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“THE GIRL MUTINEER.

_Toward the close of an October day in 1777, a vessel sailing in a southwesterly direction crossed the tifty-seventh degree of north lati tude. Her keel pl wed the waves of the North and her destination seemed to be the She was sailing before a strong wind, and the arrangement of her sails eated flight. niked eye could perceive no pursuer on the bosom ot the ocean; but the sea glasses, level ed by a number of British oflicers, who graced the clean decks, revealed a dark speck on the watery rim of the Northern horizon.

Phe distant object occasioned no little anx iety among the oificers. A silence which had reigned among them for many moments was guidenly broken by a man whose bearing unighit have proclaimed him an English Ad

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‘ He still follows,” were ths words that fell from his lips; ‘but with the help of Neptane we'll outsail him in the night. ’

Though the oificer spoke with much assur ance, there lurked in his tongue a latent tear which his companions detected, and exchanged significant glances.

Over the face of the deep night was .setting, aud the vessel kept straight before the wind, to the joy of its commander who had lately spoken. The shadows gradually veiled the far-away pursuer from sight, and when the oili- cers separate l, eXpressions of triumph were on their lips.

The British vessel was the ‘‘ Mcteor,” a fast sailor, whose armament consisted of twenty- eight guns. She was a well-built double-deck- er, and had seen much service in the war which had raged almost three years between Great Britain and her American colonies. Her speed and her formidable armament had made her a terror to American vessels in European waters. Her commander, a sea-born English- man, named Gilderoy, was an otticer of un- doubted courage and cunning, to which he added a vindicativeness that readered him ob- noxious to many of his own crew.

The ‘* Meteor” was flying froma new and formidable foe—tlying with a hold filled with with booty. Onthe day preceding the one that had just closed upon her in flight, she had captured an American cruiser, after a spirited contest. The prize had proved one of value, and Captain Gilderoy did not wish to risk aa engagement with the vessel following in his wake.

Captain Conyngham, the pursuer, was a second Paul Jongs. He was one of the most daring spirits of our then infant navy, and his name had become a terror along the coast of England. He pursued and captured a number of British ships, which he either burnt or sent into friendly ports; and when the descried the ‘« Meteor,” fresh from her victory, he hesitat- ed not to crowd on all sail and give chase.

There were men on the deck of the Revenge, as Conyngham’s vessel was appropriately nam- ed, who watched the flying Englishman. Much speculation concerning the result of the chase ran through the several groupes, and Conyngham smiled when he turned to reply to the words of a youthful Lieutenant who stood beside him, sea-glass in hand.

-* We can outsail her, Gilbert, ‘‘the Ameri- ean captain said, with emphasis. ‘‘ This wind favors us both alike, and im the calm'that will soon prevail, she must lay by till day.”

‘The young officer turned from his captain an again his eyes were strained to make out the form of the ship rapidly disappearing among the prevailing shadows.

Conyngham did not return to his glass but watched the face of his youthful com- panion.

‘*T am confident that Miss Temple is on board the Englishman,” he said, at last.

‘*« Of course she is!” exclaimed the lieuten- ant witha flush. ‘‘ I know she was on board the Mischief when it fell into the Meteor's hands, and I| am satisfied she is a prisoner.”

‘* The fairest prize old Gilderoy has captur- ed in many along day?” remarked Conyng- ham, with a laugh at the lieutenant’s smile, and the flash that lighted up the depths of his anxious eyes.

The conversation was interrupted by an un- expected veering of the wind that paled the cheeks of the numerous watchers on the deck, and the officers separated,

Now, having learned something of the Meteor’s pursuer, let us return to the English vessel.

The calm prophesied by the American cap- tain fell upon the ocean shortly after the de- scent of darkness. It worried Gilderoy, and he held frequent consultations with his oilicers now on deck, now in his state room. He‘held consultation in the latter place over a bottle of choice wine, and under the liquor’s influence he soundly cursed the Yankee privateer.

Becalmed on the water and beneath the stars, the ‘‘ Meteor’ lay like a huge, slumber- ing leviathan. Her lights were hidden, and the spectral figures that trod her decks con- versed in whispers.

In a small apartment not far from the Coun- cil cabin, stood a beautiful young girl. There was a look of sorrow in her dark eyes. and her face was quite pale. She appeared to be listening, for her bead was bent toward Gul- deroy’s room, from which direction came a faint and confused murmur of voices.

‘* 1] know we are becalmed,” she said to her self in an audible tone, ‘‘and I know, too, that the officers are worried about it. The men? I know that many of them hate Gil- deroy. Didn't I hear the helmsman say last night that the sailors would reiuce to fight for the man who rules them with arod of iron,and when he spoken thus, didn’t he remark toa fellow tar that the prisoners did not know their strength? Yes, that he did. The men think of mutiny, and the man at the wheel is ready to rise against the captain of this ship. They want a leader ; they gnaw in silence the chain of tyranny, with which their captain has bound them. 1 will spring the mine! I wili lead the ‘* Meteors” mutineers, and the *‘Re- venge” may have our prize.”

Adaline Temple spoke with stern determin- ation and clenched her hands.

The observer would have laughed to think that she had decided to head a body of muti-

neers—that she—a tregie tel of nineteen, had resolved to rob the English navy of one of its best vessels or to perish in the attempt.

She left the room with a resolve well form- ed, and steadfast in her determination. Like a spectre she glided down the darkened corri-

dor of the vessel, and at last, climbing up-

ward with care, reached the deck.

Captain Gildoroy and his lheutenants were below, discussing the situation over several

bottles of wine. Adaline saw the stars over-

head, and turned her head to the various, Deints of tho compass without greeting a

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: \breeze that would have pleased the British captain.

| ‘The man at the wheel having nothing to do, ‘seemed to have fallen asleep, for he started when Adaline’s hand fell upon his shoulder, ‘and his hand made a rapid movement toward this belt, when he saw her figure.

| <] want to talk with you,” she said, in a ‘low tone, making no display of the knife whose hiit she clutched—a knife like the hetmsman’s. | “*i want to say a few words, and are ,ing to listen? I heard you use mutinous

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‘language iast night, and I could have you hung |

| roy ! | fe was her man!

‘* You are harboring schemes of mutiny at this very moment,” she continued, after a brief | pause, ‘and you are not alone in the diabolical I can tell the Captain before an hour,

' . ‘ iat the yard by speaking to that tyrant Culde-

| Work. lit—”’ | Adaline paused a moment, and heard the | beating of the sailor’s heart. He stared into ‘her face like a man suddengy frightened by a | shost, and she finished her sentence with lps almost touching his ear.

‘‘1f you do not obey me’”

Then the helmsman’s lips parted.

‘For the love of heaven do not throw us poor devils at the feet of Gilderoy,” stammer- ed the sailor. ‘‘ile would hang every one of us before morning. Do you want us to mutiny to-night? Our time hes not yet come. There is but nineteen of us now—”

‘But the prisoners—sixty two strong men and brave,”

‘‘They are Americans?”

‘Nevertheless, they will not hesitate to rescue gallant English sailors from the tyranny of the«aptain of this ship. To-night! If you say no, f will drive this knife to your heart. and have your comrades hung to the yard be- fore day.”

Thea the \helmsman saw the knife whose blade flashed very near his breast, and the next moment he stood on the deck.

“We'll do it!” he said. ‘But Chester is wounded—hurt yesterday by a ball from your ship. Chester was to have led us.”

‘‘{ will take his place,” said **Now let us strike !”

Captain Gilderoy, unsuspicions of the mutin- ous spirit on his ship, had placed watches who had belonged to the Chester party. Adaline soon discovered this, and at length seven de- termined sailors, armed with kuives and pis- tols, prepared for the fray.

She stationed two of the strongest at the} door of the council room, while 850 many more guarded the hatches. ‘Then the prisoners were called forth, one by one, until sixty-two strong limbed Yankee sailors stood on deck, ready to do their duty.

There wes a tumult among the captain’s party when the mutmy was discovered, and the ofticers were apprised of the state of affairs by the discharge ot several pistols in the hold, ‘Mutiny !” cried Gilderoy, springing from the table; and the next moment, having opened the door, he found himself flung to the tloor by one of the mutineers who guarded the portal,

Another British officer was knocked down, when several prisoners made their appearance, and the inmates of the cabin were secured. It was one of the most startling and successful mutinies in the annals of the British navy ; but the most thrilling part was yet to come. ‘Now three cheers for English sailors !” cried a stalwart mutineer who had ably second- * ed the patriotic girl.

“No more such cheers!” suddenly cried Adaline Temple in a tone of command. ‘The Meteor is to bear the flag of the American Congress at her mizzen peak. The British rautineers will lay down their arms. Yankee sailors will prepare to shoot those who refuse to obey.”

A moments silence was followed by curses, and the nineteen mutineers looked into the faces of the men whom they had armed with English pistols and cutlasses. Obedience alone would sav@ their lives, and in a few moments the British mutineers were prisoners like their more faithful comrades, and the good ship Meteor was in Yankee hands !

Before dawn rockets revealed the ‘‘ Me- teor’s” position to her pursuer, and the aston- ished Conyngham soon stood on her bloodless decks! Then the young American Lieutenant encodhtered the hero of the hour—the girl on whos@ finger he had already placed a shining ring.”

‘‘T knew that you were near in the ‘‘Re- venge,” she said to him, ‘and I thought I would present you with the ‘‘ Meteor.” Why, Gilbert, if I had not led the mautineers, I might have run away from you, as I did yes- terday.”

Gilbert Farley assumed command of the val- uable prize, and in many of his cruises he was accompanied by the gallant girl whose fame was sung on the decks of every vessel in our little navy.

After the-war—well, the reader can guess what ‘‘ happened after the war.”

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