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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-6-5, Page 2•61„b,11,1%1b %eft: lb* •Ivt1t/t►R5, • ieW Wi'O'Or1L^O/GirWebe Ont of tlic Garriso; • Or, A Mysterious Affair. veim..1a 1,,m 6'a•NCfAYon. f8AW8 ,DO,YR►a4,cYC n. -u RaS '!i•'seaw..• CIIAPTER EIr-(Cont'd.) "Who were they?" 1 asked. "I could not have believed that it was possible for mento appear so unconcerned in the face of - such imminent peril." "As to who they are or were;' tho,oap- • Iain answered. puffing: thoughtfully at his pipo, "that isby no means (!any to say. Our last port woe liurraehee, in the north of India, and there we took them aboard' 00 .passengers for Glnogow. Ram Singh weethe name of the younger,. and it #e' only with him that I have ante in con- tact, but they all appeared to bo quiet, Inoffensive gentlemen. 1 never .inquired their business, but I should judge that they were -Parsee merchants from Hy derabad .whose trade took them to Eur- ope. I could never see why the erow should fear them, and the mate, toe; he should have had more sense.' Fear them!" I ejaenlated, in surprise. "Yes, they had same preposterous idea that they were dangerous shipmates. I have no doubt if you wore to go down into the kitchen you would find that they are all agreedthat our passengers were the cause of the whole disaster." As .the captain was speaking the parlor door opened and the mate of the bark, a tall, red -bearded otilor, stepped in. Be had obtained a -complete rig -out from some. kind-hearted fisherman, and looked In hie comfortable` jersey and well greased e01 beets a very favorable specimen of a ship. wrecked mariner. With a few words of grateful acknowledgmentof our bospi- tallty be drew a chair u11 to the Bre and waarmedhis great brown hands before the blaze. "What d'ye think now, Captain M ad- ows " he asked presently, glancingupat hie superior officer. Didn't I warn you what would he the upshot o' having those niggers on board the 'Belinda?'" The captain leaned hack In his chair and laughed heartily. "Didn't I tell your' lie cried, appealing to m. "Didn't I tell - you?" "It - might have been no laughing mat- ter for es," the otherremarked petulant. ly. "I have lost a good sea kit and nearly lost my life into the bargain. 'To I understand you to say;" eaidI, "that you attribute your miufortunes to your Al -fated Passengers?" Themate opened his eyes at the ad- jective, "Why ill-fated, sir?" be naked. "Because they are most certainly drowned," I auewered- Iia sniffed incredulously and went 011 warming his hands. "Men o' that kind are never drowned," he said, after a pause, "Their lather, the devil, looks after them, Did you ever see than stand- ing on the poop and roiling cigarettes at the time when the mizzen was carried away and the quarter boats stove? That WAS enough for me. nu not surprised at you landsmen not being able to take it in, but the captain here, who's been sailing since he was the height of the' binnacle, ought to know by this time that a eat` and a priest are th+ worst cargo you can carry. If n Christina priest is. bad, I guess an idolatrous pagan one is' fifty times worse. I stand by the old re- ligion, and bo d—d to it!" My father and I could not help laugh- ing at the rough sailor's very unortho- dox way of proclaiming his orthodoxy. The mate, however, was evidently in dead- ly earnest, and proceeded to state his case, marking off the different points .. upon the rough red fingers of his left hand. "It was at Kurrachee, directly after they come. that I warned ye," he Raid, re- proachfully, to the LAlat0ln. • T•here w'r,a 'three Budaltiet La0ears to my watch, auri what did they do when them chaps come aboard? Why. they down on their atom - ache and rubbed their totes on the deck -that's what they did. They wouldn't hal done ne much for an admiral of the R'yal Navy, They know who's who - these niggers do; and I smelled mischief the moment I saw them on their faces. I asked them afterward in your presence, captain, why they bad done it, and they. answered that the passengers were holy men. You hoard em yourself." "Well, there's no harm in that, Dawk- ins," said Captain Iteadowo. "I don't know that," the mate said, doubtfully. "The holiest Christian le the one that's nearest God, but the holiest nigger is, in 1117 opinion, the one that's nearest the devil. Then you saw your. self, Captain Meadows, how they went on duringthe voyage, reading books that was writ on wood instead o' paper, and siding -up right through the night to jabber together on the quarter deck, What did they want to have a chart n' their own dor and to mark the comma of the vessel every day?" "They didn't," said the captain. "Indeed they did, and if I did not tell you sooner It was because you, were al- ways ready to laugh at what I said about them, They had instruments o' their oven --when 11107 used them I can't say -but every day atnoon they worked out the! latitude and longitude, and marked out, the vessel's position on a chart that wast pinned on their cabin amble. I saw them at it, and so did the steward trot his pantry." "Well, I don't eec what you prove from that," the captain remarked, "though I confess it is a strange thing," "Til tell you another strange thing." said the mate, impressively, nDo you know the name ce this bay in which we are east away?" "I have learned from our kind friends here 'that we are upon the Wigtownshire coast," the captain answered, "but I have net heard the name of the bay." The mato leaned forward with a grave face. "•1t is the Bay of ltirkmafden," ho said, If he expected to astonish Captain Meadows he certainly succeeded, for that gentleman was fairly .bereft of speech for a minute or more. "That ie really marvelous," he eaid, after a time, tarn• ing to ue. "These passengersof curs cress -questioned us early in the v07070 as to the existence of a bay of that mune. Hawkins here and I denied all knowledge of one, for on the chart ii is included in the Bay of Luca. That we should event - natty be blown into it and destroyed is an extraordinary coincidence." "Too extraordinary to be a coincldouee," growled the trate. "I saw them during the calm yesterday morning, pointing to the land over our starboard quarter. They knew well enough that that was the port they were making for," "What do you make of it all, then, Hawkins?" asked the -captain with a troubled face; "what is your own theory on the matter?" "Why, in my opinion," the mate an- swered, "them three swabs have no more difficulty in raising a gale o' wind than I should have in swallowing this here, grog. They had reasons o' their own for doming to this God -forsaken -saving your presence, sirs -this God-foraalten bay, and they took a short rut to it by arranging to be blown ashore there. That's my idea re the matter, though what three Buddh:et priests could find to do in the bay of Ifirkmafden Is clean past my bom- preheneion. My father raised his eyebrows to indi- cate the doubt which Itis hospitality for- bade him from putting into words. "I think, gentlemen," he said, "that you are both sorely in need of rest after your perfloue adventures. If you will follow me I shall lead you to your rooms." He conducted them with old-fashioned rare- mot17 to the laird's best spare bedroom, and then returning to me in the parlor, proposed that we should go down to. gether to the beach and learn whether anything fresh had occurred. 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"I am afraid that the poor mate line Lad his reason affected by the suddenness of the disaster. Did you hoar what he said about Buddhist priests Taieing a gale?". "Yes, I heard him," said 1, "It was yery painful to listen to him," said my father, "I wonder if he would object to my putting a small mustard plaster under each of his ears. It would relieve any 'congestion of the brain. 0r erha it would be beet to • ke him u, perhaps nd give him two amtillilioue pills. What do you think, Jack?" "I think," said I, with a yawn, "that you had best let him sleep, and go to Sleep yourself. You can physio him in the morning if ho needs it." So saying I stumbled off to 1117 bedroom, and throw - fug myself upon the couch. wars 80011 fn a dreamless slumber, CHAPTER SII, It must have been eleven or twelve o'clock before I woke up. and it seemed to me in the flood of golden light which streamed into my chamber that the wild tumultuous episodes of the night before meet have formed part of some fantastic dream, 71 was hard to believe that the gentle breeze which whispered so softly among the ivy leaves around my window wee caused by the surae element which had shaken the very houso a few short hours before. It was AS if nature )cad re- pented of her momentary 'passion and was endeavoring to make amends to an injured world by its warmth and its sun. shine. A thorns of birds in the garden below filled the whole air withtheir won- der and congratulations. Down in the hall I found a number of the shipwrecked sailors, looking all tho better for their night's repose, who net up a buzz of pleasure and gratitude upon seeing me. Arrangements had been made to drive them to Wigtown, whence they were to proceed to Glasgow by the even- ing train, and my father had given or- ders that each should be served with a packet of eandw'iahea and hardboiled eggs to euatain him on the way. Captain Meadows thanked us warmly in the name of hie employers for the manner in which we had treated them, and he called for .we cheers from his crew, which were very heartily given. Ile and the mate walked down with us after we had brok- en our fast to have a 'bet loop at the scene of his disaster. The great bosom of the bay was still heaving convulsively, and its waves were breaking into soba against the reeks, but there was none of that wild turmoil whjell we had seen In rho early morning. The long emerald ridges, with their smart little cockades of foam, rolled slowly and majestically in, to break with a regular rhythm -the panting of atired monster. A'cable length from the shore we 0ould see the mainmast of the bark floating upon the waves, disappearing at times in the trough of the sea, and then ehooting up toward heaven Iike a giant javelin, as the rollers teamed it about. Other smaller pieces of wreckage dotted the waters, while innumerable spars and packages were littered over the minds. These were being drawn up and collected in a place of safety by gangs of peasants. I noticed tbat a couple of broad -winged gulls were hovering and skimming over the scene of the shipwreck as though many strange things wore visible to them I beneath the waves. At timer we could hear their raucous vof0es a0 they spoke to one another of what they saw, "She was a leaky old craft," said the captain, looking sadly out to sea; "but there's always a feeling of Borrow when we see the int of a nhle we have calledI in. Well, well, she would have boon broil, en up in any 00so, and sold for firewood." "It looks a peaceful scone," 7 remark- ed. Who would imagine that three men lost their livee last night in those very waters?" Poor fellows," said the captain, with feeling. "Should they be oast up after oar departure, I am sure, lir, West, that You . will have them decently interred." I was about to make some reply when the mate buret into a loud guffaw, slap- ping his thigh and (:hotting with merri- ment, 'If you want to bury them," ho said, "you bad best look sharp, cr they may clear out o' the country, You re- member what I said last night. .lust look at the top o' that 'ere hillock, and tell me whether I wart 111 the right or not?" There was 0 ]sigh sand dune some little distance along the coast, and nom the samtnit of DUB 111e ligul'e was standing wltioh had attracted the mato'o attention. The captain throw up his hands fn aeon. ivhinent as his even rusted npoil it. "By the eternal," he shouted, it's Ram Singh himself! Let 118 overhaul him!" Taking to his heels in his excitement he rimed along the beach, followed by the mate and myself, as well es by one or two of the fishermen who had observed the pre' 0ence of the stranger. The latter, per- ceiving our approach, came down 1011 1118 pont of observation and walked quietly in our direetlml, with his head sunk upon his breast, like ,cue who is absorbed in thought. 1 could not help Ninth/Wing our hur- ried and tumultuous advance with the gravity and dignity of thio lonely Orion tal, nor'1vna the matter mended when he raised a pair of steady, thoughtful dark eyes tonal inclined his head' in a 710001ul, sweeping salutation, It seemed to mo that we wore lilt* a path of schoolboys In .the p1•eeenee of a /neater. The stranger's broad, unruffled brow, his clear, eearoh' ing gaze, firm set yet ooneitive mouth; and clean out, resolute expression, all comm bind to farm the moat imposing and .noble presence which 3 have even known. I could not. haws Inieginod that ouch importurable 0alre and at the 001)10 time 0110h a ecn0ciou0neas of latent etrengtlh could have been expressed by any bunion 'fact. Ile wasdressed in a brown vel• veteen coat, loose dark treita108, with .1t shirt which woo (ut 10w in tlto collar, sr, on to show the mildenlar brown neck, and he still wore the red lois which had noticed the night before. 7 observed with a feeling of surprise as we approached him, that none of hie garments nhowed the sligbteat indication of the rough' treatment end wetting which they mi18t Have received daring -their wearer's sub. mersion and struggle to the chore, "So you ere hone -rho worse for your duelling," Ile said in -a pleasant, musical voice looking from the 0aptain to the mate, "7 hope that all your poor 0011'ore have found pleasant 0lrartera." • "We era all gate," the captain answer - coo But at had 'given yea Up for that - yen and ye1(1 two friends, Indeed, 1 vita ,lust melting arraligetnents for your burial with Mr, Weat here, The stranger looked .at mo sn(7 gmilad, "We won't give lir. West that trouble for n little time yet," 116 98m40kedt "my fr!1nds and I came' anhOt'o all safe, and we have foa11t1 8ho1100 fn a but a Chile or i80 down the coast. It 10 lonely down there, but we have erery1h1n0 withal we can desire." I "We start for Glasgow Mie afternoon," 'said the eaptein I ;ha1) be very glad if you 11'ill come with Ota, If you Lave not been in Ragland before you may And it awkward traveling alone," "We aro 7817 mteelt indebted 10 700for your thoughtfulness," Bain Singh an- swered; "'Ind no will not take advantage of your kind offer. Sines nature has driven 110 here •we intend to have a look about ue before WO 10ave,' "As you like," the captain said, shrug- ging his shoulders, ' 1 don't think. you are likely to find very much to interest You In this hole of a place," "Very possibly. not," Rani Singhan- swered with an amused smile, "You re- memitselfbol' Milton's lines: "rho mind is its 01111 place, and in Vali malts a heli of Leaven, a heaven of hell,' I daresay we can spend a few days here comfortably enough, Indeed, I think, you must be wrong in considering this to be a barbarous locality. I am niueli 1018- talren if this young gentleman's father le nodira." t Mi•, John hunter West, witoso name is known and honored by the Pundits of 1 In3(17 father is, indeed, a well-known Sansorit scholar," I nnewered, in aston- 1ahm0ut, "The presence of .quell a man," observed the Wenger, slowly, "(Mangos a wilder- ness into a city. One great mind is 901017 EL Higher indication of civilization than are inealeula'bl0 leagues of bricks and mortar.. Your father ie hardly as Ore - found as Sir William Sones, or a0 vorsal as the Baron Iron hammer-Parg- stall, but•he comhinea many of the virtues of each. 7011 may tell ]rim, however. from me that he in m101ake11' in the analogy which he has trscod between the Samo- yede and Tamulio word roots," ' If you have determined to honor our neighborhood by a short stay," said I, you will offeed my father very much if 7021 do not put up with him. He repro stints the laird here, and it le the laird's privilege, according to - our Scottiebmu- tom, to entertain all strangers of repute who visit his pariah," . My sense of hos- pitality prompted me to deliver this in- vitation, though I could feel the mato twftehing et my sleeve as if to warn me that the offer was, for come reason, an objectionable' one. His fears were, how- ever, unnecessary, for the stranger signi- fied by a shape of the head that it was Impossible for him to accept it, "My friends and I are very much obliged' to you;' he said, "but we have our own reasons for remaining where we are. Tile but which we occupy is desert- ed and partly ruined, but W0 Eaatern0 have trained ourselves to do without most of those things which are looked upon as necessaries in Europe. believing firmly In that wise axiom that a man is rich, not in proportion to what he Ilse, but 111 pro. Portion to what be can t'' Tense with. A rood fisherman supplies us With bread and with herbs, we have clean dry straw for our couches, what could man wish for morn?" "But you must, reel 1110 0014 at night, coming straight from the tropics," re- marked the captain, "Perhaps our bodies are cold sometimes, We have not noticed it. We have all three spent many years in the Upper Hima- layas on the border 'of the region of eter- nal snow, so we are not very sensitive to ine0nvenienee0 of the sort." At least,' said I, "you must allow me to 001,1 7"l over some fieri and some meat. from ear larder:" "We are not Christians, he answered, "but Buddhists of the higher school, We do not reoog111ze that matt 11(18 a, moral riobt'10 clay an os or a lash for the gr0aa use of his body, fie ltaa not put Life into thou, and hart eesuledlY no mandate from the Almighty to take life from them save under most pressing 110ed. Wo could not, therefore, use your gift if you were to send 11," "But, 011'," I remonstrated, "if in thio ellangea1118 and inhospitable clinutte You rofuee all nourishing food your vitality will fail you -you will die,". "We ellnll die then," he answered with a bright smile. And. now, Captain Meadows, I must bid youadieu, thatilking you for your kindness during the voyage, and you, too, good-bye»you will 00(11• mond a slip of Your own before the year is out. I tenet, Mr. West, that 1 may see you again before I leave this part of the country. FOrowe111" Ile raised )11s red fez, inclined his noble head with the stately grime withal characterized all h'o devious, and stole away in the direction from w111011 ho had come, "Let mo congratulate you, Mr. Hawk- ins," said the captain to the mate an WO 'walked homeward. You -aro to <mm1001141 your own 0111p within the year." "No such luokl" the mate 1111ew010d, with a pleased smile- upon his mahogany face; "still there's no saying how things may come out. What d'ye think of him, Mr. West?" ('1'o be continued.) 1 HAND A MAGNETIC POLE. Electric Waves Pass From Person to Person. A Freuoh soientist, M. Fayol, as- serts that he has made an impor- tant discovery in establishing the p(Ila.r'ity of the human body. 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