Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-12-13

rail. Like srcc,efs. they made then
woy along tine decks until the 10 were
there. hascfoolcd. ~bareheadcd and
clothed IN loose robes OF white. We
turned the ships head against the wind
and waited.
Just ns daylight was showing the
moon sailed out from behind a bank Of
clouds and shone upon the waters. One
Of the girls screamed, and l started
down to the deck, FOR l was Up by the
wheel Man overboardg she cried,
and / met her at the top OF the ladder
and went back with her.
There he Is, she exclaimed, point
Ing to q dark object in the waves.
Then there hoatcd by q bit Of wreck
age. and / gave orders TO bring the
boat about and to lower the dory. BY
the time the boat came around the
dory was ready 10 60 down. and four
men and n woman jumped In. I look
ed about me for Mary Wood-that was
her name-and she vas gone. Fear
fairly shook me as that little boat went
up over n swell and was lost beyond
the wave, to come into sight again the
next instant. That girl knew her bust
ness. She held the shell across the
waves I'LL she got abcam the wrecked
man. II was q bold and daring thing
to do. but she did it-yes, sir, turned
that dory in the trough OF the sea and
came up TO the man in the water.
"He crawled into the boat over the
bow. and they all pulled AWAY for the
Mary Ann.
"And the even dozen schoolma'ams
had forgotten their troubles and were
cheerlng-cheerlng like a lot OF boys at
a football game. Finally they came
alongside and were holsted 10 the deck.
Some one got whisky, and the rescued
swallowed Il like a hospital pa
tlent, but the young woman would
have none of II.
In the ou-s Of time the young man
got on a shift Of dry clothes and told
his story. He had been on a passen.
ger steamer when a big wave swept
the deck, taking him and the chicken
coop and Strengthening out every foot
OF coiled rope. His name was Samuel
Welling-a bank clerk on his vaca-
ton. The Mary Ann had Ii passen.
gers from then on. | cannot tell you
what Yves said by him when the man
dolins were trembling and the moon
making the whole deck yellow, but
l sometimes run on TO him and see the
white waters splitting into lace and
diamonds across tie tgurehead.
Perhaps It was no affair Of mine,
but after we got back to Chicago |
looked up the fellow and found that
he had told the truth and that they
We're to be married at the beginning of
the text vacation.
1T so happened that our luck had
changed with that voyage, and the
Mary Ann had all she could do the
rest Of the season. Neither did l have
time to busy myself about such affairs
for two winters. Then / set out. one
blIzzardy day in January, to find my
former passengers. | found them
that is, l found Samuel, hard abed,
where he had been for fully a year,
and not q cent In the bank. Mary was
ut her school then. but after awhile
she came home aud cried when she saw
ne, as If she had seen her father. and
told me how Samuel-she called him
Samuel-had fallen one day when he
vas skating with her and how he had
never been able to get TO the bank
again. More than that, he could not
earn a cent, and before she got n school
again they were absolutely penniless.
But they were sailing again, and two
could live on the wages of u teacher.
Nov, that Is what / call bravery.
and is the reason l said she was the
bravest woman that ever was"
And the captain OF the Mary Ann of
Charlevoix walked across the street
Of Goose Island. - Chicago Record
Herald.