Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-11-08

quite as scnsiby IA they are conferred
by hcredity. Take the plowman's son
and rear him In a royal palace, turn
the infant prince into a peasant, AMI
who shall say when they reach mans
estate, This Is the true king You VIII
remember II was said OF the Emperor
Augustus, Trbem laterltiam invent.
mnrnoream reliqult che found the
city brick. he left it marblcJ The same
noble result may be obtained in every
healthy child properly educated"
Tho college bred youth had not enter
ed into any general conversation with
Brand before. Io had the tuct now L,
conceal his astonshmeut at the manner
Of his friends speech.
You fling hercdlty to the winds,
them" he asked.
Brand rose to his feet, as was biS
NY when deeply moved.
Thank God, yes he cried.
a faint boot came to them through
the chorting of the wind
zone of our visitors" shouted Brand,
"and here we are gossiping as though
snugly seated In armchairs at the fire
side"
lie hurried to the gallery, putting on
an oilskin coat
we must win through, and guess
I'll play ball with my father-in-law,"
quon Pync to himself as he followed.
This time it was the Falcon alone.
and she signaled With lamp that il
was deemed best to defer active opera
. I'll
Tie tide at dawn would not suit
She went Oft, and the two men rc-
turned to the grateful shelter of thu
service room.
Brand forbade further talk. pyue
must rest now and relieve him ut J
o'clock. The younpster needed nc
feather bed; he was asleep in amaz
lngly quick time. There is a supper
less hunger which keeps people awake
at night with full harder in the louise
The crude article differs from the cul.
tured one SO greatly that the man who
hungers OF necessity cannot sleep too
much.
Thus far the Inhabitants of the light
house had been given quite enough
no reason why any. even the most deli
cate, should be in real danger during
the next forty eight hours. But scieu-
tific reasoning and the animal instincts
Of mankind clash at times in that lay
the danger whose sulen shadow was
deepening the lines in the corners OF
Brands eyes.
Every hour the officer on duty ana
some mon of the watch visited him -
report that all was well below Some
Of the less drunken mutineers were
ptfuliy sober now; the others were
maudlin. Beyond the few words ca
changed on this and kindred topics ha
was left alone with his thoughts
throughout the silent watch. Pyna
slept heavily. Glanoing at times at
the youngsters stalwart figure and
firm, handsome face, Brand found hlu-
self reviewing the buried years ua
thought Of the deya when be- too.
looked forth on the world with the
stern enthusiasm of triumphant youth.
Long forgotten ghosts were resur-
| rected. shattered ideals built up again.
He wondered. If the decades rolled
back, would he decide second time 10
abandon the fine career which lay at
his feet and withdraw his grief and his
| talents to the seclusion Of lonely rocks
and silent headlands.
He had been happy, as men count
happiness. during the decades No
cloud had arisen to mar the complete
IN Of IN .
the girls into delightful womanhood was
an increasing JOY to him, and it was
/ passing strange that his little house,
hold should be plunged into whirl-
pool of events In the very hour when
their domeSticity seemed to be most
assured. The cAangeful moods of tie
elements found no counterpart in lis
nature. He, knowing the sea, did not
expect it to remain fixed in one aspect.
! Whether in calm or storm, the con-
trary would surely happen ere many
days had passed. But life was dir
ferent thing. How came it that at the
very close Of so/many years of asso-
/ cialiOn with the tickle ocean she should
! play such trick on him and his
daughters. lnfold them with perils.
snatch them from the quiet pleasures
Of the life they had planned for the flu
ture and thrust upon them, even IL
they escaped with their lives, pub
/ LEFTY which he, at any rate, abhorred
/ and even dreaded?
! He harbored no decisions on this
J point. He knew that the drama of the
( Gulf Rock was now filing the columns
/ of newspapers all over the world. He
and his beloved girls would be written
about, discussed, described In fulsome
language, pictured by black and white
/ artists and eulogized by wideawake
editors eager to make much OF topic
dear to the public mind.
On the rock they We're undoubtedly
! in grave danger. Death confronted
them-death at once extraordinary and
CHASTITY. No tyrant Of the middle ages.
with all his paraphernalia for wiring
ing truth or lies out of cringin &
wretches, had devised such a fate Az
threatened IL the inconstant sea should
choose to render the reef altogether
unapproachable for many days. Yet {
help came he and those dear to him
were already stepped in unavoidable
notoriety, bringing in its train certain
vague disabilities which he had striven