Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-03-21
CHAPTER XVI.
Borne on the Great Wave.

WOrdleSS Man, 6OIlS anu ooiioh, "h'OA
sleening through the disturbances
above them and the first burst OF the
storm were walked by the blowing
omen of the lattice as the wind reach
ed its height 1t was tall Boris VINO
4rst made his way to the window.
The lattice hung by one leathern
thong The other had been torn away
and indeed it was a wonder that the
whole framework had not been blown
bodily into the room. For the tenn
nest pressed against it straight from
the north, and the sticky spray from
the waves which broke on the shlngle
drove stingingly into the eyes OF the
man-at-arms as he looked out.
Nevertheless he thrust his head out,
looked moment through half-closed
evelids and then cried "Jorlan, we
are surely lost The sea is breaking
in upon us. 1t has passed the beach
of single out there!"
And Selling Jorian by the arm Boris
made his way to the door by which
they had entered, and, undoing the
bolts thew reached the walled court
yard, where, however, they found
themselves in the open air, but shell
tered from the utmost violence OF the
tempest But the instant Boris mead
was above the copestone, and the Ice
cold northerly blast met him ike
wall, he fairly gasped, for the furious
onslaught of the storm seemed to
blow every particle of breath clean
out of his body.
In another moment Jorian was be-
side him, crouching on the top OF the
wall to save himself from being car
ried away. And there, in the steamy
smother of the sea, backed by the
blue electric flame of the lightning,
they saw the slant masts of vessel
laboring to beat against the wind.
Poor souls, they are gone!' said
Boris, trying to shield his eyes with
his palm, as the black hull disappear
ed and the masts seemed to lurch
forward into the milky turmoil. I'VE
shall never see her again
For one moment all was dark as
pitch, and the next dozen flashes O
lightning burst every way as man!
appearing to rise upwards as coult
be seen to fall downward. A blacl
speck poised itself on the crest of ;
wave. ct is a boat 1t can neve
live!" cried the two men together
and dropping from the top of the wal
they ran down to the shore, going
near as they dared to the surf whicl
arched and fell with ponderous roa
on the narrow strip of single.
Back Boris, back!" cried Joria1
suddenly, as after a succession @
smaller waves gigantic and majesti
roller arched along the whole seawar
'front.', stood a moment black and in
mlnent above them, and then fell Xix
whole mountain. range in a snow
avalanche of troubled water whic
rushed savagely up the beach. TIL
TWO soldiers, who would have face
unblanched any line of living enc
mics in the world, fed terror-stricke
at the onrush of that sea of milk.
BY this time the morning was az
Vancing and the storm growing som'
what less continuous. The thunde
retreated growing behind the horizon
Inc violent lightning grew less col
uhuous, and only occasionally ros
and fell in vague, distant Pickering
toward the north, as if someone wei
mtlng lantern almost to the Sc
me and dropping it again befol
reaching it.
Looking back from the summit
,ne mound, Boris saw something da1
.sihg high up on the beach amid
rack OF seaweed and broken timbt
"nicn marked where the great way