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to save those women. say that now
and I'll stick to it until l die

ing well, we turned in.
The next day there was nothing for
IT but Bob had to be called aft and
presented to the W women. who
couldn't thank him enough and called
hin their preserver and hat sort OF stuff
until from where l stood for'ard his
face looked like a boiled lobster. and
he came back looking as sheepish as IL
he had been caught in somebody's hen
coop. But all that did not prevnt him
from seeing thai the younger of the
two women was a mighty pretty girl,
and the first thing he said to me when
we were alone was. I'll marry that girl
yet, and he did, but I'm getting too far
ahead Of my story. The two women
had gone out in a boa for a row, and,
not noticing the strength of the wind,
got out too far and could not get back.
Then they lost their oars. but managed
to keep the boat before the wind with a
piece of the bottom board until they be-
came unconscious How they did not
capsize is more than | could understand
then or since. We kept them on board
until we got to the Manitous, where
we found a number of steamers wind
bound, and the old man arranged with
one to take them back and land them
near their home.
For the rest of the trip there were
great arguments or board as to the
cause of the warning. Bob insisted
that the bell was struck by spirits,
and some of the crew held with him.
The mate laughed at this theory. and
insisted that the reason the bell struck
was that the schooner rolled heavily
just at that time. and that was my
view. but we never could make Bob
believe it. and he didn't change his
mind the last time | say him, and he
had been married then twenty years.
but I'm getting ahead again. l wasn't
surprised to hear the next winter that
he was numbering back of Ludington.
The next season he got a mates berth
on the Baruch. l met him in Buffalo
the latter part of the summer. and
about the first thing he said to me was.
I'm married, and who do you suppose
it is? | didn't have to guess more
than once, and hit it right at that time.
1t was the little girl we had picked up
in the lake
And do you mean to say that there
was a ghost on the schooner that struck
that schooner" broke in the skipper,
who had been moving uneasily in his
chair for the past ten minutes.
Il told you what l thought of it,"
retorted the sailor.
But you said Bob Evans believed
lit?"
"Of curse he did; didn't l say So"
as it happened. and you a take it or
leave it."
We'll. all I've got to say is that I've
sailed these lakes, man and boy, for
the past 40 years. and never heard OF
such a thing"
The sailor was about to make a
~caustic reply, when some one poured
oil over the troubled waters by sug
costing that all hands step owe to
Schweitzer's for a drink, which sug
gestion was unanimously adopted, and
the war clouds disappeared under the
foam of another kind Of schooners.
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