The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-24
DICK RODNEY;
5 Or. The Adventures of
} An Eton Boy.
} BY JANE GRANT.
BY JAMES GRANT.

VI Ol a lodd = CAaSN Oh AN
same principle as those mighty phe-
nomena which become tornadoes, cy-
clones, and water-spouts when they
reach the ocean, where they may cas-
lily dismast and perhaps sink the larg-
est line-of-battle ship.
These spouts rise from the sea ex-
actly like the moving pillars of sand
which the whirlwinds sweep from the
hot and arid deserts of Africa and
Arabia.
About six bells Il. e., Z O'Clock p. n.y.
this escape was followed by a dead
calm, which lasted till midnight, and
during that time we talked of nothing
but the skill with which we had got
the weathergage of that column of
foam. AS the sun set, with a rapidity
peculiar to these ATTITUDES, the brill
liant tints he shed on sea and sky
changed with equal speed from gold
to saffron, from that to vivid purple,
and from thence to the hue of sap
phire.
The sensation Of loneliness which
the departure of the sun excites in the
breast of a landsman at sea is pc
culiar; but this was soon changed from
mine by the s~plendor of the rising
moon, which changed the sapphire
tints of sea and sky to liquid sill
yer and the clearest blue.
Above, no cloud nor even the tiniest
shred of vapor was visible. Sea blend
ed with sky at the horizon, and seemed
to melt into each other, so hat no line
was traceable. Save a planet or two,
twinkling with less light than usual,
there seemed to be no stars in heaven,
for the glory of the full-orbed moon
ly on the white sails of the Eugene,
and in it the features of our faces were
distinct as at MONDAY, and now it
was the 400 of night.
About IL o'clock a fresh breeze
sprang up, and the ships course was
resumed.
by keeping the weathergage, and
beyond the circle of the spout's attrac-
ton, we escaped without shipping a
drop of water!' said Weston, for the
twentieth time. Let me see how you
enter all this in the log, Hislop."
at is no uncommon thing for a craft
at sea to be deluged by a spout OF
fresh water, which the whirlwind has
torn up from an inland lake." said
Hislop; "and houses, far in-shore, have
in the same fashion been deluged by
salt water absorbed from the sea-and
hence the showers of dried herrings,
of which we have heard so much at
times. Now, Rodney, you will perhaps
be surprised when l tell you that 1t is
the winds which produce a calm like
that we have had tonight"
THE winds!" l reiterated, surprised
at such a paradox from our theorist.
Eyes. The opposition Of the winds
will at times produce a perfect calm
and then when rain falls it Is always
gentle and e~quable; but when clouds
seem to move against the lower winds
or when streams of air denote a va
riety of the aerial current, and conse-
q~uently the approach of rain"
What strange sound is that ahead
or, at least, forward?" said Weston, in
%terrupting Hislop, who would perhaps
have theorized for an hour.
at is Antonio, grooming in his SLEEP
in the ~forecastle," said Ned Carlton
who was at the wheel.
81 wish the ship were rid of him anc
his Dreams added Hislop, testify
"Well, as | was saying, when the ad
verse movements of the clouds seen
to denote
Light ahead" cried a voice from
the bow.
rs that you, Roberts?" asked Yves
ton, while Hislop stamped with vexa
ton at the second interruption.
Eyes, sir"
How does it bear?"
"East-north-east."
"Then it is Cape st. Antonio light
the most western point of Cuba" sail
Weston. 81 thought l could smell tn
land with the first cats paw, before tn
breeze freshened."
The light, dim and distant, like
star, was now seen to twinkle amoni
the waves at the horizon.
For more than an hour I remained OF
deck, with my eyes fixed upon tina
feeble but increasing beacon, which in
dictated a foreign shore; then l wen
below and turned in, with a sigh o
pleasure that the voyage was nearl,
over, and a hope that when l ira
versed those waves again | should b
on my return Monochrome to m.
father and mother, TO Sybil and Dot
to the old rectory, with it's shady oal
grove, its green lawn and the masse
of ivy, woodbine and honeysuckle tina
shaded its time-worn walls.