Evening star., 1912-09-01

IanO11g nVufOI(i11t
to scowl and have it out with his thoughts Out the
Grdiron gray gus squatted with lifeess pnons; Light
house Jack, the stations feathered familiar, alone cir
cled slowly like toy kite the strange, fatwinged
brdship that lay below with its long aluminium pom
toons glistenng in the suns refracons. Ships Bottom
hidden in the hollow, Barnegat over the empty bay
like deserted village, and the loneliness struck In
like fist
"Somepns going to happen right now!' Welsh
growled "You think that consarned thing ud behaved!
he said, venting his spleen the slumbering hydro
plane. "What for did she lay down on me out on the
Grid? An then start running soons the boat hauled
me in smooth as grease Now the inspector won't let
work her, less it's ship alarm got notion to go
jine that dead ship digging comp ny OF Sam Bnghts s.
GLAD to have We, Welshy! Good wages an long
- hours seven davs off in summer | heerd you Bot
tomsll all be off right quick-for kind foozlin
things
Welsh turned slowly, his mouth hard SET his eyes
in and seaboots grinned back at him from the
slope of the sand dune,-Bg Sam Bright himself case
hardened brain and body, by picking apart the bones
of dead ships. There was love lost between Ships
Bottom and Sam Bright and his salvage company
organSed tor the express ppose IT seemed M Just then'
The little surfrnan like bottled up dynamite He
moved up Closer every steel muscle in his body crawl
ing; but he spoke SOFTLY Ye think we're going to get
it, doye? An you so kind an condescendin as to offer
me job-you ghoul!'
Fighting merely as personal recreation stern1y
prohibited by the rules of the Life Saving Service but
Little Welsh was not fighting as he subsequently ex-
planned to Surnan Evans, who just then happened to
stick his shock head the crest OF neighbonng
dune. Wrecker Bright size and half larger than
the gunner; but Welsh did not stop to weigh IN Be.
sides Bright started it, trusting to his superior weight
and bulk
But facing that pent up volcano of wrath avengng
the honor of his crew, the wrecker had chance.
1t was only when the spectator gasped from his sand
hill "Fr laws sake, Weshy, leave some fer me that
title Welsh backed away still glowering, but with
feeling of that former days he would have
been stranger to.
-Mebbe ye think We done me-'cause amt fit'
Bright began heaving himself up.
Welsh laughed
3Lemme tell YOU fellers!- the wrecker snarled, his
greedy little eyes glinting evy. you're in bad, the
hull bunch o We, an the jokes you, Tom Welsh, you
off the hull
Bright stopped shrugged his shoulders, and lurched
away, laughing in spite OF his hurts Welsh and Evans
stared after him.
"What We spose that alfbreed piruts got in nindo"
Surfman Evans said. think he kin us fellers off,
an fence in the rocks, like he done the Copper King
like she solid gold stead o just hghgrade copper
ore-an make private graveyard on the Gnd! Is that
wat he's cunning for?'
That's Jest what he's amin att" Welsh shot his
solid fist into the palm of his hand 3Theys Old Man
O. the Sea port along of the Copper King an
Sans hired him. It's wholesale barratry beach
combery an lyin lights, mebby; but Sam Bright knows
what's doing it. I'm going to ketch that old ship
wreckin devil, he's up in the air, the sea-
der the rocks got the craft to do it, an there she lays,
with her cooked up, wiitin for the gum"
He glowered down at the Government hydropane,
powerful machine with her strong canvas wings, and
broad aluminium pontoons-ong hollow air tanks they
really were fat the bottom, and curved up at the
bows for aghting or rising from the water.
Il got to clear off with my catannaran, have said
Skipper Welsh his jaw squared his blue eyes crinked
and swapping. "Ill do it too-rght You jus watch
my curves, Mister Shipwrecker SAM
SHIPS BOTTOM did not have long to wait, either,
- for the hydroplanes curves, the wrath of the
enacng ocean, gathering its strength for another
tim, gbing at them in the rising wind and the wash of
the sullen breakers. Ships Bottom didn't need any
warning Of evil watching with sleepess eyes from tower
top beach, and Aaugre the prohibition of the