Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-09-18

''GIMNE THE MONEY" HE YELLED
WILDLY
softly at his hair, but he lay still with
his bleeding face turned back in the
sunshine, a mute protest against the
ever-cursing evils of the cup.
After a time he Inoanci like one in
troubled sleep, and turned himself.
The cooling water touched his face and
he awOze. Then it al came back to
him-the struggle and the dreadful
hour, and he got upon his feet and stag
gered up the bank. He looked up the
shore to the town. and there his father
was, n hatless sot, reeling from the
grog-shOp by the water side. The boys
blne eyes began to blaze; his very
blood seemed to curtilc with hatred and
lOathing. The man came a little way
down the shore where some boats were
rocking and tugrire at the chains
which held them. Evidently he pur-
posed getting, into one OF them to sleep
his drunkenness away.
The boy watched him walk waver-
ingly out upon the lanGine-pianx to a
large four-oared boat. The chain hung
loosely over the stake - the end of the
plank, and the mans foot caught under
it, lifting it from the stake. and he fell
forward into the boat. giving it great
lurch outward The wind had been
blowing steadily from the land all day.
and long crested sveiis were running
westward rs far as Sac eye could reach.
The man. from being stunned. or in q
stupor, did not rise, and the boat began
drifting outward The oars had been
removed, ard the boy turned about
with a noise in his ears like gurgling
water. The sun seemed to get dark to
him: the greatest struggle Of his life
had come
ne started To &c: the boat at the
head and save the MN; then he stood
still with his fists clerchcd, and
watched the boat come down the bay.
No one seemed to notice it. and outward
it drifted. borne on the long, rolling
swells. 1t passed by the boy. and he
wavcred and strained in the conflicting
currents of feeling that bcset him.
Should he save him? He saved him but
yestcrmorn, 10, his reward. But was
not he who NIGHT save Il life and WOULD
not. almost as guilty rs he who tool.
one? Something like this passed through
his mind, but he could not reason; his
thoughts seemed scattered and confused
by his anger.
The bo,st drifted through the mouth
of the bay; there the ur5rosscn wind
GuicEcned the Swclls, and il passed into
the open deep. Thousands OF rliics of
water spread away before u, and with
out food or oars the unconscious father
went outward into the giimmering
waste.
At last the boat ,iyvin,lled to spec!,
and died in the blue .ulf, and great
white cloud shut down upon il. Ike the
marble covering to a AVE. At that a
Poignant sense oi separation fell upon
the boy, the frs; .harptiroc oi an.rish,
as the bond that Mature ha:l placed be-
tween them parted. lie stood appalled,
at the deed he had done. 4 vision OF the
man starving. r;.vilc, drowning, rose
before hssa- and with a cry Of terror.
he broke ;hroug.l th2 late and rage
that bound him, and ran towards the
head
The boat was lying there with PROV
upon the yellow sand He pushed it
out and leaped in and spread out the
oars, those trusty watcr-wings that
were TO move him upon the widest,
strangest journey of his life. He swept
her out upon the swelis. Thank fortune,
his arms and chest were wellnigh as
thickly muscled as a mans! His poor,
hating legs would not be needed in
this bitter race! He thought of his
mother and looked up at Beaver head.
Carl was standing upon its verge.
Tell mother that father has drifted
out to sea, an that I'm goin' after him.
shouted Paul. ''Oh, Carl, tell her I'll
bring him back to her if live-h L
live and he laid the boat about ON
the water, and sent her out with all his
strength.
Tell mother let him go. Tell her
wait to see her, O Carl, DO
good to her if me and father never
come back-no-more." Then the voice
failed; the boy upon the cliff could hear
It no longer, and turned and ran toward
the house, and Paul went outward ON
the sweils.
He sat facing the great furFowed
kront Of the head as he pulled Would
he ever see it again? All that he loved
WAS up there, save the poor father toss
ing toward the sunset. He saw figures
running TO and fro upon the height;
hin mother was among them! A chok-
ing lump rose into his throat, but h
never once slackened his desperate
stroke. Outward he went. outward,
IS If life and hope lay only IN
he dangerous central sea. The bead
began to sink; slowly it went down,
but his eyes never left it for mcment.
Sooolt top alone was visible, . blush
pot with moving specks upon it. Then
lloWly that, too. went down, and reap
peaFed, and sank again, and he w.
Hone upon the wide. mysterious 80
He closed his eyes. his breath ceming
hasd with tho struggle, and . gyeu4 S
Wss4shsdness fell upon him - IL lan2
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