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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-07-03, Page 6PALM SIX The Inland S oacwangsoloomallmarmer r This acquiescence on the ,part of the dogrnaica Cap was no sooner'csb- tained, th'an'ijasper was sent for, The young ratan instantly made his ap- pearance, his whole air, 'countenance, and mien expressive of mortification, humility, and, as his &servers fanc- ied, re'bu'ked deception. MThen he first stepped on deck, .Jasper cast one hur- ried, anxious glance around, as if eur- ious to 'know the situation of the cut- ter and that lgilattce sufficed, it would seem, to let hint into the secret of all her perils, At first he locked to wind- ward, as is tonal 'with every seaman then he turned round the horizon, un- til his eyes caught a view.of the high lands to leeward, when the whale truth burst upon him at once. 'Toe sent for you, :Master Jasper,' said Can, folding his arms, and bal- ancing his body with the dignity of the forecastle. "in artier to learn something about the haven to lee- ward. 'R'e take it for granted you do not 'hear malice so hard as to wish to drown us ail, especially the women; and I suppose you will the man en- ough to help us to run the cutter into some safe berth until this bit of a gale hat. done 'blowing!" "1 would die myself rather than ■ before I would Be gtailty of so lubber- ly an act!" "That is what, we do on this lake," modestly replied Jasper, "•when we are 'hard pressed. I daresay we might do !better, had we been better 'taught." "That you Wright, indeed! So; no ratan induces me to commit such a sin against my own bringing up. d sltould never dare show my face inside of Sandy +Hook again, 'had I committed so know-nothing an ex'pdoit. 'Why, Pathfinder, here, has more seaman- ship in him than that cores to. You can go below again, Master Eau- douce." Jasper 'quietly brewed and withdrew still, as he .passed down the ladder. the spectators observed that he cast a lingering anxious look at the hori- zon to windward and the land to lee- ward, and then dissappeared with con- cern .strongly expressed in every line- ament of 'his face. CHA'PTE,R XVII. As the soldier's wife was sick in her berth, 'Mabel 'Dunham 'u•as the only person in the outer cabin when ]Tasper returned to it: for, by an act of .grace in the Sergeant. he war'pennit- ted to resume his proper place in this part of the vessel. We should the as - harm should conte to Mabel 'Dun- cribing too much simplicity of char- acter to our heroine, if we said that she had felt no distrust of the young man in consequence of hi?; arrest; but we should also be doing injustice to her Warmth of feeling- and generosity of disposition, if .we 'did not add, that this distrust was insignificant and transient. As he now tock hi.S seat hear her, his whole countenance clouded 'with the uneasiness be felt concerning the situation of the cutter, everything like suspicion was ibanish- ed from her mind, and she saw in 'hint only an injured plan. "You let this affair wei:h -too heav- ily on your mind, Jasper," said she eagerly, or with that fnrgethilness +tf self with which the youthful of her sex are wont to betray their feelings :when a str,ato' and _enerous interest ha, attained the ascendency; ''no one olio knows yen can or .does, believe you _ditty. Pathfinder says he will pledge h?s life fnr you." "Then you. AI:Owl," returned the ontlt his ,'v flashing fire, "do not leole mon tae as f ire traitor your fat's- . •.0.- , believe 'ei'e lite to ire?" "\M-; `leer . fa'',,. ., nldier, ati.l is t a n,My father's daughter is not. and will thunk of you as she ought to. think n: a man ole. bras `lone So notch fo serve her al- ready:' 'Mabel, I'm not used to talking with one like you, •or saying all I think and feel with any. I never had a sister. and my mother died when I was a child, so that 1 know little what your sea most likes In hear Mabel would have given the world to know what lay behind the teeming .vord at which Jasper hesitated; hit the indefinable and controlling .ens` of. womanly diffidence made her snp- press her curiosity. She waited in -sil- ence 1'e- him 'to explain his owe mean- ing. "I Wish to say, Mabel,". the young ratan cnntinned, after a pause which he f teuid strfficientiy embarrassing, "that I ata Inroad to the ways and opinion - o<. one like you, and that you mast imagine all I would add." !Mabel had imagioatMo enough to fancy anything, but there are ideas and feelings that her .sex prefer to 'nave expressedlhefore they yield them all their own sympathies, andshe had a vague consciousness that these of Jasper might iprcperly'be enumerated in the caass. Ri'ith a readiness that Abe- longed to her sex, therefore, she pre- ferred changing -'the discourse to per- mitting it to proceed any :further in e manner sr, awkward and- so unsatis- factory. ""Tell me one. thing. Jasper, and T shall the content," said she, speaking now with a firmness which denatcd confidence, not only in herself, but in her contpa.niott: "you do not deserve this cruel suspirion which rests upon vow?„ "'I do not, 'Malbel!" answered 'Jastp- cr, looking into her lull blue eyes. with ham," the young man earnestly an- swered. "°I knew it! I knew it!" cried the .'Pathfinder, clapping his hand kindly on Jasper's shoulder. "The lad is true as the best compass that ever ran a boundary, or !brought a man off from a blind trail. It is a mortal sin to believe otherwise." "iTum•phl" ejaculated Cap: 'espec- ially the women! As if they were in any particular danger. • Never mind, young ratan; We shall understand each other lby: talking like two plain sea- men. Do you know- of any port under Our 'lee:" "None. There is a large' bay at this .end of the lake; but it is unknown to its all, and not easy to entrance." "And this coast to leeward—it has nothing particular to recommend it, I suppose? It i; w'iiderness until you reach the' mouth of the Niagara fn one dir- ect'..n, and Frca tenac in the other. Nertit :-t.' we -t, they tel.l ate. there .. t : litt forest and prairies for osand miles" Tooio ,ren. there can "tee n.. On the la'trl'r" "The lndiaas are to 1>c foa:t'1 in alt rlirectl'ns; though they are -nowhere very ttumercus.. By- accident, .,ve riig'kt find a party at any point an the shore: sr 'se slight pass months there without seeing one." 41.1'e mast take our chance, then, as to the blackguards; but to be frank with you. 'Master 1',Vestern. if this little '.mpleasant matter about the French had not. come to pass. what. vesold tem n 'tv do with the cutter?" '"1 ::m a much younger sailor than oeterteif, 'Master Can, said Jasper modestly. "and am hardly filled to ad- vise you." Ay,- ay, we all know that, in e rnmrtc.n case, perhaps not, lint this s. an ancommon case, and tt cireunt- setnce: and on this bit of fresh water i•t hn;s what may be called its peculiar - ter; •and =o, everything considered. yon -nay the fitted to advise even your father. At all events, you can s11ak, and 1 can judge o1 your opin- ions, arreeaitly to _ my own ex•per- ienc e," '"I think, sir, before tura hours are over, the cutter will have • to ,anchor:" "Anchor! -=not out here in. the lake?" "No, sir; but in yonder, sea land." 'You do not mean to say; 'Master Eats -deuce, yru would anchor an •a lee Shore it a' gale of wind?" "If 1 would sane my vessel that is exactly seelisio, f -r'utd do, :Master yap." - "W7i—«eoe--sw-this is fresh wat- er, with a vengeancel'H.ark'e; young man. Inc''been a calaring animal, bay and man, forty -ane years, and I never yet heard of such a thing. 'I'd throw 'My- ground -tackle overboard the THE SEAFORTH NEWS ant apcitnesS atxl sin11,1scdty that might !have shaken stronger distrust. .'ts 1 hope Tor mercy hereafter, 1 do too" "I knew it -1 could have sworn it!" returned the girl warmly. '".And yet my father means well; --but do not let this matter distnub you, 'Jasper." "There is so much more to appreh- end from another quarter just now, that I scarcely think of it" "Jasper!" "+1do not wish to alarm you, !Mab- el; but if • >, it your ur arncle could be persuad- ed to change his notions about hand- ling the Srtul and yet Ile is so much more experienced than 1 ant, that he ought, .perhaps, to place more reliance on his own judtementethan on mine," ''Do you think the cutter in any danger?" demanded Mabel, quick as thought. 'I fear so; at least she would have been thought ingreat danger Iby rats of the lake; ,perhaps an old seaman of the ocean may have means of his own to take rare of Iter." 'Jasper, all agree in giving' you credit for skill in managing the Scud. You know the lake, you know the cutter; you must be the best judge of our real situation," ",My concern for you, Mabel, may stake me more cowardly than ' com- mon; 'but, to be drank, 1 see but one method of keeping the cutter from being wrecked in the course of the next two or three hours, and that your uncle tenses to take. After ail, this may be my ignorance; for as he says, Ontario is merely fresh water," "You cannot 'believe this will make any difference. Think of my dear father, Jasper) Think of yourself; of all the lives that depend on a timely sword from you to save them," ".I think of you, Mabel, and that is more, touch more than all the rest pant together!" returned the young man, with a strength of expression and an earnestness of look that utter- ed infinitely more 'than the words them selves, !Mathel's heart beat quickly, and a gleam of grateful satisfaction shot ac- ross her !blushing features; but the alarm was too vivid and too serious to admit of much relief from •happier thoughts. She did not attempt to re- press a look of .gratitude, and then she returned to the'feeling which was naturally uppermost. i sly uncle's obstinacy must not be permitted to occasion this disaster. Go once more on deck, Jasper; and ask my father to come into Nle cab- in," While the young man was comply- ing with this request, !Mabel sat list- ening to the howling of the .storm and the dashing of the water against the cutter, in a dread to which she •had hitherto been a stranger. Constitut- ionally an excellent sailor, as the term is used among passengers, she had not hitherto bethought her of any danger, and had passed her time since the commencement of the gale in such womanly employments as her situat- ion allowed; but now that alarm was seriously awakened, she did not fail to perceive that never before had she been on the water fn rush a temeest. The minute or two which elapsed be- fore the Sergeant came a;ipearei an hour, and she scarcely breathed -then sht• saw bin; and Jasper descend e= the ladder in company. Quick as '.tine - nage could express itr acquainted her father e i'h ba';or's THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941 opinhon of their situation; and en- Cap that there was a secret 1.rrange' treated hint, if he loved her, or had meat 'between her commander and any regard to his own life, or for the pilot to cast away 11t.' S,•ud; most those of his sten, to interfere'tvbth t;er probalhly .with the trope of effecting uncle, and to induce hint to yield the their escape. He consequently treated control of the cutter again to its pro- the opinion of tbie latter with the in .pet commander. difference he manifested towards that "ctsper is true, father:" added- she of the former. earnestly; "'and if false, he could have "I tell you, !brother Dunham,' said no motive in wrecking os in this .dis- he, in answer to file remonstrances of tant part of the lake at the risk of all the Sergeant against his turning a our lives, his own included, 1will deaf ear to this double representation pledge •my .own life for his truth." "that no seaman would (give such an "Ay, this is well enough for a opinion honestly. To atdb'or on a lee young woman who is ,frightened an- shore in a gale of wind would be an swere•d the more phlegmatic parent; act of madness that 3 could never ex - "hut it might not be so exettsalb'le in cure to the underwriters, tinder any one hn command of an expedition.. circumstances, so long as a rag can Jasper may think the chance of be set; but to anchor close to break - drowning in igetting ashore full' re- ers 'would be insanity: paid by the chance of escaping as "+His Majesty underwrites the ,Scud, soon as he reaches the land." brother, and •1 am responsible Inc,the "1Sengeant ;Dunham.' lives •of my command. 'These melt are "Tatler!" +better acquainted 'wi'th (Lake Ontario These exclamations were made si- than we can possibly 'be, and I think m-uitanenusly, Ibut they were uttered their telling 'the sante tale entitles in tones expressive of different feel- them to some credit." ings. In !Jasper, surprise was 'the elle- "Uncle!" said Mabel .earnestly; but tion uppermost; in Mabel, reproach, a gesture ifrom !jasper induced the girl The oldsoldier, however, was too to restrain her feelings. much accustomed to deaf frankly ',We are drifting down upon the with subordinates to heed either; .breakers so rapid'ly'," said the young and after a moment's thought, he coir- men, "that little need be said on the turned as if neither had spoken. "Nor subject, 'Half an flour must settle the is !brother Cap a man likely to sub- matter, one way or the other; but 1 mit to be taught his duty on aboard a warn Waster Capthat the surest -Toot - vessel." ed man among us will not be able to "But, Mather, when all our lives are keep feet an instant an the deok of in the utmost jeopardy." this low craft, should she fairly .get 'So much the worse. The Mair- 'within them. Indeed, 1 snake little weather commander is iso great mat- doubt that we shall fill and 'founder ter; it is when things go wrong that !before the second line of rollers is the (best officer shows his true colors, passed," Charles Cap will Trot be likely to quit "And how would anchoring help the the helm 'because the ship is in 'can- matter? demanded Cap furiously, as ger. Besides, jasper Hee-dance, 'he 1f he felt that Jasper was respotisillc says your proposal in itself has a for effects of the !gale, as well as for suspicious air 'about it, and :sounds 'tlte a.tta'", he had just given more like treachery titan reason." i -It would at least do no harm," "He may think so; but let 'hint 'Eau -donee ntidly replied. "By bring. send for the pilot and 'hear his orcin- ing the cutter head to sea we should ion, It is well 'known that I have not lessen iter drift; and even if we drag - seen the matt since yesterday even- ged through the breakers, it avoukl ing." be with the least p'os."hie danger. 1 "This does sound reasonable, and ]tope, Master !Cap, you will ailaw the the experiment .shall be tried. Follow 'pliot and myself to prepare for m- itre on deok then, that all may be storing, e'iace the precaution may do honest and above board." `rod, and can do no l'ie'n." {Tasper obeyed, and so keen was elle "Overhaul your ranges, if you will, interest of Mabel that she ton vent- and get your anchors -clear, with all used as far as the companionway, my heart. 'We are now in a sita'ation where her ,garnents were sufficiently that cannot he much affected by any - protected against the 'violence of the thing of that sort. Sergeant, a word wind and her person 'front the spray. with you aft here, if you please." Her maiden modesty induced her to ,Oap led his brother-in-law out of remain, 'though an absorbed witness ear -shot; and theft, with more human of !What was passing. 'feeling in his voice and manner than The pilot soon appeared, and there he was apt 'to exhibit, he opened his was no mistaking the look of conc.`s heart on the culbject of their real sit - Mat he east around at the scene as uatiott. soon as he visas in 'the open air. Some "This is a melancholy affair foe rumors of the situation of the Send poor !Maibel," said he, blowing his had Fouad their way below, it 1s true; nose, and speaking with a ;slight trem- but do this instance rumor bad lessen- or. "You and I, Sergeant, are old fet- ed instead of magnifying; the danger. lows, and used, to !being near death, if He was allowed a few minutes to not to actually dying, our trades fit look about hits and then t'e o teatinit us for such scenes: but poor !Mabel! -- was put as to the course which he She is an affectionate and kind -heart - thought it prudent to :allow, ed girl, and if lead 'hoped to see her "I see no means of saving the cin- comfortably settled, and a mother 'he- tes lint to anchor," he answered shit- fore my time sante. !Well well! we ply, and without hesitation. must take the bad with the good in •Y\\'hat! oat here in the 'eke it,- every v'y'gc: .and the only serious ctb- (mirerl Cap, a- he had previously clone jection that an old seafaring man can of Ja-;'e with propriety make to such an event \....., . in: 'lust .:t the , arc is, gnat it shtould happen on this ;hit of eskers." d- -'i fresh Watt r." i he effect omonunicioior Sergeant Deelemt :vas a brave etas to leave ro d,'u4 .a tae otitic of man, and had shown his spirit in • e Fire Selling Quality B ks Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. 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Parties desirous to effect insurance or transact other business, will be promptly attended to by ,applications to any of the above named officers addressed to their respective post offices. scenes that looked much 'tore appall- ing than this; but on all such occas- ions he had been aible to act this part against his Toes, while here he was pressed upon by an enemy whom 11e had no means of resisting. !For him- self he cared far less than for his daughter, feeling some of that self- reliance which seldom deserts a man of firmness who is in .vigorous 'health, and •wile has ibeen accustomed to per- sonal exertions in moments of jeopar- dy; buil as respects !Mabel he saw no means of escape, and, with a' father's fondness, he at once determined that,. if either was doomed to perish, be and itis 'daughter must perish 'to- gether. "Do you 'think this most come to .pass?" he asked of Cap firmly, but with strong 'feeling. "Twenty minutes will carry Ars into the threakers; and look for yowrsel , Sergeant: what chance will .eve's the stoutest manamong its have in that caldron to leeward?"