The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-30


ming strongly, and in the end came
alive to the shore, the only four footed
occupant of the steamer to be saved.
At the end of each minute it seemed
to them that they were too bruised and
numbed to hang on another 60 seconds,
and yet the next minute found them
still alive and dreading it's successor.
The sea moaned around them, mourn
ing the dead: the fleet of drowned cat
bruising them with rude collisions, and
the chill bit them to the bone. merci-
fully numbing their pain and anxiety.
Long before the dawn the girl had
sunk into a stupor and was only held
from sinking by the nervous fingers of
the men, and then the men themselves
We're merely automatic, completing
their task with legacy of will.
When from somewhere out of the
manned By rugged, kindly Irish. all
i three were hauled over the gunwale in
one continuous dripping string. The
! grip ct The mems fingers had endured
too long to be loosened for a sudden
/ call such as that.
4 They We're taken ashore and tended
with all the care poor homes could
! give, and the men. used to hardships,
recovered with a dose of warmth and
| sleep.
| Miss Carnegie took longer to recover
and in fact for a week lay very near to
death. Kettle staid on in the village,
making almost hourly inquiries for
| her. He ought to have gone away to
| seek fresh employment he ought to
| have gone back to his wife and chill
! dren, and he upbraided himself bitterly
for his neglect of these duties. At last
! the girl was able to sit up and see him,
] and he visited her, showing all the
!, Difference an ambassador might offer
| to a queen.
4 She listened to his tale of the wreck
/ with interest and surprise. She was
j almost startled to hear that others, in
, Guiding the captain and two of the
mates, were saved from the disaster
besides themselves, sut at the same
time unfeignedly pleased. And she
| was pleased also to hear that Kettle
/ was suhpRnaed to give evidence before
i the forthcoming inquiry.
81 am glad of that she said, ''be-
| cause l know you will speak with a
/ free mind. You have told me so many
times how incompetent the captain
was, and now you will be able to tell it
to the proper authorities"
Kettle looked at her blankly But
/ that was different" he said. 81 can't
say to them what said to YOU"
why not? Look what misery and
suffering and loss of life the man has
caused. He isn't fit to command a
ship"
]. But, miss" said Kettle, cts his liv-
ling. He's been brought up to seafar-
I ing, and he isn't fit for anything else
| You wouldn't have me send out the
man to starve? Besides, Pm ship
master myself, and you wouldn't have
me try to take away another masters
ticket? The cleverest captain afloat
might meet with misfortune, and he's
always got to think of that when he's
put up to give evidence against his fell
lows"
] well, what are you going to do,
/ then?'
/ ooh, we've got together tale, and
when the old man is put up on his
trial the mates and l will stick to it
through thick and thin. You can bet
that we are not going to swear away
his ticket"
"His ticket?"
Eyes, his masters certificate, his
means of livelihood"
81 think it's wrong" she said excit-
edly, "criminally wrong, And, besides,
you said you didn't like the man."
81 don't. l dislike him cordially.
But that's nothing to do with the case.
I've my own honor to think of, miss.
How'd l feel if went about knowing
I'd done my best to ruin brother cap
tain for good and always?"
"You are wrong" she repeated We
hemently. "The man is incompetent
should suffer-
Kettles heart chilled.
! Miss Carnegie" he said, 81 am dis
appointed in you. l thought from your
poetry that you had feelings. l thought
you had charity, but l find that you
are cold"
J "And YOU" she retorted, you that
had set up for myself as an ideal of
most of the manly virtues, do you
think feel no disappointment when l
hear that you are deliberately propos-
ing to be a liar?"
II am no liar" he said sullenly. 81
have most faults, but not that. This is
different. You do not understand. 1t
is not lying to defend ones fellow ship
master before an inquiry board"
The girl turned to the pillow in her
chair and hid her face. ooh, CO." she
said, 'go! wish had never met you.
II thought you were SO good and SO
brave and SO honest. and when 1t