Evening star., 1914-10-04

Glasgow Lass, and he knew how instl bravery into
his and mates; but he did not underestimate the
peril So long the leak below grew worse so long
as the swelling nitro gas remained banked up behind the
forward bukhead, they fairly safeand longer!
well not let bit O gas beat us, you and L. Cmef!"
he said. @But Lord!-a hundred bags O. cyanide turn
ing itself into sizzling vapor every minute now, like the
wireless above feeding itself with sizzling electreecty
Give thanks for sna merces. The wireless is working
it'll fetch help the while smother that gas devil
and trust to good oak keep both deaths out O the
engine room'
Leaving the fighting line below, he clawed his way
back to the BRIDGE and snapped out crisp orders, which
promptly followed by the cracking of the wireless
spark in the aerals overhead big blue eck of bright
the banked up He could hardly see the
length of the ship. But the wireless working-to
the Princess Alice!
@We'll know where are presenty-and fast sailing
company not far off," he told the wheelsman almost
genially. "Thank God we've women aboard,
the stewardesses and yon wireless 1assiei"
Then, while the entire crew fought off death, keeping
their counsel and the Captain hung the
vassed bridge, waiting, there through the thump
ing of the engines sharp cry, quickly stied; but the
skipper who knew every sound of his Ship and just then
had to listen, heard it, and swung off the bridge
@Whats yon in the wireless" he said, more womans
nerves? Or has she tried for help and found more
trouble off on the deep? Forfend!"
FROM the wireless room the cry had come Wireless
Operator Ramsay had been left there alone, much
to her SURPRISE to out the Captains Instructions
But she forgot the mates absence in tuning up her in
struments and waiting for the working of the electric
current. Meanwhile she adjusted the silver headgear
with the telegraph receptors her curssomewhat
dsheveled now from her recent steam bath"
She could almost laugh at her recent experience,
that everything all right. Tentatively she up
or two weak sparks then listened.
Someone is talking now; but so fainty!" she
INJURED 1t could never be the Princess Alice the white
liner, with her powerful thousand-rie wireless 3Any
way it will grow stronger in minute; then I'll talk
to her to hm!" she corrected, with happy little
laugh
Captain McNaughton and Mate Carney had been
the truth than they knew when they guessed that
the Glasgow Lass operator had relative"
board the Princess Alice. 1t the wireless chief of
the Princess that Operator Ramsay had despairngly
waved to when the ships passed and the freighters ele
graph proved false to its trust. Husband and wife,
they had hardly become when steamship regulations
forced the two operators to the separate
ships. That the whole secret-save that the two
had long worked side by side with the mysterious forces
of the wireless and the love that grew up between them
built something deeper and more selfforgetting
than the love of ordinary mortalsWreless Operator
Ramsay of that.
AAnd now that only few days from port
my last voyage!-we shall have chance to try it out
All. heard him that time! What-what was that?"
She sprang forward in the chair, exactly if the
electric had snatched her closer to hear those
terrible cracking sounds that came over the wire
first weak, then swelling in crescendo, then settling
down in sort of terrible resignation, to the triple
letters-S. o. S.
@The call for help! The Princess in trouble? Oh
no, no, no!"
That the cry the skipper heard He standing
in the doorway in his wet clothes, grmy watchfu,
and he came forward in a stride.
ANow, my girl, no hysterics 'Tis place for hys-
terics freight ship. The trouble now-I heard ye
say it?"
She was listening again, as though frozen, her ace
paper white. He bent his gray head close to her to