The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1913-01-08

'In England, mostly at the Isle o.
Wight, but I'm not half such {
dolphin as you are"
"Oh. well, boys have to swim, you
know, and was boy once" jim
answered awkwardly. Presently he
asked, and his voice was full OF awe:
"Have you ever seen the dawn--a
dawn like this-before?"
Never one like this" she whis
pered.
WheL daylight came. they found
they bad not travelled far from the
scene of the nights disaster; or, II
they had, the Jeanne A'Arc had drift
ed with them. She was still afioat
and Just as the sun rose they saw
her, apparently not far away, tossing
rudderless TO the waves. There was
no sign of the ships boats.
At the renewed miracle of light.
and at sight of the yacht. Jimmy's
hopes were reborn. His spirit bathed
in the wonder of the day and was
made strong again. The night with
its horrors of struggle and its dark
ness was past, forgotten in the flush
of hope that came with the light.
Together they struck out toward
the yacht, fresh with new courage.
Now that he could see plainly, Jim
swan always a little behind Agatha,
keeping a watchful eye. She still
took the water calamity, nose and
closed mouth Just topping the wave.
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stroke would bring her face level to
the water, with a backward smile for
her companion. He gloried in her
spirit, even while he feared for her
strength.
II was longer pull to the yacht
than they had counted upon. heavy
tax on their powers of endurance. Jim
came up to find Agatha floating on her
back and put his hand under her
shoulders, steadying her easily.
Nov you can really rest" he said.
i've looked toward the horizon so
long, thought Id look up, way up.
for a change" she said cheerfully.
That's where the skylarks go. when
they want to sing-straight up into
heaven!"
Doesn't it make you want to
sjng?"
She showed no surprise at the
question.
"Yes, it does, almost. But just as
| thought of the skylarks, remem-
bered something else; something that
kept haunting me in the darkness all
night
"'Mas;er in song, good-by, good-by,
Down to the dim sea-line-'
[ thought something or somebody was
surely lost down in the dim sea-line'
last night"
WHO can tell? But had a better
thought than yours: Ulysses, like US,
over the 'wine-dark sea!
Do you remember it? Then two days
and two nights on the resistless
waves he drifted; many a time his
heart faced DEATH
That's not a bit better thought
than mine; but like it. And | know
what follows, too. But when the fair
haired dawn brought the third day,
then the wind ceased; there came a
Jreathless calm; and close at hand he
spied the coast, as he cast keen
glance forward, upborne on a great
wave. That's it, isn't it?"
Il don't know, but ! hope it is.
The wine-dark sea and the rosy
fingered dawn are all | remember;
.hough I'm glad you know what comes
lext. It's good omen. But look
1t the yacht; she's acting strange!"
AS the girl turned to her stroke,
heir attention was caught and held
by the commissions of the Jeanne
Dare. There was a grim fascina-
ion in the sight.
1t was obvious that she was sink
ng. While they had been resting,
Ter hull had sunk toward the water
inc, her graceful bulk and delicate
nasts showing strange against ocean |
md sky. Now she suddenly tipped |
Town at her stern; her bow was
brown up out of the water for an |
instant, only to be drawn down
again, slowly but irresistibly, as if |
she were pulled BY giants unseen |
land With sudden last lurch she
disappeared entirely, and only widen
ng circles fleetingly marked the place
If her going.
The two in the water watched with
fascinated eyes, filled with awe. When
t was all over Agatha turned to her
with a long-drawn breath.
lin looked as one looks whose last
hope has failed.
Il could never have let you go
aboard, anyway" He loved her anew
or that speech, but knew not how
o meet her eyes.
well, Ulysses lost his raft, tool"
lie managed to say.
He saw the, sunrise. too, just as
We have seen it,; and he saw distant
sland, that seemed a shield laid
IN the misty sea- Let's look hard
low, each time the wave lifts us.
Perhaps we also shall see an island"