The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-07

Harry Watson was a noble young
man, but he had n vice, jealousy,
and the last glance he gave Milly as
the Hesperus swept on was one of
anger.
I'D like to ask you something, Dick
DEAN" he said, coming up to the first
mate.
Island by to set the for'sl," replied
Dick, who was a seaman from top to
toe. Cast off that tackle, lively.
Heave hear7y, men"
But [ want to speak,
81 havn't got time to palaver now
until we get the schooner under way,
and even then it would be better to let
the matter drop. Ready there in top!
Let fall, sheet home and hoist away"
A few moments more and the good
schooner vas bowling along before a
1O-knot breeze, with the wind over the
quarter, her best point of sailing,
Then Dick walked slo Wy forward,
and Harry came up to him again.
Dick turned upon linn like a tiger.
"Now, look mere, Harry" he said
You and l have been good friends.
but l know what you want to say, and
you'd better not say it. 1 give you
fair warming that it isn't safe"
What are you going to do about
it?' demanded Harry defiantly. I'D
have you to know that / understand
how you have sneaked and crawled to
undermine me-
A cry like that of q wild beast burst
from the lips Of the young sailor.
He gasped for breath, and for a mo
ment it looked as if he would strike
Harry, but he seemed to recolIect him
self, ana turning on his heel he sprang
to the companion and rushed into the
cabin.
All through that trip these two, who
had been dear friends, did their duty
by the ship; but, working side by side,
they spoke.
So they worked in sullen silence, and
after a month of absence the schooner
was standing in for her own port, per
haps 20 miles away, in one of the
darkest nights that ever fell upon the
ocean, and with a gale blowing which
threatened at any moment to take the
sticks out Of her.
The captain lay in the cabin, stunned
by the fall of a block, aud Dick worked
the schooner. And there was a loud,
exultant ring in his voice as he gave
the word of command.
Two miles u Of port q rocky point
ran out into the sea-a point on which
the bones Of many a good craft had
been laid.
But Harry was thinking Of MiIly-of
MIly, who waited and watchcd for his
coming, and he thought, with a pang
at the heart, that perhaps after all he
had wronged her and Dick.
Then came a great crash, an awful
yell from the men, and the schooner
was on the rocks and the breakers
beating against her with cruel force.
Send up a rocket" cried Dick in a
hoarse, strained voice. "Ha! They
see US! There goes a lightI'
And there flashed up on the beach
a bonfire. In it's light men were seen
darling here and there, and then,
pushed by eightstr ng rower5, the life
| boat darted out.
They brought up the injured captain
and laid him on the deck, and he was
the first they lowered into the boat as
it came up.
The men went down one by ore until
only Harry and Dick remained upon
the deck.
Col" commanded Dick. shell
only bear Il more, and it won't be
Dick Dean. You suspected me of low
ing Milly. [ did, longer than you think,
more than you know. Get into the
boat!"
q will notr' cried Harry.
"She said, In that dreadful hour,
when O have to choose between good
and evil, think of me and do right
fake him, men"
He caught Harry suddenly by the
shoulders and dropped him into the
boat.
It shot away instantly, for it could
not have borne another without filling.
Next day they found him lay ing upon
the shining sand with his head pillowed
on n brawny arm and a smile upon
his face, which only good men YEAR
men who die at peace with all the
world.
And Harry Watson, coming with his
children to the grave of his dead friend,
speaks softly the story of thai night
when the Hesperus WIGS wrecked on
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