Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-09-05
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nODle result may be OBTAINED i'll every
healthy child properly educated
The college bred youth had not enter.
ed into any general conversation with
l.ramd before. He had the tact now to
conceal his establishment ut the manner
of his friends speech.
you fling heredity to the winds,
them" he asked.
Brand rose to his feet, as was his
way when deeply moved.
"Thank God, yes!" lie cried.
A faint boot came to them through
the chortling of the wind.
Zone Of our visitors" shouted Brand,
"and here we are gossiping as though
snugly seated in armchairs Mt the fire
side"
He hurried to the gallery, putting OH
nm oilskin coat
eve must win through, and guess
I'll play ball with my father-in-law,"
quoth Pyne to himself as lie followed.
This time 1t was the Falcon alone,
md she signaled with a lamp that 1t
was deemed best to defer active opera
tons until the following afternoon.
The tide ut dawn would not suit.
She went off, and the two men re-
turned to the grateful shelter of the
service room.
Brand forbade further talk. Pyne
must rest now and relieve him at
O'Clock. The youngster needed no
feather bed; he was asleep in amaz-
ingly quick tine. There is supper
less hunger which keeps people awake
ut night with full larder In the house.
The crude article differs from the cul-
| tured one so greatly that the man who
hungers of necessity cannot sleep too
| much.
Thus far the Inhabitants of the light
house had been given quite enough
nutrimcnt to maintain life. There was
no reason why any, even the most deli
cate, should he in real danger during
the next forty-eight hours. But scen-
tiiic reasoning and the animal instincts
| of mankind clash at times; in that lay
| the danger whose sullen shadow was
deepening the lines In the corners of
Brands eyes.
Every hour the officer ON duty and
some men of the watch visited him to
report that all was well below. Some
of the less drunken mutineers were
| pitifnlly sober now; the others were
maudlin. Beyond the few words OK.
changed on this and kindred topics he
was left alone with his thoughts
throughout the silent watch. Pyne
slept heavily. CHANGING at times at
| thn CT p'c tn1,
firm, handsome face, Brand found him.
self reviewing the buried years He
thought of the days when he too
looked forth on the world with the
stern enthusiasm of triumphant youth
Long forgotten ghosts were rcsur.
rected. shattered ideals built up again
He wondered, If the decades rolled
back, would he decide second time to
abandon the fine career which lay at
his feet and withdraw his grief and his
talents to the seclusion of lonely rocks
and silent headlands. :
He had been happy, as men count
happiness, during the decades. No
cloud had arisen to mar the complete
content of his life. Tho blossoming of
the girls into delightful womanhood was
| an increasing joy to him. and it was
passing strange that his little house.
hold should be plunged into a whirl
pool Of events in the very hour when
their domesticity seemed to be most
assured. The changeful moods Of the
elements found no counterpart in his
nature. He, knowing the sea, did not
expect 1t to remain fixed in one aspect.
| Whether in calm or storm, the con-
trary would surely happen ere many
days had passed But life was Il diff.
ferent thing. How came it that at the
very close Of SO many years of asso.
citation with the tickle ocean she should
play such trick on him and his
daughters, infold them with perils.
snatch them from the quiet pleasures
Of the life they had planned for the flu.
ture and thrust upon them, even if
they escaped with their lives, pub.
licity which lie, ut any rate. abhorred
and even dreaded?
He harbored no decisions on thi,
point He knew that the drama of the
Gulf Rock was now filling the columns
of newspapers all over the world. He
and his beloved girls would be written
about, discussed, described in fulsome
language. pictured by black and white
artists and eulogiZcd by wideawakc
editors eager to make much of topic
dear to the public mind
On the rock they were undoubtedly
in grave danger. Death confronted
them-death at once extraordinary and
CHASTITY. No tyrnnt of the middle ages,
with all his paraphernnia for wiring
ing truth or lies out of cringing
wretches, had devised such fate rs
threatened If the inconstant sea should
choose to render the reef altogether
unapproachable for many days. Yet if
help came he and those dear to him
were already STEPPED in unavoidable
notoricty, bringing in its train certain
vague disabilities which he had strlven
to avoid for over twenty years.
And all this because one fierce gale
out of the many he had endured
sprang into being at moment when
his mates were incapacitated and his
daughters happened to pay him sur.
prise visit.
ut is an insane freak Of fortune" he
muttered, 80 incomprehensible, so ut
terly out of focus with common events,
that If were n superstitious MAJ
should regard 1t as betokening the ar
proach Of some great epoch in my life.
Surely. n merciful Providence would
not bring my girls here to subject them
to the lingering torture of hunger and
thirst. must not think of it further.
That way lies Madness
There was ut least one other troubled
soul on the rock which OWNED some
sinister portent in the Storm Mrs.
Vunsittart. even at this moment. was