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Show keep olT she shot him dead in his track. "It's the law of the sea,"' she quietly remarked, as she turned to us. "Now to ront out those Lascars!" j ''But you won't kill them!" said our I mate. I "No, not quite!" was her prim answer, j as she handed him the smoking revolver, j Casting a look at the dead mutineer, I to be sure that he was dead, she went j forward, took a belaying pin out of the j port rail and, going to thu hatch, called down: j "On deck here, every cowardlv man of ; you. and be quick abont it, too!" They came np one after the other, and , as each tu;m touched the deck she gave him a crack over the head which made him see stars. They went down on their knees and begged for their lives, and after knocking them about tu a liberal way she finally agreed to extend pardon. Under her directions the mute's lody was searched, and, as she had anticipated, antici-pated, all the money aboard the schooner was found. She then ordered the body flung overboard, and as it touched the water one of tho biggest white sharks I ever saw seized it and bit it in half. While the Lascars were cleaning the deck the little woman ran down into her cabin and brought np a dozen bottles of wine, six lKur.es of cigars and a lot of dried fruits for ns to take back to the ship. Then she gave each of ns a shake of the br.nd, and as we entered the yawl ! she sprang upon the jMirt rail, held fast to the main sh?ouds with one hand and shouted : "Good-by and God bless yon. f'npt. Wheeler! I've got my craft back, thanks ! to vou, and I'll keep uiv eves open after this!" I Then she jumped down and went to tho wheel and gave orders to get the schooner on her course, and in a couple of hours the craft was lost sight of bo-hind bo-hind one of the islands as it made for the itibidoof tho route. Two years later I saw tho woman at Singapore, and sha still owned the schooner and was said to havo a comfortable fortune in bank. A year Inter I heard that she had purchased a brig, and putting in a cargo on her own account bad sailed for home. London j Wit and Wisdom. THE NANCY LEE. We were well into the Gulf of Bengal, humid for Madras, wheu ono morning, just as night was fading into dawn, I thought 1 heard a vtiice hailing ns from the surface of the sea. There are sea birds who cry out almost like human beings, and although I was startled by the hail I dismissed it after a few seconds sec-onds as the cry of a bird. Scarcely had I done so when it came again, and this time I knew it was the voice of a woman. wo-man. There was no need to hail the mate on watch, for he heard the cry as well. We were jogging along under easy sail, and he seized the glass and ran up the forfirigging. There was a sort of steam rising from the water, but the mate had not climbed thirty feet when down he came again, and in one breath ordered the ship into the wind, the captain cap-tain aroused and a boat lowered. We of tho watch hud no doubt that the ship had been hailed by castaways, but the boat was down ln'fore any of us made out a lone woman in a sort of canoo craft abont two cables' length away on our port bow. Sho had neither paddle nor oar, and her craft was driving driv-ing with the wind and sea, while she sat cowering in the stem. Our boat was Boon alongside of her craft, and the woman and canoe were soon aboard of the Admiral Nelson. The watch below had been turned np, and everybody was on deck to see what was going on. Tho woman was white, aud, as wo soon ascertained, ascer-tained, American. I say white, but bronze would bo the Tett.er term, for it was evident that she had long been exposed ex-posed to tropical weather. She was of medium size, regular features and about 40 years of age, and had at one time been good looking. "Who and where is tho captain of this ship?" she suddenly snapped, as sha reached the deck. "Here, ma'am," gallantly replied our old man, as he stepped briskly forward. "I want to talk to yon in your cabin," she continued, her Augers working nervously nerv-ously and her eyes afire. ' They had not been gone a quarter of an hour when both reappeared on deck. I was at the wheel and therefore heard all that was said. It appeared, that the woman, whose name was Mrs. Thomas, owned and sailed a trading schooner which had been left her at her husband's death. It was a strange vocation vo-cation for a woman, but it seemed sho liked it and also had a good business head on her. Sha had a crew of six, her mate being an Englishman and the others Lascars, and she had been sailing between nearly all the towns on the Gulf. Three days before we picked hor up her schooner had left Sumatra bound for the Indian coast. The crew seemed to be perfectly quiet and content, but at 10 o'clock of tho previous night, headed by the mate, had suddenly laid violent hands on her and sent her adrift without water, food or paddle. The intention was to run away with the schooner and cargo and sell thom.( r.id this plan might have been carried out bnt for her rescue. She was the spunkiest little woman j ever saw. She was so mad she couldn't stand still for three seconds at a time. What she wanted was for our ship to go in pursuit. Her schooner was armed with two brass six pounders, while wo had four twelves, and she expressed her entire willingness to see her craft sent to tho bottom before the mutinous crew Bhould benefit by their acts. Capt. Wheeler was pretty well along in years, very careful on the question of insurance, and his mind was not made up until after breakfast. Then he decided de-cided to luff up toward the Andaman Islands iu search of the schooner, and ho almost promised to give her a tasto of our metal if she would tiot suiTender. The little woman managed to eat a dosien moutlifuls of breakfast, and then returned to the deck to almost assume control. She ordered a man aloft, bossed the job of casting loose the guns and getting get-ting up powder and shot, and every ten minute she was hailing the lookout to know if anything was in sight. Lnck rvas in her favor. While we had been jogging along all night the schooner, being be-ing further to the east, had been almost becalmed. AVe raised her almost dead ahead about noon, and as luck would have it again we had plenty of wind, while she had none until the vessels were not over two miles apart. The schooner could have no suspicion that the woman was aboard of us, and we flew a signal that we wanted to speak her. She at once lay to, and as we ran down to her I saw Mrs. Thomas grit her teeth, clinch her hands and show other evidences of her feelings. She had borrowed the mate's six shooter, donned a hat and coat to disguise herself, and as we lay to abont a cable's length away no eye could have made out her sex. "Schooner fchoy!" called our captain. "Ay, ay, sir! This is the Nancy Lee, bound from 'Sumatra to the mainland." "Are yon the captain?" "No, sir. He's very sick in his berth." "Rmr out those guns!" whispered the old man to us, and down went tho port shutters, and out went the big barkers, and such of the crew as wero not at the gum. rested their m!l1t along the raih "I've got your captain here, and she'll be put aboard of yon!" shonted the explain. exp-lain. "If you attempt any resistance HI sink yon!" The Nancy's mate ordered his crew U ,uo of the guns, but they refused to obey, every man of them sulking forward for-ward and disappearing down the hatch. The fellow left the deck long enough to arm himself with a cutlass, and as we lowerwd a boat he called out that ha would split the head of the first man who attempted to board the schooner. Our first mate, the boatswain and two of us foremast hands went in the boat with Mrs. Thomas, and as we hooked on to the schooner's chains the boatswain pulled a revolver and climbed in over the bows. The mutineer retreated aft. and then we all boarded. The woman had not spoken a word since leaving the ship. She was rale as death, and her eves glared like a tiger'a. As she dropped from the rail to the deck she rocked the weapon in her hand, walked eft and right np to the mate, aud pa he flourished flour-ished hisxu'Jfes and commanded h;r to |