The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-09

nortLcrly winds, butting into head
seas.
The warmth, the stiffness, the placid,
browsing quiet Of Magdalena bay,
steaming under the golden eye of a
tropic heaven. the white, baked beach,
the bay heads, straited with the mi
rage in the morning, the coruscating
sunset, the enchanted mystery OF the
purple night, with its sheen Of stars
and riding moon. We're now replaced by
the hale and vigorous snorting of the
trades. the roll Of breakers 10 land
ward and the unremitting gallop of
the unnumbered multitudes OF gray
green seas careering silently past the
schooner, their crests occasionally hiss
ing into brusque eruptonS of white
froth or shifting broad on under her
counter showcring her decks with a
spout of Icy spray X was cold At
times thick fogs cloaked all the world
of water. TO the east procession Of
bleak hills dehlcd slowly southwark.
Lighthouses were passed; streamers Of
smoke on the western horizon marked
the passage of steamships, and once
they met and passed close by huge
Cape Horner, a great deep sea tramp,
all sails set and drawing. rolling slowly
and lcisurely in seas that made the
schooner dance.
At last the Faralones looked over
the oceans edge to the north; then
came the whistling buoy the Seal
rocks, the Heads, Point Reyes, the
Golden Gate thanked with the old red
Preside, Lime point with its watching
cannon, and by noon Of gray and
boistcrous day. under a lusty wind and
a slant of rain, just five months after
her departure. the Bertha Mllner let
20 her anchor in san Francisco bay
some few hundred yards off the life
boat station.
In this berth the schooner WAS still
three or four miles from the city and
the water front But Moran detested
any nearer approach to civilization
and Wilbur himself was willing TO
avoid, at least for one day, the pub
LEFTY which he believed the Bertha's
temperance was sure to attract He
remembered too, that the little boat
carried with her fortune of $780,
U00 and decided that until it could
be safely landed and stored it was
not desirable that its existence should
DE known along the front
For days. weeks even, Wilbur had
looked eagerly forward to this return
20 his home He had seen himself
again IN his former haunts, in his club
and in the houses along Pacific avenue
where he was received but no sooner
had the anchor chain ceased rafting
i'm the Bertha's hawse pipe than Il
strange reVulsion came upon him. The
new man that seemed TO have 50 sud
denly sprung to life within him, the
Wilbur who was the mate of the Ber-
tina Milnrr. the Wilbur who belonged
20 Moran, believed that he could see
nothing to be desired in city life. For
him was the unsteady deck of sch00n-
or, and the great winds and the ire
mendous wheel of the ocean's rim, and
the horizon that ever fled before his
following prov; so he told himself, 50
he believed. What attractions could
the city offer him, what amuscments,
what excitements? He had been flung
of the smoothly spinning circumfer-
cnce Of well ordered life out into the
void
lie had known romance ana the spell
of the great. simple and primitive emo
tons: he had sat down to eat With buc-
cancers; he had seen the fierce. quick
leap of unleashed passions and had
felt death swOop close at his nape and
pass like a swift squirt of cold air
CITY life. his old life, had no charm for
him now Wilbur honestly believed
that he was changed to his heart
core lie thought that, Ike Moran, he
was hcnceforth to be "A sailor Of the
sea, a rover, and he saw the rest Of
his existence passed with her aboard
their faithful little schooner They
would have the whole round world as
their playground; they held the earth
ANA the great seas in Gef; there was
no one to let or to hinder They two
belonged to each other Once outside
the Heads again and they swept the
land of cities and of little things be-
hind them. and they two were left
alone once more, alone in the great
world Of romance.
About an hour after her arrival off
the station. while Hoang and the hands
were furling the jib and foresail and
getting the dory over the side, Moran
remarked to Wilbur:
Its good we came in when we did.
mate. The glass is going down fast,
and the winds breezing up from the
wes We're going to have a blow.
Tie tide will be going out in little
while. and we never could have come
In against wind and tide"
MORAN" said Wilbur. Tin going
ashore-into the station here. There's
a telephone line there. Sec the wires
| can't so much as turn my hand over
before have some shore going clothes.
What do you suppose they would do
TO me If ! appeared on kearney street
in this outfit? III ring up the whole
sale chemists I'm town aud have an
agent come out here and talk business
TO US about our ambergris. We've got
60 nay tho mon thoir rrf1o n,onav