The Princeton union., 1902-03-27

Walt TILL strike light, and will
show you something grander than you
ever saw BEFORE
Then presently he led the way nc
the slippery rock, and as they advanc.
ed the weird moaning and whistlinc
became louder and shriller until II
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
after they, had mounted to it Craddock
saw his friend put the lantern down
Then his arm was seized in a firm
grasp, and he was led around a juttine
bowlder into the light Of day.
The wind struck them like a blow
and for 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 a scarce three faith.
oms above their heads. cE
The view was grand and awful. The
storm was at it's height Black clouds
rushed toward them and above them
| like chargers Of 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 moi
| 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 a schooner yacht under
bare poles, rolling and pitching anG
tossing, now half submerged beneath
torrents of water that fell upon he1
from the pursuing waves and again
appearing like a helpless chip upon the
summit of an angry sea.
She seemed to be making straight fO1
the Devils Nose. Upon her deck q
dozen forms were visible, lashed 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. It is the favorite
yacht Of the Princess Charlotte of Den.
mark. God grant that she may not be
aboard it now! She loves the sea az
we love it, Grad, and-look, for Gods
sake, look" He pointed with his dis.
engaged hand, and Craddock saw the
figure of woman wrapped in a cork
Jacket, lashed to the pinnacle of the
beleaguered yacht, which was now moi
more than thirty fathoms from the
rock.
At the very instant that the two men
discovered her mighty wave rolled
up over the stern and broke in midair.
overwhelming the yacht with flood OF
water that crushed and made 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 petrified, 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
and destruction. The yacht careened
over, half filled with water, and, sure.
~ foundering, 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 the
binnacle and wheel and all the after
rigging of the yacht had been torn
loose and swept away in the vortex
and with them had disappeared the
figures Of the woman and of the two
men who were lashed to the wheel.
Then almost directly beneath the
spot where he stood, on the crest of a
wave and breasting it with the power
of giant, he saw his friend. Beyond
him, in the trough of the sea, another
figure appeared. Then both were lost
to view.
There was no sign of excitement in
Craddock's face or manner. He turned
with deliberation, passed around the
jutting rock into the cavern, found the
ships lantern still burning there, made
his way rapidly down and out through
the cleft into the open air, thence hur.
riedly to the waters edge, and in a
moment more he was in the dingey,
sculling rapidly past the sloop toward
the open sea.
When he had reached certain point
: beyond which it would have been folly
to have ventured, by artfully working
his oar he held the little craft almost
stationary, while he, standing upright,
shading his eyes with his disengaged
hand, gazed eagerly to windward. He
seemed also to listen. Presently high
above the roar of the wind and waters