New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-04-06

through the doorway.
Harvey" said Captain Marsh brisk
II, were going to try to get line
aboard those vessels. It's dangerous.
Will you go2'
You all goin'. sub ~ he asked.
ssOf course
IT reckon I'll done half to go, too.''
said Harvey simply. He swung light
" 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.
We'll. come on. then
Captain Marsh shook the hand which
Orde. STOPPING, offered him.
I'll try to bring her back all right,
sir, said he
To h. with the tug!' cried Orde
Bring yourself back!!''
Marsh entered the pilothouse.
Cast off," he cried. The ''jangler''
called for full speed ahead
Brave chaps. Brave chaps!' said
DR.. McMullen to Carroll But, do you
know, to my mind. the bravest of them
all are that Niger 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 enc
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
the loom of the great seas swallowed
her from view save when she rose on
the crest Of some mighty billow.
''There, she's turned nowv' cried
some one.
Beneath the trail of black smoke
she had shifted direction. With star
thing swiftness the Sprite darted out Of
the horizon into full view. For the
first time the spectators realized the
size and weight of the seas. One mo-
ment the whole Of her deck was visi-
BILE, the next her bow alone showed
high as the back suction caught her
and dragged her into the hollow. A
sea rose behind. Nothing of the tug
was to be seen. 1t seemed that no
power could prevent her being over
whelmed. Yet somehow always she
staggered out of the gulf until she was
again cast forward like chip.
Maybe they amt catchin' p'ticular
h. at that wheel to hold her from
yawing!" muttered the tug captain.
The Sprite rushed at the outer line
of breakers. The combers crested and
fell with a 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 a 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 fat stern deck, would
Individually 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
20 God, save them! o Lord, O
Lord!"
Orde stood on top of a half buried
log, his entire being concentrated on
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 Sprite
7arted forward directly for the near
est Of the wrecks
She'll collideim some one shrieked.
| But the tug swerved and turned on
long diagonal across the end of the
bar.
Marsh had chosen his moment with
exactitude. He had taken advantage
Of the brief lull of jumbled seas after
the ''three largest waves had swept
| by. Yet in shallow water and with
the strong inshore set. even that lull
was all too short The Sprite was
| staggered by the breakers; her speed
was checked; her stern was dragged
around. She tore herself from the
grasp Of the current. Enveloped in a
binding hail of spray. she 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 in
from the open.
Far out in the lake against the tum-
/ bling horizon Carroll saw heave up for
a second the shoulder Of a mighty
wave. And instinctively she perceived
this wave as a deadly enemy Of the
little tug and saw it bending all its
great energies to hurrying in on time
| to catch the victim before it could es-
cape Her whole being was concen-
trated in a continually shifting calcu-
lation Of the respective distances be