Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-08-16


rail Like spccters, they made their
way along the decks until the l3 We're
there baref1Oled. baroheadcd and
clothed in loose robes Of white We
turned HE ships head against the wind
and waited.
Just as daylight was showing the
moon sailed out from behind bank OF
clouds and Shoue upon the waters. one
Of TIE girls screamed. and | started
down to the deck. for was up 10y the
wheel. Man overheard" she cried
and met her AT the top of the ladder
und-went back with her
"'There he is she exclaimed, point
ing To dark object in the waves
Then there hoatrd 10y Lt of wreck
age. and | gave orders 90 bring the
boat about and 10 lower the dory. BY
the time the boat came around the
dory WAS ready 10 20 down. and four
men and a woman jumped in look
ed about me for Mary wood that WAS
her namc-aud she was gone. Fear
fairly shook me- as that little boat went
up over swell and was lost beyond
the wave. 10 come into sight again the
next instant. That girl knew her bust
ness She held The shell across the
waves till she got abcam the wrecked
man 1t was "A bold and daring thing
to do, but she did lt-yes. sir, turned
that dOry i'm the trough of the sea and
came up 10 the man in the water.
lie crawlcd into the boat over the
bow. and they all pulled away for the
Mary Ann.
And the even dozen schOolma ans
had forgotten their troubles and were
cheering cheering like a lot of boys at
football game. Finally they came
alongside and were hoisted 10 the deck
Some one got whisky, ana the rescued
man swallowed It like hospital pa
tient. but the young woman would
have none OF It,
In the course of time the young man
got on shift of dry clothes and told
his story. lie had been on "A passen-
ger steamer when big wave swept
the deck taking him and the chicken
coop and strengthening out every foot
Of coiled rope. His name was Samuel
yelling bank clerk on his vaca-
ton. The Mary Ann had II passen-
grS from then on. cannot tell you
what was said 10y him when the man
dolinS were trembling and the moon
was making the whole deck yellow. but
| sometimes run on to him and see the
white waters splitting into lace and
diamonds across the hgurehead.
perhaps IL was no affair Of mine.
but after We cot back TO Chicago |
looked up the fellow and found that
he had told the truth and that they
were 10 be married at the beginning OF
the next vacation.
at 50 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 have
time 10 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, found Samuel. hard abed,
where he had been Dor fully a year.
and not a cent in the bank Mary was
at her school then. but after awhile
she came home and cried when she saw
me, rs If she had seen her father, and
told me how Samuel she called him
Samuel-had fallen one day when he
was 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 a school
again they were absolutely penniless.
But they were sailing again. and two
could live on the wages of a teacher.
"Now, that Is what | call bravery.
and is the reason | 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
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