New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

brought his ship inside it over the surf of the
shoals
For again into the shoals in which the wreck
lay 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 a
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
stronglv-and the Kinross crowded closer.
Its forecastle deck lurched below the cluster
on the Macuma's aftermast. The men,
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
il advanced the bow bore off and swung
away. The stern Sheered off, and, leaving
MoGridge alone on the wreck, Nolan steered
the Kinross by and was gone.
desperately making fast
INI 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.
The moment OF his wonder at the final daring
and skill of his enemy went into Wild black
passion. Nolan had come in and saved the
woman he wanted, and sheered his ship oil
TO leave him there to die 50 Nolan could keep
her. Savagelv and with 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 were spaSmOdlc movements OF ms
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 be
slipped 50 that he could see the klnroSS
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: Tor the klnTOSS was very nc'tl'
Now it was ncarer-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 lett on the
wreck. Nolan had taken off and had safe
aboard his ship the woman for whom he had
risled everything three times; yet he was
coming back a fourth time! There was no
one else on the wreck-Nolan was coming
back for him,
Now the Kinross's bow, as II neared the
NIacuma, bore of as it had before: the
waves were too much for it. But this time
Nolan mastered them. The bow bore back
and stccrcd straight under the slantlng fore
mast Of the Macuma. Mogridgc saw the
boat rising and dropping below him. Men
voices shouted up to him. Their arms
stretched to him and almost touched HIM
And NIogridge, with the last Spasm OF his
strength, freed himself and fell.
WILDLY and furiously as the Knross
w turned for the last time of shore, the
gale assailed the ship to force it back; but
g. ,L, fourth time slowly and with all his