Show 11 X N 0 ta 7 i 4 2 III do i ft 0 HOT 0 DIC RODNEY I 1 0 0 to A 91 0 at or the adventures of i 0 0 4 op do an eton boy 0 i i 0 JA ORANT 3 0 cac aw elli continued what arc am you at out asked weston angrily I 1 greasing abo agnir of the fore yard sir air ah oili 1 thought you were making hay you are so low slow about it you hare lave been staring ahead for the I 1 lat AS I 1 twenty minutes at least I 1 IK caune I 1 think I 1 a see something baid the annoyed by the nau heal taunt something arti iterated weston wea ton what la in it A church or a windmill going mang before the wind neither air lr but a boat adrift how illow does tt it bear ned allied asked Ill elop slop starting into the rigging on the starboard bow about two mile miles off on hearing this the tele telescope sc op 0 w waa as sorted to and we could via plainly 1 IT I 1 rough see a white object which the intervening waves as a they rose and fell hid from ui us at time times and there waa was a great diversity of opinion for one of the crew maintained that it was a harbor buoy adrift it must have drifted a long way VAY to have come here retorted carlton and it you hare have your grandmother a bout about you ipe them clean put them on ou and look again for tor I 1 can cee see plainly enough that it Is I 1 a it boat then we ahall shall overhaul IV it aid said abston eston I 1 prepare to lower ours noil anel to lev tb fore yard yarl aback the coune course waa was shaped toward it and when Y athin tt a quarter of at ft a mile the foresail fo wai was laid to the mait mast the brig hove in the wind and the tern stern boat lowered Ill slop tom lambourne two other hand hands and I 1 manned her and put off to suspect and report upon what re e could discover and so with many surmise surmises a it to wrecks boata boats getting adrift or be ing washed away avray frum rum their davit davits and so forth we pulled swiftly toward her all stripped to our abart sleeves el eevea tor for a hot NN sest eat indian sun un wai was blazing la in a cloudless cloud leea sky and the air seemed till still and breath breathless lers CHAPTER XIV antonio el cusaao ui As A the strange boat about on the baies some of our mea men as asserted that at times they could see a man a head bead above the gunwale other others expresser their doubt doubts of this and in r of auch such discussions we sheered alongside caught the bow by the boat hook book and while retaining bis his bold feuded off to prevent her being dashed against ours la in the bottom of the boat which w was as erld evidently ally the clinker built skiff ot at a merchant vessel and was all painted yellow as a preservation from the sun la in a warm climate there lay under the thwart thwarts a man either asleep in a a stupor or dead at first we knew cot inot which but he was pale enough to have passed for the last by his tawny vi visage viage age and coal black beard his long carlet scarlet cap and bash sash in which a sheathed knife was stuck and also by the rings in his ears we recognized him to be a spanish seaman lie ile was a man naturally of at a tall and powerful frame but of forbidding a aspect hect of great strength but wasted apparently b by y toll by exposure and daml famine ne A dark and coagulated crust of at something like blood appeared on his baked lips and thick mustaches bes on the blackness of which the saline particles of the sea foam dried by the tropical sun glittered white as an boar frost on a bush la in winter As we rou roused ed him he grasped his knife and repulsively bit it and then stared wildly at us muttering in imploring tones aqua aqua por amor de do dloss dios via ater t er water for the love of god 0 senores 0 ave marta ial here jack spaniard ship a drop of this it la Is real Ja Jam malky alliy said tattooed tom pouring between the parched lips of the spaniard some rum which likely had gadjen jen bean put in the boat by the fore bight of ill hislop slop the black eye eyes of the castaway cutaway dilated and flashed as the spirit revived him restoring his wasted energies and bringing a hectic color to his cheeks belay delay BOW now aid said tom torn you must get some thames water from the brig before you take more of this machos gracyas many many thanks th thankfulness 3 aks M said the spaniard in tones of at i 1 E enough a 0 that stow your slack mack I 1 and come on board if it you can said tom testily as be had sulky 1 recollections 1 its of our adventures at the grand canary I 1 ret restored ed by the mouthful of alcohol the spaniard staggered up but with difficulty and then we perceived that gouts of blood dried and encrusted by the sun were on bis his person and I 1 on the inside of the boat especially on one of the thwarts I 1 what la Is this blood asked ills lop with an imperceptible hudder shudder the spaniard started and became if it I 1 possible paler at the question as ail be re sly clutched the gunwale of his boat with hands and aid said in broken accents I 1 my dog se nores I 1 killed a dog doc that vas ras v as with me because it went mad le U the hot sunshine mb ie and being without I 1 water IN why by did you not throw it into the thi seat sea it would have bitten me senor and might perhaps have hive come into the boat again I 1 likely enough muttered one of our ur men you could have bare knocked it over kith an ail oar car eald said slop but did four our dog wear this he be added fish tog ing up with the boat hook a cap that ay ny la in the aligo water under the stern of the skiff that cap Is min bald id the span ard I 1 in a hasky voice tole while closing Us its eyes as it wearied or appal appalled ltd have you two heads t asked liked hit his top bp sternly ISO no senor butout mat what then I 1 A tuan may way have two cap caps for all that Percel perceiving vint hit that he was on the point or sinking slaking fin again tom lAmbo urtle poured some more of the rum tillable into hi mouth and we dragged dri ifil III him in into our boat setting the skiff which was quite usel es a to ui us adrift once more what was your ship hept silted asked hl ills lop top who ho poke spoke spanish fluently the ibe bl marshal arshat serrano a spanish bric bri from cadi from the canaries last I 1 inquired It yes too bound to costa costs hies 1 tom lambourne cave gave me a rapid glance as a he be spat on his hi hands and pushed his hi oar through the rowlock I 1 she foundered and went down with all handa hands on board continued the famished spaniard in a broken voice 1 and with quivering lipe lips all reiterated Ill slop sternly and dubiously dub loudy all save myself senor replied th the 0 ether hesitatingly and lowerly lr his hi hollow eye eyes I 1 escaped in the skiff kin alth nith your dos I 1 st 81 senor in what latitude ti tude did this take alce 1 without a moment a hesitation the spaniard aglys ui US the lati latitude tudo and longitude 1 I can t make out this fellow a 0 tory in nay any aay ula M la in en englich by the theory and law taw of at storms we hould should have had a touch of the lie game same gate gel which foundered his hi brie brig it uch such a gale existed lie has deserted or been marooned I 1 dont doat elleve a word be he gays what Is I 1 your name he asked in spanish antonio I 1 started on bearing it for my cue gus were becoming more and more con confirmed 11 amed antonio Anton loT bat more boref el cubano or the cuban tor for eo so my shipmate shipmates termed me and I 1 have no to other name maine quick my gladst lad I 1 mid paid I 1 lay out on your oar oars 11 we were soon alongside the eugenic eugenie and had our cas castaway hoisted on board when for or a time an end was put to our queries but not to our ou by hta his becoming insensible ve we bad questioned him already per naps too much considering the weak ess eat of his condition lie adhered to his original story in I 1 ev every ery when examined by weston aud a day or two at aft or er that he belonged to the spanish merchant brig marshal serrano tho the same craft which had worked us out of the roadstead of santa cruz that she had foundered in a storm being over masted and over laden and that he alone escaped of all the crew that when bis his dog became mad he had slain the animal and cast the car cass into the sea and that he be had been floating about la in an sit epen boat without food and without aught to cool his parched tongue save the heavy tropical dew of heaven where we found him and to the truth of all it this his be he was ready to swear over two crossed knives in the fashion of his country in short abort we were obliged to content ourselves with his narrative which duly duty engrossed in the ships ship 9 log while expressing great disbelief as to its ant authenticity h y in the first place our mate denied that any such storm as that in which tho the cuban alleged his brig had perished had eer eler existed and he deduced from his favorite theory that a were and had be beu bem m in tit the direct track of such a storn stora and must have felt its influence long ere this hence we thought it more probable that the man mail had deserted in ia the night perhaps la in consequence of at committing some crime or for the same reason be he had been marooned and set adrift the crew were divided in opinion and tom I lumbourne openly expressed bis his disbelief that the blood which covered the clothes of the cuban and the thwart of the boat ever came from the veins velas of a dog and others asserted that he must have quarreled with an unfortunate shipmate and killed him or had perhaps assassinated him la in his sleep for the horrible purpose of prolonging longing his own assistance amid these rn unpleasant pleasant surmises as to his character and rosi position tion in a few days the spaniard joined the crew in wo working aking the ship and proved himself to be a steady industrious and able seaman and as three of our hands were on the sick list his big services were the more valuable I 1 on remarking this to tom lain bourne I 1 it Is all very tru true sir air he replied but I 1 don dont t like a seaman who cannot look his shipmate right in the t face a c 9 you are a I 1 ing sug I 1 don t know what kind of a mist that tha t may be master kodney rodney but this I 1 know there Is always cunning and dangerous in a fellow w who 0 looks over your shoulder as that span lard does hen ben be should look at your eyes antonio had an excessive dislike for deck duty hy by night might he lie exhibited a stanze dread of being left alone and cc could id scarcely arcely ec be prevailed upon to IZ look over the vessel a side s always ways shrinking back as if it he expected to sea see something soi ething hideous rise out of at the tea sea weston suggested that perhaps bis his recent suffering had unmanned and rea rendered him nervous hut but the crew thought otherwise in his sleep antonto frequently disturbed the ben men in the forecastle bunks isa his mutterings mutter lags rings his wild dreams pu and sonorous male mate dictions I 1 was at the wheel on A calm and arid virtly bight might it wait wa th of at january jannary when we were cr c the beautiful shore of Hi I 1 remember well that cap bore west by south mid and cape cabron west by north tar or my task of string nt eerie g was new to ine and N itaas orders were to keep her full and by oy t that Is as close to 4 1 ati atio wind as poa sIble without making be the canvas 1 I could ree see the light lights that littered glittered in the dist ilat villages that st udde th the low but fertile peninsula nul ot of all WP wpm still and quiet in the hip ship and round it soothed by the solemnity solomn ity ot at ike hour and the vat vast solitude oll ot at the sea ea roy my heart wan wai full and busy mom ory brought before wore me loved face faces and voice voices place places and scenes that were tar far away in n dear ear od old angland the brig talc was wa through the water rapidly but imperceptibly and almost without a found pound the men ot at the watch were leening over the bulwark to leeward and the air the tea sea and air all aloft and below seemed to leep steep lu in the moonlight not a reel point pattered on the taut canku and ad circe a avelee rippled save la in the dead water astern that marked the white while ake iki of at the e eugen suddenly a ah trill rill and 1 cry rang out upon the right and antonio the cuban ruhel out tram the tore fore with the wildest terror ex pressed in hie his black edw e res his visage wa w a pale palo and and the ilan glittered like bead drops on ott hia his clammy brow W th hi his bare feet he 1 1 tumbled 1 over aba chain cable which 1 lay y colled coiled up on the deck tor for on that afternoon we e had bad hauled it up ind sad bent den t it to the working anchor lie ile came running aft in hia his alart b rand labing a kni kill to e in his hand and nd exclaiming in fierce and then imploring accent accents who abo pays I 1 did it itt ubo ho dares to gay say so I 1 then telling his arms drop as he blunk back to his bunk we heard him groan out el ei buchillo el cue billo the knife the knife under auch such circumstance circumstances it may easily be supposed that among he the crew there floated strange and dark surmises as to the past life ut of antonio el cabano cuban to le ta continual |