Pluck And Luck (no. 165) (1901 07 31)
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Entered as Second Class Matter at the New York 1 5 "e b 898, by F WUISEY), NEW YORK, JULY 31, 1901. Price 5 Cents. Pi i SS /_— —s : s z oy GRRE TE SRS aos b “Lie there, you skulking coward!” he hissed as he folded Mabel to his breast. duty to such as you, and better had it been your body which the sea, swallowed up than our captain’s.”
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PLUCK AND LUCK. © Complete Stories of Adventure. ed Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year.’ Entered as Second Class Matter at the New York, N. Y., Post Office, is Wooenver 7, 18 1898. Tinterad according i Act of Congress, in the od Tn 1901, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. O., by Frank Tousey, 24 Union Square, New York. No. 165. NEW YORK, July 31, 1901. Price 5 Cents. é OR, LOST IN THE SEA OF GRASS. By CAP’T. THOS. H. WILSON, Bap aie ae UL ae CHAPTER sees: : “That’s what I am sent to see, sir,” answered the other “The captain wants me to look at the glass.” y THE WRECK OF THE SUNSHINE “The glass is all right,” muttered the i oe resuming his ; “9 seat on a tool-chest at the side of the door’ “This is nothing but a calm, and it'll be over soon.” “IT must obey orders, at any rate,” said the youth; and he } passed the mate and descended: the Satay ali bg leading te the cabin. ‘ Kenneth Gordon was a young fellow who had Glaterinldea't to make the sea his home, and to follo until he could com- mand a ship of his own. nent 4) le admired and respected Ca tai Howard, but between d ie na Mr, ees Bad had never been the The air was hot and murky, the sea’ was like molten glass, the sun appeared as a brazen disk in the heavens, and the - ship scarcely moved. ; Thé sails hung in loose folds from the yards, the wind had died away till not the faintest breath could be felt, and all |. the sea’ seemed dead. i _ The sailors sought the shade, the man at the helm _ at his post, the chief officer sat at the cabin door while the skipper scanned thé horizon and occasi some one below to look at ‘the glass and report a that might take place. i The timber ship Sunshine, Captain Pliphalet Howard, } ter, bound to New York by the way of Good Hope, from Aus- et tralia, was lying becalmed south of the cape, which ene had ; _ Tounded the night before, } "They had had good luck until now, and indeed no one knew |. but that ‘they would. come papa out of the present danger, - though many doubted it. l¢ : The calm had lasted for an hour or more, ana as” yet == had been no perceptible change in the glass, which was usually ick to” report any distur bances in the air. The heat was oppressive, and the slightest exertion pro- uced exhaustion, the very air seeming to be heated in a pee lat to pe lost ‘all its rleniatine power. / ce ge Tl A to eal] its young fel- — low ba i d, quietly: * Stillwater, and I am ‘sitpposed to know the ; ything Tao.” Ken heard nothin this, having proceeded at once to the captain’s room, where eeerE was a Lehrer ae hanging against the wall. One glance at the instrument adomud the youth that great changes had taken place. { ‘ . The glass was falling rapidly, and at a rate that showed a more than common. change in the atmosphere. sesh thought. BOj" muttered Ken, as he watched the glass for afew moments. ie do sia believe: ‘the other | will Show a change.” i749 a) Then he hurried away, pausing a moment in the common room at the foot of the companionway. Ce RNS This was used by everybody aft. and Sie! sree: with: a table, chairs and lockers, being 4 1 ¢ the { others. fr ces Wie mmabirast, he ie Go below and Tobe at the glass again. “There ust. certainly be some change. ‘This oREarerCs in the nbs ae put mean something. eee sir! ” the young sailor answered, as che wala to- ard the cabin door. - Wisse f at's the matter?” asked. the mate, ‘sta. nae up as the “ als Ta ed. \ ea
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f on hig) voyages and Imew much. more about the management looked upon by human eyes. fi - ofa hip than’ it would be supposed a woman would care or His, troubles were over, and had those who detived h m ‘ysast men that Master Kenneth and pretty Miss Mabel eu - and the ship now Lr adaiae! ahead as though heand to her ; water, provisions and other things necessa y for a. Jong destruction, «| j fort of her father, as he had no other children, and his wife carried away the wreck of the main-mast with all its. accom had been dead several years, the girl herself being about seven- yanying rubbish, and swept the deck clean of everything in teen, and just budding into- perfect womanhood. 4 their mad rush, the body of the unfortunate skipper being “it might be too late to save the ship. 2 Lape WA ER-LOG eae sas Se evry? — ~ i Se Here was where. the officers ate their meals, sat in the | shot a ball of fire, and at once there came a- crash that ses ox evening, reading or/engaged in various amusements, and where | to shake the very foundations of the earth itself. the crew stated any grievances they might have. The ship was struck -by lightning. f In this room, facing the stairs, there hung a chronometer, a| The mainmast was shiyered from top to bottom, and fell barometer, and other nautical instruments—these being the| across deck, heeling the vessel over upon her’ beam ends. ones generally consulted. At the same moment she was seen to be on fire aloft, the flames making their way rapidly toward the.deck. Captain Howard had been struck by a fragment of the fallen mast and now lay on the deck insensible, “Make ready the boats!” cried the mate. “We are on fire!” Ken sprang to the captain’s side, knelt beside him and lifted. his. head. : There was an ugly cut upon it, and the blood oozed slowly out upon his temple, though not a sound escaped his pale lips. He seemed to be still breathing, but his eyes were closed, and he did not attempt to speak even when Ken asked him how -he felt. “Never mind him, Gordon!” growled the mate, as ie passed. “If he lives we can put him in a boat, and if he dies he can stay ‘here. There’s no time to fool over him now.” : To this heartless speech Ken made no reply, but hastily = arose and hutried. to the cabin. “Where are yor going?” demanded Stillwater. i “To tell Miss Mabel that her father is injured, and see we must take to the boats.” ‘ “Go about your work and do what you can. Sever ina 2 fussing over women and dead men. You'll be mre | if you get away alive.” At that moment, however, Mabel herself appeared, seeming | to know at once that something had happened. She looked around, missed the sound of her father’s voice, did not see him at his accustomed “geek! eng knew in an instant that*he was dead or dying. Ken glanced at the barometer and saw that it registered no change, although that in the captain’s room showed a great alteration in the: atmospheric conditions. “T thought as much,” he again muttered, examining the in- strument more closely. “It has been tampered with in some way; how, I do not understand, but so as to deceive us as to the true state of the weather.” Then he hurried upon deck, the mate meeting him with a black look, and demanding: “What were you doing down there so long? Does it take you all that time to look at a glass which you can see from the companion?” “The glass is falling very rapidly, sir,” said Ken, addressing the skipper, however, and not the mate, the latter scowling at him from beneath the brim of his straw hat. “Tt is? It was not falling when you looked, Mr. Stillwater.” “No, nor is it now,” muttered the mate. “What does a green sailor know about instruments?” “The glass is falling, sir,” said Ken, firmly. “I examined the one in your room, The one in the steerage is out of order and will not register.” The captain looked at the mate and then at Ken, with a puzzled expression on his face. “Take in all sail, Mr. Stillwater,” he said>-and at the next} moment he hurried below. ‘He first glanced at. the barometer in the outer cabin, and | then hastened to his own room where he found a considerable “Where is my father?” she cried. “Tell me sie truth, Ken, difference in the register of the two instruments.: | for you know’ it. I can see it in your face.” ' 4 3 “It’s just as Ken said,” he muttered, “but how did he think) , Forward,” said Ken. “He was struck by the mast.” to come here? He must have known that the other ered “Come with me,” she sald, and hurriedtoward ‘the spot where’. OEE TELGRS, her father lay dying, or dead, perhaps, even at that moment. “Is there any change in the weather, father?” asked a sweet | As she did so a monstrous wave suddenly swept across the voice at, that moment, as a lovely, young girl entered the room. | decks, breaking down the weather rail and carrying everything “Yes, Mabel, child, there are great changes, and I fear eee a before it, we are in danger. Do not venture upon deck till I call you.’ Ken saw the danger, leaped forward, seized Mabel fos his Then the captain hurried upon deck where his orders were | arms ajid sprang intoythe rigging, escaping the rush ot eee being obeyed as rapidlyas possible. ; by the merest chance. Mabel Howard, the skipper’s daughter, was the sole com- In a. moment the ship righted, for the surging waters had Fora few years. previous she had accompanied her father borne ont upon the flood to its ocean grave, never seek to be coul ‘acduire the knowledge of. ' it, known of the trials and hardships before them, they mi cht She treated everyone on board with equal ‘courtesy, put | have shrunk from the ordeal and wished that the ‘Bea migh had entertained -a*¢ordial dislike of the first officer, Mr. Still-|8Wallow them up at once and forever. : water, though’ she treated him as she did. all the rest. ! While she was courteous to all the sailors, she seemed al pena treat Ken Gordon with rather more consideration than ia : Sehgal i rest, and it was a thatter of common report among the fore- Petey : OH APTER 1. EN some day make a match of it. sista j % A CONFLICT or ADTHORITY AS, Captain Howard hurried on deck he saw that his orders | » \ : had been obeyed not an instant too soon, and: that even now “Lower away ae boats, there! nat hands stand by. the ship!” f From a dead calm it had suddenly changed to a Sle with! ‘Thus cried Mr. Stillwater in an ieee of calm not the wind blowing from all quarters at once, as it seemed, the | after the sudden death of the skipper. : ‘ sky becoming as black as ink, the waters heaving and surging, | The men had been busily engaged in filling the bo: (and one or two were all ready. to be launched. | anot er ba Suddenly trom 0 out has black, darkness all pee them ‘there | One of the boats had pect eaten 2 3 oe ween Ne oe? $5 yest be ¢ a Pied) i) i i Me if yy Wat, APF egy P al \ Ee ¢ ye
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“ WATER-LOGGED, : La damaged at the time of the falling of the mast. So that there a couple of lanterns and returned to the deck, which seemed were but four left, and one of these was little better than ajto be deserted. skiff. \ Meanwhile the flames, caused by the lightning, had extended until there seemed no hope that the vessel would survive, “Lower away!” cried the mate, and two of the boats de- scended to the waiter, the men pulling away so as to avoid being swamped in case the sea were again to rise and force them against the side of the ship. * “Go below, Ken, and look after the instruments,” said the mate. “We must take ’em along.” “Ay, ay, sir;” and Ken hastened to obey the order. “Into the larger boat with you, Miss Mabel,” said Stillwater. “You will be under my charge now.” "J will wait till Ken comes back,” answered the girl, quietly, standing by the cabin door. j “You will wait for no one!” hissed: the mate. “Do as I say. Iam master here now. Your master as well as of the sailors!” Mabel remained in her position, and the mate strode toward her, angrily, not noticing that the sailors were launching the third boat at that moment. “You will obey me hereafter!” he hissed, as he seized the girl. by the arm. “Get into the boat!” “Ken! Help!” cried Mabel. In an instant Ken was on deck. He saw Mabel struggling in the mate’s grasp, saw the look of evil passion on the officer's face, forgot all differences of . tank in a second, and, leaping forward, felled’ the man “to the deck at a blow. “Lia there, you skulking coward!” he hissed, as he folded Mabe] to his breast. “I owe no duty to such as you, and bet- ter had it been your body which the sea swallowed up than Gur captain’s.”> At that moment a cry of warning eame from the boats. “Ahoy, there! The sea is rising; the flames are spreading. Make haste and ieave the ship!” i Ken looked at the prostrate form of the mate, and, for an instant, a wicked thought came into his heart. He could abandon the man to his e e and be vid of his persecutions forever. For an instant only did he think t - to a young fellow of his own age, Wi _ ship, and said: | “Here, Bert, you pad Diets help me get the boat.” ; _ Vink Bight was an able seaman, a natural genius _ queer character besides, but a firm friend withal, an _ Who, once trusted, would never betray the faith placed in hin At that instant there came a second blinding flash and then @ peal of thunder more violent than the last. In} ‘another instant a mighty wave rushed upon the ship, left the the line holding the third boat parted, and in a moment she. Was lost in the darkness. Then the rain began to descend in feiventh and the flames Which had threatened to destroy the ship were extinguished, leaving the rail and stumps of masts blackened a burned, but luckily still sound. - Down poured the rain in a re ( Beeened ‘saturated, the very floodgates of heaven being opened. ‘ The: darkness grew more intense, for night was now com- € on, and with it the promise of storm and wreck. ~The waves still ran high, despite the rain, and nothing con ould be, seen of the boats, their fate betng a mystery to those cen ms “Mabel to the: cabin, where ‘he Lighted de her be of good cheer, assuring her ‘tha, aptaally rescued, — = there was no | uld he put 0 on an hae OS dole! sou’ viwester hat, lighted , certain, and overboard?” ceaseless flood, and all the air ps nothing with it, ccasion for | panionway and entered the cabin at that very moment, “Ahoy, there! Is any one alive?” he shouted. “ayfay! ” answered. Bert Ransom. “It's a good thing you have brought a light, for we alent have walked overboard in this pitch darkness.” “He’s brought a light, most welcome sight, and now the night is very bright, and in our might we'll take a bite!” cried a cheery voice. “Hallo, is that you, Dink?” cried Ken. it seems?” Dink was greatly given to rhyming, and could not say a simple sentence without jingling a lot of words together, a habit which had resulted in giving him one name of the poet among his fellows. ° “Oh, yes, I’m here, don’t you fear; you'll find me near when you need good cheer,” answered the rhymster. _ “Where’s Mr. Stillwater?” asked Ken, as he walked forward, looking for a place to hang a lantern. “Don’t. know,” said Bert. “I haye not seen him since the rain began.” “You fellows had better go and get on oilskins,” said Ken. “You'll be soaked through if you don’t. I never saw such a rain. lt will take down ghe sea, though, and that’s one comfort.” “Tt’s a heavy rain, that’s plain, and it will calm the raging main, and then the sun will shine again with all its might and main,” retorted Dink, as he went off to the forecastle. “Dink, you’re a rattle-head!’ ” laughed Bert, as he followed the poet. Ken now secured one lantern to.2 a pin on the Wien tiie ear and then, passing up forward, suspended the other to the outer jib-stays, the sail being down and hanging over the boom. The rain poured down without cessation, and, as nothing could be done in the darkness, Ken proposed that they make themselves as comfortable as possible until morning. < There was no sail up on the ship, and they appeared to be drifting, though in what direction it was impossible to tell, Ken went aft to light the binnacle lamp, but here he found that both compasses had been removed, so that their course could not be determined. Going into the cabin, where he knew there was another compass over the captain’s bed, he discovered that this had fallen from its place and was now utterly useless. “Heaven only knows where we are drifting, then,” he mused. € there is a small compass in the other boat, but if t, we will have to go by the sun S oF us are there “You are still alive, “You struck him de “Pm not afraid,” said Ken, lightly, although he determined at the same time to be on his guard against the apllow; whom he mistrusted as much as he disliked, En eps : “He is commander here now, Ken, you past a added Mabel, “and you must do as he says.” ey ; “I do not recognize his command,” Poiana Ken. “We. have’ no crew, and the ship is so disabled that we can do ae are all equal here, and T am as much a captain as Dan Stilfwater.” “You are, hey?” and Stillwater’ himself deseended the eoniee cae Ken made ‘no reply,: -and Stillwater’ continued:
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“You will find that I am master here, my lad, and you'd better impress that upon your mind.as soon as convenient. Now, clear out and go into the forecastle, if you want to keep dry.” “T have no particular objection to the forecastle,” said Ken, with a laugh, “but I don’t acknowledge your authority, and I will not. You are simply here, like the rest of us, a WATER-LOGGED. : veep nanan She was well provisioned, also, there being an abundance of preserved meats and vegetables, and a liberal supply of fresh water on board, so that there was no Rates) danger of starvation. There was one small boat still remaining, but, coumiaenias the uncertainty of their position and the lack of means to ascertain it, the ship was a safer place than the boat, and castaway. You failed to wreck the ship once, and I do not] none of the ageeti Y gave a second thought to the question intend to let you have a second chance.” “What do you mean?” hissed Stillwater; turning livid. “{T mean that you tampered with the glass; that you meant to wreck the vessel and abandon the captain; that you took away, or disabled, every good compass ou board, and that it was your intention to suddenly leave and abandon the skipper upon a vessel which you considered already doomed.” “How dare you?” snarled the other, advancing. “Instead of that,” Ken went on, “you yourself have been abandoned and must float with the currents and drift with the winds, wherever God wills, Had you done your duty, I would have been glad to obey you; but now you are no more than any of us.” ; “No, and he ain’t as much, if I know anything,” said Dink, coming into the cabin. “Go on deck, you fool!” muttered fhe mate. “Pxcuse me, sir, I ain’t a fool, and I’ve been to school and know the rule, and you’re a mule if you think I’ll be a tool, and there’s reason as well as rhyme for you.” “TI hope you understand us, Mr. Stillwater,” added Bert, who now joined the party. “It is every man for the whole now, and not each for himself.. We can’t trust you to be captain, and so we have concluded to have none.” “’Cause we know you,” concluded Dink. work, and you can’t shirk out, 0’ that. . boys, and we’re just drifting anywhere, There ain’t no com- pass, and we couldn’t steer if we had one. We're just adrift, and it’s a mercy that it ain’t no wuss, and that’s sense if it doesn’t jingle.” “You're all a pack of idiots! » snarled Stillwater, and, turn- ing upon his heel, he went into his own room and bolted the door, remaining secluded till morning. “Your plans didn’t The rudder’s gone, CHAPTHR III. j LOST IN THE SBA OF GRASS When the day dawned it was apparent to all upon the! wrecked yessel that Dink had spoken the truth. ‘ hey were “just drifting anywhere,” of a truth, ‘and’ ‘that _ was all that could be said. : Theit rudder “was gone, they were nearly diswiasted, they had no means of ascertaining their position, and they were totally at the mercy of the ‘winds and waves. The storm had subsided, ‘but the current was bearing them in a northerly direction, and they hoped to run across other ships before long, as ‘they were still in the track of vessels bound to Hngland, as. they fondly believed. Since the outburst of the previous night the mate had said nothing, and when he appeared late the next morning he had still but little to say, and that in surly tones, as though , he were brooding over the past. Had not Ken been so certain of Stillwater’s intended treach- ery, he would not have defied the man so openly; but he felt | ‘sure of his position, and the mate’s subsequent conduet t proved | - that the young sailor was right, _ '- Although it was not possible to direct’ bie” course of the | ‘ : ship, it was still a place of. refuge and would remain intact fora long time, being stanch and well puilt and not materially injured: sO. far as her Sato: was SERICEE TE: | Dink, who could not overcome his propensity for rhyming, even a “To the north and west, as ne of leaving the vessél and trusting themselves/to the mercies of the ocean in a small boat. : During the first few days Stillwater remained in his room, coming out only at rare intervals for the purpose of satisfying his hunger or thirst, and saying nothing to his comrades in trouble. ie During this time, Ken, Bert and Dink had repaired the break in the bulwarks, had rigged up a temporary mast upon witich a light could be suspended at night, and had made a tour of the hold, satisfying themselves that there were no dangerous leaks and that everything was in good condition above and below. i ; One man was always on watch at night, for they had not yet given up the idea of a rescue, and recognized the necenBity: of keeping a good lookout. Mabel established herself in the galley as chief cook, for | she insisted that she ought to do something, and that this was the work for which she was best fitted. “T don’t care who is captain,” she declared, with a Jaugh, “but Iam going to be the cook, I don’t want first place, but T will take the second.” “lve read in a book that the captain and cook were the — first on the hook,” remarked Dink, in his characteristic style. — “Ter position she’s took, so let her be cook.” ( At the end of three or four days Stillwater came out ‘of his room one morning, and, approaching the group around the table, it being the breakfast hour, said: “Come, boys, let us be friends. There’s no knowing how long we may have to be on this old hulk together, and where’s the use of living like cats and dogs?” oth “I have no desire to do so, Mr. Stillwater, ” replied Ken, “and it am satisfied to be on friendly terms with you if you wish it. bs The others nodded assent to this, and the mate replied: ¢ “You were “not as respectful to me as I thought right: the other day, but we will let that go and say no more about it. You probably thought you were in the right. Maybe you were and maybe you wasn’t; it don’t matter which, now, so let's catia a truce’and try and live harmoniously.” joist ce SGA Ne A “That suits me,” said Ken, beleive: CHEM Sik dee Cha A) “I’m satisfied,” added Bert. | ; ; “So am I, and let us try to live and die ii ay x remarked when there was no occasion for any long speeches. — Mabel said nothing, tacitly consenting to the truce, put — at the same time deciding not to trust the former mate to far, ah “What do you “think?” said Ken to Bert, in’ the: psetig as they sat together on ‘the windlass well up forward, sadn ” “Stillwater, you mean?” “ Yes, shim © a v “IT would not trust him out of my sight: However, it well to be on terms of mater with him, for. the 1 at all events.” is fe own idea. I qnied, to see it Want thought the sam ow. that Dink does, and Mabel, ‘though ‘she’ sels y much th her guard as, any of 18, Mi; 0) what do. i nade ey ing, “I have floticed it,” said Ken, musingly; 11 you think of our position? 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WATER-LOGGED. _ ne Sait “Then we ought to strike land at Gibraltar or thereabouts.” “Yes, if the current does not carry us still further away.” “To be sure,” muttered Ken, “if we get into the equatorial current, we might drift clear across the ocean and into the Gulf of Mexico. That’s a long voyage,” There was a longer one before them, however, ea Qus i they knew it not. 3 Days merged into weeks, and nearly two months had passed . from the time they were abandoned, when one day Ken, upon coming on deck, looked around and saw great masses of gulf weed floating on the water as far as he could see. The vessel moved slowly along, sometimes appearing to be immovable, and again making just, enough progress to be) noticeable. “What place is this, for heaven’s sake?” cried the young sailor. “It is the sea of grass, and we are forever lost!” Ken turned and saw Stillwater leaning against the rail. “The sea of grass!” echoed Ken, in surprise. ‘Yes; the famed Sargasso Sea of the Atlantic—bigger than the whole of Europe, and a regular dead sea in the bargain.” “We have drifted out of the main current,” said Bert, com- ing up at that moment, “and are now in the slack water. The Lord only knows how long we may have to stay here. If we strike a calm belt it may be years before we leave it.” “Don’t vessels ever come this way?” “No,” said Stillwater, gloomily. “They know better. The place is out of all the highways of ocean travel. I would rather have died than be here. Our vessel will rot and go to pieces before we can hope to leave this accursed spot.” “Call no place accursed that heaven has created,” said Ken, solemnly, and no more was said. The prospect was cheerless enough, and as the days passed it became more so. All around them was a sea of grass, the water being cov- ered, sometimes to a depth of three or four feet, with float- ing weed which grew and flourished on the bosom of the deep and afforded life to millions of little creatures, crabs, fishes, ‘snails and other tiny denizens of the great deep, while now and then the larger and more important inhabitants of the ocean made their appearance. One day, when they had been in this weird regi weeks and had seen nothing worth mentioni ‘greatly surprised, upon the rising of the sun, ship, very old and dilapidated, within a shox own vessel. Calling his companions, he aigacaen to| the old hulk and see if she co keeping, a proposition which all read _ Accordingly, the whole party embark _ Ken and Bert rowed, Mabel sitting in the stern to steer, and _ Dink being in the bow, ready to make fast when they reached the strange vessel, : zi § A few minutes’ row brought them sionuane and Ken di- rected Dink to board the stranger at the bow, the rail being entirely broken away at that point. i Dink, Stillwater and Bert first ascended to the deck, and _ then Ken helped Mabel up, and the whole party stood Ua Be living man had set foot for years. - What a sight awaited them!\ The ‘place was literally. strewn with skeletons—some rest= ng against the stumps of masts, others lying prone upon the deck, while some lay in the scuppers, half crumbled to dust. oe wore, eae rags which phage chee: the decay- “What a sight!” muttered Ken: “It gives me the horrors!” _ “I told you it was ihe sea of the dead,” returned Stillwater. “King Death reigns supreme, and these are his ministers. They are smiling upon you. Go and return their cordial greeting.” Ken turned away in disgust, but Bert said, cheerfully: “While life lasts hope remains, and I will yet live to tell of the wopderful things we saw while lost in the sea of grass. Come, let us explore this old hulk.” CHAPTER IV. ON BOARD THE PELICAN It was a strange sight that the castaways gazed upon, as strange as its surroundings. The sun just rising over the sea of grass, those floating meadows upoi which no foot might tread, the old, time- battered wreck and the skeletons which lay all around, the sole tenants of the rotting hulk. Mabel unconsciously seized Ken by the hand, as if seeking protection; Stillwater mumbled something under his breath; Bert and Ken showed surprise, while Dink softly whistled as. he looked to see if the boat in which they had come over from their ship was secure. “What a dreadful sight!” murmured Mabel. “Come away, Ken. Might we not take some awful disease from being here?” “T hardly think so,” said Ken. “By the looks of: things, these skeletons have been here a good many years, as some, you can see, have crumbled into dust.” “Into dust, as all of us must, and crumble like rust, or a cask what’s bust,” said that inveterate rhymester Dink, come- ing forward. “Suppose we take a look over the old hulk,” again siiggested | Bert. “We ought to find something interesting.” — Ken was about to acquiesce in this proposal when Mabel : said, quickly: : “No, Ken, don’t. I am sure something will happen.” “Why, there is no danger,” said Ken. “The skeletons cannot hurt us, and there is nothing else.” Stillwater stood by the broken rail gazing irresolutely on the weird sight, when Dink, walking toward one of the groups of skeletons, stooped down, picked up something bright, and, approaching Ken and Bert, said: ere is gold, and it’s awfully old, and if you’d bee n @ye thought you were sold, but i Bert, who was ‘looking at the “Seems t coin. Stillwater suddenly threw off the spell that seemed to he Vt upon him, and hurried toward the skeletons. 4 Gere at He stooped over one that lay well down in the scuppers, Fite fumbled about it for a few. moments, and then came toward Ken, his right hand extended, and, in the open palm, half a dozen coins similar to the one iii ath Dink had found. } fi “T have made: a haul, too,” he, exclaimed. “ These are doub- als f loons, and worth nearly twenty dollars apiece. Remember, ; if there is any more treasure on board, i have the largest if share, because I am captain.” wf - © We'll share and share alike, my ‘beautly,” said Dink. “Share __fand share, is just what's 1 fair, ao have. a care, that you act on. a square,” at “Hold your tongue, you idiot!” Hf rorted Sihwater. aed . S a AF, a a
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6 . WATER-LOGGED, (>. ie a Thereupon he returned to the larger group of skeletons and began rudely turning them over, stripping off the rags which ‘covered them and searching, fiercely, for more gold. Mabel shuddered and turned away her head, still holding “fast to Ken’s hand, the latter making no ‘disguise of the dis- _ terrupte hs “How old is’ the log?” gust he felt at the mate’s heartless greed. While Stillwater was thus engaged, Bert and Dink went aft and descended to the cabin, the doors of which stood open, “Only three more,” muttered’ Stiliwater, as he dropped the gold Dieces into his pocket, with @ jingling sound. “There ought to be more than that. Let us search the old hulk, This is only an aggravation. There must be plenty below, since the common sailors were so well provided.” “I think we had better return to the ship and get breakfast first,” returned Ken. “This vessel is not going to float away.” “We can have breakfast any time,” muttered the other, “but this old huik may fall to pieces at any minute. She’s so rotten now that it’s a wonder she floats.” He started toward the cabin as he spoke, but at that mo- ment Bert and Dink reappeared. Dink had a bar of gold, over a foot in length and three or four inches square, in his hands, while Bert carried a large, leather-covered book, with brass corners and clasps. “lve got the log book of this ship, the Pelican, of New Orleans!” cried Bert. “And Ive got a fortune!” added Dink, displaying his bar of gold. “There’s enough in this to make fifty of your doub- loons.” : Stillwater’s eyes glistened and he muttered some unintel- ligible words under his breath as he dashed past Dink and Bert and rushed down the cabin steps. “He won’t find any more, and I guess he’ll feel sore,” re- Marked Luge “for we've got»the whole store and there ain’t any more.” “Come away,” said Mabel to Ken. “Didn't you hear what fe said? .This old wreck may. fall to pieces under our feet at any minute.” “Hardly so soon as that, my dear,” laughed Ken. “However, { think we might as well go and get something to eat before we do anything else,” “There’s no more gold in the cabin,” said Bert. “We found this bar on the table in the eaptain’s room, I glanced. over some of the last entries in the log and it seems to me that they spoke of having lost the bulk of the treasure.” “How did they get it?” asked Ken, becoming interested. ee? “They ran across an ancient treasure ship, but for some gSOn or. other did not succeed in transferring her wealth.) heir: own ship.” yi 30 ‘This will make interesting reading,” pat. Ken, mmueiiiely. “It is dated in 1790, nearly sixty years ago,” ( “Sixty years! .I.wonder there: isanything left of ais bodies. ” ; ( “They crumble to dust if you touch them, ” tee peel Bert, “There was one below, and Dink brushed against it——” “Yes, sir, and away it went into ten thousand pieces, * in- Dink; “and now Nt’s nothing but a heap of dust, a it's clean gone to bust. and smells like must.” % “At this moment Stillwater came on aah his face inflamed with passion, * “Give me that bar!” he cwutat angrily, to Dink. “Te is mine, by right of my. office.” “And mine by right of possession. I’ll make no concession and you needn’t make intercession, for it’s my profession to keep it in my tesa ou replied Dink, in the most tantalizing "manner. Rove you eving back to ‘the ship?” asked K Ken, ‘quiet. “We are.” yh ry bthat we have’ the log of the Pelican?” ‘we can all have a chance to“smoke.” Hy “No!” hissed the man. “I am going to stay here. You can send the boat over for me when I hail you.” “We will if #t’s convenient, and if it isn’t youll have to wait;” answered Dink, provokingly. “This ferry is run to suit the people, not the nobs.” , Stillwater growled out something that sounded like an im- precation, took a short pipe, half full of tobacco, from” his coat-pocket, lighted it, and returned to the hold of ge old ship, a cloud of smoke floating behind him: “He's taking his breakfast in the form of a smoke,” aa Bert, with a smile, “He evidently intends to be busy for some time.” ‘i ; “Let him alone,” mused Ken. “While-he’s thus engaged he won’t be Pig mischief, and I believe that he does little else.” “You won't sate the boat back with only one man in it, Will you?” asked Mabel, apprehensively. “Ii we do we will send one that can take’ care of himself, Bi replied Ken. “We know too much of Dan Stillwater to put up with any of his nonsense.” : Bert now dropped @hto the boat. Ken helped Mabel to her place in the stern, arid then Dink followed, cast off the warp, took up his oars and pulled toward the Sunshine, which looked stancher than ever, now that they had been aboard the Pelican. “Home again,” said Ken, as he helped Mabel to reach the deck. “Home!” repeated the girl. ! “Aye, and the only one we are likely to have for some time to come,” be answered. “But not the only one for all time, Ken?” she asked, anx- iously. ; “T cannot tell,” replied the young fellow. “At any rate it ee is a BORO Va e one, and we might be much worse off. than Wwe are.’ m Mabel hurried to ‘the galley to get breakfast, Dink lighting — 7 the fire, Bert getting the water for the coffee, and Ken ‘setting the table in the cabin. f The meal’ was prepared and eaten, the table Gisanad and a the cabin put #0 rights, and still there had been no signal from Stillwater. : j hoes He prepared and ate his own meals in his own way, and fe at his own convenience, however, and consequently there was no yeason why he need leave the Pelican to return to his ws quarters in the forecastle, which he now preferred to the cabin, se “Now, then,” said Ken, as he lighted his pipe, and sat’ on ay chest. in- the shade of the house on deck, ‘auppose, Bert, ” fs “Agreed, 5 said ‘Bert. “We'll take turns at tenaing, SO” that = “Oh, you slaves to habit!” cried Mabel, aeaays: as she “yan ‘ into the cabin and caught up the old, leather-bound ‘yolume, “Let me read, and then you can all smoke.” : “A sensible idea,” said Bert, laughing, and then, wich a had seated themselves in comfortable positions, the skipper’s ; daughter began to read the log of the Pelican, | CHAPTER V.' A THRILLING NARRATIVE ke t The ship Pelican, Matthew Underhill, Master, le! erate men ‘all told: Laie tons: ene well until they iia t pe nd ‘north. anh ‘oh 41 e of th
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WATER-LOGGED. SN pn a LS a PEER Le alate fast, after considerable trouble, so that the treasure might ‘ /not slip from the grasp of the Pelican. Immense masses and fields of floating weed were now en- countered, and the skipper, on taking an observation, dis- ecoyered that he was on the lower edge of ps Sargasso Sea and drifting deeper into it every hour. The poor sailors were made frantic ca visions of ‘geet none of which were to ‘be realized, Man after man died and lay on the deck uncared for, none daring to,remoye the bodies through fear of infection. Some of the poor fellows hugged the gold the captain had given them to their breasts, and cursed the fate which had - fallen upon them. One by one they died and remained unburied, the very air being tainted. The hawser attached to the Santa Felicia parted one night, and the treasure ship drifted into the sea of grass, no one knew whither. : There was now not a man on board that: was not affected by the feyer, and of the crew of twenty, less than half that number remained alive. t The captain, as sick assthe rest, did all he could to allay the sufferings of his men, but in vain. He could not even bury the dead, and, at last, he, too, suc- cumbed, being the last to die. The last entry in his log book had evidently been made but a few hours previous to his death, for the words were written in a shaking hand and many were omitted, the final sentence ending abruptly. Such was the story of the loss of the Pelican, and ‘of the finding of the Santa Felicia. The gold coin and the bar were proof onanee of the truth of the story, and there could be no doubt that had it not been for the fatal malady which overtook them, Captain Underhill and his crew would have returned home, rich be- yond their wildest dreams. “And this ancient vessel is still floating about the sea of grass, lost like ourselves,” said Bert, when Mabel had seared reading. “The Pelican, you mean?” asked Ken. * “The Pelican! No, indeed; but the Santa Felicia, with all that immense treasure on board. We must find Het, old srs and our fortunes are made.” di ; “My dear fellow, do you think how dine that vessel must | had been suffering with the yellow fever at the start, and that it had all at once developed in an alarming degree. Two days afterward the man died in terrible agony, and was buried almost immediately, the sea being his grave, the . erested wave his headstone. j All proper precautions had been taken, it was supposed, to prevent the spread of the disease, but on the day following poor Brodhead’s burial another of the foremast hands was dewn with the dread disease. He was a powerful fellow, with a constitution of iron, and il seemed, after a while, that he would recover, and Captain Underhill began to Hope that there would be no more new cases. f It was a vain hope, however, for the sailor took a relapse from becoming chilled and died within a day; the second mate, Mr. Secor, who had nursed him, being attacked by the dread malady on the day after the seaman’s death. The Pelican then met a succession of adverse gales during which she was driven far out of her course, the crew being unable to attend properly to their duties, Mr. Secor died and then three fresh cases appeared simul- taneously; the ship, all this time, being at the mercy of the winds. rt The three men died within a few hours of each other, and}. seyeral more, including the mate and the steward, were taken sick and were unable to attend to their duties. The foremast was blown out of the vessel by the violence of the wind, and the inability of the crew to shorten sail at a critical moment, and at one time it seemed as though all hands would be lost. They managed to clear away the rubbish and get the ship on an even keel, but there were worse times to come and they fe had not yet seen the half of their troubles. At last the gales subsided and a calm succeeded, and with it the fever again made its appearance. Captain Underhill was as yet superior to the attack of the disease, taking every precaution against it and succeéding for a long time. j More than two-thirds of those still alive were down with the feyer, however, and it seemed to be only a question of time when they would all succumb. ; : ; At this juncture a strange incident occurred. - The wind suddenly sprang up one night and blew gale, the ship driving, no one knew whither. Tn the'morning another vessel was sighted, scud bare poles, a few miles to the north, — ave been floating to be still sepia Captain Underhill signaled her, but received no answer, and “Yes; about a hundred years.’ in a short time, came up with Hig 5 eto. fine fter Not a soul was seen on her’ decks, and in answer to th t j ea “skipper’s hail there was no response. She geemed very old and of antique build, even for those times, and the superstitious sailors aa gs her to he‘the - dreaded Flying Dutchman. . The gale had considerably abated, and Captain Underhill iY ordered a boat lowered and went with four of his men over / to the strange vessel. ; t = Not. a soul was found on ‘board, but een strange discov- eries were made. 7 The stranger proved to be the Santa Felicia, a Spanish | treasure ship, and, from her log, she had already been eee about the ocean for nearly forty years. Tn ber cabin were found two or thrée. chests ea ant gold coin and gold in bars, while. the hold contained Eyeantre to a vast amount. - \: ‘ Captain ‘Underhill returned to the Pelican with two or ree purses filled with doubloons, and two or three bars of gold, intending to transfer the remainder to: his: own zits as. oon as. a eae opportunity occurred. eg A apap A hawser was pein over to — Santa Pati, a rade ae v ¢ “And you thin® she is still afloat?” eee ee le “It seems reasonable enough, doesn’t ito” a eae fo . “Granting that she is, how are you going to find her?” | oie “Why, she is in the sea of grass like ourselves. It is the likeliest thing in the world, that we should run across her.” ht “You don’ tyseem ‘to reckon upon. the immensity of this ~ same sea of grass, my dear boy. It covers an area ‘of fas areds and Hundreds of thousands of square miles,” Pi. re ue Bert opened his eyes. ft : “Why, old chap. we might drift forever over ‘its fuses aan Gi not come across this old treasure ship,” continued. Ken. “Well, we have fallen in with the Pelican,” answered | Bert, ; as a final an? convincing argument, “and it is therefore just — das per bye we will come across the Santa ‘Felicia as a1, Nica
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8 WATER-LOGGED. “There’s Stillwater yelling for some one to bring him over,” said Dink, suddenly. “I suppose I might as well go after him.” “Yes,” answered Ken, “but be wary, for he is in none of the best of tempers this morning, I fancy.” “That's nothing new,” said Dink, with a shrug. “The good tempers had given out just about the time he came on deck. J ain’t afraid of him, but I'll keep my weather eye open just the same, as long as you say so.” CHAPTER VI, STILLWATER MAKHS A FALSE CALCULATION Stillwater was in an angry frame of mind when he re- turned to the Sunshine, and as soon as he stepped on board he said to Ken: “J want my share of this treasure. it is concealed, and I demand to know the place. have an equal share, and I want it!” “You wanted the whole of it a while ago,” answered Ken. “Your tone has changed.” é “Well, I’m satisfied te take my share. It is hidden in that old vessel, somewhere, and I want to know where.” “You are mistaken,” said Bert. “Whatever treasure there was on the old vessel has been taken away. You have as much as any of us. What more do you want?” “T want to know where that chest of gold bars is.” “There was none. Two or three bars only were brought over from the Santa Felicia.” “What is that?” “The old Spanish vessel from which the treasure was taken. The bulk of it remained on board. You can read the log, and learn for yourself.” j _ “You are lying to me,” snarled Stillwater. “The treasure is on the Pelican, and you know where it is.” \ “Well, you are at liberty to ransack the Pelican from stem to stern, if you choose,” said Ken. “Come, Bert, there is no use in arguing with a man like that.” “Do you want to see the Pelican’s log?” ing out the ancient volume. “No!” said Stillwater, walking forward and disappearing in the forecastle, ' The two vessels remained within easy distance of each other all day, though Ken made no attempt to keep the Pelican , alongside. here was nothing to be gained by this, for the young fel- ‘lows were satisfied that there was no more treasure on board, The log book tells where I ought to asked Bert, hold- _ and that they must find the Santa Felicia if they wished . to - .Pecover the lost gold. ea The day was spent as usual, and at night ohe man re- ~ mained on wateh, ‘sos to arouse the others in case anything happened. , Ken was on deck from, midnight until three Bieloce: pacing up and down, smoking, singing or talking to himself from time to time in order to keep awake. It was about two o'clock; the moon was just rising above the waste of waters and everything was still, when, the young’ % man thought he heard a strange sound in the hold. The noise was almost under his feet, and sounded like some one striking with a heavy hammer or sledge. “JT wonder if that can be Stillwater?” he asked himself as the sound was repeated. -“He can’t be getting provisions for himself at this hour of the night.” Walking forward, he saw that the fore hatch was open, ‘and, listening for a few moments, he heard some one moving about in’ ‘the hold. : ; ‘Presently he saw the glimmer of a lent, and then heard a : _stranee, grating sound which ne could not account for. ee ‘ F ¥ discovered. » be 2 ae pie 4 He could not see Stillwater, although now and then he could hear some one moving about, Going to the forecastle he discovered that the fovnnde mate was not in his bunk, nor anywhere in sight. Proceeding to the cabin, he found Bert and Dink asleep in their rooms. “It is Stillwater, and he is' up to some mischief,” mused Ken, as he stood listening. Raising half of the main hatch he lowered himself into the hold by means of a rope, and then walked forward, taking a passage that had been cleared for the convenience of the captain. ‘ p Great piles of timber, hewn and in the rough, were stacked on both sides of him, as high or higher than his head. The cargo was a valuable one, being composed entirely of foreign woods, and might, yet realize a handsome sum if it | could be brought into port. Suddenly, as he moved forward, Ken heard a sound as of water rushing out from some place where it had been con- fined. “He can’t be broaching a cask,” muttered ay “There would be no necessity for breaking it open. Can he mean to let it run to waste, sor as to cut short our SUDpDe Oh, the miserable villain! ” Full of the thought of preventing this dastardly deed, Ken hurried forward, but suddenly paused, transfixed with horror. In an open space, down at the side and not far from the © keel, he saw Stillwater kneeling on the beams, a lantern heing placed where it threw a strong light upon him. He held a large augur in his hand and had just drawn it out, the end being wet. The truth flashed upon Ken in an instant. The man was scuttling the ship! “Villain!” he hissed, as he dashed forward. Stillwater sprang to his feet, kicked over the light and hurried away in the darkness that followed. Ken groped around, trying to find the lantern, to relight it, and, as he was doing so, a jet of water struck him in the face. 4 ’ It went into his mouth, and the salt taste showed him its source at once, rf “Oh, the scoundrel!” he murmured, as he stepped back out, q of the way of the jet. “Was there ever such a wicked villain?” _ Searching in his pocket for a match, he soon found one, a struck it on his coat-sleeve and produced a tiny flame. , He did not see the lantern, but he did see that, the water: : was rushing, in a perfect flood, through the auger-hote in a4 id side of the vessel, well down by the keel. It had been bored by running the auger down between Se layers of planks and could not be reached, from witere: he stood, in order to be plugged up. th “The sound I heard was this scoundrel plugging up orheke holes he had made,” mused Ken, “He meant to let the water force the plugs out in time, and make us believe that ula was a leak.” " ; At this moment the match in his fingers wont oli and ae was left in darkness, ; He had no more and he was therefore obligeaiters grope his way back to the main hatch, not a very serious’ task, as ; the me road lay straight before him. nat ce, Reaching the hatch he climbed upon deck and at. once awoke. ey Dink and Bert, telling them what he had seen. © 3a “T am afraid it will be impossible to stop the leak,” i ce “for there are doubtless Bevel other holes nya the on “We must do our best, at all events, * answered Bert. us go down and see how eee the bata is, Biase if” ‘it
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WATER-LOGGED. 9 Procuring lanterns, the three friends went into the hold and made a careful survey of the place. Besides the leak which Ken had found there were evidently others, as the sound of water rushing in at the side could be heard in several places. The holes had been very adroitly placed, as in nearly every j instance it was almost impossible to get at them, and in some cases they could not even be located, although it was very evident that they existed. “What are we going to do?” asked Bert. “The water is coming in like a millrace, and the lower tiers are already flooded.” “We can do nothing,” answered Ken. “Fortunately there is the Pelican. She will afford us a refuge. Stillwater has evidently been at this work for some time. It could not have been done in a single night.” ~ “Why should he wish to scuttle the ship?” asked Bert. rung as great a danger as ourselves.” “He ss ‘No, for he would have stolen the boat and left us to perish, | He is an infamous scoundrel.” “Well, I don’t see how we can live on the Pelican.. She is rotten, and will soon go to pieces.” “There isn’t any occasion for going to live on her,” re- marked Dink, quietly. “Where shall we live, then?” asked both boys, in a breath. “Right here on our own ship.” “But she will go down before long. No vessel can last with the water pouring into her the way it is in this,” said Bert. Dink only laughed. “Dan Stillwater is a bigger fool than he looks. He’d better read more books, and not try to catch sharks with herring hooks,” he remarked. “What do you mean?” asked Ken. “Well, that's easy to explain, and 1’ll no longer refrain,” re- ‘plied Dink, who would have indulged in rhymes no matter how grave the situation might be. . “Wor goodness sakes, then, tell us!” cried Ken, “This is a timber ship, ain’t it?” “Yes,” é “Loaded up clean through with planks and logs? ” We Yes. “Then make your Siig one on a P ante ® Ther’s nothing don’t strike a rock and scatter her cargo. will float forever.” “But won't she sink at all?” “Certainly. She may'go down as far as her dec no further, Let the water come in. We'll be water and that’s the worst that can happen.” “Water-logged!” cried both boys. “That's what. Let’s see the ship what'll run us down after _ that. She'd think she’d struck a rock. Come on. Dan Still- 3 "water is a fool, or has done this to frighten you over to the - Pelican, which won’t hold together a month, We'll stop eB here, just where we are, and if he thinks he’s going to UKed us he can go drown himself.” me uy i CHAPTER VII. STILLWATER AG ALN’ AT WORK The Seiten of our friends on the timber ship was a aot so |. : terrible ‘as they had feared, and yet it was bad enough. | » By ues the water in ae hore, eta ihe eae | course, and they might have some influence upon us. it jured by the salt water, removing them to a place of safety: This occupied some time, and while it was going on, Still- water sat up forward on the heel of the bowsprit, smoking, and did not once offer to render them any assistance. _ “I kin see through him,” muttered Dink, as he came on deck during the morning after having been in the hold. “He was going to scare us with some terrible story of a leak and frighten us over on to the Pelican and then cut adrift.” “The Pelican is worse than this,” said Bert. “That’s where you’re right, a blamed good sight, for she isn’t tight and ’d go down in a night; but my head ain’t light and you don’t catch this wight in any such plight, as sure as my name’s Dink Bight.” \ “There’s one thing I’m sorry for, Oyen " said Ken, looking out over the waste of waters. “What's that?” asked Bert; “Why, a water-logged vessel is not apt to make any very great speed, and we might float for!years before coming up with the Santa Felicia.” “You think that she is still afloat, then?” “Certainly.” “You did not think so at first.” “She may have drifted out of the sea of grass Gelis and years ago, though I hardly think it likely.”’ “If not, she has gone to pieces.” “J don’t believe that, either. If she were on the open sea she might be swamped or driven by the currents upon some rock, but here that could not happen. There are no currents. Once here, she would remain here.” “Yes! and for how long?” : “Forever!” murmured Ken. “And perhaps that is our fate.” “Then I don’t see any use of worrying over old Spanish treasure ships,” cried Mabel, who had approached during the conversation. “We can’t use the money here, and if we are never going to get away, we don’t want it.” “Sensible girl,” eried Ken, laughing. “Come, Bert, we must get to work again.” : By night they had the greater part of the provisions re- moved and stored, either in the cabin or just under the hatches, where the water would not be likely to reach them for some time. j ; ti That night Ken read over the log of the Pelican more care- fully than they had read it at first, so as to determine, if they could, the point at which she Rea first met the pia en Felicia and where she now was. KY first eppeare? to ib at the tOW:E, western e here fit ‘Bert. “There are no currents here, and not atten wind, » replied Ken. “Our progress must then, of necessity, be poth slow and uncertain. The tides must reach this remote region, | random, according to tie “winds?” asked. a There is no help for us; we are lost!” said Bert, musingly. ‘likely, I don’t see but what we’ ul have to stay sink.” “That won't be as Tone as we ive, then,” ‘said Sane wel be water-logged afore long and we can’t sink, We'll get down to the water line, or maybe. to the decks, but that’s all “We'll have to carry your stove up to ‘the crosstrees, Mabel,” ety Ken, smiling, “and let you do wy cooking | in the e top : would you like that?” Fin ie till we. Beck “And unless some vessel comes’ through, which isn’t at all me
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10 z “I’m ready for anything,” said the girl, “but I’m not worry- ing over it till it comes. We’ve enough to do without giving way to discouraging thoughts.” The next day Ken and Bert rowed over to the Pelican and threw the skeletons into the ‘sea, there being a space clear of the weeds, up by the bows, so at last the poor remains re- ceived the burial of sailors. The two young fellows made another thorough search through the vessel, but could find no more gold, nor any- thing else of value. " “T say, Bert, there’s one thing that is strange,” said Ken, as*they were returning. “Well?” : “There are either charts nor instruments to be found on board.” “Didn’t you take them when we were first over there?” “1? No, infleed. You went down, you will remember, with Dink, while I stayed on deck with Mabel.” “Then Stillwater took them so that we might not be able to study our position. Of course, they must have been there.” *T gee: He ‘thought to lure us over to the Pelican and then try and make his way alone out of this waste.” ‘ “There’s another thing; Ken. We must see that he does not steal the boat, and leave us helpless.” “Why, he would be mad to attempt to traverse the hun- dreds of miles of this desert in order to reach the open sea beyond.” “He would do it if he thouent. it would injure us.” “Then we must watch him, and never let him use the boat » alone.” “I’m agreeable, old man. { don’t suppose he would take it during ee day, and the night. is ‘the time we must look out| for him.* i | Whenever the boys went over to the wreck they satiaiah with a boat-load of wood for the galley fire, as their own supply was running short, and they did not wish to be left without any. That night Ken inok the first watch, poe Dink at twelve o'clock, and then turning in and soon falling asleep. He was aroused by his pipe falling to the deck and break- _ ing, and, starting up with a confused sense of having been asleep, he descended to the cabin to look at the clock. “One o’clock in the morning,” he muttered. “I wonder if i was asleep long. I’ll get my watch below taken from me if oT, go to doing things like that.” : _ Then he- returned to the deck and began walking up recon ey as far as the“bow and back to the cabin, ' He had. taken ag turns when he thought he heard. thé “sound of. oars. . Tee Ad ag “By” Tinks Py bet: that tetipv took the boat while Hy owas asleep, and is going to 1 make off!” he cricay” are never ‘thought _o? that.” Be. a ep He hurried to the rail, peered out into the’ darkness, and “at last distinguished a dark object moving through the water in the direction of the ship. . Py “#He’s coming back, so I won’t say nothing,” he mused. Sif a was to make a fuss he might go away and leave us, so I guess I'll wait.” — - The boat approached nearer An nearer, and at last reached the: bow, when Stillwater. clambered up the side, bringing the warp with ‘him. f ~ “Where’ve you been?” asked Dink, walking forward and meeting the mate coming aft. ; “On, just for a little row, that’s all, “was the careless an~" _ swer, as Stillwater towed the- boat aft and made the rope fast jai) _to a pin just abatt of the waist. ‘ \ Rens “You dou’t want to take that "ere boat without leave, after the” eee Dink. hae 5 TBE - : ne. re aes WATE! ba aoe GRD. | down upon them and made their situation mere oe every carried off in another direction, and the’ Caters. mene i “Oh, well, you were asleep and I didn’t want to oie 3 row. bare returned Stillwater, walking forward, Dink sat musing over this, when suddenly he became con- scious of a smell of smoke, and then saw a light shoot up in the direction of the Pelican. He looked again, springing to his. feet, and beheld a tongue of flame rush out from’ the cabin of the old wreck. : “That scoundrel has fired her!” he eried, excitedly, and then darting down the Compania yay, he hurriedly aroused Ken and Bert. When the two young fellows came on deck, huge jets of flame were darting from the cabin and hold of the Pelican, while — dense’masses of smoke hovered over the wreck, ; Dink hurriedly explained matters, eee no excuses, but telling things just as they were. “That’s all right, Dink,” cried Ken. “We don’t blame you. ‘The worst of it is that the wind is blowing this way, and if our ship takes fire we are lost.” —— , t CHAPTER VIII. A FORTUNATE ESCAPE—THE COMPACT. Flames were now bursting from the old wreck at every point, and leaping into the air to a great height, : The wind, as Ken had said, was blowing toward them, and as the Pelican was not’more than two or three hundred yards away the danger was imminent. , “There goes, our woodpile,” said Dink, and, serious as_ the j occasion was, Ken could not; repr ess a smile. : “I sippose that is why the scoundréh fired the wreck,” he — murmured, “but I am afraid that we may meét with a more serious loss than that. Get out the buckets!” 4 Deck buckets were brought out and the sea ‘water hauled ~ up and threwn. over the decks and against the side nearest the — wreck, , “Wet everything down,” eried Ken, “and keep ane cabin doors ciosed, or we’ll be afire yet!” oy _ In fact, there was great danger of this, for the sparks’ were i fying toward them, and fell on the deck, on the stumps” of. masts, on the. galley and topgallant forecastle, the ary wegd Re being ver inflammable. che Stillwater ‘thade no effort to assist the young fellows, but sat in the forecastle, gloomily, looking out upon the night. 27k was. not long before the Pelican was one mass of fire, ues * ets Aames having eaten their way SRSORERE the sides as Welk: asc the ‘deck. \ “There she lay, a great, glowing mass, while sparks rained instant. zy Suddenly, and ¥ the greatest ainernes they ind shitte and a few drops of rain began to fall. , % “It hasn't rained before in weeks,” murmured Bert, : “It has come when we needed it most,” replied Ken. nee The wreck still burned, furiously, but the/sparks ‘were ne for the time, at least. ae, i tensely hot and stifling on account of the near: presence burning: wreck.’ © rT we have been saved!” cried Bert, ‘as he Se et, the i wreck burn. “He wouldn't care if we were aera! \ same as that old hulk.” fi \ thoughtfully. “we have again been eee ‘and is Hee { pr cts hy we will at last be Foscuss, 3 fk ress
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WATER-LOGGED. | 7 ss ¥] Fiercer and fiercer burned the wreck, till at last, with a mighty crash, her glowing timbers fell apart and were scat-° tered far and wide upon the sea. : Here and there a burning spar or beam floated upon the - weed, lighting up the weird scene, although the greater part had been extinguished by falling into the water direct. When morning dawned no trace of the Pelican was to be seen, except a few blackened timbers fioating here and there upon the waves, or lying half covered upon the weed. Ken met Stillwater at the bows when he came on deck and said: “You failed in your wicked scheme last night. Of what avail would it have been to you if the ship had taken fire? You would have perished like the rest.” “IT would at least have had my revenge!” hissed Stillwater. “Let us detect you in any more such attempts,” cried Ken, with flashing eyes, “and you will be deprived of your liberty, placed in irons and prevented from doing any more mischief.” “You daren’t lay a hand on me, any of you, or all of you, either, for that matter,” returned Stillwater. “Touch me if you dare!” and he put his hand on his breast. Ken had his own sheath knife in a belt at his side, where he always earried it, and, although he bist ua to avoid a quarrel, he had no fear as to the result. “I am merely giving you a warning,” he said, quietly, re- maining where he was. “You proposed once that we should be friends, but you have not kept your part of the bargain.” “In what have I failed?” asked Stillwater, glancing toward the cabin. } “In the first place, you scuttled the ship so as to frighten us off,” / “Well, and what then?” : “Then you removed the instruments from the old wreck that we might not be able to take an. observation, and so ascertain our position.” hs “There were no instruments on the wreck,” muttered Still- water, glancing again toward the cabin. “You set fire to the Pelican in order to endanger us and drive us to the scanty shelter of the boat,” continued Ken. “Fool, couldn’t.you see that you ran the ‘same risk that we did?” The man glanced again in the direction of the at and Ken could not but notice it. - He turned his head to see what it was that had ga Stillwater’s attention, and in an insant the villai him, ° Hurling Ken to the deck he sprang upon him, seized by the throat, drew a knife from the breast of his shirt raised his hand to strike. ‘ He had been tempted to spring upon Ken Bevera time } before this, and had Sapte the cabin door to see if any one came out. { _ Ken could not move or ery out, and in another instant the keen blade would have been buried in his side. — _ The knife descended with lightning speed, cut through the iS at boy’s shirt and suddenly glanced aside. Ken thought at once ofa little gold locket which he car-: ried with him always, being a gift from Mabel. i It was this that had saved his life. ae » “This time you will not escape!” hissed Stillwater, as he Again poised the knife for a blow. Upon the instant a’ sharp. report rang uke and heck lize ae fell to the deck, dashed out of the villain’s hand by a bullet. Then “Bert dashed forward, and, in an instant was at jes side. ty ‘Stillwater ‘released his intended vietitis and sprang a his tect, as Dink came nina out of ie cabin. Stillwater Meaved nimbly back, seized a hand-spike from fe the rail, and cried, defiantly: “Come on, all of you, and take me if you can. Were there twice as many I would-defy you all!” s ; *Put down that weapon,” said Bert, advancing, a smoking pistol in his hand. “I have still another ine here. and you shall have it if you don’t obey.” The man lowered his weapon and glared angrily at the brave young fellow before him. “Yow shall never put me in irons!” he murmured, in low, firm tones. “We will, if you canhot act like a man. You have behaved like a brute from the first.4 “You have no right to put me in isang. * returned stitlwater, in sullen tones, as he retreated a few steps. ; “We have the right to protect our own lives, and if it becomes necessary to put you in irons to secure that end we will do it. Now, are you going to behave yourself or not?” and Bert advanced, levelling his weapon at tae mate. Uttering a growl, more like that of a wild animal than of a human being, Stillwater hurled the bar at the young fel- low’s head and dashed toward the fore hatch. Bert dodged the missile and fired, the bullet passing conan’ Stillwater’s hat. “The scoundrel would have killed you,” he said to Ken, “and I do not see why I need spare him.” Stillwater leaped down the half-open hatchway, and when the others came up he had disappeared. “We ought to fasten him down there like a rat in a trap,” said Dink, vigorously. “It’s lucky you had that pistol, my young friend.” “It is one of the captain’s. | me all the ‘time, a day or so since. do the same.” ‘ “Good advice,” returned Ken, “especially so as we now know what we may expect from this ruffian. You saved my life, Bert, and I thank you. Let us hope that. we may all be pare to escape from this horrible place.” a “IT say, Amen, to that,” said Bert, taking Ken’s hand; “and whatever our erils may be, let us always stick by one an- other.” , ‘ “We will!” said Ken and Dink, and then they went aft, leay- ing Stillwater at liberty to come on deck if he chose. F I determined to have it with I’d advise you all to CHAPTER IX. [S,0F MATTERS SERIOUS AND OTHERW. know what it was that shot. fron the knife from that scoundrel’s ha “Ah, but there was Ken showed her the “It was your love that saved my life,” added Ken, you had not given me that I would net have eal hee locket, I shall keep it as long as f live.” ing else—there was this; ”: ” be “May my love always be a shield to protect and ise you,” said Mabel. and Ken pressed her to his heart. as. ite echoed the wish. “Tt was the, e gold locket, with a dent in one. side, \ “for if Stillwater had remained teldet decks ‘all aay aii the “cast i aways had seen nothing of him, \ The cabin was separated from the hold by a stout staal ig “putt in oe Sei ee might not ae them any more beasts
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42 WATER-LOGGED. | —_- “Tt would be like him to bore through the bulkhead and|| these were read and read till their contents were learned by let the water into the cabin,” said Bert, vent it.” The water had already made considerable headway, and the good ship Sunshine’s sailing days were now over, for she had settled nearly to her water line, and would sink lower as the timber in her hold became thoroughly saturated. Day after day passed, with no hostile demonstration from Stillwater. who was seen, ‘now and then at night, prowling around, up.forward. It was fully ten days after his attack upon Ken that Nd ’ appeared during daylight, and then, as he remained forward and paid no attention to those’ aft, it was resolved to let him alone. , “and we must pre- It was an armed neutrality, however, for they all knew that the fellow could not be trusted, and, they were every one of them constantly upon their guard. Mabel carried a loaded pistol] in her belt at all times, and knew how to use it, though she feared less for herself than that she desired to assist the others in case of need. The water had now risen nearly to the deck line, and it was probably on this account that the former mate had come out of the hold and taken up his old quarters in the fore- castle, for he would not now be allowed to enter the cabin on any pretext. One day, nearly a week after this, he started to go aft, carrying something in his hand, when Ken met him amidships. “Where are you going?” Ken asked. “On the quarter deck to get the sun;” and the man showed Ken a quadrant, ’ “You can take it forward as well as aft,” said Ken, mak- ing no reference to the instrument, which he knew was one taken from the Pelican. The Sunshine’s instruments had all been removed ts the boats, and Stillwater could not have had one of these, and, besides, this one was of older make, though the man had polished it up to make it appear new. “Tf I can’t go aft, I won’t tell you our position when I determine it,” reported the man, gruffly. ; “It can make no difference to us where we are,” returned Ken; quietly. “Wev-cannot get away. Of what use is the knowledge to us?” ST can tell you just where we are,” persisted the man. “Dink!” called Ken. “Ay, ay, sir!” and the seaman appeared instantly. “Have you any white paint, or any kind in the stores?” ~“T’ve got a lump of chalk.” “Bring it here.” zs: ~spink hurtied into the cabin’and presently came back with a i. piece oR chal. as big Be: his first, used in scouring sd brass) work, : “Draw cee tine ‘acroks. deck, ex ctly amidships.” Dink did” $0, and Ken cummed to Stillwater and said: “Your place is” forward of “that line. Come aft and you go in irons. Since you cannot be “brusted: you must be kept within bounds.” Bert aud Mabel had joined the- , tittle group, and upon all the faces there the mate read only the strongest determination. Uttering a growl, he went forward, and there, when the ‘sun came out full and pea proceeded to take his ob- servation. The dividing line on tlie: deck pues where Ken had ordered it put, and Stillwater did not again attempt to cross| it, remaining, when on deck, as far forward as the bowsprit, for j ae the most part sitting there smoking and gazing sullenly across the dreary sea of grass. And so the days passed, with little to break the monotony, one day being like all the rest. if ‘fhere were a few books in the cabin of ihe ‘eit ce. and: | here, do you SUPPOSE H 2 Pema heart. Now and then Dink or the others would get out their fishing lines and try to coax some of the denizens of the deep from their hiding places; the attempts being sometimes suc- cessful, but oftener the reverse. The ship now lay to her deck line in the water, and the scuppers had to be plugged up to keep the decks dry. There was little chance that they would sink any lower for a considerable time, so no very great alarm was mani- fested. One morning, when Dink came on deck, he noticed a dark object upon the water a few hundred feet from the ship, and called Ken’s attention to it. “What d’ye s’pose that is, Master Kenneth?” he asked. “Looks, like the top of a ship’s house, or a capsized: boat, Dink.” “A poat’s boat, and if it’ll float it’s worthy of note, so let’s take a vote and go after that boat.” : =f “Tt ought to be worth something to us, Dink, if no more than firewood.” “That's what I think; and sure’s my name’s Dink, ’ have it, float or sink, as quick as a wink;” and the eccentric fellow began to get the skiff ready so as to go after the mysterious object. 6 In a few minutes he was sculling through a little lane of clear water toward the dark object, while Ken, Bert and Mabel: stood watching him from the deck. They saw him run his boat up to and almost upon the dark object, which appeared to be about twenty feet in length and five or six feet wide, being black and curved like an overturned boat. : : He thrust out an oar and struck the thing a blow as though to determine its character, being evidently puzzled at the result. } ; “Blow me if I know what it is,” he called oie, as he struck it with his oar. “It don’t look like wood, and it can’t be iron.” Then he took one en@ of the boat’s warp in his hand and © jumped out upon the floating object, which easily supported | his weight. ee He hauled the skiff up on it and then struck the putt pees of his oar down sharply. ee “Guess it’s an island,” he was saying, when there came A ct sudden and most startling interruption. : } et ft The island began to heave up and down, a stream of ‘vapor is suddenly shot up from one end of it, while the other pease v& eens the waves into foam. oie “Then it suddenly shot through the water, puffing and ehurn- ing the waves like a steamboat. Dink tumbled into the boat, oar and all, and in ahethen ie instant he was tossing on the waves at the imminent danger f of being capsized. Pee: “There she blows!” cried Ken, from tne Geer. your harpoon, Dink?” Then the strange object lifted wo enormous flukes out of the water, and suddenly disappeared from sight, Jeaving the s waters seething and white with foam, the little ee like a feather upon the dancing waves. “Well, I’li be blowed!” cried Dink, clinging ‘to a thwart. “Tf 1 didn’t land on a whale’s back eee rity knew ‘it Great ginger! how he did go it.” : “Where's _ Ey ) oa minutes, its spout or blow denoting its location. “A whale!” cried Ken, as Bert spoke. isi - “It is a lone one, I presume,” replied Bert, | its way to the regular feeding grounds. It ne asleep when hn landed on. iis back.
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“A whale, and I never knew it,” said Dink, as he sculled. to- ward the ship and came on board. “Tell you what, if I hadn’t tumbled into the boat he’d have gone off with me on his back, and I’d never come home again. Come the nearest to getting scared I ever did.” “You were pretty well frightened, I fancy, for you, haven’t made a rhyme since you came aboard,” said Bert; with a laugh, “Well, now, maybe I was, but, anyhow, we’ve got suthin’ to think qn, and that’s new, at any rate. Wouldn’t mind a whale coming along every day; we might hitch on to one and let him tow us out o’ here.” “Not a bad idea,” said. Ken, with a smile, hardly practical enough for us.” “though it’s CHAPTER X. HOW KEN SENT 4 MESSAGE HOME i The adventure of Dink and the whale caused considerable amusement on board the water-logged ship, and also gaye Ken an idea. “If one whale comes through this sea of grass on his way to the grounds,” he said to Bert,’“why may not others do the same?” E “Tt is likely enough, J suppose.” “Then why would it not be wise to prepare for the advent _ of the next one and make him useful to us?” “In what way? We can’t hope to catch and cut up one of these big fellows.” : : “No, of course not. He would be of no use to us dead.” “Well?” said Bert, expectantly. “We must send a message home by one ‘of these creatufes. It may be years before we float out of this place, but if our position is known we stand a chance of being rescued.” ' “How are you going to send a message by a whale?” asked Bert, while Dink looked on in surprise. _ “It’s a wonderful tale, this one of the whale, and it makes me turn pale and put on a yeil,” he observed, as his pipe. ; _ “This is my idea,” said Ken, and the others g closest attention. “We have preserved meat cans, and we have pens. We can write out the story of our adventure - probable position at this time, and inclose the doc a can, taking care to make it air-tight.” “Well, and how will you send it?” “T will fasten it to a harpoon, and when the next whale Vf comes this way, go out in the boat and drive the weapon into 4 y. ‘ hy “Your plan is ingenious banushs ” said Bert, shall we get our harpoon?” “Make vi i put where “WATER-LOGGED. m en TT Ne TS mt ai ice aEmRr ia? HieTMPEMETEEMMLMMBL UTES TE SSIS EAI NEST ATTA REN TELL TSA ASAE EASES ae SP ae Ea ee 2 ‘ +13 “Well? I want to hear them all so as to know what to be prepared for.” ~ “We do not know what our position is.” “We will ask Stillwater. This concerns him as well as us.” “He will not tell us.” _ “Not when it may lead to his rescue as well as ours?” asked Mabel, who now spoke for the first time during the con; sultation. “No, not even for that reason,” answered Bert. “A more contemptible dog-in-the-manger sort of a man does not exist.” “You may be right,” said Ken,/ musingly, “but I think I -will try him, for all that.” Having once considered the idea a good one the little party of castaways lost no time in carrying it out. Dink undertook to make the harpoon, for he was an uni- versal genius, and had tried his hand at a good many trades before finally. going to sea. The small end of the bar was heated, bent Stee to the length of six inches and the new end flattened upon a rude anvil while it was hot, The bar was again heated as hot as the galley stove could make it, when the blunt end was lengthened and made more pointed, the former end being sharpened so as to form the barb of the harpoon, the whole then being tempered till it was as tough as steel. Then, by the aid of files, the point and barb were sharpened till at last a very presentable harpoon was turned out by the young smiths. “We must make it as heavy as we can,” suggested Bert, “so that it will be sure to sink deep into the creature’s flesh and remain there,” 3 “Fill the can with shot,” suggested Dink. “We have a lot, and ean spare ’em as well as not, put ’em in hot, and then they won’t rot.” : “A good idea,” said Bert; “and it suggests another. We will want hot lead to seal up our can with,. We'll melt me shot and make a solid bottom to our can.” -A good, bright can was found, and half-filled with hot lead, which gave it just the weight needed. “0 The message was then written, folded up neatly and placed in the can, which was then to be hermetically sealed and bound to the shaft of the harpoon with fine, strong wire. “The message is ready—now for the messenger,” said Ken. This work had occupied the party two or three days, dur- ing ia time Stillwater had occasionally ventured as far as and nat to our 1 Stillwater came’ line. “What is your plan?” he asked, with a growl, Bean ag explained, ae, and showed the man the harpoon ae i Jot no account, # ‘ “Won't ned tell ‘Us the reckoning, Mr “stitlwate
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. We eg tad sas GED. i » for the irers, and presently - He. heaved a deep sigh, and in a moment wen on with the ate safe! The whale rushes through the water and dives deep down beneath the grass.* They are pulling with all their strength. Thank God! they have succeeded! ” : Then, overcome by his excitement, Ken let the glass fall — from his grasp and samk unconscious to the deck. —_ E % CHAPTER XI. THE RED GULL AND ITS ERRAND “The messenger is on his way home with our story,” were the first words that Ken heard as he came back to Conse eta a ness. x Bert-and Dink were bending over him, and iy Si ere presi, ie ing a wet cloth to his throbbing temples. ‘ “You ought to have seen how he jumped!” cried Dink, as ‘a Ken sat up. “We just missed getting hit by that big tail of his. ‘Sad tale for us if we had got a whack with it.” “The harpoon stayed?” ‘ f “Yes, sir. It went in clean up to the end.’ I put in all the muscle I had. Didn’t we pull? Yes, sir, just like a ‘bull, and — our heads just full, of getting away and trying it again ‘some. other day.” “Tt was a narrow escape for us,” added Bert. “Dink are me where to row him and when he threw the harpoon | backed water with all my might. He jumped aft, grabbed an extra oar and slung us around just, in time to ayoid getting hit with the brute’s big flukes.” a “If Bert hadn't pulled then for all he could, we couldn’t have © 5 got away,” spoke up Dink. “The big fellow dove the minute he reached the grass and never came up again for a good fiv miles.” i , “I am glad you escaped, ” said Ken; “and let: us rah; that your efforts have not been made in vain.” “He was heading for the east,” said Dink, “the ae big” 2 beast, and I hope he’ll meet the whole of the fleet, and e. cut up inté mincemeat, and then our letter will make au han. feel better.” piri! “That’s bad measure, Dink,” said Ken, with a emi, ted “Noy: it’s good ‘measure; it’s more than enough, the, poet. ; sey pi al message ‘ever reach home?” muttered Sti sat on the knightheads forward, smoking ae es monotonous course on board his Sunshine. * Stillwater gave his compa nions no more trouble, be seen sitting up forward, ila a dark scowl upon | for hottrs at a time. “He is plotting mischief,” said Bert’ ‘to Ken month after/the whale incident, “and it will be just to keep an eye upon him.” : eos “What can he do?” ; “Many things: and I know that he is cnetaa us in some way. I have seen that. evil lak: on. op 1 and know what it means. if we “It is a pity that he, ai go awa in : intended.” ea: ch “Tf he had aie 0, Mahel would have g eh Back water, boys, for] No, no, they”
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WATER-LOGGED. : Se eae: Gee “Good!” cried all the rest. “There is logwood in 2 ee and we can make our dye, - easily enough.” eh “An excellent idea!” ata Ken. “Of courge no one would notice one white gull more than another,” added Bert, “while a bright red’ one will be a de- | cided novelty.” . _ “And none of us ever thought of it but Mabel,” said Ken. /“We haven’t as much sense, all of us, as she has.” - It was an easy matter to get somé logwood out of the hold ‘and make a dye which would answer every purpose, but how to apply it was more puzzling. This matter was soon settled, however. x The gull, being powerless to move his wings, was taken from his cage and plunged into the iron pot containing the dye, the operation being repeated until he came out a deep red. “When-his wings are free he will show white beneath, and cannot help attracting attention,” said Ken. “Now let him get dry, so that we can gee how the dye sets.” 5 The next day the letter Ken had written was tied to the . bird’s leg, and then, while Ken held him. up, Bert cut the bands about his wings. “Good-by!,” cried Ken, as he tossed the ‘late captive out over the water. In another instant a huge bird, with a pright-red -body, red wings above. and white beneath, swept up into the clouds, paused’ an instant to utter a harsh cry, and then directed its flight straight to the eastward. “Did ever any one see a red gull?” cried Bert. “Naturalists will go wild over this new discovery.” “Until they learn what woman’s wit and ingenuity can accomplish,” added Ken; “and then they will give all: their admiration, to the fair sex.” — “T think that is where the most of it goes now,” said Mabel, with a sly look and a blush; and the rest agreed with her, abandon the captain and carry off his child; and even “yet ; he does not give up the thought of one day possessing her.” “The villain!” gasped Ken. “That pure girl was never meant for him, and he shall never possess her, She would} rather die than meet.such a fate.” : “We must prevent it, and that is why I say that the| scoundrel must be watched.” “He shall be,” muttered Ken, in firm, determined tones. “T have iong suspected the Villain’s motive,” continued Bert, “until at last, by close observation, I have assured myself that I have hit upon the correct one.” . “Many things seem to point to it, now that we look back,” returned Ken, in a musing tone. “Now, more than ever, must | he be watched.” “They ‘will soon lose heart and relax their vigilance,” thought. Stillwater, as he sat in the bows, smoking, “and then will be - my opportunity. I must somehow obtain a pistol, so that I ean be on more equal terms. It will be an easy matter then to kill them off and possess the girl for my own. I can wait, as I have Waited, knowing that in the end I will succeed.” That day a gull suddenly appeared, strutk against the stump of the foremast and fell to the Teck, stunned, 4 Dink, who saw the occurrence, rushed up, caught the bird Z and clapped him under a hencoop, which had long been in _ disuse. “Hallo! Ken, Bert, Miss Mabel!” he called out, “Here's the ’ Iuckiest find yet.” i ‘ The castaways came running forward, and Dink, pointing to * on Ste ome the captive, said: ; yet “Here’s a gull; he might have broke his skull, but he fell on deck without hurting his neck. [ put him in the coop and ae now—and now-——” nat ae iy “You thought you might use hikn as & CArFICE pigeon?” cried. Ken. | >. “Phat’s it, He's only stunned, and after a bit he’ll be all ~: chipper. That fellow can fly a noted miles without rest.” 4 We haven’t seen a gull as big as this since we’ve been here,” observed Bert. “The chances are that he will make for more-traveled zones as soon as he is liberated.” F “And when he does go, he stall carry a message for us,” = — CHAPTER XIL. added Ken. LOST IN THE Tod. ‘ “You will not say now that heaven has abandoned us?” asked Mabel, earnestly. Two years have passed since the Sunshine first entered 4 . “No; and I have never felt 80, no matter what bitter words] the sea of grass, and in that time many changes have taken - I may have spoken.” oe place. : The gull was found to be uninjured, and greatly desirous of regaining his freedom, as he beat against the bars of the coop with his strong wings, and uttered harsh and discordant ay CLIO: \ | j ' Had he been given more room he might’ have seriously in- Rs jured himself in his efforts to escape, and, as it was, the castaways thought best to secure his wings and prevent him _ from moving. It was not an easy task, as the bird was a powerful one; but * there were three to do it, and they finally succeeded. _ Ken wrote out an account of the shipwreck, much shorter than the last, incasing it in oiled silk, and intending to fasten - it to the gull’s leg before freeing him. _ “A white gull like this one will attract no attention,” said _ Mabel, as they were discussing the matter, “and he might! carry our secret with him for years and no one be the wiser.” “True,” returned Ken; “but we must take our chances.” is, “If the bird was red or red and white, or strangely marked in any way, he would attract attention; and those who saw ‘im. would want to secure him.” Ken looked at bag and. an peeps of her tought came re) The water-logged ship still Macias but, as far as its Hie can tell, does not materially change its position, pei been in apparently the same spot for a year past. P Stillwater hdd taken no observation for many weeks, yee one day he brought out his ancient quadrant and went to work | as formerly. After getting his altitude Ban making a few etre in an old memorandum book, he sprang up, in a rage, threw the quadrant into the sea and exclaimed, bitterly: : “Always the same place! Will we never get out of this ac- “cuftsed region?” ie ke “You might at least tell us whete we are,” said Bert, who witnessed this outburst. i: “I might?” sneered Stillwater. “Look!” With that he seized his chart, which had been placed on. the roof of the house on deck, tore it into a hiindred Spenen : and threw them into the water. “You shouldn’t possess the k owledge I a if you ee for it,” he hissed. “You are dgomed to” die in this: place, and I will yet laugh at you all.” Then he hurried into his room, and dia ‘not appear gain, | except at night, for nearly a week. j ‘Time passed, and the- vessel sank ‘Idwer. and lower, th water being: above, her’ deck line. on the oj side, $
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t ka 16 — little or none came through, owing to the precaution of hay- ing had the scuppers plugged up. . The ship would probably never sink so low that she would haye to be abandoned; at least, it would be so long that there was no heed in worrying over such an event. Storms were ci infrequent occurrence, although heavy fogs would often settle over the ocean of grass and blot everything from. sight. Now and then a flock of birds would pass over the ship, and at rare intervals sharks or porpoises would be seen, but this was not often, the place seeming nearly abandoned by living things. t “Ken, old fellow,” said Bert, a few weeks after Stillwater’s latest outburst, “we ought to go about more,” ; “Where can we go to?” “Take the boat and row along these patches of open water. We are dying for want of exercise.” “Leave the ship in charge of that scoundrel? it on fire before we returned.” “Well, ‘let him, then, if he’s fool enough,” said Bert, im- patiently. “We ought not to deny ourselves everything on his account.” “T suppose we might leave Dink aboard. for the wretch.” “Yes, and another time I will stay.” “Very well; let’s go on a voyage of discovery at once.” The next day, therefore, Ken, Bert and Mabel went out in the boat, leaving Dink to get dinner. “You'd better take some grub with you,” said Dink, “for if adventures you should meet, you'll be sure to want something to eat, so here’s a treat in a can of meat, likewise something sweet, and thus I greet——”, “That'll do, Dink!” cried Bert, with a laugh. “We'll take some provisions, as well as pipes and tobacco, for we might Want ’em.” “Put in some water; I know you.orter; it’s good to drink, He might set He is a match _ come to think, so I’ll give you the wink, and don’t forget Dink.” “All right; we'll want that if we don’t take anything else. Run up a flag on the old hulk so that we may locate it.” _ Bert rowed, while Ken steered, Mabel sitting in the bows and pushing aside the weed when ‘it drifted against them, as it frequently would. The ship was seen without any trouble, as it was the largest of the many objects that were floating about. “Here is the top of a ship’s house,” said Mabel, after they had heen rowing an hour or more, “and yonder is a topmast with cross-trees sticking up out of the water. {I don’t remem- ber to, have seen these before!” “Strange things come into this dead s sea of ours,” said Ken, “but nothing eyer seems to leave it. We never will, at any rate. I don’t believe we haye moved a hundred yards, in six months.” ¢ “All the more reason why we should go around and see hings,” added Bert. » - There was plenty to see in this strange region, ‘and: tha wee in the boat was very enjoyable. The varied colors of the mud, ranging from pink to ee and from yellow to a deep green, made the floating vegetation look like a veritable garden, while the patches of water were like paths through the aquatic parterres. : Now and then a fish would leap out of the water as the oars disturbed its quiet, and, again, a flock of birds, far away in the heavens, suggested thoughts of the world they had left, and which seemed as difficult to reach as the birds themselves. | ii “The expedition was prolongéd beyond the limits originally set. upon it, and it was noon before the excursionists were} se aware Of it ¥ “7 would side have supposed that ‘there was so much to: see, Hal E said ‘Mabel. Re, is that over there, a oe tet WATER-LOGGED BESS Nah a eas Line SE TE EO vere PES Ken, who was now rowing, turned his head, looked at the object Mabel pointed out, and turned suddenly pale. “We had better return at once,” he said, quietly. “Put us about, Bert.” fd “Why, what is the matter?” asked Mabel, seeing the look “Your ship is a fog bank, and the wind is blowing it toward us. It would not be pleasant to be caught out here in a fog.” “Fog!” cried Mabel. “Why, the fog sometimes lasts a week.” “Yes,” answered Ken, who was now pulling steadily, and ‘making good progress. So was the enemy behind tiem, and it was not long before his presence was felt. } b ; At first, fleeting masses of vapor floated abate them, soon melting away, but giving place to others more dense. yr Then the way was not so clear before them, and their progress was slower, the fog clinging to them with clammy touch. At last it settled down all about them, dull, leaden and oppressive, and it was impossible to see a yard ‘beyond the bows. A cold, choking rae that chilled one to the bone, a reeking, chilling atmosphere that seemed to paralyze the heart, a dull, clammy air that was like the heat of a yault and as deadly. It closed in around them, and with. it came the night Bnd. sea; sky and wind were blotted out. : They were lost in the fog! 4 | . ; : of alarm in Bert’s face. 7 ; : 1 CHAPTER XIII. SEEN THROUGH THE MISTS, : : ‘ By Lost in the fog! EN, The position of the little party in the boat was one fraught with the utmost peril. 3 y It is true that they had not prone or tanen to fear, but, nevertheless, their situation was a dangerous one, “aimee © The fog might last for days, and in a little boat with food ang. bis ce sufficient Ge last but a ail hours, they might per- tn had naw. fallen. prior It was not only a dense and Pauanperon, but a bat cone i as well, and one which seemed to bear all the noxious vapors — Ks in its train, so that to breathe it was like inhaling the breath of the pestilence, * bi | can’t have you breathing aa goths cao 40: this poisonous air,” said Ken, taking his coat and putting it over Mabel’s shoulders. “I would as soon have you, econ air of a pest house.” i “T can’t understand why ihe air abound have such a vito odor since the fog has fallen” mused Bert. we were tn Pipe a Bwamp. es weed zrow ine ‘and dying all shi time must i radian vapors which the fogs only intensify pecause pk and the wind cannot carry them (apvage “The fog cannot. last forever,” said Mabel. “A week will be long, enough for: us. with
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abe tener Geta, “That may or may not be likely,” said Mabel, “but I do: hot think that we ought to give up our hold upon life till the last.” “T ought not, I suppose,” said Ken sadly, of all I have to make it pleasant, or would have, ever get away from this horrible sea of grass.” “Well, talking of it can’t make it any better,” muttered Bert; “and as I have a gailor’s consolation with me I pro- pose to fly to its protection.” What he meant was his pipe which he carried in a side pocket of his reefer, along with a half plug of tobacco and some matches. Filling and lighting his pipe, Bert puffed away in silence for some moments, the fragrant smoke hanging just above his head in a cloud while the fire in the pipe bowl glowed like the eye of some monster from amid the darkness, now _ and again lighting up the smoke cloud as Bert puffed more . vigorously than common. | “Better follow my example, Ken,’ he said at length. a great comfort to be able to smoke.” “You are fortunate if you can obtain any comfort in this awful place,” returned Ken gloomily. “I can’t.” “Come, come, old fellow, don’t give way so,” said Bert cheerfully. “Cheer up. Speak to him, Miss Mabel, and make him give up these gloomy notions. Take a pipe, my boy, and you will feel better at once.” Ken made no reply, and Bert took up the oars and began slowly rowing, though he could see nothing ahead of him. They were in one of the open spaces, however, and if they could not see they could feel, and in that way tell when they ran into the weed. Bert smoked and rowed at the same time, and now and then . sang softly to himself, always choosing a cheerful song, how- ever, and never taking a tune which, from its mournfulness, would be likely to increase Ken's despondency. _ At last, when his pipe was smoked out, he knocked the ashes into the water, put down his oars and said: ; “Well, I suppose we might take a rest. It is too dark to : see anything, and there is no use in rowing too far until we | “when I think if I could *Tt’s know where we are going.” rl “f will row if you like,” said Ken quietly. quite likely that we have been going right.” This was a change from his former despondency, and Bert passed over the oars with a smile, though he said nothing. “The lane of open water still continued, although there was no way of knowing if it were straight or not, as the darkness was so intense, ; At last Ken rested on his oars, listened attentively, and said: “Do you hear nothing, Bert?” “Yes,” replied Bert, after a pause. “I hear a ripple.” : “We are near the ship, then, and that is ne water washing against the rail.” » “Tt may be,” yet it does not sound like it.” NEARS 5 Bas is, Dink will be on the lookout,” said Mabel. be to. Tit,” “Hello, Dink!” eried Ken. “Are you there?” There was no reply, and then Bert hailed the darkness. ‘Still no answer came, and a pause followed, broken” by - Mabel, who suddenly exclaimed: i ma Look! ~us—the fog is breaking.” -*¥es, overhead, ” said Bert,, “but it is thick enough down here yet. “« “I think it is “Call me ‘Here and there a star could be seen, and tittle by little | § the fog thinned overhead, though on the water it was still | heavy and oppressive, t “Hark!” ogi grit) nse: ““Can’t you hear. iii eseahl “We saw it’ last night. Wyatt 1 iy bg “Yes,” said Bert; “but it sounds like waves breaking under a vessel’s quarter, not all a rail like ours.” “You don’t mean that there may be another ship in this wilderness?” cried \Ken excitedly. “Why not? Didn’t we find the Pelican?” “To be sure we did,” interposed Mabel. “Listen again.” This time the sound was quite distinct, and was like that made-by the waves dashing up under a vessei’s quarter, the creaking of the rudder chains being heard also, “There is another ship here!” cried Ken, springing up. “Ship ahoy, ahoy! Are you all dead yonder?” The words were echoed from some broad surface, and came back to them almost distinctly as they were uttered. “It is not our water-logged vessel,” said Bert, quickly. “That does not set high enough from the water to give back an echo.” ; “See, the fog is lifting!” cried Mabel. the wind in your faces?” There was quite a strong current of air felt at this mo- ment, and presently the upper strata of the fog was lifted, and the moon could be seen shining with dazzling brilliancy. After some time the fog on the surface floated from them, leaving the water clear for a considerable space. There, not fifty feet away, resting calmly on the weed-laden waters, was a large ship of antique build, its high stern with its numerous windows, and the bow, built up like that of a modern steamboat, showing it to be a thing of the remote past. The masts were but stumps, and the tangled and rotting cordage and the rusty shrouds hung over the sides and touched the water. The rudder was gone, but a chain hanging from the stern just swept the sea, and now and again rattled against the hull, producing the sound which they had taken for the creaking of the rudder chain. “Look!” cried Ken, as a flood of silver light bathed the ancient vessel, “here is our treasure ship at last. Here is the Santa Felicia!” ; “She has come to us, since we could not go to her,” added Bert. “Come, let us go aboard. We shall be better patees there than in this little boat. ” As he spoke, the fog suddenly closed about them ini and © so densely that not only was the old ship lost to sight, but the moon and stars as well, and even objects no further away than the length of the boat. 4 “Tt has gone,” said Ken sadly. “ After all, it was rage a vision, and as unreal as all our hopes.” No one made reply, for all were as despondent now as sien himself. " “Do you not feel CHAPTER XIV. said Bert, musingly, and listening again, “and } BACK TO THE OLD SHIP, It was a long and weary night to those in the boat, ‘bue jit came to an end at last, the morning finding the: tog still swallowing up the sea and sky. The remaining provisions were divided and eaten, after which Bert proposed that they try and find the old suip Rey Look! the stars are. beginning to shine out above | had seen in the night. “{ don’t believe it exists at all,” iduleediinad Ken.» we saw was but a creation of the imagination.” _ se _ “Well, then, we can try to find our own vessel,” Bald. Bert seeing that Ken was still in a gloomy mood. a “Yes, we can do that, I suppose,” was the answer. “Ag for,” the treasure ship, I do not believe that, we Shall, eu ae it ¢ “what. “We thought | we did; bat -y
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18 mirage at sea, Bert, and I know what strange forms it takes. The ship we saw may have been the reflection of one a hun- dred miles off.” ‘“T know that the eye plays us strange tricks,” ‘said Bert, reflectively, “but we heard. the rattling of chains.” “Tll wager you won't find her again, that’s all,” returned Ken, doggedly. The fog was still thick, but not so impenetrable as it had been during the night, and our friends were able to see around them and distinguish objects close at hand. /By little and little it grew brighter, and at last, to their unspeakable delight, the sun burst forth in all his glory, and the mists were quickly dissolved and driven away before his arrows of light. .“Where is your ancient treasure ship now?” asked Ken, standing up and looking ali about, “The fog lies still to the north of us,” said Bert. she is hidden behind it.” : “Perhaps “Hm! You still believe that what you saw was real?” mut- tered Ken, “Yes: But just now I am more interested in our own water-logged vessel.” As the sun arose higher in the heavens the air grew clearer, although to the north the fog still lay thick and dense upon the sea, the wind being in that direction. , Ken laid his course toward the place where he supposed the Sunshine to be, having now the sun to guide him, and at ‘the end of two or three hours they beheld Dink’s signal flag fly- ing from the stump of the foremast. An hour later they stood on deck, and were cordially wel- comed by Dink, who seemed never to tire of shaking them all by the hand. “Welcome home, no more to roam over the foam!” he cried joyfully. “The skies are blue, and fair to view, and home again we fear no pain, and give the reign to joy and glee, so sing with me, and be free,.and—and—well, I haven't any more rhymes, but I’m as glad to see ou as can be, and I hope you won't get lost again.” : Stillwater gat up forward smoking his inevitable pipe, but neither seeing nor noticing the return of the wanderers, “Back again, eh?” he mused, though he gave no sign that he knew of their presence. “I was in hopes that they’d never come aboard again. Well, I can wait, as I have waited.” - “How did Stillwater behave while you were alone with him?” asked Bert of Dink in the cabin. . “Oh, well enough. He went in when the fog came on and never showed himself till morning, and there he’s sat ever since, with no more expression on his ugly mug than a log, or a dog, or a frog, and I was all in a fog.” “Then he offered you no violence?” * “Hm! like to see him,” muttered Dink, with a grin. he never said nothing.” “Do you know that we found the old Spanish treasure ship, Santa Felicia?” asked Bert suddenly. ; “No! Did you, though? Did you bring home any of the gold with you?” 1 by “No; we were not on board the ship; we only saw it through the fog for a moment, and then we lost it,” “Why didn’t you stay around there till morning?” “We thought we did, but when morning came nothing was to be seen of the ship.” ' “Are ye sure *twas the Santy Felish?” , ert could not be anything else.” - “Well, well, well! In sight of that vast treasure house and never even get a copper. My word! I never heard anything so absurd, it’s well averred that never a word could ever be heard so very absurd.” \ “ No, “Well, -we are safe ‘back upon the old ae Seah, at all . Speen and that ds igiguraaa: | 5 pie ae ‘ , 4 ieee AY ane ae LoGeED. After their. experience with the fog the castaways did not venture away from the ship to any distance for a long time, although they made frequent excursions within a short ra- dius in search of drift-wood, aquatic plants and fish, or for the sake of exercise. : Mabel was never left on the ship unless some one was with her, for the young men still distrusted the mate, and were determined to give him no opportunity for mischief. The man lived alone, preparing his own food, sitting by himself, or walking up and down forward; his principal oe- cupation in fine weather, however, consisted in sitting well up forward with a pipe in his mouth, in which position he would sometimes remain for hours together. Months passed, and they saw nothing of the old treasure ship, till at last they began to think that it was, as Ken had said, a mere optical delusion, and that they had actually seen nothing, but had only imagined it. They had been three years lost in the sea of grass, and were evidently no nearer the end than at first. The ship’s provisions, consisting largely of preserved goods, would suffice them for many years yet, and there was no lack of fresh water, so that as regarded mere! living they had noth- ing to fear. The vessel seemed to be stationary, at least she had not sunk any deeper, the water in the hold being now level with the hatches, which were kept closed, as there was no longer — any need of going below. Pati The books in Captain Howard's little library had been read over and over, and our little party was sometimes at a loss for something to do to make the time pass, particularly, in bad weather. I Being a universal genius, Dink was as busy as anybody, and many were the new inventions he planned and carried out in order to keep himself employed. ; He made playing cards, backgammon and checker’ boards, sets of chessmen and dice, and carved more canes ee he- would be able to wear out in a lifetime. Then he tried his hand at a fiddle, and produced something that would make a noise certainly, though it was an open question whether or not the sounds it gave out could Hropesiy be called music. A He also kept a log of the voyage and wrote Rack apie oan thing that occurred on board the ship, no matter how trivial, so that it. was already a most voluminous affair in several volumes, with the prospect of greatly increasing its size al time went on. ; One day, more than three years after entering the sea. of grass, the air grew suddenly very oppressive, so that even breathing became difficult. rs ‘he _ The horizon was as black as ink, while just above the sky was the color of copper, the air being heavily charged with — electric aoe. ‘ Fi a / “gomething’s up!” muttered Bert. “Look there! ”. pointing — to the southeast. q Blacker and blacker grew the sky, and then a terrible roar was heard, and a great wall of foaming breakers could be ‘see rushing toward them fully five miles away. Then an awful hissing was heard, the heavens were riven. by the forked lightnings, the sky was as black as mann Ang the tempest was about to sweep upon — them. “Tt is a cyclone!” cried Ken. “We are lost! ’ 44 “Stick to the old hulk while it holds together! 4 sereames Bert. “Tt is our only hope. Ff Then there came a blinding flash, and in an - inst masts, swept. away everything: movable on. “deck, and le ered the rail to splinters, : Then a huge wave broke upon them, rushed trom
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WATER-LOGGED. ce x to bow in a second, and swept on, carrying destruction in its} ropes which they found on the water. after the bebe serving path. CHAPTER XV. IN BAD LUCK AGATN, The cyclone, formed in the south Atlantic, had swept across the lower end of the Sargossa, and thence on across the ocean in a general westerly direction, finally ravishing the coast of southern Florida and the West Indies. It traveled at a frightful velocity, and was forty miles in width, the Sunshine being struck by its outer edge. Had our friends encountered the worst of it they would never have lived to tell it, and as it was their situation was desperate. The water-logged ship, ‘safe enough before now, had at last met the only danger to be feared, and had been broken up by the force of the tempest. t As long as it remained intact there was no fear of its sink- } ing, but lacking the life and animation which had once sent it skimming over the waves and through heavy seas, it was now a target for the fury of the storm. It could not resist, it could not flee, and so it was beaten upon and broken, its timbers riyen asunder, and its fragments : scattered broadcast upon the waves. k, Ken and Bert stood manfully by each other and by ! Die : deus Beas vy of an hour or more reached the old vessel, which they recog- Mabel, resolving to save her at all risks. They lost sight of Stillwater immediately after the first , shock of the tempest, and when at last the cyclone had; ; events, and then Dink proposed that they explore the cabin passed they saw nothing of him. The storm had passed in less than ten minutes, and all was calm and fair again, but what a change those few min- utes had wrought. The boat was missing, and had probably been demolished, and now all that lay between them and the ocean was a raft of some six or eight logs hastily put together aiter the storm. Ken had been hurled into the sea at the first shock, but his companions had quickly joined him, Bert having seized Mabel when he felt the old ship tremble beneath them. No one was able to tell clearly what had happened, it had all come upon. them so quickly, the only thing that they knew positively being that they were now alive. Fragments of ‘the ship lay here and there, and occasionally a mass of logs held together, but this was only a small por- tion of the wreck, and it was only by the merest chance that they had escaped annihilation. “Well,” said Dink, as they sat upon their little raft, “the old ship has gone at last, and it’s a wonder that we did not go with it.” “We might better have done so,” we are doomed as it is. : no shelter, and are fated to die a lingering death.” “While there is life there is hope,” said Bert cheerfully, “and I am not ready to give up yet by any means.” “Oh, yes, you were always hopeful,” said Ken; “put what is there to look forward to now?” ) “There don’t seem to be very much, I'll admit,” said Bert, said Ken, bitterly, “since _ with a laugh, “but we'll find it, you“may be sure,” ‘That day they ecaucitt a few small fishes, and at night it rained, so that they were able to keep from starving, hiss the outlook seemed gloomy enough. The next day they found a turtle, and on the following day came across a meat can lying on the jnud, where it had evidently been | washed. Dink: opened ‘it with his knife, and they had food enough to last for two days with a little care. pe The raft owas made as patra ‘as possible, a mass of tangled. We have no provisions, no water, to bind the logs together. Dink found a broken oar, and this served as a paddle, for it was necessary that they change their quarters in order that they might find material to add to theireraft or, possibly, another old vessel. “I dm sure that we will find the Santa Felicia again,” Bert, four or five days after the wreck. “She was destroyed by the cyclone,” answered Ken. “Perhaps not. She was too far away for us: to see, ang, it is very likely, was out of the line of the storm.” “Hardly likely,” muttered Ken, who was growing despond- ent again. At last, at the end of a week, when hope was nearly aban- doned, the sun as it arose one morning, revealed ‘to the de- spairing castaways the outlines of an ancient ship floating on the water not more than a mile away. : Bert was the first to see it, and he awoke the others with a glad shout. “There she is at last!” he eried. Santa Felicia, is ours!” “That’s the very ship, sure enough,” said Ken, can’t live on it, now that we have found it.” “Why not?” “We can’t eat bars of gold.” “Hm! that reminds me that I’ve lost the one I had,” said ; Dink. “Wish I had it now.” Bert and Dink used the paddle alternately, and in the course said “The Ee ship, the “but we ‘nized as the same one they had seen through the fog. They clambered on board, glad to find a shelter, at all and” hold. They advanced toward the cabin doors, but had taken but a few steps when a man appeared in the doorway. “Good-morning, friends,” he said, with a sneer. “You see Iam here before you:” It was Dan Stillwater, the former mate of the Sunshine, es t CHAPTER XVI. s MORE DISAPPOINTMENTS Stillwater again! Bi ats After being supposed dead, the man ‘had appeared, and on the same vessel with Ken and his friends. ie. ; As the four companions stepped toward the cabin of the old ship, so fortunately discovered by them; the man ap- peared, and said: i “Welcome, my friends, to this old ship. accommodations forward. You will find I live in the cabin myself, and I ‘suppose that is not good enough for you.” © “So, so, you escaped at the time of the storm, did you?” said Dink. “You stole our boat, too, I suspect.” Stillwater laughed, scornfully, and retorted: ead “All is fair in war, my friend. I might refuse to let you stay here, but I won’t be so hard as that.” “Thank you,” said Ken, bitterly. “It might be a more difi- cult affair than you suppose to get rid of us, now that we are here.” “Don't tempt the miserable villain,’ knows but that he may be armed?” . “You can go or stay, as suits you best,” said ‘Stillwater, ; carelessly. “It is a matter of indifference, so long as I am not octhered with your society.” So saying he turned and entered the cabin, closing pug eu locking the door behind him. y f ; th “We might as Well scan the place, OW - that ye ar ales Mabel. ay Who
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20 WATER-LOGGED. here.” said Bert. “Come, Dink, let’s you and I see what ac- commodations it affords, and afterward report to Ken.” Ken and Mabel remained by the rail amidships, while the others went forward to investigate. ' The forecastle was below decks, and was reached by a com- panionway, over which a small house was built, large enough for one to stand upright in before descending. There was an iron hand-rail on either side, which was nearly eaten away with rust; the steps being warped and ‘worn and appearing likely to give way at any moment. The forecastle deck was about eight feet below, so that a tall man could stand upright in the place, but would have to bend to get into the upper berths. The place seemed dark and close, and it was not without some misgivings that the two comrades began the descent. They found it to be the width of the ship, and fifteen feet at its extreme length, with bunks built around its sides suffi- cient for twenty men. A few old and worm-eaten chests, some rags of clothes, and one or twd¥rusty cutlasses, comprised the entire con- tents of the place, the air of which was hot and stifling. Bert opered one of the chests, but found only some half€) re rotten clothes, a rusty knife and an old pistol. “Not very promising, this,” the young fellow remarked. this is the Santa Felicia I would like to run across some of her treasure.” “We don’t know that it isn’t,” returned Dink; “and if so we find, just bear in mind, that jewels and gold, so I’ve been told, are stored in the hold, and;I’ll be so bold as to take all I can fold in my jacket so old.” “There’s something more important than gold and jewels,” said Bert, soberly. “May I be so bold as to ask what that is?” “Food,” said Bert, concisely. Dink gave utterance to a long whistle and said: “Right; you’re bright, but we can fight and prove our might and make that might give us a bite.” “Do you mean Stillwater?” “Yes. ” “You will Sat nothing from him. He would see us starve first; yes, starve himself, even, sooner than give us food; and, besides, I doubt if he has very much himself.” f The remaining chests were broken open, but nothing of any value could be discovered. , There was no means of communication between the fore- castle and the hold, and the explorers now returned to the deck. “We might rig up a room down there for Mabel,” said Bert, “while we can fix a place for ourselves up forward. It is not very inviting, but it is better than an old raft.” “Did you find any of the treasure?” asked Ken. “No; nor do we even know thai it is the Santa Felicia.” “Look yonder on the cabin door.” Bert glanced toward the point indicated, and saw, partly obliterated: “SAN ¥F BON.” “Well, what do you make of that?” asked Bert, carelessly. _ “That the vessel is the Santa Felicia, of Lisbon. It is clear enough.” “Can you find the name on anything else?” “No. ” “Did the Spanish sailors of a hundred years ago sleep in _ bunks or hammocks?” “In hammocks, I suppose.” z “Well, then, this is a younger vessel than the Santa Felicia, although it is old enough, heaven knows. We shall find no treasure here. We will be lucky if we find food.” “That is so—I had forgotten—perhaps Stillwater—that is, for Mabel’s needs—-we can look out—don’t you think we had 1 “If John Holmes, egy! was: crating! ae he,nclanierigae better ask——” and Ken brought his broken sentences to a pause, The cabin door opened and Stillwater came out, bearing in one hand a tin plate containing meat and bread, and in the other a metal cup. K He sat down on an old chest, put the food and drink before him, and proceeded to eat very leisurely. Ken advanced a few paces, and was about to speak when Stillwater placed a dagger on the chest in front of him. “Can you see this poor girl in want of food and refuse her a bite?”. cried Ken, excitedly, for he knew what the knife meant. It meant that if they wanted food they must fight for it, “She may have it on one condition,” said Stillwater, with an evil smile, “And that is——” “That, she becomes my wife!” “Wretch!”" cried Mabel, turning away. “I, would sooner starve.” : “Enough,” said Ken. “We ask no favors of you. The same hand that fed the ravens will feed us.” He ate and drank to the last crumb and to the last drop, prolonging the meal so as to the more tantalize his late companions. Then he took a pipe from his pocket, filled syra lighted it, and sat in the doorway, calmly smoking. “Sorry I can’t offer you a pipe,” he said, sneeringly, “but that is a sign of friendship, and I hate the whole crowd of you. You can stay on the old hulk, though, if you fancy it.” Bert walked forward and beckoned Ken to follow. “I am Satisfied that this is not the old treasure ship,” he said, when they were out of hearing. “If it were, that seoun- drel would never have suffered us to come aboard.” “It matters but little,” said Ken, musingly. “What we most need is food and water.” “We shall have both, and not be beholden to that wretch for them, either,” said Bert. He and Dink now took the raft and went out upon the weed, returning in an hour with several pounds of fish, a small sea turtle, a number of crabs, and a small land bird, which seemed utterly exhausted, and had alighted on the raft only to meet its death. The turtle was cooked in its shell over a fire built on the raft, the bird was roasted, and the fish cooked in the same way. ; The raft could not be greatly injured by the fire, and it was little matter now, at any rate, as there was other shelter. That night rain fell heavily, and the wanderers secured enough water to last them for two or three weeks. “We are not under any obligation to Mr. Dan Stillwater for anything, that I can ‘see,” observed Bert; “and if I could be | certain of finding a better ship than this, I would leave at once.” i “It isn’t the old Spanish ship, and so I'd as soon go as not, 4 said Dink, “and let her rot, and go to pot.” “You couldn’t eat gold if you had it,” observed Bert, sen- sibly. “No, nor buy grub with it; but, all pire same, if I was sure of getting out of this place I wouldn’t mind haere few thousands.” rae “You can have all my share for one more look at my ‘eng eis home,” said Ken; and the others felt very much the | Sami ee eT - o te e CHAPTER XVII. THE FATE OF THE RED @uLL The sihaling bark, Morning Star, of New Bedf Ca
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WATER-LOGGED. 21 _ Azores Islands one pleasant summer day, when the man at the masthead, forward, noticed a strange object ays, about the ' vessel. “Waal, you can blow me,” he observed, {if I haven’t seed some queer things in my different v’y’ges, but if this ain’t the queerest, I won’t say so.” Just then Captain Holmes, who was on deck, chanced to look up and saw Jack Hulks, the seaman in question, gazing in the air above his head instead of at the sea, as he was supposed to do. “Wi, there, you Jack!” he called out. to see whales up in the clouds, do you? man?” i “No, sir, I don’t look for whales up there,” returned Jack, - looking down, his hand on the spar in front of him; “but I would like to know what kind of a bird that.’ere is: I’ve eruised in all sorts of waters and seen all sorts of things, -. but I’ll be blowed if ever I see a red gull afore.” Captain Holmes sent for his marine glasses, and levelled them at the strange object. : The bird was of a dull red, but its color was singular enough to make it noticeable even at that height, for it was now far above the top of the mast. Presently, however, it swooped down Beige where Jack Holmes stood perched between sea and sky, and the skipper obtained a better view of it. “?Tis kind o’ curious, I own!” muttered Captain John. “T thought it might be one o’ them red flaymingers we hear about, but them fellers has long legs and this one hasn’t.” % “What do you make her out, cap’n?” asked Jack Hulks. “What do you make her out yourself, Jack?” asked the skipper, in true, non-committal, Yankee fashion. “If lL was axed, sir, I should say it was a gull, but I never see a red one of that specie afore.” “You don’t expect Where’s your eyes, nearly lost to sight, and Jack Hulks turned his attention to - the ocean again. He was up there to look for whales and not strange birds, . and once having called attention to the creature he did not think it worth while to bother any further with it. ‘The captain, however, was gifted with more than the usual amount of Yankee curiosity, and when the strange bird once _ swooped down toward the deck, he went below and brought out an old fowling piece with which he Sometimes amused himself, Having seen that the weapon was properly loaded and primed, the skipper took a position om the baa eh deck and awaited his opportunity. He had not waited long before the gull came swooping down toward him, the sun glowing upon its red body and wings until they shone like fire. Taking careful aim the skipper discharged his weapon, ‘and in a moment the gull fell upon deck with one wing broken. One of the sailors seized it before it could flutter away, and % : held it in a firm grasp. - The bird struggled and tried to bite its captor, uttering discordant cries the while as if enraged at its misadventure. : Pathirea. only a part, and—hallo! what's this?” : The skipper had reached the main deck by this time and Saw the man take a flat package from. under one of ae ings of the wounded bird, “Better kill it, Sam,” he said, quietly, and in an instant eature: itself. The bird now flew up into the heavens again, and was “Ts a gull, plain enough, sir,” said the man, “and if ain’t| at length upon several occasions, but, at last, as neither: the bird’s” ‘throat was cut, the deck 1S Ae) dyed as red te ules 5 | Seu for us. _ @ smasher.” euiian ouweiiee’ es fa PALER Ear Ss ae ee a “Look here, Mr. Shaw, this is the funniest thing I ever did see. That ’ere red gull has been carrying around a paper, wrapped up in oilskin, for about four years, and what do you suppose is into it?” “Can't tell, sir.” “Waal, it’s news of a shipwreck, and a party o’ five aboard a water-logged ship down yonder in the weed.” “More’n likely it’s a yarn, * sir.” / “If it is, it’s the best put-together yarn I ever see, sir. The ship Sunshine, Cap’n Liphalet Howard, struck by lightnin’ off Good Hope, the skipper killed and the mate and three seamen and the cap’n’s daughter left aboard, day and date and names given, all correct.” “Latitude and longitude given, sir?” asked Shaw, doubt- ingly. “No, sir, couldn’t get ines instruments carried off in the boats or busted.” “Most of them yarns gives the reckoning, but sometimes it isn’t straight. Picked up a bottle myself once, and when we come to look on the chart for the place the ship was wrecked, found it in the middle of the Afrikin desert.” “This ’ere paper says they're down in-the Sargasser, the big bed o’ weed, you know, twixt here and the Bermudas, but they don’t know exactly where.” “Do you ax my opinion of it, sir?” asked Mr. Shaw, winking at the skipper. eae “Well, what is it?” “That ‘the hull thing is a hoax.” “They painted the gull red so’s it would be seen,” “O’ course. That’s all right. They wanted it to be seen.” “But it’s nearly four years-—” “Well, they could ha’ made it a hundred if they liked. A stroke of the pen would do it.” “Well, the names is given out in full—Kenneth Gordon, Robert Ransom, Daniel Stillwater, the mate, Mabel Howard, Dinkey Bight and then the cap’n——” evi “O’ course. No durned fool has done it, and he’s got every- thing regular like. I don’t dispute that them names belongs to real people, nuther, but as far as going huiting for them among the gulf-weed is concerned, I don’t believe in it.” “Who said we was going huntin’ fur ’em?” snapped the captain, not so much for the sake of argument as on ace count of surprise at having his secret thoughts so shrewdly divined. “Nobody,” returned Shaw, “but I s’pose that paper. ‘asks for some one to come and help ’em out, don’t epee “To ‘be sure.” } “That’s what they all do. The hull thing’s a trick, and I don’t believe they’s any vessel called the Sunshine, nor no Oap’n Liphalet Howard, nor nothing.” “Mebby not,” returned the captain unconvinced and only partly silenced; “but all the same I guess I’ 4 keep the docky- ment. It’s a cur’osity, anyhow.” : So the packet was kept, and likewise the red gull, the latter being stuffed, mounted and placed in the cabin, where it became the one topic of conversation for several days. Captain John Holmes and Mr. ‘Shaw argued the matter 5 would yield, it was considered best for the peace of the ship to let the subject drop. A month or two later the Morning Star having made u & | fair catch, and the season on the western grounds being late, Captain Holmes. decided to go further north, where, at’ this season, he would find more whales than where he then was. _ He had decided to leave and had started, in fact, when Jack Hulks shouted down from aloft, the welcome hail: ; “There she blows! Pint on the weather-bow, sir, an’ headin’ Don’t make out but fee, but Be. looks. ike ay ,
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{ ‘\ ‘ ei _ they, could take without being discovered. ‘foot deep into the blubber. and the whale dashed by, churning the water into foam with 4 22 WATER-LOGGED. “Get ready the starboard boat! Down from aloft! Better lower two, Mr. Shaw. We hain’t got oil enough but what we mought as well pick up a little extry.. Lower away, boys! All ready, Mr. Shaw? Down you go, then. Off we go! Pull steady, boys, and we'll have this greaser afore he knows we're after him,” f CHAPTER XVIII. AN EXCITING CHASE. The two boats from the Morning Star approached the whale, which Jack Hulks had seen, head on, or in as straight a line for his head as could be drawn, that being the best direction If the monster had been going in the same direction as the boats, the latter could approach on one side and stand a good chance of not being seen; but in this case they must keep him directly ahead or he would see them and perhaps take alarm, sound and not come up again till many miles had been placed between him and his enemies. Fhe captain’s boat was in advance, Jack Hulks pulling the bow oar and the skipper steering, while close behind came Mr. Shaw’s boat with a full crew of six men, four sailors, the ‘harpoonér and the mate. Des “Pull steady, boys,” said the skipper, “and don’t make no more noise than you can help. He’s a. big feller and will show fight, I guess.” fetes The whale was coming on at a good pace, and as the men rowed a smart stroke there was every chance of the two coming together in a short time. “Stand up, Joe!” whispered the captain, and the harpooner put up his oar, arose, ereere, his weapon ae made ready for a dart. Scarcely twenty feet separated the whale and the boat when Captain Holmes changed his course suddenly and shot past the monster on the right. The harpooner, watching his opportunity, hurled his weapon at. a point just back of the creature’s hump, driving it a “Stern all!” yelled the skipper, as he threw the boat around, his immense flukes. One stroke of that enormous tail would have annihilated the boat and all in it, and the escape was a narrow one. As it was, the, spray was thrown to a great height as the whale lashed the waves, and every one in the boat was drenched to the skin The line began to run out at a frightful speed, but the skipper suddenly took a double turn around the bitt, dnd the boat was then towed by the fleeing leviathan. The mate quickly darted to one side as the whale came ' up, the harpooner making a quick and very excellent throw | of the harpoon as the latter went by. : The weapon entered the whale’s side close to. the first ne, and then, the mate having made his line fast, there were two boats towing behind instead of one. “Let him go,” muttered the captain, as he changed places with the harpooner, the latter now steering, “we can stand it ‘as long as he can, I guess. Two boats ain’t no small load to carry, and I reckon he'll want to quit presently.” Q The immense creature was not disposed to stop, evidently, for he rushed through the water at a frightful rate, leaving a foaming wake behind him.” _ “Pretty big} abet he, tae said Pate Holmes to the how | oar: ete : ; “Over a pectic foot, I rola sir,” answered Jack Hulks. “He's: good jay a Bpndped and forty. barrels, hi guess.’ 4 hear We Le me) Nae WTR Sh Salah rye | » Many’, YTl > i ST: ean BYE: SSRN 22S llc: PS ER ancl SR PORE OL = * DP SEL ea Ra TREE SNC ee ae neat ean ao ee EE PS ETE IN we LO GT ERO AE DOES CY aE eS TET RR rk “More’n that, Jack,” said the captain, who was ready to — argue on any and every point that might come up. es ought to g®a hundred and sixty.” “Shouldn’t wonder if he went over that, sir, come to ee at him again.” “No, he won’t—-no, he won't, Jack, ” interposed the skipper, hastily. “Fact is, I’ don’t think he’ll go to a’ hundred: and 4 forty, now.” : '“P'y’aps not, sir,” answered Hiaiied: biting a piece from a plug of tohacco and proceeding to chew it, contemplatively. The whale continued at the same mad rate and the vessel — was put about so as to keep up with the boats. 5 An hour later the monster slackened his pace and gave © the captain a chance to draw closer to him, are line being taken in twenty or thirty fathoms. “Guess we'll tire him out afore dark,” mused Captain Holmes. “We don’t want to let the critter sound, for then we mought lose him, arter all.” “No danger of his sounding, sir,” said Hulks, slyly. : “Yes, there is, Jack; yes, there is a big danger, my sia: f Pull hearty, boys, we don’t want to lose him.” — ; The men now took to their oars again and drew up several — fathoms on the whale, who had now paused as if uncertain — what to do next. : Captain John seized a long and very sharp lance, and as the boat-steerer put him alongside, drove the weapon several times deep into the creature’s side. Hs 4 The mate now came up and gave the captain his assistance, as the whale was beginning to create considerable of a dis- turbance, ‘ | “Hallo, here’s three irons! ” exclaimed the mate. put in a couple, sir?” ; “No, only one, and that held as tight as one,” answered Captain Holmes, plunging the sharp, Jance right into the vitals ti of the leviathan. ie The “dying cetacean made a terrible flurry, ed: the boats ‘a drew away to avoid being swamped. i “What did you say about three irons, Mr. Shaw?” son: ; the skipper, f “T said they was three. hadn’t no line onto it. quick.” “No, sir, my man throwed just right, didn’t ne, \Jack?” “Ay, ay, sir—but Mr. Shaw is right about the extra hee 8: a saw three myself.” “Reckon somebody else has been chasing jhim some tim It ain’t nothing to find four or five irons sticking in a ae 3 ter, and,some of ’erm nigh onto forty years old, too. My pull her out when we get home and look for the marks on ae The whale now went into its final convulsions and pres. ently turned over upon his side, dead. ; : The boats then proceeded to tow the huge carcass to” he vessel, where it was secured alongside by ‘chains let 0 i fore and aft. As it was not late in the day, the work of cutting i stripping off the blubber was begun at once. A platform was suspended from the side,’ extending: the water, and upon this stood the captain and of the men, with spades and lances, cutting off pieces of blubber, which were then hauled ARs on means of a block and tackle. hier “Here’s,our irons,” cried the captain, when was turned over. “Now we'll see who tea the xt “Looks as if it might" be lo Wwege Hf “There's a can fixed to the en “So. there is,” said the sites hand. “It’s the queerest thing I | lar harpoon at all. Looks ‘like as S if eomiebo yo out’n a crowbar.” % ‘ : - “Did you ¢ I only put in one. T’other one (a I guessed, maybe, you threw too
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WATER-LOGGRD. “Skipper,” said Jack Hulks, “the same feller that sent that red gull adrift made this ’ere harpoon. D’ye see that can? They’s papers in there as sure as my name is Jack Hulks.” i “Maybe they are, tain. “Here, som: out what's here.” The message sent by the whale had fallen into good hands at last! Jack, maybe they are,” mused the cap- body, fetch an axe, and we’ll soon find CHAPTER XIX. FOUND AT LAST “There, Ken, old chap, I think that will do first rate. You won’t find many better cabins than that, considering what we have had to work with.” j “No, indeed, and I am quite satisfied.” ' For a month or more Bert and Dink had been strengthen- ‘ing the raft until it was now quite an acceptable dwelling place. Ken had helped, occasionally, though his work had been to provide food for the party, as they would not receive favors from Stillwater, under the conditions he imposed. Driftwood and portions of the old wreck had been used, o and from them a shelter, which Bert called a cabin, had been - constructed for Mahel’s use, The party intended to leave the old avis as soon as a suit- able raft could be made, and upon this they were going to ry and reach the open ocean. , This was a stupendous undertaking, to be sure, but any- thing was preferable to remaining longer in the sea of grass, and, in any eyent, their situation was perilous. ; _ - Ken had a smaller raft, and upon this he would cruise around ‘in the open spaces or along the edge of the weed, picking up food, sometimes meeting with considerable success, and often finding nothing. _ It was not the most supiptuous fare that the castaways - lived upon, and they all showed the evidences of privation and lack of proper food, though none of them, not even Mabel, complained. Stillwater himself fared no better than the rest, for the supplies which he had brought away from the Sunshine, in ‘ the boat, ‘were now exhausted, and he ‘had to depend upon q iamnait the sea afforded him for his living. When at last the raft was completed, the four friends took "possession and started upon their long and perilous. journey, _ knowing not what might be their fate, but hoping for the best. 3 Stillwater came to the rail as they pushed off, and said: #30 you are going, are you? Do you want a passenger?” “Berths all taken,” answered Dink, “and your room is bet- ter than your company.” x “There is nothing to prevent my Kes souk? sneered © man. “I bave the boat.” “Don’t you intend to take the rege. home with you? Tried to fool us, didn’t you? Kept everything locked up so’s we'd think the gold was aboard, hey?” - “Youw’re a fool! ”\hissed Stillwater. id i “Much obliged. Youre a knave and that’s worse. Good-by to you... Some day ft will compose a poem to your ‘ney aven’t time now. Good morning.” 3y nightfall the old vessel, the name of which they had a ars hone above them, the pole star, their guide, teing es- Ny bright. te rtained, had faded from sight and soon myriads of “and I would give all the wealth at contains for 23 “We are in a zone of comparative calms, old fellow,” re- joined Ken. “Wait till we reach the open ocean, if we ever do. Then, unless a ship comes to our aid, we are lost, indeed.” “T trust to that,” said Bert, quietly. Many weary weeks passed, during which the castaways made slow but steady progress northward. It seemed a miracle that they were able to sustain life on ‘such food as the sea afforded, but hope was still alive in their hearts, and even Ken, despondent as he had always been, was kept up by the faith of his comrades, Now and then they passed a bit of wreckage, and at rare intervals a rotting hulk, abandoned to its fate. In the néighborhood of these ancient relics there was always an abundance of fish, and the yoyagers always bestirred themselves at su¢h times to provide a liberal supply for the future. : \ Many weeks had passed and nothing had been seen of Stillwater; the general belief being that he had remained on board the old wreck in preference to trusting to the ocean in His boat. At last they reached, not the edge of the grassy sea, but a region where the winds were more frequent, where the sea was subject to more disturbances, and where they were in more peril on that very account. The floating meadows still lay before them, far beyond their vision, and, as before, the’ evidences of wreck and Ceaeer were frequently seen. One day, when the wind was fresher Rabi it had been for some time, Bert descried a vessel at a great distance, appar- ently, and pointed it out to his companions, F “We are saved!” he cried, in a transport, of joy. “Do you see that ship?” \ \ “Yes, but she has no sail up,” returned Ken. “Another old treasure ship, I suppose,” muttered Dink, “with lots of gold, as I’ve been told.” “Yes, it must be only another of ‘neh sient mused Bert, sadly. “Perhaps it is like the old. Sunshine, and we shall find food aboard of her.” “Perhaps,” said Ken, They rowed and drifted along, and just as the sun was setting reached the wreck. ss It was old and weather-beaten, the masts had gone by the board, the bulwarks were broken away, and green moss’ grew on her sides and along the water line. “Not much encouragement here,” observed Ken. “She is so low in the water that we were deceived as to the distance.” “Let’s step aboard,” said Bert, and the four friends left the raft and went aboard, where for years no human being had been. f te. “Another relic of past greatness,” muttered Ken, standing where the rays of the setting sun fell full upon his wasted form. “After all, I am afraid. that we must expect a similar fate and perish here, forgotten by the world, like this old ship.” “Forgotten!” cried Bert, darting forward to where the last rays of sunlight fell upon the tarnished gilt ornamental scroll 2 work on the figurehead. “Look there and tell me if you ‘have’ ever heard of that name?” ” “Santa Felicia!” ee ; eye There it was in gold letters, cut deep into ‘the wood, the: ei name of the old Spanish treasure ship, ‘ Nein ; Above the name was the remains of what were once the — | head and bust of a beautiful woman carved ‘from a single block of wood, the head being surrounded Dye a golden glory; | such as is pictured in old representations of saints and martyrs. “The Santa Felicia! ” cried Dink, Ken and Mabel, ina breath, “The old floating treasure-house vat last,” returned Bert; food, pengeleth
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24 We are worse off now than ever we were, and yet we are worth millions! ” “Yes, but I see nothing,” said Dink. “Wait till morning, my friend, and you will see all you desire, and more, too!” said Bert, and at that moment the sun descended into the sea and the light was gone. CHAPTER XX, CONFIRMATIONS “Well, Mr. Shaw, what do you think of this ‘ere dockyment now?” ; “Well, sir, all I can say is that it’s most extr’ornary.” “Do you believe it now?” “T ain’t prepared to say, sir; tra’ornary.” The whale taken by the Morning Star having been cut up, boiled down and tried out, and the vessel cleaned, Captain John Holmes had given his attention to the papers found in the can attached to the harpoon found embedded in the marine monster they had captured. “The names are the same, you see,” continued the skipper, he and the mate being seated at a table in the cabin, “and the particulars is the same;'only more so.” “Well, whoever got up that yarn took. a great deal of trouble, I’m thinking.” F “Yarn, sir! It’s truth and no yarn at all. Do you *s’pose that a body is going to take all that trouble in rigging up a harpoon and all that, and writing out all this story and seal- ing it up, just for a noax?” “Folks go to a deal of pains to fool other folks, sometimes, sir,” returned Mr. Shaw, somewhat dubiously. “So they do, sir; and folks will take a deal o’ pains to let other folks know where they are when they want to be rescued, too, sir,” said the skipper, with considerable vehem- ence, “Well, all I can say is, that it’s most extr’ornary,” replied but I repeat, it’s most ex- the mate, falling back upon his original statement, as though |, that comprised everything that could be said. “Yes, sir, and it’s true, every word of it. Then there’s another p’int: this story of the old treasure ship. Wouldn't mind running acress her myself. It’d be a sight better’n find- ing a, hundred barrels of amber grease.” Ambergris, by the way, is worth its weight in gold, as a general thing, and the whaler that comes across a whale with a deposit of this valuable substance inside him, is considered a lucky man. ; “Reckon that’d go ahead of your amber grease, cap’n. _ to me this is a pretty big yarn all ’round.” | “Yarn, sir! skipper, with great irritation. “Waal, we'll say story, then. all these things yarns, you know. *Pears T got in the way 0’ callin’ y seeing if they’ ve come across the treasure yet.” “What! Sail through that ocean of weed? captain, but I don’t want any of it.” Excuse me, “Vessels has gone through it, and I don’t see why I. can’t; ”! the strange document. “And give up your v’y’ge?” ne “Won't it. be wuth more ’n the v’ y’ge if we get the treasure?” : “T suppose so, but it seems to me like trying to find a chest | fine fellow, and Stillwater hated i dead, I can say what “a think. N ody “ike ed hi _ of gold at the foot of the rainbow.” . . “Hm! Hy sayy said the skipper, as he arose, put away ge document in’ a i locker and waddled out of. the ie : What do you mean by yarn?” demanded the] tO that.” : “Well, I say I wouldn’t mind going after them fellers and|- You always was a doubtin’ sort of a ie: Shaw, ”. saw any one who. could be more tho A of this Pere WATER-LOGGED. ing Star fell in with another whaling vessel, and the pair hove to, while the captain: of the stranger came on board the Morning Star ‘to pay Captain Holmes a friendly visit. Mr. Shaw returned ‘the compliment by going over to the ie other vessel, and the two crews proceeded to enjoy themselves in the exchange of ¢ivilities. Captain’ Holmes related the circumstances attending the finding of the document attached to the harpoon to his fellow commander, at dinner, the other being greatly interested. — “Excuse me a minute, captain,” he said, arising and hurry- ing on deck. ‘ “Is Wilks aboard?” he asked of one of his own sailors whom he met in the waist. : “Yes, sir; in the forecastle, spinning yarns.” “Ask him to come this way.” HAY, ayisir.”. A tall, bronzed, intelligent-looking man presently came aft, and looked inquiringly at the captain. “You sent for me, sir?” “Yes; come below.” Poe The two men descended to the cabin, when the a ; captain said: “Captain Holmes, this is one of my crew. I think ie ean. throw some light upon what ybu have been telling. pte 2 ie “T want to know!” exclaimed Captain John, in Mae aston- ishment. a i stligrad “Take a seat, Wilks,” said the other: “You were ship- | wrecked Some four or five years ago, were you not?” “Yes, sir. I was second mate of the ship’ Sunshine, “Cap- tain Eliphalet Bioware) of New York, bound home — gee China.” BY “Where were you wrecked?” ; EME “Off Good Hope. We were struck by lightning atid aban- doned the ship. It was on fire, and we left it. 1 was killed by a falling mast.. The mate and- ‘several. others were left behind.” “How did that Meppen t (Bau } high, our fine parted and we _were swept away. sai “You never saw them again?” * Ms “No. Night came on and we were driven by wind far from the ship. Then it came on to. ‘rain and w of her, the fire being put out.” } “How many of you escaped?” “Two boatloads at first, but one boat was Jost. others were all who survived out of cur party.” » “Who were the men left on board?” 1 ; “The mate, Mr. Stillwater, three or four 8 10 i captain’s daughter. i} wit “Do BL know who the men were?” \ i wie : “Was there a young fellow called Gonder in the crew “Gordon? Let me see. we called him.” “Yes, his name was Keanoth, Was there a ma and another by the name ‘of Ransom?” “Yes, sir. Have they been heard of?” “They have. Read that; ” and the ny The man read it very aiteniiena 4 * “I don’t doubt a word of all ‘this. is s t “ Young Gordon was i
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genuineness of this document. How dt ets the boy was, to be sure! ” “Waal, I vum, if that isn’t the greatest thing I ever heard on!” cried Captain Holmes. “It’s the singularest thing that both o’ these papers should fall into my hands after traveling _ all over the ocean. Do you really think that the nee men are still on board that vessel.” “It seems likely enough. She is water-logged and can never sink, or at least not within the lifetime of these boys. Consider where she is, out of the reach of winds and tides and storms.” “What do you think of the old Spanish vessel?” “It is quite likely that she is somewhere in the sea of grass as well as the Sunshine.” “T want to know! All that money floating about and no one to claim it.” “A vessel will last a long time under such circumstances, *-and those old ships were built much better than we build them _ nowadays.” “Tt mought be wuth a feller’s while to go down there, moughtn’t it?” “Yes, it might, indeed.” '“But there’s a good deal o’ risk.” “There is some risk, but so there is in anything that pays.” | “Well, I don’t think I'd care to run’ the chances. There - may be money in it, but more likely they isn’ti” “There are lives to be saved.” “Oh, I don’tss’pose them fellers is alive yet. or die of fever.” } Captain Holmes did not believe all he said, but he was greatly afraid that the other captain would take it into his ( head to go in search of the treasure, and therefore wished to appear indifferent. ; . If he seemed excited he was afraid that the-other would think _ that there was really something in the matter, and would want _ to prove it. } ; Consequently he tried to appear careless, and as if ques- _ tioning the feasibility of the search, while all the time he was dying to Bet away and be the first on the spot. “If she is afloat ho one knows where she is,” said Wilks; “but if you were to ask me where I thought the water-logged ship to be I believe I could point out the very spot.” “Show me, just for the fun o’ the thing,” said Holmes, ‘bringing out a chart. Wilks looked it over carefully, seemed to be making a reck- 73 oning and finally placed his finger on a point nearly midway in the Sargasso, from its lowest southern edge to its morthern limit. “Hm! that’s a sted bit off, * muttered Captain Holmes, - carelessly making a pencil mark at the point where Walls had put. his finger. “I don’t think I'll go there.” Hf This was not the truth, however, for the SiDpEr was never _ more settled on anything in his life. a ‘The dream of gold had filled his mind, and he could no pan. have shaken off the desire for riches than he cotild have They'd starv® if 3 ‘ CHAPTER XXI. AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR ( paskea Ken, as he bal on a proken spar, ., looking out over be derness of waters. tt ‘Santa Felicia had been found at last, and the treasure in the. hola was estimated, at Sie ted of Jue a ans WATER-LOGGED. 25. bi A PARLE PREM SORT AT SEARS FU ALES CO ORES OMI) a 77M lars, but if it had been hundreds of millions they would have been no better off: ; There were chests full of gold and silver bars, bags of gold coin, boxes piled high with jewels, and sacks full of costly ornaments, golden candlesticks, vases and the like, together with dishes and utensils of the most elaborate design and the ‘best workmanship. But, after all, possessing all this treasure, they were on the verge of starvation, and it seemed only to mock them. The vessel was old and very much decayed, and the chances were that in a few years more it would rot and fall apart, sending its precious load to the bottom to lie, with other un- claimed riches, till the end of the world. “Cheer up, old fellow,” said Bert. “We have come so far out of our troubles all right, and I see no reason why we won't go on to the end.” “The end is nearer than any of us imagine, I fancy.” “Never give up the ship, as Lord Nelson, or George Wash- ington, or some other fellow said,” observed Dink, “but keep a stiff upper lip and we'll give Davy Jones the slip and never lose our grip.” ig It was hard enough to be cheerful when they were slowly starving, when the wealth all around only seemed to mock their misery, and when hope seemed so long deferred. One day Bert saw a rainbow far away in the east and pointed it out te Ken. . “There is the sign of our deliverance, my boy. Look at that and do not despair.” “Rainbows will shine on, long after I am dead. They are as illusive as ali other signs.” “T shall pin my faith to that one, however,” said Bert, cheerfully. “I don’t intend to give up till the last.” , The next day they saw some land birds, and Bert again tried to assure the rest that help was at hand. Day after day passed, and the fate which threatened seem- ed nearer than ever before, Without water, without food, surrounded by wealth, and yet dying of starvation. One day, after a long and weary night, the sun arose, blood-red, from the sea and fell upon four forms stretched out upon the deck of the ancient vessel. , No breath nor motion seemed to stir them, and as the sun. came up in a hot mist it bathed their faces in a red 5 as though they were washed in blood. Over the sea, as the sun arose, came a Stately bark, her sails illumined with the light of the new day, her flag flutter- ing from the peak and all her canvas spread. It was-a strange sight in this wild place, for the only ships that came into that dead sea were those that would never go hack to port, whose crews were ghosts, and “ADOBE: sails were never unfurled. On and on came the ship, and now it could be seen that she was no phantom, that there was life and activity on board, and that, like the rainbow, she bore the message of hope. Captain John Holmes, of New Bedford, came on deck and looked around him as the sun arose over ta ber 9 waste. “Jack Hulks, ahoy!” he cried. “Ay, ay, -sir,” answered the seaman, coming on deck at that moment. : ba “What do you make out yonder imine to be?” : Jack took the captain’s glass, gazed for some minutes in silence, and then said, slowly: “Tt’s an old hulk, sir, but I see no sign of life on her.” us = “Putty low down, ain't she?” e . , “Yes, sir, but el Se) low as she pugtit to be, hans water- logeed.” Cae here is the very spot corresponding to the pint — ‘on 1 the ¢ chart bred Wilks esa his: sa and I cal. 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26 : ' WATER-LOGGED. ate eo et rm pean nes A Ne ed tae ies es sete ee zz > day, pee I took my reckoning, that I’d ought to reach it by{ “Amen, Jack!” said the skipper, with watery eyes and 4 morning.” choking voice. “Do you know what I think?” “Don’t see no sign 0’ life over there, sir,” added Jack.| , “No, sir. But first of all these poor creeters must be “Reckon she’s a dead ship, and if they’s anybody on board | tended to or they'll slip away from us, arter all. If we hadn't they're in the same condition.” found the treasure it would have paid us just to be able to — “You don’t see no signals?” | save these lives!” : 7 “Not a rag.” — : : “Well, we'll keep on.and have a look at her. She's a good : ways off yet, Jack.” CHAPTER XXII. j “Aye! five or six miles, I pains 2 : . . An hour later the dld hulk was more easily distinguished, AWAY FROM THE SEA OF GRASS. 3 aes and the skipper, after examining her, long and sear Cine a through “the glass; said to Jack: A fresh breeze was blowing, the sky was dotted with fleecy J “Do you make out anybody Aboard her, Jack?” ' clouds, the air was warm and mild, and the sea never looked “No, sit, not a soul.” / more entrancing. ‘ “Do you think we might lower a boat?” The whaling bark was Teta good headway Pe ig the “Ask Mr. Shaw, sir.” weed, and as Captain Holmies trod the quarter deck he glanced — “Shaw be blamed!” muttered the skipper. “Lower the/to leeward with a look of satisfaction and observed: r starboard boat, Jack, and get a crew. I’m going over there.” “Wall; this yer v’y’ge’ll be the best payin’ one I eve bape A boat, manned by four,sturdy fellows, with Captain John|To say nothin’ o’ savin’ them liyes, we got more mony hoe: ’ ‘jn the stern; moved through a watery lane toward an old,}that ’ere old hulk than I ever thought was in the hull jonas on weather-beatéh hulk that seemed like the ghost of past great-} At this moment Jack Hulks came on deck leading | a you ness, though she was a fitting sight in this weird spot. fellow who seemed just able to stand, and whose pale face and “That ‘ere vessél was never water- logged,” muttered Jack the dark rims beneath his eyes showed that he had been as Huiks, “though I reckon she’s old enguay to have been in ‘near to death’s door as one seldom goes and returns: to life. : the wars of the roses, whenever them was.’ : | “Hallo, you: Jack!” cried the skipper, coming down to ‘the i “Pull around to the BEEED, Jack, and we'll see if we can see, main deck. “You've got him up at last?” “ her name.” | “Aye, aye, sir! and mebby the sea air’ll do him good. ‘He's The stern was low in the water, however, and no name was, the best off of the lot, but we'll haye them up soon.” 3 to be seen. - The young man was assisted to sit down upon a coil of. F The men then’ rowed to the bow, and here Captain Holmes; rope near the waist, and as he breathed in great draughts exclaimed: of the invigorating air seemed already to have gaine “Hold up, boys. . What's this here? There’ s a figgerhead of’ strength. ; if eee eS a woman, With a straw hat on her head, or suthin’ like it,! He looked around him, heayed a deep sigh, eng then ae and her name is—great Jehosaphat!” | “You rescued us from the old ship?” “Ruther singular name for a woman, ain’t it, sir?” : “Yes, my lad, you and the rest of ‘you, v said Jack ras, “No, no, that ain’t her name; it’s the Saint Felix or suthin’}| “And Mabel? Is she safe?” : like that, but what’s more, it’s the old ship what’s got all! “The young lady? Indeed, she is; ‘but she's ai a yet. the money on board!” .|The skipper gave up his room to her.” met ie This statement produced the utmost excitement. “And Bert and Dink? Aro they well, 4002” ny xe “Then we’ve missed t’other one and found the old money- “Aye, aye, lad, they’ ‘re all well,” said the skipper; : box, arter all.” s you mustn't go to talkin’ too much. You're Gordon, T ra “Sure as you live. Pull around easy, boys. 7 a her ae “Yes; but how did Mo, know et ao pe Jack.” .| sleep?” me a Captain Holmes and Fate Hulks stepped on board the Bins “Hm! You never said pea and we i afraid rou Felicia and met with another surprise. never would,” answered Hulks. \ : ae f Four bodies, three men and a woman, lay sheliiathe out| “What vessel is this?” — Os aie upon the deck. “The Morning Star, whaler, from ‘New Bed——” My “My word! somebody has been here before us, cap’n.” “A whaler!” gasped Ken. Peleg Wet then you pipe _ “So they have, Jack, so they have! Poor critters!” with our iron in him and came f Jack Hulks knelt by the side of one of the bodies and| “Yes, yes; but don’t you go to gettin’ excited ‘ot yo placed his hand on its breast. sick again.” ee A flush came ‘into his face, and he seemed greatly excited.| “I don’t remember your as How long have Ww be Then he put his’ ‘ear to the man’s heart, felt of the pulse, }on board?” staas and, ‘lastly, took a little mirror from his pocket and placed! “Bout a. week. » : BA ie it just above the man’s mouth. FA week? And have I been ahi dosiselons ‘so 0 long?” “What are you doing in a, ancy Hulks?” asked the, “Pretty nigh most of the time, boy.” ; skipper. , | “Where are you going?” = . Jack Hulks looked at the glass, “sprang to’ his feet, danced \ “Wall, when we get into the open sea rib ecko a ‘hornpipe on the deck, and shouted: : } qiomik.” i \ ' “He's alive, skipper—he’s alive, thank my. ‘stars! Send ~° Ken looked out across sta water, sighed eh somebody for brandy and gruel and clothes. We'll save *em’ “You have not found Mr. Stillwater, ha . yet!” 2 ; 4‘ , “That’s' the mate, E suppose?” “Are you mad, Jack?” i : 4 “Yes.” “8 “No, cap’n, only excited. They are all alive, put if we hadn't “Well, no; we hain’t found pee ld come along, Davy Jones would have claimed ‘em before many ous, seeing the kind o? man he is. iy _ hours. — ‘Hooray—hooray! | We’ye found the money and all. “Why? — wT tha at, but we've done better yet—we’ve saved four eae lives,’ “No, thoug! an te thank God that I've lived to nee this ibe cm Feta ; era fi ee
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ide cla f 27 “You found the whale with our harpoon?” : “Yes; and I told ye so, and that ain’t all we found. If _ you go into the seas you'll find a sartin red sea-gull, Watt and put on a——” “What! you found both of our messages, then?” cried Ken, in great excitement, the perspiration breaking out upon his ‘pale forhead. “Now, don’t go to gettin’ narvous,” muttered the skipper. “You've talked more'n enough for to-day.” “Thank God we are sayed!” murmured Ken devoutly, as he rested his back again. the mainmast; “but I’ wish you had saved Stillwater, too.” “That's very funny,” went into the cabin. mused Captain John Holmes, as he “rem all I kin make out the feller - was a reg’lar pirate, but this poor boy igs sorry he wasn’t | saved with the rest. So he mought ha’ been if he’d been on the old hulk, but not bein’ there, it was nateral to think he}: ‘was dead. Funny they wasn’t on the water-looged craft. | eer quite make that out.” : The next day, Ken being much stronger, the skipper drew his story from him, and learned how he and his companions had happened to be-on the Santa Felicia. / “Did you get the treasure?” asked the young fellow. “Yes, and it’s all in the hold, ‘long o’ a thousand bar‘ls 0’ good sperm ile. Didn’t expect to find sech a cargo when I left New Bedford.” “You deserve it all,” said Ken gratefully. “You went out of your course on a venture to save our lives, and you ought to have the whole——” “Now, now, I can’t hear no sech talk as that. | 4 That ‘ere q gold must be shared, jest like anything else we find on a : y’y’ge, so big a lay to me, an’ so much to officers and men, and the rest to the owners. You bein’ the owners in this case, _ gets the balance.” , “By lay, you mean shares, I suppose?” “Yes, something like. 1 gets the twenty-fifth, one dollar in Bishi vias, Mr. Shaw gets the fortieth, the second mate the “sixtieth, and the men the two hundred, the boatsteerers, cook and steward something more.” “Why net let us all share alike?” t “Wall, it oe t babies: to rules, and I reckon we won't ig change ’em,’ “One time I would have given it all to be safe at home,” murmured Ken. ‘covered, and all three joined in thanks to the captain and crew of the Morning Star for having saved their lives, - Mabel’s recovery was more-slow, but at last, thanks to good nursing and a strong constitution, she rallied, and was able to come upon deck and sit with the rest. . By this time they had left the Sargasso and were bound home, the skipper being more than satisfied with the result of his voyage. ‘ _ At first Captain Holmes would not listen to any other di- vision of the ‘treasure than the one he had suggested, but Ken finally induced him’ to change his mind. men will have something more than a quarter of the whole ‘amount. Now, you must do better than that. Give us a quar- ter, | and divide the rest among yourself and the men accord- ~ BS ing to your own ‘Pian. i : : “No, ‘sir! The money is yours, but I thought the men ought | have something. You take half, and me and the men’ll ke tho other half.” sa! prefer the other way.” 3 “and f prefer mine. Wundred | _apiece and myself and the officers a thousand, and | rou. and your chums the rest, it’d be about right. iy This day Bert ‘and Dink came on deck, considerably re- did not- ‘know ie value of the cargo he had taken Space the old Spanish ship. nf ae However, he had other things to think of. ‘hesides enlight- ening the captain at that time. “Couldn’t you go and find Stillwater?” he asked anxiously. “Why, that there villain has tried to kill you no end of times, and if it hadn’t been for him in the fust place you ueyer would ha’ been wrecked.” “True enough, but it is my duty to save him if I can.” “Do you know where he is?” “No.” “Well, it'll be nigh on to a fortnight’s sail to where we found you, and after that we might haye to go clean down to open water again before we came on him, and then he BHER be dead. 9 “ True. ” “T guess I know my duty as well as esd, lad, but I don’t think I’d orter put my ship and crew in danger to go on a wild goose chase arter a man that ain’t fit for nothin’ but the gallus, anyhow.” ; ; Ken could not press the matter, of course, and soon there arose another objection, and an insurmountable one. They were now in the season of the fiercest gales, and they presently encountered one which caused them to make all haste to leave their quarters and go driving ae the ocean at the maddest kind of a pace. When the storm subsided—and it lasted for more than a week-—they were nearly two thousand miles from where they had béen rescued, and the qustion of returning was settled most decidedly in the negative. “Well, he must be dead,” mused Ken, as he thought of the man, “Good thing, too, if you mean Stillwater!” blurted out Dink. “He’s. given us trouble enough, the skunk! But now he’s all hunk, an’ I ain’t goin’ to flunk, because I’ve got too much spunk.” } “Of course he’s dead,” observed Bert, “Disappointment at ;not being able to do us any pers mischief was too much for him.” Little as any of them dreamed, ieee Dan Stillwater was destined to make considerable trouble for them all yet. ' CHAPTER XXII. ‘ & AN UNWELCOME REUNION, “It'll be a bad night for us, Bert. I don’t like ue looks of things to windward.” “Neither do I, Ken; but the ship Ig stand, and ought to weather the fiercest gale.” ’ “I would not mind if I only were coneerned, but there 4g Mabel. I fear more for her sake than for my own.” “Well, cheer up, er sen and it ‘ib come out all right, Ay reckon.” Five years have passed away since last we saw Ken and his r “TY have figured it up,” he said, “and find that you and your) friends, and in\that time many things have happened. The Morning Star weathered the gale by which she was beset, and in a few weeks’ time reached New Bedford, where -the story of her wonderful luck ‘set the old town wild. When the treasure taken out of the old Spanish - ship was divided Ken, Bert, Dink tand Mabel were found to poss SS " something. over one hundred thousand dollars apiece, Captain | Holmes having about forty thousand, the mates ten thousand each, and the remainder of the crew, including harpooners, apiece all. around. ees = 7 “wonderfully. IT reckon if we gave all hands five under officers and seaman, having shi eal -five hundred dollars — ; Such good fortune had never ene hear of, and) the whal se L Paes, for it was quite evident that the honest skipper 1 ing seca ros suddenly a nt ¥
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Every whaler in port. was made ready at once, for it seemed to be the general impression that fortunes were to be had for the mere asking, and crews could be secured without the least difficulty. Captain. Holmes purchased a new vessel, fitted her out, and set sail for the Arctic, caring to trust his luck in that di- rection rather than to finding another treasure ship. Many vessels were fitted out, however, with the avowed intention of going after buried fortunes, Captain Kidd treas- ure islands and the like, the whole sea-going population hav- ing gone crazy on the subject. Ken and Bert were more sensible, however, and ‘put their money away where it would accumulate while they, in the meantime, sought to perfect themselves as seamen.” Two years later a stanch, seaworthy ship of twelve htn- ‘dred tons, new from stem to stern, was launched, and named the Sargasso, being commanded by Captain Kenneth Gordon, Bert Ransom being her first officer. Both ‘young fellows had invested in the ship, but Ken Was made captain, Bert protesting that it was no more than right. “But you know as much as [L-do, Bert,” said Ken. “Well, you are the oldest, and then, you expect to take your wife along, so, of course, you must be captain. You couldn’t take your wife if you were only the first mate.” It was t®ue that Ken was intending to take his wife with him upon the first voyage of the Sargasso, and the reader does not need to be told who the lady was. _ Ken and Mabel, more closely attached to each other than ever by their-mutual sufferings, were married shortly before the launching of the ship, and it was Mabel herself who christened her as she slid from the ways into the water. In due time the Sargasso set sail for China with an as- sorted cargo, the joint investment of the four friends. Of course, Dink went along, but he was now called Mr. Bight, as he was Set mate, and felt the importance of his new position. The second mate was Mr. Wilks, formerly of Captain How- ard’s vessel, Ken having encountered him just before making up his crew and offering him the position. ““T heard of an old acquaintance of yours, Gordon,” said Wilks, “just before I sailed for home.” “Indeed! Who was it?” “Dan Stillwater.” “What! ‘Phen he is alive?” “Undoubtedly.” “Did you see him, did you say?” “No, I only heard of him. We got the news “of a certain Stillwater being picked up at sea in an almost dying condi- tion by a bark which arrived the day before we sailed. tl “You did not hear the particulars?” “No; but I have no doubt that it is your old enemy.” Well, I never) desired his death, and I am glad to hear that he is alive, It is not likely that we shall ever meet again.” RELA TCU 8 ott The Sargasso made a safe and speedy voyage to China, dis- > posed of her cargo to advantage, made @ trip to Australia and | back, and finally, with a valuable cargo on Bowne set sail for “New York. They were in ‘the Pacific Ocean, below the line, their home- is not eine Gs however. i t ward yoyage about half finished, when one evening, as Ken - @ume on deck, he observed to Bert that they were likely to have bad weather. " 2 Mabel Joined them while they were speaking, and at that moment the cry came down from aloft: Wisi shai EAB HOL 6. 4f et q - “Where away?” asked Ken.” ‘ ! Ban “Dead astern, sir. gd: all sail set and going. like the wind.” ” iene but rather: to capture her, for he ‘followed 1 “yj so vddenly, died out and: left. bot She looks like a topsail schooner with Pe Then three or. fou boats w WATER-LOGGED. Wie Saas “She’ll have to take in some of that canvas before long,” — muttered Ken, as he surveyed the stranger through the glass. - “TI can’t understand why she is carrying so much, anyhow.” “She is racing, mebby,” chuckled Dink, “going round the world on a wager. She don’t look very heavily loaded.” By the time it grew dark the storm broke, and as the ship must take care of herself the topsail schooner was lost sight of. iy The next day, however, she was seen, and did not appear — to have received any material damage, as me was barring all the sail she could bear up under. — ai “She is after us,” mused Ken, “and I don’t really under- stand why.” r An hour later the stranger was within two or Gites miles, and at six bells in the forenoon watch ‘she was close enough é to hail the ship. “Altoy! What ship is that?” cried a man on the quieter’ deck.’ “The Sargasso, Captain Gordon, of New cpa Hs ‘answered ; Mr. Wilks. sf “He’s near enough to see our name, without asking us _ that,” muttered Dink. “TI don't like the looks of the fellow.” “Which Captain Gordon is it?” asked the a the schooner “Captain Kenneth Gordon, of New York, owner and ma : ter.” ; , “Where are you bound?” “Home.” : > ; “Not if I know it,” answered the other, and at the cae instant the schooner underwent a strange transformation. nat A-strip of White canvas just below her cee line was" pag Then the ‘ie! of the newly-formed ‘Southern Gohsuazecia was suddenly unfurled trout the peak, while: ‘a noatay, shout looking fellows Spies rear “What does this mean?” cried Ken, pucgeuly appeari Y deck. “You know that there is a war in our einer: G er t explained Bert. “This is a rebei cruiser, and we have fall into a trap.” : poeen ey: haven't caught us yet!” hissed | Ken, to fight till the Reathe s on the poop. “Surrendel at once, or wel plow you. out water!” Zi The speaker was Dan Stillwater, ‘the sonar Sunshine, whom Ken had last left on the old sea of grass. ff “So, then, “Suutwaten is as great a villain as oven? Ken; “and is now waging war seca his cruiser, aii eh with little success. ; It did not appear to be ‘Stillwater’s aim» ae out firing a shot. Hy totes a Thus matters stood for an ihe
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4 WATER-LOGGED. 29 more of villainous wretches, fully armed, clambering up the; Upon the instant Mabel drew a gleaming revolver from the sides and at the bows. | folds of her dress, and exclaimed: The crew made some show of resistance, but fresh arrivals; “One shot is for my husband, one for myself, and the rest - from the schooner so swelled the number of the enemy that |for you!” they were soon compelled to succumb. “Seize the she fiend!” yelled the captain of the cruiser. Then Stillwater advanced toward the after part of the ship| At that moment there was a startling interruption. where Ken and his three mates were standing together, and! ‘The-fore hatches were suddenly. thrown off, and the crew said, with his old wicked smile: cf the Sargasso, headed by Dink Bight, and all fully armed, “A pleasant meet, this, Captafn Gordon? Treasure seeking |SPTang upon the deck, has evidently been successful in your case, Your ship’s a] “Surrender, you villains!” cried Dink, as he dashed; at the beauty, and I propose to make her more so by transforming | head of his men, upon Stillwater and a few of his adherents. her into a war vessel, and taking up my quarters here. You| A desperate fight ensued. will pardon my making you a prisoner for a time, I sup-| Ken and the others were liberated and, supplied with “pose?” weapons, joined in the affray immediately. “Scoundrel!” hissed Ken. “Give me a sword, and face me Stillwater raised the alarm, but his erew, or most of them, single handed, and I will speedily cut short your villainous had been locked in the forecastle, and were unable to join career.” him. “Seize them!” cried Stillwater, and a dozen men rushed up} While the fight waxed ROUEEE, a startling cry was raised on and seized Ken and Bert. board the schooner. “During the struggle Mabel suddenly appeared, and Still-| “Fire in the hold! The magazine is threatened.” water smiled. A few minutes later there was a deafening explosion, and “Ah, my sweet Mabel again,” he exclaimed. “By Heaven, the schooner wags nearly blown out of the water, disappear. you are more charming than ever.” ing almost immediately after, “Don’t you dare touch me, murderer and villain. So you| ‘he five men who attempted to escape by swimming over have come out in your true colors at last, have you, traitor?” |t® the ship were seized by sharks and perished. Ken, Bert and Mr. Wilks were now overpowered and car-| Ken was fighting hand-to-hand with Stillwater when the ried away, but Dink had disappeared, and could not be seen, |€XPlosion too place. The captain and mates were confined in the run, the crew] There was a pause in the fight, and then Stillwater glared being put in the hold, and then Stillwater entered the cabin, | *4vagely about him, and as a dozen of the crew rushed where he ordered Mabel brought before him. up to support Ken, the villain, seeing that the fight was lost “I have a proposal to make to you, my dear,” he said, still rushed suddenly to the rail, leaping overboard, and was seen smiling. no more, “What new atrocity is it?” demanded Mabel scornfully. The fighting at once ceased, and the remaining pirates—for “You desire to save your husband's life? Then be mine and | they were no better—surrendered. _ both he and young Ransom shall be spared. Refuse and I will| Th surprise and the firing of the privateer had both been _. hang them before your eyes.” arranged by Dink during the night, “Do your worst,” answered Mabel firmly. “Kill them and I Having escaped capture, he had concealed himself in the _ will kill myself and cheat you of your victim.” hold, drugged the guard, released and armed his men, had Stillwater laughed, and then answered: Swam over to the schooner and started the fire, and had then “I will wait till to-morrow for your answer. If it is not |eturned to the hold of his own ship, appearing just in time a favorable one you know what to expect.” to thwart Stillwater’s plans. The unfortunate woman was led away and locked in her} The Sargasso then proceeded, doubled the cape, and at last cabin, while Stillwater proceeded at once to make the pro-|@trived home in safety, \ posed changes in the Sargasso. His enemy dead, his ventures diccesstul: and his life a 7 The guns were brought over from the schooner, together |"@PPY one, there was now nothing for Ken to grieve oyer or with a considerable supply of small arms and ammunition,|!°S¢ hope, for fortune smiled upon him, and life seemed _ the privateer’s crew taking up their quarters on the ship. at its best. iekike: ; : The guns were mounted on deck, the ammunition being |: He fitted out and commanded a privateer, and did his coun- By taken below and stored along with a quantity of rifles, cutlas- try good service, going into business again when the war was j ‘ ses and pistols, the prisoners being in the fore hold under the |Over, and increasing his already large fortune, and so let us eye of two stalwart guards. take leave-of him and his chums, who still live, and often Only a few hands were left on board the schooner, and the talk over the days they spent on the old Sunshine when _ {two vessels sailed in company during the rest-of the day and| 40ST !N THE Sea or Grass. » i 2 night. - The next morning» Ken, Bert and Mr. Wilks were brought. ee LN lela and placed just forward of the mainmast. 4 - Ropes were then lowered and placed about the necks of the. “unhappy men, their arms and legs being securely pinioned. 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