Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-01-21

stairs. Astounded. be drew back. /
Constance stood in their midst. a mere 4
Girl. radiant. smilingly unconcerned, /
addressing them in calm words broken I
only by the ftful noises.
sorry your quarters-so very IN |
pleasant Only last a-couple of hours. /
twenty-five years-far worse gales. /
Want any more cocoaF"
THANK YOU kindly, miss, we're quite !
comCortable." This from the man who
wished 10 die with his eyes open.
~ ease. miss, may we smoker said
he who couldn't stand it.
Constance hesitated. Blthely uncon-
scious that a Whit of mutiny had
swept through the storm tossed fold,
she pondered the problem. She saw no
harm in it.
Yes" she said Smoke b. all
means / will ask my father, AID II it
should be dangerous | Will cone back
and let you lz-ow. In few hos it
will be dcy.i-ht and if tie sea falls be
viii come AID open tie CoOr.'
by sheer ir-3:rG ton she had uttered
the formula destined to annihilate the
necro-aantic buster of the hammering
waves. Open the door! So this pom
derous racket was a mere tidal trick,
a bogy, which each passing minute
would expose more thoroughly.
"All right. miss, an Gawd bless yer"
growled one who had not spoken hith-
erto. There was a chorus of approval.
Constance gave little gulp. The Gull
tured and delicate lady lying in the
bunk above had not spoken so.
Indeed" she gasped, God has
| blessed some of us this night"
Then she fed, further utterance fail
ing her
Nearer the sky Brand tended the
lamp and discussed matters with Chief
Officer Emmett The sailor, with the
terse directness of his class, told how
the Chinook had made an excellent
voyage from New York until she ran
into bad weather about 400 miles west
of the Lizard.
at seems to me- he said, "as If we
dropped on to the track of that hurri-
cane after it had curved away to the
norrard and that the blamed thing
swooped down on US again when we
were abreast Of the Bishop light"
Brand nodded This surmise agreed
with his own theory of the storm as
indicated by the sea.
Mr.. Emmett held out a clinched fist
with thumb jerked toward the reef.
Il wouldn't breathe a word if he
wasn't gone," he said, ''but the old man
was drivin' her too hard. l knew it,
and the chief knew it''-he meant the
: chief engineer-"but he wouldn't listen
to either Mac or me. Fact is, he was
fair crazy to set up new record fol
the boat She's been crossin' the At
lantic forty times a year for upward
of twenty years, and the recent alter
= atoms. although they added fifty feet
to her length, only increased her en-
:. CINE power in proportion
: you surprise me-" broke in Brand
you speak as if the Chinook were
/ nearly as old as this lighthouse, yet
: have never even heard her name be
r fore"
/ You know her we'll enough all thu
same" said the other ruefully. 'Thi
: is her maiden voyage since she was al
|, tered, an they rechristened her, too
always an unlucky thing to do, I say
l. Bless Your heart, man, she is the oil
Princess Royal Eth? What's that?"
l. He guffawed mournfully at Brand
p involuntary exclamation.
# Certain Well, surely ought t
know. | have passed most Of my sery
L. ice with the company in her, and whe
s l took crew to Cramps to navigat
II her to New York after she was smart
IS ened up | little imagined I would Sc
n, her laid by forever the next time W
Is saw the lights of old England. NJ
ct goodness. even what was left of the oil
IN girl ought to know her way better
is that"
re But what did really happen?"
W 'Drvin her, l tell you-drivin' ht
~ full pelt to land the mails at Soutl
h, ampton twelve hours ahead of sche
of ule. With that awful sea liftin' h
ge and a shaft twenty feet longer, VIII;
could you expect? Poor Perkins!
&c rare hard worker too. Now he's go,
nd down with his ship an over 200 passe
re gers an crew"
Die Judging by the number saved
ad feared that more were lost"
he Its the off season, you know. II
I'm passenger list was light For the Lore
FOR sake think of what it might have be-
lar in May or Juner'
be- at is bad enough as it is. All has n
to ended with the disappearance of t
the vessel"
- The sailor shot a sharp glance
Brand.
You can't be thinkin' any one was
blame he commenced. But Bra
waved aside the fancied imputation
"Blamer he said. with brok
shaft. In that whirlwind! No, no.
sent for you to talk over the new di
Guilty which has to be faced. There g
II food, water and fuel here for TIN
I'll men for two months. If you do lit
sum you will find that the availal
u stores on tho ba sic Of fUll ratiOnS X