Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-12-10
CHAPTER XVIII.
sankala Listens to the Plotters.

Sankala had hard battle with the
surf but she reached the traps formerly
tended by Dan Lapham before the
storm was at its heighth. Dan, OF
course, was not near the place. The
wind was already raging and the white
caps were multiplying at a rapid rate
and leaping higher and higher.
At her back the sea was boiling like
a caldron while to the south it was
not so much disturbed. Her home lay
across the raging sea while Sand Island
lay to the south. 1t was this great up
heavel of sand and the driftwood upon
it's surface that broke the storm to
some extent and yet left means of es-
cape for Sankala.
But she would not have returned to
her home at this time had the sea been
as calm as an inland lake. She had
started out on a mission and this would
she complete with a woman's deter
mination. She was looking for Dan
|, Lapham. Her strong and handsome
young friend had aided her in fishing
the traps when her aged companion
, was unable to assist. He had also, on
! that very morning, left her money
with which to buy necessary supplies
! he had promised her that Ringwold
e should not go to the poor house; and
= above all there was an underlined feel
Q ing in her heart for the young man
r which only comes to woman once In
a lifetime.
: Sankala did not understand this and
e would have blushed had it been ex-
e planned. 1t was the same old story
/ which has caused the joys, sorrows,
+ disappointments and happiness since
e the days of Adam and Eve.
While clinging to the piling which
:, held the netting of Lapham's fshtrap
d to steady her boat, Sankala could SCI
d that the water was rapidly rising anC
r. that each food dashed higher above thu
rs mark made by the former wave. Thu
Y. pillows grew darker and more sullel
lie while the whitecaps looked like grea
I'd animals leaping at random in the di
n. rection of the bar.
~ Before it was too late she turned he
ee boat toward the island, where sh
landed without accident. But she wa
in just in time, for old Neptune's wor
III ldIbI6T OUT al scd WAS tSllluR al
Se great waves from the mighty deep cam
he rolling over the bay, converting 1t int
he a mad, seething thing of destruction.
e. The rain began to fall in torrents
cir The wind blew with such force as
b. send the cold dlops like heavy sho
in a slanting course through the al
DIS These struck the thinly clad girl wit
nd force that made her SILVER with pal
ey and cold.
of When cast upon her own resourc
err in time of danger, woman is said to
ed superior to man in courage and endu
rs. ance. Before she resigns herself
or fate, she employs every means in h
fol- power to thwart its disasters. If s.
A cannot turn its cou Sc, she goes wi
ost it as a companion. Death is tn
1t made less bitter and an example
it'll given to the world.
lily Sankala dragged her boat as fan
she could and then tied the long Ii
of attached to its prov to limb of II
ore which had been cast far upon t
sands. She began to look about her
Jan a shelter. She remembered an {
bin fisherman's camp farther up the
land, and taking the provisions viii
les she had prepared for Dan, she ma
ont her way to the shack.