It Is not an uncommon occurrence
for two youngsters who are chums to
agree that if possible the one who dies
first will appear in the spirit to the
otlwr. I dou't think such agreements
are as apt to be made now as formerly,
for belief in the reapi>earance o f those
wt»o have died is not whst it was
when I was young. Scientists have
taken up the matter, but the laity don’t
feel much Interest in i t
I made one o f these agreements with
Dick Atherton when we were eighteen
years old. Dick became a sailor, and
on one o f his voyages the vessel he
sailed In was wrecked, and all on
board were lost. A t any rate, if any
o f them escaped death he was never
heard from. I took to the water, too,
but not in the same Hue as Dick. I
began on river work and eventually
came to own and run a steamer that
I usually laid up in winter, but ran
as an excursion boat in summer.
•'ll»« season I had contracted to take
a party o f excursionists out o f Boston
harbor around Cape Ann. For several
days before our sailing everything
went wrong. The government inspec
tor took it into his head to find fault
with a lot o f things which be required
me to Improve, and I knew that if I
didn’t attend to them myself I wouldn’t
l*e ready to keep my contract for the
excursion. The consequence was that
I got uo sleep for two nights and a
day before we left Boston.
I had several hundred persons aboard
and, rounding Cape Ann. preferred to
rely on m yself rather than on any one
else. I was passing Thatcher's light
when I began to feel so drowsy that I
feared to fall asleep, notwithstanding
the fact that the lives o f so many hu
man beings were dependent on my
keeping awake. I was tired, too, and
when I had a clear course ahead o f me
I sat down on the sent behind the
wheel, reaching forward to take It
whenever required. This I should not
have done. A man may go to sleep on
his feet. H e is much more liable to do
so while sitting.
Slumber got me, though, at Inst.
I must have slept quite awhile. Sud
denly I awoke, frightened out o f my
wits, for I knew what it was to go to
sleep at the wheel. There was a man
standing between me and it, turning it
rapidly. Whether he was really hazy
or not I couldn't say. lie certainly
looked so through my sleepy eyes. I
tried to wake myself enough to get up
and take the wheel from him. but
somehow, considering that he was
there. I couldn’t do i t
“ Go to sleep. Tom,” he said. "Y ou ’ re
not in fit condition for a pilot."
Whether I was not entirety awake,
whether I was dreaming. I couldn’t
make out, but the voice was certainly
Dick Atherton's. Then I dreamed that
I said to him:
“ Dick, have you come back to keep
your promise when we were young
sters?"
" I ’ ve come back to keep you from
running full headway against Folly
point,” was the reply.
I have said that I dreamed this, be
cause that's the way it seemed to me.
W bat it really was might be another
matter.
I woke up again later, looked ahead
and saw that there was clear sailing.
Thompson, one o f my steersmen, was
at the wheel.
‘ ‘Great heavensr: I exclaimed. “ Can
it be that I ’ ve been asleep ?’r
"Reckon you have, sir."
“ IIc w long have you been at the
wheel ?”
“ About ten minutes. 1 happened to
look ahead, and the boat was heading
for Folly point. I ran up here to see
what was up and found you asleep
and a man at the wheel who was
sheering off. He gave me the wheel
and left the pilothouse."
i “ A man?"
“ Yes, sir. he was a man. Why do
you think he was anything else?"
“ What did he look like?"
“ I didn't notice him very particular
ly. I was too much upset by the nar-
j row escape. Rut I remember that his
i hair was red "
Dick Atherton's I: tir was red. When
he was a boy we < ailed him Reddy.
So horrlGed was 1 at my narrow es
cape from saoHlicing a boatload o f ex
cursionists that 1 had scarcely time to
wonder about Atherton or his ghost
I asked Thompson if he felt sure he
could attend to the wheel safely, and
when ha replied that he could 1 told
him I would go below and rest a bit,
for I was completely knocked out by
what had occurred. Leaving the pilot
house. I walked aft through the crowd
of excursionists— they were Ignorant
of the frightful doom they had escni>ed
| —and was about to go down the stern
: eompanionwny when I felt a hand on
| my shoulder.
Turning, there stood
Dick Atherton. He was ten years old
er than when I had last seen him. but
I recognized him at once.
He was
looking mighty serious. Putting a fin
ger to his lips, he said: “ Don’t get
broken up over It, old man. Only 1
and the man who relieved me at the
wheel know about it.”
Dick then briefly explained. H e had
! escaped the wreck o f his vessel and
spent a year in the east, mostly Japan,
j Returning, he had seen an advertise-
j ment o f the excursion on my boat my
name beingr mentioned ns master. He
E»d eonufaboard without making him
self known and had gone up to the
pilothouse to surprise me. but instead
It was I wbo had surprised him
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