Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-13
END OF A
ROMANCE
How the Nachtsman Lost the
Girl.

the club house and watched fine
looking girl step into a dingey.
why do you say ended p asked
the other man. Looks more like an
other romance begun. She's sailing
on the Duro this season evidently"
Il said ended because that's the
girl who has turned Northam down,
explained the yachtsman. They were
engaged, you know. Everything was
fair weather. Not a dark cloud or
squaH in sight. But two weeks ago
she struck and Northam is adrift.
You see," he continued, as he
watched the dingey slide alongside a
white-hulled yacht, 'Northam had just
slapped coat of paint on his boat,
when who should show up at the club
but this girl and two other girls. They
knew it was early in the season, but
they were just dying for sail. North
am explained that he was awfully
sorry but that it was case of sitting
on the veranda, as he had just painted
of the Ferry He offered to take them
out and they went. Just as the Ferry
was ready to get under way Dietrich
hailed from the club. You know
Dietrich and Northam have sailed to-
gether for years and they are the best
sailors around here.
well, the Ferry took course out
into the lake. There was quite a sea
running and the wind came in
punches. Everyone was having a good
time, even if the owner of the Ferry
was sailing his boat like an ice wagon.
''Northam and Dietrich were really
the only ones aboard who understood
the game. When about five knots out,
Northam says, the owner of the Ferry
suddenly decided to come about or
else he forgot the boat altogether
while talking to the girls. Anyhow,
thfe Ferry shot up into the wind for
a second, the big boom swung inboard
and hit one of the crew across the
back. There was a splash-man over
board!
"A life ring was hanging to the
cabin. Northam was standing in the
cockpit near it. He handed it to
Dietrich, who was just getting ready
to give pull on the main sheet. Civ
ing him shove, Northam yelled at
him to jump overheard. And over
board Dietrich went
"Northam said he knew that the
owner of the Ferry didn't know what
to do and would have tried to come
about right there instead of keeping
on until in just the right position to
jibe over or come about and then try
to pick the men up. So he slammed
the Ferry's owner up against the cabin
and took the tiller
Say, you know it takes nerve to
keep right on sailing away from a
friend who has gone overheard, but
Northam did it. When he started back
few minutes later he was able to huff
up close to the two heads that bobbed
among the waves. Well, he picked
them up the first try.
They got the two fellows aboard
just in time, for Dietrich said he
couldn't have held out much longer
even with the help of the life ring, for
the water was ice cold and he was
just about frozen stiff.
Nov comes the funny part. While
NOrtham was patting himself on the
back for doing just the right thing
for he saved time by giving the life
ring TO Dietrich and making him get
overbOard-while he was explaining to
the Ferry's owner that he simply had
to sail the boat or his friend would
have gone down-the girl was doing a
lot of thinking on a different course
She had told her friends that North
am was the bravest sailor on the lake
and had been in all kinds of storms
Well, she didn't say word-not until
they landed.
Then when Northam said he
guessed he would go home with her
she said-right out loud so we could
all hear-that she guessed he wouldn't
She said she didn't care to have an
who would make his friend jump over
board to save another when he should
have done it himself
"Say, Northam was struck with all
canvas up and he went down all the
way. He didn't say word He just
stood there and watched her walk
away. Then he looked out across the
harbor-just stood there and looked.
I'VE tried to cheer him up-said the
girl was probably excited and didn't
understand that the Ferry crowd
would never have been able to pick
anybody up.
"Northam went out to see the girl
that night and tried to explain, but it
wasn't any use. He was coward, she
said. Now NOrtham is wondering
whether he is or not.
That's why I said another romance
was ended."-Chicago Daily News.