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Lost And Saved ; Or Nellie Powers The Missionary's Daughter.
was nigging around those camp meetings out on the border when I last met him , sure enough ; I wonder whether it was the love of the Lord or John Graham that sent him off to administer to the heathens . I think it was John Graham , that ' s my opinion , and he ought to have the credit for it . If every man sent out a missionary they would soon have the world in a shape to suit their ideas . . I wonder if he had to be urged much to go . Ha ! ha ! there ' s nothing to keep me ashore now ; I might as well be bunting Mr .
Graham in heathen lands as doing anything else . Let ' s see , I'll hunt up the vessel this daughter of his is going out on , and I'll go along with her ; something may turn up . If she ' s good-looking , perhaps she may pay the old man ' s debt . Fall in love with her , and marry her , you know , to spite the old man . M y luck's good ; here ' s for an undertaking . Hallo there ! Crony , see here . " This last remark was addressed to a rough-looking sailor on the other side of the street , who had formerly been a shipmate with John Graham in the smuggling service on the Mediterranean Sea .
Crony , whose real name was prohably William Crony , although he could not remember the time he had been called anything else but Bill Crony , thus suddenly brought to a halt , looked up , and seeing John Graham on the other side , crossed over , and slapping him familiarly on the shoulder , said : — " Say , old shipmate , how are ye anyway 1 Tame business this loafin' round here . Can't ye scare up somethin' to keep the wind in a feller ' s sails V " Crony , old feller , that ' s just what I've been thinking ; I ' ve got something , hut it ' s
a long chase ; I thought I could do it alone , hut two of us would be handy , unless you were the cook to spoil the broth . Is it a go 1 " " Heave ahead , an' give us the bearin' of the case that ' s up ! What have ye got in yer hold 1 Give us the papers for the cruise an' I ' m yer shipmate , " said' Crony . "There ' s a girl in the . scrape , " said Graham . " Mum is the word , mind you . Everything as still as death . Girl ' s good-looking . Father and mother are missionaries
away hi the Feejee Islands , or some other heathen settlement ; we'll find out where hy and by . Got a grudge against the old man . He peppered my father out in New Mexico . The girl ' s going out to the old man from the States . Now my idea is to take the same vessel she goes on . If circumstances are favourable I'll fall in love with the girl , if not we can put our hands on some of the old man ' s valuables ; they say he took considerable with him . We'll take the vessel anyway , Crony , and trust to luck ; some
card will turn up trumps . " " It ' s a go , shipmate ; shake chain hooks , square away yer yards , an' we ' re off . " " Now that we have brought things to a focus , " said John Graham , " the next thing ° n the programme is to find out what vessel this young damsel is going to sail on to meet her dear papa . The only way I can see to find out is to take a cruise among the shi pping offices . Give them to understand that we intend to shithen we will get a
p , chance to look over the papers , but of course we'll forget to ship . Crony , you take the offices on the North River side and I'll take those on the East River side . We'll meet to-ni ght at Jack Ryan ' s , in Cherry street , at sharp seven o ' clock , and report luck . " " Are we off ?"
Away we go . " John Graham at once started to make his tour in search of the shipping list of the vessel that Nellie Powers was even then looking forward to as her ark of safety . He had looked over the shi pping lists of one office and entered another , having made ll P his mind that he had an all clay ' s undertaking before him , when glancing his eyes ° ver the lists he found one that read : —
" SPARKLING SEA . "—PASSENGER LIST . PIER 21 , EAST RIVER . Sails , Wednesday the 26 th . Name— Miss NELLIE POWERS . Age— Eighteen . Height— ... Medium . Hair and eyes— ... ... ' Light . Destination— Honolulu .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Lost And Saved ; Or Nellie Powers The Missionary's Daughter.
was nigging around those camp meetings out on the border when I last met him , sure enough ; I wonder whether it was the love of the Lord or John Graham that sent him off to administer to the heathens . I think it was John Graham , that ' s my opinion , and he ought to have the credit for it . If every man sent out a missionary they would soon have the world in a shape to suit their ideas . . I wonder if he had to be urged much to go . Ha ! ha ! there ' s nothing to keep me ashore now ; I might as well be bunting Mr .
Graham in heathen lands as doing anything else . Let ' s see , I'll hunt up the vessel this daughter of his is going out on , and I'll go along with her ; something may turn up . If she ' s good-looking , perhaps she may pay the old man ' s debt . Fall in love with her , and marry her , you know , to spite the old man . M y luck's good ; here ' s for an undertaking . Hallo there ! Crony , see here . " This last remark was addressed to a rough-looking sailor on the other side of the street , who had formerly been a shipmate with John Graham in the smuggling service on the Mediterranean Sea .
Crony , whose real name was prohably William Crony , although he could not remember the time he had been called anything else but Bill Crony , thus suddenly brought to a halt , looked up , and seeing John Graham on the other side , crossed over , and slapping him familiarly on the shoulder , said : — " Say , old shipmate , how are ye anyway 1 Tame business this loafin' round here . Can't ye scare up somethin' to keep the wind in a feller ' s sails V " Crony , old feller , that ' s just what I've been thinking ; I ' ve got something , hut it ' s
a long chase ; I thought I could do it alone , hut two of us would be handy , unless you were the cook to spoil the broth . Is it a go 1 " " Heave ahead , an' give us the bearin' of the case that ' s up ! What have ye got in yer hold 1 Give us the papers for the cruise an' I ' m yer shipmate , " said' Crony . "There ' s a girl in the . scrape , " said Graham . " Mum is the word , mind you . Everything as still as death . Girl ' s good-looking . Father and mother are missionaries
away hi the Feejee Islands , or some other heathen settlement ; we'll find out where hy and by . Got a grudge against the old man . He peppered my father out in New Mexico . The girl ' s going out to the old man from the States . Now my idea is to take the same vessel she goes on . If circumstances are favourable I'll fall in love with the girl , if not we can put our hands on some of the old man ' s valuables ; they say he took considerable with him . We'll take the vessel anyway , Crony , and trust to luck ; some
card will turn up trumps . " " It ' s a go , shipmate ; shake chain hooks , square away yer yards , an' we ' re off . " " Now that we have brought things to a focus , " said John Graham , " the next thing ° n the programme is to find out what vessel this young damsel is going to sail on to meet her dear papa . The only way I can see to find out is to take a cruise among the shi pping offices . Give them to understand that we intend to shithen we will get a
p , chance to look over the papers , but of course we'll forget to ship . Crony , you take the offices on the North River side and I'll take those on the East River side . We'll meet to-ni ght at Jack Ryan ' s , in Cherry street , at sharp seven o ' clock , and report luck . " " Are we off ?"
Away we go . " John Graham at once started to make his tour in search of the shipping list of the vessel that Nellie Powers was even then looking forward to as her ark of safety . He had looked over the shi pping lists of one office and entered another , having made ll P his mind that he had an all clay ' s undertaking before him , when glancing his eyes ° ver the lists he found one that read : —
" SPARKLING SEA . "—PASSENGER LIST . PIER 21 , EAST RIVER . Sails , Wednesday the 26 th . Name— Miss NELLIE POWERS . Age— Eighteen . Height— ... Medium . Hair and eyes— ... ... ' Light . Destination— Honolulu .