Show aw 3 11 I 1 A LOCK OP OF HAM HAIK I 1 waa w sitting oa an a 16 i log OP opposite POSIts the 01 waiting U U clr or the romang of 4 the stage th that af brings mail to the peninsular villages he looked at me with frank curios by you we are ft a reso r t e r a I 1 nt at Y you yau he be asked Is the peninsular peala sular title for a order boarder I 1 admitted ed that I 1 was mra MM knot and had arrived oia oa the taa ellgood Ri boat every summer we have cm e he said old proudly last year there was six reso ners in abraham coming n and sofas wont you yon set act down on an this log he be asked the rho be here in bout twenty t ty I 1 can hear bew U jingling along the bay road now he be was the picture lare ot 0 venerable Ym erable old age as he cat it there in the sunshine his hair was like the white eaps cava on an the bay his color was of the rich brown that comes on a fair skin ikin long exposed to wind and weather and his eyes were yet of a brave blue bine he wore an old coat jeans pantaloons and gay carpet slippers the favorite footgear of the peninsular sailor ballor when ashore youve been a sailor I 1 ventured as he was looking across the bay to where the cliff came up fro from the water like an mclouth giant fresh troa the bath bam benm been a sailor well I 1 should say my so 80 w he answered with good natured dermo dension tin rm capt ca pt zenos hall and boy and man an I 1 sailed the lak lakes es for fifty years I 1 to be master of the ia M jones the best three master that ever put into this harbor she was wall a boat you dont see her like since shwe the them blamed steamers are spoiling the lake trade dmd it dont take no sense to run ran them just ata stand n d on the bridge and see ee that you dont run ran in shore now theres fine pints about running a sailing vessel you dont have an old propeller churning away whether theres a fair wind or a calm you must aust have had strange adventures tn in your ur day adventures and wrecking and every kind of a time he responded 1 I ve been on CC a schooner that caught afire in m the middle of superior and I 1 was wrecked in the wust squall that ever blew on CU erie ene but about the queerest thing that ever happened to me was right over there at eagle I island 1 dl he pointed to the tow low crescent shaped is land that lay near the entrance to abraham bay that it was true makes tt ft all the queerer I 1 answered that a true story was anea stranger tan those in a the magazines 92 now youre tie sec deose he replied heartily for or there never was no BO truer story going th than this one and win agin there them no queerer one but bat P araps rap you t care to hear it t dowan he and concluded artzt artfully y I 1 Proter protested ted that my ay life would be I 1 complete tom until I 1 had heard his yam wen well he began settling himself r m F stably oa an his log log about fifteen yelm years ago when I 1 was aizic the cal I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 alze 1 ae A 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 7 L f 1 k t i 1 F 1 i I 1 1 1 J A N 4 4 I 1 i I 1 sal CLUTCHING THE ATT i asty M jones jonca I 1 was miming between j 1 green cay bay and Esca carrying tour soar and provi provisions slona I 1 walt living bring here hem in abraha Abrah acthen then but bat I 1 used to pat in a eagle island whenever the weather got rough for WE its the best harbor in the whole green bay inside that berei basin b in youre awa as quiet as if you were in the arms alps of your mother we was on cu tb the down trip light and out old by cha claza hers bere wand island the wind west down and I 1 saw it was going col to be a dead ew canso I 1 sald said wed pul pai iato ado ragie bagle harbor for the night it was dark by the time wed got ow oar anchorage and et el supper but the ebata aft and the crew took the yawl boat bm and d went wen ashore they bores ame A got ant of hezron hearing when tb the cook said he was about out of butter and he pulled over to the village in has e dingey to get some ame more 1 I 1 was left alone alon and I 1 set on top of du be ban a and looking locking at tu the path pah the anwon made arle oa an the water for the whole boy bay was as smooth as it if ou oil bad been beca poured on ca IL iti thought I 1 heard a noise forward two ma a laishl splashing and I 1 listened lift wied a bit and thea I 1 west aa far as the forecast forea ast I 1 aint t I 1 I 1 I 1 ot of or of 13 beina bt I 1 jacv bmw that thai made asade me ae shake me like I 1 had a MEL I 1 saw two hda gripping g IIA Z the and they wax waa dilla they was vall little but bat they sad had tease Us edwadd alx sad a hrcak that looked as 28 if ff it ft could as bb breath aroa ft throat I 1 em the OW 11 8 is ft I 1 a a head mm case ap ame a aad me a eres leaked emust teas imia nine aai x mu BM I 1 before I 1 wo abet a no BO coward tat uma erm eres amt azar ost in tear L they lilbun was d sot A biff viff dexy TW wide mw aea ajl wed taw mcw stag ba abst aba adb I 1 waa hii ter lie it was ulm thieda the caly r red in fa tae taeg ae upper hp VM I 1 1 L 0 o ka showed 11 the little ah ri bimm aw ih tiec bests bosts ax but in it J ie a aiji j sick MA aad biml tae head emmid 2 11 I 1 s e be R haff zua ka www 2 1 r r Z 44 n M jv 1 wet vet and all t tangled e e d up w with h weeds ana I 1 shells shelL ss wh while fl e I 1 v was w a staring jit j ng it caa over woman me that it was A woman dead when shed got on deck she walked waited alt aft paying no more attention to me than if rd fd been the capstan thes then two men mel came crawling up the side they pretty to look at andone and on had a bine sear scar clear j across his cheek but after I 1 seen the woman wan I 1 could stand them all of em had the faces of drowned folks and where they walked the deck was slashing sloshing shing with I 1 water I 1 crept behind them as they went aft and I 1 saw caw em all go down the cabin stairs then I 1 stretched aed out oot OB an the root roof and looked through the skylight they rhey was sitting round ro d the table bade I 1 and their mouths moved mored like they was talking but they make no sound though they understood what each other was saying all at the tallest man he be was old with gray hair reached across the table and struck kAbe the other on the cheek and the blue sear opened and bled like it was a fresh cut though there any knife that I 1 could sm see the woman slipped behind the old man and she put her hands round his throat so that her thumbs pressed deep into the flesh he tried to get free but she pressed his throat till her ainge 3 locked round it when abe she he let go he fell with his face ace I 1 on oil the table then she and the man with the cut cheek dragged him upstairs and I 1 could bear the thump of his boot heels beels as they hit I 1 was hid behind the mizzen mast but I 1 peeked out and saw them heave him over I 1 board and then I 1 heard the splash I 1 then the woman laughed out loud it was the first sound that had come from their lips imd and her laugh was I 1 S worse than her tam ace it was aad clear like the high notes of a planner but it froze your blood then 1 I she he turned and she wiped the man s bloody cheek with her hair and her eyes shone like ike green starboard lights on a clear night just then I 1 could hear the click of the oars in the rowlocks row locks it was the cook coming back I 1 can tell you it ww was music to my ears the man and woman started toward the side and I 1 hollered foll ered em cm I 1 caught the woman by her hair whipped out my knife and cut off a strand lust just in time lime too for they hey were over the ship side like a sash flash when the cook had raised his boat and hung it from the dakits he came aft and found me holding the bit of hair in my hand and staring at it like I 1 was crazy we went below and I 1 had bad a nip of something then I 1 told him bhim happened he gave me a sharp sham look and asked me if I 1 never heard the yarn yam I 1 said that I 1 was dragging without anchorage and if he knew what it all meant to tell m he be was an old feller felle that had cooked in half the galleys on the lakes and knew evely craft from duluth to talo blo he said he guessed I 1 never heard the early history of tile the M W jones and I 1 had bad to admit that I 1 know amow anything except that shed been built about eight years when the riles hiles brothers bought her and aad made me master he said two t or three parties and owned her before and that her first ru was an ow old feuer fetter that to take his daughter with him in the summer his mats mat was and he and the girl took a liking to each other but bat the old aan uw hear bear of their marrying and was going to dL discharge him as soon as they got back to the home port before that though they was calumet right here in IB eagle harbor and in the evening the crew oh all went ashore just as acae did aid the old rn an and the mate had bad a quarrel and the captain cut the mate with IL a long knife then the girl crept up behind the father and choked him to death and she and the mate dragged him up the stairs and chucked him over overboard boardL then they saw the cabin babir boy a peeping at em ea from behind a mast ast hed been asleep when the others othera went ashore and had seen the whole killi killing nr he run from em cm and hid in the hold bold and they put off in the second yawl rawl boat sose so se to be gone when the crew came back they was neter seen again for in the night a white squall came up and they their was thought to have got their just deserts by being drowned the cook said tt ft no unco uncommon on thing for te e dead folks to return to the places where did deeds of wrong a so that when the calisay put pac into the harbor where dose dome murder they was just jt drawn to her like iron filings is drawn to a magnet I 1 might a believed that it was all a dream it if I 1 had that lock leek of hair ta in xay v band but that was gat rt deum dence it I 1 answered that tt ft was most amat contine mg ing an evidence dence but I 1 was wall unprepared for the next ove of the th ancient CEO ti tn got gat it right here la in my ay baskit pocket and rn HI show it to you he b said drawing out a an battered which he opened and handed to me it ww was an old fashioned locket saca as used to be exchanged by swed hearts under the round glass was ara a wiep of pale coarse hair tied in a noes BOOTS its irs a very interesting relic I 1 said feebly as I 1 1 handed ded it bad ym yes tt lt ia the captain pj pang the lid ad shut land and a queer th j about it ft is that ma it ft is the sazae same say my first ames bair me of at the queerest berest things aam ON whole waste belne mod and um the good en eid mm aaa deposited his hf rem relic ia ft aft ft sat ct pocket |