The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-11-05

a ROAR
ened to tear 1t away, piling MP and
then seething overheard.
With it went a figure. Rainey
caught sight of a CHASTITY face. o
mouth that shouted vainly for help In
the pandemonium, and wss instantly
stoppered with strangling brine. pop
eyes appealing in awful fright as
Sandy was washed away In the cas-
cade. The halyards were held on the
pin with a turn and twist that Rainey
swiftly Ioosened, lifting the coil free,
making a fast loop, ard thrusting
head and arms through II an he flung
himself after the roustabout.
A great bulk walIowed just before
him, the helpless body Of the bowhead
whale, the killers dartinE In a mad
melee for it's head. Then a figure was
literally hurled upon the slippery
mass OF the mammal, Its gray belly
plain In the weller. q living raft
against which the waves broke and
tossed their spray.
Clawing frantically, Sandy clutched
mt the base of the enormous pectoral
I'm, clinging with maniacal strength,
mad with fear Striking out to little
purpose, save to help buoy himself,
blinded by the flying scud and broken
crests, Rainey felt himself upreared.
swept impotently on and slammed
against the Shiny hulk, just close
enough to Sandy to grasp him by the
collar, as the whale, stung by a kill
er's tearing at its oily tongue, failed
with its fin and the two Of them slid
down its body, deep under water.
Rainey fought against the suffoca.
ton and the fierce desire TO gasp and
relieve his tortured lungs. The lads
weight seemed to be carrying him
down as If he was thing Of lead, but
Rainey would not relax his grip. He
could not. He had conferred all his
energy upon the desire to save Sandy,
| and his nerve centers were still tense
| TO that last conscious demand.
The Karluk was into the wind and
they were In what little lee there was
/ dragging aft at the end OF the hal
/ yards. being fetched I'm toward the
ran by the mighty tugs of Lund, q
Il .
as he caught sight Of the giant. with
red hair uncovered, his beard whip
ping In the wind, his black glasses
i still In place, making some sort Of q
blessed monster out Of him.
Rainey had his left hst welded Il
the line, his right was set in Sandy''
collar, and Sandy's death clutch haC
twined itself into Rainey's Oflskins
though the lad waS limp, and his face
seen through the watery film tina
streamed over 1t, set and white.
A dozen arms shot down to grasI
HIM He felt the iron grip of LunC
upon his left forearm, almost wrench
ing his arm from its socket a
he was inhauled, caught at by bod.
and legs and deposited on the deck o
the schooner, that almost Instant.
mer course.
Lund bent over him, asking hin
with a note that Rainey, for all hi
: exhaustion, interpreted as one Of rea
anxiety:
"How is it with you, mateyf Di'
We git lunged up?"
Rainey managed to shake his hea
and, with Lund's boughlike arm 70
support, got to his feet, windeC
shaken, aching from his pounding an
the crash against the whale.
; Sandy was lying face down, on
, hunter kneeling across him. kneadin
his ribs to bellows action, lifting hi
upper body in time TO the pressure
; while another worked his slack arm
; up and down.
THAT was splendid. Mr.. Rainey
e Wonderful! 1t was brave OF youI"
e Peggy Simms stood before Raine.
: clinging to the mainstays, difrerer
girl to the one that he had know
pI Her red lips were apart. showing III
clean shine Of her teeth, above hs
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