The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-13
After few moments Of weeping and
muttering to herself she began her dis

| jointed narrative anew:
Softly the gray mists hung far DER
| the smiling bay. an the sun sparkled
on the little ripples that were so weak
they hardly broke on the shore that
fair September morn we two were mar
ried. But as night came on. great dark
towerln' storm clouds, leaden-hued,
scurried across the heavens, an the
fierce, red lghtnings glowered an
flashed on roarin' sea. From the dark
south, up came the gale, drivin' before
it straight, un broken rows of mountain
Gus pillows, crowned on top same as
with white yeast; then, like a fiend
turned loose with shriekin' yells and
bellowin's, down swooped the storm
and whipped big clots of foam from off
the waves, an hurled the heavy swell
far up the groaning shore. Truly the
earth seemed frightened with the mad
ness of the seas.
But in the house here we were hav-
in merry time. We had lot OF
women and children from town, and a
couple of the young men who Were
just in from trip and stopped over to
see us married. Old Cap'n Thomas and
the minister had each just said grace,
and we wer e about to fall to and eat,
when suddenly some one heard faint
signal gun. In minute feast and ev-
erything was forgotten; off rushed the
whole company, men, women and
children, Malcolm and me with them,
to the beach. What did we see in the
darkening evening light? A vessel way
out seaward, pounding on the bar!
Not a stick nor spar did she have
standing; shorn of everything by the
force of the shock when she struck, and
the big waves dashin' and lashin' clean
over her.
Not minute do we waste, but all
hands help drag the life-boat down to
the edge of the surf, and then quick
call for volunteers, brave fellows who
count themselves nothing if they can
only Y save some one else's life. My Nal
com felt no fear: he was the first to
spring for ward, and, though l clung to
him and beseeched and sobbed, would
not heed me. He gave one last embrace
to me, his new-made wife, and turned
to the boat.
"Vainly begged him to remain with
me that first day of our welded life;
but no, he counted his duty before all
else. Oh, that l had died then! My
heart was filled with dark terror;
twas torn and rent apart with anguish
that he would go; my head was swim
min and reelin', and crazed with the
cruel smart of his first refusal / Knocked
and cursed him there. Aye, cursed him
for what was only right, for the boat
was but poorly manned, there were so
few men at the beach, and of them
some were old and almost crippled; but
in my selfish rawlings felt no pity for
the poor ship in distress, screaming
again and again that wished it would
break up before they got started, and
that if they went / hoped never to sec
any Of them again!
SLOWLY my Malcolm left his place at
the bow of the boat; if live till I'm i
hundred, which, God pity me, hope
won't, never can l forget the look
saw on his face in the wan light.
Nell, darling, kiss me good-by.
fCH M, Wei, oONA biSoo JoN. o@N
he was gone.
Down on the sand I fell In dead
faint. What then? All, yes. / lay
there but a moment: the wet sand on
my face brought me to. / stared about
me; none were left but little knot of
women and children huddled together,
crying and peeripg through the gloom
at the struggling boat, and couple of
old men still standing waist deep in
the water where they had helped shove
off.
Now the surf is passed. they are
tossed on the great waves; down, down
they go far from sight in the mad sea;
then up they come again; mp, up,
gainst wind and tide, now topping on
the point of some monster billow, only
to go plunging down 10 meet the next,
and pulling up with might and main 10
reach the wreck that labored and
strained on the bar and threatened to
go TO pieces every second
Now they work round under her
stern and are hidden from us by the
hulk, but soon we see them again care
fully approaching from the lee side;
but even there it seems too rough 10
try 10 board her Then we know from
the motions that they have cast liIe,
which must be caught. as now we see
dark shape suspended over the boat
for an instant; the next, a vast. noun
famous wall OF foam overyhe]rns them,
the gale bursts out afresh and when
we can get our breaths and look again
they are gonet Nothing IS left but a
raging line If breakers black with
wreekage. Ship and boat are nc
more
Calmly she wiped her streaming eyes
and concluded:
"At dsybrealz eigh. bodies had
washed ashore; tour our own men AID
four strangers: the rest of the ships
company, nobody knows how many.
and the fifth of the boat's crew-~Iny
own Malcolm. were never reeovered.-
TIE heat, which pplsasea around us
Ike { drsnght from hot furnace. and
the dramatic intensity ot the old danes
recital had 50 worked upou me tAzt ]
was n a sort of added comatSSe eondi-
:ion- The fegv soEzt.s Of life fr1gEa Tie
village we're 1-s,3Ctsces5i eTen TIE TarIS-
inz whistle had ba0sn U soss1e minutes
before eatjrriy uaa.ee6esl; - had "a
take the Cape train back 20 tasru- tsat
somehow I didn't feel ike complafaiEe
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