The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

half an hour when the thought seized
her to take one of the boats drawn up
and nave a row. She knew nothing
Whatever about rowing, but got a boat
aar1ft and let the tide float her away.
Sne was hundred feet off shore
when a fisherman called to her:
say. you'd better come back!'
( Sir" was the answer he got.
| row.
| 'Ah!"
And nd, there's going to be fog!"
We'll. go on and make an idiot of
yourself! If my gal hadn't more
| sense than you seem to have I'd cuff
her ears good and hearty. In about
an hour you'll be missed, and there'll
be great row over it, but they won't
get me and my boat out to plunge
around in pea-soup fog for less
than a five dollar BILL
| The fisherman was right. Miss
slavin was missed-there was great
ado over it-there was a fog. The
man was in no hurry to relate that
| the girl had taken a boat and drifted
away. The longer he could suppress
the news the larger his fee for going
after the missing.
Mr.. Danforth was enc of the m ost
active of the searchers. When all
other likely places had been over
hauled he said to Mr.. Slavin:
She may have taken a boat for a
bewildered her.
But know she can't row."
Then she is drifting out with the
tide and
But I can't row, either"
But I can. Get a horn or a bell
and keep up a racket here as guide
to me. No, nobody else. I can man
age the boat alone and set better
pace"
He ran down to the boats and made
his selection and was away in the
fog before the fisherman 1ounged up
to the father to ask:
How much an hour to look for the
gal?"
Have you seen her?"
"She's out in the fog there alone"
Great heavens, man, if you saw
her go you ought to have told her
that this fog was coming!
81 did and she SaSSed me for my
trouble
Get out in your boat at once. If
you find her I'll give you hundred
dollars!''
forth rowed straight out. He kept
his directions fairly well for half a
mile, and then he knew that he was
bewildered by the fog. He did not
cease Pulling. however, and every
half minute he shouted. He received
that the girl was afloat when his craft
collided with hers. She was not to be
seen, and he had uttered a groan of
despair when he made her out as she
huddled down on the bottom. He
called her by name and she sat up.
''I came after you. you see," he said. /
Its been awful" she replied, with (
a sob IN her throat.
But it's all right now. If you will
change to my boat I'll tow the other. |
Now for the shore"
He could family catch the noise of
the horn, but he could not get its
direction. He had rowed for an hour !
when exhaustion forced him to give
up and say to the silent, weeping
girl:
ct may be rowing out to sea for all !
1 know. We've got to take a chance
that the fog will lift
She made no answer then, but after
a couple of minutes to get a choke |
out of her throat she said:
"Mr. Danforth, you are not Mr..
Manforth? 2,
"And you are not Mr.. Dayforth?"
And you are not conceited?"
Thanks
'And 1 was as mean as I could be
to say so, and I beg your forgive
ness
TT was granted long ago."
After an hour or two the fog lifted,
the lost was restored, and happiness
was on it's way to Point Judith. when
the fisherman came ashore to ex-
claim:
$50 that artist Teller found her, did
he? I'll bet whale to a bullhead
that she had it all planned out that
he would. What do / get for p1unkin'
around out there in the darkness ana
fog, and short MIN my days by twenty
years?"
The day they were married he got
a check for that 500, and he asked
of his wife:
"Why don't somethin' like that hap
pen every summer ?9-(Copyright.
1918, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn