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SYNOPSIS.
Chapter I.—Donald Thorndyke, as cap
tain of the schooner Phantom, leaves Nor
folk for New London with a cargo of-leai
for continental- armies. Hie mate, John
Lounsbury, proves treacherous after they
get to sea and threatens to reveal the char
acter of the cuptaln and cargo to British
dhlps then In sight, and from'which they
could not escape. Thorndyke strikes him
and renders him Infusible, apparently
dead. One of the. otjier" two members of
?«»t^°rtcw?
s'
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By CHAUNCY C. H0TCHKI55
^Copyright, 1607. by D. Appleton & Co.
riirhts fesierved.)
All
,'i».,,orv'r"?u,„h!
sclousness. Thorndyke is taken to the ,a8
Chftptcr
m.—The
New York and there turned over to the
Chapter IV.—Thorndyke mixes In a flght
at
an Inn with
a
Chapter VI.—Clinton postpones the In
terview with Thorndyke for a day, and
in the meantime gives him papers which
state he is to take the Phantom, still
In New York harbor, and go to Newport
with dispatches to the British general at
that place.
Chapter VII.—During a great fire in N&w
York Thorndyke assists apatriot spy to es
cape, and from him he gets the name of
"Rex." After returning to his quartet)
he is surprised fe' a visit from Scammel.
Chapter VIIL-^iteammell has discovered
the identity of Thorndyke and comes to ar
rest him as a spy. He is armed only with
a pistol, and into the priming pan of this
Thorndyke manages to throw water, then,
overcoming Scammell, Thorndyke escapes
and makes his way to Clinton's headquar
ters, where his real identity is not yet
known.
Chapter IX.—Clinton gives Thorndyke
his Instructions and a pass through the
lines. Before leaving, a girl, Gertrude King,
gret that toward midnight I finally heard
the swashing of the ebb as-it eddied along
the rocks, and knew the time to. start had
come, The full realization of the risk came
upon m^ as I stood with painter in hand giv
ing my last farewell to Burt. "God keep
you safe!'' he-said. "If I find the schooner
gone to-morrow, and hea-r not of your cap
Wire by Thursday, I will thank Him as
wa3 here'runniog at a great Alfnight
The other, a negro, he,s^dres Into'silence. doud, and an almost dead silence ensued as
He -determines to impersonate, the' ap-' rwe whirled southward, the only break be-
JhatVhaftaKthl"hio6^ls&^
an
has killed the captain ana all of the crew, due to the,hurrying whirlpools.
but the one negro. It. was nervous work. Ames was forward
Chapter H.-*-When the boat Is boarded, he a lookout 'his ficure pvpti At flmt
tells his story, which 1s believed by the "?D fr
naval lieutenant but is doubted by a daatance being almost lost in the combined
dragoon officer, Scammell, who is along. darkness and blur. The girl, seated upon
aft'l ^,r '"jht^hht,bhhea1'M
ah-H
young naval officer and
a bully.
Chapter V.—Scammell enters during the
rogress of the row and asks to take a
and by relieving the naval officer of
Thorndyke. Belden, the naval officer, dlsr
covers that Thorndyke is the man he is
looking for for Clinton, and stops the fight,
after which a challenge still stands be
tween Thorndyke and Scammell.
forms her that her brother was condemned touch of .a torch, I would then be an un-
v^hll?u^"na'tt?ngf«foroexecutionv
a a I re a
before. She then demands a pass outside
the lines, proclaiming at the same time
her loyalty to America. Mrs. Badely, Clin
tons mistress, enters with the announce
ment that the brother, instead of being
burned, has escaped.
Chapter X.—Clinton orders Thorndyke
to arrest the girl, which he refuses to do,
but instead proclaims his own identity,
then gives her his pass through the lines,
while he holds Clinton until she escapes.
He follows her and makes his way to the
picket lines, where he strikes and pre
sumably kills a sentry.
Chapter XI.—Thorndyke stops at the
Dove tavern for refreshments. The waiter
takes an unusual interest In him. While
there a British cavalryman, and.'a card
sharper, whom he had met in town a few
days before, come in. He remains tn the
shadow.and is not detected.
'Chapter "XIl.—a Quaker enters the tav
ern and tells the cavalryman of a girl he
has seen In the woods to the north. The
cavalryman leaves to And her. Thorndyke
Is seen by the sharper and a fight ensues,
in which the Quaker kills the sharper as
a body of cavalrymen approach, allowing
Thorndyke time enough to be concealed
by the waiter, 8tryker.
Chapter XIII.—Thorrfdyke and the Quaker
leave the Inn and go to a place of conceal
ment known to the patriots. Here they
meet Miss King and Thorndyke finds his
Quaker friend. Ames, is the girl's half
brother, the condemned spy.
Chapter XIV.—They tell of their escapes
from the British.'
Chapter XV.—Thorndyke proposes that
they slip down the river In a boat to where
the Phantom Is anchored, overpower the
guard and take to the sea. A rog assists
tnua a* tarLon tbe venture.
""Af, all is chance!" broke in Ames "and
'twere better to take the chance than to be
ran to earth like a tired fox, as is like to
happen in biding here: What, then, would
come to you, Peter? Like enough yon would
help weight a third string, and we all hang
together!"
"When doe* the tide ebb to-night I
asked.
"Near eleven, or at about the setting of
the moon," Burt answered. Then after a
moment he continued: "Well, God be with
you, gentlemen! I will do my part. Like
tbe refuge ln tbe bern, I made the boat and
hid it whilei yet W&ahington held the city.
I clearly foresaw the outcome of his col-
at the ends, was brought from its hiding
place. It was fitted with the roughest of
oars and'but one thwart, and was a damp
affair altogether, ita„ concealment having
been made through covering it with boards
on which had been piled amass of wet salt
weed. It proved tigh^ though terribly
heavy, but a» I worked I completed the do- ..
usual sailor if I could make a straight
cou,rse f?I
at
do but load TIBe'boat:, getting "tTie arms snug- seemed a huge "blacli oDject arose" ajonjp ^.
iy bestowed, and- then wait for tlie slacking
8
of the flood tide. It was tedious and impa- darkness astern. The suddennjss. and
tient Waiting,-for I feared me that the wind smartness of the jhock were startling, but,
might rise and wreck the fog. If this should quick as were the appearance and disapr
neveT
before." The next minute the three of us
were out on tbe Sound river, and the black
land was hidden by the fog that closed
around us.
er
an arrow
Tffi*
thou8h
British vessel to repeat his story to the bent as
in intense listening. Fears of her be
captaln. coming ah incubus had long since vanished,
Pn&ntoro is t&k@n to
her
was slightly
if Kpi* hps.t thi^klv at nm*
1 ner
Thorndyke determinea
\d when possible
king's authorities.
to act the part of a spy, am
escape through the lines and deliver his
Information to Washington.
neari Deat tnicRiy at our dubious
adventure, it did not show in the quiet and
confident smile with which she had adopted
every suggestion and obeyed every order
with as little hesitation as though she had
been a disciplined soldier. In her hand she. ,,,/^iVI^
U..JJ1.J -1—1..would
held a pistol which was huddled closely in
her cloak to keep the damp from its priming,
and in an emergency I fully believed she
would use it without a qualm.
I had given orders that no shot should be
fired save in extremity, determining that in
terference should be met by cold steel only.
At the onset I feared nothing beyond blun
dering into a.patrol, and in that case the use
of firearms might alarm the enemy ashore.
I In the above fashion, then, we drifted
•long for perhaps 20 minutes, the wet drip
ping from my brows and lashes like tears. I
had no means of getting at our definite
whereabouts 6ave by guessing by our speed,
I that making me think we should be abreast
of the highlands below Turtle bay. Turning
the boat's head inshore, I ran close to the
rocks, and then slid along (more slowly for
being bard by the bank) just beyond what
I thought to be the loom of the land. By
this I had gotten into the swing of the situ
ation and had less fear of interruption
I than of missing the Phantom. 'Twould be
1
be allowed to'see'her bro^'er.^Clintonln-
an easy matter to slip by her, and even could
I once mark the height of Corlears Hook,
with its alarm beacon
always ready for the
the schooner, though she still lay
her old anchorage. In the darkness both
beacoa and heights would be beyond
vision, and I was approaching what was
very like real worry when my fears were, re
lieved and our present situation indicated
by the sound of eight bells struck in true
man-o*-ware-man's style that came floating
over the river about off our larboard beam.
I gave a fair guess that the measured beats
came from the Bellerophon striking the
hour of midnight, that ship being the only
vessel of size which had been anchored
above the Jersey prison hulk to dispute a
titades of watchfulness and expectancy.
iJe and quickly vanished in the mist and
happen before dawn our prospects would be pearance of the obstruction we bad fouled,
wrecked, with it, and-then-—and thaji— 1 recpgnizechlt to be the spar buoy which
But. I am not prone to borrow trouble, marked the outer edge of the reef extend*^
though it was with half relief and half re* irig ftom the Hook into the river. Jiff
One" might have cruised a week under the
conditions besetting us and failed to have
picked it up. It was like groping through
the proverbial haystack and finding the
proverbial needle without -having looked for
it, and, though its greeting had well-nigh
been disastrous, it gave m& the one point I
wished with absolute accuracy. I now
knew that we were neatly dead on tbe
Phantom, and not two cable lengths away
indeed, had we missed the rude warning of
the spar, it was but fair to reckon we would
shave
I- at once sculled out into, the stream until my miscalculations I had altered our course,
l'sitruclc the free current, and then sat my- in which case we would have missed her al
self oin the boat's bottom? usifific an oar aa'A together. ..
the land lost in 0» «ck
occasional sucking noise in the water,
that
f.or:
1
possible passage of the Bound river from
above. I was sure of this when, after in
tcntly listening, I heard 310 -either striking,
for had the fleet been near there would
have been a harmony of bells in quick suc
cession.
My mind being thus relieved, I turned
the tub's head into the stream again, and for
awhile we floated rapidly and silently along,! ]£*Vel~fear me"not! "ilfne'eTbetrar you or
a boat with three figures that msght have }ail to be back in time for you to get «hor^
been carved from stone, so rigid were our at- .TiB
I fear I am none too strong a believer in "Fetch it, then but not in yer skin," was
the doctrine of special providences, though ^e „turn. "If they speak o' me, say ye
1 have seemed to see iUworidng. inmy«m I was going on a q^to Kii^brid^
behalf, as instanced the breeae that back on the morrow. Ye had better
saved me from the knife of tbenegro but. beltyyer lip, for ye are off port, aa' I hold
if ever the Almighty earned three human h^Wd
beings in the hollow of His hand, and point-1 N A_ Kerer fear' Good ni*ht'M waa
ed out the way of deUverance from pre~ aSTthe boat moved off with
ing danger, He did it this night, and that of the oar, wfcfle the first
without the working of a miracle. Bud-1 gp^er evidently entered the cabin, as I
denly, and without the intervention of a
breeze, we wef« floating in clear water. Be
fore us rose a white, impenetrable cloud of
a dull luminosity, while behind us lay the
moist veil from which we had just drifted.,
Its height was clearly marked, and showed
lision with Clinton, and little doubted the shore to shore, like the waters rolled back
ultimate use of both barn and boat. Either
is at your service."
With the opening of possible escape before
me, and one demanding immediate action,
my spirits went aloft in the measure of
their former depression. Nor did I fear
their reaction, as enough uncertainty lay
before to keep a man's eyes and wits awake,
and that, too, without the aid of liquor.
Even after the decision to trust to the boat
was made, my mind misgave me. Was it
better to drag this girl into the danger of an
attempt to fly through a plan which might
be nipped in the bud and end by our run
ning at once into tbe hands of the enemy, or
lio in., a suffocating box with the doubtful
chance of being overlooked? Even if safer,
the latter would become more than awkward
If necessity demanded protracted conceal
ment, and if discovery ensued it would but
serve to damn our generous benefactor. Be
sides, to tell the truth, had no with to be
found' like a scared) rabbit in a hole. A
man's pride hangs on nigh sa long as hii
breath, if he be properly balanced* and I
had made a reputation of which, to say the
hleaet, I not ashained. Nay, I would
make a bold and novel move, and, if it muBt
so come, end my life like a man with his
liver of the proper color.
fouled tbe schooner herself unless in
At last 'twas done. The exultation I felt
be but natural to any man who sees
the successful
house for bein' off post*" said the voice from
the deck.
"Nay," came the answer from a boat
"ye do me a good turn by giving me thia
a 8ammer
the mist extended not more than 20 pjace it, only noticing that both men spoke
with the savor of sea "brine in their words,
feet above the river's surface. We had
struck a chasm in the fog, and once when
on the high seas I had marked the like, then,1
as now, there being no wind to mix or drive
the vapor. 1
The rift was but a few hundred feet,
across, though it apparently extended from
for -the passage of the children of Israel.
Not a boat was in eight. On either hand
the water lay black and flat, only shim-:
mered hare and there by the light of the
stars that shone clearly overhead. [This
incident must not be considered forced, betwixt the rails and the deadlights, where
by was served the double end of obtaining
air and guarding the outward show of light.
The writer saw these exact conditions while
on a ferry boat from New York to Brook
lyn during a foggy night in the summer of
1S95.
The phenomenon is probably due to a
warm and comparatively dry streak of slow
ly moving air, and lasts but a few moments.]
cana. A watch waa alway* kept from this
point, but I doubt that the eye of an eagle
could have oaught the tiny speck of our boat
with its load of three as it floated over the
space of open water.
In less than five minutes we were
This much settled, ind In 1AM tim« than' plunged into the opposite bank of fog, and
it has taken to write it, I thought and spoke then I passed the girl to my place in the mettle to extremity.
DO more of the barn room, but turned with stern, quietly shipped the oars in the Giving no thoughts to those iu the boat, I
the reet to making ready. Beyond the boat, muffled tholes, seated myselfon the thwart, .... ..
the bundle of provisions, an extra brace of and held me ready to .alter our course and
pistole, and a rapier, we mulcted our host feel for the schooner as soon as we had
of nothing. In an hour the boat, which was' gained a trifle more way down the river.
no more than a fiat-bottomed scow squared
CHAPTER XVI.
THE CABIN OF THE PHANTOM.
With my mind lost to all else save the
calculation of the speed and distance we'
were making, and my body braced forward
awaiting the proper moment to swerve the
boat's course, I was suddenly startled by a
tails of the start, and had determined that quick exdamatlpn from Ames, which waa
the use of oars would but menaoa our safe- at once followed by a bump wd
ty, so that speed, or lack of it, wodtd be „|he^heelipg1 •ow!r atreagtheningsubetat
cutting no flgnra. We would but poured in over the gunwale. At the same parage today bom
moment the starboard oar received a blow
Hp
abT'' "fW1
vesgel'^retem, while almost instantly, mag
nifie$cth*ough the fog, loomed "up like .a
blai# wall the bow of the schooner.
$pi 8uddenly were we upon it thjit the jib
boam.-vyas well over us before I sighted tbe
bl&oli hull, and with all my might checked
the-, boat's way, grasping the boSstay in
time to save the taut cable, and we^Cjame to
a rest. The stick of the rushing Raters
against the broad, flat end of th4X scow
made me fearful that the noise would call
tbe guard's attention forward, and, whis
pering into the ear of Ames to hold all fast
until I returned, I gently rid me of my boots,
took my sword betwixt my teeth, swarmed
up the stay to the bowsprit, and stood again
on the deck of my own schooner.
ending of a difficult under­
taking. Fog and darkness were as nothing
to me here my way aft would have been
clear had I been blind, but hardly had I
gotten abreast the foremast when I heard
the burly tones of one man addressing an
other, and the noise of oars as they fell into
rowlocks came plainly to my strained ear.
Stepping softly over the bulwark, I lowered
myself to the channel and listened.
"An' yet get astray in the fog an' come not
back by dawn, I'll have ye in the guard-
-z
's fog, an' will melt by sun-
TeU him wifl
fctch the rum."
heard the companion door open and close.
Then all was again silent.
Here was an unexpected situation made
more mysterious from the fact that there
wu
something familiar in the voice of the
man who h&
made—the first sound from the boat remains of a meal were spread on,the table,
it left Turtle bay—was followed by nud there, half reclining in a bunk..ai»d with
t.
just gone below. I could not
and though one was totally strange to me,
the voice of the other hung in my ear as a
misty dream hangs in the mind after wak
ing, naught but its effect remaining.
Getting to the deck again, I moved slow
ly aft, stopping ae I noticed a slight luminos
ity at the side of the cabin, but on further
cautious approach found the cause. The
cabin was lighted. To prevent the light
from going beyond the vessel a tarpaulin
had been stretched over the cabin house
from rail to rail, thus leaving an open space
Here was deviltry fbr sure. Dropping on
to my stomach, I snaked myself beneath the
tarpaulin, brought my eye to the swung
back port, and nearly betrayed myself by
tbe start I made.
It was a wonderful, ah awe-inepiring
sight, but the quick exclamation I involun
tarily made—the first sound from the boat
since
almost a shout as I narked a height of head- head in a bandage, was Capt. Scammell,
land from the top of which, faintly outlined haggard from fever and somewhat the
against the pale sky, stood up the beacon. worse from liquor, while on the transom
It was Corlears Hook past doubt, known md by his side sat my whilom mate, John
not alone by its rounded outline, but by 1 Lounsbury, of Rye, late risen from the dead,
the unused alarm signal which Clinton had Here, .then, were my two arch-enemies
caused to be placed there to warn the fleet probably the only living souls whose animoa
in case of a audden attack by the Ameri-
Alighted lantern hung from a carline, the
ity toward me was both of a personal and
political nature, saving perhaps that of
Clinton himself. Possibly my gorge would
hive risen sooner against Scammell than at
the man by hia aide, though the latter waa
none the lew. a villain, aaa it seemed as
though fate, having given me friends when
in need, had guided me thither to- test my.
settled myself to hear the opening dialogue^
of the two, for it immediately transpired
that Lounsbury had but just arrived.
come!" were the first words by Scammell.,
"W^at news do you bringt" ..
(TO BH CONTINUED.)
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