Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-06-30

| scrambling to his knees, put an arm
under old Burr, half raising him; the
form encircled by his arm struggled
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.
at was a ship" he said; he seemed
speaking more to himself than to Alan.
| Eyes," Alan said ut was a ship;
and you thought"
cried. "It's-it's been there all the
time all night, and It'd steered
through 1t ten times, twenty times,
every few minutes; and then-that
time 1t was ship."
Alan's excitement grew greater; he
seized the old man again. You thought
1t was the MiwakaI" Alan exclaimed
THE MIwaka And you tried to steer
through 1t again."
1.-THE MiwakaI" old Burrs lips reit-
Grated the word. YES; yes-the MI
wakai"
He struggled. writhing with some
agony not physical. Alan tried to hold
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
flooded instantly; the bulkheads were
holding-only leaking little, the Off
Ger declared. Water was coming into
third compartment, that at the stern;
the pumps were fighting this water
The shock had sprung seams else
where but II the after compartment
did not fill, 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
through his thought, whether he willed
it or not, ran riotous exultation. 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 leaping pulse within repeated,
I've found him i I've found him I"
Alan held no longer possibility Of
doubt Of old Burr's identity with Ben
jamin Corvet, 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,
cret of Benjamin Corvet's life had led,
so far as Alan could follow it, 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 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 Stafford'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
learn? And. as he thought of that. |
Constance Sheriff. came more insist
emily before him. What was he to
learn for her, for his friend and Ben
jamin Corvet's friend, whom he, Uncle |
Benny, had warned not to care for |
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 |
losing their fight with the water in the |
port compartment aft; for the bow
steadily was lifting, the stern sinking. |
The starboard rail TOO was raised, and
the list had become so sharp that wa
ter washed the deck abaft the fore
castle 10 port. And the ferry was
pointed straight into the gale now;
long ago she had ceased 10 circle and
steam slowly Ia search for boats she
struggled with all her power against
the wind and the seas, a desperate In
sisfence throDbing "a the TRUSTS 0f
the engines; for Number 20 was nee'
Ing neeiDg Tor the western shore, she
dared Dof turn 10 the nsarer eastern
shore 10 expose that shattered stern
~ the seas
Pour bells beat behind Alan q sas
lBO O'flocf Asnef should hays come
Ong befoTs bui 40 oDs came 40
sas Rvmbed nor 40 from ihs spfsy
npoD ~ Clothing pAen hs
moved sad a fall ~ naksS eleg fhe
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