New-York tribune., 1903-06-17


We scrambled forward to cast OF sheets. Amid
the Tapping Of her head sails as she hung for a
moment or two in stays I slipped oversize and
took the water easily. as the black mass OF ner
stern swung slowly round and covered me from
! view of the boat Then, as the tan side began
to gather way and slip by me. cast glance
toward land and divsd-
| came to the surface wariiy and trod wafer
while I spied for the boat which-as I reck-
oned-nust be more than suashor distant
| The sound OF oars guided ne and divsd again
| in terror. For she had not TUNED about 20
| follow the ketch. but heading almost d.
Tectly toward me- as if to cut of from the
shore
My small body was almost bursting when
rose for air and another look The boat had not
| altered her course. and / gasped with a new
! hope. What if after all. she was not pursuing
me? I let my legs sink and foated upright with
my chin above water. No; had not been spiea
} at any rate She was pointing straight for the
shore. But what should take long boat
| manned (as 1 made out) by dark crowd OF
| rowers and passengers. at this hour to this de-
serted spot2 Why was she not putting in for
/ Ca .gsand, around the point? And did she carry
| the water guard? Was this fuckers boat, after
| all. or another?
! Still floating I heard her nose take the
! ground. and presently the feet Of men shufiins.
as they disembarked. over loose stones; then 4
low curse following on a slip aud a splash.
Who's that taIking?" voice inquired. low and
/ angry Sergeant. Take that mans name
/ Some n1uttering followed. and then the footfalls
grew more regular and seemed 10 be mounting
! the cliff along the base of which. perhaps hun
/ drsd yards from shore. the tide now sweep
| ing me. gave myself to it. and noiselsssiy'
/ little by little. working toward land. was borne
/ out Of hearing
! Another ten minutes and my feet touched bot
/ tom. I pulled myself out upon weed covered
/ rock and along il to slate strevn foresnore'
overhung by a low cliff OF shaIe. gray. and glin-
| mering in the darkness But even in the dark
/ ness ridge of harder rock showed me a likely
| way remembered that the cliff hereabouts
/ was Of no great height and scalahle ir score
\ of places Very cautiously and sometimes sit
/ ting and straddling the ridge while my fingers
/ found a new grip. I mounted to the edge OF a
/ ht athery down. and there. after pricktnS myself
| sorely among the furze bushes that guarded II,
/ found a passage through and cast myself at ful!
| length the short turf
/ For while lay and painted fiat on my back,
| starins, up at the stars; for the wind had
! chopped about and was now drawing gently on
| shore, clearing the sky. But. though gentle. II
! had an edge of chill which by and by brought
! me TO nv feet again Far out the dark waters
| of the Sound glimmered the starboard light or
/ the Glad Tidings. and II seemed to me that she
was heading in for shore. Had the Pengellys
| too discovered that the boat was not the water
! guards? And was o. P working the ketch back
| to give me a chance Of rejoining her? Else why
| was she not sIackening sheets and running?
| Vain hope! I suppose that the new slant Oh
| wind took some time in reaching her. At any
rate. just as was preparing to creep back be-
| tween the furze whfns and scramble down 20 the
| fo~esbore again the green light quenched-
She had altered her helm and was clearing the
Sound.
| dared not hail her. Indeed. had I risked IL.
! the odds were against my voice carrying so far.
! TO be recognized. And while 1 stood and
searched the darkness into which she had disaP-
peared my ear caught again the muffied tramp
of the soldiers this time advancing toward me-
| I waited no longer but started running for dear
! life up the swelling shoulder Of the down
| The swim and the chill breeze had numbed my
/ legs and arms After few hundred yards.
/ however 1 feIt life coming back to them and
| ran like a hare. 1 stark naked. and here
| and there my feet struck heather root poised
| above the turf or wounded themselves on low
! lying sprouts of furze. but my eyes grew used
| to the dark sward I learned to avoid these So
| close the night hung around me that even on the
| sky line had no fear of being spieo- I crossed
the ridge and tore down the further slope. STUN
z
| other hillside Ny heart drumming now.
but terror held me to it-over this second ridge
and down hill again
| I supposed myself but halfway down this
| sIope or only little more, when in sprtnglng
aside TO avoid low bush 1 missed footing al
| together. went hurting down into night. dropped
| plurnb upon another furze bush-a wtthered one
and heard and felt it snap under me. struck
| the cIiffside bruising my hip. and slid down on
| loose stones for another few yards As
| checked myself spra wiling. and came TO stand
| into water far below.
/ For minute at full length on this
| treacherous bed. I could pluck up no heart TO
| move Then inch by inch at first. l drew NY
| self ND TO the broken bush and found beside II
| a fiat ledge. smooth and grassy. which led in
| land and downward 1 think it must have been
a sheep track At any rate. I crept to IL on
| hands and knees and it brought me down 70 the
| head of small cove. where a faint line or
| trimming showed the seas edge ripping on a
| beach Of fiat, gray stones
| NV hip was hurting me. and could run no
| further I groped along the base OF the eastern
| cliff and crawled into shallow cave close by
! pile of seaweed which showed the high mark OF
! the tide now receding. With daylight l might
| discover a better hiding place Meanwhile. I
! snuggIed down and drew a cOverlet of seaweed
/ over me for warmth.
ITO be continued)
/
| MR.. KEEN ENTERTAINS MRS. /. CARTER.
1 - -, NfOu6av sverive gave dinner