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THE IRON PIRATE
A Vlain Tale of Strange
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By MAX PEMBERTOK -
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CHAPTER XXII. (Continued.) I
No man has ever looked on a more aw
ful sight. We had struck the battleship
low amidships we had crashed through
the thinnest coat of her steel. "She had
heeled right over from the shock, so that
the guns had cast free from the carriages,
and the seas had filled her. Thus for
one terrible minute she lay, and then,
with a heavy lurch, she rolled beneath
the waves ; and there was left but thirty
or forty struggling souls, who battled for
their lives with the great rollers of the
Atlantic. Of these a few reached tine sme
of our ship and were shot there as they
clung to the ladder.
For ourselves we lay, our Dows spin
with the shock, our engine room In fear
ful disorder. The other warships were
yet somtp distance away ; but they opened
fire upon us at hazard, and, of t!he first
three shells which fell, two cut our decks ;
and sent clouds of splinters of wood and
of human flesh flying in the smoke-laden
air. At the fifth shot, a gigantic crasn
resounded from below, and the stokers
rushed above with the news that the fore
stoke hold had three feet of water In It.
The hands received the news with a deep
groan. They bellowed like bulls at Black ;
they refused all orders. He shot down
man after man, while I crouched for safe
ty in the tower; and Chey became out
fiercer. Our end was evidently near.
Anon thev turned UDon the captain and
myself, and fired volleys upon the conning
tower; or, in their terrible frenzy, they
pitched themselves Into the eea.
Throueh all this our one engine work
ed ; and so slowly did the great ironclad
draw upon us that the end ol it an came
before they could reach us. Suddenly the
men rushed to the boats and cast them
loose. Fighting with the dash of mad
men, thev crowded the launch, they
awarmed the jolly-boat and the lifeboat.
We watched their Insane efforts as ooat
after boat put away and was swamped,
leaving tie men to drown. When
o'clock came, Black and Karl and myself
ororo lnn nnon the great ship, twacit
Dulled me by the arm and said :
Boy, they've left nothing our. wie
dinghy. The old ship's done; ana its
time you left her."
"And vou7" I asked.
He looked at me and at Karl. He
followed me slowly, as one In a dream, to
the davits aft, and freed the last of the
boats. Then he went to his cabin, and to
the rooms below ; and I helped him to put
a coutrie of kees of water In the frail
craft, with some biscuit, which we lasnea,
When all was ready, the captain went
to the engine room and brought Karl to
the toD of the ladder ; but there the Oer-
man stayed, nor did threats or entreaties
move him.
"He'll die with the ship," said Black,
"and I don't know that he Isn't wise;"
but he held out hie hand to the genius of
his crime, and after a great grip the two
men rjarted.
For ourselves, we stepped on the frail
est craft with which men ever faced the
Atlantic, and at that moment the first of
the ironclads fired another shell at the
nameless ship. It was a crashing shot,
but it had come too late to serve justice,
or to wreck the ship of mystery ; for Karl
had let the hydrogen into the cylinders un
checked. And In a cascade of fire, light'
Ing the sea for many miles, and making
as day the newly fallen night, the golden
citadel hissed over the water lor one mo
ment, then plunged headlong, and was no
more.
A fierce fire It was, lighting sea and
sky a mighty holocaust; the roar of
great conflagration ; the end of a mon
strous dream. And I thought of another
fire and another face the face of Mar
tin Hall, who had seen the finger of
Almighty God In his mission ; and I said,
"His work Is doner
But Black, clinging to the dinghy, wept
as a man stricken with a great grief, and
he cried so that the coldest heart might
have been moved
My ship, my ship!"
CHAPTER XXIII.
About midnight a thunderstorm got np
from the south, and the sea, rising some-
what with it, wetted us to the skin,
The lightning, terribly vivid and lncesss
ant, lighted up the whole sea again and
again, showing each the other's face, the
face of a worn and fatigue-stricken man,
"Boy," he said, "look well at the sun.
lest you never look at It again."
"I am looking," I rplied ; "it is life to
me."
"If," he continued, very thoughtful
"you, who have years with you, should
live when I go under, you'll take this belt
I'm wearing off me ; It 11 help you ashore.
If It happen that I live with you, It'll
help both of u.
"We're in the track of ert earners," said
I; "there's no reason to look at it that
way yet."
"That's your way, and the right one,
he answered; "but I'm not a man like
that, and my heart's gone with my ship
we shall never see her like again."
Black continued to brood, and when the
sun fell low In the west, and the whole
heavens were as mountains nad peaks of
crimson fire, I knew by his muttering!
that the frensy of madness was upon him,
He raved with fierce threats and awful
crlas at th Am ax lean, ha had burial
made desperate appeals to some appari
tion that came to him In his dreadful
dream. But at tlhe last he grew almost
incoherent. I was nigh dead with want
of sleep and fatigue, for I had not rested
during the fight with the Ironclads, and
went to sleep at last.
When I awoke for the third time, the
dinghy was held firmly by a boat hook,
and was being drawn towards a Jolly
boat full of seamen. I rose up, rubbing
my eyes as a man seeing a vision ; but,
when the men shouted something to me
in German, I had another exclamation on
my Hps ; for I was alone In the boat, and
Black had left me.
Was the man dead? Had he really
ended that most remarkable life of evil
enterprise and of crime; or had he by
some miracle found safety wfaile I slept?
nad the man gone out of my life wrap
ped In the mystery which had surrounded
him from the first? Or had he simply cast
himself from the dinghy In a fit of in
sanity, and died the terrible death of the
suicide? I could not answer the tremen
dous question ; but I had not reached the
shelter of the steamer which had saved
me before I made the discovery that the
belt of linen which had been about
Black's waist was now about mine. I
found that it was filled with some hard
and sharp stones. Instinctively I knew
the truth ; that In his last hour the mas
ter of the nameless ship had retained his
curious affection for me; had made over
to me some of that huge hoard of wealth
he must have accumulated by his years
of pillage; and I restrained myself with
difficulty from casting the whole there and
then Into the waters which had witnessed
his battles for it. But the belt was firm
ly lashed about me, and we were on the
deck of the steamer before my benumbed
hands could set the lashing free.
It would be idle for me to attempt to
describe all I felt as the captain of the
steamship Hoffnung greeted me upon his
quarter-deck, and his men sent np rounds
of cheers which echoed over the waters.
I stood for some minutes forgetful of ev
erything save that I had been snatched
from that prison of steel; brought from
the shadow of the living death to the
hope of seeing friends and country and
home again. And then there came a great
sense of thankfulness, and tears gushed
up in my eyes, and fell upon my numbed
hands. With many encouraging pats on
the back, they forced me down their oom-
panionway to the skipper's cabin, and so
to a bunk, where I lay inanimate, and
deep In sleep for many hours. But I
awoke as another man, and when I had
taken, a great bowl of soup my strength
seemed to return to me with bounds, and
I sat up to find they had taken away my
clothes, but that the belt which Black had
bound about me lay at the foot of the
bunk, and was unopened.
It was not heavy .being all of linen
finely sewed ; but when at last I made up
my mind to open it, I did so with my
teeth, tearing the threads at the top of
it, and so ripping It down. There fell
upon my bed some twenty or thirty dia
monds of such size and lustre that they
lay sparkling with a thousand lights
which dazzled the eyes, and made me utter
a cry at once of surprise and of admira
tion. White stones they were, Brazilian
diamonds of the first water; and when
I undid the rest of the seam, and opened
the belt fully, I found at least fifty more,
with, some superb black pearls, a fine em
erald, and a little parcel of exquisite
rubies. To the latter there was attached
a paper with the words. "Take fhese;
they are honestly come by. And let me
write while I can that I have loved you.
Remember this when you forget Captain
Black." That was all; and I Judged
that the stones were worth five thousand
pounds if they were worth a penny.
The Hoffnung was bound to Konlgs-
berg, but when the skipper and I had
come to understand each other by signs
and writing he, with great consideration,
offered to put into Southampton and leave
me there. I put off in his long-boat with
a deep sense of his humanity and kind
ness, and with hearty cheers from bis
crew.
I should have gone to the quay at once
then, but crossing the roads I saw a yacht
at anchor, and I recognized her as my
own yacht CeUls, with Dan aboard. To
put to her side was the work of a mo
ment, and I do not think that I ever
gave a heartier hall than that "Ahoy,
Daniel !" which then fell from my lips,
"Ahoy 1" cried Dan In reply. "Why,
If It ain't the guv J'nor I"
And the old fellow began to shout and
to wave his arms and to throw ropes
about as though be were smitten with
lunacy.
CHAPTER XXIV.
I had sprung up the ladder before Dan
had gathered his scattered wits to re
member that it was there. It was worth
much to watch that honest fellow as he
gripped my hand In his two great paws,
I aBked him if Roderick and Mary were
aboard.
"They're down below, as I'm alive, and
the handi la ashore, but they'll come
aboard for this. Shall I tell 'em as you've
called in passing like? I can hardly we
out of my eyes for looking at yon, sir." ,
Poor old Dan did not quits know what
ha was dolni. I left hta In tha midst of
his strange talk and walked softly down
the companion way to the door of the sa
loon, and I opened It and stood, I doubt
not, before them as one come from the
dead. Mary, whose childish face looked
very (drawo, was sitting before a book,
open upon the table, her head resting up
on her bands, and a strange expression of
melancholy In her great dark eyes. But
Roderick lay upon a sofa-bunk, and was
fast asleep, with the novel which he had
been reading lying crumpled upon the
floor. f
I had opened the door so gently that
neither of them moved as I entered the
room. It was to me the best moment of
my life to be looking again uixm them,
and I waited for one minute until Mary
raised her head and our eyes met. Then
I bent over the cabin table and kissed
her, and I felt her clinging to me, and
though she never spoke, her eyes were wet
with hot tears; and when she smiled
through them, It was as a glimpse of
bright sunlight shining through a rain
shower. In another moment there was
nothing but the expression of great child
ish Joy on her face, and the old Mary
spoke.
"Mark, I can't believe It," she said,
holding me close lest I might go away
again, "and I always guessed you'd come."
But Roderick awoke with a yawn, and
when he saw me he rubbed his eyes, and
said as one in a dream :
"Oh, Is that you?"
The tea whldh Mary made was very
fragrant. It was a long story, and I
could give thorn but the outline of It, or,
in turn, hear but a tenth part of their
own anxieties and ceaseless efforts In my
behalf. It appeared that when I had
failed to return to the hotel on that night
when I followed Paolo to the den In the
Bowery, Roderick had gone at once to the
yacht, and there had learned from Dan
of my Intention. He did not lose an In
stant In seeking the aid of the police, but
I was even then astern of the Labrador,
and the keen search which the New York
detectives had made was fruitless even In
gleaning tidings of me. Paolo was fol
lowed night and day for twenty-four
hours; but he was shot In a drinking den
before the detectives laid hands on him,
and lived long enough only to send Mary
a message, telling her that her pretty eyes
had saved the Celsis from disaster In the
Atlantic. On the next day, both the skip
per and Roderick made public all they
knew of Black and his crew, and a greater
sensation was never made In any city,
The news was cabled to Europe over half
a dozen wires, was hurried to the Pacific,
to Japanese seas it shook the navies of
the world with an excitement rarely
known, and for some weeks It paralyzed
all traffic on the Atlantic. Cruisers of
many nations were sent In the course of
ine great ocean-going steamers ; arms
were carried by some of the largest of the
passenger ships, and the question was
asked daily before all other questions, "Is
the nameless ship taken?"
Meanwhile Roderick and Mary, who
suffered all the anguish of suspense, re
turned to London, there to hear the whole
matter discussed in Parliament. Several
warships and cruisers were dispatched to
the Atlantic, but returned to report the
ill result of their mission. Nor was my
oldest friend content with this national
action and the subsequent offer of a re
ward of 50,000 for the capture of the
nameless ship or of her crew, for he put
the best private detectives In the city at
the work, sending two to New York and
others to Paris and to Spezla. When the
weeks passed and I did not come, all
thought that I had died in my self-appointed
mission another of Black's vic
tims.
It was but a few days after this sor
rowful conviction that Black and I went
to London, and were seen by Inspector
King, who had watched night and day
for the man's coming. The detective had
Immediately telegraphed to the Admiralty,
and to Roderick, who had reached my
hotel to find that I had already left. Then
he had hurried back to Southampton,
there to hear of the going of the warships,
and to wait with Mary tidings of the last
great battle, which meant life or death
to me.
Long we sat discussing these things,
and very bright were a pair of dark eyes
that listened again to Roderick's story,
and then to more of mine. But Roderick
himself had awoke from his lethargy, and
his enthusiasm broke through all his old
restraint.
"To-morrow, why to-morrow, youH as
tound London. My dear fellow, we'll go
to town together to claim the 50,000
which the Admiralty offered, and the 20,
000 from the Black Anchor Line, to say
nothing of American money galore. You're
made for life, old man ; and we 11 take
the old yacht north to Greenland, and
hunt up the place and Black's tender,
which seems to have escaped the Iron
clads, and it'll be the finest trip we ever
knew."
"What does Mary say?" I asked, as
she still held my hand.
"I don't mean to leave you again," she
answered, and as she spoke there was a
great sound of cheering above, and a
great tramp of feet upon the deck; and
as we hurried up, the hands I loved to
see crowded about me, and their Shouting
was carried far over the water, and was
taken up on other ships, which threw
their searchlights upon us, so that the
night was as a new day to me, and the
awakening from the weeks of dreaming
as the coming of spring after winter's
dark. Yet, as the child-face was all light
ed with radiant smiles, and honest hands
clasped mine, and the waters echoed the
triumphant greeting, I could not but think
again of Captain Black, or ask myself,
Is the man really dead, or shall we yet
bear of him, bringing terror upon the sea,
and death and suffering; the master of
the nations, and the child of ambition?
Or Is his grave in the great Atlantic that
be ruled in the mighty moments ol his
power?,,.,,,. .,, , , . A ,., ,.
Ah, I wonder.- - V
(The End.)
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