Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06

to the cabin and fetching them. It's as much
mans life is worth to do it: | II do it. my
life not being worth much
But the black sadness of the man made me
suspicious: SO / refused
We had two fair days. and made an offer
would risk it. There's the Dane said they
the best diver and strongest swimmer on the
coast But l had no heart to ask man
charged with womans life as well as his own
to do the thing. Still, to show wasn't ignoring
him, and also to please Martha Elston for the
wrong I'd done to her with the dog said in
their hearing that I'd give five thousand in the
name of the Hudson Bay Company to salvage
the money. At this he comes forward like
big schoolboy and says, I'll do it,
Instead of Martha crying out against it. she
simply mods her head and says. Hans'll do it.
My Goldylocks isn't afraid
We must try it this noon. said |: there's
no telling when she'll sink again
THE sea being smooth, we launched the boat
You should have seen that son of the
Vikings step out of the hut the Indians had
pitched for him Stark naked he was but for
loin cloth, regular marble god with his skin
smooth and white babys. his silky muscles
shifting like tigers. his yellow curls and beard
shining in the like Furnished gold as per-
feet man as was ever born of woman. He
made us stare in wonder and she that was his
affianced wife could not keep her eyes off the
ing in the boat: SO l allowed it.
Il told him of the lay of the cabin and the
locker that held the notes, warning him that
everything would be upside down. The hull of
the steamer was pretty high out of the water
by now. Goldylocks, like a silver flash, dives
down, and in trice comes up the other side,
asking for an Indian Ratchet he'd brought
along. With this he again plunges in. and after
awhile comes up blowing like grampus, red
of flesh and purple in the face with the veins
on his brow swollen like snakes.
"'It's enough, Goldylocks. and you'll not
go down again, his sweetheart cries out in a
sudden fright.
But he swears in Danish smiles at her, and
after rest dives over again. In a moment
pieces of wood come bobbing up, and then the
broken door of my cabin. last the head of
Go1dylocks himself with the square wooden
money box floating beside him. We haul him
into the boat weak as cat. There was a
long, deep cash from nail or piece of glass
clear down his shoulder, and the blood was
pouring itself in red wash all over his wet skin
Martha Elston filings herself across his neck and
weeps, then binds up his cuts with strips torn
from her own white skirt
On the beach broke open the box and
counted out five thousand dollars in water
logged bills to Goldylocks, who took them
without counting and handed them over to
his future wife. But she counted them sure
enough
son. said she, and forgive you the death of
my poor Dodge! Hans can now give up the
sea- After that she looked on me as sort of
father to both of them.
THAT night there was bowling squall, and
in the morning the hull of the Mistassini
was gone. 1t was about the time the Dunottar
Castle was due to pass Laksotova Island. l
had the men keep fires going all night and the
Indians send up smoke signals in the daytime.
At last she hove in sight in the northeast quar-
there was never more gladstone sight
to these eyes of mine than her dirty decks and
mongrel crew.
The way that Gloucester Martha acted,
as if she'd spelled the vessel out of the air!
The Dunottar Castle took us to Tuvak, then
down here to Halifax on her way to the States
There's the last of her." said Captain Harling
son, swinging his hand toward the black dot
that lowered on the horizon. Then the smoke
Of the collier. After awhile he added solemnly
musing Mad she was then, I'm sure; though
she isn't now. Oh, the mere sight of her fight
ing in the water with that drove of bulls!"