Show oil ah by SEWARD W HOPKINS 0 author athor of 0 jack robbins of america to the tb chin china sea two Clent gentlemen lemen ol 01 hawaii on a falso charee charge etc 1895 by ROBERT BONNER I 1 CHAPTER V cont aued As hour after hour went by the fog seemed to be lifting and it was with mith a feeling of great rel et ef that we saw the gray of the early morning the dawn chasing away anay the horrid blackness of the night our greatest ti trouble kuble now N was as thirst and I 1 knew that the misery of that had but commenced and I 1 also knew that hl u a few fein hours hunger would add its pangs to the other horrors of our s tu atlon and our hope lay in the cry ery in the coming daylight of a pass ing vessel at last morning broke the fog was banished by the m warm arm glow of the ris ing jug sun and the chill began to depart from our bones and flesh consequent ly our spirits rose and we scanned the sea for a ship there v was as none in sight the faces of the poor women were a sight to make ones one s soul bici with impotent p ty one or two of them seemed to have lost consciousness and perhaps they were better off than the rest suddenly when the cup of our bit berness seemed full one of the sailors joyfully pointed to the westward and shouted A sail A sail the others looked and having veri verl fled fied his joyful utterance they sang and laughed and shouted like men beside themselves notwithstanding the fact that the sail was still far away and might bring no succor to us at all one of the sailors pulled off his shirt and tying the sleeves to an oar made a signal of it which he held aloft the sail grew slowly but steadily larger until we could make the ap pro preaching aching vessel out to be a brig when it became evident beyond c chance hance of error that the brig was coming to our assistance the joy of all in our little boat save the two women who were but halt half conscious burst forth in shouts and cries of thanksgiving and it was with a feel ing that I 1 cannot describe that we saw her heave to and heard the cap tain hall hail us 0 we told him whom hom we were ere or at least the officer in charge of our boat did and after a few strokes at the t oars by our weary wear sailors we were ere alongside alo aside the brig the women were tenderly placed on board first then I 1 was assisted up the ladder and the other male gers followed then the sailors clam bared aboard and the boat was sent adrift the re breuing lulng brig proved to be the janette from new york bound for liv the captain james southey was part owner and she was engaged in a private carrying trade being as signed to a well known shipping firm within twenty minutes after getti getting nr on board the tee janette lanette we had a ing and savory meal set before us and it Is needless to say that we did it full justice I 1 was provided with a jacket by the second mate who was a man about my own build he ile also gave me a cap I 1 chatted with the officer from the ill fated queen who had been in command of our small boat from him I 1 learned all that was known of the accident the first officer had been in corn com mand the fog was so dense that could be seen a hundred feet away even the lights were almost useless suddenly through the fog the dull outlines of a hill hall h ill were d s directly ahead and almost under the bows of the queen the gong to reverse the engines was sounded but it was too late the queen crashed into the obstructing hull and the result was too well known to all the accident is a strong argument continued the officer in favor of the destruction of derelicts by warships the hull which sent the queen to de et ruction was no doubt one of these wandering menaces to na navigators which are to be met with when the they are least expected it was certainly a deserted hessed and probably a dis masted one V captain southey added his testimony as to the danger of the derelicts at sea and said he hoped it would not be long before the great powers rea realize lizel the necessity tor for action and sent out war vessels equipped for destroying them it if the sleeping accommodations on board the janette were meager the supply of food was not we had plen ty to eat and drink and now that I 1 was restored to nearly my usual strength I 1 could look with equanimity upon our disaster but I 1 had lo 10 lost s t mau bibeck of course my condition was infinitely superior to that of my fel low unfortunates many of whom had lost loved ones members of the their frown own families with these I 1 could only sym and otter offer to them what little comfort and consolation there might be in kind words but in spite of all that captain southey and the others could do the janette carried a load of misery toward liverpool I 1 found among the rescued passengers two gentlemen who were like myself comfortably situated as to income and we made up a handsome purse and presented it to captain southey as an espres slon sion of our gratitude for his kindness to us in our extremity with the warmest expressions of friendship we parted most of the pas being taken in charge by the company that had owned the queen but I 1 to continue on my journey to sardinia Bardl nl to rescue nita barlotti Ba from her master malegni and to obtain for my own purpose as well ell as tor for hers the red box that had been given by her father at his heath to the italian into whose keeping he had also placed his beautiful daughter CHAPTER VI my stay in liverpool was not a long one I 1 at once communicated with my friends in new york assuring them ot of my iny safety I 1 spent considerable time hovering around tife the offices of or steamship company thirsting word or hope for Mau biked a did ad d those who had left on board the ill fated queen but the only thing that was as really known mals a as that four boats left the queen at the time of the col gislon and ours was the only one heard from and as the boat we were in was the last to leave those who remained on the steamer must have shared her fate there was besides my anxiety on marbil eck s behalf a motive of haste in my resolve if was re ally lost as no one who had seen the dark form of the sinking queen melt av away ay in the fog as I 1 had could doubt then I 1 was nas wasting time in liverpool that should be spent on the trail of MaIl malign gial I 1 felt a terrible yet almost holy responsibility resting on me now that was gone he I 1 ad given me my life at the cost of his own and in that last moment of parting when nhen I 1 had but half realized the full purpose of his heroic action he had cried out to me from the fog and blackness to find and rescue nita Da barlotti it if I 1 reached land alive and now those last words of my preserve er rang in my ears like an imperative call to perform a solemn duty in obeying I 1 was but further ing my own purposes but I 1 may say truthfully that so heavily and solemn ly did that last cry of weigh upon my soul sou it if the carrying out of his wishes involved the re linquish ing of my own I 1 would haie gone on his errand unhesitatingly and let my own ambitions sink out of sight until my debt to his memory was fully paid thus it was nas that having given up all hope for and having provided myself with all the things needful to replace those I 1 had lost on the queen I 1 was anxious to start at once for sardinia in quest of ma ligat and his slave nita on the deck of a smoothly gliding steamer that was rapidly entering the port of cagliari the chief southern seaport of the island of sardinia I 1 stood with my marine glass levelled bevelled level led taking in with interest the scene that was being opened up before me the city of cagliari has a tion closely approximating forty thou sand it is the most important city in fact the capital of sardinia with the exception of what little trade and commerce goes to sassari bassari on the north cagliari Is the emporium of trade of the island before leaving genoa on the steam er I 1 had performed two duties one for and one for myself the one in behalf of was simple I 1 had telegraphed to liver pool to learn if any news had been received of my ill fated fellow pas I 1 received a reply from the president of the company that one of the boats blatsa a companion to the one I 1 had been in had been picked up and ten more unfortunates had been saved from destruction but nothing whatever had been heard of the queen or any who had been left on board and it was finally concluded that she had sunk and the marine insurance had been paid the duty to myself was the employ Z C of ot a guide and interpreter fortunately for me I 1 had decol lecter that the banking house of dorr company of new now york with which I 1 had had a long standing friendship had a branch at genoa and I 1 had called upon them made myself known and informed them that I 1 was on my N ay to sardinia and wished to en gage the services of an honest guide and interpreter of course I 1 did not tell them anything about the real object of my excursion into the island I 1 gave them to understand that I 1 was as merely bent on pleasure a hunting trip after the is a small animal of the sheep tribe and thrives in a wild state on the sardinian mountains it is not unusual for french german or english sportsmen to go to sar dinia dint to hunt them and as a reason for my voyage the served very well S gnor Dr brandert branderi Bran anderl deri the head of the genoa branch of dorr co was a quiet affable gentleman very polite and spoke english well he seemed eager to do whatever he could for me and promised to furnish me with just the person I 1 needed signer signor branderi branderis Bran deri rang a bell in his private office where we had been sit ting and a clerk responded the banker spoke to him in ital an a and nd the clerk bowed and went away shortly thereafter another person came and stood respectfully before us it was my interpreter said signer signor Dr branderis branderi Bran anderl deri in english I 1 have an engagement for you this gentleman Is a friend of our house in new york and Is about to visit sardinia to hunt mou flon you are to accompany him as guide and interpreter you will bear in mind that signer signor wilberton Wll berton has the great friendship of our house and his int rests must be carefully guarded do whatever the signer signor desires I 1 am at the service of signer signor wil berton said Mutter elIt bowing and I 1 may say to you signer signor wil berton continued the banker that I 1 recommend Mut highly he knows all about sardinia from baglia ri rl to sassari bassari and Is brave and in tell igent the fact that he knew all about sar dinia made Mutt erello i I 1 valuable man in my eyes at once very well I 1 said I 1 thank you signer signor branderi branderis Bran deri for your kindness and Mut will have no cause to regret his faithful attention lon to my in teresta Mut bowed again when will the signer signor start he asked As soon as possible by the first steamer I 1 replied which Is to tomorrow morrow I 1 will ar range everything said 1 I will go now and engage our passage thus it was that as I 1 stood on the deck of the steamer moving into cag ilard Mut stood by my side on the voyage from genoa 4 had asked innumerable questions about sardinia md and if my questions related more to persons and politics than to and other game did not show any surprise but answered all ay my inquiries with a directness and promptness which charmed me and bored proved that signer signor branderis Bran deri esti ate of my guide s I 1 knowledge now ledge of the bland was not too high but while I 1 asked questions I 1 said nothing about the real object of my ray visit I 1 pro pre berred to withhold that knowledge until we were actually upon the island which was to be the scene of act on what is that building mu terel ll I 1 asked pointing rg to two high steeples about half way up the h 11 that is the cathedral signer signor ho he replied it was built during the tour four century and that I 1 continued directing his attention to a broad white build ing with many windows which stood facing the bay that is the university signor he replied it is a fine institution it has the departments of theology law medicine and philosophy it has thir ty professors and about four hundred students and the castle on the hill top that is the ura signer signor it was once the castle of the king of sardinia but now it is the legal resi rest dence of the profetto pre fetto and the head quarters of the army of sardinia and of the police one after another of the imposing buildings I 1 pointed out to him and was answered in ahn prompt and effi chent manner Mut was a jewel among guides there was no gainsay ing that at last we reached the dock Mut assumed entire charge ot of our debarkation and we were soon in a carriage rumbling along the quay toward the best hotel of cagliari Cagl larl where I 1 had requested Mut to procure comfortable quarters I 1 had cautiously as it if by accident glyen given my guide to understand that close observation of my wishes would be well repaid and that I 1 was willing to pay liberally As customers of that kind come rarely to sardinia it can be well understood that I 1 had the best that cagliari Caglia rl could produce and mut could procure the grand hotel hotel grande stood on a prominent corner of cag liari with one narrow crooked street running past it from north to south and another equally narrow and more crooked street passing east and west As my willingness to 0 pay was well known by I 1 had the best that the hotel could afford Mut bad had skillfully concealed all curiosity about my trip he ile had not aked a single question but now having arrived at our hotel one thing puzzled him I 1 had brought no guns you must have good guns to shoot the signor he said when he had asked me if I 1 had any most all hunters bring their rifles with them but I 1 can obtain some good ones here it Is just as well to 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