Daily British Whig (1850), 16 Jan 1914, p. 12

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The 'mere animal warmth of 80 many human beings wae grateful atier the freezing effect of the gale on people literally soaked to the skin. The girl, not unmoved by curlosity, held the light so that it illumined Mrs' Vansittart. A woman of forty, no matter how good-looking and well preserved she may be, is in a sorry plight under such conditions. Con: stance saw a beautiful face, deathly White and haggard, yet animated and iclearly chiseled. The eyes were large and lustrous, the mouth firm, the nose| and chin those of a Greek statue. Just now there were deep lines across the base of the high forehead. The thin lips, allied to a transient hawk-like 'gleam in the prominent eyes, gave a momentary. glimpse of a harsh, per haps cruel Wisposition. A charming smile promptly digpelled this fleeting dmpression. Instantly Constance was ware. of having seen Mrs. Vansittart before. So vivid was the fanciful idea that she became tongue-tied. { "Do you want me?" asked the ptranger, with a new interest, and still}. smiling. Constance found herself {wondering if the smile were not cul itivated to hide that faintly caught uggestion of the bird of prey. But he question restored her mental poise. } only to say that Mr, Pyne" she ! "Charite! Is he saved?' 7 Mrs. Vansittart certainly had the itaculty of betraying intense interest. be girl attributed the nervous start, the quick color.which tinged the white ey to the natural anxiety of a [shoak, who stood in such approximate 'feston of kin to the young American, "Oh, ves," said the girl, with ready sympathy. "Don't you know that all of you ewe your lives to his daring? He asked me to--to say he was all right, and----tbat he hoped you were not utterly collapsed." The addendum was a kindly one. No doubt, Mr. Pyne had meant her to convey such a message. Mrs. Vansit: tart, it was evident, had received a shock. Perhaps she was a timorous, shrinking woman, averse to the sud: den stare of others. "I 'know nothing," she murmured. "It was all so horrible. Oh,' God! shall I ever forget that scene in the saloon. How the people fought. They were not human. They were tigers, { fierce tigers, with the howls and the baleful eyes of wild beasts." This outburst was as unexpected as her staccato question. Constance bent over her and placed a gentle hand on her forehead. "You must try to forget all that," she said, soothingly. "Indeed, it must have been very terrible. It was dread: {ful enough for us, looking down at things through a mist of foam. For you~~ But there! You are one of the few who escaped. That is every: |{to a ghostly pallor. hing. God has been very good to you!" She was stooping low and holding {the lantern in her left hand. { - Suddenly, "= Mrs. Vansittart's eyes igleamed again with that lambent light {180 oddly at variance with her smile. e slight flush of excitement yielded With surprising lenergy she caught the girl's arm. "Who are you?" she whispered. Tell me, child, who are you?" ar father is the lighthouse-keep- " sald Constance. ; "I am here quite Cy a momen Vaniauart is 04d," she sald. Br 20 taken up was she omstance, : with many errands, had forgotten the "How thoughtless of me," she cried. "Is she better?" "Yes. But when I went in just now to give her her clothes, she sald to me: 'Are you the sister of the other-- of Constance Brand? It was mo time for explanations, so I just said "Yes. She gave me such a queer look, and then smiled quite pleasantly, ayologh. ig for troubling me." Constance lsughed. "Perhaps she knew dad years ago," she said. "What do you think Mr. Pyne said About her?" ! "How can I tell? her to him?" "1 told him she had fainted when you delivered his message. He said: 'Guess she can faint as easy as I can fall off a house.' Isn't he funny?" "I think he is splendid," said Con- stance. , The wresf was-mow wholly demol Ished. The first big wave of the re treating tide enveloped the lighthouse and smote it with thunderous silence. Screams came from the women's quar ters. "Go, Enid," sald Constance. "Tell them they have nothing to fear. They must expect these things to happen for nearly two hours. 'Tell them what dad said. Twenty-five years, you know." : Brave hearts! What infinite pene tration inspired the man who first said "Noblesse oblige!" Constance looked in at the kitchen. Pyne loomed through a fog of 'steam. "Pay no heed to these--" she was Interrupted by another mighty thump and cataract roar-- "these blows of Thor's hammer," she © "Play me for an anvil," he returned. She descended to the depths, to re- assure the men. Talking with shrill cheerfulness at each doorway was easy. It helped her to go down, down, jesiing stone snd iron trembling as surge was hurled many feet above her head. At last, she stood n the lowest floor. Beneath her. feet was naught but granite and iron bars. Here was solidity. How ful to Did you speak of know of this firm base, in the very a, a rap to det mouth, but not of the lighthouse, stro the wledge of its majestic ngth. , Nevertheless, in - this place, the source of her own sense of security, she found uneasiness among the men. They were all sailors in this lowest habitable regisn. Their pre-conceived ideas had been rudely reversed. The ship, the noble structure which defied the storm by yielding to its utmost fury, had for them no terrors. But the stark piilar which flinched from no assault bewildered them. It was impossible to helieve that it could withstand the strain. Ha! Listen to that. The battering-ram of ocean ap- plied to a thin shaft of stone. Surely it must be pounded into fragments. Said one, with indefinite bellow amidst the black: turmoil: "I can't stand this, mates." "Up aloft for me!" cried another. "Let's die with our eyes open, any- how," chimed in a third. But a light flashed in the rolling orbs of the man who was siready on the stairs. Astounded, he drew back. Constance stood in their midst, a mere girl, radiant, smilingly uncon- cerned, addressing them in calm wards, broken only by the [fitful noises. "Sorry your quarters--so very um- pleasant. Only last a--couple 'of hours. Twenty-five years--far worse gales. Want any more cocoa?" "Thank you kindly, miss, we're quite comfortable." This from the y chance. I--" man who wished to die with his eyes "But r Y wh open. name?" Jour 'same! What is: your "Please, miss, may we smoke?" "Constance Brand." "Brand, did you say 2 fther's name?" "Stephen Brand. Really, Mrs. Van- pittart, you must try to compose your And your fa i mell. You are over-wrought, and--" | She was about to say "feverish." (Indeed, that was a mild word. The istrange glare in-Mrs. Vansittart's eyes jamazed her. She shrank away but lonly for an instant. With a deep sigh, ithe Jady sank back on the pillow and Constance was then frightened be yond question. She feared that the Salzure might be a serious one, under circumstances. To her great re Siet, another woman, who could not help overhearing the conversation and {witnessing its sequel, came to the rescue, "Don't be alarmed," she said. siruns. Bhs {uine Dr.. said he who couldn't stand it. Constance hesitated. Blithely un- conscious that a whiff of mutiny had swept through the .storm-tossed fold, she pondered the problem. She saw po harm in ft. "Yes," she sald. "Smoke by all means. 1 will ask my father, and if it should be dangerous I will come Child Almost _ Strangled You never kpow wi what minute a child will develop a bad cold or be seized by croup." For this reason it takes a great burden every mother's mind 16 have at hand Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Tur. Mrs. E. W. Silyer, South Milford, is NS., writes: --"1 pentin ap half a bottle was Sy when the nglin ceased. This medicine ha og : effect aa when ho derfully had taken two bottles I Could. hot tell that he hed a any We have also used Dr. 's es with pra good results. Its a grand medicine for salt rheum." There are imitations, but the gen- Jet you know. Ti a jew pit will be daylight, and if the falls he will comg and open the sheer inspiration she had utter 0a" formula destined to annthilate bluster of the ham- waves. Open the door! So ponderous racket was a mere fidal trick, a bogey, which each pass- ing minute would expose more thor "All "right, miss, an' Gawd Dless was a chorus of ap- roval. Constance gave a little gulp, cultured and delicate lady lying in the bunk above had not spoken so. "Indeed," she gasped, "God has | blessed some of us this night." Then she fled, further utterance sailing her. IS suearer the sky, Brand teded the lamp and discussed matters with chief r Emmett. The sailor, bi ghd » Chinook had made an axcelle -¢ from New York un: Hl alias v0 a bad weather Som four hundred miles West of the L "It seems to me," B® Said, "as it a. dropped onto the trac of that hari cane after it had curved 8Way to the norrard, and that the d~ --d thing swooped down on us agsin Vien we were abreast of the Bishop Ly ht' Brand podded. This surmise a treed with his own theory of the s - as Indicated by the sea. 5 Mr, Emmett held out a clenched intl} with thumb jerked towards the reef" "1 wouldn't breathe a word if he chief' engineer-- but he woutdir't ls- ten to either Mac or me. Fact W he was fair crasy to set up a new regord for the boat. She's been crossin' the Atlantic forty times a year for iup- wards of twenty years, and the recéit alterations, although they added fifty tect to her length, only increased her engine-power in proportion." "You & me," broke in' Brand. "You speak as iL, the Chinook were nearly as old as this lighthouse, yet { have never even heard her name be- Te. fo ou kpow her well enough all the same," sald the other ruefully. "This is her maiden voyage since she was altered; an' they rechristened og too--always a d----d unlucky thing to 40, 1 say. Bless your heart, man, she is the old Frincess Royal. Eh? What's that?" He guffawed mournfully at Brand's involuntary exclamation. "Certain! - Well, 'surely I ought to know. I have passed most of my ser vice with the company' in her, and when I took a crew. to Cramps to navigate her to New York after she 'was smartened up. I little jmagined I would see her laid by forever the next time we saw the lights of Eng: land. My goodness, even what was loft of, the oa gin ought to know' her way better'n that." "But what did realy happen?" ¥Drivin' her I tell you--drivin' heft full pelt to land the mafls at South- ampton twelve hours ahead of sche: dule. With that awful sea liftin' her, and .a shaft twenty feal longer, what could you expect? Poor Perkins! A rare hard worker, too. Now he's gone down with the ship an' ovar two hun: dred passencers an' crew. (To be continued.) rv ad oe growled one who had not spoken } arse directness of his class, |. 1s Timely Advice . when éonsumption claims over 350 daily in the. A mhtn Sona Ne colds, ining dete Negiscted chronic ii, SaSTWITh, on the weakening influence which allows tubers sala germs the mastery. ae hat science afore rs i pons wasn't gone," he said, "but the old ] was drivin' her too hard. I' knew it, an' the chief knew it"--he t the § We have many cold weather footwear propositions that are sure to keep out the cold and SNOW. 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