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“I>et us take a turn round the deck, and then we will go below. It looks us if the crew had deserted her. Why, I wonder? She seems all right and tight; and if her rigging is all sixes and sevens, that’s easily accounted— Halloo! What’s that in the lee-scuppers, abaft the mainmast, theref" "It looks like a bundle of old clothes,” said Bill. “It is a man’s body. Turn it around, Bill.” Bill lifted the body up and propped it in a sitting posture againt the bulwarks. All gave back an exclamation of dismay. It was the most revolting sight I had ever set eyes u]>on. The face was putrid, swollen, ami almost black. (Vie eye was wide open; the other, together with apart of the cheek, had been eaten away. One of the poor wretch's arms having been stretched out as he fell, had stiffened as he died, and now pointed its yellow and almost lies bless Ungers at Captain Peyton. “God bless me!” he exclaimed, in an awe-struck voice. “I do believe It’s a fever shlpl” “You surely don’t mean that all the crew have died of fever?” “I am afraid so; hut we will soon see?” There were two houses ou deck, one of them being evidently the master’s quarters. Peyton opened the door and peered in fearfully. I looked over his shoulder. In the bunk lay a blackened corpse, a troop of hideous rats gnawing at the face. On the floor was another corpse and more rats. The captain drew hack with a shudder, and closed the door. “Yes,” he said, “they are all dead, sure enough. I wonder where she hails from ami what her cargo is? If 1 could only get a look at the manifest, or tJie log-book! I dare say they are in the poor skipper’s cabin, and 1 am not going there again. We will just have a peep at the hold, though. No harm in that.’’ As he spoke he slipped down the hatchway. ami in live minutes came back with the news that she was timber laden. “Does anybody know her name?” he asked. “Yes,” says Bill; “it is on the binnacl e and the wheel—’Lady Jane.’ ” “I know her,” I said, drawing on my recollection of "Lloyd’s Register.” “.She belongs to Hart A: Coverdale, of Liverpoolmaster, Williamson; built at Nova Scotia about ten years ago, if I remember rightly. 1 think we once insured her for a voyage to Honduras and back.” ‘ That’s it; I thought so. She hails from Belize—that is where they got the fever, no doubt—and her cargo consists of mahogany and logwood. A valuable cargo that, Mr. Erie. What do you think she is worth, now—ship, cargo, and everything; lock, stock, barrel, and clinker?" “Speaking roughly, I should say from fifteen to twenty thousand pounds.” “And she’s a derelict. Nearly all that money would go to the owners, with a thumping share to the officers and crow; and I am part owner." “If you take her into port—” “And that is what I mi in to do. One way and another, It would bring mo a few thousands—anyhow, enough, with what I have, to make me independent for life, and he a nice provision for the wife and children when l die. Yet; I will take the ‘Lady Jane’ into port—If I can.” “But, surely. Captain Peyton, you will not put any of your crew on hoard? Why, she is a regular pest-house; and the sooner I am off her the better I shall be pleased." “Only a couple of volunteers to take the wheel, turn and turn about. But once here they must stay here. There will he no communication whatever between the two ships, no more than if they were a hundred miles apart. The two men who volunteer shall bring their own water ami provisions, so that the risk they run will be of the very Slightest.” “Do you think anybody will volunteer?” “You will see when we get back. Yes, I shall take the ’Lady Jane’ in tow, and if the weather holds good, I will have her at Nassau in ten days or less.” “And if the weather does not hold good?” “Then we shall have to cast her off.” "And you really do not think that In all this there is any risk?” "For the two men who come aboard there may be some slight risk of infection; but for us, none whatever. The fevercunnot fly over the water or creep along the hawsers. 1!'sides, 1 never knew one ship take yellow fever from another. It is a laud disorder, and ships bring It with them from places where it is epidemic. They never get It at sea.” “You think it is yellow fever, then?” “Of course; what else can it be? I saw It at once when Bill turne I that poor devil over. He must have died on deck and rolled into tlie scupper. And now, If you please, we will return to the ‘Diana’ ” I said no more, yet I could not help feeling that Captain Peyton was making a mistake which might cost u* dear. He was letting greed obscure his usually clear judgment. The moment he had ascertained the “Lady Jane's" character, he should have got out of her way as quickly a.s possible. The idea of having a pest-ship trailing after us for ten days—more likely fourteen—was to me simply horrible. I did not forget that I was supposed to be proof against yellow fever; yet the fact, if fact it were, gave me no comfort, and I returned to the “Diana” full of uneasy thoughts and gloomy forebodings. The unexpected was happening with a vengeance!

CHAPTER THE FIRST VICTIM. As soon as we were on hoard the "Diana"

the captain gave every man who had been with him a glass of grog, an 1 after taking one himself, sprinkled ns all with carbolic aci 1 and water, ami ordered Hill Hailey ‘H I “he quarter-master, who had handled the

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corpse) to change his clothes, and disinfect those he had worn by dampening them with a similar mixture, and hanging them

uji in the sun until they were dry. This done, Peyton called the crew to-

gether and made them a little speech. He said that the "leidv Jane" carried a very j valuable cargo, and that If wc tnw“ » her into port the salvage would produce some-

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and provisions, and slept on deck, he felt sure they would lie quite safe. There was no antidote for infection like sea air. At the same time he would use neither compulsion nor persuasion. If anybody chose to volunteer, that would be another matter; and the two men who did so should receive, over ami alnive their share of the salvage, fifty pounds apiece. Were any of them disposed to volunteer on these conditions?” The question was answered by a shout, and at least two-thirds of the crew volunteered on the spot. “Didn’t I tell you?” said Peyton, turning to me with a smile. “All right, lads! But I only want two; cannot spare more, and two will be quite enough. We must draw lots. Mr. Bucklow, write down the name of every man who is willing to undertake the job on a slip of paper, put the slips into a hat, and then Mr. Krle will perhaps oblige us by drawing two at random, and the names on them will be those of the two lucky ones.” Lucky ones, indeed! The names were written. I drew two slips, and announced, amid the breathless attention of the crew, that the winners were Harry Smithers and Jack McKean. Both threw up their caps with delight; the others looked bitterly disappointed: ami the curses they vented on their ill-luck were loud ami deep. After this a couple of hawsers were passed from the stern of the “Diana” to the bows of the “Lady Jane,” the forlorn hope (very forlorn, I feared), amply provided with water and provisions, went on board the derelict, and the fever ship was taken In tow. I have already mentioned that the “Diana” hud an auxiliary screw. It was, however, very small, and seldom usedonly, In fact, when there was a dead calm or exceptionally bad weather. So far, it had not been used at nil, and our coal supply being unusually low (owing to our carrying a full cargo of merchandise), Peyton would probably not have put the “Diana” under steam at all had we not fallen in with the fever ship But ns it is extremely difficult for a vessel under sail to tow another, lie ordered the screw to he slipped and steam to be got up. It was, however, quite evident that our progress In any circumstances would be slow, and that if a gale of wind sprung up we should have to abandon our prize. Nobody knew this better than Peyton. “What will you do with the ‘Lady Jane’ when you get her to Nassau?’’ I asked. “Batten down the hatches and fumigate her with sulphur; then put a crew aboard, liond fresh sails to her. and send her home undercharge of Mr. Bucklow. If there should tie any fever-germs left—and I don’t believe there will be—the cold will soon kill them.” Had I been unduly alarmed, after all? There was no communication between the two ships; it was hardly possible for the infection to fly across the streak of water that separated them; and yellow fever l>oIng generally confined to certain localities, ttie sea miist necessarily he unfavorable to Its development. When two days passed and nobody seemed any the worse—not even Bill Bailey, who had handled the dead body—1 began to think that I had been unduly alarmed; my spirits revived, and albeit none of us passengers (nor probably any of the crew) particularly liked the proximity of the fever ship, we soon Chased to trouble about her, and our lives went on as usual. In the meanwhile, the wind had fallen, and though every stitch of canvas was spread, we could not make more than four knots an hour, even with the help of our tiny screw, much to Peyton’s annoyance. “At this rate,” he said, “we shall not reach the Bermudas for two or three weeks. However, it might he worse. If it had come on to blow, we should have had to east the ‘Lady Jane' off; and if we ; were quite becalmed, we should soon be without coal. I wish Nassau was a few hundred miles dearer. It is a good stretch out of our way.” The responsibility he had incurred by deviating from his course was evidently preying on his mind. If all went on smoothly, if he got safely to Nassau and disposed of the “Lady Jane” to advantage, or sent her home, good and well—his coowners would lie more than satisfied, and praise his enterprise and pluck, and he would put money in their pockets and his own. But if, after prolonging his voyage two or three weeks, he had to abandon his prize, they would probably have something to suy that he might not quite like. So fur as I was personally concerned, I had no objection in the world to make a call at the Bermudas. Not knowing when —if ever ! should tic able to make another long voyage, 1 wanted to see nil 1 could. One of my greatest pleasures was un early walk round the "Diana’s” deck. There li.'lng none of the fair sex on board, we had no need to study propriety; and I generally rose with the sun, slipped on a P-iir of pyjamas, and paddled about the deck with naked feet. As often a.s not I appeared even without the pyjamas, and jumping overboard at the bows, swam to the stern and climbed up the ship’s side by a rope. Rather a ticklish operation; for if you don't seize the rope at the right moment you may be left behind, and swimming after the ship under sail is by no means easy and may be dangerous. Before she could he brought to and a bout lowered, you might easily tic drowned or gobbled up by a shark. Captain Peyton several times warned me of the risk I ran by this proceeding. “You will be missing your tip one of these days," be said, “and then look out! If the ship has much way on her, it may be half an hour or more before you get help.” Bat ns I never missed my tip, I thought I never should: and with practice the feat became so easy that I grew confident and careless, although I did not end, ns Peyton said I should, by "missing my tip.” One morning, shortly after we had discovered t lie “Lady Jane," I rose, if anything, a little earlier than usual, was on deck, just as the sun began to rise, and diving over the bows as usual, struck out leisurely fur the stern, which, as the ship and myself were moving in opposite directions, 1 reached in a few seconds. Raising my head, 1 prepared to make a dash at the rope. It was not there! I had forgotten to order one to be thrown out, and I was not sure that anybody had seen me go into the water. I shouted to the man at the wheel but he did not hear, and the next moment the ship hail forged ahead. There was nothing for it but to climb up the bows of the "L idy Jane.” Better risk taking the fever than be drowned. She was rather low In the water, or I do not think I should have managed it, anil I was greatly helped by the loose end of a bolt-rope which hung down from the bowsprit. Ah I struggled up, knocking myself about u good deal in the effort, I happened

to cast an eye on the hawser nearest to me, and fancied I saw something black moving along it toward the "Diana.” “What on earth—?” I could not spare a hand to rub my eyes, so I shut and opened them by way of squeezing out the water, and looked again. There could be no mistake aliout It. The black thing was a rat. and it was followed by a lot more rats. They were running along the rope In regular processionscores of them—and when I got over the bulwark 1 found ever so many more, waiting for their turns. When the hideous things saw me they ran away squeaking. I shuddered, for I knew what they had been feeding on; but my mind was just then too much occupied with my own concerns to take in the full significance of the Incident. I felt rattier foolish standing stark naked in the bows of the “Lady Jane." and did not want to add to the absurdity of my position by hailing the “Diana” and asking for a boat. Why should I not imitate the rats, and use one >f the hawsers as a bridge? No sooner tbudght than done. I am a pretty fair gymnast, and seizing the hawser with both hands, and letting myself down, I moved them alternately forward until 1 reached my destination. It was still gray dawn; nobody hail seen me, and 1 crept nnperceived over the taffrall. Bill Bailey was at tiie wheel, and Bucklow the second mate, and Tom Bolsover were near the binnacle, deep iti conversation. “Good-morning!” I said, In a hollow voice, fur I was breathless from exertion. “L'>rd help us! One of them chaps from the ‘Lady Jane!’” shouted Bailey, and without more ado left the wheel to itself, ind ran forward us fust as if our ghostly hi.' had been at his heels. His exclamation ind my appearance so scared Bolsover, that he jumped round, slipped on the wet leek lit hud just been washed),andclutehng at the mate in a frantic effort to save nimself, both went down together, and the ihip br iuching to at the same moment, .hey rolled, one over the other, into the jcupp.r. “It is only me—nothing to be alarmed ibout. Just come aboard,” I said, bursts ng witli laughter, a.s I ran below to dry ind dress myself. When I looked into my glass and surveyed my body, I was not surprised at the scare I had caused. My hands and logs were covered with tar from the bows of the “Lady Jane;” sumeof the stuff had got on my face, and as my long iuuI rather red hair was matted on my forehead and hung over my eyes, and my skin was very white, I looked decidedly queer and slightly diab >lii al, if not very ghost like. • So soon as I had made myself presentable I went on deck. There had been a great to-do. When the ship broached to, the captain came out of his cabin In great wrath, and wanted to know what—the something or other—was up. Bucklow was excessively riled at being rolled into the scupper, and called the boatswain a darnation old woman, to Tom’s great disgust; and Bill Bailey received aseverereprimand for deserting his post and letting the ship broach to. “I thought it was one of them chaps from the 'Lady Jane’ come to life, or may be Yellow Jack himself,” pleaded the quarter-master. “And if it had been, that was no reason for letting the ship broach to," said the raptnin, severely; but when his momentary fit of anger was over, he laughed as heartily as the other; and for the rest of the day all were enjoying the joke, and talking about the apparition of Yellow Jack. Ah, me! It was the last bit of fun we had on board the “Diana.” In talking the affair over with Peyton, I mentioned the portentous sight 1 had just seen. He seemed much disquieted. "Hats!” he exclaimed. “Rats running along the hawsers? Are you quite sure?" “Quite; and the procession continued nntil 1 got on board and disturbed them.” “This may have been going on all night,” he said, uneasily. “It must be stopped. I want nothing from the ‘Lady Jane’ on board this ship, least of nil rats.” No wonder he felt uneasy. The rats I saw had been living for days on the bodies —now thrown overboard—which we had seen on the “Lady Jane’s” deck, and now they were among us, running round the ship, nibbling at our food, scampering over the water-casks. If it were possible to convey the infection, they would surely convey it—had, perhaps, conveyed it already! The captain asked me to keep what I had seen to myself—he feared it might alarm the crew—and the carpenter received orders to fix on each of the hawsers a round board, studded with nails, to prevent an Invasion of rats from the “Lady Jane.” “I have heard of rats running along rones before now.” he said to the rarneiiter, “and it is just as well to be on the safe Bide.” I made no further remark, but I much feared that it would prove another case of shutting the stable door when the steed was stolen. My worst foreboding revived, and I turned in that night with a heavy heart. After lying awake several hours, I sunk into a dream haunted sleep. My di'eiuus iieie ail about rats, I saw Uie procession over again; saw the little black demons crawl along the hawser and sweep in thousands over the deck; saw the watch fighting with them; and Peyton, coming out of his cabin to see what was the matter. the creatures fell fiercely upon him, and in a few minutes there was nothing left but a skeleton. When 1 awoke the sun was shining, and a huge rat sat on the side of my bunk. For a moment I thought that I still dreamed, but ns I moved and stirred the bedclothes it jumped on-the floor with a squeak and scurried out of my sight. The first rat I had seen on board the ‘Diana," and no doubt one of the horde from the fever-ship. A« likely as not, it had been playing aliout my bunk and running over my bed all night. My fellow-passengers were nil early ris*rs. though not unite so early ns myself, ind I found them at breakfast, Peyton, as usual, at the head of the table. “Halloo!” cried Hulnois, the young fellow who was voyaging In search of health. “I hope you are not out of sorts. I never knew you late for breakfast before. You ire not an early bird this morning, and if you had been you would not have picked □p a worm. No worms on board Hie ‘Diina,’ only rats and apparitions of Yellow Jack—ha. ha! “Rats! rats! What do you mean, Hulaois?” • “You have not seen any, then? Wo lave—lots—except the captain here; helms Kit.” I glanced at Peyton, and felt sure, from lis uneasy, anxious look, tha , despite his deni J, he, too. had been visited by one or more of our unwelcome guests. “I saw one ns I turned in last night," went on Hulnois, “and there were two whoppers o:i the floor this morning; and Robinson found one in bis shoe, did you not. Robinson?” “Rather! And it gave me a scare, too.

I was putting on my boot when 1 felt something soft; but it bit hard, I can tell

you.”

“Got hold, did It?” I said, with assumed carelessness. “Rather! Stnek Its sharp teeth into my big toe. But I had my revenge. I kicked the beggar off, and then knocked it on the bend with my other boot. Where did they all corns from, Captain Peyton? There did not used to be any ou board; you said so yourself.” "I ilid not think there were; but rats are very unaccountable creatures. You can never tell. Two or three pairs may have come aboard at Liverpool, and been in creasing and multiplying down in the hold. You have no Idea how fast they breed.” "Gad! If two or three pairs have increas ed into two or three hundred since we left Liverpool, they do breed fast, and no mistake,” returned Bulnois, dryly. “Two or three hundred! Nonsense! 1 don’t believe there are two or three dozens." “Aren’t there, though: Why, they are all over the ship; and if some are so bold as to come Into our bunks and crawl into our boots, just think how many must there be down in the hold. I l.o;>e they won’t eat t hrough the sides and sink us, that’s

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had seen on the occasion of my late Involuntary visit to the “Lady Jane.” The captain afterward told me “on the quiet” that (os I suspected) he bad seen several rats in his cabin, only it would not do for him to admit the fact. “We must make the best of it,” he said; “no use crying over spilled milk, you know. If we were to cast off the ‘Lady Jane’ wo would not get rid of the rats: and it may be a false alarm, after all. 1 really don’t see what harm they ran do." But this was all make-believe—whistling to kuep his courage up. 1 knew that in his heart Peyton thought just as 1 did, and feared the worst. When I went on deck next morning I missed Bill Bailey, and asked Bucklow what had become of him. “On the sick-list.” “What Is the matter?” “I don't know; but 1 believe he Is very sick. The captaiu has seen him; he will

tell you.”

We had no surgeon on board, and the captain, in addition to his other functions, acted as doctor. When 1 saw him, I asked what was wrong with Bailey—If it was any-

thing serious.

"Very serious,” was the answer,

“It surely Is not—”

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nosis is correct?"

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I see it, you mean? I ought.

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second officer of the ‘Neva,’ otw of th Royal Mail steamers, you know, we once had seventy deaths from yellow fever within a week of leaving St. Thomas’. Yes, 1)alley has got it; and I fear it will go hard with him, poor fellow.” It did go hard with him. Forty-eight hours later the quarter-master's body was stitched up in his hammock and committed to the deep, and at the captain’s request I read the funeral service over the poor fel-

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CHAPTER IX.—YELLOW JACK. TJke a good many other men, Peyton did not like to own. even to himself, that he had ma le a mistake; and as I could well see, he was continually casting about in his mind for reasons that might justify him for taking the "Lady Jane” in tow. In forgetfulness of tin French saying, Qn( t’cxeiuic, s'nrriisi:. His very anxiety to clear himself from charges which, as yet, nobody had made, showed that he wnconsclous of having committed a grievous

error.

"I am very sorry about poor Bailey,” be said. “Yet, after all, it is no more than was to be expected.” “I don’t quite see—” “Don’t you remember him handling that body on the ‘Lady Jane?’ It must have been then he caught the fever.” “But that is two days since. He was thoroughly disinfected; and if he had caught the fever then it would have shown Itself much sooner. 1 have always understood that yellow fever Is exceedingly rapid In Us action.” "Generally; but there are exceptions. He must have caught it that time ou the‘Lady Jane,’ and would have died just the same whether we bad taken the ship in tow nr not. How else could he have caught it?” “The rats. Bolsover tells me that they actually swarm about the water-casks; and you know what that means.” "Curse the rats!” Peyton exclaimed, passionately. “It's rats, rats, all day long! I think you have all got rats on the brain. Are you quite sure, now, you did see them cotn’ng across the hawsers?” "Quite. Besides, if they are not from the ‘Lady Jane,’ how did they get ou board?” “Anyhow, it is not the rats that gave poor Bailey the fever; he got it in the‘Lady Jane,’ and nobody can blame me for that. Who could tell beforehand that she was a fever ship?” To this query I made no answer. I knew what he was driving at. In the event of the fever spreading, he wanted to make out that it had been brought on board by Bailey; that the rats had nothing to do with it. I felt annoyed that he should thus try to wriggle out of the responsibility he bad incurred by taking the “Lady Jane” In tow, and only the fact of my being his guest prevented me from suy lug so. If he had been less obstinate, he would have cast her off at once, for besides takin g nstout of our course, she was greatly impeding our progress; and with fever on board our ovfn vessel, and a fever ship in tow, no port In that part of the world would receive us: what he would do with the “Lady Jane” In such circumstances ns these was a mystery. Bailey’s death naturally caused great alarm, both nmoncr the pas^onimrs qnd crew. The captain tried to persuade them that it was merely an isolated case, and Dint he had adopted such precautions as would prevent the p'’ 0 * ft’ r w spreading. 1 (TO BF CONTINIlKII.]

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