Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
brought his ship inside it over the surf of the

brought his ship inside it over the surf of the
shoals.
For again into the shoals in which the wreck
Law and now on into the shallow water on the
shore side, Nolan steered his new ship. The
waves, lifting it high, lowered it, and for
second the bottom seemed to scrape; but
the next wave raised it in time, and in the
lee of the wreck the waves did not strike SO
strongly-and the Kinross crowded closer.
Its forecastle deck lurched below the cluster
clinging there, began to drop. The one
nearest the woman cut her away and let her
fall He dropped after her, and the after
mast was cleared.
The bow of the Kinross advanced. Mog
ridge, fercely fighting to free himself and
his frozen clothes from the mast, made ready
to drop as the deck came under him; but as
it advanced the bow bore off and swung
away. The stern sheered of, and, leaving
Mogridge alone on the wreck, Nolan steered
the Kinross by and was gone.
MOGRIDGE, desperately making fast
w with his frozen hands the stiffened
ropes that had held him, hung by his waist
from the mast. Hate and the rage OF execra-
ton alone kept the blood moving within him.
and skill of his enemy went into wild, black
passion Nolan had come in and saved the
woman he wanted, and sheered his ship off
to leave him there to die so Nolan could keep
her Savagely and with a passion that al
most warmed him, Mogridge swore that he
would live and cheat Nolan yet, even while
his last strength, revived by his passion,
slipped from him and the cold and stupor
of approaching death again numbed him.
He tried to deny that cold and stupor,
calling upon more than his own strength to
sustain him, to keep him clinging to the
mast, to keep him somehow alive. At mo-
ments he was quite blind, his eyes sealed
with ice He had no sense of sound. Even
the roar of the water could no longer be
heard; and the sensation of cold had quite
ceased. Without sight or hearing or touch,
he had sense only that he survived. Once
in awhile we're spasmodic movements of his
body and convulsive clutches of his limbs
Then the roar of the waves came back and
he opened his eyes.
He had twisted round the mast as he
slipped so that he could see the Kinross.
He saw the ship still in the shoals fighting
against the waves. He thought he must
have lost his senses for a shorter time than
had seemed; for the Kinross was very near.
Now it was nearer-and Mogridge knew
why The ship was not still in the shoals:
it had come back into them. The bow, not
the stern, was toward the wreck. Nolan
was bringing his ship back inside the wreck
again!
But the aftermast of the Macuma was
cleared. There was no one else left on the
wreck. Nolan had taken off and had safe
aboard his ship the woman for whom he had
risked everything three times; yet he was
coming back fourth time! There was no
one else on the wreck-Nolan was coming
back for him!
Now the Kinross's bow, as it neared the
Macuma, bore off as it had before: the
waves were too much for it. But this time
Nolan mastered them. The bow bore back
and steered straight under the slanting fore
mast of the Macuna. Mogridge saw the
boat rising and dropping below him. Mems
voices shouted up to him. Their arms
stretched to him and almost touched him.
And Mogridge, with the last spasm of his
strength, freed himself and fell.
WILDLY and furiously, as the Kinross
turned for the last time off shore, the
gale assailed the ship to force it back; but
for the fourth time, slowly and with all his
skill of seamanship, Nolan brought his vessel
out safe. YEARLY then he gave over the
wheel and went into his cabin.
There Mogridge's wife had been brought
She was conscious, and, as one in a fever