Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-19

moment 1t fell into the trough: and
besides. the sail. dashed to the spare
oars, dragged in the sea ahead of US
as a sea-anchor.
Instfnctively we drew closer in
gether in the bottom of the boat.
felt her mittened hand come out t.
mine. And thus. without speech. VIZ
waited the end. We were not far of
the line the wind made with the west
ern edge of the promontory, and
watched in the hope that some set Of
the current or send of the sea would
drift us past before we reached the
surf.
We shall 60 clear,".I said, with q
confidence which / knew deceived
neither of us.
BY God, we will 90 clear!" I cried
five minutes later.
The oath left my lips in my excite
ment-the first. do believe, in my
life, unless trouble It," an expletive
OF my youth. be accounted an oath.
Il beg your pardon" said.
You have convinced me of your
sincerity" she said, with faint smile,
i do know. now. that we shall 60
clear"
/ had seen q distant headland past
the extreme edge Of the promontory,
and as we looked we could see grow
the intervening coastline of what was
evidently a deep cove. At the same
time there broke upon our ears a con-
tinuous and mighty believing. It par
took Of the magnitude and volume of
distant thunder, and It came to US
directly from leeward, rising above
the crash of the surf and travelling di.
rectly In the teeth of the storm. Az
we passed the point the whole cove
burst upon our view. q half-moon of
white sandy beach upon which broke
huge surf, and which was covered
with myriads of seals. It was from
them that the great believing went
up.
"A rookery!" cried. Now are we
indeed saved. There must be men
and cruisers to protect them from the
seal-hunters. Possibly there Is q sta
ton ashore"
But as studied the surf which beat
upon the beach, I said, still bad, but
not 30 bad. And now, II the gods be
truly kind, we shall drift by that next
headland and come upon q perfectly
sheltered beach, where We may land
without wetting our feet"
And the gods were kind. The first
and second headlands were directly
in line with the southwest wind; but
once around the secondhand We went
perilously ne6r-we picked up the
third headland. still in line with the
wind and with the other two. But
the cove that intervened! It pene-
trated deep into the land, and the tide.
setting in, drifted US under the shell.
ter of the point Here the sea was
calm. save for q heavy but smooth
groundswell, and I took in the sea-
anchor and began to row.
Here were no seals whatever. The
boats stem touched the hard single.
l sprang out. extending my hand to
Maud. The next moment she was be-
side me. AS my fingers released hers,
she clutched for my arm hastily. At
the same moment I swayed, as about
to fall to the sand. This was the
effect of the cessation Of mo-
ton. We had been so long upon the
rocking sea that the stable
land was q shock to US. We expected
the beach to lift up this way and that,
and the rocky walls to swing back and
forth like the sides of q ship; and
when we braced ourselves, automati.
cally. for these various expected
their non-occurrence quite
overcame our equilibrium.
Il really must sit down." Maud said,
with a nervous laugh and a dizzy ges.
ture. and forthwith she sat down on
the sand.
attended to making the boat Sc
cure and joined her. Thus we landed
On Endeavor island, as we came to It,
from long custom of the sea.