Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-22

Gabrielle smiled and waved her hand
20 him as he passed jauntily down the
clover bordered path to the beach.
But she was thinking of Put-Put in
his strength and shyness-and Of how
ne would come that very night for his
answer.
But the twilight passed, and the
moon rose above the pines on the
headland, and no boat put out froE
Mandego point until daybreak, when
Put pulled over to the mainland with
never a backward glance at Nevaires
island.
Never once did Danny go near the
island. He was too busy keeping
Puts head turned toward the main
land, and day by day the fire flashed
In Gabrielle's dark eyes and her little
pointed chin tilted higher as she
looked toward Mandego point and
waited.
1t was night of early autumn glory
Monday. The September moon rose
like great fame colored flower above
the crest of Mackinac, and by the time
it had reached midheaven the glamour
of its golden witchery spread over the
face of the waters like Il magic spell.
Gabrielle watched it from the tall
sand dunes, the ones where Put had
borne her on his shoulder to watch the
boats come up the straits There was
no light on Mandego point but the
night was clear and bright, and she
caught the sparkle of dripping oars
as a boat shot out from the shadows
of the mainland into the broad path
of moonbeams that bridged the way to
the point. There were two figures in
the boat. She held her breath, striv-
ing to catch the sound of voices on
the still night air, but instead from out
the darkness toward Mackinac came
three long deep signals. Gabrielle
started to her feet at the sound. 1t
was the North Queen bound for Buffa-
10, and in her course lay the boat.
Suddenly she saw that Danny had
shipped his oars and was standing.
She knew his slight form instantly,
but the man at the rudder never
stirred. Danny bent over him a mo-
ment as If to reassure himself, then
slipped overheard into the water and
made for the mainland with long, sure
strokes.
An instant and Gabrielle hesitated.
Again the North Queen signaled, and
her port lights showed bright and
clear as she swept past the great, shad.
owy Mackinac island and came on like
a phantom ship Of the night.
And, for the rest, they tell it at Petit
Jeans, and blind Louis made song Of
1t and of Gabrielle, who sailed bride
on the Bon Ami, with Put Mandegc
captain. They show the wreck of her
boat where the North Queen crushed 1t
like a crumpled autumn leaf, for out
into the waters of the straits went
Gabrielle that night, with only the
hope of her love to give her strength,
and in the drifting boat she found Put,
dead to the world from Petit jeans
brandy and left to drift to his death
by Danny Dermot. Leaving her own
boat In its place, she had rowed the
other out of the moonbeam path just
as the great steamer bore down upon
her course.
At dawn next morning Put stood on
the sand dunes OF Nevaire's island and
watched the Tidy ABLY put out for
Lake Michigan, but no farewell was
waved from her decks by Danny. The
North Queen caught him fairly as she
rounded Mandego point, and blind
Louis stumbled over what was left
when he walked the shore below the
point after the Bon Ami had sailed on
her honeymoon trip.