The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20

man In the craft I should like to see it
/ bottom-side ZIP and he hanging on for
dear life. He gave me some i'm
pudence in reply, and the woman
stood up and held her arms out to me
4 in a pleading way. heard him speak
+ to her in threatening tones and she
sank down on the seat and held her
/ face in her hands.
! It at first seemed to be case calling
1 for interference, but on second thought
1 changed my mind. The woman, whom
| took to be the mans wife, had not
/ demanded my aid except by signs. The
man had thus far escaped disaster and
| might carry the boat back. He was
] sailing straight out into the channel,
/ but he might turn at any moment To
/ interfere was certain to bring on a
row and even might be landed in jail
/ over 1t.
I resumed my course, bearing away
from them, but as I watched the other
/ craft she suddenly vanished from sight
/ like the snap of your finger. 1 cried out
4 in establishment, but in a few seconds
was smiling. A fog rolling in had hid
/ den her, and two minutes later It had
reached me and was so thick that
could not see the length of the boat The
/ breeze began to drop, and knew what
would have to pass through The fog
would last for two or three hours, and
| then a change of wind would drive it
away.
| The other craft was half a mile away
when she was blotted out. The tide was
i setting In, and l knew that she would
drift back toward me as soon as the
breeze fell threw over the anchor IN
thirty feet of water and settled down
to wait. It was perhaps a quarter Of an
/ hour before I heard voices, and ten min
utes later before I could make out
words They came from the other boat,
which was drifting slowly in. The man
was cursing and threatening and the
/ woman begging and praying.
Il will leave you-I will go away, If
/ you will spare my life" pleaded the
1 woman
You promised once before and then
/ lied to me" came the voice OF the man.
But it will be murder, murder, muir
der. Oh, Richard, you don't mean to
But do. You have been in my way
for years. Curse you, why did I ever
/ run across your face. You have stood
between me and happiness long
| enough
But III go this time. I promise. you
before God I'll go. Richard, I have
been good wife to you, but If you
have come to hate me, I'll GO
Hate you'll" he growled, like a saw
/ age animal. why, I hate you to the
death I'd have murdered you a dozen
times over in the last two years If I'd
had fair snow. You are going to die
now
"oh, my God. don't dc it, Richard
QOn-I XIII me
/ knew their boat was close on me
now, and gently raised my anchor so
| as to drift in company 18th it. I might
have cried out but I did not Had I
/ struck my hand on the rail Of the
boat they must have heard me. I was
/ silent, but why, 1 cannot tell. / heard
the man move. I heard him Juggling
| and breathing hard as he picked the
| woman up in his arms. She whim-
pered and gasped and tried to scream,
but he gave her a fling over the gun
/ vale Of the boat. She tainted away,
but did not go under the surface. With
the boathook I reached as far out as
I could on the port side, and presently I
had her and was pulling her in The
! two crafts were not ten feet apart, and
yet no human sight could pierce the
fog between
I held the woman's head out of the
| water for ten minutes. Then I some
how knew that the other boat had
| drifted ahead OF me, and with the Ut
/ most care I hauled the unconscious
woman into the boat and laid her on
the bottom. I waited seven or eight
minutes, and I then out with the long
oar and by compass guided the boat to
reach the shore at BrfdpOrts to the
/ Wese Of Weymouth.
Before we struck the beach I had
forced some brandy down her threat
and she had regained consciousness.
but I did not explain matters 70 her
until we were on the sands and thu fog
bhad rolled away. She had begged foe