The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20

perspiring on the bridge, said To Lang
ton:
We'll do IT or burst"
This was Hyde's adaptation OF a word
ne mad frequently heard used by his
| friend Halkett OF the United States navy.
the correct pronunciation, however, be-
Ing bust"
II was early in the morning when the
Seahorso began her pilgrimage back TO
Stlckup Point, thirty miles up the river,
There did not seem to be any particular
at good clip and steadily increased il.
Fifteen miles below Stickup Point the
engines began 10 hum and the Seahorse
raced ahead as II her new and exceed
ingly homeIy bow and the load OF scrap
iron aft were many airships aboard.
She was using the free burning coal.
which McCubin, the, chief engineer. re-
garded in the light of gold and diamonds,
and was shoVellng IL Into the stoke hole
as II 1t were bundle OF old newspapers
Hyde himself. by way OF encouraging
inferno OF the ship taking tho prccau-
ton Of first removing his blouse. trous-
crs and shoes. The men were working In
fifteen minute shifts, and the surgeon
was on hand giving them milk and
brandy as they came out OF the engine
room. Hyde. taking a shovel. did stok
pouring off him In streams, The stok-
erS, grlmy men, who spoke little and
worked like demons, gave him Il rous-
ing cheer that rang above the fierce
the engines and the WILD whrlnG OF the
screw.
When Hyde came out OF the engine
room after taking his dose of milk and
brandy he looked II he had been In
swimming and the doctor forced him TO
put on some dry clothes. This took eN-
actly two minutes and Hyde again re-
turned to the bridge
Smashing the Lighthouse.
The Seahorse. like a thing OF life. was
coast was coming nearer Dy jumps. Yes.
there in the purple dusk Of the evening,
shining high over the struggling huts
that lined the hight of the bay, was a
light I'm square building. stuck out In
the stream about forty yards. The light
was not the scientific incandescent light
OF modern days. but small. steady.
fixed light. which came from a couple
shadow passed before the glass and n
quarter OF mile away Hyde, through
strong. glass. dIscerned that these two
dark figures evidently were not China
nen but Europeans. Tho seahorsc.
without slackening speed. turned into the
small deep bay, AS II in derlson OF
searchlight full upon the lighthouse. II
made the men within the glass top OF
the tower suddenly fall prone on their
now well In the little bay. was making
straight for the small light.
Hyde remained on the bridge while
der.
Stand by to lower that launch"
one OF Tho mon lying flat on his face
in the lighthouse wore the uniform Of a
German officer. lie was u brave fellow,
but the bravost man IS helpless In the
full glare OF scarchlght. He cannot
/ open his eyes. for If he does he would be
blinded. II ne opened them he could see
nothing. for the fearful and demonlac
glarc OF the white light blotted out all
else.
II was reflected In the night sky
which was crossed with great bars or
| light, divereing ~ II the heavens were
afame in dozen places. Instead OF
lashng across the zenith, as those ro-
| iNed, for the ScahoTse was laying Il
| straight course for the. lighthouse ana
the great glaring eye Of the scarchlighr
never changed It's direction Tho ma
| tiYes still laboring In the nelds stopped
minute or two 10 see what would hap
pen. As the Seahorse came within q
hundred yards OF the lighthouse with
out diverging point, the people on land
ran down TO the shore shrieklnS in ad-
Yorcc for thc catastrophe thr. wHs com