The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-08


 They had. had good many turns to- gether, and Harold had, with the cap tain's permission, taken her up on the bridge and showed her how to look out over the :dodger" without the , wind hurting her eyes. Then came the welcome beef-tea hour, and all who had come on deck were cheered and warmed with the hot soup. Pearl went below. and Harold, in the shell ter of the charthouse. together with a good many others. looked out over the wild sea. Miss Mollie Watford stood close to him, looking more charming than ever in a scarlet tam-o' -shanter, a safe headgear eminently suited to the occasion as its softness gave way to the wind. She did not. however, speak to Harold, but with a charming pout stood close at hand, ready to be spok en to.
 Harold. despite the wild turmoil of winds and seas around him. and which usually lifted his spirits, was sad. feeling lone and wretched; he was suf- fering from the recoil of his little friends charming presence Pearl came on deck again looking for him. He. did not see her, and the child. see ing an opening for new game. avoid ed both her father and mother. who also stood in the shelter of the charthouse, and ran round behind it on the weather side, calling loud "Boor to attract Harolds' attention. as she ran. A few seconds later the Scoriac put her nose into a coming wave at just the angle which makes for the full ex- ercise of the opposing forces. The great wave seemed to strike the ship on the port quarter like a giant ham mer; and for an instant she stood still. termbling. Then the top of the wave seemed to leap up and deluge her. The fyfn c a 1t high in volumes of broken spray, which swept not only the deck but the rigging as high as the top of the fun nels. The child saw the mass of water coming, and shrieking flew round the port side of the charthouse. But just as she turned down the open space be- | tween 1t and the funnel the vessel roll- | ed to starboard. At the same moment came a puff of wind of greater violence | than ever. The child, calling out, half | in simulated and half in real fear. flew | down the slope As she did so the gale took her, and in an instant whiried her, almost touching her mother. over the rail into the sea.
 Mrs. Stonehouse shrieked and sprans forward as though to follow her child . | She was held back by the strong arm l of her husband. They both slipped on
 the sloping deck and fell together into 1 the scuppers. There was a chorus of l screams from all the women prebSnls Harold, with an instinctive understand. l ing of the dangers yet to be, encounter- l ed, seized the red cap from Miss Mol | lies head, tearing 1t roughly through | the protecting pins till her hair flew I wide. With 1t in his right hand he
 bounded over the rail into the sea after
 the child. Miss Moilie. not under
 standing at the moment his action or
 his object, cried out as she stamped l her foot angrily:
 | "Pruter"
 Her word was drowned in the fear full cry Man overboardt" and all rush l ed down to the rail and saw Harold as he emegred from the water, pull the red cap over his head and then swim desperately towards the child, whose | golden hair was spread on the rising | wave.
 The instant after Pearls being
 swept overheard might be seen the
 splendid discipline of a well-ordered | ship. Every man to his post; and ev. cry man with a Knowledge of his duty which realized instant execution of it The First Onicer, then in command. fon l hearing the shriek, rushed to the star I board end of the bridge, and seeing the | child in the water as the ship flashed
 through the trough of the wave, called
 to the Quartermaster at the wheel in | voice which cut through the teeth of the gale like a trumpet:
 Hard porti Hard"
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