The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-27
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 Cant i've don anythingg'' asked Tankerlane wearily. He was so tired and i'll and broken down with the straif of the last few hours that he was con. EGious of nothing save a vague dangel that lay somewhere in the two grea' torrents of water streaming past him on either side.
 we can do nowt." Dowsett replied grimly, ''save pray that the tfmberi hold together. and pray that the tid. may turn"
 And if she breaks up2"
 We'll have to take to the dinghy Iris our last chance.s
 Why not get fin if rfowY"
 Twouid. kill the lass for sartin. ri. well enough for us. But 'twould be tn, death of hef: But tide'll start fallin' ir 2 few minutes. and then the wair1 show. and there'1l be summat for u, to take foot on. If only the island would Hood to sea-level, 'twould be saf, nun; we'd just float inland, where 'tis calm as river. But con'sea's a bis place. and twill take a lot of water te i'll 1t. D'you sec that light yonderr and he pointed at a faint yellow stal further up the creek. ~4
 T see it.. tf
 sswsll. my mates up there in m, boat, the William and Sarah, on oul upper moorfn's. If we could get her. or she could drop down on us. 'twould bs all right"
 Can't we signal to herr?
 My mate couldn't come down single. handed. 'Tis 'gainst wind and tide. But I could run up to him"
 The two men looked at the distant speck of light. and then Dowsett went aft. knee-deep in water. and looked al the dinghy
 ''she'm right nun" he said: s.strons little boat she be. Have you a sail to her7s
 T don't know"
 Dowsett hunted about in the foc'sTe and found a mast and sail.
 I'll get up there in i've minutes" he said, land we'll be down again in bout twenty minutes
 But suppvsing you do not find us when you return" said Tankerlane. "Supposing this vessel breaks up while you are away. You are the only able bodied man among the lot of us.
 Sam Dowsett paused in his prepara- tions. and scratched his head thought fully.
 T hadn't thought of that, sir" eh said. "OI course. can't be leavin, you so long as there be danger of her breakin' up. She'm bumpin' cruel hard. she be. I'll wait till the tide falls q bit and then I'll go fetch my boat down. Mebbe the wind'll drop with the tide. It must ha' nearly blown itself out"
 Sir William TankerIane faint and dizzy with cola and sickness. looked seawards, and the sight was not calcu- lated to Tighten the fears of lands man. The gale still howled furiously across the water. ana shrieked through the rigging. The waves rolled on in long walls of white foam. and each one of them surged up the deck as far as the mast. The stern of the Hope1and Glory was deep under the water. Per- haps this circumstance was really a safeguard to the rest of the vessel, for the after part of the boat, instead of the bows still further over the bank, acted as an anchor. and even as a kind of breakwater. But TankerIane could not be expected to realize this, and he only saw that the smack was a hope less wreck.
 Dowsett, as he stood with Tankerlane by the mast. T reckon she's best teAlS Tides turnin', sir, tides turnin', thank the Lord" He leant forward and point ed at the sea.
 srll fake your word for it," said Tank erfane. who had not observed any change In the surroundings.
 'Tidess turnin' sure 'nuif.- See that bit of sea weed goin' seaward against the wind. You go far'ard, and speak to MT ShiI. I've respected your wishes till now, sir, for the sake of peace, but it must have been nell for him there this last half hour. My hearts gone out to him, it has"
 .sYes," said Tankerlane quietly, "it must have been hell for him. Yet we did right. It would have been a bad time for all of us. and worst of all for him, if he'd known my wife was on board"
 Of truth John Shil had atoned for much in that time of hideous darkness. He could see nothing; he could hear nothing but the roar of wind and water. and occasionally the distant murmur of voices. No one came near to speak to him. He did not know what had hap pened, or what was going to happen. He realized that the vessel had run ashore, and that strangers had came aboard, and the violent shocks. which