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CHAPTER, II:—Continued.
So the two turned away, and began
slowly walking hi the direction of the
top of the Common. He had much to
say to her; and yet he was talking un-
der great reserve. It wasa couple of
months since they had met. He had
been wandering about the Continent,
sketching and photographing here and
there, travelling in the cheapest pos-
sible way. He had been, he said, gath-
ering materials for 'his great work.
which was to be a series of large draw-
ings illustrating Cbilde Harold's Pil-
grimage. He had covered most of the
ground except Spain and Italy; and he
would bring her his sketches and photo-
graphs to -morrow, and take her advice
as to what subjects he should make
drawings of, and what he should dis-
card. There would be plenty of time
for her to seleet, a.s he was going to set
out on a very long journey in a day
or two.
' In a. day or two, Walter ?'
' Yes, in a day or two, A very long
journey on business of the first impor-
tance. Business which, if brought to
a successful issue, would lead at once
to fortune.'
What business is it that can take
you away from. England again so soon?'
He reflected a long time before he
answered. At last be thought.
' .Vhy should I not tell her? It is
nay
ambition, my
dearest est o
sire to con-
fide the happiness of my life to her.
Why should I not confide my only se-
cret to her?'
He said aloud, as they trod. the dun
wet gravel,
'La), I will tell you all, on the one
condition that you tell no one, not a
soul,'
'I will not tell any one, Walter.' He
was going to tell her something he
would tell no other human being, and
he wished her to keep it secret, and
she would die rather than tell any
one.
Then he told her all about the rob-
bery of the great ruby, Fuego del Ani-
mo ; and how, in an innocent way, he
had been an accessory to the theft,
` And now, my darling,' he went on, 'I.
am going to find that ruby; -and the
finding of the stone will be the mak-
ing of my fortune, and will enable me
to go to your father and ask him for
you, in as business -like a way as if I
dealt in hides, or gin, or Consols, or
niggers, or prawns, or any other legi-
timate way of swindling our dear fel-
low -man.'
' 13ut, Waiter, how do you think you
will find. it ? May not some one else
find the thief before you can meet him?'
' Ali, that is where I have my great
good luck. In the first place, they are
all on the wrong scent; and in the sec-
ond place—'
He paused and looked earnestly at
her.
' What is the second, Walter?'
This is my great secret, Loo i our
great secret, Loo.'
You may rely on my keeping our
great secret, Walter,' she said softly.
She pressed the arm she leaned on as
she spoke.
Well, Loo, I have a photograph of
the man who stole the ruby, in the very
act of stealing it 1'
` But, Walter, how did you get that?'
sheasked, in amazement,
' Very simply. I had got, through an
old friend of my father's—Count Von
Brincken— permission to photograph
the crown of the Grand f uefly. It was
taken out of the case and hung on a
stand. My camera was in position ; the
sensitised plate was in; and 1 had part-
ly unscrewed the brass cover of the
lens, when the old man in charge of
the jewels called out to me to stop at
once. Not knowing what was the mat-
ter, I withdrew my head instantly.
There was some irregularity in the date
of the order 1 had given the old man,
and he was furious at having permitt-
ed my camera inside the door. He would
not allow me to change anything, not
even the position of the camera. He
would not, in fact, let me touch the
camera, and ordered me, in a way more
peremptory than polite, to leave the
place at once.
There was 'nothing for it but to go.
So I went. Next day I heard of the
robbery, and called for my camera. The
great jewel had been lost ; but that
was no reason why I should lose my
camera. After a lot of bother and de-
lay they fished my unfortunate instrn-
went out of some black hole they had
bundled it into, and gave it to me, wrap-
ped up in its own cloth.
'When I got back to my Lodgings I
examined my camera, and found it
wanted the cap. I had not noticed this
before, as the lens was covered with the
thick black cloth. In fact, it was from
the outside I found out the cap had been
removed.
Immediately upon discovering this I
thought of the plate. Without any
loss of time I treated the negative with
the utmost caution, and at the end
found that I had an extremely faint
photograph of the crown, and of a man's
hand with something like a hair of
scissors or nippers in it, connecting the
hand with the little column in which
the jewel stood; and, most important
of all, 1 had a profile portrait, almost
hopelessly faint, and blurred of course,
of the man who was in the act of cut-
ting Fuego del Animo from the crown.
He must have had a powerful lantern,
and held it close to him or rested it
close to him as he worked.
`To make anything out of this was a
tremendous difficulty ; but at last I
succeeded. I stopped this out and de-
veloped that, until I had a thin, rag-
ged, but an unmistakable likeness. If
the man had bad an ordinary profile,
there can be no doubt I should not have
been able to make anything out of it ;
but, in two respects, his was peculiar.
In the first place, he was plainly an
Asiatic; and in the second place, there
was a deep indentation in the outline
of hisnose,t
he bridge of
tg which had evi-
dently beebroken.
'Tipon closer examination I found he
had the he narrow low. eager features f star of
a fanatic, and I
n made up my
mind that
religious enthusiasm as had more to do
with the robbery than love of plunder.
There was another thing convinced. me
I was right in the last opinion.. Why,
if plunder and,not'r i
el taus zeal had'
Pg a
been at the bottom of the theft, did he
not make away with any of the other
jewels is the erown but the one ? Of
( course, the one was worth all the others
ten times told, but they were worth
thousands of -pounds, and could have
been much more easily sold than .Fuego
del Animo, even if he took it to Amen -
ea and broke up the stone, which would,
of course,, enormously lessen its value.
'Well, Loo, I looked up the Oriental
history and legends of the stone, and I
found that it had been foretold in the
City of Lassa, capital of the province of
U. and of the country of Tibet, that
this jewel would ultimately find its
way back to the Buddhist convent
there, from wbieht it had been stolen,
and that it- would return, not by the
way it had gone to Europe, but by .an
other route, and that a great new
water -way would be opened up for go-
ing home. This plainly pointed to the
Suez Canal. I think 1 am safe in as-
suming that my broken-nosed thief was
a fanatic ,and I am almost sure he will
try to regain Tibet ; but in what direc-
tion he will head after he goes through
the canal, I cannot now say.'
` And, Walter, how are you to find
out where this dreadful man will go ?'
asked Loo, leaning heavily on the arm
which was so soon to be withdrawn .from
her.
h, yes; of course I ought to have
told
you that. When I made up my
mind that the thief had gone towards
the Suez Canal, and intended, going
through it. I telegraphed to a photo-
grapher there--Leriviere, a Fruchman
to take la all the groups of Orientals go-
ing through the canal. He is to have a
reference to the German consul at
Port Said, so that he will have no diffi-
culty in getting captains to allow him
to take the groups; and as he will have
a semi-official position, no one can very
well refuse to make one of the group
without h 1t exc'ti
exciting attention • of
fa
1
course, the last thing the thief and,ould
like to do is to excite attention.'
For a while they walked on in sil-
ence. He had told the whole story he
had to tell, and she had listened, with
one-half of her attention upon his words
and the other on the dismal fact that
Walter was soon to go away again.
When r
gg
his voice ceased she had nothing
to think of but that they were soon to
be separated. At last she looked up
with a bright smile, and said,
` But, Walter ,if you are sure the man
who took the ruby is on his way to
Port Said, why do you not telegraph
to the police there to arrest him?'
Ay, my innocent Loo, and put the
reward into the hands of some one else!
Ona, my dear simple Loo, that would
be a fatal mistake! I must catch that
man with my own hand, I must take
the stone from hire myself. The reward
is now small, but it must grow with the
days; and it will take many days before
II have that stone in my possession.'
'But, Walter, will there not be dan-
ger, great danger ? These men, fan-
g tics particularly, carry weapons, and are
always dangerous.'
` Of course, love, there will be more
excitement in it than in noting a dis-
honoured bill, or cashing a cheque. But
as to danger, look at me. Do I seem
I like a. man a weak -legged, marrowless
Oriental fanatic would find it easy to
deal with?'
' Yes, but Walter, I always heard
stab—,o not fight like our men. They
They may stab fools or cowards; but
it will take the cleverest of thorn all
to get a chance of stabbing me, and
this man is half a fool.'
' But half-witted people are often more
than a match in cunning for ordinary
people.
But I am neither half-witted nor
ordinary. For Heaven's sake don't
have any misgivings about me. I must
get that Odenwald gem in order to get
the gem of Clapham Common. Hallo 1
Here's Liz looking for us.'
CHAPTER III.
Lizzie and Loo and Aubyn got back
to the house as it was growing dark,
and a little while before dinner. In
the mean time Loo had changed her
mind with respect to the usefulness of
women, and from what Walter had said
to her during the clay, she had come to
the conclusion that she, at any rate,
might be of the greatest help to him
on his way through life if it only pleas-
ed Fate that their careers should be
run together.
Ent now Walter had no sooner come
back to England—she had hardly been
able to realize the fact that he had come
back—than he was going away on a still
longer' journey, and a still more uncer-
tain errand. What should she do when
he had gone? He told her he had in-
tending saying somethng about his
scheme to her father. What could her
father think of it ? She could not guess
All she knew for certain was, that she
thought it one of the most astonishing,
clever schemes ever dreamed of, and
that she thought Walter the handsomest
and cleverest man alive.
One by one the boys dropped in,he
youngest two first. They were all de-
lighted to see Aubyn; cheered when
they saw him, and shook him cordially
by the hand while they asked a dozen
questions in a breath, and declared
their mother `no end of a brick' for
making him stay for dinner.
It was close to seven when Mr. Stam-
er arrived with his sons Charlie and
Bill. Fred, the youngest, ran down to
the •hall to tell the news that Aubyn
had just returned from the Continent,
and was in the drawing -room waiting
for dinner.
H'm,' said the father gloomily, add-
ing, after a moment's pause, 'I hope he's
quite well.'
Mr. Starner went straight to his dress-
ing -room. When his wife heard him
come up -stairs she went in to him.
'So young Aubyn is back, and in the
house?' he said, after kissing her in an.
abstracted manner.
'Yes, he came unexpectedly from Ger-
many, and I asked him to stay for din-
ner. Would you rather I had not ask-
ed him?'
I have no personal objection to the
young man. But there must be no
nonsense between him and Louisa.'
When Mr. Starner called his young-
est daughter 'Louisa' he was always.
very serious.
Now Mrs. Stainer loved all her chil-
dren without exception, and loved them
all with a full and grateful heart. Loo
was her youngest daughter and most
beautiful child, and was the general fav-
ourite with all the family. What won-
der, then, that the mother's heart turn-
ed with feelings of peculiar tenderness
towards Loo ! Lizzie was gay and lively
and a great deal more worldly-wise than
Loo; and of all Mrs. Stamer's children,
Loo was most entitled to be called in
the mother's heart a child; for she was
more simple, unsuspecting, and, docile
than any of the others. Mrs.
Starner
knewer
h husbandwas
P
nota oor man.
She knew that he had been able
to
settle a comfortable sum of money on
their eldest daughter Alice when she
was married. She .liked young Aubyn,
and, all the boys liked Aubyn. Why
should herr darling be bothered.
about
mune ? If young Aubyn had enouh
money to satisfy her hubandher hus-
band
would have no objection to him
8.5 a son-in-law,But if her husband 1
would give the young people what they
and she could consider enongli to live
on, why could they not be made happy?
She believed Aubyn loved her daughter,
and she believed her daughter loved
hila. No daughter of hers had been
brought up extravagantly. A few hun-
dreds a year would be enough for them
to begin on, and then let the young
people trust to Providence that by and
by something good would, turn up for
Aubyn. Some day or other, no doubt,
he would be able to paint a a- , .are for
which he would get money. ,. "hat was
'the good of all the money in world
if one's children were not happy ? What
was all the money in the world to her.
if she must day by day watch the fad-
ing
ading eye, the blanchingface, and the
weary step of her genle darling child?
She did not say aloud any of those
thoughts that were in her mind, and the
husband and wife went down to dinner
without more conversation on the sub-
ject.
Mr. Starner greeted Aubyn in a man-
ner between cordiality and caution.
There was in the free and ingenuous
way of Walter something ,which dis-
armed and conciliated. The boys kept
the conversation going until all were
seated at dinner. It was observed by
the re'tl-ai youngstsrs that theirbroth-
er Mum was peculiarly silent and re-
served. Mum, whose Christian name
none of the family could have recalled
without an effort. was always the least
talkative of the boys. This evening he
would not answer questions. He was
dark and inclined to be stout, and was
the model son of the family. He stood
third in age in the Starner line of heirs
male. He was about twenty-one years
of age,enjoyed a a
and sal r of one
nd
er
wholesale tea house
gse in }the City. large
was the only member of the family who
tools any particular care of his dress,
and be was always a model of neatness
and good taste, which his brothers made
a source of continual annoyance to him.
They tubba candles
on his
ent leath
-
er boots ; they brushed his new hat the
wrong way, and dropped ink on the
spotless lining. They spill; blacking into
his clothes -brush. They sponged the
front of his shirts, and threw his dress -
suit upon the dusty top of the ward-
robe. They put cobbler's wax in his pock-
ets, and sprinkled powdered resin over
his brush and comb. They poured melt-
ed lard into his sponge, and substituted
tooth powder for shaving paste. Ile never
could find out which of his brothers had
played these tricks upon him, and expos-
tulatioes and threats addressed by him
to boys in general only added to their
appreciation of Mum's grievances.
'What's the matter with Mum, Paul?'
said Fred, the youngest, appealing to the
second daughter in a tone of deep con-
cern.
'Trying to make up his mindwhat set
of studs he'll wear to -morrow. Hush !
Do not disturb him. You might ruin all
his thoughts by one word.'
'I won't have Mum teased,' said Mrs.
Starner from the top of the table. He's
the best of you all ; and. if I find any of
you—Charlie 1 What is that you have
on, Charlie?'
'By Jove, it's Mum's coat. That's the
row,' said Fred. Let's look.' He got up,
and narrowly inspected the coat his
eldest brother was wearing.
'Sit down, Fred, and don't be a
fool,' said Mr. Starner somewhat testily ;
he had not yet shaken off all the un-
pleasant feeling connected with Aubyn's
presence.
But Henry dear,' said Mrs. Stainer,
'I assure you Charlie's conduct is most
abominable. He never buys any clothes
for himself, and he's always stealing
poor Mum's. Last month he stole all
his stockings, and the month before half
a dozen shirts. It is really too bad,
Henry, and you ought to speak seriously
to Charlie about it.'
`Father, allow me to explain. You
know very well that the only well-dress-
ed member of the family is Mum. I
can't bear to think of Mum being shab-
by. Indeed, father, I steal only to keep
up the family honour. How should we
over be able to get on if Mum got out
at elbows, or down at heel ?'
'Don't mind. those wretched boys, fa-
ther,' said Lizzie. `If you would care
to hear of a robbery that will really
interest you, ask Mr. Aubyn to tell
you about the robbery of the great ruby
from the crown of the Grand Duke of.
Somewhere or other in Germany.'
'I saw an account of that in the Times,
Aubyn. It was most interesting.
Something must be rotten with the po-
lice there. Something very rotten. Do
you know anything.about it ?'
'I have come straight from Odenwald.
I was there the night the robbery was
committed. Did the account in the
Tunes say anything about a camera ?'
'Yes, and an Englishman?'
'It was my camera, and 1 was the Eng-
lishman. I won't inflict the story twice
on Mrs. Starner and your daughters.'
In a few minutes the women rose,and
the men found themselves alone. 'sAs
they assumed more easy attitudes and
pulled out pipes and cigars, Mr. Starner
said,
I am very much interested in that
jewel robbery. You may talk as you
please of our police. but I say they are,
taken all round, the best in Europe.
I'd rather go to Scotland Yard if I had
been robbed of anything, than to Jer-
usalem—what do they call it 1—in Paris
I say, if you want to find out a crimi-
nal, give an Englishman the doing of
it.'
I am extremely glad, sir, you say so.
Ma,y I ask if you would go so far as to
say that if you had the ear of the Grand
Duke you would recommend him to em-
ploy an Englishman to recover his ruby?'
'Most assuredly I should,' said Mr.
Starner, energetically knocking the
ashes off his cigar.
'Well, sir my business in England now
is in connection with the recovery of.
that ruby.'
Indeed !' Mr. Stamer leant forward.
He was greatly interested.
`I have a few, very few, hundred
pounds in the world. I am going to
put them in my pocket in a day or two,
as soon as I can, and set out in pursuit
of the man who, stole the stone.'
`What 1 You 1' cried Mr. Starner, ris-
ing in amazement.
'Yes.'
'Are you mad? '
'I hope not. But I am an Englishman,
and I thought you would recommend
that an Englishman should be employ-
ed to find theewel.'
'But,' cried Mr. Starner, staring at
Aubyn, I meant a qualified and—and
—intelligent detective, and not a—a boy
like you! You must be mad.'
hope not, sir. I hope to prove to
you I am, not only notmad, but that
never was a saner man alive.'
'I never heard of such a thing in all
my life. There is a talk of snaking a
railway to the moon. Take ray advice,
and put your money in that company.'
`Well, sir, we shall see,
That, night, when Aubyn had left,
and the
young people y g p p e were all in bed,.
Mr, Starner said,
i to his wife as he stood
to turn out th -
e halle they
when . he
g y
were going to bed, 'Mary I never
thought much of young Aubyn: but.
this intention of: his,' to go and try to
find out the man who cut theg em off
the crown, o n shows' me
h
e is what.
I al-
ways took him for, a conceited fool.'
He turned out : the gas ,and followed
his wife up -stairs.
Children Cry for Pitcher's CastorlaS
'Did he tell you, Heblry, that be has
a very strong clue to the thief ?'
'No. Did he tell you he had?'
'He did not tell me. Ile told Loo,
and he told her what the olue was,but
did not allow her to tell any one.'
'Mary,' said Mr. Starner firmly, 'if
this young man was not leaving Eng-
land in a few days, I'd forbid him the
house, I'll have no nonsense between
him and Louisa. What does he mean
by telling her a seoret, and saying she
must keep it to herself ? Doesn't that
lock as if there was something be-
tween them ? I will have nothingbe-
tween this Aubylt and Louisa. e is
good for nothing.
'But, Henry, what if it is too late ?'
'Too late! Too late! What do you
mean bytooate '
'If shcaressf
for him 3'
Then she'll have to get over her
folly,' said Mr. Starner hotly, as he
closed and locked his bedroom. door.
(To Be Continued.)
PERILS OF LAKE NAVIGATION.
All of the dangers of Inland and Open
sea Sailing, and Mere Resides.
Sailing the great lakes with the low
stage of water during the season just
closed has been a combination of Mis-
sissippi River steamboating and At-
lantic navigation; worse than that, for
the river Captain has no such danger-
ous places to run as the Soo River, with
its jagged rocks, where masters are
forced to pick their way over courses
marked by ranges amid swift currents,
and frequently in crowds of boats like
naval display.
As a river pilot the commander of a
lake vessel has before him in passing
through the narrow and crooked chan-
nels connecting the great lakes prob-
lems which would drive his brother on
the Mississippi out of his mind. Past
these be enters an open sea, frequent-
ly swept by storms, which try to the
utmost the strength of his craft. Then
the task before him has features which
the ocean navigator generally escapes.
The latter has sea room. He can run
before the storm perhaps hundreds of
miles, or heaving to, let his boat drift
for days at a tixae. The lakes, which
large enough to produce tremendous
seas, are really so small that in big
storms vessels have little sea room.
Once in a gale, they are practically on
a lee shore, and must fight it out with-
out running if unable to gain the shel-
ter of the shore to windward,
It is due to this union of river and
ocean navigation that losses on the 1 Ire
reach so high a figure. This is particu-
larly true since the coming of steel
boats.
The foundering of the steamers Wes-
tern Reserve and W. H. Gilcher in the
fall of 1892 proved conclusively that
steel boats had to be built a.s heavy and
as strong on the lakes as on the At-
lantic. Every steel vessel launched
since then would pass easily the critical
inspection of the ocean underwriters.
But this very solidity unfits them for
the river part of lake navigation. When
they touch a rock something must give
way, and when something gives way
the cost of repairs is far heavier than
it would be were it not for the compli-
cated network of angles and frames
which gives strength to the double bot-
tom. The past season millions of tons
of freight have been carried on steel
boats which, in the shallower parts of
the connecting rivers, were within a
few inches of the bottom. Nov and
then something went amiss, and a big
repair hill followed.
BRITAIN'S GRAIN CROP
Estimated Total Produce of Wheat, Bar-
ley, and Oats in Great Britain, 1800-
95,
The official estimate by the Board of
Agriculture of the yields of cereal crops
in Great Britain for the past year was
published in the Times of Saturday. All
three crops come out below the ten
years' average, while the decline com-
pared with last year's estimated yield
is 4.46 bushels for wheat, 2.81 bushels
for barley, and 4.58 bushels for oats.
When we turn from the yields per acre
to the estimated total produce, some
startling comparisons present them-
selves.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
Year. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels.
1890 ..73,354,484 73,933,801 120,188,046
1891......72.127,263. 72,129,095 112,386,261
1892 58,560,932 ' 70,481,597 116,294,939
1893 49,247.297 59,535,377 112,887,379
1891... . 59,172,801 72,295,066 135,462,931
1895 , 37,176,257 68,560,945 122.118,628
It is necessary to remember that,
while the area of wheat continues to
decline, that of barley and of oats is
extending. The wheat product of Great
Britain this year is estimated at 37,176,-
257
7,176;257 bushels, or only 4,647,032 quarters.
This quantity is barely more than half
of that which we were producing as re-
cently as five years ago. Barley yields
a smaller product than it did five years
since, while the output of oats has
has increased to a merely fractional ex-
tent. Hence no indication is afforded
by either barley or oats of making good,
by a larger output in the case of these
two cereals, the enormous and signifi-
cant decline recorded for wheat, the
produce of which is now 12,000,000 bush-
es below even that of the year of su-
preme drought, 1893.
Knockout Drops.
Dilzey. Did you buy that safety you
were talking about last week ?
Dalzey. 1 thought I did, but I guess
they must have given me an unsafety.
I've been tumbling off ever since.
When.Baby WAS sick, we cave her Caet0tthe
When she was a Child, she critd for Castoria.
When she became Mies, she clung to Castoria,
When sheitatiChildt'en,shcgsvethem (historic
The Expected Happens.
pasted appen
He was Claude,
She
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The married,.but ;
soon separated.
They
ar ed.
P, .
She
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He was Clawed
.A climax all anticipated.
Powder and Paint.
Miss Antique seems to be veryroll.
able
Yea; she never deserts her colors,
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CYCLONE OF SWALLOWS.
A Vessel Reset by 5lyr*atds of Migrating
Birds.
A Russian steamer, hailing from Od-
essa., has for some time been engaged
in the Mediterranean trade, principal-
ly carrying passengers between Leg-
horn and Ms' ga. On one of the re-
cent trips it encountered an adventure
which will never be forgotten by eith-
er the crew or the passengers. The
passage had been a stormy one, but
the day of the occurrence was unusual-
ly Inc.iThough a rather heavy sea
was running most of the passengers
were on deck. Suddenly the lookout
called: " Hurricane cloud leeward.
At once there was great consterna-
tion aboard ,,eand a number of people
sought safety below. The captain, how-
ever, after glancing. at the barometer,
gave it as his opinion that it was no
hurricane cloud. The black mass that
they saw hovering near the horizon was
be thought, a particularly dense vol-
ume of smoke from some steamer. But
the solution of the mystery came much
sooner than they had expected. The
threateningmass grew larger and
larger, ansoon was seen )ear down
in' the direction of the vessei. with
TERRIFIC SPEED,
Everybody, both crew and passengers,
became frightened at the mysterious
cloud, which seemed to move with great
rapidity, notwithstanding that a per-
fect calm prevailed.
Then came the solution. The vast
cloud that they had seen was compos-
ed of swallows. The forerunners, a
small detachment Of some 10,000 swoop-
ed down on the deck to the bewilder-
ment of the people on board. These were
soon followed not by thousands, but by
hundreds of thousands. The birds lit-
erally overwhelmed the vessel. The
man at the wheel lost his bearings,and
the wildest disorder prevailed. The
birds poured into everyavailable open-
ing, hatchways, windows and every-
where else. They got tangled in the
ropes and sails and clustered about the,
rigging.
Even the smokestack was so filed up
at one time that the fires were near-
ly extinguished. The most amazing part
of the whole thing was that the birds
did not evince any disposition to leave.
To heighten the confusion, the steam-
er hadof out of its course and ran
ashore. However, on account of going
very slow, no material damage was
done, though the passengers were bad-
ly frightened. When the crew had
recovered from their amazement they
began to clear the deck and the vessel
in general of these unexpected and not
at all welcome guests.
The captain ordered the men to use
shovels and whatever else they could
to throw the birds overboard. After
getting fairly in shape the vessel pro-
ceeded on its voyage, having been de-
layed for nearly eight hours on account
of this singular experience. The cap-
tain could not offer any theory as to
where this vast army of swallows came
from. All he said was that the birds
were exhausted from a long flight dur-
ing the storm of the previous day, and
sought rest on his vessel
COO
Thomas d. Tohna,
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