The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-03

GU are surely not SOlnS III yOuk
uniform?" queried Hatfield.
Eyes, why not? I've no mind to
hang as spy, and if l am captured in
this uniform I'm prisoner of war
only. Remember my instructions"
81 shall not forget them"
Goodbye.
Goodbye, and God bless you. l
shall be in a fever of anxiety until you
return" exclaimed the lieutenant as
they parted.
Waving his hand Grafton stepped
to the gangway and dropped easily
down the battens into the boat, with
er Slocum had preceded him. A vigor-
Gus shove sent them clear of the frig-
ate a bit of close reefed sail was
hoisted on the dinghy and she gathered
way toward the distant shore.
After two hours of hard running,
having at last come well within the
harbor mouth and reached point OPP
posite the old chateau, they bore up
and began ratching in toward the
shore 1t seemed to the old sailor at
the helm, after they had made several
short lacks, that they were getting
perilously near the breakers. AS he
peered ahead he thought he could see
the white caps, and he believed, as he
turned his ear up to windward, that he
could hear the roar of the mighty
waves One more tack and they would
certainly be in the midst OF them.
Grafton had ordered him to throw
din06u int tho wind on6 'OhnOlx
her way while he investigated the
situation He had gone forward and
was kneeling down by the mast peer
! ing ahead trying to get his bearings.
Finally, having satisfied himself as well
as be could in the darkness, he called
out command to the sailor at the
! tiller Although it looked like certain
destruction, old Jabez was too thorough
a seaman to hesitate to obey, and when
Grafton directed him to put the helm
over he let her go off, slipped out the
sheet, and in a few seconds they
gathered way and were rushing
straight for the breakers.
They could now dimly make out the
black mass of the cliffs before them.
| III Ill6 lOWGI VI Tie ClldLCdu Wlltll
rose above them were two lights.
Grafton sought them out from other
| lights in other windows in the castle.
| He was sure of the tower, for he
| thought he recognized it's conical top;
| though the darkness was so deep, there
were signs of a break in the clouds
in fact, they had broken over the
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lead him on?
| One light Grafton Surmised came
from the Oriel window in the tower,
the other from the window of the
room adjacent to it. BY what happy
fortune did they chance to be lighted
that night: If he were right in his
opinion he knew his course to the
mouth of the passage to the little bay.
Once in the channel leading to it, he
would have to trust to instinct to feel
| his way through.
Mind your steering, now, Slocum!"
he cried. Keep Your weather eye lift
ing and obeying my orders exactlyse
Our lives depend on it. Starboard
littleI So! 1 think we can win
through, but it's touch and go. Steady!
Do you see those two lights?"
81 sees m, sir"
Keep them in range until I say
further. Steady, now! Nothing off,
for Gods sake, man! Hold her UP
to it,"
The boat steered with an uneasy
helm. She had a tendency to fall off,
to go leeward, that is; but old Jabez
set his teeth hard, contracted his
brows, and, peering steadily out at the
lights high above and far ahead of
them, kept her on her course.
They were nearing the shore rapidly
now; it looked awfully close. The
cliffs loomed up in front of them grim
and terrible. There was no entrance
through them, no rift even, no way
! that he could see. Their course seemed
madness Another moment and they
would be beaten to pieces. But the
business of the old sailor was to obey
orders and steer the boat. He put
everything else out of his heart and
watched and listened, all his skill and
discipline at his own command, and at
his captains service.
well done!" Grafton called back
to him. Nov let her go off a little.
Easy, now! Very well, dyce! Port,
once more. So! Port, port again." n
Port it is, sir!" cried Jabez, as the
boats head fell off to starboard in
obedience to the command
Then, in compliance with the rapid
and changing directions of Grafton, he
lulled up to port and then again swung
to starboard twisting about in obedi-
ence to Grafton's instructive coming,
through the narrow pass through the
reefs.
They were right in the breakers now.
The waves were Kissing, boiling and
roaring around them on every side.
The sea was white with the surf The
old man thought his last hour had
come in that riven sea; the rapid sue
cession of commands from the captain.
however, left him no time for refiec-
ton; the boat whirled about, darted
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