Alma record., 1916-06-22

But BrennanS voice shouted, Make
poom or I'll bash in your bloody skull
Another protest arose. and O'Neil
NV that the craft was indeed loaded
10 the gunwales.
Take the girl-quickr' he implored.
I'll hang on. You can-tow me-"
The limp form was removed from his
ssde and dragged over the thwarts
while a murmur of excited voices
went up.
"Can you hold out for a minute,
Murray" asked Brennan.
"Yes-I think so"
I'D give you my place, but you're
too big TO be taken I'm without dan
ger"
eco ahead. chartered the man in
the water. Look after the girl before
it's-too late"
The captains stout hand was in his
collar now. and he heard him crying:
Pull you muscle hound heathens.
Everybody Iii still Now away with
Ter mea Keep O. rour heart. Muir
ta. my hoy Rene "a. d. taAeS more
i.su Cater % Elll GOOD lrishm.n
rs a1lv fo,i o~ two farther md
.acv'vc started urc. serve, you
fi.'t YOU bi- IDIOT ftr gong over
uala with all thusr io"'e Man dear
NJ you're pulling tht arm out of me.
rs stretched ON Ike garden hose.
i4t cover up thal girl. md VOC ladv.
5un her feet and hands Good. Move
ever Please 90 the mcu can bail.
The next @ Neil kncN he oae ,ee'.ng
very miserable and very cold notw ith.
standing the fact that he was wrapped
i'm dry clothing and lay so close to a
roaring spruce fire that its heat blis
tered him.
Brennan was bending over him with
ewes wet. He was swearing. too. in
weak. faltering way, calling upon all
the saints to witness that the PROSTATE
man was the embodiment OK every vir
tue and that his death would be a
ma ional calamity. Others were gath
cred about men and women. and
among them O'Nei saw the doctor
from Sitka whom he had met on ship
board
As soon as he was able 10 speak he
inquired for the safety OF the girl he
had helped TO rescue. Johnny prompt
~ rca~sured him.
Man. dear. shes doing fine. A jig
ger of brandy brought her to. gaspine
Ike blessed mermaid.
As dawn broke the cannery tender
from the station near 10y nosed her
way up to the gravelly shore where
the castaways were gathered ani blew
cheering toot-toot on her rlisile
She was a fat bottomed. wet sternec
craft. and the passengers of the Ne
braska trooped to her deck over 9
gangplank AS Captain Brennan hac
predicted, not one of them had wet q
foot. with the exception of the tw'
who had been left aboard through thei
own carelessness.
The reaction following a sleeplesi
night OF anxiety had replaced the frs
feeling OF thankfulness at deliverance
aud it was not a happy cargo OF hu
nenity which the rescuing boat Dor
with her as the sun peeped over tn
hills
Many of the ships passengers wer
but half dressed. all were exhauste'
and hungry. each one had lost some
thing in the catastrophe. The me-
were silent, the women hysterical. tn
children fretful.
II was O'Nen's turn 70 comfort Car
tain Johnny Brennan, who had yielde
20 the blackest despair once his RI
sponsibility was over.
"It's kind OF you 10 cheer me up.
said Brennan. especially after th
way ] abandoned you TO drown. bu
the missus won't allow me in Oh
house at all when she hears ] left yo
IN pickle Thank God the girl didn
die anyway I've got that to I
thankful for. Curtis Gordon woul
have broken me-
"Gordonl'
sure. Man dear. don't you kno
who you went bathing with? She
the daughter Of that widow Gera'
and the most prominent passeng'
aboard. outside OF your blessed sci
Amt that luck? II was a Jap l
spUt myself open with bread knife.
|fut fortunately you're sensib
harp Of old ireland. I'll see that Il
papers get the right story. so buck up
A south bound steamer was due q
next afternoon. II was learned. al
plans were made for her TO pick
the castaways and return them to Sci
tie.
At the same time O'Neil disco
.rod that a freiChter for the I'VE
ward" was expected some time th
night, and as she did not call at q
port he arranged for a launch to Ia
him out to the channel where he cou
intercept her. The loss OF his hors
had been a serious blow. II was