Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-07

Suddenly he uttered cry, and then he
laughed.
.Saved, savedv' he shouted. "A boat!
This is indeed miracle! he added as
Carol came up beside him.
"a miracle? Where are the people"
"Ahav said he. That's the wonder
of it. This boat wasn't tied. She was
Just grounded. She's been adrift, or I'm
no judge See the broken twigs where
she's bumped along the shore. She's lit
tered with them. l tell you, Carol, the
angels have sent her."
"They couldn't have sent her where
she would be more welcome" said the
girl as he helped her aboard. (Which
way shall we go?"
At that moment they heard the sound
Of steamers whistle. 1t came from
behind a point that doomed darkly q
mile away.
That's the Nip" said Carol, refer
ring to one of the Muskoka steamers.
''She's landing somewhere. and we'd
better go there. 1 don't know what has
become Of The Bluffs. It ought to be
over there, OUT IL ISL I.
And she pointed in direction which,
as a matter of fact, was almost as far
astray as it could have BEEN Haven
began to row slowly along the shore,
and then high pitched, whining hail
came from far astern Of them:
"Here! Where We goin'?"
Haven rested upon his oars and stared
ut Carol, whose face shone white
"Why, that's-that's Captain Haskelly'
she cried.
Haven swung the boat around and
pulled toward the voice. Presently the
outline Of the launch was discernible,
and Carol, standing up in the stern, an
voice of wonder. Haven looked over
his shoulder and hailed:
what are you doing there?"
"We're aground" answered Haskell
In voice of pain and chagrin ''What
we're on l dunno 1t never was here
before
"Where are the others?'
eve set 'em ashore in the small boat;
pulled across to The Bluffs. Then we
come back for you-after supper"
"After supper, eh?"
"Well, We see,' said Haskell sheep
ishly, 81 might as well state the facts.
The young Teller you call Tom-him
and the young lady-fixed it up with
me to land We for a joke. We under
stand
YES" said Carol in voice of ice
eve understand beautifully
"The old lady didn't know nothin'
about it, but it was planned that l
should sort of skim around the island
to pint where we could see that the
house was burned, jest as if we didn' It
know before. an then we could pick We
up. But blast me if ! didn't take the
ground! SO we all got into the small
boat an pulled to The Bluffs
"Why didn't you take us?''
"The boat wouldn't hold We, an, be-
sides, they didn't want to tell the old
lady. not at the minute, for she was
some excited with our little accident
an wantin' to know if we was goin' to
sink. 'Sink' says l. That's the last
thing We'll do with this cussed ledge
under us. We may go up says l. but,
by thunder. we can't go down. That
didn't quiet her much: she wasn't fit
for any new troubles just then. How
ever, we yelled for you folks on gen
eral principles, but naturally We didn't
hear.
$50 when we got to The Bluffs my
engineer went off with nay boat to get
a launch from Teller over to Marinus
to pull us off O. here, an what n blazes
become O. him dunno. Meanwhile we
discovered that there wasn't boat al
The Bluffs for that Teller Tom an the
girl to come an get you folks. We had
to wait near an hour before a boat
come home from picnic, an she was
all messed up with branches an stuff
''By jingo!' cried Haven. ''This boat
| The one we're in"'
PRECISELY"
"And they're on the island looking
for us-Tom and Gladys
That's what they are
| AT this moment voices We're hear(
I upon the nearer shore.
Captain, we can't find them!' Ant
/ then sudden cutlery: where's the
| boat-where in the world is the boat?'
Haven leaned over into the launcl
! and took Captain Haskell by the colla
with Il powerful hand.
IF you answer that hail within fiv'
minutes I'll throttle you."
| Haskell cfouched and chuckled.
you'll scare 'em half crazy" h,
whispered. They'll think they're ma
rooned for the night"
Silence on the launch and loud ant
| frantic bowls from the shore