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

laundering far out in the lake now he saw the ship
driven helpless before the north gale surf pounded ana
breaking up on the rocks off the desoate iceshroudci
shore And as either Of these visions showed him Louise
as lost he knew he had given up Louise Always
within him had burned the belief that, as he had not
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, the snow surrounded nm,
might it not be that this storm instead OF taking her
away forever might be the means of giving her 70 him.
Might not the NIacuma and Mogridge be lost-and
Louise saved? The thought burned through him with
scar of terrible stifed desire then the next moment
he knew that the storm could not him so simply.
Though Louise were saved and Mogrdge lost, still
Nolan knew that her doubt Of him-which had put
them apart before-must still be between them. This
storm could not remove that. So Nolan fought with
himself all day as his ship struggled on
THE greater cold Of night with the gale swirlng
and crcling, from the east, now from the
north and now from ahead again. Just before dawn,
when the cold greatest OF these swlrls brought
to him the hoarse screams OF steam whistles from ahead
and through the thinning snow Nolan made out the
white lights and then the red port lanterns Of two YES
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, ice-shrouded shore
on the edge of the wild, roaring surf single lantern
swaved on a mast 1t swung, not with the motion Of
a vessel rolling ahoat: it was erkcd and tossed by the
crash and batter of ice and waves against a sunken
hull; and now and again the lantern was lifted and
lowered and lifted and lowered at full arms length in
a signal from on the mast in desperate distress.
There was no need as the Kinross came up for the
watching ships to try to signal the name OF the vessel
Nolan knew it. He took the wheel in his pllothouse
and sent Mark below.
$50 down and wake Delaney" he named The chief
engineer 1t was the watch Of the assistant Il 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 Alacuma, with cargo shifted and helpless
before the hurrcanelike drive Of the storm filled and
sank its side off Keweenaw Point, Mogridge had
not made the mistake of leaving the ship. His first
mate had believed that feboat, luckily handled, had
chance to get away: he tried it with ten Of the
The waves overturned the boat while the Shrieks Of the
men, dying in the icy SURF could still be heard the
Macuma The second mate and the six remaining men
gave up thought of attempt with the other boat and
laShed themselves above the waves. They chose the
after mast where Aogrdge had already bound his wife
Mogridge had meant TO secure himself there also;
but, having been swept forward the hull finally
overswept by the waves he could 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 Mogridge swiftly
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