Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-03

and spread my cambric handkerchief in
| double fold between her cheek and the
rough linen-too rough for a soft cheek
like hers.
"Lie quite STILL" l said. %"Do not stir,
but go to sleep as fast as you can."
Then went out to Tardif
.'The arm is set," said. "and now she
must get some sleep. There is not the
least danger, only we will keep the house
as quiet as possible"
Il must go and bring in the boat" he
replied, bestirring himself sif some spell
| was atsan end. 'sThere will be storm
tonight, and / should sleep the sounder
| if she was safe ashore"
The feeble light entering by the door,
which l left open, showed me the old
| woman comfortably asleep in her chair,
| but not so the girl. had told her when
| | laid her down that she must lie quite
still, and she was obeying me implicitly.
| Her cheek still rested upon my hand
kerchief, and the broken arm remained
undisturbed upon the pillow which I had
placed under it. But her eyes were wide
open and shining in the dimness, and l
fancied l could see her lips moving in
cessantly, though soundlessly.
The gale that Tardif had foretold came
with great violence about the middle of
| the night. The wind howled up the long,
narrow ravine like a pack of wolves:
mighty storms of hail and rain beat in
| torrents against the windows, and the
/ sea lifted up its voice with unmistakable
energy. Now and again stronger gust
| than the others appeared to threaten to
carry off the matched roof bodily, and
leave us exposed to the tempest with
only the thick stone walls about US; and
the latch Of the outer door ratified as if
some one was striving to enter.
The westerly gale, rising every few
hours into a squaH, gave me no chance
of leaving Sark the next day, nor for
some days afterwards; but was not al
all put out by my captivity. All my in
i terests-my whole being in fact-was abb
sorbed in the care of this girl, stranger
as she was. | thought and moved, lived
and breathed, only to fight step by step
against delirium and death.
There seemed to me to be no possibility
of aid. The stormy waters which beat
against that little rock in the sea came
swelling and rolling in from the vast
plain Of the Atlantic and broke in tenn
pestuous surf against the island Tar
diff himself was kept a prisoner in the
house, except when he went to look aftel
. his live stock. No doubt it would hay,
! been practicable for me to get as far a.
: the hotel, but to what good? It woulf
: be quite deserted, for there were no Wis
J itors to Sark at this season l was en-
tirely engrossed in my patient, and
: learned for the first time what their tsssl
Z is who hour after hour watch the pro
. gress of disease in the person of one dea,
: to them.
3 On the Tuesday afternoon, in TEN
porary lull of the hail and wind, I start
ed off on walk across the island, Th
wind was still blowing from the south
] west, and filing all the narrow sea be
a tween US and Guernsey with boilin,
surge. Very angry looked the masses o
4 foam whirling about the sunken reefs
and very ominous the low-Iying, har,
!, blocks Of clouds all along the horizon.
!. strolled as far as the Coupee, that gidd,
! pathway between Great and Little Sark
t where one can see the seething of tn
e waves at the feet Of the cliffs on botl
r sides three hundred feet below one. Some
thing like panic seized me. Ny nerve