A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
SCARCELY had Uncle Isaac been committed to the earth, when the nephew
he had so longed to see arrived in the Casco, sick with the fever and
ague. As the owners wished to send the vessel with despatch to one
of the French West India islands, they, at Isaac’s request, put Ezra
Aldrich in her as master. He was a native of the place, and relative of
Isaac, but never much liked by his schoolmates, being an overbearing
fellow.
In his youth he went two voyages with Captain Rhines, and afterwards in
English ships from Liverpool to Halifax.
“I don’t see,” said Captain Rhines, “what Isaac wants to put him in her
for.”
The first mate was an acquaintance and shipmate of Aldrich, by the name
of Percival, and, as Captain Rhines told his wife, as great a rascal
as the captain. There was some difficulty in getting a crew, but,
through the influence of Captain Rhines, who prevailed on Peterson
and Danforth Eaton to ship, a crew was mustered. Being all young men
from the neighborhood, who knew their duty and were able and willing
to do it, they were at first rather amused than otherwise with the
consequential airs and bluster of their new captain, in such strong
contrast to the manners of Captain Rhines and Captain Murch.
Aldrich seemed very much inclined to quarrel with Peterson, but having
a wholesome dread of the strength of the black, restrained himself. By
continual abuse, he at length irritated the good-natured negro to such
a degree, that he said to him, “Lookee ‘ere, Massa Aldrich; ‘member
when you little picaninny, runnin’ ‘bout barefoot; shirt flap he stick
out behind; your farder haul staves on a hand-sled, your mudder dig
clams; spose you gib me any more your jabber-juice, fling you ober de
rail.”
A week passed, when the captain, offended with Danforth Eaton, caught
up the end of a rope to flog him. Eaton took up another.
“What use do you intend to make of that rope, Eaton?” asked the
captain.
“Just the same use that you make of yours.”
The captain was a school-mate of Eaton, and knew very well the
result of a collision with him. But as they approached the land, the
deportment of the captain entirely changed. While the vessel was being
discharged, he bought soft bread, fresh meat, vegetables, and even
fruit, for the men. Seamen are little disposed to remember injuries,
and all old scores were now rubbed out.
The cook having gone to the hospital sick, Peterson had taken his place.
One evening, just as the men were about to turn in, the captain sent
Peterson ashore with some letters. In the morning, when the crew
turned out, he was among the missing. There was a good fire in the
fireplace,—stoves were not in use then,—the tea-kettle on, coffee
pounded in the mortar, some raw potatoes and onions peeled and
sliced, slices of raw pork in the frying-pan, salt beef chopped in a
kid,—everything prepared to make lob-scouse.
“Was he not a drinking man?” inquired the captain.
“He was once,” said Hurd, “but left it off years ago.”
“Halloo! What’s this?” said George Hoyt.
A handkerchief lay on the fender. They brought it aboard on the point
of a boat-hook.
“It’s Peterson’s,” said Elwell; “there’s his name on it.”
“It’s just as I thought,” said the captain. “He drank last night; that
waked up the old appetite, and as soon as he turned out this morning he
went for more, and fell off the gangway plank.”
A grappling was procured ashore, and the crew, under the direction of
the captain, who was deeply moved, grappled for the body the greater
part of the day, without success. In the meanwhile, the mate was making
inquiries on shore.
“The tide runs strong here,” said the captain; “it has swept him to
sea.”
“Poor Jim has gone, boys,” said Eaton, as, weary and dispirited, they
sat down to supper.
“Anybody wouldn’t have thought,” said Savage, “he’d a broke through,
after being a steady man so long. The captain feels bad, but he’s done
all a man could do.”
“Jim Peterson,” said Eaton, brushing away a tear with the back of his
hand, “was a black fellow, raal coal black, too,—a Guinea nigger, if
you please; but if he’d been washed overboard, I’d a risked my life to
save him quicker than for any shipmate I ever had; and I’m not all the
one would have done it.”
“That’s so, Dan. I’m sure I never thought anything about his color.”
“But I don’t believe anything about his getting drunk (though I’ve no
doubt the captain thinks so); for I’ve seen him tried and tempted hard
to weather, by old shipmates, time and time again. He went ashore to
get something to put in the stew; a sober man might make a misdeal in a
hurry. No power on earth will ever make me believe Jim was drunk.”
“Then why didn’t he sing out?”
“He might strike his head on something, and stun him. There’s a good
many will feel bad when we carry the news home, besides his own folks.”
“That’s so,” said Savage; “there’s nothing in the world that the
Rhineses wouldn’t do for Peterson, and always would; and it was just so
with the Griffins. I’ve heard that Peterson saved the captain’s life
once. I remember one time a parcel of us boys got some withes, tied
them together, and got a turn round Peterson’s waist when he was so
drunk he couldn’t chase us, and began to pull him round. First thing I
knew, I got a clip side of my head that sent me a rod; when I picked
myself up, I saw the boys, some on the ground, some runnin’, and Lion
Ben right among ‘em. I put her for home, and never stopped till I got
under mother’s bed; but the rim of my ear was cut through, and my head
was swelled for a week. I tell you, I looked sharp for Lion Ben after
that, whenever I wanted to have any fun with Peterson.”
When the vessel arrived home, Captain Murch took charge, and Aldrich
went back to Liverpool.
Percival, the mate, got to drinking, and became a miserable fellow;
went to Boston, and sailed before the mast, sometimes second mate, and
after his brief elevation, again before the mast; till, becoming so
notorious a drunkard that no captain would have him, he was employed as
a lumper about the wharves in Boston.
The next volume of this series, “THE YOUNG DELIVERERS,” will explain
the mystery attending the disappearance of Peterson, and present the
characters of Walter and Ned in an entirely new light.
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4. =Arthur Brown the Young Captain= By Elijah Kellogg
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15. =Cruise of the Casco= By Elijah Kellogg
16. =Fire in the Woods= By Prof. James DeMille
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44. =Whispering Pine, or the Graduates of Radcliffe= By Elijah Kellogg
45. =Winning His Spurs, or Henry Morton’s First Trial= By Elijah
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46. =Wolf Run, or the Boys of the Wilderness= By Elijah Kellogg
47. =Work and Win, or Noddy Newman on a Cruise= By Oliver Optic
48. =Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove= By Elijah Kellogg
49. =Young Shipbuilders of Elm Island= By Elijah Kellogg
50. =Young Trail Hunters= By Samuel W. Cozzens
51. =Field and Forest, or the Fortunes of a Farmer= By Oliver Optic
52. =Outward Bound, or Young America Afloat= By Oliver Optic
53. =The Soldier Boy, or Tom Somers in the Army= By Oliver Optic
54. =The Starry Flag, or the Young Fisherman of Cape Ann= By Oliver
Optic
55. =Through by Daylight, or the Young Engineer of the Lake Shore
Railroad= By Oliver Optic
56. =Cruises with Captain Bob around the Kitchen Fire= By B. P.
Shillaber (Mrs. Partington)
57. =The Double-Runner Club, or the Lively Boys of Rivertown= By B. P.
Shillaber (Mrs. Partington)
58. =Ike Partington and His Friends, or the Humors of a Human Boy= By
B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington)
59. =Locke Amsden the Schoolmaster= By Judge D. P. Thompson
60. =The Rangers= By Judge D. P. Thompson
61. =The Green Mountain Boys= By Judge D. P. Thompson
62. =A Missing Million, or the Adventures of Louis Belgrave= By Oliver
Optic
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By Oliver Optic
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Optic
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Oliver Optic
66. =Facing the Enemy The Life of Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman= By P. C.
Headley
67. =Fight it Out on This Line The Life and Deeds of Gen. U. S. Grant=
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68. =Fighting Phil The Life of Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan= By P. C.
Headley
69. =Old Salamander The Life of Admiral David G. Farragut= By P. C.
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70. =Old Stars The Life of Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchell= By P. C. Headley
71. =The Miner Boy and His Monitor The Career of John Ericsson,
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72. =The Young Silver Seekers= By Samuel W. Cozzens
73. =Drake the Sea King of Devon= By George Makepeace Towle
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77. =Raleigh, His Voyages and Adventures= By George M. Towle
78. =Vasco da Gama=, His Voyages and Adventures By G. M. Towle
79. =The Heroes and Martyrs of Invention= By George M. Towle
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87. =The Boys of Thirty-Five= By E. H. Elwell
88. =Perseverance Island= By Douglas Frazar
89. =Going West= By Oliver Optic
90. =Little Bobtail= By Oliver Optic
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92. =Pocket Island= By Charles Clark Munn
93. =Donald’s School Days= By Gen. O. O. Howard
94. =Henry in the War= By Gen. O. O. Howard
95. =All Adrift= By Oliver Optic
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26. =Wreck of the Chancellor, The= By Jules Verne
27. =Yarns of an Old Mariner= By Mary Cowden Clarke
28. =Young Crusoe, The; or Adventure of a Shipwrecked Boy= By Dr.
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29. =Young Middy, The= By F. C. Armstrong
30. =Young Pioneers of the Northwest= By Dr. C. H. Pearson
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[Illustration: Jason’s Quest]
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legends.
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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_
STORIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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The Tide-Mill Stories
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Phil and His Friends.
The hero is the son of a man who from drink got into debt, and, after
having given a paper to a creditor authorizing him to keep the son as
a security for his claim, ran away, leaving poor Phil a bond slave.
The story involves a great many unexpected incidents, some of which
are painful and some comic. Phil manfully works for a year cancelling
his father’s debt, and then escapes. The characters are strongly
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The Tinkham Brothers’ Tide-Mill.
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source of much trouble to them. It tells also how, by discretion
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difficulties.”—_Christian Observer, Louisville, Ky._
The Satin-wood Box.
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The Little Master.
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“Many a teacher could profit by reading of this plucky little
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His One Fault.
“As for the hero of this story ‘His One Fault’ was absent-mindedness.
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owner, he was himself arrested. After no end of comic and dolorous
adventures, he surmounted all his misfortunes by downright pluck
and genuine good feeling. It is a noble contribution to juvenile
literature.”—_Woman’s Journal._
Peter Budstone.
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juvenile reading may be made vivacious and interesting, and yet
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folly and crime of ‘hazing.’ It is the story of a noble young fellow
whose reason is irreparably overthrown by the savage treatment he
received from some of his associates at college. It is a powerful
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it.”—_Philadelphia American._
The Silver Medal Stories
By J. T. TROWBRIDGE
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=The Silver Medal=, AND OTHER STORIES.
There were some schoolboys who had turned housebreakers, and among
their plunder was a silver medal that had been given to one John
Harrison by the Humane Society for rescuing from drowning a certain
Benton Barry. Now Benton Barry was one of the wretched housebreakers.
This is the summary of the opening chapter. The story is intensely
interesting in its serious as well as its humorous parts.
=His Own Master.=
“This is a book after the typical boy’s own heart. Its hero is a
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determines to make his own way in the world.... He sets out
accordingly, trudges to the far West, and finds the road to fortune an
unpleasantly rough one.”—_Philadelphia Inquirer._
=Bound in Honor.=
This story is of a lad, who, though not guilty of any bad action, has
been an eye-witness of the conduct of his comrades, and felt “Bound in
Honor” not to tell.
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=The Pocket Rifle.=
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house. Mr. Trowbridge has the power of making an instructive story
absorbing in its interest, and of covering a moral so that it is easy
to take.”—_Christian Intelligencer._
=Young Joe=, AND OTHER BOYS.
“Young Joe,” who lived at Bass Cove, where he shot wild ducks, took
some to town for sale, and attracted the attention of a portly
gentleman fond of shooting. This gentleman went duck shooting with
Joe, and their adventures were more amusing to the boy than to the
amateur sportsman.
There are thirteen other short stories in the book which will be sure
to please the young folks.
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“A new story by J. T. Trowbridge, is, like all Mr. Trowbridge’s
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interest, and is still so natural that it all might happen in a
thousand places. Its scenes and its people are everywhere; only
few writers have Trowbridge’s eyes to see them. The hero is not an
impossibly good boy, but he has manly instincts; and he is kept from
follies and mistakes by the counsels of an excellent mother, and of
his wise and noble-hearted schoolmaster. Boys will follow his career
and his good and bad fortune with genuine interest.”—_Boston Budget._
=Father Brighthopes=; AN OLD CLERGYMAN’S VACATION.
“To the many friends which this book will doubtless gain it may be
well to say that Father Brighthopes of the story gains that cheery
name by his readiness to always see the bright and not the dark side
of any difficulty, great or small. The few weeks which he spent with
his friends, the Roydons, wrought a change in their daily life as
marked as it was pleasant. The writings of Trowbridge are too well
known to require comment, since almost everyone is familiar with his
straightforward, simple style, underlying which there is not a little
humor as well as pathos.”—_Chicago Times._
=Woodie Thorpe’s Pilgrimage=, AND OTHER STORIES.
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“goody” talk and no cant, but principles of truthfulness, integrity,
and self-reliance are quietly inculcated by example. It is safe to say
that any boy will be the better for reading books like this.”—_St.
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