The Wasco news., April 13, 1906, Image 6

for The Term oT His Natural Life
By
M A R C U S
C H A P T E R X .—(Continued.)
T h e red lips parted, and the blue
eyes, b rig h ter than ever, stared v acan t­
ly Around. T h e mound of her fa th e r’s
soice seemed to have roused her, for she
began to speak a little prayer: “ God
bless papa and mam m a, and God bless
nil on board this ship. God bless me.
an d m ake me good girl, for Jesu s C h rist’s
sake, our Lord. Amen.’’
T he sound of the unconscious child’s
sim ple p ray er had something awesome
In It, and J.Uin Vickers, who not ten
m inutes before would have sealed his
ow n d eath w arran t unhesitatingly to pre
serve the safety of the vessel, felt his
eyes til, with unwonted tears. T h e con­
tr a s t was curious. From out th e m idst
of th a t desolate ocean— in a fever-sm it­
ten prison ship, leagues from land, su r­
rounded by ruffians, thieves and m ur­
derers— the baby voice of an inuoceut
child called confidently on heaven.
T w o hours a fte rw a rd — as th e M ala­
bar, escaped from the peril which had
m enaced her, plunged cheerily through
th e rippling w a te r— the m utineers, by
th e ir spokesm an, Mr. Ja m e s Vetch, con­
fessed:
“T hey were very sorry, and hope«!
th a t th e ir breach of discipline would be
forgiven. It was th e fe a r of the typhus
which had driven them to it. T hey had
no accomplices eith er in the prison or
out of it, but they felt it but right to
say th a t the m an who had planned the
m utiny was R u fu s D aw es.”
The m alignant cripple had guessed
from whom the inform ation which had
led to the failure of the plot had been
derived, and this was his c h a ra c teristic
revenge.
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E x tra c te d from the H o b a rt Tow n
C ourier:
“ T he exam ination of the prisoners
who w ere concerned in the attem p t upon
th e M alab ar w as concluded on T uesday
last. T h e four ringleaders, Daw es, Gab-
b ett. Vetch and Sanders, were condem n­
ed to d e a th ; but we understand th a t, by
th e clemency of his excellency the gov­
ernor, th eir sentence has been commut­
ed to six years a t the peual settlem ent
of M acquarie H a rb o r.”
CHAPTER XI.
C L A R K E
appeared on the top of this rock. II«»
was clad in the eoanie garb of a con-
vice, and wore round his ankles two
Iron rings, connected by a short and
heavy chain. To the middle of this chain
a leathern stra p w as attached, which,
splitting in the form of a T, buckle«!
round his w aist, and pulled the chain
high enough to prevent him from stu m ­
bling over It ns be w alked. H is head
w as bare, and bis coarse, blue striped
shirt, open a t the th re a t, displayed an
em brow ned an.I m uscular neck. E m erg­
ing from out a sort of cell, or den, con­
trive«! by n a tu re or a r t in the side ol
the cliff, he threw on a scanty fire,
which burned betw een tw o
hollowed
rocks, a sm all log of pine wood; and
then, returning to his cave, and b ring­
ing from it an iron pot which contained
w ater, he scooped with his toll hardened
hands a resting place for it in the ashes,
and placed it on the em bers. It was
evident th a t th e cave was at once his
storehouse and larder, and th a t the tw e
hollowed rocks formed his kitchen.
H aving thus m ade prep aratio n s for
supper, he ascended a pathw ay which
led to the highest point of the rock. His
fe tte rs compelie«l him to take short steps,
and, as he walked, he wince«! as though
the iron bit him. A handkerchief 01
strip of cloth was tw isted round his left
ankle, on which the circlet had chafed
a sore. P ain fu lly and slowly he gained
his destination, and. Hinging him self on
the ground, gazed aroum l him. A brig
was being tow ed up th e harb o r by two
convict-w anned boats.
T he sight of this brig seemed to rouse
in the mind of the solitary of the rock
a strain of reflection, for, sinking hit
chin upon his hand, he fixe«! his eyes on
th e Incoming vessel, a n ! immerse«! him ­
self in moody thought. T he ship a n ­
chored, the ln>ats detached them selves
from her sides, the sun sunk, and the bay
w as plunge«! in gloom. Lights began to
tw inkle along the shore of the settle­
m ent. T h e little fire died, and the w ater
in the Iron p«»t grew cold; yet the w atch­
er on th e rock did not stir. W ith hi»
eyes sta rin g Into the gloom, and fixed
steadily on th e vessel, he lay along the
barren cliff of his lonely prison as mo­
tionless as the rock ou which he had
stretched him self.
men escaped, out of «horn sixty two only
were found dead. T he prisoners kill«*«)
them selves to avoid living any longer,
ami. if so fo rtu n a te as to penetrate the
desert of scrub, heath ami sw am p which
lay betw een their prison and the settled
districts, preferred death t«> recapture.
Succ«'s>.fully to tra n sp o rt the rem nant «»f
this desperate baud of doubly «ouvicte«!
felons to A rth u r’s new prison was tho
mission of M aurice F rere.
“ W ell, Mrs. V ickers,” he said, as he
took a cup of tea from the hands of th a t
lady, “ I suppose you won’t he sorry to
get aw ay frotu this ¡dace, eh?”
“ No, indeed,” says poor Mrs. Vick­
ers. with the old girlishness shadowed
hj six y ears; “ I shall he only too glad.
A dreadful place! J o h n ’s duties, how­
ever, are im perative. But the wind! My
d e a r Mr. F rere, you’ve no idea of it;
1 w anttsl to »end Sylvia to H obart Tow n,
but Jo h n would not let her go.”
“ By the way, how Is Miss SylVia?”
nsked F rere, with the |>atrohixiug air
which men of his stam p adopt when they
sj»enk of children.
“ Not very well, I ’m sorry to sa y ,” r«»-
turned Vickers. “ You see, it’s lonely
for her here. T h ere a re uo children of
her own age. with the exception of tho
pilot’s little girl, and she cannot asso­
ciate w ith her. But I did not like to
leave her behind, ami vmleavorcd to
teach her m yself.”
“ H um ! T h ere waa a —ha— governess,
or something, w as there
no t?” sai«,
F rere, starin g into his teacup. “T h a t
maid, you know— w hat was her nam e?”
“ Miss U nrfoy,” said Mrs. Vickers, a
little gravely. “ Yes, j»«»«»r th in g ; a sud
story, Mr. F rere."
"Indeed!
I left, yon know, shortly
a fte r the trial of the m utineer«, and
never heard the full p a rtic u la rs.” l i e
spoke carelessly, hut he aw aited the re­
ply w ith keen curiosity.
“ A and story!” repea ted Mrs. Vick­
ers. “ She was the wife of th a t w retch-
ed m an, Rex, and cam e out as my maid
in order to he near him. She wouhl
never tell me her history, p«s»r thing,
though all through the dreadful accusa­
tions m ade by th a t horrid d«»ctor, I la g ­
ged her alm ost on my knees. You kn«>w
how she nursed Sylvia am, p«s»r John.
Really n moat superior creature. I think
she m ust have been a governess. H er
conduct w as most exem plary, ami «lur­
ing the six m onths we were in H o b art
Tow n she tau g h t little Sylvia a great
«leal, (if c«»urse she could not help her
w ratched husband, you know.
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A F o o lis h
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“ You ar»«*m ix t v o u h a n d re stle ss th is
m o rn in g ,” aahl th e m e rc h a n t.
••Y oh ,” rep lied hl» p a rtn e r. ” 1 nak ed
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m e w h a t lie o w es nx».”
“ Ah! A nd y o u 're a fr a id lie w o n ’t
ootno?”
“ I ’m a fra id he will conic and bo rro w
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“C ertainly not!” said Frere, heartily.
“ I heard s«>uu*thing about him. too. Got
into some scrape, «11«, lie n o t? ”
“ Mis» I ’urfoy, or Mrs. ReX, a» she
renlly *was, though 1 don’t suppose Rex
is her real nam e, either, came into a
little legacy from an old au n t in Elig­
ían«, and left my service. She took a
little cottage on th e New Tow n r«»ad,
and Rex w as assigned to her as her
se rv a n t.”
“ I see. T he old dodge!” says F re re ,
flushing a little. “ W ell?”
“ W ell, the w retched man trie«, to «si-
cape. and she help**«, him. H e w as to
get to IjAunceston, aix, so on board a
vessel to Sydney; but they t«M»k th e
unhappy creatu re, and he was sent down
here. She wa» only fined, but It mine«,
her. Y’ou see, only a few people know
of her relationship to Rex, aixl she wa»
ra th e r resjiected. O f course, when it )>e-
carne known, w hat with th a t d readful
trial an«, the horrible assertions of Dr.
Pine— you will not believe me. I know ;
there was som ething a,»out th a t m an
I never like«,—she was q u ite left alone.
She w anted me to bring her d«»wn here
to teach Sylvia, but John thought th n t
It was only to lie near her husband, nn«l
wouldn’t allow it.”
“O f co u rse it w as,” «aid Vicker», I®-
This solitary man was Rufus Dawes
T he southeast coast of Van D iemen’s
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I.and resembles a biscuit a t which rats
In th e bouse of M ajor Vickers, com
have been nibbling. E aten aw ay by the
continual action o f the ocean which, m andant of M acquarie H arb o r, th e n
pouring round by ea st and west, has di­ was. on this evening of December, un­
Lieut. M aurice F rere,
vided the peninsula from th e m ainland usual gayety.
of th e A u stralasian continent, the shore late in c«numand at M aria Island, had
with
news
line is broken and ragged. From the unexpecte«lly come down
sentinel solitude of the Iron P o t to the from headquarters. T he L adybird, gov­
sm iling banks of New Norfolk, the river ernm ent schooner, visited the settlem ent
w inds in a sluccession of reaches, n a r­ on ordinary occasions tw ice a year. To
row ing to a deep channel cleft between the convicts the arriv al of the Ladybird
m eant arriv al of new faces, intelligeuco
rugged and tow ering cliffs.
I T h e clim ate o f Van D iem an’s Land is of old com rades, new s of how th e world
owe“ tr^ th e nrvetiest Tn the world, in r nu- f r «r m w h ic h th e y w-erp exiled, w as pro­
ceston Is w arm , sheltered and m oist; and gressing. W hen the L adybird arrive«!,
H o b a rt Town, protected by B runy Isl­ the chained and toil-w orn felons felt
a n d and its archipelago of D 'E ncas- th a t they were yet hum an, th a t the uni­
tre a u x Channel and Storm Bay from the verse was not bounded by the gloomy
violence of the southern breakers, pre­ forests which surrounded th eir prison,
serves the m ean tem p eratu re of Sm yrna; but th a t there w as a world beyond. T o
while the d istrict between these two the convicts th e L adybird was tow n-
talk, theater, stock q u o tations and latest
tow ns spreads in a succession of beau
She w as th e ir new spaper,
tifu l valleys, through which glide clear telegram s.
and sp ark lin g
stream s.
B ut on the postofflee, the one excitem ent of th eir
w estern coast, from the steeple rocks dreary existence, the one link betw een
of C ape G rim to. the scrub encircled their own m isery and the happiness of
T o the com­ ,ng. “ F re re , w e’ll go on th e v e ra n d a .
barren n ess of Sandy Cape, and the their fellow creature».
frow ning eutrance to M acquarie H a r ­ m andant and th e “freem en” this mes­ She will n ev er he satisfied u n til she gets
bor, the n atu re of the country entirely senger from th e outer life was scarcely th a t scoundrel free.”
“ H e’» a hud lot, th en ?” says F re re ,
changes. Along th a t iron bound shore, less welcome. T here w as not a m an on
all is bleak and cheerless. Upon th a t the island w ho did not feel hl» h e a rt op«*ning the glass window and lending
d reary beach the rollers of the southern grow heav ier when her w hite sails dis­ the way to th e sandy garden.
“ Oh, a very bad lot.” returne«, Vick­
sea complete th e ir circuit of the globe, appeared behind the shoulder of the
ers; "quiet and silent, but ready for any
and the storm th a t has d ev astated the hill.
cape, and united in Rs eastern course
On the present occasion business of vjllainy. I count him one of th e w orst
with the icy b lasts which sw eep n o rth ­ more th a n ordinary Im portance had pro­ men we have. W ith th e exception of
w ard from th e unknow n terro rs of the cured for M ajor Vickers this pleasurable one or two more, I think he 1» the
southern pole, crashes unchecked upon excitem ent.
It bad been resolved by w orst.”
“ W hy don’t you flog ’e m ?’’ says F rere.
th e H uon pine forests, and lashes w ith Gov. A rth u r th a t the convict establish­
lain the grim front of M ount D irection. m ent should be broken up. A succession “ I cut the hides off ray fellows if they
F u rio u s gales and sudden tem pests of m urders and attem p ted escapes had show any nonsense.”
"W ell,” aays V ickers, “ I <!on’t care
affright the natives of th e coast. N av­ called public a tte n tio n to th e place, and
igation is dangerous, and th e en trance its distance from H o b a rt T ow n render­ about too much ca t myself. B arton, woh
to the “ H ell’s G a te s” of M acquarie ed it Inconvenient and expensive. A r­ was here before uie, flogged trem end­
H a rb o r is only to be attem p ted in calm th u r had fixed upon T a sm a n ’s penin­ ously, b ut I don’t thingk it did any go«»«l.
w eather.
sula as a fu tu re convict depot, and nam ­ They tried to kill him several tim es.
You rem em ber those tw elve fellow s who
“ H ell's G a te s,” form ed by a rocky ing it P ort A rth u r, in honor of himself, were hanged? No! Ah, of course you
point, which ru n s ab ru p tly northw ard, had sent dow n L ieut. M aurice F re re
were aw ay.”
alm ost touches, on its eastern side, a with Instructions for V’ickers to convey
“ W h at do you «Io w ith ’em ?”
the
pris«>ners
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projecting arm of land which guards the
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Oh, flog th e w orst, you know ; but I
e n tra n c e to K in g ’s river. In th e mid­ thither.
don’t flog more th an a man a week ns
dle of th e g ates is an island, which,
Seven classes of crim inals were es­ a rule, and never more than fifty lash«*».
lying on a sandy bar in the very jaw s tablished, w hen the new barracks for
T hey’re getting q u ieter now. T hen wo
of th e cu rren t, creates a double w hirl­ prisoners a t H o b a rt T ow n were finished.
iron, atxl dumb-ell», and maroon them .”
p o o l im possible to pass in the roughest The first cluss w ere allowed to sleep
“ Do w h a t? ”
w eather. T h e h ead q u arters of th e set­ out of barrack», and to work for them ­
“ G ive them solitary confinement on
tlem en t were place«! on an island not selves on S a tu rd a y ; the second had only
G
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m et Island.
W hen a man gets
fa r from the m outh of this inhospitable the last-nam ed indulgence;
the third very bad, we clap him into a boat with
river, called S a ra h Island.
were only allow ed S a tu rd a y afternoon;
S arah Island is long and low. The the fourth and fifth w ere “refractory a w eek’» provisions, ami pull him over
to G rum m et. T here are cells cut In the
com m an d an t’s house w as built in the and disorderly c h a ra c ters— to work iu
rock, you see, and th e fellow pulls up
center, having the ch ap lain ’s house and irons;” th e sixth w ere “ men of the most
his
com m issariat a fte r him, and live»
b arrack s betw een it and the jail. The degraded and Incorrigible c h a ra c ter—to
there by him self for a month or so. It
hospital w as on the w est shore, and In he worked in irons and kept entirely
tam es them w onderfully.”
a line with it lay the two penitentiaries. se p a ra te from th e other
prisoners;”
“ Does it? ” said F rere. “ I t ’s a capital
Lines of lofty palisades ran round the while th e seventh were the refuse of
settlem en t, giving it th e appearance of this refuse— th e m urderers, bandits and notion. I wish I had a ¡dace of th a t
a fortified tow n. T hese palisades were villains, whom n ith e r chain nor lash sort at M aria.”
“ I ’ve a fellow th ere now,” says Vick­
built for th e purpose of w arding off the could tam e. T hey were regarded as s«>-
ers, “ D aw es. You rem em ber him, of
terrific b lasts of wind, which, shrieking cially dead, and shipped to H ell’s G ates
through the long and narrow bay ns or M aria Island. H ell’s G ates was the course— th e ringleader of the m utiny in
through the keyhole of a door, had iu most dreaded of all these houses of the M alabar. A dreadful ruffian. H e
form er tim es to rn off roofs, and lev­ bondage. T h e discipline n t the ¡»lace ‘was the most violent the first year I
was here. B arton used to flog a good
eled boat sheds. T he little town was w as so severe, and the life so terrible,
set, as it were, in defiance of nature, th a t prisoners wouhl risk all to escape deal, and D aw es had a childish dread
a t the very extrem e of civilization, and from it. In one year, of elghty-five of the cat. W hen I came, h e’d made a
its in h a b ita n ts
m aintained perpetual deaths there, only th irty w ere from n a t­ sort of petition to he sent back to the
settlem ent. Said th a t he was innocent
w a rfa re with th e winds and waves.
ural causes; of the rem aining dead,
B ut the jail of Sarah Island was not tw enty-seven were drown«*«!, eight killed of tlx* m utiny, ami th a t the aocuHUtiou
th e only prison in this desolate region. accidentally, th re e shot by the soldiers, ag ain st him wuh false.”
(To he continued.)
A t a little d istance from the m ainland and tw elve m urdered by their comrade».
is a rock, over th e rude side of which In an o th er year one hundred and sixty-
A concrete chim ney com pleted re«
the w aves dash in rough w eather. On nine men out of one hundred and eighty-
au evening in December, as the sun was tw o were punished to the extent of tw o ccn tlv for a T a c o m a s m e lte r Is 307 fe e t
sinking behind th e tree tops on the left thousand lashes. D uring the ten years In height mid Is said to he the highest
side of the h arbor, the figure of a man of it» existence one hundred and tw elve in the w orld of its kind.
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There Is no other medicine as cafe for a
child as Cascarets, the fragrant little Candy
Tablet, that has saved thousands of families
from unhappinsss.
The Nursing Mother even In good health
should always keep her own Bowels Loose,
and her Milk Mildly Purgative by taking
a Cascaret at night before going to bed.
No other medicine has this remarkable
and valuable quality. Mama takes the
Cascaret, Baby gets the Benefit.
Cascarets act like strengthening Exercise
on the weak little bowels of the growing
babe, and make them better able to get
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