Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-23
@You all goin', suh2" he asked.

said Harvey simply. He swung light iy back to the uneasy craft below him.
 "I want man with me at the wheel, two to handle the lines and one to fire for Harvey" said Captain Marsh
 That's our job," announced the life saving captain.
 "Well, come on, then"
 Captain Marsh shook the hand which Orde, stooping offered him.
 'I'll try to bring her back all right, sir" said he.
 "To h. with the tugg" cried orde Bring yourself back!'
 Marsh entered the pilothouse. Cast offr' he cried. The "jangler" called for full speed ahead. Brave chaps Brave chaps! said pr, McMullen to Carroll. But, do you know, to my mind, the brayest of them all are that nigger and his fireman nailed down in the hold where they can't see nor know what's going on"
 The tug had rounded the end of the pier. The first of her thousand ene- mics. sweeping in from the open, had | struck her fair.
 "She can stand that, all right" said one of the life saving crew. But wait till she drops down to the vessels" The Sprite was now so distant that 1 the loom of the great seas swallowed 1 her from view save when she rose on | the crest of some mighty pillow.
 There, she's turned now!' cried | some one.
 Beneath the trail of black smoke | she had shifted direction. With star ting swiftness the Sprite darted out of | the horizon into full view. Tor the l first time the spectators realized the 1 size and weight of the seas. One mo- ment the whole of her deck was yiSi. | ble. the next her bow alone showed 1 high as the back suction caught her and dragged her into the holloy. A sea rose behind. Nothing of the tug was to be seen. It seemed thGt no power could prevent her being over | whemed Yet somehow always she staggered out of the gulf until she was again cast forward like chip.
 Maybe they ain't catchin' p'ticular | h. xt that wheel to hold her from l yawlngw muttered the tug captain.
 The Sprite rushed at the outer line of breakers. The combers crested and fell with q roar, just as in milder weather the surf breaks on the beach. A woman in the crowd screamed. But at the edge of destruction the Sprite came to shuddering stop. Her pow erful propellers had been set to the reverse. Thus she lowered on the edge of the breakers, awaiting her chance. If one of the waves should happen to crest and break, the water, catching the tug on her fiat stern deck, would indubitabIy bury her. The situation was awful in it's extreme simplicity. Would Captain Marsh see his opportu- nifty before the law of chances would bring along the wave that would over whelm him?
 Two or three of the townsmen walk. ed up and down. One woman prayed aloud in short hysterical sentences.
 70 God, save them! O Lord, 0 Lordw
 Orde stood on top of half buried log, his entire being concentrated or the maneuver being executed Only Newmark apparently remained as calm as ever.
 Suddenly, without warning, occurred one of those inexplicable lulls that in terpose often amid the widest up roars. Between two waves the Spritt | darted forward directly for the near est of the wrecks.
 Shell collide" some one shrieked. But the tug swerved and turned on q , long diagonal across the end of tho bar.
 Marsh had chosen his moment witt exactitude. He had taken advantage of the brief Hull of jumbled seas after the three largest waves" had swept by. Yet in shallow water and witt the strong inshore set, even that lul
 was all too short The Sprite was staggered by the breakers; her speed was checked; her stern was dragged around. She tore herself from th' grasp of the current. Enveloped in [ binding hail of spray, @1e struggled desperately to extricate herself before , the resumption of the larger seas should roll her over to destruction. Al ready these larger seas were racing il , from the open.
 Far out in the lake against the tum bling horizon Carroll saw heave up fol a second the shoulder of a mighty wave And instinctively she perceived this wave as deadly enemy of tht little tug and saw 1t bending all it' great energies to hurrying in on tim, to catch the victim before 1t could es cape. Her whole being was concen trated in a continually shifting calcu lation of the respective distances be tween the tug and the piers, the tul and the relentlessly advancing wave. "Oh, gow she exhorted the Sprit' under her breath.
 | Huge and towering, the wave cam on now calmly and deliberately. Th'
 Sprite was off the end of the pie when the wave lifted her, just in tht , position her enemy would have select
 ed to crush her life out against tn