The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-10-04


ward searchllght.
"We've got to keep Il sharp lookout
for icebergs now" Captain Reed had
warned, "and that forward searchlight
must he fixed up
Boggles didn't know much about acct
ylene gas Neither did the first mate.
They tampered with the plant for two
hours, and then muffied explosion for
ward alarmed every member of the
crew. 1t was the first mate who ex-
claimed incoherently;
"rhe thing the tank exploded right
In our faces. 1t was SO sudden that /
could not say how"
Boggles couldn't explain, for he was
blinded and his body was blazing like
human torch covered with pitch. The
captain and DR. Langdon squeched the
nette, with two sailors, rescued Bog
giles from incineration.
Mr.. Pierce was angry and bored to
the point of saying
"How annoying! Any one hurt?"
"Boggles is pretty well done up" the
doctor replied, scraping the charred
skin from the blackencd face. He's
blind rs a bat for one thing, and"
Boggles groaned and stammered in a
hoarse Whisper
Il knew I'd never see Straddle Rock
Cove agin | might have knowed
something would happen Oh. why
didn't | stay away"
Captain Reed called another meeting
to consider the question of changing
the yachts course. Mr. Boggles is now
incapacitated," he exclaimed, "and of
course no one else is familiar with this
coast
That's So, retorted Mr.. Pierce, with
sudden enlightenment. Then we must
, return-at once
a maleyolent light of joy illumined
his features.
Exactly" replied the captain. 81
shall order the course changed"
Not today, captain" interrupted An
nette sweetly. 1T seems like like sac
rilege to turn around and run home so
soon after Mr.. Boggles is laid up. IL
think we should keep ON day or two.
There is some hope. DR.. Iangdon, isn't
there?'
The doctor shook his head I'm
sorry to disappoint you. Annette, but
there's none. Boggles is blind totally
blind, He may in six months or Il year
recover some of his sight, but it IL q
forlorn hope"
Annette's face darkeued. Mr.. Pierce
thought she was about to cry, and he
hastily said;
we might keep on the same course
for day or two. captain, out of re-
spect for Boggles, and
Yes. yes, certainly"
Annette gave them both a grateful
smile, and the conference was ended.
BoGgIeS absorbed more attention now
than before the accident Every one
paid him Difference, but that was partly
because all, from the humblest to the
highest, knew that the trip was to be
abandoned in day or two. But Bog
giles didn't know, and he kept moaning:
"l'l never see the Straddle rocks
ag'in! II ! could see EN- I'd die in
peace All, there they are! Are you
here, ma'am! Look ut 'em See the
sun on 'em! There's where | was
born-twenty. thirty, forty, fifty years
ago, ma'am!"
"Oh, Boggles!" moaned Annette in
return why did this happen?"
Now, the meeting of the cold breath
from the north coast and the warm
wind of the southern summer plays
havoc with the sea at many points
betN Newfoundland and Labrador.
Fierce elemental struggles Of the at
mosphere shake the sea and earth, and
for days and nights no ship Is safe in
those far regions.
The Graylng was stanch yacht.
but rather understood for Il cruise SO
far from port. When the wind struck
her she danced lightly in the choppy
seas but as the storm developed she
grew troubled and frightened.
Boggles had recovered from his
feyerlsh delrium and was rational,
He heard the storm and found an
atom Of consolation in it. II relieved
his mind of the weight pressing upon
It,
For n night and day the yacht drift
ed. Then IN the blaclness of the see
ond night the vortex of the frightful
storm was reached, with the craft i'll
prepared to meet ii.
The forward watch reported break
ers ahead, and the jagged outline of
rocks was seen In the distant back
ground. The Crawling was drifting
steadily toward them. 1t was mat
ter of an hour before she would strike.
Annette heard the summons to pre-
pare for the worst. The two boats
which We're left would hold the crew
and passengers. and there was no al
tentative but to trust their lives TO
the tender mereles of the breakers in
them.
"Boggles, you must rise and go with
me-" Annette said. "Tll lead you.
We're drifting on the rocks"
"What rocks Sraddle rocks"
81 don't know" laughed Annette hys-
terIcally. ut would be funny II they
were"
mo; ma'am. II wouldn't, for they're
dangerous dangerous IN a storm
like this"
"Oh. II you could only see. Mr. Bog
giles, you would save usp'