Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1898 — Page 6

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*L tx& - -e-. [Copy' fM, 1897. by J B L pp ocott Co.] CHAPTER VL Halstead spent the morning purposely in giving Diaz orders about breaking out the Yap cargo, going over the bills of lading with him as if he confidently expected to reach Tomil bay on Friday. As for myself. I fol- ! iowed his suggestions to the extent of winning over 40 of Don Silvestre s dollars at Sancho Pedro, in the smokingroom, and then losing nearly all back to him. This put the old gentleman in high good humor. We were getting quitechummy.when the senoritacame along forward and asked me to tell her how observations were taken; she had noticed Moreno on the bridge with his sextant, and made that an excuse to get me out for a chat. It still lacked ten minutes of noon, so I fetched a spare instrument from Halstead’s locker and held it so that she could see the sun. like a red ball, through the smoked glass. She couldn't ceem to keep it from wobbling out of sight, but persistently squinted through the lens while she scolded me for leaving her alone the whole morning. “Ai,” she said. “I did my new shoes put on before el cesayuno because I the promenade did expect with el Capitan or el Senor Enrique. See. are they not pretty?’’ She placed the little toe of one in a mesh of the netting, drawing up her skirt a trifle so that I could see the whole of the dainty tie, and, above it, a few inches of beautifully rounded ankle in open-work silk stocking, which disappeared in a cloud of lace edging. "And then, when I did with that stupid cura have to walk, what saw I but el capitan the tiresome occupacion talking with el primero. El Senor Enrique was in sight nowhere: but presently I am told he does mi padre’s doubloons win at the Pedro, en la camara de fumar. So I did think that it was bad for my father that his doubloons he should lose to a young man like el Senor Enrique, and that I should know if offended him I have, or el capitan, that neglect me they should.” “Capt. Dick is responsible for the safety of the ship and all our lives, senorita mia. and I —well, do you not think it is well that I should l>e good friends with your father?” "Oh. yes. good friends. Enriquito mio; but not so noticeable you should it make. The Spanish etiquette you Co not understand. When particular attention the gentleman has paid to the young girl, as but yesterday and the days before you have done, he eo boldly should not go to her father. On the land, ’the liberty to see you so much alone of the time as on el vapor we have done I never should have: it is not the custom. That is why las ser’oritas- the gentlemen like to be so friepdlj. when the —the opportunity they do have; it so seldom is. But w hen, to the senorita’s father the gentleman so boldly doles go. people do think that for his wife he does wi=h her. “Well, suppose they do. I guess I can stand it if you can.” "Ah. but Enrique mio. you do not me wish. Not now. lam quite sure. But if the people you do make to think so. you would me have to take or else the duello to fight with mi padre. They would say: ’Behold, el senor the gran admiracion has for la senorita. But un honorable he is; the respects he does not pay to su padre; much alone it is permitido that he does her see. Then he does find that she is not as he did think; remain he will not with her; and su padre must the senor then kill por la honra de la familia.’ Do you not see. Enriquito mio?” “I’m beginning to. dimly. You know I’m not as familiar with your Andalusian customs as I should be. But see, the sun must be at the zenith. Here, let me adjust the sextant, for

you. Now look. Isn’t the lower edge just touching the water?" As she peeped through the glass. Halstead, on the bridge, took the sextant from his eye and said: “Strike eight bells, quartermaster." Then he and the mates went into the wheel-house to figure up the reckoning. For perhaps half an hour longer we stood talking in the shadow of the forward life-boat. Then, just as the steward came along with the lunch-gong, there was the muffled sound of a crash from the engine-room gratings, and the machinery stopped. In an instant heads appeared at various win- ,'. ws and doors; the passengers, with pale faces and questioning looks, crowded out upon the decks. Echoes of voices shouting excited orders came from somewhere below, and the good old ship, having lost her headway, rolled uneasily upon the long, glassy swell. Halstead stepped quickly down the starboard ladder and aft to the engine-room gangway. The senorita clung tightly to my arm with one hand, while with the other she fished her beads from their warm concealment and held them ready for instant use. Her bosom was pressed so closely against my side that I could feel her heart beating about a hundred and forty to the minute. She looked aft with dilated eyes toward where the captain had disappeared, then beseechingly into my face, as she whispered: “Madre de Dios. Enrique! what is it? Shall el vapor in the water sink? Is it la muerte? Ricardito —why goes he below into the danger? tell me! Por Dios, tell me!" Iw as beginning to think, myse f. that for a bluff it was pretty realistic. Perhaps I may have caught some of the senorita’s nervousness. The crash below was- what puzzled me; that hadn t ; been on the programme. I comforted j the girl as well as I could by saying I didn't think the steamer was likely ! to sink right away, though there was certainly something wrong with the machinery, and then suggested our go- . ing along to the engine-room, where we might look down and see what the trouble was. I was considerably more shaken up than I eared to admit, especially as the quartern asters and stewards, in obedience to the discip’.ine which Halstead always enforced at sea. had taken their stations for the signal: "All hands stand by to abandon ship." \ When it came to actually approaching the vicinity of danger, the senor-, ita's auriosity. with poseio y an unconfessed anx’ety for the captain, got the better of her fears, and she followed me as far as the gratings ever ’ the cylinders. No one e.se had the i temerity to accompany us. if, indeed, they knew where the gangway led to. From the depths under our feet we could hear McPherson and the captain in earnest conversation, broken now and then by a dull tapping, as of a hammer on hollow or fractured steel. Occasionally cue of the Spanish as- j sistants would shout some order to the oilers, at work upon the high-pressure cross-head. Presently we heard Halstead say: "Turn her over once or twice, Mat. while I keep my hand on the shaft:” and in a moment one of the great oily pistons stretched itself up to within a fool of Garcia's pretty nose, as she leaned over the steel rail, startling a subdued squeal of surprise from the girl, who had no idea the thing moved. I'p and down, greasily, insinuatingly, they slid, while we could hear a little sharper tapping from the shaft-alley; then, with a slippery sough of content, they rested again. Another period of consultation below, while the steamer rolled in the trough of the sea; after which we beard the captain say: "Well, keep her at about CO turns for half an hour and see how she feels. Then report to me." In another moment we saw him coming up.

He smiled reassuringly as he reached the grating where we stood, . but looked thoughtful. As soon as he 1 stepped out on deck the passengers crowded about with anxious ques- j tions; and he told them, briefly, that there had been an accident to the 1 shaft, how serious a one it was impossible to say at present, but that the ship was in no immediate danger, and that they had better go below for j lunch. Then he called'to the mate, on j the bridge: “Pipe your men down. Mr. ■ Diaz, and come to my room as soon as you are relieved.” I was very’ anxious . to question him. but. by an almost im- ( perceptible motion, he signaled me to go below with the senorita. When we reached the saloon everyone was talking excitedly about the I accident and speculating as to whether the steamer would be obliged to lay up for repairs at Yap. The pulsation of the screw was noticeably slower; ' and the second mate, after hastily finishing his meal, hurried on deck to relieve Diaz, so that he might consult with the captain. The engineer’s chair was empty; he did not put in an appearance until dinner-time. About the time we reached the dessert, the screw stopped again. The steward# continued to wait upon us as if nothing had happened, and this alone kept several from rushing on deck again. When we did finally leave the table. McPherson came down from the captain’s quarters and assured Padre Sebastiano that the danger was not serious. But as bell after bell struck without the engines being started, a vague uneasiness spread through the ehip. and every one talked in subdued tones. Three of the passengers went below to make up small bundles of their valuables in case it should be ! necessary to take to the boats. Late in the afternoon, Halstead came down from his room, followedby the mate, and told those on deck that, owing to the accident, he haddeeided to head for the island of Guajan in the Ladrones, where he hoped to obtain spare machinery w hich w ould en- ! able the steamer to make the remain--1 dec of the voyage in safety. Then he | asked the senorita. Padre Sebastian©

and me if we would like to go down into the engine-room and see the damaged shaft. I fancy the padre would have preferred remain.ng on deck, but, as it was against bis principles to miss anything, we went, holding bunches of cotton waste as a protection against grease <n the hand-rails , and machinery. Ti e captain naturalv went first, and the senorita fol- , lowed, blushing like a peony at the revelations for which the steepness of the iron ladder was responsible. Down, down, grating after grating, until we were 12 feet below the water- j line and the cylinders towered above us like grotesque monsters: then .through a tiny door into the long tun-1 nel, or shaft-alley, lighted at intervals by hanging incandescents and extending clear to the inboard bearing at the stern of the ship. Four of the assistants and oilers were leaning against the wall-plates, like navvies waiting for the ore cat in a coal mine; while down at one side, obstructing the passage, was the wreck of an iron tank which had been lashed on brackets to hold lubricating oil, and which evidently, fetching loose as the steamer rolled, had fallen upon the shaft with sufficient force to start the erack that we could see dittinctly as Halstead swung a torch over it. There was quite a perceptible dent where the tank had struck, and. leading from it, the finer line of a fracture in the steel which extended two-thirds of j the distance areund the shaft, slanting spirally toward the stern. To our inexperienced eyes it seemed that anything over the normal resistance upon the screw might easily twist it apart, but the captain said it was not quite as bad as it looked, tapping the steel with a hammer and calling our attenI jicn to the sound as he did so. He said i that in ordinarily smooth weather he might get back to Mar.l’a without an actual break, but that, as the risk ! would be great in squalls or heavy teas, it would be foolhardy to proceed i without the strengthening rings and : clamps which he expected to find at Guaian. - . » •» fro E£ COSTIXTEB.] A CRITICAL TIME Ourrnj the Bartie et Saavlacv. Sick or W ell a Rusk S fkt and Day. The packers at the battle of Santi-1 ' ago de Cuba were all heroes. Their i heroic efforts in getting ammunition and rations to the front saved the day. P. E. Butler, f paek-train No. 3. ‘ from Santiago, de Cuba, on July 23rd. says: -We all had diarrhcea in more or" less violent form, and when we ' landed we had no time to see a doctor. 1 for it was a ease of rush and rush | night and day to keep the tnxps supplied with ammunition and rations, but thanks to Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhceea Remedy, we were able to keep at w ork and Keep our health: In fact. I siDeere.y believe that at one critical time this medicine was the iadir-vt •.our f our army, for if the p.-. at-rs mad tee® unable to work there w< >iki Eave been no way of getting - pyd-- '. the front. There were no reeds that a wagon train could use. My , and myself had the go.d f:rt :l— i. lay in a good supply f t-> n»" ne for our pack-train before we left Tampa. and I know in four cases :t abso-' lutely saved life." The above letter was written tc the manufacturers of this mem :ce. th" Chamberlain Medicine Co.. Iks Moines. lowa. For sale by H ithouse, Callow & Co.

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