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Show I IfDlCK RODNEY; ! H or. The Adventures of Hi An Eton Boy... : H DY JAA1ES CHANT. Jf aciicitiiiciiiiiiifiiiiuiiiHixiiiKiiiiitfKiil H CHAFTEIt IV.-Contlnued.) B On perceiving that I was awake, a H ttai bell was rung by the captain, and H liot coffee, accompanied by tlie lait H lice of abore-bread Ihnt remained, waa M brought to mo by Hilly, the cabin-boy. H end then, after a lime, I was requested B to stato what craft that waa from j -which I bad been taken, my Burnt, and H to forth, that Mr. lllalop might enter H all the particulars among the "ro- H marks" In hit log-book. H I toon aallifled thrm aa to all Ihli. H "And where am I now!" I Inquired. H "I'retty far out upon the open sea, H rny tad," replied the raplaln with a H amlle, aa be threw the end of bli cho- H root Into the erupt)' grnte. H "The open tea Milt the open tea!" j 3 reiterated with dismay, which I cared not to conceal. H "Yni; we taw the lait glimpse of the H rugged Start on the day before ye- H lerdar. and tbla morning, Just an hour H Xcforo picking you up, we bade good H lire to old Ilngland, for the Lliard H I.lrJit waa bearing you had the dead j watch, lllalop; bow did It bear?" j "About twelve mllea off, on the H weather quarter." H "How shall I return hornet" H They both laughed ai I despairingly H made thla Inquiry. B "lly the way you left It, I siiepoio; H that li by water," aald Capt. Wcaton. H "You apoko of the Start; what la H "A rape if the Channel, on the H aouthcast coait of Devonshire, about P nine mllea to the southward of Dart- H mouth," be replied, while calling a cat- B val glance at a chart which lay on the B table HBVJ I bad thin, before being rescued so H providentially, drifted more than a H , hundred mllea from Drliamere, and It i waa marvelous that the achooner bad floated to far unseen, "Well, what la to be done now?" iked the captain. "We are bound for the Weat Indlea, but we may put you 1 aboard the first craft that panea ua, H ' homeward-bound; or you are free to H j remain. If we cannot do better for gH ( Hj I thought of my mother, my father, H ray two ilttcra; and my heart waa ao H full of gratitude to beaten for preserr- Ht Ing me to the end, that I might see H I and embrace them all again, that I bad H no word a to reply. After a time I ex- H cblmedi Hv "Home, home! let me go home to ggH,u-rtcamcrt!3wan,e.iI.ro.ifor. lw?sc:a'--i ihrmgM ot them all made me a very j again. H The captain and mate exchanged H clancea Inquiry. B "It'a uo uio piping your eye now, my 1 lad." aald the former, coming toward H my berth; "but auawer me quietly. You H, aald that your name waa Kodneyt" , H "And you apoke of llrlesmer; are B 7ou a eon ot old Dr. Itodney, the ree- M!" "Ho you know my father, then!" I I J aidalmed. gtgtgtiJ "Can't aay exactly that 1 have the IttgtgtVv ionor ot being known to him; but I H' now ot him, right well. Why, Matter H Itodney, t hare tailed your uncle'a H -ablpi many a time, and know hit B gloomy old offlce In the city, aa well KaH aa the buoy at tbe More; ao yon are ai H aafa and aa welcome aboard the Hu- H .genie aa It In tbe old rectory home at Thla wai pleatant Intelligence, at all rent; but my earnest dealrt waa to i return a detlgn which waa not fated H to be apeedlly nattfled. H For tereral Jajrt we puted only out B ward-bound reiiela, or othera which -were at ar-h h dlitance that the taak of algnallnw and apcaklng with them H would hare delayed the Kugenle longer B than Capt Wctton could rlik. Two H that patted near ut, when wa ahowed B our cntlgn, replied by dltplaylug the H tricolor ot France or the red and yel- H low bara ot Spain: to there waa noth- H lng for me now but to remain contenl- H dly on board the Hugenle, which wai H bound for Matanxat with a aolld cargo B ot iteam machinery nnd coal. H The matter had no doubt of getting BASJ', a return freight dltrct for Ixindan; fl thui ill or eight montht might elapie Hi tietore I could return to Krletmere. 1 gradually became reconciled to the B novelty ot my altuatlon; I looked for- B' ward hoixfully to tho time when the S eorrow of thote I had left behind would H be alleviated, and iMgan to enjoy to Kj tbe utmoat tbe protpect of a toyago In nH a spanking brig to tho tborea ot Cuba. QHK ClIAITKIt V. jHQJH . Tbe Voyage to Cuba. jitJB t reaohed not to be an Idler or lob- QUBHKf lolly boy, and waa allowed by Captain ftlSIa V'raton to take my watehta and there Lot deck duty with the rest of the crew; and at Intermit I worked bard at a Epanlih grammar with Hare HUbip, who would rend "IVm Quixote" In the original, with n fluency that even my old tutor at i:ton might have envied. We were now clear ot the Channel; and, atter a bard battle with the wild and tea. we left tbe long roll of tbe xqlghty Atltntle. On tbe third night atter my retcue, we encountered dark and cloudy weather, weath-er, with a atrong gale, which tit all the cabin afloat My watch waa over, and I had juit turned In, when I beard tbe voice ot Capt Wetton, who waa on deck, abouttng through hla trumpet to "clota reef tbe rnalntopialt, hand the tualnaall, foresail, and foretopt&U. gt -..j.. . K. Ixok alive there, ladi," he added, "or at aure ra lay nanui It Rani Weeton, I'll give the volt to the lait man off the deck!" Thla threat, m tmutual In one ao gnod-natured, together with the bellowing bel-lowing of tbe wind, the flapping ot tho wetted can hi. the rattle of the bloeka and cordage, and the laboring ot tbe brig, wbleh wet to deeply laden that every timber groaned, all gave tueh Indication! of a rough night that I sprang from my berth and proceeded to drew again In haite. To my attonlihment, at that moment mo-ment I bNird the hoarie rattle of tho chain cable, aa It ruahed with a roa--Ing loand through the Iron mouth of tbe hawae hole, then I waa tenalbla ot a violent thock, which made the brig atagger, nnd tumbled me headlong agalntt the paneled bulkhead which separated tbe cabin from the after-hold. after-hold. lllalop, who had been doting on thn cabln-locker In hit itnrm Jacket, itart-cd itart-cd up with alarm la bla face. "Have we come to anchor?" I aiked. "Anchor In more than three hundred fathomt ot water!" be exclaimed, at he rtuhed on deck, whither 1 followed, nnd found that a very atrango Incident had occurred. In tbe murky obscurity of tho atormy night n largo Dutch lugger, In ballatt apparently, nnd running right before the wind, with tteerlng ranvat set, came suddenly athwart us, and hooked tho anchor from the cathead on our larboard bow by some unwonted neglect neg-lect It was nnt yet on board, nor bad the cable been unbent with her starboard star-board for-rlgglng, nnd thua boro away with It, until the chain came to bear, when thrre waa a tremendous thock. Several feet of our bulwark were torn away, and two aeamen. Tattooed Tom, and an old roan-o'-war'a man named Ilobcrta, wcro nearly swept Into tho sea, where. In such a night and amid tho confusion ot tuch an Incident, they would Inevitably have perlthed unaided. un-aided. Then we heard a shout, mingled with a crash upon the bellowing wind, aa tho Dutchman's foremast snappod by tho board, and then, fortunately, our anchor tumbled from hla aide Into the aea, where It swung at the whola length ot tho chain cable. We manned both windlass and cap atan got the anchor, which waa drifting, drift-ing, routed to the cathead, hoisted It cm W.rUnrnjnl lh bU,,n"noW'1 It In tho tier; but long ere all thla wai dona we had lott alght of our lubberly friend, who, when lait seen, waa tossing toss-ing about like a log In tbe darknois, and drifting far ailern ot ui. Hut for some defect In the pawla and notchea ot tho wlndlaaa collar, I am doubtful It the chain would havo run out ao freely; free-ly; but aa to thla I cannot aay. We had hard tqualla nnd a tea that ran high until daybreak; there wna lightning, too; red and duiky; It teemed teem-ed at tlmea to fill the whola horlson. Wo could see for an Inttant tha black summlta of tha wares aa they roae and fell between ua and the glaro; and when It paued away, all again would be obscurity and gloom, "More ranvaa mutt bo taken oft tho brig, air," tuggetted lllalop. looking aloft and then over the aide, where tbe foam-flecked aea whirled patt ua, "Well, In with the tryiall, foretop-sail, foretop-sail, and malntopiall," ordered Weston. At the light of dawn stole over the angry aea, through clouds of mingled mitt and rain, tho gale abated, and all but the watch went below. Calm weather and heavy ratna auc-ceeded auc-ceeded the gale; but tbe Eugenie ttead-lly ttead-lly kept her coune, and two daya after, when tpanklng along before a lino topgallant top-gallant brceie, we picked up a bottle, which wai described by tho watch, floating and bobbing In the water a few fathoma dlatant from tho brig. She wai at once hove In tbe wind, and lllalop llla-lop went In tho item boat to bring the bottle on board. Aa the moit trivial Incident becomes ot Interest on board ot ship, where tho dally occurrences are so few, nnd the clrdo of society so limited, considerable consider-able concern waa excited by the appearance ap-pearance of thli bottle, which teemed to have been freshly corked: nnd on Ita being broken, we found a scrap of papertorn pa-pertorn apparently from a notebook whereupon n hurried nnd agitated baud bad penciled IMa brief notice: "Tbe Mary, clipper ship, ot lloiton. roth Nov. 1SA1, momentarily expected to go down pumpa worn out, nnd tho leaka galnlng-Captaln and first mate, with all the boats, washed away and help utl" "The Wit ot November? It wrs an that night we encountered the heavy gale," aald Weston. We bad been on the skirt at tho tempest, tem-pest, aa lllalop maintained, white tbo Yankee ship bad probably suffered all the fury ot It. From the main-cross-trees Capt. Weatun swept tbe sea with bis telescope, In aln. for any trace of her; to It that melancholy scrap ot paper pa-per told truth, all was doubtless over long itnce with tho Mary and her crow. In tho cabin that night a conversation conversa-tion on tho probabilities of her destruction de-struction or escapo led to a recurrence to tho miraculous manner In which the unlucky D'ttch schooner had floated so long with mo, and I mentioned to Weston Wes-ton and lllalop the additional terrora I had endured by tbo effect of Imagination, Imagina-tion, and a recollection of the atrange Incidents told me by Capt Zeervogel; 7 ' ' but tbey ridiculed the atory of the poor man, chiefly, I thought, because ' It waa the yarn of a Hollander." "Though I am a Scotchman." began lllalop "And como of a peoplo naturally an-perstltlous," an-perstltlous," suggested Weston, parenthetically paren-thetically "As all large-brained races are," retorted re-torted tbo mate, while filling bis clay pipe with tobacco. "Well, what were you about to say?" asked Weston. "Hut first fill your gla and pass over the tobacco bar " "I was simply about to reiterate that I don't believe In ghosts, or val'to them any more than I do the Yankee ' tea serpent, n rope's end, or a pier f i old Junk; t never sow one, or knew a man who had seen ono; but every one has heard ot n man that knew anoth r man who saw, or hollered he saw. a I ghost It Is at variance with the Isws ' of nature, which are so ordered that no atich erratic spirit can be." "1 don't know about that," repll'1 Weston; "earth and water have their ' Inhabitants, ao why not the air alto?" I "And why not the fire?" I "There you go, right before tho wind, Into tho troubled aea ot argument I you Scotchmen aro all alike." "Clbosts nro at variance with tho ' worklngi of Dlvlno wlidom, and we alt know what Jones ot Nayland nji thereupon." "No, we don't" aald Wctton; "who the deuce wai be what port did be hall from?" "He who cannot tee tho worklngi ' ot a Dlvlno wisdom In tho order of the I heavens, the change of tho seasons, tbe flowing of the tides, the operation of i tho wind and other elementa, tho structure struc-ture ot tho human body, tho circulation of tho blood, tho Instincts of beasts, and the growth of plants. Is snttlihly blind and unworthy the name of man " "You hear him, Mr. Itodney," said Weston; "now be hat got both his anchor an-chor nnd topealla a-trlp; ho can pay out wholo speeches In thla fashion, nil nt a breath, aa fait aa tho chain-cable running through the bawie-plpo," Uclng fresh from r.ton, I waa not going to let our learned Scotch mato ' have It all hla own way, when Weston Wes-ton resumed: "If you will listen you shall bear a atrange atory 'n which I bore r prom i Incnt part" i "Aa tho ghost?" said I. "No; but you will soon acknowledjo whether or not I had cause for tear." And after he had replenished hla gtata and pipe, Capt 8am Weston bo-gan bo-gan In thla mariner: "About fifteen ycara ago I found myself at Matanxas, In Cuba, tho samo port wo aro bound for now adrift, without a ahlp, and almost without a penny In my pocket, among'forelgnera, Spaniards and mulattoea, meatres and quadroons, black, white and yellow. I had gone there aa second mate ot a ship from Hoston, but the tyranny ot our skipper wellnlgh drove me mad. During Dur-ing tho voyngo bo had nearly killed lhrMotour-vnn'fnrtelnga1ow In I lending down the top-gallant yardi on a tqually night Ho beat them until tbey were black and blue with a band-spike, band-spike, and kept them for forty-eight hours, lashed to ringbolts In tho Ice-icupppers, Ice-icupppers, that tbe aea might break over them, aa ho aald, and cure their tores, "When I Interfered to save a poor cabin boy, whom he had hung up by tbo heels from tho main-boom, and wai scourging with a heavy colt till bis back waa covered with blood, ho produced pro-duced a bowle knife and revolver, tbrcntlng to'ahoot or rip mo up . "Juit at that moment we were pan- j lng a Epanlih thlp of war which wai , at anchor In the bay, about half a mite from ui, and had the red and yellow Jack of Caattte and lon flying at his gaff peak, Ono of tho poor fellows who had been so severely beaten wai then In tbe foretop, to I hailed him to make a tlgnat ot dlttresa to tbe Spaniard," (To be continued.) |