Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

laundering far out in the lake; he the ship
driven helpless before the north gale surf pounded and
breaking up the rocks off the desoate ceshrouded
Shore And either of these visions showed him Louise
as lost he knew he had given Louise Always
within him had burned the belief that, he had
deserved to lose her, somehow life would bring her
back to him, and that, honestly and with honor. she
would yet be his wife.
He had never thought definitely how that could
come about; but now, as the snow surrounded him,
might not be that this storm, instead of taking her
away forever might be the of giving her to him?
Might not the Macuma and Mogridge be lost-and
Louise saved? The thought burned through him with
of terrible stled desire; then the next moment
he knew that the storm could not him so simply.
Though Louise saved and Mogridge lost, still
Nolan knew that her doubt of him-which had put
them apart before-must still be between them. This
storm could not that. So Nolan fought with
himself all day as his ship struggled
THE greater cold of night with the gale swirling
and circng, from the east, from the
north, and now from ahead again. Just before dawn,
when the cold greatest of these swrls brought
to him the hoarse of steam whistles from ahead
and through the thinning Nolan made out the
white lights and then the red port lanterns of two
sells, steamers, standing off in deep water opposite
vessel gone ashore, unable to aid that ship: able only
to stand by and blow blasts on their sirens.
For farther in toward the white, iceshrouded shore
swayed a mast. 1t swung, not with the motion of
vessel rolling aoat: it erked and tossed by the
crash and batter of ice and waves against sunken
hull; and and again the lantern lifted and
lowered and lifted and lowered at full arms length in
a signal from the mast in desperate distress.
There was no need as the Kinross came up for the
watching ships try to signal the of the vessel.
Nolan knew it. He took the wheel in his pilothouse
and sent Mark below.
go down and wake Delaney" he named the chief
engineer 1t the watch of the assistant. u want
him at the engines now And he swung his vessel in
toward the shore.
CAPTAIN MOGRIDGE, from the foremost of the
wreck, the lights of the third steamer stop.
When the Macuma, with cargo shifted and helpless
before the hurrcane-ke drive of the storm, filled and
sank on its side off Keweenaw Point Mogrdge had
not made the mistake of leaving the ship. His first
mate had believed that lifeboat luckily handled, had
chance get away: he tried it with ten of the
The overturned the boat while the shreks of the
men, dying in the icy surf, could still be heard the
Macuma The second mate and the six remaining
gave up thought of attempt with the other boat and
lashed themselves above the They chose the
after mast where Mogridge had already bound his wife,
Mogndge had meant to secure himself there also;
but, having been swept forward the hull finally
overswept by the waves he could not get back and
bound himself to the foremost and lower than he should
For when the sunken hulk pounded by the SURF listed
farther the spray soaked through Mogndge, swiftly
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