Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-08-31
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CHATTER AT daybrcak an assistant keeper
Of the Lighthouse pacinG The gallery, discovers
IL the distance q ship in distress. stephen
Brand agrees to swim to II. Upon reaching the
ship he comes in contact with = shark, fights
and kills it and goes aboard. He finds the body
OF dead man and a strange bundle beneath the
sail. Jones. the lighthouse keeper. lowers a
basket and hauls Brand and his strange bundle
safely up. 1.-THE bundle contains live baby.
Of which Jones assumes the care. On part Of
the child's clothing are the Initials " F.. l..
The little one i placed in care OF the nurse who
has charge of stephen Brands child in Pen
zance. They call the child Enid Trevillion. III
Eighteen years later Constance Brand. daugh-
ter Of stephen Brand and her adopted sister,
Enid Trevillion, 30 tn The lighthouse with an
Old fisherman. Zen Pollard, IN a sailboat named
Daisy. They are caught in storm, during
which they hear the signal for help coming from
thu rock. They reach the lighthouse i'll safety
aud find that two of the men. Jackson and Bates,
have been hurt Brand sends the men back with
R'u. IN-Jackson and Bates lowered into
TIE boat, and Pollard starts for Penzance. The
Daisy is met by Lieutenant stanhope, who il
devotcdly in love with Enid lie has started
on, for the light house in answer to the signal
for help. On meeting the Daisy he turns back
Ia assist with the injured men. 'T-From d
lighthouse window Enid spies boat approach
Ing the rock. 1t is the Lapwins, owned by a
man named Lawton Brand discovers that it is
sailed by Stanhope. He signals for them not to
land. and stanhope returns to Penzance. The
gins spend the night at the rock. NI-Durina
The night furious storm renders sleep impos
.1!e. A, dawn from the lighthouse gallery
Brand makes out a ship in great distress.
Chapter NI-Continued.
1t Glanced just then that an cman-
cipated wave embraced the granite col
umn, hit the cOrnice and deluged the
lantern, its disintegrated mass striking
the glass with force enough to break
ThA nckNunAnd
girls could not refuse the evidence OF
eyes and ears. Here was the frantic
Oea leaping to height 6 40 feet and
more, yet their father was treating the
incident as the merriest joke Of many
q month.
No better cure for their hysteria could
be contrived. Brand was obviously not
acting. The hearty pulsations of laugh
ter had restored his ruddy color. Evil
IDENTIFY they were alarmed about moth
ing.
Here, Enid. drink your parting cupw
he cried. "Haye no fear. 1t is only
the dochan doris before many another
feast"
Feeling somewhat ashamed Of them
selves, though smiling very wistfully,
they Obeyed him. He slipped his cocoa
with real nonchalance. Another wave
turned a somersault over the lantern.
Brands only anxiety was to blow at
the steaming liquid and cool 1t suffi-
ciently.
Yet was he watching them and ham,
mering out the right course to adopt.
He alone understood that to the novice
the amazing ordeal from which the
lighthouse had successfully emerged
was rs naught compared with the
thunderous blows Of the waves, the
astounding reverberations Of the hollow
pillar, the continuous deluge Of spray
striking the lantern, which the infuri-
ated sea would inflict on them.
To urge any further effort to sleep
was folly. They must remain with him
and be comforted.
Being reasonable girls, Of fine spirit
under conditions less benumbing, 1t