The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-29

cut four holes in the deck on the star board side of the engine, and four sim liar roles on the port s!es. Eight cor responding holes were made under these through the keel. The cables from the four tackle blocks were pass ed through the holes in the deck. drawn out at the holes in the keel and under the machinery, re-entering the keel holes on the other side and passing again upward through the deck and thence back to the beams where they all met in a single tackle whose one great cable could be directed by one arm. Thus the man who held that single tackle could direct the course and action of all.
 And now, when all this N8rk had been accomplished. Gilliatt, instead of moving his sloop forthwith under the wreck, adid something which fseemed useless. He fastened ten great nails into the base of the Douvres. Then with enormous efforts he dragged mighty piece of the wreckage to the spot and fastened 1t there like swing ing gate. Then and not till then, did he remove the sioop from her safe anchorage and work her around to the defile between the two Douvres.
 The aspect of the man who had ac- complished all these labors had be- come terrible. His hair and beard had grown long. He was scared every where. He was continually hungry, thirsty and cold. For more than two months he had eaten only shellfish and subsisted on what little fresh water gathered in the crevices from rains and dews The bitter rocks were con- suming him. But now all was in read mess for the end. The sloop was moored to a nicety under the engine room of the wreck. The planking had been cut everywhere, freeing the en- zines from above. The keel immediate iy under the machinery was cut square, ready to descend with 1t while still supporting it. All this frightful mass was now held together only by one chain. When a certain link of this was filed away the weight would all come on the cables. and with these, guided by the single controller tackle. the engine was to be lowered to the sloop.
 Gilliatt climbed to the wreck and seized the regulating cable with one hand. With the other he began to file through the chain. Suddenly there was a crash. The link snapped before 1t was half cut through. The severed bles strained. The huge mass de- tached itself from the wreck. The hull opened and the iron flooring of the engine room was visible beneath the keel.
 It descended steadily. Then the pull leys stopped. The vast machine stood upright. firm. unharmed. on the ueck
 All was ended. He had but to de- part.
 And then suddenly a great wind came over the sea. The waters stirred. The tempest. long delayed, was com ing It was as if the sea had waited thus only to get It's foe more wholly into Its power
 GiIliatt hastened to the gate. Swift ly he swung 1t. With superhuman strength he lashed 1t with cables and chains. He swam and waded to the outer rocks just before the defile. dragging more beams and chains and there built a breakwater striving like a madman and compressing work that should have taken hours into half hundred minutes.
 Then he stood, with his back against the wall as 1t were. and face to face with the hurricane. It came Rain, wind, lightning, thunder, waves, foam, hoarse noises, whistles. mingled to- gether like monsters suddenly un- iooked. All the tumult of the wide eK- pa hse rushed toward the Douvres. The enormous surf streamed over all the rocks As far as eye could reach the sea was white; ten leagues of ysasty water filled the horizon. A heavy swell came rolling in. It resembled a huge wall of glass. It was green and without foam and it stretched