TOM AND I.

We had been out from Calcutta tliir teen days, and all had gone well with us on the ship Rambler. We had a full load, a full crew, and were carry ing as passengers to England three army officers and their wives and children—some 12 people in all. When I say that all had gone well, I mean that we had enjoyed fair winds and smooth seas, and that we, of the fo'castle, had found the ship's officers to be thorough seamen, with none of the brute and tyrant about them. A drier ship, or one better provisioned, I never sailed in.

Among the children was a boy named Tom—a bit of a chap 7 years old. He was bright and inquisitive, and he had knowledge of things far be yond his years. You may think it curious that Tom and I became friends —he, the son of a military officer, and I, only an old Jack tar,' with hands rough and black and wrinkled, and a face on which the storms of ocean had beaten for over 40 years. And yet he singled me out from all the rest, nnd made the first advances, while I was only too happy to be permitted to give him the softest words I had ; the locker. All the children ran abou the decks at certain hours of the day. and it was no breach of discipline for us to hold conversation with them, provid ing our work went on. There was never a day after the second one out that Tom and I did no( sco more or less of each other. He called me his Uncle Ben, and he prob ably had something to say of me to his parents, for his mother came for ward to me one afternoon and said :

' I hope you don't swear ?' ' Only now and then, ma'am, and never before ladies or children.'

' I am glad of that,' she went on, ---' for our Tommy has taken a real liking to you, and we do not wish him to pick up any roughness.' 'Bless you, ma'am, and bless the boy, too, but I'd sooner die than say animproper thing in his presence.' ' I believe I can trust you,' she said as she seemed to study my face; and off she went to tell the boy that he could come to me as often as he liked. After that they had hard work to keep him out of the fo'castle when I turned in, and he would not go to bed himself without a prayer for Uncle Ben. I said that all had gone well for fourteen days. On the morniug of the fifteenth, as I came on deck, it was reported that the captain had been taken seriously ill during the night. That of itself was a shock, but nothing to what was experi enced two hours later when it was announced that he was dead. One of the army men before mentioned was a surgeon, and he pronounced the case a malignant form of coast fever. He gave out that there was no fear of any one else taking -it, \hb I think he did that to quiet us. The body was buried as soon as breakfast was over, and the cabin was also fumigated. We were saying among ourselves that Mr Hartley, the mate, was navigator enough to take the ship home, when he began to complain of racking pains and great thirst, and a quarter of an hour later wag put to bed. Before noon the surgeon was down, and be fore night the two were dead, and the wife of an officer had been attacked. What was curious about the disease was the little warning it gave before the victim was struck. Every man had been in the best of health, and the pains and fever came almost as sudden as a blow. Medicines Avere of no account. They speedily became light headed and began to rave, while the skin was almost hot enough to burn the hand which touched it. The mate lived about eight hours, but the surgeon went in six. You may believe that something like a panic fell upon us when the last two deaths were announced. We kept the ship on her-course, but nothing more, while a flag of distress fluttered from aloft. Mr Colby, the second mate, was a true sailor and a man of pluck, but this was his second voyage as mate, and, of course, he was not competent to navigate the ship a matter of several thousand miles, with all sorts of wea ther blowing. Indeed, the plain rule in the case was to heave the ship to, in case it would endanger her, and wait a reasonable time for an answer to the flag of distress. None coming, he would put the ship before the wind and strive to make the nearest port. The bodies were buried within half an hour after death, and then Mr Colby called us aft and said :

1 We must look the matter square in the face and do the best we can. We have an epidemic aboard, and God only knows whether it will leave one of. us alive. We can't run for it, and though it may do no good to fight it we'll try.'

He hunted up some sulphur, and we bnrned it fore and aft, and he mixed cayenne pepper in brandy, and served it out to all who would drink. He couldn't say it would do us any good, but the medicine chest did not appear to meet the case. We got the ship with her head to the wind, left the proper sail on her to keep her steady, and then discipline came to an end. I do not mean to say that a single one of us would not have respectfully obeyed any and every order of the mate, and that we were in any way lawless, but no work was set us, and we could re main on deck or go below. I stood leaning over the starboard bow as night was coming on, when I heard the pat ter of little Tom's feet along the deck- I may as well own up that I was wait, ing on deck hoping to see or hear from him, for I had not set eyes on him since noon. He came running up, greatly agitated, and pulled my hand and said: "' Come, XJ»cie j3 eDj papa's sick too!'

He dragged me to the mainmast, arid was pulling at me to go further aft, when the mate came out of the cabin. It was not for a foremast hand to enter the cabin unless sent on an errand, and I was trying to make the boy understand this, when Mr Colby come 3 along and says : 'Go along with him, Ben. The woman is dead, two more are down, and God only knows what is to be come of us ! I feel as if 1 had been attacked myself !' I followed the boy to his father's stateroom, realising that there was great confusion throughout the cabin. The father was clean out of his head and burning up, while the mother was lying on a couch, too horrified and over come to be of the slightest use. The other patient was the army officer— the last of the trio—and I passed from one to the other and saw that their hours were numbered without being able to console or relieve them. Such suffering I never before saw human beings undergo. Their tongues swel led, their eyes all bulged out in a hor rible way, and their muscles twitched as if pulled by human hand. The other lady had more nerve, and was chafing her husband's limbs, and forcing some medicine down his throat. I kindly told her the general situation, and asked her permission to gather all the children in the main-cabin. They ranged in age from 3 to 12, and I got them all together, spread down some blankets, and the poor things cried ■themselves to sleep in no time.

It was necessary that we should get rid of the dead body of the woman as soon as possible, and when I had finished with the children I went on deck to ask some of the men to come with me. On the way forward I stum bled over the body of the mate. He was rolling about the deck, hard struck with the fever, and while I was not certain that he was in his right mind I heard him mutter:

' Keep the flag of distress flying till you get help !' When I went into the fo'castle among the men, I found some sitting with their heads in their hands, others rolled in their blankets, and others yet staring at each other in a strange way, with never a word to break the silence. I broke the awful news to them without holding back a thing, but not a man moved hand or foot. I coaxed, begged, and threatened, but not one would go with me. In my anger at their stupidity, I cuffed one of them, but ho did not seem to feel the blow. I'm believing, sir, that the whole of them were paralysed with the awfulness of our situation. They seemed to be both speechless and help less.

There was no help for it but to go back to the cabin alone. I missed the mate as I returned, and as he was never seen again, I'm thinking his terrible thirst prompted him to leap overboard while I was among the men. It was a dreadful task I had to do, but I re moved -mx jacket, and took .the dead woman in my arms, and carried her on deck and let the body fall gently over board - For two or three minutes after wards I was so faint and ill that I could hardly stand, but when I revived a little, I went down to the steward for some brandy. He was not to be found, and I rummaged about until I found what I wanted, and then drank off enough to bring drunkennesss to any two sailors under ordinary circum stance?. I felt stronger and more cheer ful for it, and it was well that I had braced my nerves. Upon returning to the first officer, I found dying, and his wife was in a stupor from which I could not arouse her. The other officer had likewise been struck by death, and his wife was on her knees praying and sobbing.

It required, as you may believe, a great effort on my part to shake off the feeling of terror which sought to over come me. I realised, of course, that we were doomed to death, and I could not say at what moment the first symptoms would attack me, but I drove the matter out of my mind as much as possible and sought to feel that everybody depended on me. When I Avent to look for the steward and cook I prepared myself for the shock, and it was well I did. Both were lying dead in their quarters. Such had been the state of terror throughout the ship that nobody had looked after them since mid-aftarnoon, and they had been dead for an hour or more. Each victim attacked seemed to go sooner than the one before. The fever was like a conflagration; the more fuel the more heat. I believe you would ■ have excused my conduct had I now retreated to the fo'castle with the men and sat down to wait for death, but I had no thought of it. I took another pull at the brandy, looked into see that the children were still asleep, and then went on deck to demand assistance. I | saw a man aft, but before I could reach him he had disappeared. I looked over the stern to discover five of our crew in the yawl. They were setting out without sail, water or provisions, their only care to leave the horrible fever behind. I culled to them not to abandon me, or if they would go to return first for means to save them selves, but they threw out a couple of oars and silently rowed out of my sight into the darkness, having answered never a word,

Then I went forward and descended among the men, of whom there were ten or eleven still left. At least two of them had been attacked with the fever, and the others were as silent and as dumb as before. I talked at them, but they seemed not to hear. The carpenter, who was a hulking big fellow, large enough to eat me up, was the nearest man to me. I cuffed him sharply on the ear, followed it up with a kick, and warned him that if he did not come aft I would be the death of him. Well, sir, hs rose to his feet and followed me as humbly as a dog. He had the look of a sleepwalker, and lie uttered never a word!

but he would obey my bidding in every particular. By the time we got the bodies of the steward and cook over board the other people were dead—l mean the two officers. Little Tom's mother was in a stupor, but the other lady was so cool and calm, and her eyes so free from tears, that it was easy to see she had lost her true mind. I begged of her to go into the main cabin and lie down with the children, two of whom were his, but what did she do but laugh out as if 1 had made a joke, and exclaim, " I have seen you before ! You are Colonel Gilder, of the Twenty-ninth 1" We lifted up the body of the hus band, and carried it on deck, paying no further attention to her. It seems that she softly followed behind, for when the body went over the rail she brushed past us, uttered a piercing scream, and flung herself after it. I made a strong effort to save her, but it was in vain. Meanwhile the carpenter disappeared, and I let him go and re turned to the cabin alone. The stupid, lethargic feeling which had seized upon the othei-3 did not come to me in the least. I was never more wakeful and vigilant, but it was little I could do for any of the poor people in cabin or fo'castle. I roamed the ship the rest of that night solitary and alone, listen ing now and then to the cries and shrieks of the fresh victims, and you may wonder that I did not go crazy. I have wondered over it myself, but it was not to be.

When morning came both women wore dead, two of the children were (lying, and there were two dead men in the fo'castle, one of whom was the carpenter. A mile away, in plain view, was the yawl, drifting along with the ship, but I could not see anyone in her. By means of kicks and cuffs I rooted out two' of the men and made them assist me with the bodies, and the other ones abandoned the fo'castle for the deck and would not return to it.

There are horrible details which you would not care to hear, and which I can never bring myself to relate. One day I woke from the trance into which I had fallen to find little Tom and my self the sole survivors of all that great mass of people. The last t\\ o or three days were a nightmare to me. I heard ourses, prayers, wails and laughter. I must have thrown the last three bodies overboard unaided. When I fully realised ahe situation again, Tom and I sat on the main hatch, and I was crying like a child and he was saying : ' Oh, Uncle Ben, everybody's dead, and I do wish you wouldn't act so queer and talk so strangely to yourself.' The ship was still lying-to with fair weathor, but the boat had drifted out of sight. I looked over the decks, but Tom and I were the only occnpants, dead or alive. I descended to the fo' castle, but all rhe men were gone, and every berth had been cleared of its bed ding. It was the same in the cabin, not a soul left, and the bedding re movod. I had done all this, but could remember nothing of it. The dreadful fever had.spared us two—why I cannot tell, except that epidemics are erratic.

' Uncle Ben, I'm awful hungry,' said the boy when wo had looked over the ship. ' You just walked up and down and groaned and sung and laughed, and you wouldn't get me anything to eat.'

I at once started a fire in the cook's galley and prepared drink and food. It was, as near as I could make out, about three o'clock in the afternoon but tho day or the week or month was a blank to me. I could not say whether it had been four days or a whole fortnight since the Captain's death, but I afterwards figured out that it was the sixth or seventh day. Tom had picked up something to eat in the pantry, and had found the water butt on deck to quench his thirst. I slept with him on the cabin floor every night, and he had followed me about by day, but all this was a blank to me.

We felt much bettor after our meal, but we could do nothing to alter tho situation. The flag of distress was still flying, the wheel was lashed, and unless there was a great change in the wea ther, we would be in no peril. Al though the season was late December, the weather was warm, and we could not suffer for the lost bedding. With the bedding I had thrown over board all the clothing, but when I came to look around, I observed that I had laid aside all personal property be- longing to the ship's officers and «&.3 sengers. There was quite a lot of jewellery, and a smart count oj money and I placed all together in. one pack ago. Evening drew near Wore I had quite got my mind back to our situa tion, and a sort of relapse or re action came to me. This could bo accounted for, I presume, by the terrible strain ou my mind during those long days and nights. I felt weak and babyish, and it was hard work to keep back the sobs. If it wasn't for the shame of having Tom see me cry I should have given right up to the feeling. As night came I lighted -the. cabin lamp and sat down with Tom on my knee. IDo you know where God is %' he suddenly asked me.

' Aye ! child, He's all about us.' 4 Does he see you and me here in the cabin 1'

' He does.1 'And he won't let anything hurt us?'

1 We must trust that he won't.' He was 'silent for two or three min utes, and then he came at me with :

1 Uncle Ben, we ought to pray' 1 So Wo ought, my boy.' 'We ought to pray that God will send a ship to see our flag and help.us. Won't you pray V The words cut me like a knife, and I dared not trust my voice to tell him that I was only an ignorant and sin ful old sailor, into whose ears no mother had ejvefr whispered of God and Heaven.

' Then I will,' said Tom after a mo ment, and kneeling between my feet he repeated, " Our Father Who Art in Heaven." . He had not yet finished the prayer, when I heard voices hailing us, and I started up and rushed on deck, to find a barque lying on our starboard quarter, with a boat already in the water to come aboard. What else ? Why, sir, it was New Year's Day, as they soon informed me. We who had passed through the perils of fever, weather, and drift of 200 miles, were still in mid-ocean to be picked up this night of all others, and at the very moment an innocent child was praying to God to save us. It was strange, sir, but I'm telling you the truth. It broke me down, and I was still weak and helpless when we reached England. Little Tom 1 He died a week before we were on soundings, and while I was out of my head and did not know that he was even ill. They buried him at sea, but it was only his poor little body. His soul was with the angels long before. That's all, sir, and you'll excusethese tears fh a man, and perhaps grieve a bit with me.—"Detroit Free Press."

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR. TUESDAY APRIL 19, 1887.

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