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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for AUGUST 6. IMS
talking with the Captain. He was Walker. I
burst on their conversation, furious with in
dignation and not overchoice in my language, and
demanded to le put ashore. Walker ignored me.
lmt told his companion I wa.alrunkcnailorthijied
the previous night. He then called two ruffians,
who dragged ""-' '"elow, despite my protest and
threat-, and locked me tip. 1 was so roughly
hamllcd that I lay insensible for many hours,
unfed and unattended. Two ioor cha. carried
otT like myself, accepted their fate; they had
lieen lefore the mast for years and were used
to the hard-hips of a sailor's life. Hut I couldn't
work and wouldn't. We were lxtund for the
Mediterranean.
"During the trip across the Atlantic I endured
constant acts f brutality. I haven't time to go into
that. It was awful. It was such hades as I never
hail dreamed of on earth. It was degradation of
the lowest kind. Finally I was set free and told
to go to work. I was weak, ill and humble. I
the imicnctral.!e nivsterv surrounding the three went straight to the Captain to tell him who I
murders? In other words, had this last Evening was and lcg for a little mercy.
Star crime anv relation to the two that had "'Are you going to work?" he asked quietly.
preceded? "'I'M ,,c IwnKwl f I in!'
Instead of going to lied when my watch ended, "The words were not out f my mouth licfore he
I drove to Gouvcrneur Hospital, reaching there struck me across the face with an iron bar. That
ltcfore dawn. The man was dving. but lieforc laiil my cheek open and made the soar. I was
......;.,., t,;ni I ,.-.lwr.,I -ill the facts obtainable front taken ltelow insensible, and it was days licfore I
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giving the name of Peter Grayson had lieen set
upon and. although he had killed his supposed
assailant, had Wen mortally wounded himself.
The victim of the murderous attack had lieen
sent to Gouvcrneur Hopital. Xot a witness
to the lieginning of the combat was known,
and the dying man refused explanations that
would throw light on the homicide. It was
impossible, therefore, to determine who was the
aggressor. .
Obviously there was a mystery m the a'tair. ami
my impulse was to go to the hospital in the hope of
inducing the wounded man to talk; but many
duties detained me for sex-cral hours. Meanwhile,
a message fpjm the station-house where the Imdy
of the dead man lay announced its identification
as that of Beatty, the second mate of the Evening
Star. A sergeant of the precinct reinemliered the
face. liecauM: the mate and he together hail hunted
the assain of the Captain. This gave the cae
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a new a-siicci. .ouici me oiiik man cie-.o oj
the parties who had brought him in.
"What is he?" 1 asked.
"A sailor."
"How do you know?"
They showed me his clothes. They represented
an ordinary sailor's outfit, complete in all particu
lars. The boots I rememlier were well-worn and
convincing It a!-o amieared tint the man had
tould get up. the brutality of language and treat
ment continuing every hour.
"Wc stop-) at the Azores, and finally reached
Gibraltar, where I made three unsuccessful at
tempts to csvatie. Thence we went to Genoa.
-a here the Captain got orders to proceed to Smyrna
for a cargo. I never was allowed ashore and
charged at Gibraltar, where we were directed to
proceed in ballast to Rio. That was a terrible trip
across the Atlantic, and I nearly lost my life sev
eral times.
"The weather was cold when we arrived there in
July; but I dropjied ovcrlioard one night and got
ashore after swimming half a mile in the chilly
water. , I called uiion the American Minister to
Brazil anil told him part of the truth. 1 couldn't
lie entirely frank, lieoause I didn't want to lie
balked in my scheme of vengeance. I said I had
lieen dining at Gibraltar, got intoxicated and went
alioard the brig by mistake and was not discovered
until she had sailed. I was comjicllcd to work
my passage. I told the Consul my name was
Grayson, and that I had a brother in Xcw
York who would send money to him. the Min
ister, if he would cable for it. Grayson was
the name of my siiocial partner.
''The tale was flimsy, and I had to lieg with
tears in my eyes to induce the official to send
the message. I used a oide word known only
to Grayson and myself, and next day the Min
ister was notified that two thousand dollars
had lieen received for him from Grayson of Xca--York.
I had missed the direct steamer for the
United States; therefore I sailed for Southampton,
traveling as Grayson.
"You rememlier my reappearance on the Ex
change? My su'Tcrings during those four months
completely changed my nature. Never In-fore
had I felt an impulse to kill a living thing;
but from the hour of my arrival in Xew-York
a demon within me. sleeping ami waking,
clamored for the blood of the men who had
humiliated me so outrageously. I tried to forget
it. I tried to rub it out as a closed chapter and
ind
THE EXILE: iOBBY-HORSE
ninldn't L'ot a inessaie to the American Consul at
wt s..m.. hours in a low drinkinsi-house near I'eck one place or the other. We returned to and dis- pick up my life where it had kit on,
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rUl umil le.ll i.&mi;
in there, and had fol
lowed Beatty when he
left. I then suspected
that not Beatty but
the dying man had
lieen the assailant;
that this was the third
of the Evening Star
murders, and that the
murderer, although he
had succeeded in his
third attempt, had
lost hisown life in the
attaik. I then asked
to see the man. and
met with jierhaps the
greatest slunk in all
my detective cxjieri
cni e.
lie was weak from
li.s of blood, white as
marble and had not an
hour to live. But the
malignant glitter in
lr.s eve was unmistak
able. The man licfore
me was Ilolyoke the
broker. As I recog
nized him lie recog
nized me.
"Keep it to your
self." said he. "It can
tell it."
"I must tell it." said I.
me a gmd reason to the contrary. We
must have the facts. Give us then, and 1
promise to do the best I can fur you."
Just then a man came in whom the living
man had sent for. It vras the president of
the Exchange. The dying man, whtsju-ring
to me, did not say all that 1 have set down
here. His explanation, under my promise
of secrecy, backed up by that of his friend.
came in single words and sometimes only a
look of pain and horror as he attempted
to describe what had hapjH-nod. But it was
perfectly lucid and easy to piece together
e learly. The main facts wore these
"Instead of going home from the dinner
that night I wandered around in the slums
"oikmg for another dr.nk. In some place, 1
don't know where. I was sandbagged and
robl-cd. I was taken into a sailor Imarding
house and put ! !-cd, their thinking. I sup
pose, that 1 was not injured but merely
drunk. When I recovered ciyvn-is I was
at sea. in a bunk of the forecastle of the
Evening Star. My clothe were rags.
"I stumbled on do k. not realizing what
had happened. Until I looked at my
filthy 'Th. I thought of tu thing worse
than a liraitieal joke. The mate of the
do no good to
unless you give
vessel wis standing near the wheel-house.
By C&ftlfoeris&e Hora-is Hcrirs-isosft
Hark, dear frienJs, to my pitiful tale, of how I cm-vJ the seas.
Sent l a loving granJma. to the lanJ of the Japanese!
To amuse a little one, living there on Yokohama's Muff
I crosseJ the wiJe Pacific, an ocean, oh, so rough !
They racUxl me up in a Nix so tight, with canvas routvl my hea J ;
lI rather leen hack in the toy-simp, or any here else instea J.
Now I've sett'eJ J.iwn in this foreign lanJ. an J am learning every Jay
To love this chiM anJ her "Ama." anJ guess at uhat they say.
.My mistress is not a yell'iw bate, hut as white as she can W.
With goMen lu:r upn her Ilea J an J eyes that match the sea.
AnJ she loves me, I assure you, for she thinks my rickety-rock
As tine as a Japanese tny, in either a gallop or tmt.
So when she puts her arras rounJ me. anJ gives me a goJ lurJ squeeze.
I open my nun J ey es u iJer u ith a wil J enJea or to please.
Hut my heart is tillej with saJness, lor Joultless this maiJen will grow
AnJ I'll pass on to sometaJy else Jo you wonJcr my spirits got low ?
Pur h'iw ciiulJ a Japanese ma i Jen riJe me with any repose?
It ne er wnulJ Jo l'e seen a lew they don't wear suitaMc clotlies.
So a muscular loy will get me an J riJe astriJe of my hack
In this Ian J of go he'il think me slow anJ gie me many a uliack.
AnJ with my siJes alllultorcJ anJ worn, lut dunce haxe I. or show
To return to that Jear Ian J so free, where I'm loved hy high an J low?
AnJ while I'm only a hohhy-horse, with a haJly moJeleJ hea J,
A hit of name's naileJ on tight anJ stirrups maJe of leaJ.
!' e thiuht enough to know full well where 1 woulJ lite to stay
AnJ that is unJer the Stars anJ Stripes, f jreier anJ a Jay.
is t lu
ll v 1
thought I had suc
ceeded. I would have
spasms of uncontrol
lable hate, simply hun
gering and y.:.rning f ir
revenge on the men
who had treated me so
terribly. 1 could not
keep from this. It
seemed as if all the life
in me, my self-respect,
my integrity of char
acter as a man. de
manded justice at my
own hands from the
three men who had
treated me not like a
human luing but like
a brute.
" 1 was get ting al nig
very well, the spasms
were lice-oming weaker
and more controllable,
and I think I should
have pulled out all
right when the Even
ing Star came into
jiort. Then e cry t lung
went to the winds." I
was like a wild man.
The thought that these
three men were in the same city, within
reach of me. dominated every other. I
could not think of business. I could not
think of anything. I got a sailor's outfit at
a "hand-me-down 'shop near the water-front,
then I began to haunt the saloons near
the ship, waiting for Walker. It was to be
Walker first, the other two in turn.
Until that was done I could not think
of anything.
"My search was rewarded soon, for late
one night I came across Walker in the neigh
liorhood of the Battery. As I came up to
him in front he recognized me. Something
aliout my attitude made hi::i try to avoid
me for he recognized me at once; but he
did not cry out. only trying to hit me with
a big stick he carried. But there was
noliody in sight, and I got him. I met
the first mate on Cathcrine-st. a few- nights
1 iter, and finished him. There was only
one left in my scheme of revenge; and you
see the restiit of the encounter. But I
hilled him!" said Ilolyoke exultingly.
"That's all. This is the second dis-apiK-arance
of George Ilolyoke. Let it be
like the first unexplained will you?"
"I will." said I.
Ami so it has ln-en for a good many
years; and who Ilolyoke was must lie a
secret still.
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