The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-16

| liam harps. 1 have a lantern here.
| Wait till 1 strike light, and I will
show you something grander than you
ever saw before"
Then presently he led the way ND
the slippery rock, and as they advanc-
ed the weird moaning and whistling
became louder and shriller until If
seemed as if there were living things
lowering around them and shrieking in
their ears. 1t was the voice of the
gale as it rushed through an opening
in the rock high over their heads, and
uftel they had mounted to it Craddock
Jaw his friend put the lantern down.
Then his arm was seized in a firm
grasp, and he was led around jutting
bowlder into the light of day.
The wind struck them like blow
and for a moment forced them back
again, but they held their ground and
presently stood upon ledge formed by
an indentation which nature had left
in the mighty mass. with the summit
Of the Devils Nose scarce three faith
oms above their heads.
The view was grand and awful. The
storm was at its height. Black clouds
rushed toward them and above them
like chargers of a hadean host Seas,
mountain high, plume crested with
white foam, tumbled onward in mad
eXpostulation to be shattered against
the rock on which they stood, which of
itself did not even tremble.
. Craddock loved such scenes with not
less passion than his friend, and while
he stood entranced his arm was seized
again with crushing force, and the
voice of his friend, but family heard
above the tempest, shouted in his ear
'Look yonder, Grad! Look therev
And with his disengaged hand he
pointed straight to windward.
Scarcely mile away and driving to.
ward them with the speed of a loco.
motive was schooner yacht under
bare poles, rolling and pitching and
tossing, now half submerged beneath
torrents Of water that fell upon hef
from the pursuing waves and again
| appearing like helpless chip upon the
summit of an angry sea.
She seemed to be making straight fol-
the Devils Nose. Upon her deck a
dozen forms were visible, dashed to
their places to prevent being swept
away by wind and water.
AS she drove onward, nearer and
nearer, Craddock's companion again
shouted in his ear:
Il know her, Grad. 1t is the favcrite
yacht of the Princess Charlotte of Den
mark. God grant that she may not be
aboard it now! She loves the sea as
we love it, Grad, and-look. for Gods
sake, lookw He pointed with his dis
engaged hand. and Craddock saw the
figure of woman wrapped in a cor;
jacket, dashed to the pinnacle Of tie
beleaguered yacht, which was now not
more than thirty fathoms from the
rock.
At the very instant that the two men
discovered her a mighty wave rolled
up over the stern and broke in miGaf
overwhelming the yacht with food Of
water that crushed and made a wreck
of her before their eyes.
For two seconds they gazed spell
bound upon the scene, and then, with.
out a word of warning or intention
Craddock's companion leaped upward
and outward and plunged head down.
ward to the water, fifty feet below.
Craddock did not move. He stood as
if petrifed, clinging with both hands
to the rock from which the wind seem
ed determined to hurl him, and he gazed
with every faculty concentrated in his
eyes upon the awful scene of wreckage
,YN1 al -
over, half filled with water, and, sure
ly laundering, was thrown by the vic
lence of the wave that struck her Out
of line with the Devils Nose, and al
most before there was time to realize
the awful thing that had happened she
had passed beyond his view to lee
ward. He was dimly conscious that thu
pinnacle and wheel and all the after
rigging of the yacht had been tori
loose and swept away in the vortex
and with them had disappeared thu
figures of the woman and of the two
men who were dashed to the wheel.
Then almost directly beneath thu
spot where he stood, on the crest of ;
wave and breasting it with the powe
of giant, he saw his friend. Beyond
him, in the trough of the sea, anothe
figure appeared. Then both were los
to view.
There was no sign of excitement il
Craddock's face or manner. He turned
with deliberation, passed around TIN
jutting rock into the cavern, found th
ships lantern still burning there, mad
his way rapidly down and out through
the cleft into the open air, thence hur
riedly to the waters edge, and in
moment more he was in the dingey
sculling rapidly past the soop towar
the open sea.
When he had reached a certain poin
beyond which it would have been foil
to have ventured, by artfully workin
his oar he held the little craft almos
stationary, while he, standing upright
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