Year: 1866

ows over the earth, sea and air-they could
see nothing of each other, though still at
times each looked for the compauioDship
in guilt Of the other.


The man below crouched lower and low
er stillr behind the mass Of rock which hid
him from seward, while large knife gilt
tered in. his hand.


.Mingling with the roar and hiss of the
water, there came at this moment q. shout
which echoed strangely against the face of
the cliff, and travelled up it as though as.
cending some regular ascent, until it struck
upon the ear Of him, who there watched the
scene below.


Then the man hidden behind the rock,
AS be heard that human CRY, tighteued his
grasp upon his weapon, and made sudden
rush, for something dark, and about the
size of human form, touched the beach
He raised a sort of yell, too, as he plung'
ed forward, and raisd bis knife to strike the
supposed person, and then be saw it was
but loose spar from the wreck, with some
seaweed grotesquely entangled about it
He then shrunk back and got to his hiding
place His evil mission was not yet full.
filed.


But the sky is brighteniog fast, aud the
rift, through which the first ray of the
young dawn had shown itself, had opened
to huge gap, from ont of which long pen
ellis of soft and yellowish light are coming
and scattering the mist which still hung o
yer the water This, though, was Dot weak
struggle of the dawn against the Wild rigor
of the storm, and some dim clouds sur
charged with wild rushes of hail and rain
swept over the eastern sky; and though the
darkness was slowly dissipatiug, since the
day was absolutely coming, yet there was
a chill spirit of desolation over the face Of
the deep, and the moaning of the wind, and
the murmuriug of the sea, with the dash of
the surf against the rocks, spoke the dirge
of the good ship Waue, if not of all who
had once been sheltered by her oakeu
planks.


1t was just as a rather brighter light
shone, for few moments, on the sea, that
the man on the verge of the cliff suddenly
raised a cry which attracted the attention
of him below


They come-they comet! be cried, with
extended finger. There there


The man below seemed to understand
that it was to seaward he was to look, and
through the misty spray that blew in wild
gusts about him, he saw to what his con-
federate alluded.


About hundred yards from the shore,
battling with the waves, sometimes so hid
den in the trough of the waves as not to be
visible at all, and then mounted on the crest
of giant wave, as though mark for all
observers, we're some human forms.


sNow-now shouted the man on the
cliff.


He who was below made an impatient
GESTURE, as though deprecating the necessi-
sy of any urging or prompting in regard to
what he was do.


The forms iu the water approached near
or and nearer still to the beach


There was bearded map-a. stalwart
sailor-with the deep bronze of wind and
weather on his face. With bis left arm be
held as much above the waves as might be,
the fragile form of young girl. Her fair
hair was streaming wildly on the surface of
the sea, and miugling With the white erests
that rolled and hissed around her. With
the right hand. be had at liberty, and with
both his feet, the sailor fought the waves,
aud though slowly, yet each moment, sure
ly nesred the shore.


Another object, too, SWAN close to them.
1t was dog-the largest of its kind-Oue
of the noble, generous Newfoundland breed,
possessing sagacity that seems at times
to touch upon mans boasted reason; and
this creature beat the waves with his huge
paws, while in his teeth he held proudly
a portion of the dress of the young girl,
who was so specially the care of the sailor.
Not q word-not a sound from man or
beast mingled with the roar Of the wind and
hiss of the sea. 1t was grim and silent
fight with the elements that the sailor and
the dog were having. The girl was iIsen-
sible aud knew not her own danger, nor the
gallant efforts that were being made to save
her from it.


Nearer and nearer still to the rocks they
came, and it would seem as if no living
thing could fight its way through the huge
pillows which combed in on the beach, but
yet the attempt had to be made, and the
brave man, with measured strokes, still
fought his way onward The dog was pant
ting, for the swim had been long one,
and the creature looked, when the salt
spray would permit him, into the eyes of
the sailor, with an intelligence that almost
supplied the place of words. The man was
evidently about to speak to the dog, for his
lips parted, and smile was Oh his face;
but a huge wave took the whole party and
flung them forward on to shelf of rocks,
submergiDg them in the process deep in
the water.


1t was the reaux of this wave which was
to be dreaded knowing which the sailor
dropped his feet and felt the rocky strand,
and clutched the weeds and huge beulders
nearest him, while the wave rolled back,
leaving him and his charge amid mass OF
rocks, and weeds, and sand


The gallant sailor knew his danger still.