The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-29

to begin life anew. While they were stiil talking, the captain of . cutter arrived. He had heard the lowing of oxen in the open sea. and steering In the direction of this puzzling thing had seen the Durande hanging to the rocks There was no sign of Cldbin or any one else. He was about to veer off again, when a terrible crash was heard A wave: had lifted the wreck and huri- ed her bodily at the twin Douvres She plunged in like a projectile and hung there, held Sigh in the air between them up to her midship frame. He watched her d long time through his glass. He said that he could affirm that though the hull forward and aft had been smashed sadly, the engines were still intact. Even the funnel stood firm. x.n
 Miss Lethierry looked up. Lagtn came again into his eyes. But it faueo as soon as it had appeared. on 'the high rocks where the Durande hung suspended there was hardly 1ootnolu for a man. To send, ship and crew there to work was a wild dream. The season of heavy seas that sweep the Douvres in that period would snap the stoutest chains that ever moored ship. Thus, since no help could lie there and since no men could exist on the rocks themselves. and, further more, since there was not room TOT them to work except one at time. even if they could find foothold. it was only too clear that the engines must be left to the sea. The captain of the cutter spoke at that moment as if In answer to the thoughts of Mess Lethi- erry.
 No, it is all over." said he. "The man does not exist who could go there and save the machinery of the Duran de-"
 Deruchette sprang to her feet and turned her beautiful face on the crowd. .'If he existed" she exclaimed, T would marry himi"
 A tall young man made his way out of the throng and stood before her. anxious and pale. You would marry him. Mademoiselle7" whispered he.
 This tall young man was Gilliatt. fisherman. All eyes turned toward him. Mess Lethierry rose to his full height and said solemnly:
 "Deruchette should be his. I pledge myself to 1t in Gods name"
 The next night a powerfully built sloop, immense in beam and deep of hold went out to sea through passages so perilous that fishermen and light house keepers remarking her from shore wondered what madman thus dared the dangers of the islands in the darkness. The madman was Gilliatt. bound for the Douvres by the shortest way: for he knew that shipwrecks will not wait and that the sea is an tn- exorable creditor. With the face of Deruchette before him. he feared noth- ing except a rival in the enterprise.
 It was broad daylight when he ar- rived at the grim and desolate place. Like two monstrous arms the two Douvres reached upward from their gulf and held the lifeless body of the ship up for the tempest to see, Gil- liatt sprang ashore and climbed to the wreck.
 He found the afterpart. with engines and even paddlewheels intact, as the captain of the cutter had said. driven deeply between the two rocks as if by an enormous hammer. The forecastle hadr snapped off and< disappeared. GilIiatt climbed to the top of a pad dlebox and surveyed the scene. He saw q blight inclosed on all sides except the east by Rocky walls. This would make a shelter for his sloop. He clambered down hurriedly and with infinite care steered his vessel into the dangerous passage. When hs had her safely anchored, he cast about for a shelter for himself. At low water he could jump from rock to rock be- tween the sloop and the cliffs that held the wreck; but at high water there was open sea between. The wreck itself was too unstable for 6 shelter Nothing remained but the,