Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-22

war10s. What did THAT dream of hers
mean? Was Dick floating somewhere
helplessly, with other passengers,
LIT was moon when the wind, veerinx,
sent "a cloud of smoke over her head
and q shower of black smudges upon
her hands; with them came passing
sensation of warmth. This slight In
cloent awoke some vague memory
connected with her dream. The black
column of smoke, changing at its
EDGES 10 brown, thinning out until
she could see the gray sky through il.
startling even from her side. and vet
reaching far into the distance. caught
her eye.
inspiration followed quickly. The
smoke was the giant of the might he.
Tore, and where it pointed bay Dick
AND his companions! Sight danced
into her eyes, hope beat strongly into
ner heart. She turned a glorifed face
20 the ship. What could she do? How
save them?
one saw a foot Surmounted by blue
cloth moving methodicalIy on the
deck above, and in a moment flew
up the stairs leading to the captain
Drrdge. The captain turned round
SHARPLY ait theosound of strange foot
steps, and peremptorily ordered her
DOWN. Clutehing his arm, she cried:
Captain! They are out there, un.
der the line of smoke! A dozen sur.
vivors of the Meldrum are drifting
helplessly and nearly dead!"
The captain glanced in the tlirec.
ton indicated. How should this fran.
nc young woman have seen what his
Pra'ctlced eye could not discern =?
linen The guessed that she was the per-
son who, they said, had lost her lover
IN the wreck.
My dear" he cried, patting her
hand, go to your berth, and lie down.
You are in great trouble
But, THE haggard, hopeful ewes
stared brightly Iat him.
For the love of humanity. captain.
use your glass. You will see them. I
know You will"
10 humor her, The took a careful
survey of the horizon, upon which the
sun was shining. At first he shoot.
ms head, then he stood for a long
TIME examining THE spot under the
unan edge OF the lime of smoke. He
rubbed his glasses we'll and looked
again, then said quietly:
something is there! Sit down in
uhofU cOTDieT and wait ~
Ilhe course of THE steamer was al.
rered Slightly, a boat lowered once
more to gather in the oceans drift.
10 his intense surprise the captain
saw ufha't the distant object was really
ooat. without sail or oar. How
could the girl have known it? Then
the group OF people became visible. ali
sVloently IN the last stage of exhaus.
IiOi,' ana he went over to Miriam and
LII her TO look through his glass
1nu see al her friend was there.
Sne TOOK 1T from his hand with a
WHO SOD and e'azed long and steadily
at uhe coming boat, then gave the
grass pack, IN the midst of a passion
OF weeping, nodding her head to sip.
nifty that she had seen Dick. Then she
set herself to gain self-comtrol by the
time the boat came in. When it did
sfe was waiting in the hospital for
her beloved.
For the next "a hours she shared
the duties of nurse with one of the
spewardesses. and saw Dicks eyes
open with the first CLEAN of con-
seriousness in them. With a comtenteti
look at her he fell asleep, and on the
sh1p's arrival at Halifax he, with all
those who had been saved, were we'll
enough ITO be moved to more comfort
able quarters on shore.
The captain made friends with
Miriam during those few hours, and
learned how it was that she knew the
Doat was afoat. He could hardly be-
!ieve 1T, and he could not explain it,
out was contented to accept the fact
as it stood, and to be present at the
simple ceremony which made Dick
and Miriam man and wife.