Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-17
the fakes down to keep 'em from bein'


swept away. There was no launchin'
boat in that sea; the rain was SO
thick we couldn't see ten feet, and we
knew that afore we could ha' got to 'em
they'd ha' perished in the cold water.
When the clouds cleared away the boat
was a-foatin' bottom up, and not one O.
them as had been aboard was to be seen.
The tide was on the food slack, just as
it is to-day. an we knowed If the bodies
was to be found anywhere they might
ha' been washed ashore at Whales Cove.
Some fellers pulled over there with me
next mornin', an we found Bess's feller
a lyin' on the pebbly beach. We
brought his body to Duck Island and
buried him under the pine yonder. A.
first we thought Bess would 60 stark
mad. she went on 80. After her feller
had been buried, though, she quieted
down little. All the mornin' she
mopes round his grave and in the af-
ternoon she sits on the point yonder, as
yer see her slttin' to day. When we
talk to her she just looks at us an
points to the spot where the squall
struck 'em. Sometimes she gets into a
boat and goes cheesln' round the place
where they must ha' persisted.
"An' that's what she's a-goin' to do
this afternoon, Dan," said Edna.
They all looked at Bess for moment
as she sprang nimbly into one of the
fishing-boats and pushed away, and
then the fishermen and girls continued
their work In silence, while the artist
watched the tall, erect figure padding
across the bay. All at once an anxious
expression came over his face, and ap-
preaching the fakes he called the at
tention of one of the fishermen to some
thing over the water. The man had
scarcely glanced in the direction the ar
tist pointed. when he dropped his knife
and exclaimed: '.For Gods sake, Dan !!
look at Swallow Tail Point p
AS he spoke they all saw heavy,
black cloud coming round the point,
and a moment later the rain was swept
over the bay by the furious tempest like
huge wall of water. They saw it
strike the boat, they saw Bess throw up
her arms, and then the rain and wind
whirled around them so fercely that
they were almost blinded for few mo-
ments, and clung to the fakes as though
for dear life.
In ten minutes the suuall was over.
and only the heavy sea told of the tenn
pest that had been raging there. They
formed in group on the shore, and
looked anxieusly over the bay. Away
out near the spot where the squall had
struck Bess's lover five years before, the
boat was floating upside down. But
they were not looking at that only. Be
tween it and the shore was another boat
that had been blown over in the storm
and was fast drifting away on the ebb.
One of the men glanced around the
group, and then he said. slowly, Edna,
where's Dan %
They didn't work at the fakes any
more that evening. The women we're
weeping. and even the strong, hardy
men were almost moved to tears. The
next morning all the men of Duck Is
land pulled over to Whale Cove, and
when a boatman, who had rowed into a
little inlet, hailed his fellows, they all
fastened to the spot. There on the
pebbly beach lay Carrow's Bess, and
not far away from her, Dan-Dan, on
whom Bess had been mighty sweet be-
fore the other came foolin' round her. -