The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-18

which was directly at right angles to
the course of the yacht. She realized,
or at least she thought so, that she
would be pursued. She believed that
the Yacht would retrace Its course. She
decided that those aboard her would
reason that she would cndeavor TO put
as much distance as possible between
herself and tho yacht, and therefore
she would sail STRAIGHT away from il.
Consequently. she went broad off TO
starboard at right angles to the other
course. The gasoline tanks wero both
full. Inasmuch as the boat had been
designed for extended cruising in shall
low waters, there was enough fuel to
keep the motor going for over thirty
hours at full speed. The motor was ca
pable of developing at least ten knots
per hour BY the same time tomorrow
night she would be 240 miles away from
the present spot. The yacht was go
ing twelve knots an hour. Her escape
would probably not be discovered for
ten hours, BY that time she yacht would
be l20 miles away. They would be
$50 miles apart by morning, measured
on the hypothenuse, and by night, who
could tell? AT any rate, she had now
done all that she could.
Her condition was desperate; her
prospects gloomy beyond expression,
She was alone in small power boat
which would be helpless, the sport Of
wind and waves, after perhaps thirty
hours. That boat was alone IN the
great expanse of the Pacific ocean.
Somewhere about there were islands,
probably, Indeed, on the charts those
seas were dotted with points of land,
but they were small, lnconsidcrable,
uninhabited, unknown. In that little
boat she might pass close by many, OF
ho n
provisions, such as they were, and wa
ter sufficient perhaps for week or ten
DAYS. After that, unless she landed
somewhere, she would drift on until
she starved and died. If u storm
came, the launch probably would not
survive it. Her chances of escape, IN
any event. were worse than problemltl'
cal. The end was almost certain.
But she WAS happy The first real
ray of happiness which had entered
her soul since the beginning of 1c
great awakening. which had eliminated
| In the frightful scene of the night, IL
lumined her being. AS she sat IN the
stern sheets, her hand OH the steering
wheel listening to the steady drum
| ming of the motor, seeing the black
water broken into foam by the boat $
bows flash by her, keeping the launch
steady on her course by the aid of the
and anon to the fast diminishing point
of light which marked the rapidly dls.
appearing yacht. and she realized that
! s6ed was. free She had hurled out Of
her path-aud how she cxulted IN her
own prowess; IT was something or q
salye to her soul for the wretched hui
miliations which had been heaped upon
it-she had hurled out OF her path and
| stricken down as any other animal
might havo done, him who had brought
her to this awful pass. She was away
J from him. free from him. She was
! once more. so far as wind and wave
i allowed, the master of her fate, the
| mistress of her destiny.
| She was glad in her heart too, that
there were TO be no physical conso'
| ouences from her brief alliance, She
| did not realize that there weTo to he
other consequences which not even all
| the waters of the seas over which she
noatcd could wash out. There was n
strange eation in her soul. She felt
AS if in some way she had vindicated
her right to be. There wns something
vet in her philosophy, and, did oppor-
tunity serve, could, she get free from