. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. m. ki it 1 i \ A STRANGE DISCOVERY. 13 Down in the cabin the rescued man lay between life and death. Hehad recovered consciousness, but there was little hope that he could live. One afternoon Scott was on duty watching the gauge. It was ina sort of bulkhead, directly under the cabin where the sick man lay, andin fair weather, for light and ventilation a hatch was removed, underthe bunk, leaving only a wooden grating in the floor. From his position just under this grating Scott could not avoid hear-ing every word that was sp
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. m. ki it 1 i \ A STRANGE DISCOVERY. 13 Down in the cabin the rescued man lay between life and death. Hehad recovered consciousness, but there was little hope that he could live. One afternoon Scott was on duty watching the gauge. It was ina sort of bulkhead, directly under the cabin where the sick man lay, andin fair weather, for light and ventilation a hatch was removed, underthe bunk, leaving only a wooden grating in the floor. From his position just under this grating Scott could not avoid hear-ing every word that was spoken in the cabin, and while he watched the. CLEANING THE COD. gauge the poor fellow above him told a story to the captain thac at oncebecame so intensely interesting to Scott that he could not have forcedhimself to lose a single word, even if he had realized that he was over-hearing what was not intended for him. The man said he was an officer sent from Russia to find a familynamed Lester. Seventeen years before a man, James Lester, officer onan American vessel, while at Sebastopol married the daughter of a 14 A STRANGE DISCOVERY. wealthy Russian, against her fathers will. He disowned her, and shesailed for America with her husband. A year later a daughter was bornand the husband died. Nothing further was known. In the mean-time the Russian fathers remaining child had died, and recently upon
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