Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-09
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 rather than remain alone"
 Walker jammed himself in the door
 way to break the violence of the un-
 ceasing deluge of spray.
 Well, missie," he said, "I'm examin-
 ing the engines, Mistaw Tollemache is
 fl-wing up the donkey boiler, and Doc
 taw Chwistobal is with Mistaw Boyle.
 You know whe-aw the captain is, so I
 weckon yo' best place is the salon."
 'Dr. Christobal said you were mak-
 ing raft?"
 That's wight. But when the ship
 got off we tackled othaw jobs. She is
 ow-ah best waft'
 May I not look after some of the
 injured men?'
 That you can't was Walkers
 prompt assurance. You'd bettaw stick to the salon. I'll tell the captain
 yo' the-aw."
 Tell him? Are you returning to the
 bridge?"
 Telephone" shouted Walker as an unusually heavy sea caused him to slam the door unceremoniously. He bolted it too Not if he could help it would his charge come out on that storm swept deck unattended.
 The electric light glowed brightly in Elsie's cabin, exactly ss she had left it an hour ago. This was one of the anomalous conditions of the disaster. It lent a queer sensc of midsummer madness to the nights doings. In a few days it would be Christmas, the Christmas of sunshine and flow CTS known only to that lesser DOT tion of the habitable earth south of the line. In Valparaiso the weather was stifling, yet here, not so very far away, it was bitterly cold. And the ship was driving headlong to destruc ton, though electric bells and switches were at command in luxuriously fur nished apartment, while the engineer had just spoken of the telephone as means of conversing with the captain. Away down in her feminine heart the girl wondered why Courtensy himself had not come to her Why had he sent Christobal first and Walker subse- quently? Oh. of course he had more urgent matters to attend to, though in the helpless condition of the ship it was difficult to appreciate their precise de- grees of importance.
 Anyhow. he had sent word that she was to change her clothes, and he must be obeyed. as Dr. Chrlstobal said. Then she discovered as a quite new and physically disagreeable fact that her skirts were soaked up to her knees, while her blouse was almost in the same condition owing to the quantity of spray which had run down inside her thick ulster. She busied herself in procuring fresh clothing and boots. The outcome of the pleasant feeling of warmth and comfort was such as the girl herself would not have guessed in q week The mere grateful touch of the dry garments induced an extraor- dinary drowsiness. She felt that she must lie down-just for a minute. She stretched herself on the bed closed her eyes and was straightway sound asleep. At the captains suggestion Chrlstobal had given her a strong dose of bromide in the wine.
 It was better so. If the ship were dashed to pieces against the rocks which unquestIonably lay ahead. Elsie would be whirled to the life eternal before she quite knew what was hap pening. If, on the other hand. some miracle of the sea enabled the men to construct d seaworthy raft in time or the rising tide permitted the Kansas to escape in so far to run ashore again in q comparatively sheltered position, she would be none the worse for an hours sleep. And now that the ship was afioat there were things to be done which only men could do. The salon. the decks. the fore cabin. were places of the dead. Fearing lest Elsie might pass. Chrlstobal before attending 10 Boyle had thrown tab!ecloths over the bodies of men slain in the salon. for Gray and Tollemache had sternly hut vainly striven to repress the second re- volt TOllemache and Walker had dragged out of the smothering spray near the port davits three men who seemed 10 he merely stunned These. with the chief officer and perhaps four of the explosion. made up inc list of living but noneffectIve members of the ships company. There was one other. Guglielmo Frascuelo. who was having for dear life in bis hunk in me rOreClsTIe. OuT m mat dars nouT no one chanced to remember him, and 1t needed more than a human voice tO pit itself against the hurricane which rUared OYer the vessel. The unhappy wretch knew that something ont Of tine ordinary had taken place. and he was scared Eaif out of his wits by the con .inusd ahsence of the crew Luckily Tor himself. he did not appreciate the -eai pTedicament 0f the ship or he would have raved himself into mad ness
 Walker in his brief catalogue of o. 'upatious had suppressed ore. To make sure ChristObal closed a water lglt lsulkhead door which cut of the principal s;aterO0us from the saIon. Then hp and his two helpers carried ,ut a painful but necessary task IL Eas his duty to certify whether or not lre vas extinct There were very few .xcpytiOns. The three men lifted the zyiieS and threw then overheard When they reached the coTses of ihs ecgnd osieer and q Spanish engineer