Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-29

:ail Like specters, they made their
way along the decks until the ID were
there, barefooted, bareheaded and
clothed in loose robes of white. We
turned the ships head against the wind
and waited.
"'Just as daylight was showing the
moon sailed out from behind bank of
clouds and shone upon the waters. One
Of the girls screamed, and 1 started
down to the deck, for was up by the
wheel. Man overboardr she cried,
and 1 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 f1oated by a bit of wreck
Rge, and I gave orders to bring the
boat about and to lower the dory. By
the time the boat came around the
dory was ready to go down, and four
men and a woman jumped in. I look
ed about me for Mary Wood-that was
her name-and she was gone. Fear
fairly shook me as that little boat went
up over a 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 till she got abeam the wrecked
man. 1t was a 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
heering-cheering like a lot of boys at
a football game. Finally they came
alongside and were hoisted to the deck.
Some one got whisky, and the rescued
man swallowed it like a hospital pa
tient, but the young woman would
have none of it.
In the course 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. I cannot tell you
what was said by him when the man
dOlins were trembling and the moon
was making the whole deck yellow, but
I sometimes run on to him and see the
white waters splitting into lace and
diamonds across the figurehead.
perhaps it was no affair Of mine,
but after we got back to Chicago I
looked up the fellow and found that
he had told the truth and that they
were to be married at the beginning of
the next vacation.
cit 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 1 have
time to busy myself about such affairs
for two winters. Then I set out, one
blizzardy day in January, to find my
former passengers. I found them
that is, 1 found Samuel, hard abed,
where he had been for 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, as 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 I call bravery,
and is the reason 1 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.