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intentions given us on the preceding day our prospects were the reverse of rosy. The two ships had parted on the evening of the 30th, both going north, and we did not see the _Wolf_ again till the morning of January 4th. She was then seen to be overhauling a ship on the horizon. We followed at a short distance, and before long saw a ship in full sail. The _Wolf_ approached her, spoke to[3] her, and, to our intense astonishment, released her. It seemed too good to be true that the _Wolf_ would leave any ship she met quite unmolested, but so it was--for a short time. It was between ten and eleven when the _Wolf_ and her prize proceeded on their original course and the sailing ship crossed our course astern. About 1.30 p.m., however, we changed our course and turned about. We were all mystified as to what was going to happen, until we saw a sail on the horizon. The _Wolf's_ purpose was evident then. She was going back to destroy the ship whose existence she had forgiven in the morning. Imagine the feelings of the crew of her prey; seeing the _Wolf_ bearing down on her in the morning, their suspense as to their fate and that of their ship, their joy at their release, and--here was the _Wolf_ again! What would their fate be now? The _Wolf_ did not leave them long in doubt. She came up to her prize about 5 p.m. She was a four-masted barque in full sail, in ballast from the Cape to South America, and made a beautiful picture as she lay bathed in floods of golden light from the setting sun. Before dark, however, preparations had begun to remove her officers and crew and provisions, and this was completed in a few hours. We were invited by the Germans to stay up and see the end. They told us a searchlight would be thrown on the ship, that we might better see her go down. Stage effects, with a vengeance! But they were not carried out--it was a too dangerous proceeding, as the enemy regretfully realized. We waited up till past eleven and saw lights flitting about the doomed ship, as the Germans sailors were removing some things, making fast others, and placing the bombs to blow her up. But none waited up for the end, which we heard took place after midnight. The ship first canted over, her sails resting on the water, righted herself and then slowly disappeared. It was a beautiful moonlight night for the commission of so dark a deed. The Germans afterwards told us that when the _Wolf_ first spoke the barque she gave her name _Storo
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