Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-09-11

others quarreIsome The next tnlng
will be a combined rush for the store
ROOM
"But why did not the second officer
tell meT"
HE thought you had troubles enough.
If he could depend on the remainder OF
the crowd he would rope the sinners.
Saws he knows a slave knot that will
make 'em tired
Brands eyes glistened.
1.-THE fools,' he said, "and just as the
weather is mending too"
"You don't mean that?'
Listen"
He glanced up at the glass dome.
Heavy drops were pattering on 1t. T
They looked like spray, but Pyne shout
ed gleefully:
''Is it rain?' /
"Yes. 1 was just going to summon
the watch to help in filing every YES
sell By spreading canvas sheets we
can gather u large supply it 1t rains
hard. Moreover, it will beat the sea
down. Man alive, this may mean sal
vation! Tie those weaklings and sum-
! mon every sober man to help"
With a whoop, Pyne vanished. He
met Constance on the stairs, coming to
| see her father before she stretched her
weary limbs on the hard floor of the
| kitchen.
She never knew exactly what took
place. 1t might have been pQliteness,
but it felt uncommonly like a squeeze,
| and Pyne's face was extraordinarily
/ close to hers as he cried: .5:
cts raining No more canvas whls-
XIV. Get a hustle on with every empty
vessel
He need not have been in such
whirl, however.
When the shower came it did not
last very long. and there were many
difficulties in the way of garnering the
thrice blessed water. In the first place,
the lighthouse was expressly designed
to shoot off all such external supplies;
in the second the total quantity OBJ
tanned did not amount to more than
kalf a gallon. ,.... ...
But it did great deal of good In
other ways. 1t frightened many faces,
it caused the drunkards to be securely
trrIssed like plucked fowls and dumped
along the walls of the entrance pas
sage, and it gave Brand some degree
of hope that the rescue operations OF
the next day would be more success
full. '-
When the rain cleared off the moon
dickered i'll a cloudy sky. This was a
further omen of better fortune. Per
haps the jingling rhyme of Admiral
Fitzroy's barometer was about to De
Long foretold,
! . ~ = r5r Long last; .
! i Ft u Short notice.
.= Soon past.
: And the hurricane had given bui
!, slight warning OF. its advent.
"I feel it in my bones that we shal
s all be as frisky as lambs tomorrow,
f said Pyne when he rejoined Brand
f after the scurry caused by the rai1
l. had passed. J
o "We must not be too sanguine
Il There is q chance now. won't den.
s that, but the sea is treacherous."
l. "This reef licks creation. At Ba
Il Harbor, in Maine, where mighty bi
sea can kick up in a very few hours
I have seen it go down again lik
magic under a change of wind"
IL .That is quite reasonable. Any ord
% nary commotion has ros6l to spread i
self in the tideway. Here the tide
l. broken up into ocean rivers, stream
I, with boundaries as definite as tn
Thames. The main boGy sweeps U
y into the bottle neck Of the channe
le Another tributary comes round tt
III north Of the Scilly isles and runs in'
y the tidal stream again exactly at tn
~ point The result often is that, wh1
le little pleasure boats can safely ru
III out into the bay from Penzance, the
is a race over the rock that wou
u break up a stranded battleship." :.
I. "Say, do you like this kind of life?
u 81 have given my best years to 1t. y
~ ~ Pyne was smoking pipe, one whit
! Brand lent him. The tobacco was
- capital substitute for food, especial
er as he had established private unde
~ standing with Elsie and Mamie tn
they were to waylay him when pos
10 BILE and nibble a piece OF biscuit
VI carried in his pocket.
" This arrangement was to be kept
ep strict secret from all, especially fro
ou Miss Constance and Miss Enid, VIII
e! the little ones themselves did not kne
~ that the she dragons whom Py
feared so greatly gave them surrep
-or tious doses from the last tin of CT
densed milk. retained for their exc
iSe sive benefit. -5>-.,- ,.,...-.
5 5fs sDo you mind my saying that y
of are a good bit of an enigma?' he h'
nd arded between puffs.
1T may be so, but like the servlc
NV "Just so. / was never so happy
- when 1 took trip as fourth engine
, on a tramp in the gJ,f of Florida. I
that didn't signify being tied to 10
at nosed oiler for tae remainder OF
days.. .s.,.rs...s .ss, > IS
me- "Are you a marine engineerr q
us-s quireA Brand. with ssops shew Of