The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-05-30
to Pondunuuit Harbor,

Dnc ran DOWN 10 the SnOfc 10 INC pace
where her rowboat was fastened. She got
in and rowed swiftly out into the thick dark
ness, She had not her compass, which SHE
usually carried in her pocket, and if she had,
| it was too dark to see IL without match.
Could she find hor way to the Island
Phoebe rowed swiftly in the direction Of
where The Plum Pudding ought TO be. Pres
emily she felt that she had gone far enough.
But where was the island? Why did she
not get therep The bow of her boat seemed
| to be pointed toward the open sea. Had she
been rowing toward the open sea instead of
the Plum Pudding? And then suddenly it
seemed to her that she was going back toward
Mouse Island.
Stout hearted as she was, Phoebe felt her
courage failing. She let the oars slip from
her hands into the bottom of the boat, and
uttered a faint cry of distress. 1t was so
faint a cry tina. only the sea gulls could have
|'heard it, but an answer seemed to come /; the
sharp, shrill sound of n horn. 1t could be
nothing but the great horn of the lighthouse,
although it seemed to come from the dircc-
tion of Pondunquit Harbor The sound was
repeated; it was the lighthouse horn. Phoebe
rowcd with might and main, and very soon
dark shape doomed before her through the
darkness, and her boat graZed the rocks of
the Plum Pudding. II was at the very steep
est part of the rocks, but Phoebe could not
delay TO row to the landing. Up she scram-
bled, never needing that her clothes were
torn and her hands scratched and bleeding.
II was difficult to find her way to the light
house in the thick darkness, and now there
came no sound to guide her Never before
in PhGbes lifetime had night found that
lighthouse with darkened windows And
what had that horn meant? A terrible fear
lest something worse than she had thought
of had happened to her father made Phmbc's
steps falter upon the very threshold. She
pushed the door open, but only to find that
the living room, where her father always sat
was empty. Phoebe seized a light which
was burning on the table and ran up the
lighthouse stairs. At the top she almost
stumbled over her father lying in heap, the
great horn had fallen from his hands, his red
face and heavy breathing showing his sad
condition
Phoebe sprang to the lamp. The great
dazzling light flashed out. There was few
moments of perfect silence and then there
came shout from the water below. Phoebe
seized the great horn and blew blast in
answer.
Light ahoyW shouts voice again.
Phoebe seized her fathers arm and shook
him with all her strength lie opened his
his feet
"pnt vour head ont Of the window and
sbont .Ahovp Oh trv vour hest To dn If
fathcrw beGpcd PhTbc '''''
lilo did trV' but il was only stammerinp
wbispcr tIat came, Phoebe lowered her
voice 10 the grufIest bass notes of which il
was conohlc and shouied "Ahovn herself
"hllrioLt" shouted the voice below. eve
Thought there was no light The for 10 81
thick that we could not see il ten rods away,
Never saw such fog even in this place
Advance will he here lo. morrow with SIM.
plIcs"
CAV. nv. sir r' shouted Phnbc. still in prutr-
est tones. o w.
And then. ia her great relief she heard thc
sound Of relrcating oars.
Then she helped her father down stairs to
his bed She id NOT 90 10 he'd herself he.
cause she knew thnt her mint would discover
her absence and send somcbodv in search of
her and il wns not long before her cousin
Augustus Algernon anpeared.
"TclI Aunt Uuldoh Maria that 7 wanted to
come home" was nil that Phmbe woulI sov
81 don't sec how Won fonnd vour wovn said
Augustus Alpernon. "Thc for is 80 thick
tho1 / couldn't see n olimnse of the light iii
| rot halfway over. Folks over on the island
thourb If wasn't LIGHTED Rut thew NAV he