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Then, as the Heart of Ireland came around and the full view of the south of San Juan burst upon them, the wreck piled on the rocks came in sight, and, anchored quarter of a mile off the shore a Chinese junk! "Well, I'm damned," said Harman. Ginnell, seizing his glasses, rushed forward and looked through them at the wreck. "It's swarmin' with chows," cried he, coming aft.
Harman, with a crowbar carried at the level, was aiming straight at the belly of the biggest of the foe, when they parted right and left, dropping everything, beaten before they were touched, and making for the water over the rocks. Swimming like rats, they made for the scow, scrambled on board her, howked up the anchor stone and shot out the oars. "They're off for the junk," cried Ginnell.
When he arrived two days ago he was worse for liquor, took on at Calgary. I made my husband look after him that night to see he didn't get at nothing, but yesterday he slipped us both, an' I believe he's now in that there outhouse, a-sleeping it off. Old men like him should be sent somewhere safe, an' kep' there." "I'll go and see if he's awake, Mrs. Ginnell. Don't you trouble to come.
Ginnell; vowed she had starved and ill-treated him; and then, to Anderson's surprise, broke out against his son for having refused to provide him with the money he wanted for the mine, and so ruined his last chance. Anderson hardly replied; but what he did say was as soothing as possible; and at last the old man flung himself on his bed, excitement dying away in a sulky taciturnity.
The house stood by itself in a plot of cleared ground, some two or three hundred yards from the railway station. A rough road through the pine wood led up to it. Anderson knocked, and Mrs. Ginnell came to the door, a tired, and apparently sulky woman. "I hear you have a lodger here, Mrs.
He felt a fierce confidence that could still make the world respect him. An hour passed away. An answer came from Field to the effect that a doctor would be sent up on a freight train just starting, and might be expected shortly. While Mrs. Ginnell was still attending on her lodger, Anderson went out into the starlight to try and think out the situation. The night was clear and balmy.
The cabin doors on either side were either open or off their hinges, bunk bedding, mattresses, an open and rifled valise, some women's clothes, an empty cigar-box and a cage with a dead canary in it lay on the floor. The place looked as if an army of pillagers had been at work for days, and the sight struck a chill to the hearts of the beholders. "We're dished," said Ginnell.
L. Ginnell, M.P., explained the programme fully in a speech he made in October 1906:
Ginnell," said Anderson, standing in the doorway, "a man called McEwen; and that he wants to see me on some business or other." Mrs. Ginnell's countenance darkened. "We have an old man here, Mr. Anderson, as answers to that name, but you'll get no business out of him and I don't believe he have any business with any decent crater.
He was the first to suggest the utilization of the electric telegraph for meteorological purposes connected with storm warnings. By LAURENCE GINNELL, B.L., M.P.
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