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THE CHINA MAIL, - FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1967.-

The captain fled fom

a phantom of the sea

WITH every

canvas

taut and timbers. shuddering the great sailing ship swept on through the night. America's Atlantic coast was more than 1,000 miles behind. The fog had lifted. Fierce winds had cleared every rag of cloud from the black sky. But below in his cabin bearded Captain Urquhart could not sleep for fear.

Every time he shut his eyes the same frightening scene hovered before him. He could see a huge cliff rising out of the ocean. He could see his ship racing blindly towards it. He could almost feel the shock as the

ship crushed itself to splint-

era,

Wind moaned

Captain Urquhart opened his eyes. His face was cold with sweat. He sat up and tried to tell himself what nonsense it was. How could there be a rock in mid- occan? Few places on earth were so far from any kind of land. Even the sea-bed was more than a mile away, down below beyond the reach of light.

BOOKS

"Attar course,” he shouted while the roared.

by ROBERT PITMAN

years back. He looked at Sunday. The came Urqu- his present bearing. Sud- bart's strange panic and his denly he realised that, if sudden change of course, Barenotha Rock existed, his ship was making straight dark. for it through the nes.

It was enough,

He elambered up on deck. "After course," he shouted, while the wind roared, "Southeast by East bill day- light."

as

sights what seems to beight; mother was pulled from the slar low in the sky. „iți men; but her four young turns red, and he sees #; children were already dead. steamer,

Slid under

THREE SHIPS AND. A LEGEND...WAS THERE A ROCK LOOMING EN THE ATLANTIC ?

Captain Robertson was hope- ful, but without much reason. Two days at the most brid his ship would sink, hundreds of miles from land. But the boals of the Loch Earn were barely sufftalent to carry its own amali

crew.

Such was the prospect as the terrible night wore on, Then came down And with dawn, in that deserted Atlantle waste, the impossible happened,

A large, square-masted ship appeared some three miles off. It came nearer, Soon its name could be read by means of a

spygiast,

was' tho

n

Trimountain.

It was furt six hours since, in fear of a phantom rock, Captain. Urquhart had startled his crew by 'changing course,

Coincidence?

the Captain Urquhart took Gurvivors on hla ship and brought them safely to England. Captain Robertson kept the Loch Earn flost until his crew were able to abandon her in safety.

It just a coincidence?

The law of the sea ain: ateam must give way soll. The third mate orders ʼn to swing a red light a the

A young man, a semi-invalid, But there let us leave the bows But he keeps Loch raw twn ittle girls thrashing

the

And water like drowning

Le Barencia Rock? Trimountain it turns Eara on its course,

kittens.

He made them hold We do not know whether it ever miles off its route to avoid The other ship is near him by the coat while he existed, But we know that the terror of Barenetha. now. Its topsalls are wing clutched a piece of board. Its name alone, beating in the

above its two funnels, airera Then, 48 hr erled. Into

of the mind

Captain Willem Let us look some 50 miles is hooting wildly. On Loch blackness for a boat, he saw Urquhart, led on that mysterious to the south, where an- they walch in the little eyes close and felt night 84 years ago to the saving

waiting for other

the little arma slipping. ship

moving Balde. mont, is

Hls of almost Bo lives, Instead It denly hands were too numb to hold through the night.

Was swings across the Lars them. First one child, then the or was bows. The sharp pf the other slid under.

ias author Rogers THE SECOND SHIP Is

the the sailing ship shears

of Auggets some kind Their fale was shared by all telepathy which French line the Ville du Havre, steamer's thin plating but one of the 10 other children despair

translated the of those With chilled hands

In 1873 the largest passenger the

on board.

peoplo vesal in the world. Examine

struggling in the Nevertheless, 87 people were Urquhart's sudden

accan Into heimsman tugged ut the the scene on board.

fear of a saved, Or at least they were phantom rock? wheel. The big square saila

saved for the moment. Clad in He lay back, and again flapped, then filled again. the vision appeared. The The ship creaked and veer walls of his cabin trembled ed on its new course, as the ship sped faster. The wind moaned in the rigging.

But

Climax near

de

At 7 p.. the 89 first-class passengers sit down to dine, The saloon is remarkably spacious, There are marble pillars; there ure ornate. gilded mirrors on the walls.

The mood

Never kno

intters they were

now

William Urquhart had his

Within 10 minutes uxury dripping ir Ville du leds: no brought to the Loch Earn, But own explanation. He remember- Jonger

he had set out a day the largest senger the Loch Earn telt was hope ed how vessel afloat.

He remembered the fear It carte ween lessly damaged. Its prow was Inte at all, It is alread bbling smashed in. Its bullchends were which act him off course.

lio slowly down toward ocean cracking under the strain of the did not talk about telc athy. He bed a mile below.

called It Providence.

al dinner is gay At last the passengers make for their cabins and state-rooms, What happened kose 10 Someone pleks out an air from desperate minutes? then stopa. One by one the It was never kcheyr sure. It seems that the s ship's bright lamps are dimmed.

prow smashed into than

Weber on the saloon's plano,

nt nine knots.

know about the third ship,

THE THIRD SHIP is not far Dway. It is a sailing ship, bound for America. Its hull is built It is the story of three of strong iron.

Its name: the ships and a legend.

Loch Earn.

600.

FOR

Gay Francesca

Rome.

1

Francesca's version of the In- cident hardly tailled with the re- pot that it had taken the mayor and that be she was dragged

and eight men to kidnap her

Things were nearing the Captain Urquhart climax: the climax of per could hear something else. haps the most amazing of He could hear the words all true stories of the sea. which another seafaring man had once murmured to

It was November 1873. him: "They call it the Rock Now, for the first time At 1 am, the liner is moving 40 of the cabins, ing dr Its passengers wounding everyont Ühers. of Barenetha," the man had since, that story is told sleep. in the hope that they will Survivors said theard TOR six days, the village said, "It is in mid-Atlantic. again with fascinating soon see France. They do not dreadful chorus greaming of Roghudi, in Calabria, Smart folk say it is just a tail in "Barenotha Rock,”

from the decks b

One legend. But I have seen it. by Stanley Rogers (W. H.

thing is certain. ong the was without a mayor, with crew there was pa

out a schoolmistress, with a away she tricked so hard that Cone-shaped it is, and bar- Allen, 18s.). ren."

Sellers fought pects for parish priest and without a she lost her shoes, the boats. And, Inst cases, chief of police. the sailors won, seemed be a wave OTOCI the decks of the Via Hayre, But it was not a It. was the grean closing the ship as it sank.

tough In the ley He as women elung pars, to and Loch Earn had nok, and by shake them in ruge, Discipline now It was ven Duits The Trimountain sailed a is good on the Loch Earn,

boats on rescue k in the day late, Wilkam Urquhart

darkness, It is 1.60 am, not quite four had made with his pen four having refused to sail on a bells. The Loch Earn's look-out stowaway

A U.S. judge ged,

At most times there was nothing superstitious about Urquhart. On his chart he had noted the position given by the man. Then he had forgotten about the legend for over four years.

THE LEGEND we have already heard.

the It is legend of Barenetha Rock.

He was tough

The captain of the Loch Earn THE FIRST SHIP we is William Robertson, a have already seen. It is Presbyterian Scotsman.

mine the Trimountain.

to

watch and

Now out of the night. Captain Urquhart's ship; its been known to pick up two sea- glided chairs ands,

each hond,

those words had returned.

He took out his old chart. He peered at the dot he

for collection

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

"This

•

men, one in

GILES SAILS IN-

The

Evidently, during the six daya For the mayor, 40-year-old cave Francesca had changed her spent with her kidnapper in the Pietro Nucers, kidnapped the mind about him.

plump.

schoolmistress, pretty,

were dark-haired Francesca Zavattleri,

The police, however, not quite aged 25.

convinced by her story and Francesca was taken The parish priest, who happens to Reggio and questioned by an to be the uncle of the mayor, examining judge.. chased after them to marry

them. And the chief of police joined in the chase to free the confirming her version and was There she signed a statement

set free.

girl and arrest the kidnapper."

A

was oued,

The mayor was found a short distance from the cave and he,

The pollee, with walkie-talkies too, stated that Francesca had and dogs, found Francesca In a

gode with him of her own free

Francesca has returned to her

cave 2,000ft, up in the Aspro- will. He was set free,

Mountains, Barcfooled, monte but in perfect good health, she parents. But the parish priest, received them with a smile,

08-year-old, bespectacled Don Francesco Nucera, did not know "What is all the fuss about?” the couple had been found, and she asked. "I was never kid- was last reported to be loolding napped, but fellowed the mayor for them on the craggy moun- of my own free will. We are tains.

going to get married as soon as The couple? They'll soon be possible."

married.

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