Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-16
cuAp7ER xxIV-cOntinued.

,,.5 had no sleep for forty-eight
was wet and chilled to the
-,- -,or till I felt more dead than
- Nv body was stiff from exer-
o.. well as from cold, and my
~ muscles gave me the sever
>. .o-trre whenever I used them,
-5Trsad them continually. And all
o., time we were being driven of
-. tho northwest, directly away
a.u ranan toward bleak Boring sea.
,.rI's condition was pitiable. She
49,. .-oncbed in the bottom Of the
s.,. her Iips blue, her face gray and
.r,t,rr showing the pain she suffered.
D., arer her eyes looked bravely at
40 and ever ner lips uttered brave
words
The worst Of the storm must have
y,rr that night though little ! no
..sl f. / had succumbed and slept
rss-a I sat in the stern-sheets. The
naming of the fourth day found the
r-d diminished to a gentle whisper,
.ss sea diving down and the sun shin
IN, mon MS. Oh, the blessed sun!
How We bathed our poor bodies in its
delicious warmth, reviving like bugs
and crawling things after a storm.
Ne smiled again, said amusing things
and vayed optimistic over our situa-
to1 Yet it was. if anything. worse
tan ever.
Came days Of storm, days and
nights Of storm, when the ocean men
acsl Us with its roaring Wilderness,
and the wind smote our struggling
boat with a Titan's buffets. 1t was in
such a storm, and the worst we had
experienced, that what | saw | could
not at first believe. Days and nights
O. sleepleSsness and anxiety had
doubtless turned my head. / looked
hack at Maud, to identify myself, as
Il were in tire and space. Again
turned my face to leeward, and again
! saw the jutting prOmontory, black
and high and naked, the raging surf
,ia, broke about its base and beat it's
front high up with spOuting fountains,
the black and forbidding coast line
running toward the southeast and
i-iEged with a tremendous scarf of
white.
Maud, I said. Maud"
She turned her head and beheld the
sight
IL cannot be Alaska!" she cried.
Alas, no." l answered, and asked,
Can YOU swim?"
She shook her head.
Neither can l." | said. so we
must get ashore without swimming
ia some opening between the rocks
though which we can drive the boat
and Chamber out. But we must be
auckland sure"
spoke with a confidence she knew
CID not feel, for she looked at me
With that unialtering gaze of hers
and said.
7 have not thanked you yet for all
!'l have done for me. but"
She hesitated, as if in doubt how
'e9, TO word her gratitude
Well" said brutally. for I was
'o' quite pleased with her thanking
ne
lou might help me-" she smiled.
10 acknowledge your obligations
N'''e yon die? Not at all. We are
Az gong to die We shall land on
Ia, island, and we shall be snug and
''s.'s7ed before the day is done"
, spoke stoutly but l did not be-
, ,'s's d word. Nor was I prompted to
80 '-'olga fear felt no fear. though
was sure of death in that boiling
-. "-oAsS the rocks which was
.-..l.y growing nearer. 1t was i'm
,gS>.0'e TO claw of that shore. The
AZ - would instantly capsize the
49, NE seas would swamp it the
I -.1aa' It fell into the trough; and,
,... '~' sail, lashed TO the spare
y, ~ = 1'assed in the sea ahead of US.
IS a seaaachor
...,,>'.Aciyely we drew closer in
~ s..-,' IN the bottom Of the boat. I
~ -. ls' ni,tered hand come out to
~, And thus. without speech. we
y, - -1- NE end. We were not far of
:, ~-e TIE wind made with the west.
r, ~ s-se Of the promontory. and l
- '', . IN the hope that some set Of
49, '-,'eat or send Of the sea would
-, -. Us PAST before we reached the
S-a- 80 clear" I said. with a