove them,
as it is, in spite of you or fifty captains.”

“ You shall not, sir!”

“ I would advise you to keep cool, boy.
forget that I am your superior officer !”

“ You must let the halliards remain where
they are, notwithstanding.”

The black eyes of the second mate flashed de—
fiance. He smiled contemptuously, and laid his
hand on the rope to remove it; but Jack seized
his wrist flrml and pushed the hand aside. In»
stantly, a dar flush swept over the face of
Warren; he dealt the other a sharp, stinging
blow on the cheek.

Jack returned it with one of equal force, and

You

_ the next moment, the two men closed in a fierce

struggle.

The younger was, perhaps, the most powerful;
but the other, in addition to his being strong
and lithe, was a more skillful wrestler; and,
owing to a quick temper, which had drawn him
into many pugilistic encounters during his sea-
life, was more experienced in the use of his fists,
Hence, it followed that Jack was suddenly
hurled backward with considerable force by an
unexpected maneuver; but dragging his anta-
gonist with him, both fell through the open

etch way, into the main hold: the second mate
uppermost.

Neither was much hurt by the fall, and seiz-
ing Jack by the throat, while his knee was
pressed firmly upon his chest, the second mate
raised his clinched fist as if to strike. Had he
done so, the blow would have stunned the pros-
trate youth; perha it would have disfigured
him for life. But arren suddenly seemed to
recollect himself, and muttering even in the
midst of his wrath: “No, no; I will not strike
the man while down," he sprung to his feet.

Up rose Jack, cheeks and eyes flaming, ready
to renew the combat, when the captain, who
had been slyly informed of what was going on
by the steward, jumped into the hold and inter-

“ Avast, there!” he exclaimed, glancing from
one to the other; “ thi is against the rules.
There must be no 6 htl'ng in my ship. What’s
it all about?" he ad ed, taming to Jack.

The latter remained silent. He scorned tale-
beariug: besides which, it seemed to him that
an explanation on his part might impress his
antagonist with the belief that be (Jack) thought
it necessary to Win the support of the captain.

Warren seemed to guess is thoughts; 9. half-
smile of approval rippled his cheek. He faced
the captain and gave a truthful account of the
quarrel.

“ Jack was in the right,” said the skipper,
“ and you, Mr. Warren, were altogether wrong.
It is your duty to regret my orders, and respect
them you shall; or so I shall have to put you
ashore."

“I can never respect such an orderasthat
concerning the studdiug—sail halliardsl”

“ Say you will not !"

" Of course, that was what I meant.”

“ Very well, then, the matter is settled. This

 

obstinacy of yours amounts almost to mutiny;
I shall put you ashore at one of the Western
Islands. Go below and conSider your name
as crossed oil: the ship‘s bookr.”

“ Ay, ay, sir!” and bowing haughtily, the
second mate passed into the cabin.

The captain kept his word. Warren was put
ashore at Fla], 8. month after the incidents dc-
scrihed. While the boat in which he had been
conveyed from the ship was being hoisted to the
“cranes,” Jack, chain-mg to pass Jessie, who
stood near the companionway, noticed that her
eyes were red as if from weeping.

She averted her head as he glanced toward
her, and he passed on, grinding his teeth.

“ A , ay, she is thinking of him,” he mut-
tered. “I could see that she liked him from the
first, with his black eyes and musical voice.
Now, that he’s gone, I suppose she’ll pine for
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The ‘Valrus lay off and on the Western _ 

Islands for three days, during the greater part
of which time her decks were crowded with the
Portuguese who had come 011' in boats laden
with fowls, pigs, fruit, tatoes and cheese, to
trade with the seamen. ost of these traders
were lean, cadaverous, and poorly clad. They
seemed very glad to exchange their “goods”
for wearing apparel, salt junk and sea-biscuits.
The men oaded their chests with the little
round cheeses offered for sale; and the captain
filled the two bins aft with potatoes and onions,
in order to guard against the scurvy.
hogs were also purchased, to provide the cabin- _
table with fresh pork occasionally, and/the fore—
mast hands with that much—prized dish called
“ sea- )ie.”

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Several , ‘ .

While Jack was ordering the carpenter to ‘31,.

pre are a pen for the animals, he heard a gen— '

 

tle
to confront Old
his bosom a little snow-white guinea- ig, with [
soft bright eyes, and ears like pink she S.
“if you please, lad, 1 present you this animal
with my ‘ complements.’ "

And he put it into J ack’s arms.

ut doleful sqluealing behind him, and turned . 
‘om, who held closely pressed to ,. '

“Halloal what’s this for? Where did you, 1

get it?”

“ It’s for you, thinking you’d like to give it to .
Miss Jessie. She’ll like the little creatur’, 1
know. I bought it of an old Portuguese who,"
has 'ust left the ship.” V

" any thanks, friend Blake.
lighted with it, I’ve no doubt.”

  
 

 

She will be'dei . 

  

And hurrying aft, he presean the treasure" n
to the young girl, who had just come up from .

the cabin with the captain’s wife.

“ Why, what a nice, cunning little ‘ stu id l’ "’ 

she exclaimed, laughing gleefully.
did it come from l”
He explained; and the pigwas petted and

caressed by the two females, who bestowed 

upon it all the endearing epithets they could

it here ., 

think of. ‘ . =

“We will call it ‘Tom.’ in honor of the ,"

giver," said Jessie, “and I shall makeanioe, 

little house for it out of my work-box.”

‘ Tom ’ expressed his satisfaction with a mug“
sical squeal, and a grateful lance of his bright
eyes, and so his mistress too him below to prod»
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An hour after, Captain Bluff squared his
yards. and, with a. fair wind, the vessel went
bowling along on a course which in good time
carried her to her first cruising-ground off the

tin de la Plata. Here she remained for a few
months, during which time a couple of whales
were captured and tried out.

Four months later, the ship rounded Cape
Horn, after losing her foretopmast and jib-
boom in a heavy gale. She put into San Carlos
for repairs. Thence she sailed for the Arctic
Ocean, and in due course of time passed through
Behring’s Straits. On the third of November,
seven months after, she entered the port of Hon-
olulu, Sandwich Islands, with eight hundred
barrels of oil. Her next cruise, performed in
the Okhotsk‘Sea, was more lucky than the first.
She captured thirty whales, yielding fifteen
hundred barrels: so that. her cargo now amount-
ed totwenty-three hundred. Only seven hun-
dred more were required to fill the ship.

“ And now, ho, for the Japan Seal” exclaimed
Bluff, after he had recruited for the second time
at the Sandwich Islands. “Our cruise will be
a short one if we look sharp, after which we can
sing and whistle, ‘ Homeward boundl’ ”

 

CHAPTER III.
“PULL rou ms SHIP.”

IT was about six bells (three o’clock) in the
afternoon watch. The Walrus lay becalmed
about fifteen miles to windward of the Peninsula
of Corea, in the Japan Sea. Her owners would
scarcely have recognized their vessel, so much
was her appearance changed by the heavy gales,
the seas, and the drifting ice with which she had
battled during the voyage.

0n the quarter—deck, to leeward, stood Jessie

' Howard, looking toward the coast, and to wind-

ward, the captain, glass in hand, watching a

‘second whaleship that lay about four miles dis—

tant, off the weather-bow. In the waist, the
carpenter was repairing a boat which had been
stoven b a right whale a few days before, and
Jack inthrop, now third mate, was seated
near him, serving a rope, while he occasionally
directed a swift, admiring glance toward the

I young girl on the quarter-deck.

' old, familiar way.

Two years had given a more womanly grace
to her beautiful form and touched her eyes and
checks with a deeper hue. She was still full of
life and spirit; but it was seldom now that she
laughed and chatted with her “ guardian " in the
She treated him with a cer-
tain' gentle reserve—man-like. be construed it
into coldness. Sometimes she even seemed
thoughtful and absent fiwhen in his company.
With others, that is to say, with the captain’s
wife, the captain himself, and old Blake, her
conduct was different. She could be as merry
as a cricket with them.

She was now a young woman; he, a youth of
twenty. She seemed a child to him no longer.

Suddenly a shrill piercing cry came down
from the mast-hes the well-known cry of
“ There she blows.” All hands on deck sprung
to their feet. The cook rushed from the galley,
the cabin~bo thrust his head through the
stowage-hate way, the skip rdarted a quick
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“ About two points off the weather~bow, and
a mile off. heading toward the other ship.”

“Call all hands! Stand by the boats!”

The boats were soon ready for lowering.

“Lower away I” thundered Bluff, and they
dropped, splashing, to the water.

Into them tumbled their crews, all merry as
crickets, and “ Give way I" was the next order.

Away they went, four swift boats, manned
with good crews, and oflicered by the captain,
the first mate. a Sag Harbor man, Jack Win—
throp, and Mr. Broil, the second mate. The
fourth mate, Tom Blake—ho had been promoted
shortly after the discharge of Warren4—wes
left with six men in charge of the ship.

“ Do you see anything, Bill?" inquired Jack,
of his harpooner, after pulling about a mile and
a half.

The others had “ peaked " their ours a few
minutes previously, and were now resting about
fifteen fathoms astern.

“ Nothing as yet. sir i” answered the hoatswain,
who stood upright in the bow. “ Nothing—"

He was interrupted by a loud rippling ahead;
the water was suddenly covered with little whirl-
ing eddies; a bubbling, hissing noise followed,
and the next moment, up rose the whale scarce—
ly ten fathoms distautl ,

“Your paddles, men i” cried Jack. “ No
noisel"

Stealthily, but swiftly, darted the boat on its
way; the whale, an enormous bull, seemed un—
conscious of his enemies, and rolled lazily along,
spouting at intervals with a sound like that of
steam rushing through a pipe. His great hump
was so thickly covered with barnacles as to re—
semble a hillock strewn with oyster-shells, and
his enormous head scattered the water into
waves and ripples like the bow of a ship.

“Stand up, Bill l"

And the harpooner sprung lightly to his feet,
the barbed iron in his hand.

“Now, then, give it to him I ” The boat was
within five fathoms of the monster.

The deadly steel clove the air, but it on]
grazed the whale; for as it was darted, he an -
denly turned flukes and‘ dove with great
ra idity into the depths of his ocean home.

he crew fairly paled with diiappointment;
Jack drew a long breath, and said he was sorry
he had not ordered Bill to dart sooner.

“ Ay, ay, sir, it would have been better if you
bad. There are the boats of the other ships
coming toward us.” - A

Yes, there they were. sure enough—four boats
approaching; the head one distant about two
miles.

"There’s too many of us after that whalel" '

cried Captain Bluff, pulling up alongside of the
third mate. “I was in hopes we'd strike the
fish before that cha lowered his boots. You’d
better pull ahead, r. Winthrop, while the rest
of us separate in different directions 1"

“ Ay, ay, sir!” and the boat darted off.

As it drew near the foremost one from the
other ship, Jack leaned eagerly forward, his eyes
fixed upon the figure at the steering—oar; a slen-
der, compact figure, clad in blue shirt and
pants, with a broad leathern belt around the
waist, and a red woollen cap pushed back from
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Soon the two boats were but twenty fathoms
apart, when quick glances of recognition flashed
betweed the ofiicers; for the one from the other
ship was Guy Warren, formerly second mate of
the Walrus.

They bowed as they passed each other, but
not a word was exchanged. ’

“ Liei" (stop pullingw‘ried Jack to his crew;
and, a moment later, arren gave the same or-
der. Eight boats, all after one whale, and not
very far apart, now lay motionless upon that
calm sea, their occupants eagerly watching for
the reappearance of the leviathan.

Suddenly, bubbling, whirlin . and hissing,
the waters broke around the fimws of Jack 5

boat.

“ Stand by, Bill!” shouted the young man, his
eyes flashing with wild joy as be grasped the
steering—oar.

Up rose the monster of the deep, zin the
bow with his head, and tilting it wit a an den-
ness that caused the harpooner to fall backward
'ust as he was on the point of darting his iron.

he barbed steel penetrated the man's thigh,

wounding him sobadly that he was unable to
rise.
Away went the whale, booming through the
water with tremendous velocity, the other boats
in full chase, their crews pullin like mad, and
their; oflcers shouting and ye ling encourage-
men .

Warren was foremost, his long-limbed men,
with sleeves rolled above their elbows, and wool—
en caps pushed back from their brown faces,
bent their oars almost double with the force of
their steady, powerful strokes.

“ This is too bad!” cried Jack, disconsolately,
as he proceeded to tie a cold-water bandage
around the leg of his wounded harpooner.

“ Never mind me,” answered the, suiferer.
" Pull ahead, sir, pull ahead! If somebody will
prop me up in the how, I’ll strike that fish for
you. etl”

“ here goes flukes!” exclaimed one of the
men. “ The whale’s gone down 1”

Bill breathed a sigh of relief.

“It may be ours yet,” he murmured, “ if

ou’ll’ only pull ahead, and prop me up in the

WI

“ No, Bill, the place for you is the ship. Here
comes a boat now, to take you aboard; and-—
why, what does this mean! Jessie and the cap.
tain’s wife are in it!”

A uarter of an hour later, the boat contain-
ing 1: e females was alongside that of the third
mate.‘ —

“ They would come,” said Tom Blake, who
occupied the sterneheets. “ As soon as the man
aloft sung out there was an accident in one of
the boats, this little cre’tur’ "—alluding to Jessie
——"inmsfed on going in the boat with me. I
gouldp’t convmce her it wasn’t you who Were

urt. .

“Nor I.” said the captain‘s wife. “ She
wouldn’t believe any of us. ’

“ Poor fellow,” murmured Jessie, glancing
toward the wounded man. “ He seems much
hurt. We must get him on board as soon as we
can, Mr. Blake; and he must have the very best
treatment."

" We will soon have him as well and hearty

 

as ever,” said Mrs. Bluff, with a kind smile. “ I
trust it is only a flesh wound.”

“I’m not verv bad, thank ye, ma’am,” an—
swered Bill. “it’s my mind that’s the most
hurt, on account of such a lubberly accident,
which never happened to me before.”

“ It wasn’t your fault," cried Jack. “ I
should have been knocked over, the same way,
had I been in flour place.”

So saying, eassisted the men to place the
suiferer in the other vessel.

This being done, Tom Blake leaped into Jack‘s
boat, ordering one of the five men in the other
to take the steering-oar, while the rest pulled
for the ship. ,

“ I’ll act as your harpooner now, in place of
Bill, if you like,” said the old sailor. ‘~

“ No,” replied Jack, “ you shall take the
steering-oar, and I will act the harpooner.” _ 

“All right, if you say so," and Blake seized ' ‘
the ear, while Jack sprung into the bow. ’ "

A few minutes previously, to the surprise of
his shipmates. and also from the crews of the
Walrus, Mr. Warren had suddenly whirled his
boat round and headed it toward Winthrop’s,
his crew pulling with might and main.

He passed the one containing the females,
just as it was started from the ship, and lifting
his cap, smiled and bowed to Jessie, who, faint-
ly blushing, returned his salute.

Jack frowned and hit his lip.

“So she was the cause of his singular ma-
neuver,” he thought; but the next moment he
discovered that he was mistaken; for Warren r
suddenl ordered his crew to stop pulling and '
keep a s arp lookout.

“The whale will come up somewhere in this
neighborhood,” he continued. “.I saw him I :
‘mill round’ just as he turned flakes." 

“D’ye hear that?" whispered Blake to Jack. x
“ You’ve recognized that fellow, I SupposeT’

u 9;, ay_1 ' I

“ ell, he’s got the reputation, Warren has, '
of being one of the best whalemen out of New
Bedford. We’ll have to work hard to get an
iron in our fish before he does.” ’ ,

“ I don’t doubt it.” .

Even as he spoke, a whizzing, rumbling noise ‘
was heard; .a second after, the whale boomed
up from the sea, between the two boats, but
nearest toWinthrop’s.

“Pull ahead 1” from both oificers; and Warren
quickly changed places with his harpooner.

“We’ll have to make a long dart if we wish
to strike that Whale before Winthrop does, as
he’s nearest to it. I prefer to make that dart a
myself.”

Steadin and swiftly the two boats ap-
proached the gigantic monster rolling and
wallowing in the sea. “

The gray eyes of the third mate flashed con—
fidently ; those of Warren gleamed like sapphires.
with a cool. determined glitter. Jack could not
help admiring the easy, manly grace of his at- 
titude. ,as he handled a harpoon of unusual
length and caliber. , r ' ,

Meanwhile, both crews exerted themSelves to
the utmost; but Jack’s boat was the first within
darting distance. ' I r

The young man drew back to hurl his weapon;
but before it could leave his hand, a rushing,

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whizzing sound was heard, as Warren’s iron
clove the air, and buried itself to the socket in
the monster’s hump]

Acheer from the long—limbed oarsmen—ono
which was well deserved, for their officer had
darted while more than six fathoms from the
whale!

The next moment, however, Jack’s iron was
also buried in the leviathan’s body; a minute
 later the whale sounded, dragging both boats,
'; with terrific velocity, in the direction of the
.~ Walrus.

Thump! thump! whiz-z—z! hum-m! hum-ml
3,. hum-m! Went the lines around the logger-
} heads, while the gunwales of both boats, as
; they crashed through the water, were almost on

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. r a level with the sea
-' Asteru, the boats were seen coming up, their
l crews shouting, cheering and yelling like bed-
? ' lamites; while ahead, the occupants of the lar-
w; hoard how boat stop ed to witness the sport.
1 Jessie looked a ittle frightened: but the
l » flushed cheek and flashing eyes of the cap-
tain’s wife, showed that she was an interested
spectator. Suddenly, however, she also turned
pale; for, dashing on with terrific velocity, the
two boats, when Within less than twelve
. fathoms of the one she occupied, suddenly
g; . headed toward it.
"I “ Quick, men, our oars!” she gasped, “ or
we shall be run d’ownl”

" I. , whirled round 'ust in time to avoid a col-
" lislon, although arren’s boat slightly gramd
. I it while passing.
“ Pull for the ship i" cried Mrs. Bluff, breath-
ing a sigh of relief; and the men again grasped
’9 -, their oars. __
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- JACK WASHED ovannoann.

THEY were within a quarter of a mile of the
vessel, when the two fast boats were seen to
turn and a uin head toward them, the whale
having “ mi ed ” under water.

The captain’s wife looked anxious, and told the
 men to be on their uard, but just after she had

N spoken, a low shrie burst from Jessie, as the
whale. with the harpoons projecting from his
hump, and coils of line around his body, sudden-
ly breached nearly his full length from the deep,
and falling back with the noise of ath underbolt,
came booming on toward the boat, in a cloud of
whirling spray.

“Be careful, men!” gasped Mrs. Bluff, in a
tremulous voice; “ pull out of the way uick l"

“ Yes, for God’s sake, be quick!” exc aimed
Jessie. “Our wounded man will not be able to
help himself if we are stoven l"

The sailor who held the steering-oar—the
ship‘s steward—was evidently not accustomed
to workin a boat; before he could whirl the
li ht era t around, the whale, swimming with

most incredible velocity, dashed full against
the Epinted bow, splintering the light cedar
plan in an instant.

Jesse heard the gurgling shriek of the cap-
tain’s wife; she felt herself sinking; the water
rushed into her mouth and ears; a white cloud
of hissing spray flew before her eyes; her senses
were confused.

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Suddenly she felt something tighten around
her waist; she grasped it wit her hands and
discovered it was a rope. Then the horrible
truth flashed upon her mind; she was caught in
a hight of the whale—line!

A second later, however, she was free; the
pure fresh air of heaven rushed into her nostrils;
a strong arm had taken the place of the line
around her; a pair of black eyes looked into
hers; the musical voice of Warren broke upon
her ears.

“ Don’t be afraid—you are safe nowilcut
the line with my sheath-knife, and heres my
boat to pick us up!"

Strong arms assisted her; she found herself
seated safely upon one of the thwarts.

' “The wounded man, poor Bill, and Mrs.
Bluff, where are they?" she inquired, glancing
round her with anxious eyes.

“All are safe,” re lied Warren, “ all who
were in the boat. ith the exception of one
man who was_slightly bruised, no person was
hurt. See, there they are with Winthrop!“

She turned, and there, true enough, was
Jack’s boat, containing all her friends. The
third mate, who, while his men picked up the
captain’s wife and others, had been swimming
and diving in different directions to search for
Jessie, now clambered into his boat and direct-
ed it alongside of the other.

He thanked the young officer cordially for
saving Jessie’s life, while he frankly acknowl-
edged that he was sorry it had not fallen to his
lot, instead, to rescue her.

“ It was all owing to chance I” laughed War-
ren. “ As luck would have it, I saw her when
she went down, and therefore, kn'ew just where
to strike for her. What difference can it make
which of us saved her, so long as she is saved?”

The oung man colored but did not reply.
After essie had thanked her preserver, he
helped her into the bow-boat.

“And now, good-by!” said Warren, lifting
his cap. “ I’m after that whale again. It was
hardly necessary for both of us to cut from him,
when that boat was stoven.”

He waved his hand, and was soon after seen
pulling in the direction of the other craft, Which,
as soon as it was ascertained that the occupants
of the stoven boat were picked up, had started
ofi' in pursuit of the leviathan. Having put his

party on board, Jack ordered his men to “ give -

way.” ,

" Why, where are you going?” in uired Jes-
sie, peering over the rail. “You wi i not join
in the chase again?”

‘ Yes, we must not give that whale up, yet."

“ But, it is almost sundown.”

“ We may strike our fish before dark.”

“ Well, do be careful,” murmured Jessie, anx-
iously. “ I never knew before what dreadful
creatures those whales are. Poor things—smart-
ing with pain, dying, they are not to blame for
what they do.” ' ‘

“ Well, good-by, I’m off,” exclaimed J ack.’
tJhAnld the light craft darted rapidly away from

8 3 1p.

It was soon among the other boats, which
were now lying motionless, most of the officers
smoking and conversing in low tones.

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whale’e dukes were discerned far away to the
eastward. The order to pull ahead was sounded
from boat to boat, and the oars splashed in the
water.

After pulling until after moonrise without
a sin seeing the whale, the hunters decided to
agendon the chase. It was high time they did
so; for, a strong breeze had now sprung up;
ominous-looking clouds were rolling along the
horizon, and a whizzing, humming noise borne
upon the breeze from windward, prophesied a
tempest.

A light fog, spreading over that part of the
sea where Warren had last seen his vessel, now
vailed the latter from his sight; but he judged
he was fully two leagues to windward of her.

His brother officers had long since gone aboard.

“ I don’t think you’ll be able to find your craft
tovnight,” Mr. Warren, said Bluff, as the Wal-
rus came bounding along to (pick up her boats.
“ You’d better come aboar , with us. You’ll
havens gale that’ll swamp you, in a few min-
utes

“ Thank you,” answered the young oflicer,
coldly; “ but I must refuse to accept your invi-
tation.”

“ Hal Why so?"

“I will never tread the deck of a ship from
which I have once been dismissed."

“ You are very foolish, sir, to peril your life
and the lives of your men for such a reason.”

“ My men are welcome to go on board of you.
In fact, I shall order them to do so. I will re-
main alone in my boat, and try to reach my
ship. If I fail, or get swamped, it matters not.
[b iprgfer losing my life to going aboard your
s .

‘ You talk like a madman!” cried Blufl’.
“ Come! you are on! jestingl”

“‘I am in earnest,‘ answered Warren, calmly.
“ It is hardly worth while to say any more on
the subject.”

“ You do very wrong. sir, to refuse to come
aboard!” exclaimed Winthrop, now gliding
alongside of him. “ Cannot I persuade you
to—

Warren interrupted him with a shake of the
head and wave of the hand.

“ My mind is made up,” he said. " But I
thank you for your kindness 1“

At that moment, the Walrus lufled up close
by, with her main-yard aback; and having made
another vain effort to persuade warren to come
aboard with him, Blufl’ directed his boat along-
side. followed by his shipmates. _

“ Now, then, away you go, lads i” cried Wat-
ren, directing his boat under the fore-chains.
“ Jump aboard 1"

Not a man stirred.

“ We will not leave you, sir!" all exclaimed,
simultaneously. '

The devotion of his men affected the young
officer deeply. He did not show it however, but
with flashing eyes and set teeth repeated his
command.

Still not one of the men moved.

Then, picking up a lance. the second mate di—
rected the point toward his men. _

“ Do you mutiny?" he exclaimed, sternly.
“ Dare you disobey my order?”

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said the harpooner in the bow. “ If it’s mutiny
for us to refuse, why of course we’ll go.”

“ It 1's mutiny,” answered Warren, “ and so
if you disobey me an instant longer, you must
either kill me or I you!”

Then men exchanged glances; then seeing the
harpooner clamber aboard the ship, they imi-
tated his example, directing sorrowful glances
toward Warren as they did so.

“ Whiz-z-zl hoo-ool” came the gale at that
instant, bending the tall masts like corn-stalks,
and throwing the ship almost upon her beam-
ends. Her canvas rattled like a platoon of
musketry; her timbers creaked dismally; the
water flew up boilin and hissing around her
bows, now almost hidden by clouds of flying
spray.

“'F r God’s sake, Mr. Warren, come aboard!”
shrieked Bluff, as the boat crashed against the
ship’s side.

But the young ofiicer shook his head; then
pushed his light craft clear of the quivering ves-
sel. and taking his station at the steering-oar,
disappeared to leeward in the rack. the mist,
and whirling spray of the tempest!

“ God help him i” burst from every man in the
ship; and with clasped hands and white lips
Jessie Howard, who had just heard of what ha
taken place, echoed that cry.

Now, apparently assing along over the heads
of the bearded wha emen, as they tugged and
strained at clewlines and buntlines, a wild hum-
ming, rushing noise was heard as of a great bomb-
shell cleaving the air. A great, sulphurous—
looking cloud rolled over the moon, then 0 ned
like a tunnel, and with a rumbling, whizzing
sound, a terrific blast rushed u on the ship,
tearing her 1i hter canvas to shre s, and driving
lliei‘tthrough t e Sea with the speed of a thunder-

o .

“ Lively there!” roared Bluff, as the men dart-
ed up the quivering shrouds to furl the topsails,
which were by this time hauled up. “ In with
those sails as soon as ou can!"

The ni ht grew dar er and darker; the fury
of the ga e seemed to increase every moment;
great seas came tumbling and crashing over
the bulwarks; the ship tore through the mad,
phosphor-lighted waters, with creaking, groan-

ng hull, whistling shrouds, and masts and yards
cracking and snapping like fire-crackers.

Soon she was un er close-reefed main—to il|
foresail, and topmost staysail; double las ings
were around the boats, to prevent their bein
washed overboard; the hatches were batten
down, and other precautions taken. ,

Trumpet in hand, Bluff stood on the quarter-
deck. sou’wester and jacket dripping, and near
him his first officer, .wearing an oil-skin coat:

Suddenly crackling, booming, crashing over
the weather-rail forward, came a tremendous
sea, surging onward toward the
over which it finally broke, lifting both oficers
from their feet, and dashing them into one of
the potatobins.

The fore—topmast stays had parted, and the
mast breaking short of! near the cap, had fallen ’
with such force n n the already weakened bul- *
Works of the lee— ow, as to carry them fimg‘r“
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board, and hung dangling by the short stretch
of cable fastened to it, and turns of which were
around the Windlass.

The weight of the ponderous mass of iron,
hanging in this way, together with the wreck
of the mast, dragged the bows under water, so
that the forward part of the ship was buried in
the boiling, hissing caldron of the sea even to her
try-works; while the constant, violent thump-
ing of her how against the submerged anchor
threatened every moment to force a hole
through her timbers!

The captain, the first mate and Winthrop ex-
changed glances of disma ;but it was only for
an instant. The next, b ufl’s deep, lion voice
was, heard, ordering the wreck to be cleared
away, and the cable slipped.

Axes were procured, and several men, fasten-
ing ropes around their waists, attempted to
stem the angry tide of waters forward, so as to

ain the Windlass. The seas, however, now

greaking almost continually over the vessel,

drove them back.
i. “ It must be done, Iadsl” cried old Tom
’Blake, now rushin forward and securing the
' end of of the topsml halliards around his breast
“ I've 150!; a wife and
children at home; but I’m w' in’ to risk my
life to save this craft with so many in her."

“No!” exclaimed Jack, quickly unfastening
the halliards and securing them around his own
'“ I have neither wife nor children. I’ll
go in our place!”

And7 before any person could prevent him, he
snatched an ax from the hands of one of the
men, and dashed through the turbulent waters
in the direction of the topmost which now hung
by a single stay.

A heavy sea broke over the ship; the young
mauwas ingulfed~hidden from sight for a few

‘ moments; but he save himself from going over-

board by clinging to the cable. As the wave
receded, he dashed toward the spar, lifted his
ax, severed the stay, and the mast floated clear
of the ship.

Then he directed his attention to the cable;
the sharp, rapid clung of the ax was heard as it
struck the stopper in the hawse-hole every time
the rolling o the ship caused the water to
splash to one side leavmg it clear. ‘

Another seal The oung man was whirled
like lightning from is position, but the hal-
liards revented him from being washed from
the sh , and as soon as he could, he again dash—
ed at t 9 cable.

Clangg clangl clangl It seemed as though
the stu born wedge would never part. Half
the time up to his neck in water, he was obliged
to pause and reap the cable to steady himself.
Again, the fly ng spray would almost blind him,
almost take away his breath.

At last, however. the bow rose with a sudden
jerk; a rumbling sound was heard; the ship was
cleared of the anchor!

But, in dealing the last blow but one, a sud-
den lurching of the craft had whirled the young
man half-way round, causing the edge of the air
to descend upon and sever the halliards, by
which he was fastened, before it struck the
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he .now turned and sprung toward his

 

shipmates, another wave broke over the ship—
he was lifted from his feet and home leeward.
He contrived to grasp a ratline as he was being
whirled over the rail‘ he clung to it with desper-
ate clutch; but it broke just as the wave passed
over his head—just as he was on the point of
s ringing inboard—and he fell into the sea,
a. ongside the fore-chains.

These he quickly seized; as he did so, the ship
rolled almost upon her beam-ends, burying him
in the boiling, hissing waters. He let go the
chains with one hand, and threw the other up-
ward, hoping to grass the shrouds; but he fail-
ed. The ship righ , he was lifted with her
from the water; again his hands were on the
chains; he drew himself up and made a spring
for those tantalizing shrouds, only a foot above
his head.

But, at that moment, he was again plunged
beneath the water by the rolling of the ship;
the fingers of one hand bein cramped, slipped
from the chains;the other and was alread
nearly powerless from the same cause. Stilf,
he clung to his single hold with great tenacity,
and being raised from the water an instant
after, by the righting of the vessel, he saw one
of his shipmates who had clamberei over the
Eail into the chains, leaning forward to grasp

1m.

His heart bounded; he believed he should be
saved, after all. Be uttered a glad cry as the
man seized his jacket, and unable ion or to
maintain his sin is hold, his hand slip from
the chains. Sti l, the sailor above, being a
powerful man, did not let go the jacket.

A moment -later, Blufl, the first oflicer, and
Tom Blake appeared, clambering over the rail.
They were soon in the chains, and old Tom
leaned over to grasp the young oflicer’s arm,
when the ship; plunging Violently, prevented
him. As the ow again rose, be made another
attempt, and would have succeeded, had not the
sudden upward jerking of the vessel caused the
jacket to tear in the hand of the other seamen.

He stood, sonowfuuy holding the detached
piece of cloth while Winthrop was being carried
oil.’ on the crest of a sea into the darkness of the
night and the tempestl ,

CHAPTER V.
ON rim WIDE, WIDE SEA.

HE was a good swimmer, but his arms, ach—
ing from his protracted hold of the chains, could
now only be used with great diflicult , while
the salt water, continually dashing into 8 face,
almost suffocated him.

Half insensible, he strove to rouse himself by
whirling his arms about in the water, when his
hand struck something hard. With a des rate
effort, he threw himself forward, and c asped
the topth which he had cut away from the
Walrus, and which clogged by trailing ropes
and stays, had not been carried along so fast as
the unincumbered form of the oun sailor.
Seizing one of the ropes, he lashed imse f firmly
to the friendly spar.

The storm raged on; the long hours of night
were slowly away, and Jack oiled with joy
the first faint streak of dawn. Now, the violence
of the tempest seemed to abate, there was a
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Jack now swe t the wilderness of waters
with anxious g ances; but there was no sign
of the Walrus; not a sail was in sight.
Far to windward, however, rose the high
land of Cores, looking, like a cloud of
mist, and to leeward the young man thought he
could distinguish some dark object resembling
a log of wood, which was occasionally tossed on
the crest of awave. He unfastened his lash—
ings, and poising himself for an instant on the
floating spar, he was able to make out a boat
With a man seated in it.

"It must be Warren!" he exclaimed. “ He
has braved the tempest in his frail craft!"

He took off his jacket, and waved it about his
head, several times; but it was soon evident the
signal was not seen; for the boat, seeming to

'grow smaller and smaller, betokened that it

was receding instead of approaching.

A feeling of sadness and desolation came over
him; he rose and again made signals, but with
no better result than before. Scan, the boat
seemeda mere speck; but be resolved to make
one more effort before it (1 from his sight.
Cutting oil', with his sheet -knife, a piece of one
of the stays, which was almost as hard and stiff
as a stick, he put his jacket on the end of it, and
flourished it above his head, hopin that the
height of the garment would enable arren to
see it.

He was disappointed-—the boat continued to
recede, until, at last, he could no longer see iii——
he bowed his head with a heavy sigh. A dryness
in his throat warned him of the horrors of thirst
in store for him. He looked toward the land;
be doubted not that fresh water could there be
procured, but how was he to reach it?

Pausing occasionally to rest, he continued his
exertions until sundown. But the land seemed
no nearer than before.

A light fog creeping along the sea, now
mingled with the twilight shadows; the land
was hidden from the young sailor’s gaze. Sev—
eral times, during the long night that followed,
he caught himself falling into a doze; it was
with great difficult he contrived to keep awake
until morning. hen it came, he discovered
that the ocean was still shrouded by the fog.

Toward noon, the fog cleared beforea fresh
breeze from the land' but he could make no
progress by dling. The short. chop ing seas,
now disturbing the ocean, resisted b efiorts;
he was carried backward instead of forward.

Another day passed—another morning dawned.

upon the ocean, which was. still agitated by that
merciless chopping sea. Anxiously he glanced
around him, in all directions; stil no sail was
in sight.

And so the long hours passed away, and
the shadows of another night had begun to ap-

roach, when chancing to look toward the east,
he thought be distinguished some dark object
floating upon the sea. He ressed his hand to
his feverish brow; he leaned orward and strain-
ed his eyes almost to bursting, to assure himself
that his imagination had not deceived him. It
had not; he was certain now; the object was a
boat containing a single occupant, and scarcely
time miles off. _

Guy Warren again!

Up went the jacket; it was waved again and

 

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again about the young man’s head; the lone
boatman, he thought, would not fail to see him
now. But, before he could decide whether or
not the signal had been discovered, the darkness
closed around him, hiding the frail craft from
his view. Suddenly a flood of silvery light shot
atbwart the sea. He turned to see then per
half of the moon’s disk, and also clearly de ned
in the soft radiance the figure of Guy Warren,
seated in the stern-sheets of the boat, which he
was sculling toward the land.

He was not more than tWenty fathoms ahead
of the spar, which he had passed in the dark-
ness without seeing. This sight almost drove
Winthrop mad. He strove a second time to
make himself heard, but his throat felt as if it
would crack with the effort.

Accordingly, leaning from the spar, Jack
struck the water with the palms of his hands,
making as much noise as his feeble strength
would permit. It was not loud enough, how-
ever, to reach the ears of the young officer; it
was in a measure drowned by the swashing of
the waves. There was no time to lose; the boat
was fast receding' it would soon be too far oh‘;
for its occupant to hear any noise that could be
made by the other. ,

So the latter, unfastening his lashings, dropped
from the spur and floundered about in the
water, using his feet as well as his hands. The ‘
splashing was now loud enough to have the de~
sired effect. Warren turned, leaned ea erly
over the stern of the boat; then, with as out
of mingled surprise and encouragement, he
whirled the boat around and directed it toward‘
the spar. But the little strength which had
enabled Jack to make his demonstration, now .
forsook him. He threw, his arms around the
spar, and strove to draw himself up, but he was
too weak, and fell back into the sea. The
water gurgled in his ears; he was unable, even,
to keep himself afloat; he was sinking.

With one last despairing effort be stretched
forth his arms, and contrived to work himself-
upward, sotbat his head protruded above the
water. But it was only for an instant; the
next he sunk again; his brain grew bewildered,
his senses were leaving him, when he felt a
strong arm around his waist. A moment later '
he Opened his eyes in the boat, to meet the
glance of Warren, who was bending over him.

“Water,” he gasped, and in an instant the ‘
mouth of the booths was between his lips. '
He drank deeply; a Sig of relief escaped him;
h; tilt refres ed, and gratefully murmured his
is an s.

“You have evidently had a. hard time of it,
Winthrop,” said his preserver, kindly. “ Here
is some food for you, such as it is. I wish I had
better fare to give you." And he slipped three
sea-biscuits into the other’s hand.

Of all the rich banquets ever invented to

please the palate, it is doubtful that one ever , t. 

afforded half the enjoyment felt b Jack, as he
greedin devoured the first biscuit e had tasted
for several days. He had commenced upon
another, when the thought suddenly struck him
that a man who had been adrift in a boat for an

ual length of time, must be very short of pro-
visions himself. Of this he was convinced,
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from which the crackers had been taken, he
discovered that it was empty; so be put down
the tempting! food, and resolutely turned his
eyes away from it.

' “ They are all you have,” said he. “ I have

‘ already drank up all your water; I will not
deprive you of your little stock of provision.”
“N onsensel” cried Warren, laughing. “ I’ve
had three biscuits every day while in the boat,
and you, have had nothing. Eat what there is
left, I beg of you, and when we get ashore I’v’e
no doubt we can find provisions of some kind.”
“ No.” said J uck, still keeping his eyes turned

' awayv'from the tempting biscuits. “However,
’- , 'I’ll agree to eat, if you’ll share with me.“

’ And breaking the crackers into pieces, he di-

' vidsd them into two e mi] portions or heaps.

V r, “ Very well, if you’l have it so,” said Warren
 smiling, as he thrust one of the heaps into his

‘ jacket pocket.

‘ But while his companion was eating his own

’ portion, he contrived to put piece after piece
. upon the pile by his (Jack’s) side, so that with-
ii out knowing it, the latter devoured both shares.
 Afterward, each related to the other his adven-
turns, since the two parted.

‘ Warren had contrived, with much difficulty,
to keep his boat from filling during the tempest.
 When the gals subsided he commenced tosearch

; ,for his ship, but without the slightest success,

‘ and having at last nearly exhausted his stock of
. provisions, he had thought it best to seek the

shore, whither he was bound when he discovered
’ ac .

9‘ We may reach the land by to-morrow noon,”
he, continued; " and in the meanwhile, I’d advise
you to lay down and get‘some sleep, which you
need very much." -

. Jack required no second bidding; he stretched

himself along the bottom of the boat, and throw-
ing an old boat-sail over him, was soon fast
asleep.

’ When he woke, the sun was high in the bes—
vens; he heard a loud roaring, and rising, saw
the surf about a league ahead, breaking over
the rocks along the island shores of the Corean
Archipelago.

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“No, thank you. I am not tired. I’ve had
my in every night, while in the boat. You

need a 1 the rest you can get."
’ \ “You're a good fellow," cried Jack, impul-
sively “ and I like you."
‘ ,“‘ e began by disliking each other, I believe,”
cried the second mate, laughing and extending
his hand. “ I am glad our feelings toward each
other have changed. From this moment, let us
I be friends.” ,
“Willingly. You have saved my life, also
that of one who is very dear to me. I owe you
a debt of gratitude. that can never be suificient—
ly repaid.” ,
’ I“ That is not worth speaking of. _ I simply did
what any person of common humanity would
havs'done under the same circumstances. See!
he current is now helping us along. We will
soon be ashore.”
' Fifteen minutes after, the boat struck the
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. men pulled the light craft as high up as they -

could, and started off in search of water. They
quenched their thirst, after which they picked
out a small cave to serve the purpose of a shel-
ter while they remained ashore. Into this re-
treat they dragged the heat-sail, and also can
ried the harpoons, lances and line~tubs, that
they might not be spoiled by rain.

At night, the climate being quite cold, they
built a fire of some driftwood, picked up from
the strand, and resting themselves by the blaze
in their rocky nook, felt very comfortable.
Each of the men had a pipe, and Warren being
provided with tobacco, they were soon enjoying
a smoke. Pulling away, and conversing pleas~
antly, they remained awake until a late hour,
when, rolling themselves in the boat-sail, they
threw themselves down with their feet toward
the blaze, and were soon fast asleep.

A little after midnight, Warren was quite
certain he heard, for an instant, the shar tones
of a. masculine voice; also the striking o a pad-
dle against the side of a boat. He listened for
a repetition of the sounds, but his vigilance was
unrewarded,and he walked on toward the beach,
wondering who the mysterious visitor or visi-
tors could be. Suddenly he started; he was
close to the rock to which the whale-boat had
been fastened, but the vessel had disappeared.
He examined the stone, to see if the rope had
not slipped from it, and the boat been car—
ried away by the rising of the tide. Such how-
ever was not the case; the warp had been cut
by a knife

The young officer remained awake until
dawn, feeling, now, that it was necessary to
keep a. vigilant watch. As the morning light
stole over the sea, be mounted the high rock
near the beach, and scrutinized the islands and
the channels between them: but he could nei-
ther see any signs of the lost boat, nor of the
thieves who had stolen it. There was no but.
tent, or bower of any kind visible. He returned
to the cave, and finding Jack awake, related
what had happened.

The young man was much grieved and sur-
prised at the ocourrence, and a sad with his

friend that it was necessary to eep a vigilant

watch in the night time.

“ We have our harpoons, harness, and line-
tubs,’7 said he, “ which, according to appear-
ancas, we may yet find of great use to us. The
rascals must not be allowed to get hold of them.”

“ Certainly not, and—"

He suddenly paused, pointing seaward; and
in that direction, Jack was overjoyed to behold
a sail. He remarked that,_they,were not now in
need of the boat; the vessel was approaching;

it was probably the Walrus or Warren’s ship.‘

“ We will soon betaken on board," he continued.

“ If it prove to be yours,” said Warren, “ we
will havetopart. I will not set foot on the
deck of that craft. I shall prefer tostay here.”

Feeling quite confident that the approaching
ship was his, Jack endeavored, but vainly, to
change his friend’s purpose. While they were
still arguing the matter, the vessel drew near
enough to convince both that 'she was the Wal-
rus. They could make out the peculiar cut of
her sails and also the stump of the topth for-
ward; she being now less than a league dis-
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she tacked; it was evident her lookouts had not
yet seen the two men.

Jack now turned, with the intention of going
to the cave to procure a lance-pole, so asto
make a signal, when an ejaculation of surprise
escaped him. A curious-looking boat, about
twelve feet in length, having a small open
cabin in the center with windows of transparent
oyster-shells, and a high how, bad just been
moored alongside of a rock not far from the
cave, and its crew were stepping ashore.

They were twelve in number, most of them
tall, well-built, and provided with long knives,
and sticks of bamboo. They wore pith-hats,
loose trowsers, short owns, confined about the
waist with leathern Its, and coarse-looking
shoes turned up in front. Their faces were
brown and weather-beaten; their small, black
eyes twinkled with an expression of mingled
cruelty and deceit.

Both men saw this strange party nearly at
the same moment; a quick, expressive glance
was exchanged between them: without a word,
they darted to their cave, and picked up the
lances and harpoons it contained. Instantly a
fierce shout burst from the Coreans; they ad—
vanced, brandishing their sticks and knives.
The seamen, however, having the start of them,
succeeded in gaining the top of the rock they
had quitted.

This rock was about thirty feet in hight, and
its sides too smooth beto climbed without the aid
of a rope or ladder. The summit could only be
reached by means 0! a ledge in the side facing
the west, and which was so narrow that the
Coreans, in order to ascend it, would be obliged
to walk in sin leflle. Two resolute men, like

‘ Winthrop and arren, armed with latices and

but us, might, therefore, dispute the passage
ago. ust ten times. their number, until lack of
provisions should so weaken them as to deprive
them of the power of handling their weapons.

CHAPTER VI.
A TASTE OF COREAN LIFE.

A roam? individual. with gray hair, and
whose chip-hat was cocked in rather “ dandy”
style on one side of his head, now advanced a
few steps. and politely beckoned to the seamen
with his stick.

“Come down i” he exclaimed. “Starve up
there, bimeby. No hurt; friend to Englishers.
Take you to China. Me good man. Tellee you
my name is Chung.”

“ Well, Chung.” replied Warren, contemptu-
ously, “ I will inform you that I can read faces.
In urs I See ‘ hoary-headed rascal,’ as plainly
as see this rock i” ‘

The eyes of the robber twinkled fiercely; he
shook his stick menacing] and rejoined his
companions. Soon they a l withdrew to the
mouth of the cave seated themselves by the
fire, and replenished it; then procuring earthen

ts from their boats, proceeded to cook a break-

ast of rice and tea.

Meanwhile, like cats watching mice, they
kept their eyes fixed upon our friends. They
had either concluded to wait until the poor fel-
lows should be starved from their position. or
hoped they would find an opportunit to pounce
9130i: them unawares, under cover 0 the night.

 

'ing forward to seize it, his toot struck against a

 

The young seamen, howavar, had resolved to
keep a sharp watch; and when at last the night ,
closed around them, dark and cloudy, they sta-
tioned themselves close to the ledge, lance in
hand, as vigilant as tigers waiting for their

PreY- .

Suddenly Jack leaned eagerly forward' he .
thought he could detect the faint outlines of dark
figures near the foot of the ledge.

“ Hist! there they are!” he whispered to War—
ren, “let us give them a lesson!”

And, lifting his lance, he was on the point of ,
hurling it, when a large fragment of rock came ‘
whizzing through the air, knocking the weapon
from his grasp. This was followed by a heavy -
shower 0 stones, not one of which, however, -,
took elfect' and when the two men hurled a ‘ 'l
couple of lances toward the spot where they
believed the rascals were stationed, they heard
them beating a hasty retreat. On pulling in the 
weapons by means of the long war p attached to , 
the end of each pole. they were considerabl 
amused to find a chip-hat attached to Warren 3 —‘
lance. The sharp steel had passed through the' '
middle of it, evidently in the closest proximity
to the wearer’s head.

so

“ Avgood dartl” cried Jack, laughing. . ,
“ Ay, ay, but it would have been a otter one ,i
if the lance had struck a few inches lower," an— , g ';
swered Warren. with a grim smile. , 
He poised the hat ugon his hand to examine ~,
it, when a puff of win carried it off. On spring-, 

protuberance near the further end of the rock, ‘
andd he fell to the bottom upon a bed of soft
san .
“ Are you hurt?" whispered Jack from above.
“ No, not in the least; but I don’t see how I’m, ,
to get back. , Those rascals are guarding the
bottom of the ledge on the other side." V
Jack reflected a moment; a happy thought
was the result. \
“There are the line-tubs,” he whispered.
“It you can get to the cave without being
seen you can throw an end of one of the coils '
upnto me; I will secure it so that you can climb.

 

“Thank you; a good idea.” 1 ._
And he proceeded cautiously toward the cave. v x ‘
He had not walked many stops when he sud— ._
denly paused; he saw the outline of a figure
near the entrance of the rocky nook. A faint
light from the smoldering embers of the fire,‘
hOWever, showed him that the man's head was
turned away from him, so, crouching to his
knees, he crept on. y , _
Soon he was quite close to the Corean who
then turned and saw him. He sprung up, draw-
ing his knife, when, with a single blow, dealt
between his eyes, the young officer stretched him
senseless. Now, however, hearing footsteps a
proachin . he felt there was not a moment
spare. e seized the end of_ one of the coils of
line, and With a couple of bounds gained the
foot of the rock. *
“All right?” inquired Jack from above.
“ Ay, ay; stand by to catch the linel” and he,
flung it upward. . n
The other seized it with a seaman’s dexterity
andkfastened it securely around a piojectioo 
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“ All ready!” he whispered, and Warren
seized the rope.

At that instant he heard steps close behind
him; he drew himself up, and had begun to
ascend, hand—over—hand, when his legs were
firml grasped by seine person below, who in-
stantly set up a loud shout. They grappled and
fell upon the ground, rolling over and over in a
desperate struggle, the robber screaming and
shouting and grinding his teeth. Finally, this
man succeeded in drawing his knife; he made a
furious plunge at the heart of his antagonist.
But Warren saw the flash of the blade in time,
and avoided the stroke by rolling over; then,
drawing his sheath-knife, he drove it to the hilt
in the other’s throat.

All this transpired in a few minutes. The com-
panions of the man whom Warren had stabbed

ad not yet arrived, though they were now very
near, and with a single bound the young officer
once more sprung to the rope.

Just as be grasped it, however, he was seized
from behind and hurled down. Dark forms
surrounded him, binding his arms and ankles;
one of the rascals showered blows upon him
with his stick.

At this juncture, Jack, who was now resolved
to die if necessary in defense of his friend,
sprung from the top of the rock, lance in hand,
and drove the weapon through the body of the
Corean who was beating the prostrate man.

The robber fell with a sharp cry; then Win-
throp was thrown to the ground, his hands and
feet wore secured, and he was beaten with sticks
until nearly’ senseless.

Several anterns, li hted with tinder paper,
were now brought mm the boat, and held -
up so as to reveal the bruised faces of the pris-
oners, upon which the Coreans gazed with
cruel delight, uttering exultant cries, and flour-
ishing their sticks as if to inflict further punish-
ment. In fact, several of them drew their
knives, with tho evident intention of cutting the
seamen’s throats on the sgot; but they Were £1"?
vented by the corpulent hung, who seeme to
hold a position of some authority.

“ No want killeel” he exclaimed, giving War-
ren’s hair a violent pulling. “ Going sellee for
plenty cash ,' for slave.”

“ Better kill me, you rascally dog," replied
the young officer, grinding his teeth. “ I’d
rather you would; I will never consent to work

as a slave.”

' “ No care for dat. S’pose get cash; dat's all
me care about,” answered Chung, grinning
maliciously. _ .

Then followed such a din of clattering tongues
as had never before greeted the ears of the seam
men. The majority of the Coreans seemed to
wish to put an end to the prisoner’s lives at once,
in order to avenge the death of their comrades
whose ghastly faces were now distinctly re-
. . vealed in the lantern’s glare, turned up from the
sandy beach.

 

CHAPTER VII.

Fain:an AT HAND.
/ QHUNG and the few who took sides with him,
being the most eloquent, flnall succeeded in

 

silencin thelro ponents. The (68d men were
stripped8 of ther clothing. A deep hole was

 

dug with paddles in the soft sand, and they
were buried. Then, one of the party, ascending
the rock, destrcyed Jack’s signal, while the
rest proceeded to convey the lances, harpoons,
line—tubs and other articles into their boat.

The prisoners were seized by the cuffs of their
jackets, and dragged unceremoniously to the
vessel, into which they were thrown as sheep
are tossed into a, butcher’s wagon. Soon the
craft was manned, and the crew plying their
paddles vigorously, it glided swiftly along one
of the island channels. A few minutes after, it
was moored alongside of a flat rock, and the
warp being fastened to a stake, the seamen
were dragged ashore and thrust into a cavern,
not far from the bone .

Four of the party were left to guard them, the
rest entering a long, low building, which, by the
light of the lanterns, the captives could perceive
was rudely constructed of mud. stones and some
pieces of timber, evident] the remains of a
wreck. They also notic the stolen whale-
boat, lying within a few yards of them, secured

to a bamboo-pole thrust in the sand; and a faint V

hope of regaining their liberty flafihed at once
upon the minds of both.

At daylight, a dish of boiled rice and some
green tea in a China cup were placed before the

risoners, who were freed from their bonds
ong enough to rtake of this refreshing meal.

The seamen ad no sooner finished their re
past, and been a sin secured, than their cap-
tors, accom uni by several gigantic fellows
whom they the prisoners) had not seen before,
emerged from their lodging, and gathered in
front of the cave.

An animated discussion took place. Chung,
as on a previous occasion, made himself quite
conspicuous by his eloquence; but it was now,
apparently, without its effect upon some of
his auditors, who seemed more inclined to listen
to a few brief, decided words, occasional] ut-
tered by the tallest man in the group. H s ro-
marks, however, it was evident, were not in the
prisoners’ favor; for, whenever he spoke, his

rtisans would lay their hands upon their

nives, and glance fiercely toward the whale-

men.

At last Chung relapsed into moody silence;
when, advancing into the cave, the giant al-
luded to, motioned to several of his comrades,
who at once sprung forward. They seized the
prisoners roughly, and, pullin them from the
cavern, dragged them tower the beach. A
flat rock was soon reached, when one of the
party, seizing Winthrop, threw him _upon the
top of it on his back. Another, grasping a lock
of his hair, jerked his head downward, while a
third, drawing his knife, commenced sharpen-
ing the weapon upon a stone.

Almost breathless with excitement, the cor-
pulent Chung now rejoined the gang, and an
animated conversation ensued between him and
the tall Corean who had previously shown his
authority. Meanwhile the sha
the knife continued to jar upon he ears of the
prostrate youth, who was still held in his un-
comfortable position by his malicious tor-
mentors. .

He exhibited, however, no sign of fear or

pain, although inwardly he could not help shud-

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daring at the thought of his impending fate.
Prostrate upon the ground not far of! lay Guy
Warren, his eyes, flashing with the rage ex—
cited by the torture to which his friend had
been subjected. He writhed and twisted his
limbs, vainly endeavoring to loosen his bonds,
that he might at least strike one good blow in
defense of his chum.

Suddenly chancingto turn his eyes toward
the whaleboat, he noticed that five of Chung‘s
adherents—at least he believed them such—
were seated in the light craft watching the two
disputants with the most eager attention. One
of the men fingered his drawn knife, the edge
of which rested as if b accident upon the rope
that held the vessel to he is; the others were
provided with paddles. e watched both par-

'es narrowly, and presently saw the corpulent
Corean make a scarcely perceptible motion with
the palm of his hand extended, when the man
in the bow of the boat quickly drew the edge of
his knife across the warp, severing it at once.
The vessel was now afloat.

At this moment, however, the knife—sharpener
having completed his task, bent over the pros-
trate youth, and was on the point of cuttin
his throat, when. with one hand, Chung glib
the sufferer quickly from the rock in the
water, the men who held the oung sailor‘s arm
and hair havin let go their old as the dagger
was 11 lifted. he whaleboat was now along-
side 0 the rock; its occupants sprung out;
thrust Winthrop into the vessel; then rushed to
the beach to help Chung, who, havin with two
blows 1' his kni e severed Warren’s nds, was
assi by the latter fighting his way toward
the boat.

The interference of Chung‘s men was now all
that saved the American from being stabbed.
He was dragged into the boat alon with the
fat Corean, and the next moment the ight craft
was speeding swiftly over the waters of the
channel. The men on the beach, five in num-
ber, yelled fiercely, gesticulating to the boat-
men, and evidently striving to persuade them
to come back, but allto no purpose; and so,
springing into the other craft, they started in
pursuit of the fa tives.

"I perceive have made a mistake,” said
Warren, holding out his hand to Chung, “in
believing that you were our enemy. This last
movement on your part shows that in you we
have a friend, and—’ ’

He paused and drew back the proffered hand.
The mouth of the other was twisted derisively
to one side; a malicious twinkle in his eyes
made them shine like those of a snake. He said
something to his rty in slow voice, when,
dropping their dles, they threw themselves
upon the young man, and secured his wrists
and ankles with some lance-warps taken from
the stern of the boat.

“ Me no friend to Englishers.” granted Chung.
“Me wish to take and sellee for slave. Bong,
oder man and my brudder, wish to killee you.
Me say no; me want to get plenty cash for you.
'See why me get you away; dat’s itl”

“ You are a villain—a shark—a labberly
scoundrell" cried Warren. “1 would a thou-
sand times rather have my throat cut than be

a slave.”
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“ And I tool” cried Jack. “ I hope the other "
boat will overtake us!"

“ No chance of dat!" replied Chung, grinning.
“ Hong. my brother, lazy man, and his boat big ‘

'one. No catchee up wid us."

In fact, the men having again seized their
paddles, the whaleboat was now bounding
through the water like a rocket, ra idly increas
ing the distance between it and he pursuing
craft. Soon the latter was no longer in si ht,
and Chung grinned maliciously, as he mar ed
the moody brow and flashing e es of Warren.

The crew continued plying t eir paddles with
great vigor until sundown, when they paused
to refres themselves with a drinkof water, and
a quantity of rice which had been stowed away
in the stern—sheets of the boat. The arms of the

risoners were untied, some of the food put be-
ore them, and being very hungry they did
ample justice to the simple fare, after which,
their wrists were again secured, and the light
craft propelled on its way.

The Coreans worked all night with but little
intermission; at dawn, the coast was visible a
league ahead; soon after sunrise, the boat‘s keel
grated on a hard beach lined with numerous
rocks. The captives were pulled ashore, and
the boat was hauled out of the water, and care-
fully concealed in a cavity, the entrance of
which was stopped up, with a rock fra ment.
Then the cords about the ankles of t e prisoners
were cut, and they were ordered to move for-
ward—their guard ranging themselves on each
side of them.

They ascended a ru ged ledge, leading to the
summit of a high roc , affordingI an extensive
view of the sea, and also of the igh mountain
land far away toward the interior of the
country. And now the Corean uttered a loud
exclamation ‘ the eyes of Winthrop gleamed ' his
heart fairly bounded; for not more than half a
league distant, the gallant Walrus suddenly
burst to view from a ofty headland!

Then a brief consultation took place, during'
which, to Winthrop’s great joy, the main yet
of the Walrus was hauled a ack and a boat
lowered. He thought he could distinguish a
female figure in the stern-sheets; but before he
could satisfy himself upon that point, he and
Warren were forced back to the beach at the
foot of the elevation. Chung leading the way,
the party moved on, and finally crawled into
one of the hollows or caverns among the piles of
rocks close to the water. -

Crouching to the sand, they gag ed the mouths
of the prisoners with two of their boo-sticks,
then sat as motionless as statues, their eyes
turned toward the small entrance of the cave,
which was almost covered by great bunches of
droo in seaweed. Soon the sound of footsteps
and on voices proclaimed that the crew had,
landed and were descending the ledge. Win"
throp we? certain he could recognize the tones
of severe of the speakers; among the rest those
of Tom Blake, though the party were too far ofl
to enable him to hear what they said. ,

As they drew nearer, however, both the young '
men heard a voice which could never be for»
gotten; it was the voice of Jessie Howard.

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f their knives more tightly; their eyes glittered;
they were prepared for combat.

', ’ colorless; her once bright eyes were full of tears.

' Blake.

 hands, and eager eyes, stood watching

r can’t help feeling as if it was Jack.”

- “ guardian." Soon, Jack’s shipmates were close

“it; but no——they did not, on account of the
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I saw the figure. He stood upon the rock, and
as I’ve already told you, was dressed exactly
like poor Jack on the night he fell overboard; I
saw the gleam of his white canvas pants, and
could almost make out the blue colors of his
jacket. Ahl I don’t know what it is,” she con-
tinued in tremulous tones, “ but ever since that
fearful night, I have felt as if he was not
drowned after all.”

“I don’t know about that,” answered Tom
Blake. “ I‘d like to give you encouragement,
Miss Jessie, if I could, but for my part I don’t
see how the poor lad could have been saved on
such a night. I won’t deny your seeing a man
standing on that rock. P’r’aps you did see him
-—although I’m afraid your fancy deceived on,
as you haven’t rested day or night, a-thin ing
of poor Jack—but I may say almost of a sar-
tainty, that it wasn’t our third matel”

“I was not deceived,” replied Jessie, reso
lutely. “I saw the figure as plainlyasI see
you, and ran down into the cabin at once to tell
the captain. When I came up again, the fi ure
was gone, and so you all think I was mista en.
Oh, I am certain, very certain I saw it,’at:d

“Well, well, dry your pretty eyes, Miss Jes-
sie," responded Blake; “if he’s here we must
find him, though it’s droll none of the lookouts
saw him. P’r‘aps, hows‘ever, they were all look-
ing ahead.” ‘

Both Warren and Jack now struggled fiercely
in the grasp of those who held them, hoping thus
to ma 9 them speak or do something which
might lead to their detection; but all in vain.
Not a whis er escaped the lips of the Coreans;
they scarce y breathed; but, with knives drawn
ready to fight if discovered, they now leaned
over the prostrate men, bearing their whole
weight upon them, while with cat-like vigilance
watchin the entrance of the cave. Presently,
the wha omen were heard approaching; the con-
cealed party saw them as they came on, and be
lieved they would be detected. They grasped

The girl followed the seamen; her cheek was

Jack groaned inwardly to witness her changed
apgearance; he now understood how deeply she
h mourned for him, and his heart earned to-
ward her. She walked with a quic step: her
face wore an eager. anxious expression; it was
evident she still indulged the hope of finding her

to the cave; it seemed to him that they must see

over it, and the heart of the
youfiig man sun as he heard them passing the
too .

“ Stay where you are, Miss Jessie I” cried Tom
“You can never get over the piles of
rocks yonder, behind which we are now going
tomrch; though I’m afraid it’ll be for noth-

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friends until they had passed from her sight.

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begin to think it was not be; otherwise he would
not have quitted the rock and disappeared in
this mysterious manner!”

CHAPTER VIII.
THE TRIO ESCAPE.

CHUNG smacked his lips and began to count
on his fingers. He also grinned and chuckled
softly; a bright idea seemed to have occurred to
him. The two prisoners watched him keenly—-
they writhed in their bonds like wounded tigers.
The Corean “ poked “each of them in the ribs
with his bamboovstick.

“Plenty cash I” he whispered, “ girl make
good slave!”

So 59. iug, he crawled forward, and thrusting
his hea through the opening, “ peer ” at the
maiden like a fat spider watchin 3 fl . Her
back was toward him—she was on y a ew feet
from the cave. He retreated into the cave,
whispered a few words tohis men, then crawl-
ing quickly through the entrance, he sprung to
the side of the young girl, threw an arm around
her waist and pressed his hand over her mouth
to stifle her cries. The same moment. one of his
men glided from the cave, and pulling the frag-
ment of rock from the entrance of the hollow
containing the boat, drew the latter alongside of
the beach. Then he tied a piece of cotton cloth.
over Jessie’s mouth and secured her wrists with».
cords, after which Chung carried her into the
boat. Though probably never before soatartled.
and terrified as now, yet she did not swoon.

And now, sudden] emerging from the cave"
came the rest of the oreans, pushing and drag-4
ging the male prisoners toward her. She reco —-
nized the young officers at once: her brain rec —
ed: her joy on being thus convinced that her'
“guardian " was alive, her anguish at finding;
him a prisoner in the hands of the cruel natives,
inspired her with conflicting emotions. The ex-~
citement was too much for her; she sunk, faint—
ing‘, upon one of the thwarts of the boat.

she captives were thrust into the vessel; the
crew seized their pladdles and the craft glided
swiftly along the s ores of the coast, receding
further and fu that every moment from the

t where Bla e’s party were still prosmuting
1: air search, and from the boat manned by the
pursuing Coreans.

Meanwhile. the feelings of Winthrop and
Warren, as they lay bound and helfltless in the
bottom of the vessel, unable to str 9 a single
blow for the senseless girl reclining in the stern-
sheets. almost drove them mad. he veins up-
on their foreheads were swollen almost to burst:
ing: with clinched teeth and flashing eyes they
glowed fiercely upon their captors.

Presently, Chung poured some cold water up-
on the face of the unconscious girl: soon a faint
flush came to her cheek; she opened her eyes
and gazed wildly around her until her glances
fell upon the male captives, when the recollec-
tion of past events rushed at once upon her mind.
The cloth being now taken from her mouth and
her two friends relieved of their gags. the three
were at liberty to converse.

Explanations followed, and the young girl-
seemed almost to forget her own melancholy
situation, while listenin to the account of the.
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ued, meanwhile, to work their paddles, and in
the course of an hour, the pursuing boat was
nearly out of sight astern. Chung now whis-
pered a few words to his men, when they di-
rected the vessel into one of the many rocky
ha 5 that opened along the coast.

resently, the boat struck the beach and the
Co cans landed with their prisoners. As soon
as the craft had been pulled ashore and con-
cealed among some of the rocks, in the some
way as before, the gang surrounded the cap-
tives and ordered them to move forward.
Passing through a gorge between two lofty
cliffs, the party continued on, over a rugged,
uneven country for several hours, when a halt
was ordered. Jessie felt very tired and was
glad of an opportunity to rest. fire was
made. and some tea and rice which had been
purChased by Chung, from the inhabitant of a
miserable-looking mud-house, was prepared.

In this way, the party proceeded untllsun~
down—pausing only a few minutes atatime
for rest and drink—when they halted in a grove,
nears tract of marshy land. After the usual
meal of rice and strong tea had been served up.
Chglfi informed his prisoners that he intended
to ht. 6 this place their camping-ground for the
hi

large fire was then made, and the Coreans
seating themselves around it smoked their pipes
and chatted until late at night,.when, with the
exception of one man who was stationed as a
rd, they threw themselves down by the blaz-
mg logs and dropped to sleep.

“ Now, then ” whispered Jack, “ if we could
only free curse ves from these bonds!”

As he spoke one of the blazing 10 in front
of the bower, being burnt through t 6 middle,
parted, and the fragments rolled so close to J es-
sie that she was obliged to draw back to prevent
her dress from taking fire.

Instantly, a sudden happy thought flashed
'upon Warren’s mind. He glanced at the sen-
tinel, and perceived that his back was toward
the shelter; the man evidently feeling too cone
fldent in the security of his prisoners to keep a
vigilant watch; in fact, leaning upon his ham-
boo-pole, he was dozing; the Coreans around the
fire were fast asleep; the portly Chung, with his
nose turned upward, was snoring lustily.

“ Now. then, the second mate whispered to
Joe , “ you shall see how quickly I will rid my-
self of these cords.”

So saying, he cautiously worked himself close
to the blazing pieces of wood; then he turned
his back toward them, and thrusting out his
wrists, rested the cards on one of the fragments.
The strands were burned through in a few sec-
onds, and thou h he blistered his skin badly, he
‘scarcely heed the pain, for his arms were now
at libert . He unfastened the cords about his
ankles, t on proceeded to free his companions.
This was soon done; but as the three sprung to
their feet the sentry turned and saw them.

Before lie could utter a word, however, he was
knocked senseless b a blow of J ack's list. The
noise made by the all was not loud enough to
wake those around the fire; and so, gagging and
binding the sentinel, the three frien s were soon
many yards from their late uncomfortable
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along with all possible dis etch, assisting Jessie
over the rough ground. he night being quite
dark, they were obliged to feel their way, but
they believed they were moving toward the sea~
coast.

“ We will have to stop pretty soon,” said
Warren, after the had proceeded a few miles.
“Miss Howard, I now, is very tired.”

“ No.” she re lied, “ I can go many miles fur-
ther. The joy feel on account of our escape,
makes me quite strong. For Heaven’s sake, let
us get as far upon our way, under cover of the
darkness, as we possibly can."

“ We will," said Jack; “but when you are
tired, you must let us know, and we will make
a stretcher for you, and carry you upon it, be-
tween us.”

“ That would be very nice," she said, merrily,
“ but I am afraid it would fatigue you to carry
such a heav load as I am.”

“ Not in t e least,” said Warren. “ I think
we had better go to work at once and make the
stretcher; unless I am much mistaken, I see the
outlines of trees directly ahead of us; we can
break off some of the branches—"

“ Oh, no," she interrupted. “ you need not stop
for that now. I am not tired enough yet. When
I am, I will let you know.”

After they had continued on their way a
couple of hours. however, the youn seamen
felt certain that Jessie was much fatigued, al»
though not a word of complaint escaped her,
and she had just stated that she could go much
further.

They mounted a tree, and breaking 011’ a num-
ber of branches. large and small, soon framed
a rude stretcher, the cross-pieces being fasten-
ed with strong pieces of twine, such as are gen-
erally found among the miscellaneous articles
a good sailor always carries stowed away in his
pockets. .

Jessie seated herself upon it, according to di-

rections. and was soon being borne forward. .

with a celerity that surprised her.

“ You must be very strong to carry me in
this way," she said to her companions. “ But
you should walk slower. You will fatigue your-
selves."

“ You are as light as an infant. J essie,” said
Jack; “ that is why we can carry you so easil ."

“ I think you are mistaken," she replied a lit
tle piqued, for she did not like to be c assed with
very ‘ light weights.” “ You may think so be-
cause you areso strong. I am not very tall, it is

true, but my weight”— and here she spoke in a v '

solemn voice—“ is at least abundred and twanty
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CHAPTER IX.
ms: PURSUIT.

SUDDENLY the two men stopped. , Far ahead
they distinguished a light, moving toward them.
Jessie saw it, too, and she sprung from the
stretcher.

“ They are coming.” she exclaimed, “ some or
the ship’s crew. They have been sent in search
of me. Oh, I am so glad that our friends are at
hand!”

“ I am not sure they are our friends," said
Jack. “I would not have you feel too hopeful,
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“ Who else can they be?” she replied. “ Oh,
Jack, they must be a party from the ship."
Warren scrutinized the light with a seaman’s

c e. i
y“ I think it moves too steadily to be carried
by a sailor. There isn’t enough swing to it."

“ You forget,” said Jack “that we have a
few Kanakas aboard the Walrus. Those fel-
lows—no matter how long they have followed a
seafaring life—generally walk in a straight line,
exce i: when they are drunk.”

“ y, ay, you are ri ht.”

“At any rate, I wil 0 forward and recon-
noiter," continued Wint rop, “ while you stay
here and take care of Jessie.”

“ For Heaven’s sake, be careful,” cried the
young girl, anxiously. “ It would be dreadful
to—to—Jose on again.”

“ I think had better go,” said Warren.

The words were scarcely uttered, however,
when Jack glided forward and disappeared in
the darkness. He walked on, and in the course
of half an hour he was startled on hearing the
sound of voices on his right. Soon he was near
enough to distinguish a glimmer of light; a mo-
ment later, he found himself close to one of
those miserable mud houses usually inhabited
by the oorer classes of Coreans.

He a vanced, and peering through a crevice
in the wall, the first rson he saw was the
brother of Chung reclining upon a blanket in
the corner of a small apartment destitute of
furniture. His five “partisans” were seated in
the center of the room, eating and drinkin by
the light of the lantern which had attrac the
attention of the fugitivos. He sprung back-
ward, but a cry of surprise from the Corean
proclaimed that he had been seen. He darted
off, though he had but faint hopes'of escaping
the Coreans.

He kept on his new course, running at his
swiftest speed, until suddenly he found his path
obstructed b a high rock. Believing he might
pass around t—for it was too steep to be mount-
ed without the aid of a ladder or rope—he
turned to the left! but he had proceeded only a
few yards when he suddenly paused and throw
out his arms to regain his balance; for he found
. himself close to the edge of one of the rocky
sides of a deep valley.

Unable to recover himself in time, he fell over
, the top of the cliff, and a few minutes later he
must have been dashed to loose, had he not
thrown out his hands and c utched a vine. A
moment later, he saw one of the party descend-
ing by the vine with his knife between his teeth.
He was a tall, werful man, and Jack prepared
himself for a rate encounter. The young
sailor was so ex austed, however, by his pre~
vious exertions and sufferings, that he had but
little hope of overcoming, such a formidable an-
tagonist. Suddenly he heard a rattling noise;
something‘dropped at his feet, and stooping, he
perceived it was the Corean’s knife, which had
311 pod and fallen from his mouth.

ack picked it up, just as the feet of its owner
struck the ledge, and lifted it to deal a fatal
blow. But his 0 ponent seized his wrist with
one hand, and wit the other reaped his throat.
A struggle ensued. The gal-can bein the
stronger of the two, had almost forced the

 

sailor over the ledge, when the Cyoung officer
threw out his foot and succeeds in tripping
him. The man fell backward, but grasped the
vine in time to prevent himself from going over
the rocky projection. Instantly Jack aimed a
second blow at his heart, but the other, twisting
himself sideways, the point of the knife megglg
penetrated his shoulder, inflicting a slight s
wound. With a tremendous stroke of his fist
upon the seaman‘s arm, he sent the knife flying
from his grasp, when the two clutched for an-
other struggle. It was of brief duration; the

oung sailor was forced backward, his opponent
at go of his throat, and he fell from the rugged
platform. Throwing out his hands, however, he
was fortunate enough to clutch the same vine he
had previously seized, and which he now dis-
covered curved outward beneath the ledge. He
continued to lower himself by this frail support,
until he gained the solid ground at the foot of
the cliff. He seated himself beneath a tree, and
anxiously waited for the light of dawn. It came
in a few hours, and mounting a hillock, the
young man swe t the country, far and near,
with his keen g ance. Far away to the north
and east, he saw the dark-blue waters of the
sea' to the westward, lofty mountains, crowned
wit snow and rolling clouds, but no sign of a
human being. He was on the point of descend-
ing the hill. when he noticed a group of cedar
trees that skirted the edge of a gully, about two
hundred yards ahead of him.

“I am not certain," he muttered, “but it
seems to me that Warren and I were carrying
Jessie past these very trees last night when we
saw the light. I’m half-convinced it was there
I left the two when I started off to reconnoiter."

As he spoke. he heard aloud shout; a beckon-
ing arm was thrust out from the topmost
branches of one of the trees; the next moment
Guy Warren lowered himself by means of one
of the limbs, and sprung to the ground. - He
was quickly joined by Jessie, who had hitherto
been concealed by the trunk of the tree. ,She
sprung forward, {pgfullm to meet Jack, as he
came on. Soon th her hands were clasped

in his.

“ At last!” she exclaimed. “ We thought we
had lost you again—that you had been recap-
turedl

Jack gays an account of his adventures
since he left them, and Jessie trembled and
turned pale, when he described the struggle on
the ledge.

Warren said he was very sorry he was not
with his friend to help him. i

“ You couldn’t have done much, as there
were six of them,” replied Jack. “ And now,
I think the sooner we continue our journey to-
ward the coast, the better.”

Jessie was requested to take her lace u n
the stretcher. She said she could wa , but er
companions would not consent, and she was
soon being home along upon her conveyance.

The three were now much fatigued, and both
hungry and thirsty, but they looked very cheer-
ful, as they moved on toward the watery ex-

nso in the distance. By noon they were with-
in five miles of the coas when they halted near
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" Thank heaven, our troubles are nearly
ended," cried Jack, soon after, as he descended
from the summit of a high rock. “The Wal-
rus is in sight, laying at anchor, near the
coast. I can make out her top-yards and
masts.”

Jessie uttered a joyful cry.

“ Is it possible we are so near as that? Oh,
this is good news indeed."

Notwithstanding her recent hardships, she
looked so pretty, with her flushed cheeks, her
bright eyes, and her clerk hair falling in rip-
pling waves over her neck and shoulders, that
the oung men could not help showing their
adm ration.

She turned aside, while a pleased but shy
smile hovered around the corners of her mouth.

Soon, the three were ready to roceed; but
they had not walked many steps, w on from be-
hind a low mound, directly ahead, up- rose the
forms of the gigantic Hong and his companions
gut down the stretcher, determined to rotect

or to the last. With drawn knives, the oreans
siprun toward them, when the young girl

or forward confronting them with clasped
hands, and besought them to spare the lives of
her friends. Without heading her they threw
themselves upon the two men, hur ed them to
the ground, and had lifted their knives above
the prostrate forms to strike, when Jessie again
inte sod. .

.“ o, no,” she exclaimed. “Spare them!
spare them! You must not, you shall not, kill
theml”

Kong was evident] touched b the thrilling
voice of the fair ple er. He sai something to
his men, who proceeded to bind the hands and
fleet (it 1the officers, and to secure the wrists of
t e r .

hen this was done, Hong addressed the lat—
ter in broken English.

" Two in men been killed; that’s why dese
two mus’ die I”

“They killed your men in self-defense,” re-
plied the young girl. “Why, then, should you
take their lives? You will not—you will spare
them, and when we get aboard the ship I will
make you a handsome present. You shall have
money, clothes—any article you prefer.”

The e es of the Oorean glittered; he drew his
men as do, and a brief consultation was held,
after which the giant again spoke to Jessie.

“I’m not willing—others not willing to save
life of both men for cash, cloth or anything else;
We say one of you three mus' die at any rate.
that satisf .”

“ You w ll not be so cruel. You shall have
hundreds of dollars—you—"

“ Mus' die,” interrupted the Corean, harshly.
“ Kill one, you choose which!"

So saying, he procured a large stone which he
placed upon the ground, close to the prostrate

men.

“ When choose,” he continued, turning to
J essie—“ when choose which you have me kill,
me put his head on this stone and quick cut his,
throat!” _

Vainly she endeavored to change his purpose;
he turned aside, his brows wrinkled fiercely, and
at last he seemed to lose  patience.

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he roared, and knife in hand, he sprung toward
the two men.

“ Hold!" exclaimed Jessie, “ I will make my
choice!”

“Well dat!” said the giant, stepping back.
“ Choose quick! No too much talk."

The young girl looked down 11 on her two
friends, a strange light shining in er eyes; her
face was very pale but resolute; a sad but re-
signed smile hovered around her mouth.

‘Good-by, dcar Jack; good-by, both!” she
said; then advancing, she kneeled and bowed
her head upon the surface of the stone.

“ This is my choice!” she cried. “ Come, I am
ready to diel ’ .

An exclamation of surprise, not unmixed
with admiration, burst from the Coreans. They
drew back.

“Thank God! they will not kill herl" broke
from both the young officers, at once.

“No want to kill Woman while men to
kill," cried Hong advancing, and pulling her to
one side. “ If dat way you choose, must choose
myself.”,

And in spite of her entreaties, be dragged
Jack to the stone, pulled his head backward
over the surface of it with one hand, while with
the other he grasped his collar, and ordered
one of his men to perform the cruel deed.

CHAPTER X.
ON BOARD SHIP AGAIN.

Jnssm rprun f’JI‘Wald to interpose, but she
was seized and old firmly. The man drew his
knife, and lifted it to deal a fatal blow, when
the report of a gun was heard, and a bullet
whizzed past his tom 19. “The dusky gang
turned, to behold an o d sailor, who had just
emerged from a clump of shrubbery about fifty
yards behind them.

“ Blake!” cried Jessie, “ thank God, it is Tom
Blakel”

“ Ay, ayl” shouted the seamen, “and mighty
sorry am, I that my bullet missed. I’ve some
more here, however, which I hope may serve me
a better trick!" .

And he proceeded to reload.

Instantly the giant, ordering his men to
follow him, s rung toward the old sailor, who
retreated bac ward until his pursuers were quite
close to him, when, having by this time loaded
his piece, he aimed it at the foremost and fired.

The man tall with a wild scream, the blood
streaming from his shattered temple, while his
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now turned and fled with the speed of a deer to—

ward a mass of shrubbery skirting the small
valley; but he had scarcely gained the bushes
when he stumbled and fell crashing among the
slender twigs.

The Coreans fairly shrieked with exultation,
brandishing their knives as they came on; but
before they could touch their intended victim,
a dozen sturdy seamen sprung from behind the
shrubbery, armed with lances and harpoons. At
this unexpected sight the natives halted,
wheeled round, and fled toward that part of the
coast where they had left their boat. Some of
the whalemen pursued them for a shortdistanoe,
when the were recalled by Captain Bluff, who
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“ So much for them blasted ding-dongs!”
cried Blake; “and now we’d better go to the
place where the three we‘re after are a—lying
tied up like so many sheep, with the exception
of one who is a lamb.”

“ What? You don’t mean to say—-”

“ Ay, ay," interrupted Blake, “ the whole
three of ’em are there; I saw ’em with my own
eyes. They are close to the spring near which
we rested last night, and where l was going to
get a drink of water when I saw the ‘ ding-
dong ’ about to cut J ach’s throat, which—"

The captain did not wait for him to finish the
sentehce. He and his party soon were with the
late prisoners.

The cords were cut, when Jessie sprung for-
ward grasping the hands of Sailor Tom.

“ You are I. nice, good man 1” she exclaimed.
“ Oh, how can I thank you sufficiently for what
you have done?"

“ Why, no, Miss Jessie,” he replied. “ I do
sarve no thanks, seeing as it was more accident
that brought me along just at the right time.
But, bless your pretty eyes. what a scare you

ave us all, there on the beach, when we came
ack from our s’arch t’other day, and found you
were one.”

“ ou must have been astonished—~”

“ That doesn’t express it, lass. I felt as it the
beach was a-running along under my feet
and all the rocks was a—swimming before In
eyes. It’s dreadful to lose the gal, thinks ,
when we’ve all got so used to her, and she seems
like a little sister to us all. We were all taken
aback, d’ye see; some of my shipmates .cried,
some looked very black, and them that was su-
perstitious said you’d been spirited away by
mermaids or some of them 3 ies of fish.

“ I didn’t believe that, though I didn’t wonder
any the less about your bein gone so gueer like,
until castin an eye towar the san where it
had been so toned bv the water, what should I
see but the tracks of feet, all of ’em very large,
except two, which wasn’t any bigger than little
sea-shells. Then things seemed to get brighter.
I climbed a. high rock, and running my e 8
along the coast, the first sight I see is a who 6-
boat close to it, the crew a-paddling like mad
pnd another boat some distance of! in chase o

“Instantly I whip out my spy-glass and
tank a good survey, w on I was sartain I could
distinguish in the head boat the gleam of your
dress, and also that of a pair of duck pants
agreeing with them that J ack wore when he fell
overboard, besides the top of a woolen cap,
which, thinks I, is marvelous like the one War-
ren had on when we were after the whale.
. Well, putting all these things together, I come
to the conclusion first that you were in that
boat, second, that Jack and Warren were there
too—the three of you prisoners—though I was
puzzled to guess how 81 this came about.

“I darts down the rocks and tells my men
what I’ve seen, and we run around to where
our boat is and signalize the ship. The cap-
tain puts off with a good crew, and on hear-
ing my story sends three of the men back with
mfy boat, while We pulls OR in the other in s’arch
0 you and the two who were prisoners with
you. On pulling round the point, hows‘ever,

 

we could no longer see anything of either of the,

two boats that l-had sighted.

“We pulled ahead, though, for some time,
but still seeing nothing, we concluded that the
parties had landed and were a~tramping it. So
we went ashore, s’arched until near midnight,
and then camped awhile near this spring, in-
tending to continue our s’arch in the morning.
That we might be more out of sight, hows’ever,
in case any ‘ding-dong’ should be a-spying on
us, we finally moved to a small valley, fringed
with brushwood, about three hundred yards
from here.

“ At dawn I started for this place to get a
drink of water, when—but you know all the
rest. I had brought my gun with me, thinking
I might see some deer to shoot, which is plenty,
I hear, in these parts; and mighty glad I am
now I did bring it, for it’s done me a' good sar-
vice. Now,” he added, “l‘suppose you three
are nearly famished; it so, these will sarve the
purpose of a lunch.” I

And from one of his capacious coat~pockets
he drew forth a small bag containing crackers,
with some slices of meat. or these the two
gladly partook, and while they were eating,

ack related to Bluff and his party, his own
and Warren’s adventures since the day of the
whale-hunt.

Soon after, they proceeded toward the coast;
in the course of a couple of hours they reached
the spot Where the captain had secured his boat.

All entered the craft with the exception of

Warren.

“ Jump in!” cried Bluif.

“{No, sir,” answered Guy. “ I will not set
foot on the deck of your craft.”

“ What? You haven't got Over that whim
yet? Come, don’t be a fool!"

But neither remonstrances nor entreaties—
not even the sugplications of J easie, could shake
his resolution; e waved his arm to the crew
and moved 01! among the rocks.

“ Pull ahead i” cried Bluif, losing all patienco,
“ pull ahead!” And the oars splashed in the
water.

“ I shall come for him again i” cried Jack.
“ He shall not be left upon this coast it I have
to carry him off biliorce. The Coreans, I dare
say, are even now ‘dden somewhere among the
rocks watching us.”

“Ay, ay,” said Blake, “ and if Warren isn’t
careful, he’ll be taken again. Supposing you
leave some of us ashore now, captain, to defend
the {qoung man in case he’s attacked.”

“ o,” replied Blufl', “ I won’t stop for that
now. If anything happens to him, it’ll be his
own fault. sha‘n’t obJect to his being brought
aboard by force, if some of the rest of you
choose to do it. I've done all I shall do about
the matter."

Half an hour later the party boarded their
ship, which was anchored about a mile from the
coast, and with a cry of joy, the captain’s wife
folded Jessie in her arms.

A ship's discipline could not keep the crew
away from the quarter—deck at sucha time. The
men, who had not seen Jack since he fell over-
board, on the night of the gale, crowded around
him to shake hands. and ask man questions.
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he ordered his boat to be lowered and manned;
the light craft, with a good crew, was soon
gliding toward the beach.

Warren, seated on the summit of a high rock,
from which he had been watching a. distant
sail, saw the boat, and, recognizmg ack in the
stern-sheets, guessed his errand. He rose, and
waving his hand as a signal for the third-mate
to return to his ship, he darted 06 among the
rocks, soon disappearing from the sight of the
approaching crew. They landed and searched
in vain for the young ofiicer until nightfall,
when they returned to their boat.

“ We’ll have to give him up," said Blake, who
was one of the party. “ The captain intends to

at up the anchor at daylight; we’ll have to
iavo the poor chap to be captured and made a.
slave of after all.”

“ Ay, ay, there seems no help for it," said
Jack, disconsolately, “though I shall tr to per-
suade the skipper to remain here a. ew days
longer. so that we can make another trial.”

“ It‘ll be no use,” answered Blake, “ the skip-
per won’t consent. The craft is in ticklish
quarters in case it should come on to blow from
the south’ard. No anchor could then keep her
from going ashore."

As the boat glided off, Warren emerged from
a hollow formed by a pile of rocks about twenty
yards from the strand. He listened until the
splashing of the cars could no longer be heard,
then he walked to the edge of the bench.

“ I have escaped the importunities of my
friends,” he muttered. “Still, I intend to leave
the coast as soon as pOSSible. I will at once‘
search for my whale-boat. which, I trust, is in
the same place where the Coreans left it. With
this I may succeed in reaching the sail which
was visible this morning to the eastward; there
being a dead calm, she will not make much
headway.”

He searched a. full hour before he succeeded in
finding it. He seized the light craft, and had
pulled it from the hollow, when a low murmur
of voices broke upon his ear. He leaned forward
and was able to make out several dark objects,
gliding along the water, close to the shore. He
crouched behind the rock, and a moment later
saw two boats, filled with men, Within a
few yards or his position. Asu den suspicion

. flashed upon his mind; he waited a few minutes.

then launched his boat and sprung into it.

'Sculling it without noise, he followed in the

wake of the two boats, but at such a distanco
that their occupants could not see him.

CHAPTER XI.
ran DECK COMBAT.

“ WELL,” said Captain Bluff, as Jack sprung
aboard after his unsuccessful search for Warren,
“ I see you haven‘t brought your man."

“ No, sir' be hid himself where we couldn’t
find him. He will, I fear, be recaptured and
It you would only remain here a few
days longer-J

“ It isn’t to be thought of: We are going to
have a gale, in the course of thirty-six hours,
and if we stay here,‘nothing can 'save us.. We
must get up anchor at daylight.” _

So saying, he walked into the cabin.
Suddenly, Jack felt a hand upon his arm; he

 

’ quickly. “ TWO boat loads of Coreans are com-
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turned, and by the light of the lantern hung up
in the mizzen-rigging, saw the sweet face of
Jessie Howard close to his shoulder. She looked
pale and anxious; when she spoke, her voice was
unsteady.

“ You have not brought him GEE?"

“ No; we could not find him. Poor fellow.
I’m afraid he’ll suffer fearfully on account of
his obstinacy."

“ Is there—oh! is there no possible way to get
him on board?” she inquired, clasping her
hands. ‘

“ I'm afraid not ; we get up anchor to—
morrow.”

She sighed heavily, and bowed her forehead
on the palms of her hands.

“ I will go into the cabin, and try to persuade
thejcaptain to stay; perhaps he will not refuse‘
me.

And

way.

“ She loves him,” muttered Jack. “ Ay, I'm
quite certain of it, now; else why should she be
so anxious on his account. Well, let it be so ”
he added. “ I can give her up to such a nob e
rival, if she prefer him, even though it darken
the rest of my life. Her happiness is paramount
to every thing else; my own selfish feelings shall
not interfere with it. If she persuades the cap-
tain to remain here awhile longer, and we sue-
ceed in getting this Warren aboard, I shall not
be the man to-"

He paused on seeing Tom Blake.

“ It is my watch on deck,” said the old sailor.
“ You must go below and get the sleep which
you’re sadly in need of, I’ll be bound.”

Accordingly the young man made his way to
his bunk; but several hours ela sed before he
could compose himself to sleep. eanwhile the
fourth mate, carelessly sauntering along the
deck, heard the wind whistling in the rigging.
The ship began to rock; her cable rattled, the
masts and ards crooked.

“ The ‘0 d man’ (the skipper of the ship) was
right,” muttered Blake, “we’ll have to get up
anchor and away from the ‘ ding-dong’ coast
at daylight. A gale, and a heavy one, too, is
a-hrewing.”

Suddenly he thought he heard a noise as of a
paddle striking against the side of a boat. It
seemed to come from some quarter astern, and,
leapingLupou the round-house, he (peered keenly
throng the darkness. He coul see nothing,
however, and, believing he had been deceived
by some noise in the cabin, he returned to the
quarter-deck. , A few minutes later, he heard
the sound of a steering—oar under the counter;
he sprung to the rail inst as a figure climbed it
and jumped to the den .

“ Ay, ay, now,” exclaimed Blake. recognizing
Warren. “ I’m glad to See you’ve got over
your obstinacy; mighty glad on’ve come
aboard of us, seeing as We are a-gomg to get“?
the anchor at, daylight.”

“ Yes, I have come aboard to warn you and
help defend the ship; no other consideration
could have tempted me to set foot on the deck
of this craft.”

“ I don’t understand you.” ‘

“There is no time to lose!” cued Warren,

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ingto take the vessel. I have been watching
’em—followin ’om a short distance. They have
made a wide etour so as to get under the ship’s
head, which it’s evident they think they can do
without being seen. Call all hands, and let them
arm themselves at once! The rascals must even
now be close to your bows. If they get aboard
before you are ready to receive them, nothing
can save you. They probably intend to massa-
cre the crew and plunder the vessel.”

The fourth mate ran into the cabin to wake
the ofilcers; Warren darted forward and roused
all hands.

When the astonished skipper came on deck,
he found his crew of thirty men all stationed
near the bows, armed with lances, harpoons,
hatchets, crowbars, etc. Guy Warren stood
upon the knightheads, peering through the
gloom ahead.

h T36 captain sprung to his side and grasped his
an =

“ God bless you, for coming so promptly to

hel us. Where are they?”

uy pointed off the lee bow, in which direc-
tion, scarcely twenty yards distant, the skip-
per saw the dark outlines of the boats as they
came dashing on.

“The rascals must number fifty at the least,”
said he, “ while we are but thirty-two. There
is some difference; but we must beat them oil‘—
ay, ay, we must beat ’em off. Remember,
lads,” he added, turning to the crew, “there are
two women in this ship."

“ Ay, ay, sir!” was the low response, and the
clinched teeth of the men showed like chalk
lines in the gloom.

“ Where’s my third mate?—where’s J ack’!”

“Loaded to the muzzle, sir!” cried a deep
voice at his side, and turnin , the captain saw
Winthrop, his shirt-sleeves ro ed above the el-
b0ws and a lance in his hand.

“ What’s that you’ve loaded?”

“ The old ten-pounder. I've loaded it almost
to the muzzle thh old pieces of iron for shotl
It will do us good service."

“You are rightl”

At that moment the foremost boat glided un-
der the bow.

“ Give it to ’eml” thundered Bluff, and a
dozen harpoons were showared among the dusky
Coreans.

Then followed shrieks of rage and sin; the
boat was pushed from the vessel an paddled
alongside of the other, the crew of which were
now resting on their paddles, about half the
shi ’8 length from the Walrus.

or several minutes their voices were heard
mingling in a confused manner; then, with loud
shouts, they whirled their paddles through the
water, and dashed alongside of the ship’s lee
quarter.

The skipper promptly led his men aft; they

I cheered as they sprung to the rail. thrusting

their lances and harpoons at the Coreans, who
endeavored to scale the ship’s side. A few.
by running along the plank-shear, con-

trived to gain a footing on deck. Mingling

with the yells of the dusky foe were heard the
, fierce voices of the seamen, the clashing

of nives, the occasional report of a pistol an

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prived of his lance by one of his enemies, who,
from behind had wrenched the wea n from his
grasp, Jack Winthrop was sudden y hurled to
the deck by the gigantic E1225, who, plantin
his knee upon his breast, lif his knife wit
the intention of cutting his throat! In fact, he
was on the int of making the deadly thrust
when Tom lake, armed with his gun, sprung
toward the giant, and whirling his piece around
his head, brought the stock down upon the skull
of the native with crushing force.

“ All right lad 1" Tom exclaimed, as the huge
body fell back lifeless to the deck. “ You have
a whole skin yet, though how long it’ll be so I
won't pretend to so. ."

These were his ast words. The man who
snatched away Jack’s lance suddenly bent for-
ward and thrust the weapon through the old
tar's body.

Winthrop seized the rascal by the throat, and

drawing his sheath-knife drove it to the hilt in '

his bosom. As the man fell, however, three of
his friends rushed at Winthrop, brandishing
their daggers. Picking up the cover of a lime-
tub, he used it as a shield, parrying their
thrusts, until a couple of his shipmates came to
his assistance, when his adversaries retreated
until they were reinforced byseveral of their
party; they then made a dash at the three
Americans. ‘

“Now then!" cried Jack “now for a dash
upon those in front of us! We can defeat them
before the others join them! Follow me 1”

And With a bound he threw himself upon one

of his antagonists, making adesperate thrust .

with his sheath-knife. The native avoided the
blow, however, by twisting himself to one side;
the weapon merely grazed his arm, and Jack
falling forward, t a point of his knife pene-
trated the deck, causing the blade to break
short ofl! near the handle! Before he could re-
gain his feet the Corean sprung upon him to
stab him between the shoulders; when Jack
rolled over and the point of the weapon passed
slantingly through he lining of his jumper,
grazing his breast.

Seizing his antagonist by the hair of his head,
the young man pu led him to the deck,
his throat with one hand, and held him in such
a position that he could not see in what direc-
tion to strike. The Coman, however, made
several random thrusts, and had inflicted a few
slight flesh-wounds, when his head was almost
severed from his body by the blow of a mincing-
knife, dealt by one of Jack's companions, who,
with their formidable weapons hsdjust driven
back their two adversaries. All this had tran-
spired in a few minutes; but as Winthrop
sprung to his feet, the three men who had been
stationed near the wheel dashed toward the
sailors, when they were joined by the two who
had retreated.

Stepping uickly backward, however, the sea-
men succ ed in joining their shipmates, who,
being new reduced to twenty-four, by the death
of seven good men, were slowly ‘hscking”
toward the forward part of the ship, hard
pressed by almost twice their number.

“ Good God, men!" cried Jack, “ mustwe give
wa before these rascals!”

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strategyi If the fiends hadn’t contrived to
close in upon us so as to make us fl ht hand to
hand, we might have settled ’em wit our lances
and harpoons; but these were no good in a close
struggle, and so we were obliged to throw 'em
away and take to hatchets, crowbars, and other
short weapons, which gave the ding—dongs an
advantage. It’s for that reason, d’ye see, that
I’ve ordered a retreat as far as the ten-pounder;
and that’s what I call strategy.”

" Ay, ay, but after—"

“ Why then, a dash, a dcsp’rit dash! We
must either drive the rascals off or be killed to
a man; that‘s my strategy 1"

As he spoke a man with a lighted torch
bounded past them; it was Gu Warren.

“ Forward, men—a rush orwardl” roared
Bluff. He was promptly obeyed.

Screaming and yelling exultantly, the Coreans
came rushing on, when Warren applied the
torch to the ten-pounder.

A torrent of flame leaped from the muzzle of
the piece; a crash like that of a thunderbolt
made the whole ship tremble; wounded and dy-
ing, a dozen natives fell writhing to the deck as
the iron hail came howling and shrieking amon
them; groans and cries of dismay rung throng
the vessel.

“ Now then—a ood dash, and the victory’s
ours!“ thundered B uil'.

With a deafening cheer, the seamen rushed
upon their foes, showering blows right and left.
At first, the Coreans retreated, then rallied and
fought with great desperation. The clashing
of knives, the heavy thug! thug! of blows dealt
and received, the fierce exclamation: of the
seamen, the ells of their antagonists, and above
all the deep ion voice of Biufl', made such a din
as is seldom heard aboard a whale-ship.

The ca tain, with an ernormous whaling-
sword—his pistols bein too heavil loaded had
cracked at the first disc rge—d 1: many good
blows around him.

“ Fi ht on, men, fight on i” he now shouted.
“We’ll get the better of ’em yet 1”

A tall native, dodging under the ker's
u lifted arm, raised his knife to dea him a
blbw in the back. The skipper, however, turned
in time to cleave the man’s neck with a tremen-
dous, sweeping blow of his sword.

“ Strategy 1” he exclaimed, as the native fell
dead at his feet.

“Whin-zal" came a lance, passing within an
inch of his temple.

Warren picked up the weapon, and seeing the

rson who had darted it perched upon the rail

3 rung forward, took good aim, and hurled
it t rough the man’s body. . He shrieked and
fell backward into the sea. The next moment.
the portly Chung, gliding behind the young
officer, drew back his knife to stab him between
the shoulders. _ »

“ Strategy i” cried Captain Blufl, as his long
sword almost took oi! the fellow's head.

Both their leaders being now dead, the Co-
reans seemed to lose courage. They retreated
slowly toward the lee—rail; the seamen pressed
upon them with great Vigor; the turned and
made another stand. It was of b of duration;
their infuriated opponents dashing n n them,
and dealing a steady shower of h own with

 

hatchets, mincing-knives, crowbars, handspikes
and other implements, drove them into’ their
boats under the quarter in which some of them
had already deposited their wounded.

As the boats left the ship, Bluff turned to his
mate and grasped his hand.

“ They’re licked, blast ’eml" cried the first
oflicer. ‘

“Ay, ay,” replied the captain, “and it was
strategy that did it.”

Lanterns were lighted; the dead, with heavy
weights attached to their feet, were launched
overboard. As the water closed over the body
of Tom Blake, there was not a dry eye among
the survivin seamen, all of whom had loved
and respecte the old tar.

“ Now then for the women!" cried the skipper,
turning to Jack. “ We must 0 down and quiet
their fears. I looked the 001' of the cabin
juitvbefore the fight, so that they couldn’t come
on .

The two men were soon in the state—room.
Obeying an impulse she could not resist, Jessie
threw her arms around the young ofilcer’s neck,
and leaned .her head upon his shoulder. The
next moment however, as if ashamed of her
boldness, she draw back. blushing deeply.

“ You are safe—alive and well—than God 1”
she cried. “ The noise of the combat was dread-
ful. I feared the worst. But how is he? He
has not been injured, I hope i"

“ If you mean Guy Warren, he is alive and
well 1”

She clasped her hands; tears of joy came to
her eyes.

“ I am so glad of that," she murmured.

The news of Blake's death. and of the loss of
six of the shi ’s best men, afl’ected her almost
as much as 1‘. they had been her father and
brothers.

The ca tain’s wife was also much grieved.

“Well, ’ said Blufl, “ we must expect losses in
such an encounter. The ‘dongs’ outnumbered
us; it couldn’t be helped.”

“ It is a wonder you gained a victory over so
mang.”

“ trategyi" cried Bluff. “ It was strategy
that did it. The men behaved well too—especi-
ally Warren, who fought like a lion.”

‘ I must thank him for his assistance,” said
Mrs. Bluff, rising. “ I will go to him at
once.”

“ And I, too,” said Jessie, blushing deeply as
she encountered J ack‘s uneasy glance.

“ He is a noble fellow,” said the young man,
smothering his jealousy; “ be well deserves your
thanks.”

The ascended to the deck, and Jack inquired
for arren.

“ He’s gone," said the mate; “ he jumped into
his boat aminute ago, saying that as the Ooreans
had been driven away, he would not stay in the
ship a moment longer.”

‘ Strata i” growled Blufl; “ there’s strata
for you. by. blast me, he’s the most foolis
ho I ever saw.” ‘ ‘

e snatched a speaking~trumpst from the
mizzen fife-rail, and a lied it to his lips.

“ Ahov there, you, arren, come back!”

“ Good- , Captain Blufll” .

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“ Give my respects to them, and tell them if
they were aboard any other ship I would not re—
fuse their request.”

“ Come back, man—come back, I tell ye.
There’s a gale of Wind a-brewing; you’ll be in
the same strait you were in before."

There was no response.

“ Rash man!” muttered Jessie, monrnfully,
“ will nothing tempt him to come back?"

A sudden happy thought seemed to strike the
captain. He bit of)? nearly the half of a plug of
tobacco; then winked at the two females.

“Strategy will fetch him,” said he, “there’s
nothing like strategy 1”

And he again applied the trumpet to his
mouth.

“We’re to be attacked again!” he shouted;
“ will you desert us at such a time?"

For several minutes there was no sign that
Warren had heard him; then the noise of the
boat splashing through the water as it approach—
ed the ship was heard.

“ All right," cried Bluff, rubbing his hands.
“Ho! he! I didn’t think, though, he could be
‘ gulled ’ so easy.” "

“ He hasn’t been i" said the mate, in a solemn
. voice, as he pointed toward the coast. See!
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CHAPTER XII.
“BLOW, WINDS, AND CRACK YOUR CHEERS.”

LOOKING in the indicated direction, his cum-
panions saw a number of lanterns moving to and

roalonfi the coast; a murmur like that or an
approac mg tempest—the noise of at least a
hundred voices—was borne to their ears.

“ Ay, ay, you are right, sirl” cried Bluff,
strikin the ca . tan with his clinched fist. “ The
noise 0 the fig t has drawn swarms of the ras-
cals to the coast, all of ’em ea er for plunder.
There will be an attack made he ore morning.”

’ The two females turned very ale.
, “ God have mercy upon us ’ cried Jessie,

“ this is fearful l”

’ “ Fear nothing. We shall cheat ’em this time,

the rascals 1”

And he ordered the mate to set the hands to
work at once, getting up the anchor.

f“ The wind is about south," he added, rubbing
his hands. "If ’it holds long enough, we can
give them ‘ dings’ a clean pair of heels.”

At this moment was heard the noise of War—

r . ren’s boat as it struck the ship‘s side. Mrs.
Elna? advanced and grasped the young officer’s

an .

5‘ God bless you i” she said, in a voice of emo-
tion. “ Your mother should be proud of such a
son; you have acted nobly; you fought for us

I like a lion.”
“ I simply did my duty, madam,” he answer-
, “ One could not very well help
- flghtin pretty hard with such apack of villains
aroun him. Even a coward would fight it thus
cornered i”

As he spoke, the noise made by the men beav—
ing (at . the ‘ brakes’ to get up the anchor, was
met .

c r “ That sounds well," said he. “ I must go
, {email and help. There is no time to lose.”
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The murmur of voices, mingled with the
splashing of paddles, was now heard oil! the
quarter.

“ They are coming,” said Jessie, turning pale.

“Yes,” re lied t e captain’s wife, ‘ but I
trust we wil get under way before they can
reach us.”

“ Ay, ay. that we will, I’ve no doubt !" cried
Bluff. “But you two had better go below.
There’s no knowing what might happen. All
us officers must help the men at the brakes.”

So saying, he ran forward, followed by Jack
and his other two mates. They joined the work-
men, and exerted themselves with " right ood
will.” The cable rattled, the Windlass crea ed,
the brakes clanged almost incessantly. When-
ever there was a pause, the paddles could be
heard of! the quarter; the Coreans’ boats were

rapidly approaching. Suddenly Bluff sprung to

the rail and peered through the darkness.

“ Lively, there—livel , men I" he shouted. “ I
can see the outlines of t e boats.”

f ’lll‘he crew cheered and exerted themselves man-
u y.

Soon, the anchor was almost clear, and some
of the hands were ordered aloft to loosen the
topsails.

“ Hoist and sheet homel” thundered the skip-
per, as the ship’s head suddenly swung round,
“ we are all clear.”

The men ‘sprun to halliards and sheets; the
captain took the elm, and a few minutes after,
the craft began to gather headway.

Bluff now called one of the hands to take his
place, and jumped upon the round-house. Peer-
ing downward, he saw by the light streaming
through the cabin windows one of the Coreans’
boats dashing up to the stern. A tall' fellow in
the bow drew out a long boathook, the point of
which striking the sil or one of the windows,
enabled him to pull his vessel close to the ship.

He seized a rope dangling from the round-
house, and would have secured his boat with lit,

had not Blulf picked up a hatchet and hurled it,

with all his might at the rascal’s head. The
blunt edge of the instrument struck the Corean’s
skull, and he fell back senseless. With shouts
of rage, the dusky crew whirled their paddles
through the water, but the Walrus had now
gathered so much headway that they were on—
able to gain upon her. Away she went, boom-
ing along, with the spray flying over her bows
and her weather-rail.

Bluff rubbed his hands, the pursuing boats
were rapidly drop ing astern; soon they Were
out of sight. Su denly, however, the captain
heard a noise that made his heart thump; the
flapping of the ship’s canvas. He spruu to the
binnacle and looked at the compass; t e mate
came to his side at the same moment.

“ We’ll have to brace the yards 3. little. sir l"

“ Ay, ay,” answered Bluff, uneasily, “ but let
it he as alese as a hair’s breadth."

The mate obeyed.

“ Now, then, mind what you’re about i” cried
the captain to the man at the wheel. “Keep
her close l”

“Ay, ay, sir,” and the Walrus was headed

south h east, which brought the coast of the ,

peninsu a 011 her weather-quarter.
Bluff and his mate paced the deck side by

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side; the other officers were forward attending
to the anchor. ’

“ We can get a good offing if we can hold on
this course a couple of hours,” said the Sag Har-
bor man.

“Ay, ay, i we can, which I think is doubt-
ful; the win is hauling round in a queer way.
We’ll have a ‘roarer ’ before daylight, and per-
haps in the wrong direction~if so, God help us!”

‘ If we could only have finished gettin up
our new topmast, we‘d be better off,” sai the

ma .

“Blast your if: I” cried the captain, impa-
tiently. “I wish there was no such words in
the Dictionary. and—”

The moon suddenly emerging from behind a
cloud, both men s rung to the rail. They saw
the coast about a eague distant, with its rocky
cliffs projecting far into the sea; also the
Coreans’ boats now speeding shoreward. They
obtained onl amomentary view; the moon was
again shrou ed, and they resumed their walk.

lRpttlel rattle! Whis-s-sh! Flap! slap! slapl
a o t.)

( They ran to the hinnacle and looked at the
compass; the wind had “knocked” the vessel
of! a point.

Bluff shrugged his shoulders, and again or-
dered the mate to brace the yards.

At the expiration of an hour the wind had
hauled ahead, and the Walrus was running
along on the starboard tack, under everything
she could carry, with the land off her lee-bow.

Good lookouts were stationed forward, and
two of the best men in the shi were at the
‘wheel; for the warning notes of t e gale were
now heard in the rigging. -

“We’ll weather the point of that blasted

ninsula on this tack, if it don’t come on to
glow too hard,” said the! mate.

“Ay, ay, there you go again with an if!”
cried Bluff. “Hows’ever, believe you are
ri ht. Look sharp there at the wheel!”

can, a rushing, whizzing sound was heard to
windward; the white foam of the waves was
seen in that direction gleaming through the
darkness.

“ Here it comes l” shouted the mate.

Aminute later, with a howl and a shriek,
the gale pounced upon the, ship. She keeled
over almost on her beamends; with the foam
and spray flying in clouds over her bows and
weather-rail, she sped through the seething.
hissing waters. taming and plunging like a mad
bull. Top-gallant sails were furled, and the
men were ordered to stand by the topsail
halliards. Still, Captain Blufl, pacing the deck
with quick strides, and anxiously listening to
the creaking and straining of masts and yards
hesitated to give the command to “ clew down.“

With the point of that dangerous peninsula
roiecting seaward lea than two leagues off
is ee-bow, it was of the most vital importance
tocarry every stitch of canvas that could be
home. Occasionally, when the craft would
almost roll her lee-rail under, or make some
furious plunge that buried bows and windless in
the mad waters, the captain would pause as it
about to issue the expected order. The next
moment. however, as the ship righted, he would
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And so, booming along the quivering tim-
bers, with her spars bending like (:ornstalks
and the gale humming and shrieking amon
her tautenened shrouds, the Walrus, cripples
though she was by the loss of her foretopmast,
bravely fought with wind and wave, to weep
ther the dangerous point. All around her the
broad patches of foam, hissing and seething
upon the crests of angry “seas,” emitted phos-
phorescent lights that flashed strangely through
the gloom, showing the dark faces of the whale-
men, who, grouped around the halliards like so
many motionless statues, waited for the ex-
pected command. Suddenly the ship made a
furious plunge, a snapping sound was heard,
then followed a cras as the jib—boom gave

wa .
‘FClear the wreck!” roared Bluff; and a
couple of men with axes darted forward to

obe .

They soon freed the vessel from the spar; but
as they moved aft to deposit the axes in the
car nter’s chest, a cracking noise, like that of
a rifle, was heard aloft.

“Clew downl clew downl" thundered Bluff,
through his speakin ~trum t.

The yards were ower , and the sails were
now ready for reeflng. As the men darted
aloft, the skipper ran forward, and leaning over
the bow, peered anxiously through the gloom.

“It’s an hour since the gale commenced!”
cried the first officer, joining him. “I trust
we’ll pass the point.

Blufl' made no answer. Bending far over the
rail, be inclined his head, and for several min-
utes remained in a listening attitude.

“ I hear-a roaring,” be said, at length, “ which
sounds marvelously like the breaking of: the
surf over rocks. Aloft there in the top; d’ye
see anything?"

“ There’s white water all around us, sir,” was
the reply. “ So I can‘t make out for certain
whether what I see off the lee bow is breakers, ,
or only the foam that’s everywhere else!” '

His doubts were soon cleared.

A hollow roar that could not be mistaken,
was heard quite close under the lee. ‘

“Down from aloft!” thundered the skipper,
darting into the waist. “ Lively! livelyl men,
and up with those topsoil-yards again!”

The active tars were on deck in an instant,
the yards were hoisted, and the ship darted on
with the s d of a thunderbolt, plunging and
rolling ma ly under her heavy Weight of can-
vas. Crowding forward, all hands now anx-
iously watched the white water to leeward, and
listened to the creaking and snapping of the
strained masts. It seemed as if the atter must
go by the board, or the topsails be rent asun-

er. r

“ We might as well have ree .” said one of
the men. "We’ll never clear that point; the
rocks are mighty close to us.f’ ,

“ Hush, blast ye, hush l” gutted Blufl, through
his clinched teeth. “ I’ll knock ye into a
cooked hat! The old craft will weather it—she
must weather it. I’ll have no croaking here 1”

The skipper was a good seaman; his words
inspired hope: the majorit of his hearersbe~
lieved that if the topmost he d, the vessel would
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made them .compress their lips and breathe
hard. Nearer and nearer to that luminous
white streak of foam the vessel seemed to draw
every moment, while the hollow booming of the
surf among the rocks continually broke upon
the ears of the anxious watchers.

Suddenl , looming up through the darkness,
was seen t e outline of a projecting cliff scarce—
ly a quarter of a mile distant!

“Loose the foresaili" shrieked Blufl'.

“ She will never stand it i” cried the mate.

“She must! Bear 9. hand therei bear a.
handl”

The first man aloft was Warren. Ho un-
wound the gasket from the lee yard-arm, and
while one o the bands was unfastening the
other, he stood in the bunt ready to let go the
sail.

Soon the canvas was slatting wildly in the
wind, but seizing tack and sheets, the men
secured it in time to prevent its being carried
awafi.

“ ow then, close, keep her closel” howled
Bluff, to the men at the wheel.

So great was the force of the gale, however,
that the men found it impossible to lufl? even a
hair’s breadth; the vessel still pursued her dan-
gerous course, booming along with terrific
velocity, and burying ows and Windlass at

" every plunge.

In the waist stood the foremast hands, cling-
ing to to es and belaying-pins, while with com-
pressed ips and clinched teeth, they watched
the dark cliff so close under their lee: further
aft, the officers and boat-steerers formed a circle
aiound the trembling forms of Jessie and Mrs.
Bluff, whohad been summoned from below.

The cliff seemed to grow larger every moment.
Soon it was scarcely twenty tathoms distant;
“ all hands ” listened in breathless suspense, ex-
pecting ever second to hear the grinding crash
at the shi ’s eel among sunken rocks.

Onwa , however, sped the gallant craft; the
rugged wall now looked as it it might be touched
with a long pole, the end of the main-yard al-
most grazed a projecting shelf, and there was a.
half-stifled murmur fore and aft; 9. shudder ran
through every frame. The next moment a sort
of shriek rung throu h the vessel; it was a cry
of joy! The ship he passed the cliff, though at
terribl close quarters: the open sea stretched
beyon . She was safel

“ Strategy!” cried Bluff, drawing a long
breath; “ that’s what I call strategy.”

“ We are safe enough,” said the mate, “ if—”

“ No more ifs, blast ye i” intermde the cap-
tain' “I won’t listen to ’em.”

“ was merely going to say, if nothing further
happens a leak for instance, or anything of
that sort. I sha n’t consider we’re entirely out
of danger until the gale is over.”

“ You’re a croaker, sir. Hows’ever, you’re a
good man for all that. ’We'll now have the top-
sails closereefed and the foresail turled, after
{whichb we’ll go below and splice the main-

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CHAPTER XIIL
a MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING.
BY one o’clock on the following day, the vio—
lence of the gale having subsided, the Walrus

     

 

was running on a northeast course, under top-
gallant sails and main-royal. The sun, gleam-
ing from an unclouded sky, warmed the decks
of the ship and also the hearts of her crew.
Whistling or humming old sea-tunes, the whale-
men worked away at the new topmost, some of
them hoisting on tackles, and others with
marline-spike and mallet preparing blocks and
sta s.

u the quarter-deck stood Bluff, spy-glass in
hand, watching a vessel to leewardythat lay
with her main—yard aback, evidently prepared
for a “ am.”

“She lget no gain out of me,” rowled the
ski per, after he had concluded is survey.
“ y men are too busy. I can’t spare the time
for visiting.”

And he hung his glass on the mizzen fife-rail.
Guy Warren, who had been conversing with
Jack, on the other side of the deck, now took
the instrument and leveled it at the stranger.

“ It is my ship—the Eaglel’ he exclaimed.
“ Ay, ay, there she is, at last.”

“ Well, I suppose you’re bound to leave us
now,” said the skipper. “ Here’s my hand,
hows’ever, and it Captain Bluflf can ever do you
a service, just call on him. I ain’t in the habit
of asking a man’s pardon; but I ain’t ashamed
to ask yours now, for puttin you ashore in the
way I did. I should have ended you in some
more civilized port.”

“ You acted as any other captain would have
done under similar circumstances,” replied
Warren, “therefore, I have nothing to forgive.

Your vessel is now out of danger, and lcan -

leave it with a good conscience.”

At that moment, Jessie and Mrs. »Bluff
emerged from the cabin, when they were in—
formed of Warren’s intended departure. They
shook hands with him, thanking him Warmly
for the services he had rendered. While the
three were still conversing, Bluff ordered his
men to haul back the main-yard and lower the
young officer’s boat, which ad been hauled up
on the previous night.

Boon, with his boat’s crew, he Iided from the
ship’s side, heading toward the agle, now less
thana mile distant. The men of the Walrus
and also the two females watched him' until he
was aboard of his vessel, when the former gave
three lusty cheers. A minute later, the Eagle’s
main-yard was braced forward, and she stood
off to the north’ard.

Turning toward Jessie, as the Walrus glided
upon her course, Jack noticed that the young
girl Eras gazing thoughtfully toward the reced-
iu 9 1p.

6 touched her arm; she started, as if wak-
ing from a dream, and blushed as she met his
glance.

“ You will miss him very much, I suppose."

u~Whol”

“ Why, Warren, of course. He is a noble
fellow; don't wonder you like him so well.”

“ We all like him,” she replied. “ I should be
proud of such a brother." ‘

“ You mean husband,” said Jack, gloomily.

Jessie opened her brown eyes very wide; the
expression of her companion’s face—the manner
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deeply; a smile dimpled the corners of her
mouth; she tapped the deck gently with the
heel of one of her little boots. So he was in
her power, was he? the brave Jack—who a few
years before had so pompously proclaimed him-
self a father to her.

Couldn’t she tyrannize over him now, if she
chose? She knew very well she could ,' but
then, she wouldn’t. Somehow she had no dis-
position to do so; the very thought of such a
thing made the tears come to her eyes. She
would never play the coquette with her noble
Jack; she would tell him the truth at once.

“ I meant what I said,” she answered, softly.
“Mr. Warren, even if he were an unmarried
man, could uever.inspire me with any feeling
deeper than friendship.”

“Ohi he is married then," cried Jack, his
face lighting up.

“Yes, I thought you knew it, or I should
have told you before.”

Jack threw a quick glance around him. Mr.
Bluff had gone below; the captain and mate
were in the forward part of the ship; the man
at the helm, being of short stature, was screen-
ed h the binnacle.

“ ou‘re an angel,” murmured the young
sailor. and stealin an arm around her waist,
he kissed her. “ ou shall be my wife when we
get home," he added.

“Oh, so you take it for granted,” said the
blushing girl. “I think I have something to
say about that.”

“ 0f courso you have, and you’d better say it
finick, while you have a chance. Here comes

luff.”

“ Well, then—yes ! ”

find like a startled fawn, she darted into the
C8. “1.

“ Strategy," cried Bluff, as he confronted the
young man. “ What made her run of! in that
way?” There must be some strategy‘ about
1 t.

“I hardly understand you,” said Jack, look-
ing uite unconcerned.

“ h, I’ve seen it all, my lad. You can’t
blind me; I’ve been a—noticing the development
of events this long time. Didn’t I catch her
once, aokissing your miniature~the one, as she
told my wife—you gave her just before we
sailed? Ay, ay, I caught her at it—the little
mermaid; and now I‘ve had my weather-eye on
you for the last fifteen minutes, and I saw you
return the compliment by kissing her. It‘s all
iight, hows’ever, it's all right. And I‘ll add
that you‘ll have considerable a-coming to you,
as your share of the cargo, when you get home,
so that you can get spliced as soon as you like;
after which, I’ll use my influence with the
owners to make you captain of a good ship.”

And without waitipg for a reply, he dove
through the companionway.

CHAPTER XIV.
ran: HOMEWARD PASSAGE.

Asou'r three months after the Walru
anchored oi! the port of Hono ulu. She was
now a full ship, and the captain intended to
start for home in a few weeks. .Ths men were
set to work tarring down, painting, slushing.
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yards, and otherwise reparing the ship for the
passage. One day, w ile Jack was superintend»
ing some work forward, a canoe came alongside
containing watermelons, bananas, cocoanuts,
etc, which their owner, a. tall, round—shouldered
old Kanaka, offered to sell for money or to
hacco. Winthrop conducted him to where
Jessie was seated with “little Tom ”——the
guinea—pig, upon her lap, and requested the
young girl to tpick some of the fruit for herself
and Mrs. Blu . She choee :1 Lunch of bananas,.
and Jack took out his pocketbook to pay the
man, when the latter shook his head, and point-
ed at the pig;e

“Me like tter dis little hog for pay, if you
give me.”

“ No, you cannot have that,” said Winthrop;
“ it belong to—"

“ Me like very much,” interrupted the
islander. “ See," pointing over the rail toward
his canoe, “give all fruit there for dis piganin—
ny hog.”

“ N o; it is apresent from a friend. The young
lady would not part with it for any price."

“Must havel ’ cried the native, as, suddenly
stoopiug, he snatched the pig from J essie’s lap,
and bounded over the rail. In an instant he
was in his canoe, paddling shoreward with might
and main.

Jack sprung into a whaleboat alongside, with
a crew of good men, and started in pursuit.
Away went the canoe, with the speed of a
rocket, but the boat being manned with six good
oarsmen, gained upon it rapidly. Here the
water, rising to the height of fifteen or twenty
feet, swept forward above the rocks for a con-
siderable distance, with great velocity, so that
an experienced hand wasrequired to safely guide
a boat over it. '

The Kanaka being used to riding the lofty
breakers, the canoe of the fugitive shot steadily
ahead, on the crest of the watery wall, and was
soon upon the beach beyond. He had scarcely
secured it, however, when he saw the whaleboat
of his pursuers, as it was lifted on the crest of
another surge; he turned and fled swiftly to-
ward the mountains, with the pig in his arms.
Crashing upon the beach, the boat rolled over,
spilling out its occupants.

They sprung to their feet, and all, with the
exception of one man, who was left in charge of
the injured vessel, started in pursuit of the na-
tive. Perceiving that they were gaining on
him, he suddenly turned, toward the town. His
Eur-such followed him so closely, however, that

e was unable to conceal himself, so he moved
on with unabated speed in the direction of the
water. Soon he had reached a landing-place,
near which a number of boats were secured.

He sprung into one of them, but before he
could unfasten the warp, Jack was upon him.
He seized the thief by the throat with one hand,
and thrust out the other for the pig, when the
native threw the little creature far from him,
into the water. ,

“ Attend to this fellow!” cried Jack as his
companions approached, “ while I go after the

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p go saying, he let go of the man’s throat, and
s ringing into the water, struck out toward lit-
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fully. As he drew near the animal, he saw
something not far behind it, which he at first
thought was a stick, but which he soon discov-
ered was the fin of a shark.

Being now almost within arm’s reach of little
Tom, he threw himself forward, seized the crea-
ture with one hand, and with the other struck
out for the boat, at the same time notifying his
snipinates of his danger. One of the men had
seized the Kanaka, and was beating him with his
fists; the islander groaned and beg red for mercy.

“ Hold 11p, there!” shouted Jack; “ who told
you to treat the old man in that way?”

The sailor colored and released the native,
who now turnin , saw the shark, which by this
time was quite c 050 to the swimmer.

A cry of horror burst from the spectators;
they feared the monster would seize the young
officer before they could reach him.

A strange light now burned in the eyes of the
Kanaka; he 8wung his long arms toand fro,
his teeth were compressed, his nostrils dilated.

“Give knife!” he suddenly shrieked, turning
to one of the sailors. “ Me try save dat man.”

“ You are a thief!” cried one. “ We can’t
trust you. You want to get hold of the pig
again " '

“ No, no,” exclaimed another. “I’ve heard
say that some of these Kanakas are good shark-
fighters."

k Afnd he gave the islander a well-sharpened
n1 e.

The native grasped it with his right hand,
then with a hoarse cry he plunged into the wa-
ter; a moment later he rose between Winthrop
and the shark.

“ He’s ‘ gone case’ at any rate i" cried one of
the men. “ He’ll sartainly be nabbed.”

Up went the knife; the next moment it was
sheathed in the body of the fish, when the native
swam to one side. The infuriated monster lash-
ed the water with its tail, turned himself with
difficulty, and then dove, evidently with the
intention of seizing his enemy, in the usual man~
nor—under water. The islander also dove; a
minute after, the surfaco of that part of the Sea
beneath which he had disappeared was discol-
ored with a bloody circle.

“ Lost! he’s lost I” cried the spectators. “ The
shark’s got himl”,

At that moment, Jack came alongside of the
boat and was helped into it.

.Hle sprung up and glanced toward the red
are e.

“Ay, ay, he is lost! He has sacrificed his
life to save mine.”

And the young man groaned.

A rippling noise was heard; up me the shark
-gashed and bloody—breaching nearly its full
length out of the water.

A moment later, the head of the islander also
up cared above the surface.

gain the shark, turning over, dove under
water; some fresh clouds of blood were seen
curling upward toward the surface.

f‘ He’s gone now, for sartain,” cried one of the
sailors.

“ I fear you are right.” replied Jack.

In painful suspensa, they watched the surface
of the sea; minute after minute passed, but
neither the Kanaka nor the shark was seen.

 

“There can be no doubt, now, that he‘s lost!”
exclaimed Winthrop. “ I cannot hear the
thought of his having sacrificed his own life for
mine."

At that moment, the seamen heard a shout
behind them; turning, they saw the old Kanaka
in one of the boats alongside of the wharf. He
stood triumphantly flourishing the knife, his
iron-gray hair raining drops of water all over
his tawny skin.

Winthro uttered a cry of joy; soon, the boat
he occupi was close to the one containing the
islander. The young sailor grasped the old man’s
hand. '

“ You have saved my life. You—”

“ Hi! hi!” interrupted the Kanaka, “ me save
life, because you not let sailor beat me. Me get
little sick daughter in hut amon de mountains;
can’t walk; can’t eat fruit; as me for little
piece of fresh pork; say like to eat the same;
dat’s why when we go aboard ship, me steal
piganinny hog! Never steal before.”

“ I will buy one of the captain’s pigs for you,"
cried Jack. “ We will go aboard at once, and
you shall carry the animal ashore with you.”

The whole party proceeded to the whaleboat;
they reached the ship in good time‘ Winthrop
bought a pig which he gave to the is under.

The old man thanked him with tears in his
eyeS' the ig was tied up and put into his canoe
which he ad brought with him; he paddled it
ashore with a light heart.

Jessie was very glad when Winthrop, soon
after, descended into the cabin and put little
Tom into her arms. Her feelings when Jack re-
lated the story of his narrow escape, and the old
Kanaka’s noble conduct, may be imagined.
Tears rose to her eyes, when she learned the
cause of the theft.

“ The poor native probably thought he was
éustified, under the circumstances,” she said.

‘ I must see his sick child and make her a
present.”

She did so the next day. The little irl re-
ceived a pretty silk sash and Jack, whe ad ac-
com nied Jessie to the hut, gave the old man a
ban some pipe.

Two weeks after, the Walrus went bowling
merrily out of the harbor on her homeward as-
sage. In due course of time, she arriv at

New Bedford, and all hands were paid off,

Jack received two thousand dollars ashis share
of the cargo; be leased a neat little cottage on
the outskirts of the town, and shortly after mar-
ried Jessie, who proved herself a loving wife and
an excellent hOusekeeper.

After performin a few lucky whaling voy-
ages as ca tain, inthrop, at the earnest solici-
tations of is wife, gave up his sea—life, and en-
tered into partnership with a prosperous oil-
merchant.

Lately, the happy couple received a visit
from Guy Warren and his wife, who were pre-
paring to set out for the West in order to take
possession of some property which had been be—
queathed to him y a relative. Both looked
Well, and seemed much pleased with three “little
Winthrops,” who came forward to shake hands
with them. L

c “ I am so glad,” said Jessie, after she had em-
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There was a report, you know, shortly after the
arrival of the ‘ Walrus,’ that the ‘Eagle ’ had
foundered.”

“ Yes," answered Mrs. Warren; “ and al-
though the report proved to be untrue, yet it is
a fact that Guy had a very narrow escape with
his life, during the homeward passage.”

“Hardly worth mentioning,” said Warren
carelessly.

“ We will judge of that when we hear the
story,” replied Jack, smiling; and as feminine
curiosity was also roused, Guy was obliged to
relate his adventure.

“ The captain of the Eagle, as you have doubt-
less heard,’ hebegan, “was a singular character.
He was addicted to the use of opium, and some-
times, while under its influence, he would rush
from the cabin in his shirt-sleeves, with his long
black hair streaming. his eyes flaming and roll—
ing in his head, and threaten to knock all hands
overboard if they did not ‘ conduct ’ themselves
better.

“We could not understand the meaning of
the last expression; for a better crew than the
Eagle’s never sailed from New Bedford. It was
evident that the opium sometimes made the
skipper light-headed.

‘ One day, while we were homeward bound,a
heavy gale of wind came howling and shrieking
over the sea, tossing the old craft like a. chip,
and causing the topmasts to snap as if they
were about to go by the board.

“ Orders to clew down and reef were at once
issued by the first mate, and the men sprung to
clewlines and buntlines.

“ Soon, the sails were ready for reefing. and
Wishing to assist the men, I sprung with them
into themain rigging. It was as much as wecould
do to get to the yard; for the wind blew with
such violence that our bodies were pressed to the
shrouds, as if a number of unseen hands were
pushing against our backs. We got to the foot
rope, at last, howeve, and I took my station on
the end of the weather yard—arm, to haul out
the earring. I was on the point ofgiving the
usual command to ‘ haul out, when I heard the
captain ordering every man to come down from
the ard. '

“ ’I‘he sail isn’t reefed yet, Sll‘i” I shouted.
‘ You don’t want us to come down before we‘ve
reefedl‘ ' ,

“ ‘ Ay, ay,’ interrupted the skipper-fiercely,
‘ down you come at once, and let the sail remain
as it is.

“Glancing at the upturned face of the first
mate, we saw him wink at us in a significant
manner, and heard his veice, which was now too
low to reach the ca. tain’s ear.

“ ‘ Reef away!‘ 9 said, ‘ the skip r don’t
know what he’s talking about. He too an over-
dose of opium. a few hours ago, and it’s almost
set him crazy!” _

“ I nodded, and immediately gave the order
to ‘ haul out to windward.’ on hearing which,
the captain bounded into the rigging like a tiger,
and mounting to the yard, which he gamed
while the men were tying the reef-points, be
moved toward me until Within a few 'yards of
my position when he drew from an inside pock-
gt aldouble—harrelod pistol and leveled it at my

eac .

" ‘ Holdl’ shrieked the first officer, from be-
low, ‘ for God sake, captain, don’t shoot. It was
I who ordered him to reef, contrary to your com-
mand. It isn’t his fault. He simply obeyed me!

“ The skipper, h0wever, did not heed his
mate; he pulled the trigger of the weapon, and
but, for a roll of the ship as he fired, the bullet
must have penetrated my brain. At it was, it
grazed the side of my temple, tearing off some
of the skin.

“ ‘ Missedl’ screamed the infuriated mun,
‘ missed, but you shall not escape me for'all that
—-no, not even if we both have to die together!’

“ And he threw himself upon me, clutching
me b the collar with both hands. I struggled
to re ease myself, and several men advanced to
my assistance; but before they could help me,
my adversary succeeded in forcing me from the
yard, and we both fell into the _stormy waters
of the sea.

“A wild cry, such as I never heard before,
and never wish to hear again, pierced my ears
as we rose struggling to the surface and I felt
the hand of the skipper tightly pressing my
throat] My brain now seemed to whirl round
and round like a top—a dim, yellowish mist
floated before my eyes— the horrors of suffoca-
tion were upon me. Madly I whirled and
twisted, to clear‘ myself from that vise-like
grasp; but my efforts were in vainzthe bony
fingers of the infuriated skipper sunk deeper
and deeper into my throat, every moment, and
I believed that I was a doomed man.

“ Meanwhile,the water rushed gurgling in to my
ears and mouth, and occasionally my tormentor
would add to my sufferings by thrusting my
head beneath awave. His hold of my throat
gave him every advantage of me—rendered me
as helpless as a child. Still, I determined to
meet my fate like a brave man; composed my-
self as well I could, and strove to prevent any
outward expression of the fearful pain I suf-
fered. Soon, however, I felt myself sinking into
unconsciousness; my heart seemed to pause-—
darkness, darkness everywhere; my brain was
half benumbed—m eyes felt as if they were
bursting from my s all. .

“Suddenly, however, I ex rienced a sensa-
tion of relief; the are air of eaven rushed into
my nostrils; the b ood bounded through every
vein—I opened my eyes upon some of my ship-
mates, who had dargged me into a boat which
had been lowered from the ship!

“I raised myself on my elbow and looked
round for the captain;but he was not in the
boat. I was informed that the moment my
shipmates succeeded in forcing me from his
grasii he sunk beneath the surface. ’

“ have but little more to add.

“The gale havin by this time subsided, we
pulled in different 'rections for an hour;but
no sign of the skipper rewarded our exertions;
we were forced to return tothe ship without
him."

“Then the shi hadn’t any captain?" cried
one of the young inthrops.

“The mate took command of her," replied
Guy—“ we reached New Bedford Without fur-
ther trouble, and that ends my story.“

 

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’28 The Young Moose~Hunters; or. Trail and Camp—
Fire in the New Brunswick Woods. By William
H. Manning.

74 The Boy ComLFishers: or, The Sea Cavern
Scourge. By Roger Starbuck.

75 Revolver Billy, the Boy Ranger of Texas. By
Col. Prentiss Ingraham.

76 The Condor—Killers: or, Wild Adventures at the
Equator. By T. C. Harbaugh.

77 Lud Lionheels, the Young Tiger-Fighter. By
Roger Starbuck.

78 Flatboat Fred: or, The Voyage of the Experi-
ment. By Edward Willett.

79 Boone, the Hunter; or, The Backwoods Brothers.
By Captain F. Whittaker.

80 Kentucky Ben, the Long Rifle of the Cascades.
By R. Starbuck.

81 The Kit Carson Club; or. The Young Hawkeyes
in the Northwest. By ’1‘. C. Harbaugh.

82 Little Buck, the Boy Guide; or, The Gold “Eye "
of Montana. By Barry Ringgold.

83 Pony Bob, thoReckless Rider of the Rockies. By
001. P. Ingraham.

84 Captain Flyby-Night; or, The Colorado Boys on
the War-Path. By JOSeph E. Badger, Jr.

85 goptain Ralph, the Young Explorer. By C. D.

ark.

86 Little Dan Rocks: 01', The Mountain Kid’s Mis-
» sion. By Morris Redwing.

87 The Menagerie Hunters; or, Funny Hobart, the
Animal Queen. By Maj. H. Grenvnlle.

88 The Boy Tramps; or, Life Among the Gipsies.
By J. M. Hoffman.

89 'Longshore Lige' or, How aRough Boy Won His
Way. By C. D. Clark.

90 Roving Rifle, Custer’s Little Scout.
Harbaugh.

91 1(gregon Josh, the Wizard Rifle. By Roger Star-

uc .

92 Hurricane Kit: or, Old Lightning on the Ramp-
age. By A. F. Holt.

93 J umgin Jake, the Colorado Circus Boy. By B.
Bain ri ge.

By T. C.

94 Sam Spence, the Broadhorn Boy. By Ed. Willett.
95 Moscow to Siberia; or. A Yankee Boy to the
Rescue. By Charles Morris.
96 Fighting Fred; or, The Castaways of Grizzly
Camp. By T. C, Harbaugh.
- 9'7 Cruise of the Flynn/av: or, Yankee Boys in Gay
lon. By C. Dunning Clark. .
98 The Boy Vigilantes; or, King Cole and His Band.
By Major H. B, Stoddard.
99 The White Tigers; or, Silver Rifle. the Girl Track-
er of Lake Superior. By Capt. Chas Howard.
100 The 'SnowShoe 'l‘rail' or. The Forest Desper-
‘adoes. By St. George Bathbone.
101 Mariano, the Ottawa Girl; or, The Mysterious
Canoe. By Edward S. Ellis. ‘
102 The Flyawaly; Afloat: or, Yankee Boys Round
the World. y C. Dunning Clark.
103 Pat Mulloney‘s AdventureS' or, Silver‘ Tongue,
» I the Docotah Queen. By C. . Edwards. -
104 The Boy Prospector; or, The Secret of the Sierra.
Ravine. By Roger Starbuck.
105 Minone’e, the Wood Witch; or, The Squatter’s
Secret. By Edwin Emerson.
106 The Boy Cruisers; or, Joe and Jap’s Big Find.
By Edward Willett. r
m The Border Rovers: or. Lost .on the Overland
> Trail. ByJ. Milton Hoffman.

 

108 Alaska, the Wolf-Queen, By Captain Howard
Lincoln.

109 Christian Jim, the White Men’s Friend. By Ed
ward S. Ellis.

110 Plucky Joe, the Boy Avenger. By J. M. Hoffman.

111 The Border Gunmaker; or, The Hunted Maiden.
By James L. Bowen.

112 Left-Handed Pete, the Double-Knife. By J 05.
E. Badger, Jr. I

113 The River Rifles; or, The Fate of the Flatboat.
By Capt. J. F. C. Adams.

114 Alone on the Plains; or, The She-Eagle's Venge-
ance. By Edward Willett.

115 Silver Horn. and His Rifle Firedeath. By Roger
Starbuck.

116 Ex loit of Hezekiah Smith, the Backwoodsnmn.
By marson Rodman.

117 The Young Mustangers; or, Dick Merry's Ran-
gers. By C. Dunning Clark.

118 OlllidTraps; or, The Boy Rivals. By Barry Ring—
go .

119 Center Shot, the White Crow. By T. 0. Bar-
baugh.

120 A Hot Trail; or, Clark Cloverly Among the Tar-
tals. By Charles Morris.

121 Hunter Pard Ben: or, The Wakash‘s Blind Lead. I

By Roger Starbuck.

122 The Esquimaux Queen; or, The Mystery of the
Lone Hut. By G. Waldo Browne.

123 Tim, the Boy Acrobat: or, Lite inthe Circus
Ring. By Charles Morris.

124 Queen Bessie. the Border Girl.

By Henry J.
Thomas.

125 Tom Tabor, the Boy Fugitive: or, The Young '

Lynch Gang Wolves. By Barry Ringgold.

126 Mink Coat, the Death-Shot; or. The Spring of
the Tiger. By Joe. E. Badger, J l- _

127 The Deer Hunter; or, Life in the Ottawa Conn
try. By John J. Marshall.

128 Wolf—Cali}: or, the Night-Hawks of the Fire-
Lands. yCapt. Chas. Howard.

129 Silverssur; or, The Mountain Heroine. By FA-
ward illett. V

130 gestalt. Queen of the Plains. By Percy 13:81:.

0 n. '

131 Wistah, the Child Spy. By George Gleason.

132 The Island Tra per: or, The Young White-But-
falo Hunters. Charles Howard.

133 The Forest Specter' or, The Young Hunter's
Foe, By Edward Willett.

134 Wild Nat, the Trooper; or, The Cedar Swamp
Brigade. By Wm. B. Eyster.

135 The Silver Bugle; or, The Indian Maiden of St.
Croix. By Lieut. Col. Hazeltine.

186 The Prairie Tra per‘ 01'. The Child of the
Brigade. By C. unning Cior . _
137 The Antelo Boy; 0r, Smoholler, the Medicine
Man. By eo. L. Aiken. '

138 Long Shot; or, The DWart Guide. By Captain '
omstock.

139 Colonlel Crockett, the Bear King. By C. E.
so. e.

140 Old Pegs, t Mountaineer; or, The Trapper
Rivals. By wis W. Carson.

141 The Giant Hunter: or, The Mad Scourge of the
Kickapoos. By Harry Hazard. '

142 Black Panther, the Halelood: or, The Slave:

, of the Silver Mines. By J ., E. Badger, Jr.

143 Carson the_Guide; or. The Perils of theFron

tier. By Lleut. J. H. Randolph.

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144 Kent, the Ranger; or, The Fuzitives of the Bor-
der. By Edward S. Ellis.

145 Bill Robbins. Hunter; or. The Man in Green. By
Edward Willett.

146 The Half-Breed Rival; or, The Tangled Trail.
By Joe. E. Badger, Jr.

147 The Masked Avenger; or, Death on the Trail.
By Col. P. Ingrehum.

148 Net. the Trapper and Indian Fighter. By Paul
J. Prescott.

1-19 The Eli: Demon; or, The Giant Brothers. By
T. C. Herbaugh.
150 The Bo Mustang-Hunter; or. Eulalle. the
' Beautifu Amazon. By Frederick Whittaker.
151 Frank Yates, the Young Trupfier; or, Mountain
Kate’s Warning. By Joseph . Badger, Jr.
152 Wild Raven, the Scout; or. Blanche, the Over—
land Maiden. By 011 Coomes.

153 Lynx-Cd ; or, Four Trappers Among the Sioux.
By Paul “DDS.

154 The Champion Texan Ridnr; or. Red Buffalo
and the Hercules Hunter. By Harry St. George.

155 Dusky Dick’s Doom; or. Tobe Castor, the Old
Scout. By Joe. E. Badger. Jr.

1% Frank Bell, the Bov S y; or. The Mystery of
Crystal Lake. By 011 comes.

157 Nick Doyle, the Gold4Hunter. By P. H. Myers.

158 Kidneguped Dick; or, The Fate of the Fire-Fly.
By J. tanley Henderson.

159 Sam’s Lonz Trail; or, The Twin Scouts. By W.
J. Hamilton.

1 160 Hank Triplet's Vow; or, The Old Guide’s Wrong

Trail. By Harry Hazard.

161 The Mad Ski per; or. The Cruise of the Monon-
gahela. By oger Starbuck.

162 The Trapper King; or. Old Bear-Paw, the Yan-
kee Scout. By Maj. Mex Martino.

163 Simon Kenton, Hunter; or. The Renegade’s
Doom. By Emerson Rodman.

164 The BoyChief; or, Frank Bell‘s Compact. By
011 Coomes. I

165 The Trader Traitor; or, Old Burk the Marksman.
By J. Stanley Henderson.

166 Old Jupe’s Clew; or, The Dnrky Detective. By
Mrs. Orrin James. '

167 The Youn Trailer :or, The Black League's Plot.
By W. J. amilton.

168 TheS ecter Spy; or The Wizard Canoe. By
Maj.:1?ewis W. Carson.

169 Lenk Lute, the 01d Colorado Hunter. By E.
W. Archer.

170 The White Wolf; or, Following a. Trail. By
Edward Willett.

171 The Swap: Guide: or. Canehrake Mono and his
Dog. By . N. McNeiL

172 The Yankee Peddler; or. J abez Hawk, the Spy.
By C. Dunning clerk.

173 The Scout and His Young Chum. By Warren
St. Joh . l

174 Blacksmith Tom‘s Mask: or, The Renegade
Rival. By Geo. D. Gilbert.

175 The Buckskin Rider; or, The White Scourge. By
Guy Greenwood.

176 The. untter‘s Surprise; or. Frontier Lire at
. Squire oker's: By Mrs. H. J. Thomas. .

177 Four Fellow Scouts; or The Unseen Hand. By
J. Stanley Henderson.

’ 178 Old Kit and His Comrades; or, The Long Trail.

By J 05. E. Badger. Jr.

 

 

179 Uncle Grill’s Disguise: or, Tom Drain, theYoung
Ranger. By Harry Hazard.

180 The Marked Miner: or. Jolly Jan the Dutch
Trailer. By Lieut. Col. Hazeltine. ,

181 The Wild Huntress; or, Old Grizzly the Bear-
Tamer. By Capt. Bruin Adams.

182 The Dwarf Decoy; or,.The White Steed Rider.
By Marc 0. Rolfe.

183 Job Dean’srTaclics: or. The Captain’s Fair
Rescuer. By Ingoldshy North.

184 Yankee Eph'sDilemma; or, the Scheming Suitcr
Foiled. By J. R. Worcester.

185 The Wily lVitch’s W’ard. By Edwin E. Ew'n.
186 Frank. the Furrier: or. The Yankee Magical
Medicine Arrow. By J. Stanley Henderson.

18'? Diana, the Fair Mountaineer. By Capt. F. Whit
taker.

188 Jack’s Snare; or. The Kent Boys” Plot. By Mrs.
Ann E. Porter.

189 Sam. the Swamp Scout. A Romance of 1779.
By W. J. Hamilton. ‘

190 The Dashing Trooper; or. The Half-Breed‘s
Revenge. By Frederick Dewey.

191 The Boy Brave; or. Stone Castle‘s Shrcwd
Schemer. By James L. Bowen.

192 Sandy Bill. of Texas; or. The White Apache's
Doom. By Edward Willett. . .

193 Harry Winkle‘s Lone Chase; or, the Haunted
Hunter. By Wm. B. Eyster.

194 Creeper Cato, the Shadow Swamp Trailer. By
F. Dewey.

195 The Ranger Detective; or. The Scalpless Hunter.
By Harry Hazard. '

196 Gypsy Mag. the Mountain Witch; or, The Mys~
temous Mute. By C. D. Clark.

197 The Branded Captain; 01-, The Silent Slayer. By
W. J. Hamilton.

198 Old Crossfire’s Crisis; or, Frank Nesbit, the
Young Trailer. By Capt. Charles Howard.

199 Zebra Zack, the Texan. By W. J. Hamilton.

' 200 The Nameless Hunter; or, the Dacoteh Scourge.

By George W. Robinson.
201 The Yankee Captives. By Edward Willett.
202 Teddy’s Long Trail. By Edward S. Ellis.

208 Old Hank, the Hermit; or. The Capture of the
Cave. By Edward W. Archer.

204 Goosehead’s Best Shot. By Jon. E. Badger, Jr.
205 The Dutchman’s Dread: or. Gottlleb and his .
Hunter Pard. By Capt. Charles Howard.

206 Kit Burt’s Mask; or, Nick’the Scout. By W. J.
Hamilton.

207 Eagle-Eyed Tim; or. The Crafty Captain‘s Plot.
By C. Dunning Clark.

218 The Villa? Sport; or. The Young Mechanic‘s
Muster. y James L. Bowen.

209 Buck Burt‘s Pluck; or, The Scouts of the Scioto. \
By Edward Willett. ‘

210 The Tell-Tale Bullet; or, The Outlaws’ Fate. By
J. Stanley Henderson. .

211 The Boy Surveyor; or§.Rugy, the Daring Rider.
By W. J. Hamilton.

212 Yankee Drover Swipes; or, The Young Mustang
Rider. By Seelin Robins.

213 Silver City Tom: 01‘, Blue Belt‘s Barter. By
James L. owcn. ,

214 Nick, the Detective; or, The Border Vagabond’3_
Doom. By Edwm Emerson.

 

 

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215 Mustang Rider Roy; or. The Brigands of Texas.
By Albert W. Aiken.

216 The Dakota Dutchman; or. Sharp Eye's Brave
Band. By Mnj. Max Martine.

217 Yankee Josh. the Rover; or. Two Adventurers
in the Tropics. By B. H. Belknap; M. D

218 New York Ned in California: or, The Brothers of
the League. By W. J. Hamilton.

219 Kentucky Kate's Shot: 01'. Border Focs’ Frays.
By Edward \Villett.

220 'F‘risco Frank‘s Rival; or. The Gold Cave of
Death Valley. By Paul J. Prescott.

221 Doetor Bag. Detective; or, Trailer Tom’s Tact.
By Lewis Jay Swift.

222 Sly Sam‘s Snare: or, The Boy Hunter‘s Vow.
By Louis Legrand. M. D.

223 Old Nancy’s Ward' or, The Rustic Rifle Ran-
gers. By Lieut. Col. Hazcltine.

224 Rattlopate, the Nabob; a. Story of New York in
Early l‘imes. By Scott R. Sherwood.

225 Night-Hawk Bill; or. The New York Sportsmen's
Clew. By W. J. Hamilton.

226 The Masked Maniac; or. The Old Man’s Mission.
By Maro O. Rolfe.

227 Barney's Bold Brush; or, Three Youths in Idaho.
By James L. Bowen.

228 The Deadwood Sports: or. Diamond Dick‘s De-
liverance. By Lieut. S. G. Lansing.

229 Hans Schmidt. Jr.; or, The Disguised Yankee.
By W. J. Hamilton.

230 Lone Star‘s Sum Shot; or, The One-Armed Rival.
By Harry Hazard.

2‘31 Mark Morgan‘s Mask; or, The Girl Avenger. By
Capt. Charles Howard.

232 Billy Broom’s First Cruise; or. Tom Pintle, the
Pilot. By H. Minor Klapp.

2‘33 The Girl Rifle-Shot. By W. J. Hamilton. -

234 Old Kyle‘s Long Tramp; or, Zeke, the Renegade.
By Henry J. Thomas.

2% Old Bill Syce's Pledge; or. The Texan Unmasked.
By Edward Willett.

236 The Olrtlie-Wing Detective; or, Tracking a New
York Bank Robber. By Ed. 8. Ellis.

237 The Do] hin’s Young Skip r; or, Will Wing.
the Fear Pirate. By Roger . tarbuck.

238 Josh’s Bo Fords; or, The Mysterious Sky Ran-
ger. By . . G. Lansing.

239 Lee Dakin‘s Disguise; or, The Madman’s Re-
venge. By Maro O. Rolfe.

M0 Daring Dick’s Race; or, The Yankee Peddlcr’s
Surprise. By Arthur L. Meserve.

%1 Uncle Ephe’s Boys; or. Archy Gordon‘s Grit.
By J. Stanley Henderson.

242 ’Cycliet Bob Sum-ed: or. The Champion’s Rival.
By Capt. R. M. Hawthorne.

%‘3 Flash-Light Joe; or, Brave, the Canine Scout.
By Charles P. Isloy.

m4 Bob Baker’s Lust Lea : or. Old Reuben’s Re-
venge. By ’1‘. Benton hields. U. S. A.

245 North Woods Nat; or, The Young Mountain
Captain. By W. J. Hamilton.

216 The Girl Chief: or, Dolly’s Droll Disguise.
J. M. Merrill.

247 Denver Dick. the Rattler: or. The Miners of
Deadwood (ink-h By Hurry Hazard.

fit? Black Jim‘s Doom; or. Hilly liowlegs‘s Revenge.
iiy LieutvCol. Hazeltine.

249 Morgan. the Sea Rover'
man's Scheme. By Jo

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S. Warner.

 

250 Zach‘s Ghost Trap; or, The Haunted House. By
George Applegate.

251 Kyd’s Bold Game; or, the Death Trail Mystery.
By Paul Bibbs.

252 Sancho Sam’s Shot; or. Fort Binklcy‘s Specter
Riders. By George Gleason.

253 Crafty Crazy Slack; or, The French Fugitive.
By Harry Hazard.

254 The Fighting Quaker; or, The Droll Darky's
Dismay. By Edward S. Ellis.

255 The Ranger's First Cruise; or, The Yankee Tar
Abroad. By John S. Warner.

256 Bob Gage’s Crew: or The Boys of Logger-Cam .
By John Neal. ’ p

257 Tommy's Fast Pacer: or. Searching for “ Uncle
Josiah.” By W. J. Hamilton.

258 Doc Bell's Pluck' or, The Frenchman’s Fate.
By Capt. Charles Howard.

259 Rocky Mountain Burt; or, Harry, the Furrier’s
Son. By Edward “"ihett.

260 Reckless Ralph's Risk; or, The Tell-Tale Clew.
By James L. Bowen.

201 Gold Nugget Dick; or, Two Boys‘ Good Luck.
By Tom P. Morgan.

262 Ira’s Big Bonanza: or, Mysterious Crazy Tom.
By Harry Hazard.

263 Josh Mursten. Detective; or, The Crafty Agent’s
Crime. By Mary A. Denison.

2% Uncle Jerry. the uaker; or, the Schoolmaster‘s
Trial. By John cal.

265 The Skip er's Mate: or. The Cruise of the Fire-
Fly. By any Cavendish.

266 The Girl Cowboy Captain; or. The Skinners of
the Carolina Swamps. By Jos. E. Badger. Jr. .

267 Eph, the Mimic Spy: or, The Frenchman‘sDoom.
By W. J. Hamilton.

268 Ralph‘s Last Tramp; or. The Woodman’s Recre-
ant Rival. By Edward S. Ellis.

269 Sol Steele‘s Grudge; or. The Madman of the
Miami. By Edward Willett.

2'70 Jack, the Coast Detective; or. The Disguised
Captain‘s Clerk. By Roger Starbuck.

271 Old Gotlieb, the Jnlly Landlord: or. The
Daring Dutch Damsel. By Herrick Johnstone.

272 The Boy Boomer; or. Pawnee Bill’s Protege.
By Howard M. Boynton.

273 Red Mike‘s Ruse. By W. J. Hamilton.

274 Bonny. the Dutch Dame;or, The Alderman’s Lit-
tle Protegee. By Decatur Paulding. U. S. N.

275 Conrad, the Ocean King. or. Leon Lorraine‘s
Disguise. By Harry Montort.

2‘76 Put. the Pluck Sergeant;or, Ralph on the War-
l’ath. By W. . Hamilton.

277 Jack Jordan’s Pard: or, The SantaFe Hunters.
By Mrs. M. V. Victor.

278 Tom, the Old Tar; or, Jack Winthrop‘s Long
Trail. By Roger Starbuck. I

279 Dolly’s Death-Shot; or Dusky Mark. the Young
Wild-Cat. By Capt. Charles Howard.

Ready August 24.

230 Detective German J00; or, The Flying Dutch-

man Out West. By Howard M. Boynton.
Ready August 31.

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