The Red Cloud chief., 1909-03-25

F~N $3.50 'A'> - 49,
black eyes swapping sparks. "Oh. you
cam"
How" Martin and me said to-
gether.
She pointed towards Ozone island.
The sailboat!" she said. The Dora
Bassctt! Sail owe In her. Then he'll
come on the morning train"
| swung around and looked at the
waves and the clouds. Wapatomac
was clear across the bay miles and
miles away. And a night like this was
likely to be!
Lord" a y |. IT'S crazy! We'd
never live"
But Martin Hartley was already half
way to the skiff. OF course he didn't
know the risk, and | did. but-well,
there.
'Tll 60" says I to Eureka. you
head for the school fast as your horse
can travel. Tell the Page girl not TO
let Duncan touch the boy till the Jor-
dan man comes or the train
without him. You understand"
"You bet you!" says she. IT'S splen.
did! Well saw the boy and Mr.. Hart
ley will be all right with her. oh, I'm
SO glad Mr.. Van Brunt want here!"
She whirled 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.
Well. my school teacher always useC
to say I'd be drowned some day-if J
want hung first.
| had one reef in when the Dora Bas-
sett swung clear Of the outside point
Of Ozone island cove. | hated to take
another, for | wanted to make time. But
| had to take 1t afore we tackled at the
end Of the first leg. Twas pretty nigh a
dead beat and the sloop was laying
over till | thought sure she'd fill. The
waves was as big, almost, as ever |
see In the bay, and when n would
fetch us on the starboard bow the big.
gest half of 1t would shoot clean from
stem to stern. We was soaked afore
we'd hardly started. IL couldn't have
been much worse unless twas the mid
die Of February.
had the tiller and Hartley was
for'ard in the cockpit. ! was using the
mainsail altogether, although later on
| did use some of the lib to help hei
point up to wind'ard. There was
plenty Of water and would be fol
hours, so l could give her the center
board full. That didn't bother us
not then.
l was too busy to speak and Martin
didn't seem to care to. He set there
looking out ahead, and when hi
turned, SOS I could see his face, 1t was
set and quiet. And in his eyes was the
look that I'd seen there once afore-
the day of the pig race. l wouldn'
have known him for the reckless, laz,
chap he'd been for the last montl
or SO.
The only thing he said to me at thi'
time was, as | remember it, somethin;
like this:
II know that DR.. Jordan" he says
IL met him at Cambridge at a football
game. l was there at college and ia
Their came over for the game. The doc
tor was one of fathers friends"
That's lucky" says l.. "Mayb'
that'll give you some pull"
Perhaps So" says he.
III he won't come" asks, "whatl
you do"
Hell have to come" was all thu
answer he made.
Even this little mite of talk mean
hollerlng your lungs loose. The win,
was rising all the time, the sea KEEP
getting more rugged as we got wher
the bay was wider, and the splashinl
and banging was worse than a water
wheel working double watches. Afte
awhile l made Hartley set side of me
so that, when l wanted anything.
could grab his arm.
This was after II got dark. And |
got dark early. Likewise 1t begun L
rain. The storm that we'd had for tn
last few days seemed to be blowinI
back over rs. Seems as II 1t ought I
|, have rained and blown itself out b
this time, but We had proof hat
hadn't.
We want making scarcely anythin
on our tacks. The Dora Bassett's
good wind'ard boat, too, but she'd fa'
off and fall off. BY and by the dar
. and rain got so thick that / couldn'
see the shore lights, and l had to ru
by compass and guess. There wan
likely to be any other blame fool
I afioat to run into us, still l gave Har
| ley a horn to blow in case ther
should be.
t Twas lucky / did. Along about 1.
when we was somewheres in the nit
die OF the bay-off Sandy Bend,
should think--it seemed to me that
heard a toot In answer to one Of Har
! ley's. He heard 1t, too. I guess, for h
l commenced to blow hard and fas
'Twan't much use, for anything tha
was to wind'ard of us wouldn't hay
heard a sound. And we only hear
! that one. l Judge, as the noise wa
Y blown past us down the gale. We III
tened and listened, but no more com
All at once we both yelled. o.
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