THE DERELIGT.

By OUTOLIFPE HYHE,

[Copyright, 1899, by Cutcliffe Hyne.]

"Her cargo'll have shifted," said the third mate, "and when she got that list her people will have felt frightened and left her."

"She's a scary look to her, with her yardarms spiking every other sea," said Captain Image, "and her decks like the side of a house. I shouldn't care to navigate a craft that preferred to lie down on her beam ends."

"Take this glass, Bir, and you'll see the lee quarter boat davit tackles are overhauled. That means they got at least one boat in the water. To my mind, she's derelict."

"I hope her crew have got to dry land somewhere, poor beggars," said Captain Image. "Nasty things, those old wind jammers, Mr. Strake. Give me steam."

"But there's a pile of money in her still," said the third mate, following up his own thoughts. "She's an iron ship, and she'll be 2,000 tons good. Likely enough in the Frisco grain trade."

"And you're thinking she'd be a nice plum if we could pluck her in any where?" said Image, reading what was in his mind. "Well, me lad, I know that as well as yon, and no one would be pleaseder to pocket £300. But the old M'poso's a mailboat, and because she's got about a quarter of a hundred weight of badly spelled letters on board, she can't do that sort of salvage work if there's no life saving thrown in as an extra reason. Besides, we're behind time, as it is, with smelling round for so much cargo, and though I shall draw my lVi per cent on that I shall have it all to pay away again and more to boot in fines for being late. No; I tell you it isn't all sheer profit and delight in be ing skipper on one of these west African coast boats."

Strake drummed at the white rail of the bridge. He was a very young *an, and he was very keen on getting the chance of distinguishing himself, and here on the warm windless swells abeam the chance seemed to sit beckoning him. "I've been thinking, sir, if you could lend me half a dozen men I could take her in somewhere myself."

"I'm as likely to lend you half a dozen angels. Look at the deckhands; look at the sickly trip this has been. We've had to put some of them on dou ble tricks at the wheel already, and as for getting any painting done or having the ship cleaned up a bit, why, I can see we shall go into Liverpool as dirty as a Geordie collier. Mr. Strake, if you have a penn'oth of brains stowed away anywhere, I wish to whiskers you'd show 'em sometimes."

"Old man's mad at losing a nice lump of salvage," thought Strake. "Natural, I guess." So he said quietly, "Aye, aye, sir, " t and walked to the other end of the bridge. # Captain Image followed him half way, but stopped irresolutely with his hand on the engine room telegraph. On the fore main deck below him his old friend Captain Owen Kettle was lean ing on the rail, staring wistfully at the derelict.

"Poor beggar!" Image mused. " 'Tisn't hard to guess what he's thinking about. I wonder if I could fix it for him to take her home. It might set him on his legs again, and he's come low enough, Lord knows. If 1 hadn't given him a room in the first class for old time's sake, he'd have had to go home as a distressed seaman and touched his cap to me when I passed. I've not done badly by him, but I shall have to pay for that room in the first class out of my own pocket, and if he was to take that old wind jammer in somewhere he'd fork out and very like give me a dash besides. Yes, I will say that about Kettle—he's honest as a bar keeper and generous besides. He's a steamer sailor, of course, and has been most of these years, and how he'll do the white wings business again Lord only knows. Forget he hasn't got en gines till it's too late and then drown himself probably. However, that's his palaver. Where we're going to scratch him up a crew from's the thing that bothers me. Well, we'll see." He lean ed down over the upper bridge rail and called:

"Here a minute, captain!" Poor Kettle's eye lit, and he came up the ladders with a boy's quickness.

Image nodded toward the deserted vessel. "Fine full rigger, hasn't she been? What do you make her out for?"

"Frisco grain ship. Stuff the bulk, and it's shifted."

"Looks that way. Have you forgot ten all your mainsail haul and the square rig gymnastics?" "I'm hard enough pushed now to re member the theory sums they taught at navigation school if I thought they would serve me."

"I know, and I'm as sorry for you, captain, as I can hold. But, you see, it's this: I'm short of sailormen; I've barely enough to steer and keep the flecks clean —anyway I've none to spare." "I don't ask for fancy goods," said Kettle eagerly. "Give me anything with hands on it—apes, niggers, sto kers, what you like—and I'll soon teach them their dancing steps. Let me go round and see. I believe I can rake up enough hands somehow." "Well, you must be quick about it," said Image. "I can only give you five minutes, captain."

Captain Kettle ran down off the bridge and was quickly out of sight and hard at his quest for volunteers. Captain Image waited a minute, and he turned to his third mate. "Now, my lad," he said, "I know you're dis appointed, but with the other mates sick like they are it's jsst impossible for me to let you go. If I did, the com pany would sack me, and the dirty board of trade would probably take away my ticket. So you may as well

do the kind and help poor old Cappie Kettle. You see what he's come down to, through no fault of his own. You're young, and you're full to the coamings with confidence. I'm older, and I know that luck may very well get up and hit me, and I'll be wanting a helping hand

myself. It's a rotten, undependable trade, this sailoring. You might just call the carpenter and get the cover off that smaller lifebdat."

"You think he'll get a crew, then, eir, and not our deckhands V *

"Him? He'll get some things with legs and arms to them if he has to whit tle 'em out of kindling wood. It's not that that'll stop Cappie Kettle now, me lad."

Presently Kettle came back.

"Well, captain," he said, "I got a fine crew to volunteer, if you can see your way to let me have them. There's a fireman and a trimmer, both English. There's a third class passenger, a dago of some sort, I think he is, that was a ganger on the Kongo railway; a negro stonemason, and there's Mr. Dayton- Philippe. That'll make a good, strong ship's company."

"Dayton-Philippsl" said Image. "Why, he's an officer in the English army, and he's been some sort of a resi dent or political thing up in one of those nigger towns at the back there. What's he want to go for?"

"Said he'd come for the fan of the thing."

Captain Image gave a grim laugh. "Well, I think he'll find all the fun he's any use for before he's ashore again. Now, Mr, Strake, hurry with that boat. You're to take charge and bring her backhand, mind, you're not to leave the captain here and his gang aboard if the vessel's too badly wrecked to be safe."

The word was "hurry." The third mate fended off the boat while Kettle's crew of nondescripts scrambled un handily down to take their places. The negro stone mason who had been a stowaway refused stubbornly to leave the steamer and so was lowered igno miniously in a bowline, and then, as he still objected loudly that he came from Sa' Leone and waa a free British subject, some one crammed a bucket over his head, amid the uproarious laughter of the onlookers. Ahead of them the quiet ship shoul dered clumsily over the rollers, now gushing down till she dipped her mar tingale, now swooping up again, send ing whole cataracts of water swirling along her waist.

The boat was ran up cannily along side and Kettle jumped into the main chains and clambered on board over the bulwarks. "Now, pass up my crew, Mr. Strake," said he.

"I'm coming myself next, if y©u don't mind," said the third mate. "Must obey the old man's orders," he explained as they stood together on the sloping decks. "Yon heard yourself what he said, captain."

"Well, Mr. Mate," said Kettle grim ly, "I hope you'll decide she's sea worthy, because whatever view you take of it here I'm going to stay."

The mate frowned. He was a young man, he was here in authority, and he had a great notion of making his au thority felt. Captain Kettle was to him merely a down on his luck free passage nobody, and as the mate was large and lusty he did not anticipate trouble. So he remarked rather crabbedly that he was going to obey his order, and went aft along the slanting deck.

It was clear that the vessel had been swept, badly swept. Ropes ends stream ed here and there and overboard in ev ery direction, and everything movable had been carried away eternally by the sea. But the hatch tarpaulins and the companions were still in place, and, though it was clear from the list (which was so great that they could not walk without holding on) that her cargo was badly shifted, there was no evidence so far that she was otherwise than sound.

The third mate led the way down to the lazaret hatch. He got his fingers in the ring and pulled it back. Then he whistled. "Half full of water," he said. "I thought so from the way she floated. It's up to the beams down here. Likely enough she'll have started a plate somewhere. 'Fraid it's no go for you, captain. Why, if a breeze was to come on half the side of her might drop out, and she'd go down like a stone."

Now, to Kettle's honor be it said (seeing what he had in his mind), he did not tackle the man as he knelt there peering into the lazaret. Instead he waited till he stood up again and then made his statement coldly and deliber ately.

"This ship's not too dangerous for me, and I choose to judge. And if she'll do for me, she's good enough for the crew I've got in your boat. Now I want them on deck and at work with out any moie palaver." "Do you, by gad I" said the mate, and then the pair of them closed with out any farther preliminaries. They were both of them well used to quick rough and tumbles, and they both of them knew that the man who gets the first grip in these wrestles usually wins, and instinctively each tried to act on that knowledge! But if the third mate had bulk and strength Kettle had sci ence and abundant wiriness, and, though the pair of them lost their footing on the sloping cabin floor at the first em brace and wriggled over and under like a pair of eels, Captain Kettle got, a thumb artistically fixed 'in the bigger man's windpipe and held it there dog gedly. The mate, growing more and more purple, hit out with savage force, but Kettle dodged the bull-like blows like the boxer he was, and the mate's efforts gradually relaxed. But at this point they were inter rupted. "That wabbly boat was mak ing me seasick," said a voice, "sol came on board here. Hello, you fel lows!"

Kettle looked up. "Mr. Philipps," he said, "I wish you'd go and get the rest of our crew on deck out of the boat."

(Do be con I v &

THE AfflfctJßTOtf OfUBDI/stt; SATCBDaY, MAY 26,. 1900

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