Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-12-03

..'in gaze after Stanhope's ratraa ti,,e
Inquire, he added: 60 Jug
But what does that vonno snon,-
want, turning their nrattv baaas
'n EN- | should like to know"
ine5 didn't seem particular stuck
On I'M, ventured another
Inc ways of women is c,,rio,,s F..
pronounced the oracle. II once lrnsw
a gelr'- oiee Knew
buk his personal "reminiscences wara
NOT OF value. More to the naint u-os
me garbled, but, in the main. acc1ra -
"eIouh1 ne cave of the rescue OF an
unhnoWn child by one of the keepers
VI me Gulf Rock lighthouse on q .Iuna
morning eighteen years earlier.
otephen Brand was the name of +haf
man. ana there was a bit of mystery
aoout him too They all knew that .
llsht keeper earned matter of e70 to
1oo year-not enough to maintain
daughter and an adopted child in sIan-
up style' was it? A small villa thew
llved in, and governess they had
ana ponies to ride when they were big
enough. The thing was ridiculous
wasn't it? '7'
Everybody agreed that it was.
feople said Brand was a swell. Well
lhat might or might not be true. The
speaker did not think much of him
lie was quiet, unsociable chan
though Jones, Trinity pensioner. who
Kept the "Pilchard and Seine" now.
wouldn't hear a wrong word about
MN and always called him ..cap'n."
"A pretty sort of captain! But. then.
they all knew what an old slow coach
Jones was. They did Jones pints
were retailed on the premises for mon
ey down.
Then there was Spence, lame Jim.
who lived at Narration He told a fine
tale about fight with a shark before
Brand reached the boat in which was
the blessed baby-that very girl, Enid.
they had just seen. Was it true? How
could he say? There was a lot about
/ IL at the time in the local papers. but
just then his own mind was given to
| thoughts of enlisting, as a British ex-
petition was marching across the des-
ert to relieve Khartum, and cause Cor
dOn's death.
No, Brand and the two girls had not
dwelt all the time in PenZance. The
( light keepers went all over the king
| dom, you know. but he had hit upon
some sort Of fog signal fad-Brand
1 was always man of fads; he once
/ told the speaker that all the Polwena
mine wanted was work-and the Gulf
/ Rock was the best place for trying it.
/ At his own request the Trinity people
sent him back there two years ago.
Some folk had queer tastes, hadn't
they? And talking so much had made
him dry
Then the conversation languished, as
the only obvious remark Of any i'm
portance was not forthcoming.
Meanwhile the Daisy sped buoyantly
toward the southwest Although she
was broad in beam and stanch from
| thwart to keel it was no light under
| taking to run fourteen miles out and
home in such craft
But old Ben Pollard knew what he
was about. Not until the granite pill
lar of the distant Gulf Rock opened UP
/
turn the boats head seward. Even
| then, by steering close to the Runnel-
| stone, they need not, during two thirds
| of the time, be more than mile or
so distant from one of the many
creeks in which they could secure shell
| ter in case of a sudden change in the
weather.
Thenceforward there was nothing
] for it but a straight run of six miles
to the rock, behind which lay the Scilly
isles. forty miles away, and well be-
| low the boats horizon.
| So, when the moment came for the
| final decision to be made. Pollard cast
an anxious eye at a great bank or
| cloud mounting high in the north.
There was an ominous drop In the
temperature too. The rain he antici-
pated might turn to snow, and snow is
| own brother to fog at sea, though both
| are generally absent from the Cornish
Iittoral in winter
"Ben.'' cried Enid, breaking off
vivid if merciless description of new
disciple who had Joined the artistic
coterie at Newlyn, "what are you look
ing at"
He scratched his head and gazed
/ fxedly at the white battalions sweep
ing in aerial conquest over the land.
.sSbe do look like snaw," he admitted.
.sWell. what does that matter"
Without waiting for orders Con-
stance had eased the helm triffe. Inc
Daisy was now fairly headed for the
rock With this breeze she would De
there in less than an hour.
ct be a bit risky" grumbled Ben
eve will be alongside the lighthouse
before there can be any serious down
faIIo said practical Constance. sure
IL we can make the land again no mat
fer how thick the weather may De-
Rem allowed himself to be persuaded.
Tn after life he would never adIhll
that they were free agents at tha1
moment
..It had to be-" he would say. II
,,,,,r IN me mind to argy wi she, ohl
-Id,,,f An how often GO US zee