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THE POWER OF KARMA jumped up and pursued the retreating figure, but saw no one on deck, except the mate on watch, who insisted that he had not sent any messenger below. Captain Benner returned to the cabin completely mystified by the occurrence, when his strange visitor reappeared for the third time and repeated the order to change the course to sou'west, with the additional warning, "If you do not, it will soon be too late." As before, the stranger then disappeared. The captain hurried on deck and gave the necessary orders to change the ship's course to the south-west. The officers of the brig were not only surprised, but indignant, and after a consultation, decided they might have to seize the captain and put him in irons when, soon after daybreak, the look-out forward reported some object dead ahead. As the vessel drew nearer to this object, it was made out to be a ship's boat, and on bringing it abeam four men were seen lying under the thwarts, one of whom wore a green sou’wester. The Mohawk was hove to, a boat lowered, and the castaways taken aboard. They proved to be the only survivors, the captain and three hands, of a vessel which had gone down in the hurricane, and they had been drifting helplessly without food for five or six days. The rescued captain was wearing the green sou'wester. A few days later, when he had recovered sufficiently to be able to leave his berth, he was sitting in the main cabin with Captain Benner. He suddenly asked his host whether he believed in dreams. “Since I have
