Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-05-05

tse pine Woods. companiouship with nature seemed to strengthen and exaIt her. Then she felt submissive and forgiving for the first time.
 On q stormy day in November hur- ricane ragged along the north shore. and the little sea girt town of Squanton was Iaboring with it. In the village store the idlers-rcfugees from the hur- ricane-crowded about the stove and agreed that the storm was ''peeler."
 Its the kind that soaks in," cx- claimed Captain Drew, rising to look at the blurred pane. Wouldn't keer to be or Thatchcr's jest now"
 Settling back, he stretched his long limbs toward the stove again with an added sense of comfort
 The sound of laughter and greeting was hushed suddenly. and there was q perceptiblc backward movement near the door to admit a dripping figure. It was Delilah, with a white, scared face and long hair blown fin tangle about her head.
 There's a wreck of Coifin's beach. dadr she gasped. ''They say it's the Magnolia"
 Captain Drew came to his feet in. stantly. with every man present.
 How'd you know bout it, Delily?' he asked as he buttoned his greatcoat
 T was on the point looking at the waves"
 You've no business to go prowlin' round in sech storm" he said. not unkindly.
 She drew him ono side. '"The minis. ter is on board, dad. He was coming down from Boston," she said.
 Well, we won't see him drown right under our noses. guess, without try in to save i'm. You leave it to your father"
 In the teeth of the gale they forced their way 10 the shore. Above the terrible roar of wind and sea they shouted to Captain Drew that the life boat had been manned and repeated unsuccessful attempts made to cross the channel. They tod him that the efforts to shoot the line across the ves- sel and thus bring 1t into communics- ton with the shore had l,een fruitless On every face there wa, unspeak ks hle dread that the helpless men would ea down before their very eyes.
 The wreck, though it lay in that par; of the channel where the current was not at its strongest, was pounding upon reef of rocks that jutted out from the bend. A sand bar, over which the waves were rolling Ike snow crested hills, lay between. To reach the Magnolia from the other side of the bay meant journey of ten miles by land
 Tine vessel was pitching about like s desperate thing, showing first her keal. then the full sweep oc the deck, with the crew clinging as they could. The mast was broken off six or e:ght feet above the neck and lay over the side. with a tangle of broken cordage and Tapping sail.
 Before the people crowding the head land could understand what was talk ing place Captain Drew had mustered volunteer crew and in the lighthouse boat was making his way along the shore to cross below the bar. Through it all Delilah crouched beside huge powder, with her deep. concentrated gaze fixed upon her fathers figure
 The distance that Captain Drew and his volunteers had to row was not great. but against the power of sea and wind they made little progress toward the wreck. Once q great sea broke over the boat, and cry went up from the shore, but out of the trough the men rose again and had gained q length toward the other side.
 1t was the work of hours to make the lines fast and transfer the half frozen men to the shore. The rain was falling less heavily, and the agitated watchers could see the saved and say CTS climb one by one over the steep bank. Mir. Doane's strong. light fig ure, that they all knew so well, was the last to reach the shore. and hardly had he done so when the vessel parted amidships.
 It was he who first discovered. in the terrible confusion of storm and wreck age. that Captain Drew. who had been standing far out in the surf. with a rope slung about his waist. had been struck by a floating spar and borne down by the current. The end of his rope. which had been coiled ashore. was already vanishing on retreatins wave.
 Without word the minister plung- ed into the surf after the rope. Though