The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 03, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
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Aboard The C
Crew of u Water-Logged SI
By RALPI
Tho Chilton Grange, a British
tramp, lay at anchor in the harbor of
New York. She was an uncouth,
wail-siiled steamer of three thousand
tons, with bridge and deckhouses
rising like an island amidships,
indistiguishable from a hunderd
others of her kind that hardily
roam the seas in search of trade.
Captain Nelson Sackett sat at the
desk in his mall cabin and tried to
"write a letter to his wife. The task
was not so pleasant as usual. His
?olid shoulders were hunched forward.
the ruddy, interpid countenance
was clouded, and he wiped a
perspiring brow with his shirt sleeve
after makiug several false starts with
a sputtering pen.
At length he managed to say what
it sorely troubled htm to disclose,
and then, with a readier mind, he
wrote these closing words:
You and I will laugh over this
when I steam into the Mersey and
you are waiting for me on the landing
stage with the youngster holding
fast to your hand. Bless him!?I
that was a tine school report for an I
eight-year-old that he sent me at
Rio. I shall have some time to play I
with him while the ship is in Lever-]
jpool. I am loving you, Judith, the
same as always, and I shall ever be
Your fond and faithful husband.
In haste to post the letter in the
n \t, outbound mail, he sent a boat
ashore with it, and went below to
consult the chief engineer.
When he returned to the deck, a
small tug was making for the Chilton
Clrange at top speed, frantically
tlo.ciug its whistle to attract notice.
As it foamed alongside Captain
Saeketf saw standing in front of the
wheelhouse a tall, smartly tailored
young man with a pink and white
complexion, unmistakably English,
his smile frank and boyish.
Flourishing his straw hat, the
young man called up:
"Not such an awful lot of time to
(pare? what? They told me at the
wharf that you had cleared for
Liverpool. I should like to come
aboard, if you please."
He held a kit bag. and the two
leather trunks in the how were obviously
his property. The puzzled
shipmaster bluntly replied:
"You have chased the wrong vessel.
Better have another try at it.
Undismayed, the debonair young
man calmly returned:
"Not a bit of it. This is precise-j
ly all right. The Chilton Grange is j
what I want. Hoist this luggage,
aboard, will you?"
"Drunk or daffy," said Captain'
fs'elson to his elderly first mate. "A
'.person who mistakes us for a passenger
boat has violent delusions."
The voice of the young man Moated
up to them in amiable expostulation
:
"I fancied you might, recognize
me. Kvidently not. Stupid of me!
I am Mr. Hayden Not-cross. you (
know. My father happens to own
the Chilton Grange."
Captain Sackett's mouth hung
open while he stared down at the tug.
Fhoades, the melancholy first mate,
clung to the rail and forgot his er-1
rand. The seamen within earshot
%cu -tied to the side to view the sensational
stranger.
"Yon are th?* son of Sir James
Ttabh Norcross?" incredulously cried
the skipper.
"The only one there is, my dear
nan. 1 ean't very well give you mv
card until you let me aboard. I intend
to sail with you.
"You intend to sail with me? I:
'nn'l know about that. Of course if'
you put it to me as an order; but?"
The captain spoke slowly, his rather
stolid features working with some
hidden emotion.
Crisply, with a touch of impatience,
the heir of the great shipping
house of Norcross exclaimed as he
made for the side ladder:
"Oh, I say, drop that nonsense!
You and I will have to get on better
than this. Please do as I tell you."
With a shrug Captain Sackett ordered
the trunks taken aboard, and
noted that they bore the stenciled
name of Hayden Norcross. Again
engagingly affable, the young r tan
remarked as be scrambled to the
deck: 'It rather stumps you, I presume.
I call it jolly good luck. It's
the first time I ever booked myself
in one of the governor's ships."
Uncomfortable, reluctant, the captain
strove to he courteous, and said
as they walked forward:
"I didn't mean to be short with
you, sir; but I'm not at all anxious
to carry you to England. It 1s not
the sort of travel you are accustomed
to, and?"
"Oh. I shall have to learn the shipping
business when I get home," |
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Chilton Grange
lip Mutinies in Mid-Ocean
I D. PAINE
laughed the other, "and this is a use-;
, ful experience. I don't mind rough-'
ing it."
Captain Sackett's voice was unsteady
as he asked:
"How did the notion happen to
seize you. Mr. Norcross?"
"I have been globe-trotting (went
out by way of Suez), having a look at
the silly old world before putting my
nose to the grindstone. Like a
cheerful ass I neglected to reserve
a room in a liner, and when I
reached New York a few days ago (
every boat was jammed full?the
summer rush of Americans. I was
tired of lofing about, and by chance
I spied a shipping item about the (
Chilton Grange?one of the Norcross
freighters hv .tnve' .hmuxi tr>
Liverpool in ballast. 'Here goes!'
said I?and here I am."
Hayden Narcross gazed about him
as though well pleased with his
choice of transportation. The decks
were scrubbed white, the brasswork
gleamed like gold, and the houses
had been freshly painted. Her master
did his best by the steamer, although
Sir James Babb Norcross
grumbled at the cost and pared the
bills to the bone.
"I call this ripping!" declared the
young man. "Quite as if 1 were in
my own yacht?no beastly crowd,J
and a leisurely voyage. You musn'ti
look so put out about it, Captain
Sackett. I promise not to make a
nuisance of myself.'
"Very well, sir. You have the
right to do as ou like. You are inviting
yourself, please remember
that. I shall try my best to give
you a comfortable passage."
"It is my own surprise party," was
the cheerful rejoinder. "How long
before we head for the open sea?"
"Two or three hours. What about
sending word to your father that
you are in the Chilton Grange, Mr. |
Norcross?"
"I shall write at once," was the
easy reply. "The letter will re&ch
Liverpool ahead of us. What's the
use of cabling?"
"I am afraid today's mail has
closed, but there will be another sailing
this week. Aye, the letter will be
in Kngland before we are. And you
will be sure to mention that you
asked yourself aboard and I objected?"
"Still harping on the same string: '
exclaimed Hayden Norcross. "I
solemnly swear to absolve you from
from all part and share in my voyage."
The captain showed an odd unwillingness.
but this was doubtless n (
natural feeling of responsibility in
me .u^c i?i so iniporiani a person- i
age as the son of Sir James Babb ]
Norcross. No rudeness was intended.
|
In lovely June weather the Chilton <
Grange left port. Captain Nelson ;
Sarkett had handled men for many
years, and he appraised them i
shrewdly. This youngster was gen- <
orous. clean, unspoiled by golden for- (
tune. It was impossible to dislike (
him.
At table in the cabin. Khoades and s
the chief engineer, quiet, shy men. ?
were not at their ease in the company
of the owner's son. but he 1
could not be held blameworthy. His 1
was an effulgent name, and the bar- 1
tier of caste oppressed their honest I
British souls. It was singular that '
his presence should not have aroused *
their resentment, for they dumbly
felt that the Norcross millions had 1
been sweated out of the ocean-carry- '
ing trade and that the titled owner in >
Liverpool could afford to deal more t
justly with his men and ships. <
The passenger's appetite was <
good, his digestion perfect, but the !
duce of it was that he could not seem '
to get enough to eat. A chap felt
awkward about mentioning the fact. 1
but if he expected to control a few '
dozen steamers himself some day hej(
really ought to find out a few 11
things. In auch a well-kept ship as I
thia short rations, and rotten bad at
that, seemed confoundedly queer.
"I say, what's the program for
feeding these boats?" he rang out
to the skipper, who was in the
chart-room. "What I mean is, how
are they provisioned?" Captain
Sackett grinned. Me had
an unobtrusive sense of humor. Cntil '
now he had tactfully avoided ruf-j?
fling the young man. ji
"Most of the stuff is put aboard at *
Liverpool," he told him, "excepting 1
a little fresh grub picked up from I
port to port. The ship has an ex-"
pense allowance. If a master ex-!
ceeds it he goes into his own bally
pockets to foot the difference."
"Fly jove! I must speak to the i
governor about It," ingeniously ex-lj
IE LANCASTER NEWSTE
claimed the son. "With so many
large interests I fancy he has to
leave this sort of things to an un-,
derstrapper. He won't like it, I'm1
sure."
"We don't like it," frankly confessed
Captain Sackett. "It is hard
to get men to stay in these ships.
They have the name of starving their
crews."
"How absurd!" and the young man
began to pace the deck. "Sir James J
would be shocked. If you only knew
him! He is the most open-handed,
considerate old hoy in Liverpool?
always founding or endowing something
or other. And in his own
home?why. he can never do enough
for his people."
The skipper withstood the provocation
to say more. It was hopeless
to try to make the son understand
that the Sir James Ilabb Norcross he
knew was not the man his shipmasters
cursed behind his back.
Rut In the captain's silent scrutiny
Hayden Norcross detected something:
like pity. He colored and
spoke sharply.
"You think my father is responsible
for this outrageous provender.
I should say you owe me an apology. '
"I can't quite fathom why," gravely
replied Captain Sackett. "I have
accused nobody. However, I like to
3ee a man stand up for his dad."
This was the nearest they came
to an issue until the Chilton Grange
ran into a succession of gales, and
it ceased to be a holiday lark of a
voyage. Under lowering skies, over
a sea gray and unheaved, she crept J
sluggishly eastward, her speed falling
off day by day. It had not been
expected that at this season of the
year she would have to struggle
against shouting hean winds and 1
thundering combers. June was sup-i
posed to be a halcyon month.
The Atlantic pounded the laboring
steamer with gigantic blows, and!
across the well deck the waves hiss-j
ed in frothing green floods. The I
crew became spent and bruised and
disheartened. Sleep and rest were I
denied them. They damned the ship^
and the sea, crawling about in wet|
rlothes. clinging to life lines and
stanchions, or climbing from the
fire-room to ease their burns and fill
their tortured lungs with cool air.
The bonds of discipline had held
them silent as long as luck favored
the voyage. Now Hayden Norcross
heard them call his father uames to
curate ones Dlood. And as thej
weather turned even more menacing*
they yelled jeerlngly at him when the;
officers were not present to check
them. I
Their derisive gratification he- I
cause he was in the same boat with
them made him wince and shiver. |
He tried to piece together the wind- i
biown fragments of w hat they said. >
His smooth pink cheek was a shade|
paler and his eyes w ere troubled as (
tie shouted in Captain Sackett's
ear:
"1 can't stand much more from
these filthy blackguards. Can't you
put a stop to it? What are they
jawing about? Am I a sort of
Jonah? You might 'hink this ship
was a floating coffin when she left
Yew York harbor." |
"Perhaps she was!" roared Papain
Sackett as he watched a huge
ea tumble over the bows while the
hilton (irange quivered and groan-;
d in every plate and beam.
He looked wrinkled and old as he!
oood braced on the bridge in his
lripping oilskins. j
"I tried to keep you out of it." i
le added. "1 said all I could, all Ij
.ins obliged to. Hut you had to pla> I
his game with me. And bv what;
lie barometer tells me God AlTiighty
may take a hand in it before
mndown!"
His impassioned earnestness bewildered
Ilayden Norcross, who had
lot dreamed of danger. With the!
uiperb egotism of his years and staion
he believed it impossible that
lisaster could befall when he was
>u uniiru. i hp tumult of wind and]
?pa was terrifying, but what genuinely
frightened him was the
glimpse of nome mystery, sinister
ind traglo, that had been purposely
withheld from his knowledge The
-aptain and the crew gave him the
impression that the ship had been
foredoomed.
(Concluded in Next Issue i i
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