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Is ros it razor, makes it pull" ou can tever wipe all the Eh Suse One OF wil ward : i Jed poetry with is ] Louis Tracy | Copyright by MeLeod & Allen, CHAPTER I, FLOTSAM. 1All night 'long the great bell of the lighthouse, siung to a stout beam, pro Jecting seaward beneath platform, had tolled its warning though the fog. The monotonous dcking ofthe clockwork attachment that governed it, the shamp -and livelier click of the occulting hoods machinery, were the only sounds (which alternated, with its deep boom. {The tremendous clang self a thrill throug hthe giant column itself and lpealed away into the murky void {with a tremolo of profound diminu- tons. hi oe i Overhead, the magnificerttylantern, its elght-ringed circle of flame burning at full pressure, illumined the drift- |!lng vapor with an intensity that seem- ed to be born of the sturdy granite pillar of which it was the fitting dia- dem. Hard and strong externally as the everlasting rock on which it stood, "replete within with burnished steel | and polished brass, great cylinders and powerful pumps,~the lghthouse | thrust its glowing torch beyond the | reach of the most daring wave. Cold, | dour, defiant it looked, Yet its*sup- erhuman eye swept to plerce the very heart of the fog, and the fur nace-white glare, . concentrated ten thousand-foid by.the encircling hive of the dioptric lens, flung far into the gloom a silvery tloak of mdon-like majesty. ] | At last an 'irresistible ally sprang to the assistance of the unconquer- able light. About the close of the middle watch a gentle breeze from the Atlantic followed the tide and swept the shivering wraith landward th tue { northeast," whilst the, first beams of {& June sun completed the destruction | of the routed spectre, { So, once more, as on the dawn of the third day, the waters under the heaven were gathered into one place and the dry lawd appeared, ond be hold, it was good, a On the horizon, the, furquoise" rim of the sea lay with'the sheen; of folded silk against the pofter canopy of the sky. owards the west a group of islands ,to which drifting banks of mist clung in melting des- pair, were etched in shadows, nf dreamy purple. Over the nearer gea- floor the quickly dying vapor spread oa hary pall of opal ints, Across the iace of the waters glistening bands iq dvered in fairy Ughige., The sin ting rays of the sun threw broadcast a 'golden mirage and glided all. things with the dumb gladness of an English summer's day. £ A man, pacing. the narroWy gallery p {beneath the lantern, halted for.a mo-) ment to flood his soul afregh with a beauty made entrancing by the know- ledge that a few brief moments wouid resolve it into maturer and more fa- 'miliar. charms, . He was engaged, It Ya2true, In he unromantic action of filling his. pipe,-- a simple thing, beloved alike of poets 'and navvies--yet his eyes drank in {the mitts - glory of "the scene, and, captive to the 'spell of "the 'hour, he murmured aloud: "Floating on waves: of -music-and of light, Behold the chariot of Queen! * Celestial 'coursers-paw-the unyleld ing air; Their filmy pennoyg At her word they furl, And stop obedient to the reins of light." the Fairy ! The small door beneath the glass ane was open. The worker within, { busily ceaning an eight-inch 'burner, ceased for an instant and popped his i iead out. {) "Did you hail me?" he inquired. {| The matter-of-fact words awoke the dreamer, He turned with a pleasant smile, !! "To be exact, Jim, T did hail some body, but it was Aurora, Spirit of the Dawn, not a hard-bitten sallorman Mke you." '$Oh, that's all right, cap'n.J thought I heard you singin' out for a:ight." The other man bent his head tc shield' a match from a puff of wind, thus concealing from his companion j the gleam of amusement in his eves { {ithe tobacco longingly, but'the Elder (Brethren of the Trigity maintain {istrict discipline, and he vanishéd to i this task without'!a thought of broken { rules. | Healeft a piece of goodfadvice'te {/hind him. ¥ | "It 1 was you, .cnpini®fhelsatll, "1a jturn cin. Jones fs feeling Ai, this morning. You oughtfto de dead beat {after your double spe!l of the j last two days. I'll keep b fastgback i ath three bell 0% I wethere's sh eggs an' 3? "Just a couple of iwhiffs Anti Then {I'l go below," § | Both men woreitheyunifb: A. | |sistant-keepers, yet it need their manner of speech, to reveal, t ig - gentleman, born and the other a bluff, good-natured; horny banded A, B., tp whomgnew: A and rbeently cu yf 28D ar more poteitly than Ss iy" 9 | [summer dawn at s N He, udted -Atlantic Miner, and the of white mist' werege dven ap ~Jamt wforlo; ve the waves. i - 3 The presence of/ the steamship, a the outer | tiny, dull spot on the Ww: ict peopled the void. with|I#E HMA davis. the Rhinly sheeted * SDOSI8: of athe foi. ~dnka. lftiies ; & y than an hour she would be abreafft of the Gulf Rock Zdght. The watcher believed --was_almost certain, in fact ~~that she was the Princess Royal, | homeward bound from New York to Bouthampton. Brom her saloon deck those enthusiasts: who had risen early mough to catch a first glimpse of the English coast' were already scapping the trimly rugged outlines of the Scil- ly Isles, and searching with theif glasses for the Land's End-and the Lizard. : » In a few hours they would be in Southampton" that afternoon in Lon- don-- London, the Mecca of the world, from which, two ears ago he with a loathing akin to terror, The big ship out there, panting and strain- ing as if she were beginning, not end- ing, her ocean race of three' thousand miles, was carrying eager hundreds to the pleasures an dfollies of the great city: Yet he, the man smoking and silently staring at the growing bank. of smoke,--a young man, 100; handsome, erect, 'with the clean, Bmooth profile of the aristocrat,--had turned his back on it all, and sought, and found, peace here in the gaunt pil- lar on a lonely rock. Strange, how differently men are constithted. And women! Bah! A hard look came into his eves. His mouth set In & stern contempt. For & while his face bore a steely expres sion whic would have amazed the man within the lantern, now singing lustily as he worked. Bui as the liarp of David caused the evil spirit to depart from Saul, so did the music of the morning chase away the lurking devil of memory whigh sprang upon the lighthouse-keeper with the sight of the vessel. He smiled again, a trifie bitterly, perhaps. Beliind him the singer rodr- ed genially "Soon we'll be in London Town, Sing, my lads, yeo he-o, . And see the King in his golden crown, Sing, my lade, veo ho The man on the platform feet, jo ! be aroused from a painful reverie DY the jiugle so curiously a propos to his thoughts. He tapped his pipe on the fron railing, and was about to enter the lantern--and so to the region of sleep 'beneath---when suddenly his glance, trained to an acutenesss not dreamed of by shore folk, restedon some object seemingly distant a mile or less, and drifting slowly nearer with the tide . At this bour a two-knot current swept fo the east around and) over the treacherous re whose sunken fangs were marked by the lighthouse. In calm weather, such as prevailed Just then, it was difficult enough to effect a landing at the base of the rock, but this same smiling water: race became gan awful, raging, tear ing fury when the waves were lash- ed into a sform He pocReted his pipe and stood with hands clenched on the rall tently at a white-painted si boat, with a broken masi and a sai trailing over the stern. its colo: the sun shiring on it, no less th vaporous eddies fading down surface of the sea, had him from seeing it earlier. Perhaps he would not have noticed it at all were it not for the flashing wings of several sea-birds which accompanied the craft Mm aerial escort. ~ 2 Even yet a landsman would have stared insolently in that direction and declared that there was naught else in sight save the steaiifer, whose ial! masts and two black funnels were now distinctly visible. But the light house Keeper knew he was not mis. taken. Here was a boat adrift, for lorn, deserted. (} contour that it was no I16cal craft straying ad venturously from island to mainland Its unexpected presence, wafted thus strangely. from ocean wilds, the bro &en spar and tumbled canvas, betok ened an accident, perchance a tragedy "Jim!"? he cried. His mate, engaged in shirouding the gleaming lenses from the sun's rays came at the call. He was lame--the result of a wound received in the Egyptian campaign; nevertheless, he was quick on his feet. "What do You make of that" The sailor.réquired no more than a gesture. He shaded his eyes with hig right hand, a mere shipboard trick of concentrating vision and brain, for the rising sun was almost behind him "Ship's boat," he answered, lactoni cally. "Collision, 1 expect Thete's bin no blow to. speak of for days. But they're gone. Knocked overboard when she was took aback by a squall. Unless' them birds--" He spoke in a species of verbal shorthand, but his meaning was clear enough, even to the sentence left un: finished. The craft was under no con trol. She would drirt steadily into the Bay until the tide turned, wander in an aimless circle for half an hour thereafter, and then, when the ebt restored direction and, force to the current, voyage forih again to the fabled 'realm of Lyonnesse. For a little "while they stood togeth or in- silence. Jim suddenly quitted his companion and came back with p glass. p's the vented He poised it with the preci plon of a Bisley marksman and began to speak again, jerkily: "Stove in forrard, above the wate: fine, Wouldn't live two 'minutes in & sea. Somethin' lyin' in the bows Can't make it out. And there's a cou ple of cormorants perched on the gun Don't Neglect Catarrh or resort to-snuff and vapors--they only ir- ritate the delicate membranes. Modern science proves catarrh a fom Treat the cause with SCOTT'S EMULSION which contains pure. cod liver oil to enrich the blood and energize the system, hypo- Phosphites to nourish and up- ild the nerves, and glycerine to sooth and heal. ® Thousands testi Scott's Emulsion Hy tat catarrh in a permanent, natural way and it will oly help you. Avoid the alcobolic substitutes - fled wid hin {Jim was the.cheeriest urse who ever, wi he ! Ahk uly y On her present course, an' "tide'll hold Jong enough for that." other looked onder ww ' g ayproaching stedmer-- which would fit past a mile away tc the south--and a few distant brow: specks which betokened a shoal of Penzance fishing-smeeks - making the best of the tide eastward--there was t m t. Bt en a try and get hold pt her be: said. Jim kept his eye glued fo the tele peope. we ! "Taln't#wertl it, cap'n. The sal on 'Il only be a pound or two, not Ww! ry suvrin comes in use ful, an' we might 'tie her up to the buoy on the off chance until the re- Hef comes or we signal a smack. But #Rat's the good o' talkin'? We've got no t, an' nobody'd be such a fool as to swim to her™ os "That ia what ! hed in mind." Jim lowered the glaes. "That's the fust time I've ever heard you say a d--d silly thing, Ste- phen Brand." There was no wavering judgment in his voice now. He was angry, and slightly 'alarmed. - i "Why is It so emphatically silly, Jim?" was the smiling query. ! "How d've know. what's aboard of her? What's them fowl after? What's under that sall> What's that lyin' crumpled up forrard" Dead men,' Imebbe. If they are, she's convoyed by sharks." "Sharks! This is not the Red Sea. I am not afraid of any odd prowler. a0nce-- Anyhow, I am going to ask Jones." "Jones won't hear of it." "That 18 precisely what he will do, within the next minute. Now, don't _TWE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1914. Chase @ Sanborn, Rp-- HE clever house. wife, who considers the pleasure and welfare of her family, takes ' particular | pride - in the coffee she serves. It is usually Seal Brand ~ Coffee 13 ++» Montreal. AR RIGHT. Insist on Having Pasteurized Milk Phone 845. ---- Be Sure it is in Bottle PRICE'S ° bé vexed, Jim. Stand by and sing out am in the | | directions if needful when water. "Have ne fear. ..I am more than equal to Leander fn a sea like this." Jim, who trgsted to the head-keep ord veto,--awed; t0o, by the reference to Leander, whom he hazily associat- ed with Captain Webb ---made no re joinder. He focused the telescope again, BaVe a moment's scrutiny to the Steamer, and then re-examined the boat. The stillness of the morning Was solemn. Beyond the lazy splash Of the sea against the Gulf Rock it- self, and an oceaslonal heavy surge ag the aswell revealed and instantly gmothered some dark tooth of the reef, he heard no sdund save the ring of Stephen Brand's boots on the iron stairs as he descended through the oll-room, the library and office, to the first bedroom, \in the lower bunk of which lay Mr Jones' keeper and chief, recovering from a sharp attack of sciatica. During .one fearful night in the March equinox, when the fierce heat of the lamp within and the icy blast of the gale without had temporarily deranged the occulting machinery, Jones experienced an alxious watch, Not for an instant could he forego attendance on the lamp. Owing to the sleet it was necessary to keep the light at full pressure. The sur- plus ofl, driven up from the tanks by welghts os LR ton, must flow copi ET DraES whatt of the burner, or 'the metal might vield to the fervent power of the col: | umn of flame. The occuiting hood, too, must helped when the warning click cam or it would jam and fail to fall pe lodically, thus changing the character | of the light, to the bewilderment and | grave peril of any unhappy vessel | ftriving against the exterior turmegil | of wind and Wave. t So Jones passed four hours with hi head and shoulders in the tempera | ture of a Twkish bath and the lower part of his bgiy chilled to the bone be! | ------ m--r-- We hoot that has everything 'to make hockey hoot: $4. ! HOCKEY the best obtainable, have themat all prices, and consider each to he For Men We are sole agents for the famous Hurd Boot, a it the perfect also similar boots at $3 and For Ladies Warm lined skating boots with or withont strap price #9; attachment, $2 and $2.50. For Boys = The same as the men's, price $2.50. H. SUTHERLAND & BRO. Th f I e Some of Good Shoes He thought nothing of it at the time. This was duty. But at i\tervals; | throughout the rest of his life, /the sci- | atic nerve would remind him/ of that lonely watch. This morning' he was | convalescent after a painful immobil | ity of two days. ' | Watching the thoat, Jim centared | her in the teloscopic field, and looked | anxiously for a sharp arrow-shaped | ripple on the surfacé of the sea. The! breeze which had vanquished the fog | now kissed the smillug " water into! dimples, and his keen sight was per- | plexed by the myriad wavelets. Each minute the condition.of affairs on board became more defined. Be- neath some oars ranged along the | starboard side he could see several | tins, such as contains biscuits and | compressed beef. The shapeless mass | In the bows puzzled him. It was part- | ly covered with broken planks front | the damaged portion of the upper works, and it migh. be a jib-sail fall en there when the mast broke. The birds were busy and excited, He did not ltke that. Nearly half an hour passed. The Princess Royal, a fine vessel of yacht- like proportions, sprinting for the af- ternoon train, was about eight miles away, sou-west by west, According to present indications steamer and derelict would be abreast of the Gulf Rock Light simultaneously, but the ig ship, of courge, would give a wide berth to a rock-strewn shoal. At last the lighthouse-keeper heard Ascending footsteps. This was not Stephen Brand, but Jones, Jim, whose rare irritated moods found safety in stolid sHlenc:, neither spoke nor look- ed around when his chief joined him, binoculars in hand. Jones, a man of 'whitewash, polish, and rigid mdherence to framed rules, found thd boat instantly, and reca- pitulated 'Jim's inventory, eliciting grunts of agreement as each item was licked off, o Arxclang jot «metal beneath caught thelr',ears--the opening of the stout doors, forty feet above high-water mark, from which a series of iron rungs, sunk into the granite wall, led tothe rocky base. - "Brand's goln' to swim out. It's hardly worth while signaiin' to the Land's End," commented Jones. Jim leaned well over and saw their "associate, stripped to his underclothing, with a leather beit supporting a sheath-Bnife slung across his shoulders, climbing down the ladder. 3 ; 4 This taciturnity surprised Jones, for brought; a Sullerer-ia plate of soup. "It's* nothing for\a good swimmer, 1¥1t?" was the anxious question. "No. ' 1t's no distance to speak of" ; 13th sea's like mill-pond?" 'trou j to goes eh Si lS [To be continued.) RAILWAY EARS and NEW YEAR o HOLIDAYS, 1013.1014. Special rates will. be in effect as follows: TOMAS ; SINGLE FARR for round (rip. Good going Dec, 24th and 25th, Good to return until Dec. 26th. SINGLE FARE AND ONE THIRD for round trip. Good going Dec. 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Good to return until Dec. 27th. - NEW YEAR SINGLE FARE for round trip. Good going Dec. 81st and Jan. 1st. Good to return until Jan. 2nd. SINGLE FARE AND ONE THIRD for round trip. 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