The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-01-07
Taken By Storm.

you meSmerlZc me>-Or meSMcIl1O
you-who knows ?''
" do love YOU"
Three days ago you did not know
me-
1.-THE plant can spring i'm a night"
But Ii does not always come TO
flower
I'm this case it il Towering already"
A. his eyes met hers they smiled,
and his broad shoulders took posi-
tive set.
She looked at him d1sdainfully-
big, handsome, brainy man.
but few short hours and we shall
have forgotten one another" she re-
marked.
Don't think that. tell you that
love you. And you-why will you not
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS truth J"
His eyes were tender, and, as LII COM
PEELED, she answered.
what can acknowledge ? How do
T know that this"
She hesitated.
This il love ?" he concluded.
a mighty green wave capped with
foam Numbered by, almost splitting
over the deck.
LET me assist you out of the sea-
dust" said the sailor.
The girl laughed.
60 to your watch" she said; ! can
assist myself"
Miss Nolan had enjoyed the trip up
the coast, starting at Portsmouth,
stopping at Plymouth, and now on to
Glasgow. Life at sea, even at sea-
son when most women are glad to be
safe on land, had a fascination for
this girl, bred among thinkers and
scholars, cultivated women and pro-
fessional men. a man who was all
action was an interesting study to her.
That was how she put 1t to herself
when her cares inclined to the first
officers impulsive wooing. She did
not take him seriously then. She had
read about sailors and had theories
concerning them. The second day out
she wrote in her diary
"A sailors life is SO filled with perils
and hardships that can hardly blame
him if hefills up his breathing spaces
with whatever sport comes his way
even if that sport sometimes means
playing at love. ANY other man
should despise for making jest Of
such serious matter-but, consider
ing all things, think Jack can be for
given for having sweetheart in every
port"
Miss Nolan, like many an inexperi-
enced girl, prided herself upon being
liberal and broadminded.
The fourth day her diary recorded
'I believe he thinks he Is in love
with me, but that's absurd. How can
he possibly care for me when he does
not know He has the audacity also,
to tell me that he is sure that II love
him yNhu nr Hihcnn yUhn fafhnT
says, is both morally and intellectually
one Of the finest men on earth, and
who has been paying me attentions for
two years, would not presume to hint
at such a thing. think will marry
DR. Gibson after all. He has such
good, kind eyes. The never make me
feel-uncomfortable
II wonder why / am SO attracted
to him-this sailor man Even before
we had spoken to one another, before
the vessel left port, when he was sup
erintending the slowing of the hold,
was drawn to watch him and listen to
his masterful voice. I never saw
man work like a king before. How
the men under him obeyed his orders.
His strength was greater than any Of
theirs. I don't believe they could
have hoisted those bales without his
aid.
Then he moved with such freedom
and fearlessness, scorning the gang
plank and passing from steamer to
dock and back again SO quickly and
carelessly. How alert he was to catch
the captains commands, and what
responsibility he bears. Last night,
as I lay awake, I thought of him
keeping his watch above with all our
lives, as it were, in his hands.
Then, when the second mate came
to take his place, / heard him pass
my cabin whistling cheerily, even amid
the storm and darkness. What life
this is-ever contending with perils and
hardships While DIR. Gibson is warm
and safely housed, my sailor keeps his
watch, with gales bowling and waves
seeking to devour. Great courage
and iron will must undoubtedly be his.
Yes He lives mans life. He is
man. But as to love Oh that is
absurd
It was about three-thirty in the af-
ternoon. The sea was rolling high; but
Miss Nolan, rocked by wind and wave,
slept the sleep Of a sea sleeper, and
It was not until a great shout went up
from some men on deck that she be-
came conscious OF peril. What was
that cry she heard There II was
again
Haywood is overheard ~
She started to her feet, but fell al
mostly Immediately. She crawled to
the cabin door and tried to push it
open. As she did SO a sea mightier
than had been felt before struck the
ship and capsized her.
The girl realized that something ter
rible had happened, that death was
waiting near; vet i'm this awful situa-
ton, closed in alone under the deck
OF the steamer. no sign of human life
around her, only the warning elements
il her ears, the only clear though in
her mind was that the man she loved
had gone to his death. She realized
now that she loved him, else why this
pain at her heart-this indifference
to her own fate
The sound OF sharp blows on the
planking above her head aroused her
from the stupor into which she Id
fallen. "a face she knew looked down.
II have come for you" said Mark
Heywoood
Then Edna Nolan lost conscious
ness.
The steamer had capsized, with the
side of her deck uppermost under
which was Miss Nolan's berth. The
capsizing was an unexpected happen
Ing, for, although the sea had been
rolling for hours, vet before the catas-
trOnhA the storm had anna onfIv ohot