Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-10-22

come on tho morning train"
! swung around and looked at the
waves and the clouds. Wapatomao
wal clear across the bay miles and
miles away. And night like this was
likely to be-
Lord" says I, IT'S crazy! Wed
never live"
But Martin Hartley was already half
way to the skir OF course Re didn't
know the risk, and did, but--wcll.
there.
"1'll 60" says TO Eureka. you
head for the school fast as your horse
cen travel. Tell the page girl not 10
let Duncan touch the boy till the Jor.
dan man comes or the train comes
without him. You understand"
You bet YOU" says she IT'S splen.
did Wen save the boy and Nr Hart
Icy will hc all right with her. Oh, I'm
so glad Mr.. Van Brunt want here!"
She whirlod the horse around and
off she went gave one more look at
the weather and then ran after Hart
ley. Save the boy A considerable
bigger chance OF not saving ourselves.
We'll. my school teacher always used
to say I'd be drowned some day--it I
want hung FIRST
had one reef In when the Dora Bas-
set swung clear Of the outside point
Of Ozone island cove hated 10 take
another for I wanted to make time. But
had 70 take Il afore We tackled at the
end Of the FIRST leg. Twas pretty nigh
dead beat and the sloop was LAYING
over till thought sure she'd fill The
waves was as big, almost, as ever I
see in the bay. and when one would
fetch W. on the starbCard bow the biz.
gest half Of It would shoot clean from
stem 70 stern. We was soaked aforo
we'd hardly started II couldn't have
been much worse unless twas the mid
die Of February.
! had the tiler and Hartley was
torard in the cockpit. I was using the
| mainssil altogether, although later on
| | did use some Of the jio 10 help her
! point UP 10 wlnd'ard There was
! plenty Of water ard would be for
hours, so | could give her the center
board FULL That didn't bother us
| not then.
| was too busy to speak and Martin
! didn't seem to care to- he set there.
looking out ahead, a1d when he
turned. SOS could see his face, Il was
set and quiet And in his eyes was tho
look that Id seen there once sfore-
the DAY OF the pig race. | wouldn't
-. ~
chap he'd been for the last month
or so.
The only hing he said to me az this
time was, as I remember it, something
like this:
Il know that Dr. Jordan" he says.
Il met him al Cambridge at a football
game. was there at college and IA
ther came over for the game. The doc
tor was one Of fathers friends
That's lucky says l. Maybe
thatM give you some pull
Perhaps So" says he
III he won't come" asks, "whstll
you do"
"Hell have to come" was all the
answer he made.
Eve-i .his little mite OF talk meant
holering your lungs loose. The wind
vas rising all the time. the sea kept
getting more rugged as we got where
the bay was wider, and the splashing
and banging was worse than a water
wheel working double watches. After
awhile | made Hartley set side OF me,
70 that. when ! wanted anything.
could grab his arm,
This wns after II got dark. And II
got dark early. Likewise II begun 10
rain. The storm that we'd had for tho
last few days seemed to be blowing
back over US. Seems. as II it ought to
have rsined and blown itself out by
this time. but we had proof that 1,
hadn't.