Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-10

ana 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" 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"
must go and bring in the boat" he
replied, bestirring himself as if some spell
was at an end. "There will be storm
tonight, and l 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 l had
placed under it. But her eyes were wide
open and shining in the dimness, and /
fancied I 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 q stronger gust
than the others appeared to threaten to
carry off the -thatched 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 IL
some one was striving to enter.
The westerly gale, rising every few
hours into squall, gave me no chance
| of leaving Sark the next day, nor for
| some days afterwards; but I was not at
all put out by my captivity Ali my in
terests-my whole being in fact-was abb
sorbed in the care of this girl, stranger
as she was. I 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
OH nlmSelI was Kept prisoner in the
house, except when he went to look after
his live stock. No doubt it would have
been practicable for me to get as far as
the hotel, but to what good? 1t would
be quite deserted, for there were no Wis.
itors to Sark at this season. was en-.
tirely engrossed in my patient, and
learned for the first time what their task
is who. hour after hodr watch the pro.
gress Of disease in the person Of one deal
to them.
1 On the Tuesday afternoon, in tenn
porary lull Of the hail and wind, / start
ed off on walk across the island. The
wind was still blowing from the south
west, and filing all the narrow sea be
tween US and Guernsey with boiling
surge. Very angry looked the masses Of
foam whirling about the sunken reefs
and very ominous the low-lying, hare
blocks Of clouds all along the horizon.
strolled as far as the Coupee, that giddy
pathway between Great and Little Sark
where one can see the seething of tht
} waves at the feet Of the cliffs on botf
sides three hundred feet below one. Seine
thing like panic seized me. My nerves