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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-10-30, Page 6LtRi' SALE) • �. TIIE WORLD • F � ALONE ti11111 A MADMAN �.trTT{rr 1-{�jTj4rt1 ! tttttt ,tttttttt. Eighteen menpaidth e tollefthe sea when. the schooner Victory drove on a coral reef which wreathed a desolate island _ about two degrees south of the equator and 160 degrees west from Green- wioh, Eighteen men left their homes to whiten and bleach on the ocean's bottom with the hull of the 4ehconer Victory, and two were spared to live in a thirsty, hungry hell. I was one of these. James. `elbot was the other, writes a *alter. It happened while we were bound from New . Bedford for East India ports, A gloomy night as black: as ditoh, • a sudden roar of breakers ead ahead, a crash, three masts, by the board, and then a swirl of Water, oblivion and the , awakening on a sunlit beach, sore and bat- tered, dazed and hungry. There was a gash in Talbot's side when I 'found him: conscious, though too weak to rase ; but I bathed the wound and fed him some biscuits from a case: which had been washed ashore and he soon came around enough to stagger along the beach and help search for food. We found little enough of this. two crates of biscuits and a side of raw salt pork, water soaked and rancid.. In less than half a day we had skirted the shore of our island and climbed to the highest point, from. which we saw nothing but the sea stretching away in sunlit, dazzling beauty. There was no sign of hu- man life, and there were not even sea birds whose eggs we might have eaten. Our one stroke of good fortune was the discovery of a spring, strange to say, not far from the highest point of the island, and we bathed and drank the pure fresh water. A.•drooping lonesome palm, bowing disconsolately over the spring, was the only vegetation we encountered. For two weeks we lived thus in comparative comfort, one of us con- tinually on watch day and night for a passing vessel. We could not but see that our provisions were be- coming dangerously scant. Gradu- ally we cut down our daily allow- ance of biscuit and .scarcely touched the few slices of rancid pork, The water was the one thing of which we had an abundance. One noon, after eating some of the pork, Talbot became deathly ill and we were obliged to throw the rest of the decaying meat away. A great thirst seized him after his ill- ness, and I helped him to the spring. The water was scarcely &wing. The stream which usually cascaded from the pool was no larger than the flow from a spigot. We started, rubbed our eyes, and looked at each other appealingly, as though each begged the other to say he saw amiss. But it was no illusion. The spring was almost dry. We spoke little -that day. Death seemed not far distant and we did not feel like speech. I wandered about, trying to devise some means of .holding a quantity of water, but the thing seemed impossible. There. was not so much as a gourd on the island. Talbot lay all day in the sand and stared upward until I thought the sun must bake his brain, but he seemed not to mind it. Toward nightfall I made one last trip around the island, more to keep moving than in the hope of discovering anything. I had just visited the spring for, perhaps, the twentieth time that day, and the water was lower than ever. There was merely a. trickle of it. Suddenly a short distance aheed „ttt.tNtett��lrt,r,taaLi lardTra-•TR7 iVTGT'r 0/ /0 This Companyy invites you to , open a Savings account with it on which it wilt pay you Interest at the rate of FOUR PER CENT. a year. Compound- ed QUARTERLY. The Union Trust ti Company, Limited Temple Building, Toronto, Total Assets over $13,000,000,. I saw some cylindrical object roll- ing back and forth on the sand, carried in, thele out, by the : action of the tiny breakers. It could not be a stone; .I thought it probably a bit of driftwood,' but something im- pelled me to run toward it to see what itmight ht be It was a small' meat tin. Proba- bly some freakish current had drag- ged it from the wreckage of the Vic- tory and tossed it ashore, almost at my very feet. With my jackknife I soon had a slit in the top. The meat seemed good, but, better than that, the tin would do to hold wa- ter. I was elated. I ran along the beach shouting for Talbot. Then suddenly.I stopped, A ter- rible thought bad gripped my brain. The tin would hold no more than two quarts—enough to keep us alive a few days longer, to en- dure torture more terrible. A crazy impulse seized me to hurl the wretched can back into the sea which had Bent the thing to taunt us, but just then Talbot appeared. "What is it i he asked, without interest. The man seemed bent, and brokexl. "Quick to the spring !" I shouted, sane again, "I've found' a tin. It isn't big, but it'll keep life in .us few days after the water's gone, and we must sight a ship -by then— or else ---'"Or else—" ha said. "I know; but it can't be any worse than this.'' It was high time we filled our tin, for the spring was all but dry,'azad in the morning,when the :min roee it baked the bottom of the po•oi and nonewould have thought that water ever flowed there. With our additional meat we were fairly com- fortable for "a time, although our thirst grew rapidly and we kept in. the shade as much as possible to guard against increasing it, Thedays passed and our months dried and our tongues swelled, the while we •scanned the eea, anxio ly searching for a sail, and watt the spring almost continuously. it did not flow again. The strain told on Talbot more than it did me. Be muttered strangely in sleep, and his eyes became'gla and inhuman, We had scarcely water enough left to 'moisten our tongues a h dozen times. We had long si given up swallowing as much a mouthful at a time. I do net kn how long we were thus, for in suffering we lost track of days us- hed But an his ssy alf- nCe s a ow our and We had no real sleep. We lay at . night in a sort of torpor, simply be- cause our bodies were utterly worn :out, but we never for a moment for- ; got ,our thirst. One night, when the water was all gene, 1 was aroused byTalbot 'calling e. to m !3 Thinking him perhaps dangerously ill, I went over to where he was ly- ing ying on his back.. "I seem teeribly weak," he said, in ordinary tones, only a little thick from the swelling of his tongue. "Bring me the tin and let me have a little water, please." I stared at the man. The moon- light showed me his eye -s, Talbot was stark mad. "I don't think water would be good for you," I said. A look of cunning came into his face. "Look here, curse you," he said, caloulatingly, "ere you trying to keep all that water for yourself, or have you thrown it away? I am burning up with thirst, because you won't let me drink. Bring the tin, I say." What was I to dol I made an effort to fool him. "If I show you the tin," I' "said, "with what little water there is in it, will you promise me not to drink any just now 4,,. "Yes, P11 promise," he said, I snatched the empty can from where it lay out of Talbot's ;sight and ran to the beach with it, filling it half full of seawater. Heaven knows my only reason for deceiving hini was to pacify hini until morn- ing, when, I hoped, his delirium would have passed. Fast as I could, so as not to make him suspi- cions, I returned with the half- filled tin: Talbot propped himself on one elbow. "Let Fixe see," he murmured, "Let nee look at it." I held the tin toward him, grip- ping it firmly. "You see, We these," I said, soothingly. "Only wait until morn- ing and yeti •can drink of it." He craned his neck and hooked the bony angors of one hand over the edge of, the tin pulling it gently FIRST BOAT PASSING TIUROUG:IJ PANA.111A1 LOCKS. Tug "Gatun" 1$ Given Fust Panama Honore. The tug "Gatun," which has been hauling mud from the Atlantic entranceof being h . vesselto ass to the'canal, had the honor e ng t o first v p through the Gatun looks of the Panama, Canal .on Sept. 26. The tug made the ascent from the Atlantic Ocean to Ga,tun Lake in two hours. meanwhile, likea sick baby. Then the fate which had cast the tie of meat on to ourshore played an- other Bard. My foot slipped and the weight of Talbot's hand pulled the tin downward. I jerked it back, but too late, The water splashed over the edge, full into Tglbot's face and across his mouth. His swollen tongue ravenously licked his parched lips, and his mouth closed with an ani- mal sound. Then he spat the water from him. "Curse you i" he shrieked. "You've salted it. You're killing me. But you'll pay, you'll pay," A moment before I . would have thought his limbs too withered, hit veins too dried for hint ever to stand erect again, but he leaped to his feet, and with the fury of a madman smashed his fist against my face,. and I dropped, while he rushed off in the direction of the spring, I chased him ; but the man had the agility of an antelope and the strength of a Titan., Struggling painfully , over the sharp coral rocks, I heard his cry of fury and horror when he realized the spring was dry. For a few eeconds,there was a sourrying of feet and then he had passed into the_ night, I knew not whither; Spent and wishing fora s eroiful death, I sank to the ground and buried my face in my arms. I may have been thus a minute, perhaps hours; for to me there was no 'time, when something suddenly startled me. What it was I do not know, but I looked about, frightened, I made out nothing unusual. Then, without warning, there orashed from a, mound behind me a great piece of coral, which dashed itself to fragments against the more solid body of the island not two feet from where I sat. I know that Tal- bot had ,sought to inn -order me, and I leaped to my feet and ran. Like the hunted animal that I was I fled about and about the island, and. whether Talbot pursued me or not I do not know. Finally-, exhausted, I sank to the inhospitable earth, and must have slept, for the next I knew the sun was shining. Far off on the beach I saw Talbot wandering. In -his hand was the tin in which the water had been kept, His head was Gunk forward. on. his chest and his feet dragged through the sand in his aimless walking. Some of the horror had gone out of my heart, and I hurried toward him, thinking that if he was sane again I might help him, He eyed me curiously as I .approached, but did not offer to harm me. "Well, mate,' T cried. "I'm glad to see you well again. You did give me a bit of a .scare last night." He turned his terrible eyes upon: me and said never a word. "Come, .come," I said. "Let's. forget it ell. a We've gob to eee it through together, haven't we ?" "You'll pay," he roared, and while I was all unprepared, he rushed at mo. Ie was all so vicious and so sud- den that I could not strike back. Ducking low in front of him, I hurl- ed my body against his legs, and he sprawled, cursing and raving, in. the sand.' The advantage was mine, and I pressed it. It was a right for .life. It had been forced on me, but once roused. I" was as much an animal as was my adversary. .Before he could turn or get to his feet, I plunged onto his back, pounding both my. knees into the soft part just below the ribs, The jolt would have given the quietus to an ordinary nian, but Talbot with a frantic, . stiblike grunt, managed to roll 'over- as I clasped . my arms about his .neck, and in a second he was on top: With the tin, which Inc still he1�l; he tried to ,siesh my throat; but .I fastened my teeth in his wrist, and as he wrenched it free the can went spinning across the sand, He 'found • my throat and began to press, but I managed Ito hold his body off e little with my ,arras, and doubling my knees, jammed. both feet into the pit of his „�toxnach, breaking his hold, toward hen mumbling. piteously, We were both up at that, and for a few seconds sparred; Talbot landed a blow and my nose felt as though it had been pounded to jelly, but I caught him on the side of the jaw and he went down, I grappled with him in the sand;. Then fortune played me a scurvy trick.' As I fell. T felt something hard dig into my ribs. I thought it was . a :stone . and did not bother with it, but Talbot had felt it, too, and reached for it, probably hoping to dash out n y brains with the mis- ,sile. Just what happened in the interim, I do not know, but sud- denly he had extricated from the sand a rusty jagged cutlass. It had lain there I do not know how long, probably a relic from some former wreck, In -no time Talbot had- wriggled. from my clutch, and was standing over me, it seemed for seoonds,• with. the cutlass drawn back. I could riot have parried the wicked wea- pon nor could, I have etruck :him. Actually, he was drawing" back his arm for the stroke, but it seemed to me that he was posing there. I knew how animals fight, with no. thought, do reason ; only with fury, directed by some instinct, which takes the place of both;. As though it was the natural thing to do, I scooped two great handfuls of sand and hurled them into Talbot's eyes, The blow . fell, but I wriggled from it, Help1ess, cursing, he rubbed his eyes, Before he could recover I had fled. Then began the reign of terror such a_ s I haeme never eexperieeeed. Each second I -expected to hear. Talbot stealing through the scrubby brush or over the rocks, hunting me with his deadly weapon, I dared not sleep, On the top of a rock, which gave me a fair . view of all sides, I sat down to rest. How long I sat there. I do not know, but Na- ture was too strong for ine, and I dozed into.: senseless sleep. What woke me will always be a mystery. There was no sound, but I started from my sleep as though a mast had snapped close to my ear, In the darkness I could make nothing oat distinctly, but some- thing prompted me to stand up and peer into the blackness. I had made no noise in getting to my feet, and presently round the corner of a large rock, a bent, supple body ap- peared. 'It was Talbot.. He had expected to take me by surprise, but when he saw me ready for him he rushed at me with the knife. I would. not have had a chance for n_ zy life, and again I ran from him. Talbot stumbled after me, but the man was weakening rapidly, and it was almost easy to elude him. Not a word was Spoken or shout- ed. At last I gained another coral rock and made a stand there. While I ran I had picked, up anum- ber of stones, and with these I held Talbot at bay, One struck him on the skull, add he went away shak- ing his head and growling like a beast. With else wicked thud of the etone against his skull all the passion to kill left me. How was life worth. the living anyway 1 I ran after. Talbot and saw him drop like a limp bundle of rags. In a second 1 was beside him, begging him to speak, calling him by name, press- ing, my lips to his forehead perhaps, for I was maudlin, crazed by the terror of it all. When at last he spoke the man was sane. e "Osgood I" he said. "My, but it is fine to see you, .:I'm hungry, Os- good.'' A frenzy of weeping seized me. 1 sobbed and cursed ell things that this man should' die so. "Wait I" I cried, ; and ran off into the night, I knew not whither. On the beach I ;stumbled over a large rocklike object,; There was a shalt, angry 'his, ' and I turned to see a large turtle, closed in his shell. In a second. I was upon it,. Matches we had aplenty, though they had been little uuse to us, but now I kindled a'etre and reel to Tal- bot to tell hini of•the feast I would prepare, He was lying on his side and'seemed .asleep, so Iwent bask to any fare and roasted the turtle steaks. Joy was hi my heart at the The Standard Lyn of Canada. Has many; Imitations but no sural CLEANS AND. DISINFECTS 100 %PURE //111i111(Ilf IIIk11111�111�11111 thought of the feast I was about to set beforemy mate. A mist had come up out of the while wl sea � T wets working, andthe chill bit leto my poorly nourished body as I left the fire. I laid my hand on Talbot's shoul- ders and shook him gently, "Come, my boy," I said.. a'Here's 'foodethat will put courage back into your heart.?' Talbot did not respond. A' chill, more bitter than that of the mist, gripped my heart, I shook the man roughly. He rolled on his back. Grayer than the must was his face, and hiseyes stared straight to hea- ven, where, in that moment, I doubted there was a God. I was alone. The gray mist was blowing out to sea and a 'crescent moon jutted above the rim of the world and looked a't me as I sat, a man alone —alone with. one 'loneeome, droop- ing palm on a coral tinted hell. Perhaps I faintted: Perhaps I slept, but et last I looked out upon a glorious day, and there, cutting a nick in the blue of the sky, was a triangle of a •sail, low against the horizon. From then I do not re- member, but enough -it is that strong men took °me and carried me into a boat, and rowed away to the Albemarle, which bore me back to Boston. Headache Over the Eyes ? Look For Nasal Catarrh Catarrh Never Stops In One Place-- It lace=It Spreads Rapldly—Often Ruins Health Completely. In this changeable climate it` is the little colds that drift into Catarrh. Unless the inflammation is checked it passes rapidly from the throat or nose to the bronchial "tubes and then to the lungs. You can't Make new lungs any more than you can make new fingers or toes, but you can. oure Catarrh. 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