The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-11-06

she might he kept afoat to reach IT.
sparin. them an ordeal Matt had expe
rience1 before.
Half sinking as the boat was. bran
dais kcnt her at it. with no weakeIiih"
Of Ill resolve 10 drown her under RAIN
or thin turn aside.
A. midnight after another stormy
alteration between the two. schwartz
seemed TO win d grudcin. consent 10
rot The wireless into operation. A
slender poimted steel pole was run
aloit. Herman Installed his apparatus
at the foot OF the foremost ana. WIN
no p,pteusnn> OF secrecy ana as Cd
livlous of Matt as be was OF the rest
Of the crew. calmly harnessed himself
to the wires
There WIS no change ID the Esmer-
ald1S course. Thus the night passed.
and by morning II was PLAIN the snip
WAS donraed. She was submerged 10
the channt 5. and had sickenlnS.
undecided l,ovement as she sank In
the trough of the sea. The men looK-
I'd al one another. wondering each
time if she would ever rise again. or
sinlplv founder then and there snd 90
down like stone.
The acquiescence of the crew filled
Matt with amazement and bitter.
mounting anger. He tried to inStill into
them something OF his own fury: point
Ell and made signs at the boat; urged
them 70 mutiny. to get away before
the ship sank under them. But they
listened unmoved. though not without
strained. hungry expression. Life is
sweet, and there 1t was towing hun,
dred feet behind them. while Brandeis
with no weapon but his strident voice
held them to coffin.
BY 0 o'clock land was sighted on
the port bow. but it caused no relaxa-
ton Of the killing routine. nor any
change In the ships course. Matt
watched 1t with an evaporation not to
be described. Over there was safety;
over there, not fifteen miles away. was
the end Of all their troubles-white
beaches. palms. people. law. security.
Yet they must stick like flies on a
sieve at the behest of that Internal
Brandeis.
But no one paid any attention to him.
though if he had fallen behind or
shirked he knew he would have Jared
badly. So be kept at it till his arms
seemed wrpnchcd from their sockets,
till his heart was ready to burst in
blind. dizzy agony to hold his own
with his companions vt intervals the
wireless clicked and huzzed; at once.
at some message it caught from space,
there was much con@ratuation and
even a 1hin cheer
The shin was settling fast; at every
lurch Matt expected her to founder; she
sicl.cuel in the depths of the swell
qliverrd. and threatened t. rise ~
more. Never was there glad oder sound
than I3iandps orier IT, leave her be
fore Shr. left them
Tie whaler was drawn up to her
quarter. ard a hurried descent made
into her I've first corners $riZns the
oars and preparing to back away, in
case the t,smeralda suddenly went
down
Instead Of making sail and settin.
Il course B'andpiS unshipped his til,el
and allowed the boat to bob aS she
pI I'd Matt became very perplexpd
and anxious Why did they drift there
and DO notlin"t He longed for the
command to Sten the mast The mate
half Stool up in the stern sheets rs
though AZ last to give but instead
of an order it WAS a shout. with his
hand pointing jovfuly to lppwnrd
/ Smoke on the lee horizon A steamers
smoke. dimming the the azure with a
tiny stain