Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1922-06-30

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up. The. skipper. who had knocked
Burr AWAY from the wheel, ignored him
now. The old man. dragging himself
up and holding TO Alan, was staring
with terror at the SNOW screen behind
which the vessel had disappeared. His
lips moved
ut was a shipw he said he seemed
speaking more to himself than to Alan.
yes" Alan said. ut was q ship;
and you thought"
ut wasn't therel" the wheelsman
cried. "It's--its been there I'LL the
time all night, and ibid steered
through 1t ten times. twenty times.
every few minutes; and then--that
| time II was a shipl"
Alan's excitement grew greater; he
seized the old man again. "You thought
II was the Mlwaka!" Alan exclaimed.
THE Mlwaka And you tried to steer
! through it again."
THE Miwakal" old Burr's lips reit-
Grated the word. yes yes-the Mi
wakaw
He struggled, writing with some
! uENIA .iiOl phys AidH AIttu W ltlu
him, but now the old man was beside
himself with dismay He broke away
and started aft. The captains voice
recalled Alan TO himself, as he WAS
about TO follow, and he turned back to
the wheelhouse.
The second officer, who had gone be-
low TO ascertain the damage done to
the ferry, came up to report. Two of
the compartments, those which had
taken the crush of the collision, had
looded Instantly; the bulkheads were
holding-only leaking little, the OIL
Ger declared. Water was coming into
third compartment, that at the stern !;
the pumps We're fighting this water
The shock had sprung seams else
where; but If the after compartment
did not I'LL, the pumps might handle
the rest.
Alan was at the bow again on look
out duty, ordered to listen and to look
for the little boats. He gave to that
duty all his conscious attention but
through his thought, whether he willed
il or not, ran riotous eXultatlon. As
he paced from side to side and hailed
and answered halls from the bridge,
and while he strained for sight and
hearing through the gale-swept snow,
the leapng pulse within repeated,
i've found him I've found him -
Alan held no longer possibility OF
doubt of old Burr's identity with Ben
janin Coryet, since the old man had
made plain TO him that he was haunt
ed by the Miwaka. Since that night
IN the house on Astor street, when
Spearman shouted to Alan that name,
everything having to do with the Sc
cret Of Benjamin Corvet's life had led,
so far as Alan could follow 1t, to the
Miwaka; all the change, which Sher-
rill described but could not account
for, Alan had laid to that. Corvet
only could have been so haunted by
that ghOstly ship, and there had been
guilt OF some awful sort In the old
mans cry. Alan had found the man
who had sent him away to Kansas
when he was a child, who had support
ed him there and then, at last, sent
for him. who had disappeared at his
coming and left him all his posses
sions and his heritage of disgrace, who
had paid blackmail to Luke, and who
had sent, last Captain Stnfford's
watch and the ring which came with
1.-THE wedding ring.
Alan pulled his hand from his glove
and felt in his pocket for the little
band of gold What would that mean
to him now; what OF that was he to
learn2 And, as he thought of that
Constance Sheriff. came more insist
entity before him. What was he IA
learn for her for his friend and Ben
jamln Coryets friend, whom he, Uncle
Benny, had warned not to care foI
Henry Spearman, and then had gone
away to leave her to marry him? For
she was to marry him, Alan had read
More serious damage than first re
ported The pumps certainly must be
tossing their fight with the water in the
port compartment aft; for the bow
steadily was lifting, the stern sinking
The stnrboard rail too was raised, and
the list had become SO sharp that wa
ter washed the deck abuft the fore
castle TO port And the ferry was
pointed Straight into the gale now
tong aga she had ceased to circle ant
steam slowly in search for boats; she
struggled with all her power agains
the wind and the. seas, a desperate In
sistence throbbing In the thrusts d
the engines for Number % was Tee
, ! mg-tleeing for the western shore. Sh'
dared not turn to the nearer eastern
shore IL expose that shattered sterl
to the seas
-Four bells beat behind Aim; !; wat
two o'clutk' neliet should have COM
long before; but no one came, Ill
, was numbed now ice from the spra!
crackled upon his clothing when h
/. moved, and II; fen In fakes upon thu
, deck. The stark figure ON the bridg
! was that OF the second oflicer;'so thu
) thing which was happening below
i the thing which was sending strange
/, violent, wanton treihors through tn
shlp-wGs serious enough ia call tn
) skipper below, TO make him abandon