The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-15

r OW long she lay there she could
p not tell There was no sun
visible to indicate the hour
when she came to her senses.
She recovered consciousness slowly,
and at first. In a deathly sickness that
came upon her in the extreme weakness
and faintness Of her condition. she real
lied nothing Of what had happened
But, by a strong effort Of viii. sat UP on
the sand and looked about her.
Her glance fell first on the figure Of
the lieutenant. 10 whom indeed she was
still bound-bou1d now forever in life.
or death, and beyond. She crawled to-
ward him, and joyed to find him stiH
alive
Indeed, his eyes were open, but he
stared at her unknOwingly. In spite Of
the drenching rain which had prevented
their clothing from drying as they lay
on the sand, his head %as burning hot
beneath her touch He was in the grasp
OF a fever.
- Her knife still hung at her belt. She
drew il and severed the lashings which
bound the two together and both 10 the
grating. Then she rose painfully and
unsteadily 70 her feet and looked about
her.
The shore where she had landed ap-
peared lonely and desOlate. Beyond the
high-tide line the sadly beach termi-
mated in some scanJ Shrubbery and q
Few stunted trees. Further inland she
could see taller trees and other vegeta-
ton; and of 20 the right, some distance
away, little town apparently set on q
hill.
Thither she must go for help.
Having settled that much, she
turned and faced the sea again A half
cables length away lay the wreck of
the Hiram and Susan. 1t was disin-
tegrating rapidly under the tremend-
Gus beating OF the seas Already the
shore was being strewed with casks
and bales as the waves broke open
the hull and reached the cargo.
Here and there human figures lay
prostrate upon the sands. Some Of
them were rolled 20 and fro with nor
ribly Ii1eIike motions in the shadows
by the waves. But so far as she could
tell she and the lieutenant were the
only living figures on the shore.
Thinking rapidly. she decided
promptly what should be done.
First, she would move the Lieutenant
farther away from the sea The tide
was plainly on the ebb now however,
and the waves did not come nearly SO
far up on the sand. She bent down
and tried to lift her lover in her arms.
This was a task TO which she imm edi-
ately found herself unequal. though
she might have cOmpasSed II had II not
been for the fearful and eNhaustinE
struggle she had just gone through
in bringing him ashore.
She could not carry him, but she
could drag him. Somehow or other she
managed TO get him higher on the
beach and in the shelter of a small
and stUnted tree which spraug from
the low shrubbeTy beyond the sand.
Had she consulted her inclination
she would have run TO the town at
once for succUr. but there was a bare
possibility OF life among those other
bodies on the shore, and she must first
make sure that none Of them needed
help. II was gruesome. horrible
task, but il had 70 be done. She went
from one figure to the other and found
them all dead.
The last one she examined had q
strangely familiar look that made her
heart beat fast as she approached it.
It was the huge body Of the mate He
was lying face downward in the sand
He had been driven ashore so hard
that he was half buried ScO0pinC away
the sand. she turned him over on his