Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-12-10

oer,i, oAihHoWH sea, finds itself
saln meandering through new plains
Oh Wider horizon. ~
such a perilous passage can nox-o. -
ioreseen The rapids NAV heojr whore
me trees are highest and tho MEADOWS |
nnost iuXuriant. No warning is pivnn
ne increased pace CT events Is nlaas. |
"nt ana eXhilarating. Even tha Ias+
WIG plunge over the cascade is noi+lo,. |
resented nor feared. Some frail .roft |
80 uttered IN transit some wholly
shaken, same emerge with riven sails
ana taGAts'1ed embellishments. 4 few
NOT only survive the ordeal. brt there
oy III themselves for more daring ev-
plolts, more aeul stirring adventures
When the Tvs girls stood with STE
phen Braaa in the narrow entrance 10
! the lighthouse. the gravity Of their
| bright young faces was due SOLELY to
! TIE tact that their father had annornc-
ed the serious. accidents which hid no.
ldllen his assistants. No secret moni-
Tor whispered that fate in her bold and
| lierciiess dramatic action had roughly
| removed two characters from the stage
70 clear it for more striking events.
NOT once in twenty years has it hap
pehed that two out of the three keen
efs maintained on rock station with
III signaling distance of the shore have
become incapacitated for duty on the
same day. The thing was so bewilder-
lngly sudden, the arrival of Constance
ana Enid on the scene so timely and
unexpected. that Brand, a philosopher
OF ready decision in most affairs of
lie, was at loss what to do for the
best now that help, Of a sort I'M
dreamed of, was at hand,
The case Of Jackson, who was scaId-
ed, was simple enough. The board of
trade medicine chest supplied to each
lighthouse is a facsimile of that car
RED by every seagoing steamship. It
contained the ordinary remedies for
such an injury, and there would be lit
tie difficulty or danger in lowering the
sufferer to the boat.
But Bates affaire was different. He
lay almost where he had fallen. Brand
had only lifted him into the storeroom
from The foot of the stairs, placing a
pillow beneath his head, and appealing
both to linn and to jackson to endure
their torture unmoved while he went
to signal for assistance.
The problem that confronted him
now was one of judgment Was it bet
ter to await the coming of the doctor or
endeavor to transfer Bates to the boat!
He consulted Ben Pollard again. The
girls were already climbing the steer
stairs to sympathize with and tend tC
the injured men,
do you think it will blow harder
Ben, when the tide turns?" he asked
The old fellow seemed to regard the
question as most interesting and novel
Indeed. to him some such query ant
its consideration provided the chic
problem of each day. Therefore b
surveyed land. sea and sky most care
! fully before he replied
"It may be Almost anything afor
night, Misser Brand"
At another time Brand would hav
smiled. Today he was nervous, dis
| traught, wrenched out of the worn ri
of things.
II fancy there is some chance of tn
doctor being unable to land when b
reaches the rock. Do you agree wit
meT'
), His voice rang sharply. Ben caugh
its note and dropped his weatherwis
] ambiguity.
e It'll blow harder, an mebbe snay
t agin," he said.
e 81 shall need some help here in tina
case, so | will retain the young ladies
Of course you can manage the boa
q easily enough without them?"
t Pollard grinned reassuringly.
"We'm run straight in WI thicc
wind" he said
/ So they settled it that way, all s
simply.
A man sets up two slim masts
thousand miles apart and flashes com
prehens;b!e messages across the VOID
II The multitude gapes at first, but sool
o accepts the thing as reasonable. WIRE
less telegraphy'' is the term, as on
says ''by mall
d whole drama was flowing over
u curve of the earth at that moment, bu
i the Marconi station was invisible
There was no expert in telepathic sen
sation present to tell Brand and tn
fisherman that their commonplace
Il words covered magic code.
IL Jackson white and mute. was lower
IL first The brave fellow would no
, content himself with nursing I'll
lt AGONY amid the cushions aft Whel
pa+as giyen some slight strength by
~ stiff dose of brandy. was carried VII
IL infinite care down three fights OF stee
&c and narrow stairs and slung to I'd
- crane in an iron cot to be lowered
40 bis turn. Jackson stood up. Heedies
- Of remonstrances. he helped to steao
u tbe cot and adjust it amidshlps ciea
m Of the sail. Da,
- "Iyell done. Artie,'' said Brand
no clear voice.
4e ooh braver' murmured Enid
70 I'VE will visit you every day at ID
bosnitalo sang out Constance.