Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-27
Pride O Salt
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And they obeyed, because glinting revolver
was looking at them, backed by face Of pale
determination. A revolver in peaceful Eng
lish harbor! Not knowing that the man was
wiping out singing slur on his father, they
said he had gone berserker, and the two Run
tiers began contemplating an open rush.
A ND SO the Biddulph went out among the
breakers along that sinuous streak of chan
mel, with man at the wheel full of exulting joy.
and four Others crouching under the forecastle
bulwarks wondering if their feet would
feel the promenade again. A pilot boat, run
ming in after wet night on her beat, swore the
groans of the schooner's spars met them half
mile up wind. Afterward, in moments of calm
retrospection, Adams wondered how they held.
as he also asked himself how he, a stranger,
seemed to know 1nstinctively the whole length
Of that tortuous channel. But that is a ques-
ton of heredity
At the lattice rugged buoy, five miles sea
ward from Ribblesands, Adams, soaked to the
skim swung his ship round and called for hands
to the sheets. They obeyed at the bidding of
his revolver, and then sought shelter to wind
ward again, while the schooner lay down for
home. Halfway thither jb broke away from
its bottom clues and streamed out in Tapping
mass from the crosStreeS. Adams raised his
weapon, and at the third report the canvas
sailed away to the breakers with three feet of
severed halyard David Runter and his father
abandoned their contemplated attack.
Excepting that jib, the schooner came back
and strained unto leakiness. Adams laid her
neatly alongside greenheart jetty, where his
friend the pier master caught her rope and
stared nightly half the town had stared
from the harbor point. Adams deliberately
threw his weapon overheard and confronted
his uncle and cousin
Now you can give me in charge for unlawful
coercion, he said quietly
THEY stared at him in silence. the younger
one with menacing anger the elder with in
credulous suspicious. That peculiar attitude at
the wheel was at last brushing away the cob
webs of his memory.
why did you do it, he cried hoarsely.
Tell mel
Adams met him eye for eye. lon the beach
to-day somebody said that John Runter dare
not sail the Biddulph. Dare his SON.
In the pregnant silence that followed jar
came from afoft. Look out! Jump" cried
Adams to his cousin. David jumped for the
ietty 1t was only three feet; but halfway
across the descending block caught his head
and he sank like stone in the jetty eddies.
His father realized it just in time to see Adams
soles follow him.
Three times Adams came up for air. and went
down again among the Shiny maze of piles. He
appeared the fourth time clutching booted
ietty gratings There Miss Betty came up with
Peter, who after the sale had put two and two
together and gone to Beachend with the result.
There also Just as she arrived, Adams swooned
Nature is likely TO reDel against sudden
immersion after extreme excitement.
TT was in the house of his fathers that Adams,
during three days delirium, introduced him
self and spoke what he thought of people who
publicly besmirched a mothers tombstone.
During this time David Runter was in another
room with a bandaged head and many mixed
feelings. and his father paced the beach in the
throes of growing remorse. Betty put IN an
average of twenty hours day as nurse.
In his less raving moments Adams spoke to
his father, reproaching him for withholding
some half million dollars to which William
Runter was entitled as joint heir to the inven-
ton that earned them. He also confessed some
thing he had never previously breathed even to
himself, whereat Betty blushed furiously and
drove a professional colleague from the room.
That confession was repeated three weeks
later in the churchyard cleaning. after Chllcote
Runter Qately Adams) and Betty had laid bare
to the public view the long concealed inscription
on the tombstone. 1t came out under the will
lows, while thrush piped its evening chant in
the witch elms overhead, and when it was all
said Betty murmured:
"On one condition: that the schooner is re-
christened-"
Annie Eastwood by my wife. on the day of
our marriage"
Then they sealed the contract in the imrne-
mortal manner, and took the most sequestered
route Betty knew to the station to meet his
father.
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