The Washington times., 1908-12-16

said, TO permit anyone going on deck;
but he promised that as soon rs they
reached harbor all should be released
from their confinement Still. il was
three or four hours later before the
matches We're removed and the impatient
throns let out into the sunlight
Then for the FIRST time. they realized
what must have been the fun fury OF
the typho0n.
The deck Of the Brankscomb Towers.
sill Uttered with EfeIines, was washed
as white as a hounds tooth, and every
thing movable Oh it had been swept
away. Two Of the boats were smashed
o.e of the tunnels was gone clip and
clean. the tall mast for the wireless
service had disappeared in the gale
Moreover. from a shift in her cargo the
vessel listed decidedly 20 starboard
Helene turned away from this scene
Of desoIatIou. and gazed curiously to-
ward shore She had expected TO see
a town OF settlement Of some kind;
but TO her surprise. all that met her
ewes VS. the curving white beach or
land-locked harbor. and farther back
a strip Of woods dense as the forest
primeval.
isn't the island inhabited" she asked
Of the purser, VINO went hurrying oy
at the moment
ooh. YES: there's g bunch Of niSgerS
on it. believe. but they're entirely
uncivilized, and have probably chased
back into the interior at the sight OF
us. They know better than to monkey
with a craft Of Il is size. but It IS said
that with a small boat or a ship
wrecked sailor, they might prove a bit
nasty. You see those two boats crews
gone ashore after timber are carrying
carbines as well as their axes"
And must / carry a carbiue, too,
when / go ashore?'
The purser, laughed.
"Sprry. Miss Burns. but orders are
that none Of the passengers leave the
vessel The captain is taking no
chances on our dusky friends back
behind those trees yonder-'
Instantly capricioUs Helene was
seized with a perverse desire to do the
forbidden thing; and fortune favored
her, for just then the second officer
came rushing ~ IN frowning perturba-
ton.
"Mosby," he called to the purser do
you know anything about surgeons
work? They've just wig-wagged US
from shore that one OF those awkward
fools has cut his toe half OF with an
ak, and here's doc laid up in splints and
everybody else too busy 20 send"
Helene pressed eagerly forward.
Let me 80, Mr.. Evans" she urged.
u have taken "a course in first aid and
Mr.. Mosby Is needed here on the shin. "
The second officer hesitated. IL would
really eXtricate him from a dilemma.
for he could 81 spare any Of his sub
ordinates just then. and. after all. there
was no actual danger.
''AH right he assented. IN get z-ou
a medicine case. and you can take this
boat just putting or. but promise me
you'H not stray into the woods. and
VIII come back with the first boat To
the ship"
But the first load back ID the shin
was slow ia being made up. Helene.
who had patched up without difficulty
the very minor iujury sustained bv The
unfortunate sailor, found it wear wait
ing there IN one single spot
she had promised not 10 stray toward
the woods. bat surely there was no
harm in exploring a little along the
shore She mounted a sand dune. and
saw that beyond the tongue Of land
which inclOscd the bay was a stretch OF
ocean beach with the waves rolling ia
on II high from yesterdays storm.
Il seemed but step away but when
she started out TO reach IT, she found
1t farther than she thought
sun II was pleasant roaming along
the white sand i'm the clear sunlight.
and with the sound OF the SURF in mes
ears.
She felt a sense Of adventurous dis
covcry, reminding her strangely OF ex-
cursions in her childhood. when under
just such a blue sky she and Jim had
played along the shore at Lake MiChi-
gan down at Jackson Park
A fav0rite game, she remembered, had
been 10 wish for something. and see il
anything ike it would come ashore.
"Oh, sea" she breathed softly now.
for these Old memories had laid their
spell upon ner, Il wish you would bring
me what / want"
The beach ended here I'm a shelving
bank four or five feet high, cut away
by last nights tide. and approaching it
she glanced over the edge.
The she started back with a Stlded
cry
Continued Tomorrow
The Continuation of This story VIII