The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-01-04

| brought on by excitement and nervous
exhaustion, and Hudson said after
| ward he believed he should have gone
| mad if it had lasted much longer.
The afternoon had passed and it was
| beginning to grow dusk, but we still
kept on baling and rowing mechan-
ically, until suddenly my husband gave
| q low moan and dropped forward into
| The bottom of the boat i'll a dead faint.
l was on my knees beside him in a
moment, trying to lift his head as
much as possible out of the water and
to bring him back to consciousness by
| rubbing his stiff, frozen hands. But
| could make no impression, and, fearing
he was dead or dying, l clung TO him
wildly and implored the mate to tell
me what l should do.
do, mum" said Hudson. "If yer
| don't want us all TO be drowned you
| must take to that there baling again,
an pretty quick, too! The captain II
soon come round all right if yer leave
nm " HlsStlls ht man AbhhAiNi
was rough, but he showed that he
meant well, for he managed with some
difficulty to slip off his own coat, which
he gruffly bade me put around my hus-
band. / could do nothing else for him
in our helpless condition, and, of
course, it would be worse than useless
to neglect the only means of saving
the lives Of any Of us.
So with aching heart seized my pail
again and tried to lessen. the amount
of water that had rapidly come in over
the sides of the boat. To our dismay
the wind had shifted slightly, and the
sea was growing more and more tenn
pestuous.
The next half hour was one of hor-
ror, and the agony of aching muscles
and exhausted strength. l toiled on
with mind and body numb with mis-
cry, and fearing every moment that
the poor mate would collapse like my
husband. One cause for thankfulness
was that Jack had opened his eyes and
was able TO regain his seat, but one of
his oars had gone overheard, and Hud-
son would not hear Of relinquishing
his and taking a spell of rest.
In spite Of all our efforts the waves
that broke over the boat left more
water behind than either Jack or
could bale out, and in almost apathetic
despair l watched it gradually rise, un-
til we all felt that hope was over and
the end very near.
Just at this terrible moment, through
the darkening night, black shadow
suddenly rose before us, and we saw
a vessel so close that at first it seemed
as if she would inevitably run us
down. We all shouted at the top of
our voices, and to our joy we were
heard. A rope was flung to us and
was cleverly caught and made fast by
my husband, and in short time they
had drawn us up to the side of the YES
sci, though our little boat was already
half swamped and we were in great
danger of being drowned before they
could get us on board. Once safely on
deck, our boat was cut .adrift, and in
a few minutes we saw it fill with
water and sink like the Two Brothers
beneath the surface.
For the second time that day we had
been rescued from watery grave, and
it was with very mingled feelings that
we looked about us to see what our
new shelter was like.
We were almost too stupefed with
cold and fatigue to care much when
we learned that luck was still against
us, and that we had practically jumped
from the frying pan into the fire. We
had been picked up by Captain Nay
lor of the small collier brig Susannah,
which had been blown out of her
course by the storm and had sprung
leak. She was stout-built vessel, but
was now very old and weather beaten;
still her captain hoped to be able to
make Yarmouth Harbor before she
foundered.
Hudson and my husband insisted on
turning TO with the men III their work
at the pumps, for the crew Of the brig
needed all the help they could possibly
get.
As for myself, I went below TO the
little cabin, where the rising water
was already foot deep, and sat down
with my feet on chair to keep them
out of the wet. Jack and one of the
sailors did the best they could for me.
l took off Jacks coat and the soaked
bodice of my dress, and they fastened
tEem up on one of the yards to dry in
the wind, and covered my shoulders
with a coarse blanket. ! dared not at
tempt to take off my boots, for knew
if l did / should never get them Oh
again, so had to bear the discomfort
of my poor, aching, swollen feet as
well as l could.
/ was so worn out that even in that
constrained position, still oppressed
with anxiety as to our ultimate fate,
managed TO doZe off for few min
utes every now and then, to awake
shiverlng with the cold. BY the light
of q greasy oil lamp l could see that
the water in the cabin was still rising,
but very slowly, so that there was
chance, with luck, of the poor old Su-
sannah reaching Yarmouth.
At last, after what seemed to me like
n 1n1nn cr1inat.v pioI1tc rnllnd into ono