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LONDON -airld'CLANTON
, NORTH
' A.M.
Londmelm. . 9.00
Exeter ,
10.17
Hensel' 10.34
10.56 ,,tion with anyoneexcept that once,
Kippen 10.43'
Brucefield
Clinton, - Ar. 11.20
SOUTH
P.M.•
Clintott,-Lv. • ...... ..,..•-•,3.
Brueefield g, 3.32
Kippen r 3.44
Exeter • .. ,,„, 43130
-Hensall
London,,Ar. 4 ' 5.25
P,Alcirftl3c)
• ---.1.00ntinussefront Iast Week). W4lIte
:ttie afternoon Mary. ontered,.and
Was -,not alga' eierPritied to 11141 --ane
other change in Belitt;. big,,fennictlier
rocketing' Miler -vitt. whetrehe 0;w
hoW deeply the matter had taken' bot4
'Of Della. • For her own, flirt there•Wits
no iinexpeCiedieSe- it the affair, 4447'
a little, confirmatillit'' and that. 41Odly
heeded. . Ai mOst ' it, did bunoineWhat
freshen her grief, bring back.to her
mind those oterrihle-itbings and deeit"
which had been. in ter thought* .
much' but . had sainew,hat subsided
during the Iliad ...I:few" days. - So • that
It required no strain en -her.sicle fur-
ther, to .hide her oWn, feelings;;:. the,
while she' .endefivenred to , persne40:
• heedleffs Bella that Derreck w4s. only
gene on a, longer veyage than- 11041.
But no" matter what argiiments
brought 't� bear, or evidence. eliduced
faior. of them, she -could not light-
en Della's, fit Of dehresaimi.• When
tallitig seemed 'to' be 'in .vain• -Mary
went -up to.the-front Chamber window
-where Bella had Stood shiVeringly
Watching her and ••Berreck come to-
gether off „the old pker„, when : he and
, his 'stepfather peiformed the ..,reactie
that led to the coming Of the lifebOat
-and there gazed out On the great
Channel that was sea. If Dee-
reck :sailed early that morning, Mary
had now sufficient --kiibieledge 'of snCh
things as to tell her that his Vessel
,jas"probably in sight, :henause he,
,Would have -to pass- withiffTairrY ag3r
seeing distance .ef the old 'port. What
'brig was' she lirew.no better :than
Bella did; to both �f them- it was
-merely. ,a•-two-manted sailing • vensel.
Mary_co,uld see three such craft, four
_4) five miles out; and as one -was
gkfing •tdwards Bristol, she"returned
and told Bella that his was possibly
-
one of the other two, anddrted to in-
'deee her up to the window, f.to stir
-ciaterest in her there. But Bella;
would not; she Wag obsessed 'with.
the fact that he was gone indeed,:attd•
-,--now 4' rapidly .,gtowing idea that
?tante out of Certain of Derreck's re -
Cent actions and. was partially the
cause ef ,her sulidued attitude;towards
MerY=thif his love !or. her was gone
also! As a matter Of fact his brig
was one of. the • two outward-boutd
craft; aid since an hour before this
time and -for-more than an hour af-
terwarde, while -the veeireliniiile short
'head -way against the,,,iloodtide,
was repeated, Woking to where he
knew the old town lay; meanwhile
his ,thoughta were what the reader
will, easily imagine them to have
been:
'Because of Bella's unwanted man-
lier, Mary' remained. to tea with her
.and did not rettin hente till the mtd-
die of the evening. Ihen'Bella gave
way, withaut stint, . shairie or mere
craving. She saw now, was her ad-
ditional th.ought,..YfIlY Derreck took
-so •fong and 'tender •a farewell of Alice
and so short a ehe of herself -he had
left her because he no longer loved
?her. To...Bella, Week, nattially affec-
tionate and inhereffElY -foolish in so
mater thie• Was an, unbearable
blow; one that she had not expected
ever to fall on her really. And now
that it bad come,' she" would "drink
herself to death and, get out of ev-
erybody's way."
By the aid of her fading beauty, or
rather ,,by the-- two-feld resolution 'toe
bring it back and to re -model herself
on Meats -Shea, Bella had mended
greatly. So that the irony 4.1id -the
chagrin of it all took what grip wag
POssithe on such ,,.. a' Shifting,. sandy
'greund. Lintped in with her CleSper-
ate despair there was anger of a
more ' d'urable natere than she had
experienced for Years past. Having
found :that Derreck had . left her fj,e-
tween five and six pounds to -"hirry
her on till his first half -pay ,became
due, for 'a whole -week she gave her-
seif the utmost license,' refusing to
see Mary or to enter into converse-
CNA.: "TIME TALEeA6T
A.M. P.M.
Gederich 6.15 2,30
. Holmesvirle 6.31 2.50
Clinton 6.43 3.03
Seaforth 6.59 X.21
St. Cohimban ; 7.05 • 3.27
"Dublin ....a. •• Y.12 3.35
-- _Mitchell 7.25 3.47
- WEST ,
-'1Viitchell - 11.27,
. ...... _ ...... • - ' "
ESC. Columban .. . ... .. .
Seaferth . .- 11.51
Clinton- ... -" 12.04
Ooderieh .. 12,35
10.33
10.44
through the window by the back -door
when Mary, wanted to get in, she re-
' *Tiled her bitterly with having "'come
between them and drawn 6,1m away"
and bringing outthat _unconsidered
trait of caustic _comment till ;Wary
went home a.gain, her ears tingling
with shame, and insulting untruths.
Truly Bella's tragedy was deepening,
but not now ,by any actioh-ef Mary's;
in her sober mements she knew this.
Aild, especially -when somewhat in
, 'drink, one of her bitterest Ipitls was
the double fact that she could 'neither
tax Mary with any known dlrect act
of disloyalty to her nor attain to ev-
en a Permanent proximity to Mary's
standard of mind and ,,genduct. Break,
ing a butterfly on a wheel was what
•she had been, and now was in an-
other mrayp trying to clO: she 'saw it
and 'again the truth of 'i t . vas.Worm-
wood to her.'
Then came a brief spell of recup-
eration, in which she wavered in her
Reins of evidence, that- Derreck and
. \ 1137 his love were gone for ever, and she
was oncemore at. peace with Ma.,
io:ii But the ithavoidable soda returned,
11.10 iivith this variatiOn: At the beginning
11.35 of the sedencrffrolonged bout she took
CHAPTgR XIV
Mite to Mary and asked her to mind 4', '
the Child 'while the lit lasted, Natty "THE WRECKS ARE ALL Til'Ir . •
DEED?. ' ':,, • 1-
! 01%11. trying, to talk her out of her crazy
ally, Mary seized the....opOortenity of
This was Ale first Voyage berreck
. ,
EAST 'Weakness. gilt Della-ttout5 . not be
P.M. persuaded a. Single-jet:Nee-there was could remember to have started, on
- Goderich ;'. 4.35 nothing left it life for her except to- without that "pull of the land" wich
Afenteet ..I. • .,• .. ft 4.40 'drink --herself out of it, And the sooft- every sailor l'eels in hit heart 'Si' he
lifoCia* 4..49 er• she did-se:the better.- 'Nothing passes out of harbor. The only real,
Alibtlit.-- . 458 could pull her -back new, She *Id uninixed Ipull'' Tie knevr now was for
WW1 ' • 5.09 hegga Mary to keep away frain her -ha -child; and What- made this worse
Walton' , 5.21. and, not give Alice up to Mrs: Kihgt, was the'f4i that the master, a wi-
•61cNatIght 5,32 Worth, aid Nett her way -,•leaSing ...
Torcinta ? • ....• ..oi a,p.••••••••• i
9.45 Mary pained to the uttermogt, -94'ith, sower, had his little boy and girl
A with him. Derreck was glad to set
WEST the only consolation that she Wits
A.M. fulfilling her prolnise RI , Derreck by away front the 'scene of all his "trot.
4411. taking ear e -of hiA child. But net with ble, Hi 'felt muck Pity for. Bellne,--
the., consent of-Mtg., Xingsworth,. C010, 'inO•stly beenuie he knew -that in her
McNaught -- . 1,2,04 twice tried to getposseaSion -of 'Vide yr,e44, woo, 40E. rovect hot,: deady-an
tb.'altoix • . ,.; ' '". ' itiK •iluring this",tinlei And repeatedly said p,;.,vetT tIvilnite -regret at what seem -
tisk ...;`,.,;.„.„;,,,„,„„..;... ;•• Azgg 'What a good thing, It *Mild be if Retie;
' li ,t4 be 4,001nolete srivellance IrnYtt
Aulbutii .... • . • .. • A 4 4 -I/ a A *VII II
12 39 killed -lig -teen in Ofie Of those tIrdb*
,. 3ta,ta* ,,,.4.,..,„,,,,,,:e......, 12:47 :0-111. fita÷lt viaaid OttitteiVelterl 4r4r! fStilt Mare , was the satiafad.
lieneget .,;,....;,4,44)0.2,,ii,••„,•,,,,,s2,5t ,:fpt,drisitel :ion' ribtoartWitliont ROA, ;0071.,.,that In hreakingely!..frelft-the
' HOdelitteli ..41{1{.01.1.4F.****4 a . * 406 1006 'Ing a word -fa his thottri 'hetet! tho Outtue. and wretchedness, Oieadoti&I-
„,....---, ir• . ,
rrt-4.-47-
• • . . -•
• • • .", ,hird..:by inebkiation"he•
• :With. alUltbetamirr.flitorilats..09,,ict, an gettiag, ihipeseable: barrier h07
•74-0llat *11-104-'3301-104•40 -414i09, ••wi01-tW,000. lilitSelf and 'that temptinp-and
-her, Only to haad-'titb child ever again '2,•;
when the 'evil -returned, thia :„06444.4.,
ulareoltable *bleh,. had otoed
ned,,fonsorne weeW Ther4ella. Was begu'
In bed,- adriskaiy ill 'with plieutiOnia twelY one Weals laPsea-tiinCe the
and the results liabithal intexie0 night of that elfibtade On -,the North
tion. -Whexi thia-heeeme apparent, as Now; leoltt: stock and harrel, ft
:it -did within . the confine* of a day, was all left beltindc-Cotte 'ill 'Or coke
May took. Alice home . And at once :wen of his _action; and -as the note
es -Aimed. the responsibilities. 'of beieg liens wore away,,..as time and dietane4
nurbe;-with• bliliey'S' ready., cad-a'e•thac0U-
8044' though. he did.etat hesitate :to re f
say•Ao her Privatery that 'Bella "de.: •IAtatiall grew
wout..assything theYway the beet :thing he •nou.ld-• do weilld ho
mind; that, ...so
erved:411.,ah4 got for such efiameless long' as Bella ilVed or there *Su any
Oarryingeon.71 It was .not in his heart tie, affection tWt him and -Mary,
iiineceilr., even., if, the- case had been to remain. away from Minehead-
• tWenty times mote 'FAO:less .and II. from England :etoee
more inoonegelent than -he. 4teltA.- Het- : •
SO .the 'brig tan:across the BaJo•
the surnifeing. thing happened' on the: .. •
%following 'clay, when Mr Kingsworth There whilst Derreck found
put 'in an appearande;:saying that she new interestealtougst -.the ,Spaniards
did net know sooner, otherwise she and his French O. Bente nee on -.two,
Would.; have 'come 4n -before and lent 'occasion, ' the, iresiel put out a • part
'a hand in the place. Then Alice was of hey load, took other cargo in its
snatched. tip and hugged till she kick -
Place teild sailed for Leghorn, With-
e.d end. began to crY... to be let free. out Derreck having written home Vintli to ,tellytheeriese of • that -curious • ,
any *ay. He had enjoyed fifteen
sen•se,ef. dre,ad . and 'dislike .which
days .!of 'fairly continuous respite' from
-Vary felt , for -the ..pld Woman, She
would, demite the strain of the con- the troubling-Thaughts of matters, at
tinuoun work, rather have had her "htinie.• Now. these: came hack on him
stay away. • " , not as they hadTdOne in • the Bristol
To Mrs. Kit gaworth-who had teal-,' Channel and imMediately afterwards;.•
ly COm.e in "to zsee.en. die"L-largely
took day -duty,' While the •Itint many
but 'enough, ail the same, comae'
an, unpleasant hour,- In his.
dauglitet .of 'a neighber atteeded "in .regrets there was Still that . old de -
her shop, eed she fOund .frequent• OCT Sire -not: a1waY4 without an -ger in
casion to speak of Bella's shortnem- these days -to havn become Master
lugs.- Se Mary obtained therest that eoaster; and his position oi
enabled her to be at hand, throng-
out- the !night., During the past. six
months or so. Bella.. had taken in-
.•creasingly -to brandy., _which ha.d .been
her Main inteiriCant, in,the last long
bout; and on ,the Second day of her
mother-in-law •being there ,the latter
by a • few, cunning questions, learnt
item' .the tioctor---Mary--heing asleep
in the' next rocht at the time -just
abotit how much brandy would' kill
-
Bella. It Was •alt so- simply dons and.
_eagle .aut....ef Mrs,'" Kingewerth -nng-
gesting- to- Dr. Giay, et -.,...the beside,
that "p'eapii ittm brandy; juSt, a lit-
tle .mebbe,. would do 'en. good." Wheree
on he strongly' intimated' that net a
drop wan. t� •be giVen to 'her on any'
accOnnt,, and that e "quarter of .4,
pint 'on,.so' would kill' her izi her pre-
-sent condition.". This:was late it the-,
afternodn, and for a few,hthirs fif-•
terwarde Mrs.. • Kingsworth'S thin
ee wan-imirsuf thotight
'About eight ' 'o'clock in the , evening
.she rethrned .from a short errand,
.lookingrarogrid the scullery and liv-
ing -teem like a litnaan-faced,,ferret
ft deserted rebbirsewarren.7-Then
she took...a:span thit bottle from un-
der her •apron -and stewed, it deftly,
behind a work -box, that 'stood to the
wall on. the side-tablerahd went up,
stairs to sham; 'Mary'how things were
before she Ieft her for, the night.
Having done this • Mrs: Kingsworth
descended again, missed Alice as she.
issued from the stairs, and immedi,
--ately found the, child at the. sink in
the, scullery -emptying the flit hot:
tle, which she had seen her grand-
mother put on the table, as "Auntie
Mary" hap shown her with the fen
gotten small•cendents Of sundry other.
Little bottles which Mary fund here
and there •when she took eharge of
Della and the .hous\e. With a stilled
exelamation? then ad" endearment and -
a kiss. Mrs. Kingsworth snatched at,
the bottle, replaced its. cork' and slip-
ped it into her pocket, as Maty, was
heard coming downstaffe.. W,hile, the
latter prbeeeded with her supper
cooked and brought in by Jane, be-
cause -she could not, "fancy" food'
Item the old woniatiTThands - Mrs.
Kingsworth said -'she would. just take
another loolt---areund. and returned -to
Bella,- knowing that this was her last
opportunity that night ahd convinced
that her suddenty-determined, evil
work must be done At such' a time.
Qu•lekly and quietly she succeeded in
getting the remainder of the brandyr
t'ovrn Behan throat, then- saw that -
not a drop was spilt, fcir others to
scheile•-put" the bott14 back into her
frock -pocket and -went, home-think-
iagdhat new Perreck on his return
--
home, would be, free_to Marry Mary
(she being secratly Sure that, they
Were in loyeth each other) and
that there would, be nothing further
to keep, him haat in hid ambition. A
drunken ivife had ttiined him against'
hisother. and driven him from
shb-°.cegitated; but,. after alt
he was her soh„ her • only' one„ and
such things watild not occur again.
TIME TABLE__
TotOrtte'.
4.1.1
Ou:Pt''•
ire:e••
Whea 4'0Y' :starbear, d, 40*
• • .•
nja1 4$( that way
' don't•, ft
1*..hka
a•natehed up his4Uy'ititChande`d•hini
'cloWn (he ,eattianiop; Wey to :the
StOW4r4„: with ..e.
the, ego-keen:4.4A, Or PA t-74.0 4:1#14.04;
rttea,f4y3.hinwhije:e 14:10t9.
wtr minutethe wind. WaTa-thn
thera;, and the o14 hrig:'hea,410S, '
for the With -east, heeled beavily-: cot:-
er ,to port and anep weet
topmast like a , fresh ' carrot in a
sfrong pair of hands. • Ili Apite Miff
and the head -swell, however,, the brig
Nem away;"-"Settildingf' fes -4e Gulf of
ons at twelve khots hour.:
Straight to ' the wheel ' the. •, master
•sPrang; relieired the lielMsinan to
jein the ethers, shouting; '"Clew. 'an
the main-topseir and wishing had
takenoff more envier helere. '
ealtaite we, elear-away, the. wreck
..age -first?," The • mate cried. '
"No, • let - hangle--Thete's nothing
Over the side. Yet! bp with. the 'top..
lets to the yard, smart now i'.then set
the Main-etayseir As' the mate gave.
the 'neeesSary orders--andlitepared to
lower the. yard, themaster adde:
"We. Inuit ey'nzi things a 'bit and 'Make
her steer ;first." , Because ,..of the. brig ,Hardly knowing that -the 'inate...:eree.
having 'so mita after -canvas -and so iloWn, berreck seized the mas.terls
little farreard shewas yawing as a nhoulder,.. he being .the nearer of the
plonghman, was at the wheel, . two,' artd dragged 'him from under the
Down e.anie the yardi the clatter of - yard, whieh was then pertially'nfloat
its parel hidden. in the rush of the at .that end. With thisdip the brlg
wind; and tip went the corners -of 'scooped her bow full again; as was
the sail, a gigantic beg Of ' strong can half -expected; but Derreck 'gilt away.
vas etraining to bursting point• and with his bimien to the weather -side
Oecasionally ballooning upwards, then of the foremast. :There the mastey_
coming d•avvia again,„ with a -crack like regained his .feet, bruised, bleeding
a storm -fiend's Whip a league Slightly' and 'gasping for breath', ' yet'
length. .Whiletthe master .spun. the not Seriously liurt.• The second in-
bo'suat here, well-treated though :he wheel way and that in his great' rush got the angry mate, as he was
was bY themes:ter •aitd by. the -mate efforts to keep the brig somewhat struggling ,to his, feet :again and
on the whele, .continually reminded straightad hinnot •the „ Old thing threW, 'hiin at the fere-mast,'" almost
him of hoW' the early "yearsof •his- as Derreck went by With: the master.
menhdod had been • 'wasted to please
a drunken woirtati: This was .the, sell-
tery trait common ito hitt) and his
mother -a- eort of liburgeniS pride. in
en honest ambition of a' .small. but
,tolid quality:. Event. in his , hunthie
•Wey he' 'had learnt ' that-anibition
strews • her paths' 'With thetnie and
that those who seek her haunts liave
Meetly' to go bare-footed: He
hack •-te the daye: of his courtship and
thought of. how. 'bright and happi the
prospect was then. In, a,'Crutia Way
he hid been going to make such
splendid' strides ,during the first three
years of his -married life ---become a
person of ,some: iniportance and en-
vy harhor-site. And 'here
he found himself, hefere the meet
again, outviardAniund on--n-lonevoy
'age! Je was like. a. son of thunder,
of 'a sort, wile' had... -looked on him-
self 'as one withthe certain power
of 'booming forth, it. -itztehle _to' emit
a sound in the moment of trial.
now blamed himaelf that he bad not
left ,Bella eighteen montis. ego and
set Out 'afresh to gain his goal, for-
getting that sudh an action was- no
more acceptable tO hira then ,than
fine point ever was to hutilanf'nature
generally. He saw that- he had- been.
a fool to hiniself, and all to no goad
'finally. Whilst love for Bella had.
keel alive, even up to its Citiet ex-
tinction, there had been much len-
iency in his heart, resignation and
some tenderneegI', But now, with that
feetieg, transferred to another, his
priteipal Sensation la the matter waa
one of injury .and .smarting at 'the
wifely wrong done to him., What pity
and tendency to fergiveness he felt
Was due fa- the. facts that he, bad lov-
ed Beiri:as not naturally hard in
his ' dealings' with ethers, was still
(
yoeng in years' and not old expert-
enbe; and that he At hah lurking in
he corners -and bYevrays tid_jits mere;
City a ''Ting,ering .atmosphere of those
times when .he and Bella, in the hey-
day of their mutual affeetion, had
"scaled,: the heights: of heaven" -an
Mary pet -it-Thrzee "Of her lines.
. So these *disturb -Mg thoughts came
and went till some days after '11 week
ors;'baffling, light winds' which they
met with just inSide the Mediterran-
ean. Then ..a good westerly breeze
carried them up V) the pastern Shore
of •Minorca; but this dropped awaY
as the brig was drawing clear of the::
and, and. left thelnin a Calm, with
a slmnbreus swell. the sea's long, -
IOW breathing, cOthilig down on them
from the nor' -west. ' ,A few.: hours cd
this, and the meat began- anxiouslt
to watch , his barometer. He did- het
like the look of things. A home and,
Baltic trader generally, the •Mehiter-
ranean was rather new to him; there-
fore these signs were all .the, more
ominous, and he benefitted by that
fact. ' -The calm had come upen them
socit' after midday, and.fiTfcrtirtreleck
the veelet was under ,short sail, wait7
fug for- what might happen. When
the work was dote And the mate had
rejoined. the master on the little poop
and taken a long look around he
ventured the opinion that there was
nothirlg to-werry'atietit But he Was
ma,n'of rather dull perceptions; and
the Master, who letiew this, said to
Derreck, .as the latter went by in the
pnrformance of his duty:
"Whit. d� you think of the wee.
ther, bo'sun?"
"Net !Mich, sir," was 'Der eck's re-
ply, thereby earning -a littl ore'of
the mate's jealousy;, for the rgtter
Was Of an inferinr flert., of mint;aiid
there had already beet *eine shaft)
diffetenees Of •qpinion-betweet theta,
and Might • have 'beet Ware() doingS, little, to 'that end; -Ticit SW the- master
had the...Mate PosSeseed as ..-intidfi. ,ate'llerreek, however Thus....atter a
-004rager. diglike tifitetreek wli t hurriedte,talten sta lt,..ot hot 'tea,
40;00;:adtled;;;'"Thottithiot.toinsevtbitif Salida aid ctild .S4 -a to
You,
,
wars 2h $ o110
,
aioug tbe wo4
,
g, lt.t0hp,7;4rir:rt
tch
,ly se far es th get the •.10)*T0).1
the. lekrigging; yWitc-c*:
,w,oiit'a enrap (4'We-ruing, PV0',:that,
4 74: A 14
4 0fwater, ',
.thtew the haiPeecured ePat • against
.both...tothe deck, whjie tire.;.sea' reli-
ed over teem, the bey And another
iseaman, • The mate; Derteek and the
ether men, were' towertle.the -weekhet
id of the, yard ineo mere.then the
Seething edge Of 0.010r0)0,112 .
vessel heaved agein t�. leenrnr4; beek
.went the sea,..taking• with it :the aliai•
and those w.ho•-.1ay:heneath.:: The free
"AIR, and- the _boy. held on. geak
about the -foremast- ,The mate,FAhata
bervieen., Der -reek artikh,e hurly4yOrlir
, • .
'on the lee -side, the'handiest' of them
a1 --td give help; but he AlSde_. ne-
niovement to that end-' Seeing this,
Derrech sprang past,. hige0: having. in
a -Wa.y" to thrust him- aside -in order
to get .4; ming, as the niate lost
hjs balatee and fell:
'..."Look. out, siri".
having a lee•eharet to
port, he 'could not run off. before the
breeze, which was much in the na-
tire of, a, squall -all hands,including
the cook -steward, lualmed the- hunt -
Hues :and got the, sail up' till it was
several,„: knell, straining begs Of
witet,-the total of which.mattered but
little.• Then the eiain-stayeail was
quickly • rult• hp; anothe' fere-ahd-e.f•;,
ter was set on, tb.e fore -stay. This
put the Vessel: further '''ilitlerhand,,
gave her greater ancl-qaore regular
speed., Finding that 'she was again
fairly easy to steer_ the master called
his beet helmsman there, and went
himself to superintend the clearing
of the wreckage, knowing that the
mate wag" hardly the right man fin-,
such work -and fearing that the lat:
heads as to ho* best to do this, that
or the' other.
Sather shbrt in figure" Mid aorne-
whfat thick -set, -with iron -grey hair,,
a sandy beard and kindly grey eyes,
his. • eieht.L.shoulder some twe inches
higher than the left one, which lean-
ed forward a little, and a-quick,man
ter that was never flux-ried,, the mas-
ter- went about this dangerous Work
with all the dispatch that ,,the raging
elements Would allow.' The mast ha
parted just above the lawer-topsall-
yard, 'causing the latter spar tp drop
td tha, cap;. while the uPper and top-
gallant -yards, the top -gallant Mast and
the piece of. top -Mast fell below. One
weather-yardam had gone through
the deck, broken off in part, in part
lifted the deck plants 'and' now lay
on the lee -ow. The other' yard was
lying pretty square across the, bows;
but the top-gallant-itast had come
down pole first, made a big hole In
the lee -deck just abaft the low toP•
gallant -forecastle, „ then fallen along
the lee -Side of the deck -house. In ad-
dition there•was a 'big gap in the, lee
'rail and 'Imiwarlts just ,fOrWard of
the rigging. .WhereVer posgibie the
spars were immediAtely lashed to
their positions, so that they woeld.
Mil do riihre clanaap by being moved
violently in a heave Of the veesel, or
by .a sea breaking- aboard. Quickly
then the flanging gear of stays, rig:
ging, braces,-- etc, was cast or cut
adrift; meanwhile the carpenter and
an AM: were hard at work patching
up the holes in the decks. Having
tempararily secured things below,
fresh stays were fixed to the broken
top-mgat; the tepsaid was.reefed; the
Main -upper -topsail stowed on its
yard; and the crew were ready for
the more perilous -task of getting the
fallen spars into safter 'positions
along the decks. •
Darkness was •riew, closing in, mak-
ing the work doubly an difficnit, even
ith the lanterns that &mid be hung
about, as It zould have been by day-
light The breeze had settled -enter a,
steady gale that was rolling up a
swell against the former nor' -west
one, so that the brig was anything
but even in,,her rdovements; 'for
v:hile the neone hove -up her quar
ter, as it. came' foataTiig along with
the wind, her. leeho* often went
deep ihto the Wes perceived swell
that seemeddo sneak on them with
the sublietY of a -II -ling tide. Several
tunes already had tire earpenter. and
his assistant been washed about '1) •
sas which suddenly rolled crier the
lee-beW, taking them htaware's, aa
the Old brig ecooped up three tg, tour
fiAt'ef blug-green Water; Despite the
fact the work had to be chine; for no
one knew- what the night and the
bree2e vtt bring upon- them. The
mate VOuld have left things -aa they
were till daYliglit, and graiiibledt
thmm
the " deciclicrWA
feraet'rZer4atiiis
;34en.47H:fiiinawst;ehbti:linaePlihte'
'dit
''sto,P.Ped their Olay•,:-.•
d.O-.,but,that, he n#st
'Piisii3.14, •-•At•:.
the
ministet
-erkring-niitit in th'0,:):hunkl'•;,h,.
rehirned on deck Ordered. geery.t.
to, ter ar.,4antertiTdeek 4
and 'search was made again, titY
UOIA, ita,Y Vter0,4,4^P101.104' '
.topsalbyard was Wished' in its pesil
U� -good, sadly 'the
Tb
mas-ter went' sorrowhilir hack tohis
cabintoattend .to his own needs,
his children to bed -as lie ..alWayg''
did, with. he care -et- a Mather; Whel'4';--
he' Irad?gehtioned the atewaid to Say
nothing: to them 'about the: Ietit Man,'
he returned to the'POop, had-the:a:01S '
further readjusted soap to.linnadrdhe
brig iciore,: and watched: the old craft
tearing up the Gulf with the galeAn-
a WAY that would- have gladdened
heart, but for that missing one tt
the damage alOw and aloft: Mean'
while Derreck, .fergetting kis .oioio=.
etitary_ brush with the Mate, took.hie..:-
watch and let his thMighta cuiate
on what the, change - tee his affairs,.
blurther to ,leentard Matters were genetally, at Minehead Woe,'
Worse:. The instant --hefOre•'that sec- 'been hedehe gone instead •of•,-,cpr With
ond scoop -11P, the uninjured AB : the A.B. • ,-
;kr
down there made a grab at his • Until noon, on the • following day
prisoned -Shipmate: That sea, how: -the brig went, bowling away 'before
ever, caught him squarely, flattened :1714 -tale. By this time elle had cov-
him backwards op..the deck, insens- ered a couple of hundred miles/and .
ible, and would have . drowned hira, the master -stiff and sore frOM his
but those who, -had leapt after Der- .experience under the spar ..... wee
leek came in time to gel a •hold, on thinking.what a apleadid run he was
him, as the Water receded a second -hav5ing. If the wind held, for another
-time. At the -moment' they _hurried tWenty-fOur hours,, he wet*, be , .
with:. hiite, to some safety‘acrosej the Leghortin site et bisiiaving a,
dgck, the carpenter and another man. "lamg duck". to havigate..' He had..at-
were looking for the one under the tended -to the man who was' knocked
'spar. But the wild wateri swirled senselese. found him all Tight agati.
mockery at them. Look where they NoW, ashe paced unevenly about the .
would, aft_along -at 'the,_huge sea • that
perso nuttier the Vgarn-fodsel-head, was rolling up' and thinking that mi.:.
'nowhere to be der the lee -of Cotlipa during the
found.. Both his voyage and his coming ni
'worst of it, then i'eyeing fltAinge
forward and. the Way his *easel was
tWlig
roaring along through the..icerte
he had three, ueasant: the
the lost inan '(such a• thinehad not
out -through that gap in the rail and previously happened te him since he
bulwarks which the fallen spars, had first became master), the damage
made. But for a lashing on the fere- and the carpenter's report that: the
end of the yard, which lay slantwise brig Wes maldng water.
on the foc'sel-bead, three orfour of ' -((ontinued Next Week)
•
„watch were ended fol' all timer -SO
far' as .could be ascertained, when
the seeond sea began -to-pour.-•out
over the side again, it must' have
carried him -then too far gone to cry
,
•` I 1 I •
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•IN SI-1.41bE,
187
-Typical shiBY--tirne snapshot taken when the Sky'was overcast..
13HOTOGRAPITY has grown so fast
-11 that it has long age -passed some
of the superstitions which attached
themselvea it -in its Blaney.
One of those die-hard beliefs is
;that picturataking is possible only
in bright siinlight, And it's high
time that that Mistaken impression
was laid the Proverbial six feet
under, 86. let's take care of it ritlit
now.
Take a /Mk at Our illustration
today. Do you think the lantl was
shining when that pitture was made?,
Well, believe me. it *am& AO diS,
was overoOtt, witlouste., plait blink
Sky -7044 yet.; here, IV) hale: it, tine
,--Which,tellgAVeasifiratd
ildetatoOdAttfP tta4tearat:
lit
fe
than he would have Used if the gun,
had been shining on the little girl •
and the utail boxes. Theta all yent r
have to, de 'to Make good picture's
on eloudy-bright clan t.117...when- the,
subject is standing in the shade.
And pictures ef people made when,
they,e-titanding on the shady lair '.
.oit- the loittge hare qtralities whiali -
are bard to beat. For One tbilif :the
sttbje,cts afen't" agnitting at the ,
cataofa-; tho hen bird trYing t� Mill
out their eirea, and as art esnit tb,040• ,
'feel apit took far more natural thatt •
(tlatiy;),01:::::::::trt*0,114104,:".1:s
,,,,'Soine it."4,,Wiille, ;for the sake.'; ,
i
4) atitrielit-the-iihddeandint aott
-roletrittettod iiito.t.ti '
? 'ego devezittrit (2,
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