The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-01-26

Edward n
S White
The engineer hoisted bis long figure
through the doorway. ss
Harvey. said Captain Marsh brisk.
". we're going to try to get line
aboard those vessels. It's dangerous.
VIII you go r
"You all goin'. sub y he asked.
"Of course
Il reckon I'll done haif to 60, too"
said Harvey simply. He swung light
" back to the uneasy craft below him,
II want man with me at the wheel,
two to handle the lines and one to tire
for Harvey" said Captain Marsh.
THAT'S our job" announced the life
saving captain.
well. come on. them
Captain Marsh shook the hand which
Orde STOPPING. offered him.
"I'll try to bring her back all right.
sir" said he. sSssf.
ITO b. with the tugr. cried Orde
Bring yourself back! r.
Marsh entered the pilothouse.
Cast on" be cried. The ..jangler"
called for full speed ahead
Brave chaps! Brave chaps!' said
DR.. McMullen to Carroll. 8 hut. do you
know. to my mind. the bravest OF them
all are that niger and his fireman
nailed down In the hold where they
emit 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 walt
till She drops down to the vessels.
The Sprite was now 80 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 now!' cried
some one.
Beneath the trail Of black smoke
she had shifted direction. With star
thing swiftness the Sprite darteG ont 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 visit
bic. the next her bow alone showed
thigh as the back suction caught her
and dragged her into the hollow. A,
sea rose behind. Nothing Of the tug!
was to be seen. It seemed that no
power could prevent her being over.
lwhelmed. Yet somehow always she
staggered ont Of the gulf until she, was
lagain cast forward like chip. 9s
Maybe they y min p'ticular
In, at that whG,., il. iloid her from
lyawing.' muttered the tug captain
The Sprite rushed al the outer line
of breakers. The combers crested and
fell with 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 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 fiat stern deck. would
indubitably bury her. The situation
was awful in Its 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 OF, three Of the townsmen walk.
ed up and down. One woman prayed
aloud in short hysterical sentences.
20 God. save them. O Lord. Q
Lord!'
| Orde stood on top Of half buried
log, bis entire being concentrated or
the maneuver being executed. Only
Newmark apparently remained as calm
as ever
Suddenly, without warning. occurred
one Of those inexplicable iulls that In
terpose often amid the widest up
roars Between two waves the Sprite
darted forward directly for the near
est Of the wrecks.
shell collide" some one shrieked.
But the tug swerved and turned on
long diagonal across the end Of til,
BAR
Marsh had chosen his moment Will
exactitude. he had taken advantag,
of the brief lull Of jumbled seas afte
the three largest waves had swep
by. Yet in shallow water and witt
the strong inshore set. even that luI
was all too short The Sprite wa
staggered by the breakers: her spec.
was checked: her stern was dragge,
around. She tore herself from ith
grasp of the current. Enveloped 10 !,
binding hail of spray. she struggle,
desperately to extricate herself befor
. the resumption Of the larger sea
should roll her over to destruction. Al
& ready these larger seas were racing q
( from the open.
{ Far out in the lake against the tum
bling horizon Carroll saw heave up 70
la second the shOulder nf a rnioh+