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From hér saloon deck those enthusiasts who had risen early esnpugh to catch a first glimpse of the English coast were already scannigg the trimly rugged outlines of the Scil ly Isles, and searching with their 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 years ago he fled 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 gd | Light CHAPTER 1. FLOTSAM. 7 lighthouse, slung to a stout beam pro: jecting seaward beneath the ter platform, had tolled its warning through the fog. The monotonous ticking o fthe clockwork attachment that governed it, the shawp and livelier click of the occulting:hood's machinery, wefe 'the only sounds 'which alternated with its deep.boom. (fhe tremendous. clang. self a thrill throug hthe giant column itself" and pealed away into the 'murky void with a tremolo of profound diminu- ous. . - C43 | Overhead, the raghificodt flantern, its eight-ringed circle of flame'burning at full pressure, illumined the drift- {ing vapor with an intensity that seem: ed to be born of the sturdy granite plilar of which it was the, fitting dia- dem. Hard and strong externally as the everlasting rock op which it stood, ~replete within with burnished steel and polished brass, great cylinders and powerful pumps, ~the lighthouse thrust its glowing torch beyond the reach of the most daring wave. Cold, dour, defiant it looked, Yet its*eup erhuman eye swept to plerce the very heart of the fog, and the fur- nace-white glare, concertrated ten thousand-fold by.the encircling hive of the dioptric lens, flung far into the gloom a silvery tloak of moon-like | majesty. At last an irresistible ally sprang to the aisistance of the unconquer- @'le light. About the close of the middle watch a gentle breeze from the Atlantic followed the tide and swept the shivering wraith landward to ine northeast, whilst the first beams of a June sun completed the destruction of the routed spectre, So. once more, as on the dawn of heaven were gathered into one place and the dry land appeared, and be- hold, it was good, o On the horizon, the, furquoisa' rim of the sea Jay with the sheen. of folded silk against the gofter canopy of the sky. owards' the weg§t a group of islands to which drifting banks of mist clung in melting des- pair, were eiched'in shadows of dreamy purple. Over the nearer sea- "floor the quickly dying vapor spread @ hary pall of opal tints, Acrass the hace of 'the waters glistening bands MN advered in fairy I siasting rays of the sun threw broadcast a golden mirage and glided all things 'with the dumb gladness of an English summer's day. f . "A. man, pacing. the narrowggzallery ment to flood his soul afresh with a beauty made entrancing by the' know- ledge that a few brief moments wouid resolve {t into maturer and more fa- miliar charms. . He was, engaged; it 18¥ rue, /in Ahe unromantic action of filling his pipe,-- a-slmple thing, beloved alike of poets 'and navvies.-yet his eyes drank in the mute 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 tha unyield: | ing air; Their filmy pennons At her word they furl, 3 And stop obedient to the reins of light." the Fairy | The small door beneath the glass {lane vas open. The worker within, ; busily ceaning an eight-inch burner, | [ceased for an instant and popped his i head out. } "Did syou hall me?" he inquired. || The matter-of-fact words awoke the | dreamer, He turned with a pleasant smile, ! "To be exact, Jimi, I did hail some | body, but it was Aurora, Spifit of the Dawn, not a hard-bitten sallorman like you." : "Oh, that's all right, cap'n.4I thought {F heard you singin' out for aight." , The other man bent his head tc shield a match from a puff of wind, thus concealing from his' companion ithe gleam of amusement in his eyes {His mate sniffed the fragrant odor of {ithe tobacco longingly, but' the Elder (Brethren of the Trinity malnwaln {istrict discipline, and he vanished to -|his task without!a thought.cf broken |rules, {| Heglett a plece 'of:goo@fadvicePe { lhind him. y "If 1 was you, .cnpmi®fhelsatd, "1a turn in. Jones is feeling Ai, this after your: double spel: o two days. fresh eggs '| "Just a couple of iwhiff; {I'll go below," Both men wore | jsistant-keepers, yet :it need matiner of speech, to reveal Was & gentleman, born and Atlantic, liner, and - of white mist' wel aig d ey shore the waves. - ior : presence of/ the} steamship, a tiny, dull spot on the Peopled the void with oh ty poetry with the ShoNte. of ithe fom. ~in wl Copyright by McLeod & Allen, ° All night Tong the great bell of the | the third day, the waters under the beneath the lantern, halted for.a mo-{ morning. You oughtftoghe dead 'beat. i the jlast I'll keep, bi fast. k {until three bellsf(9.30 im fan sthere's othe their and the other as bluff good-natured; horny: LE. 'banish- hinly ' sheeted tiles more to the pleasures an dfollies of the great city. Yet he, the nian smoking and silently staring at the growing bank of smoke--a young man; too; handsome, erect, with the clean, ooth profile of thé 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 mew are constituted. And women! Bah! A hard look came Into his eves. His mouth set in a stern contempt. For sion which would have amazed the man within the lantern, now singing lustily as he worked. But as the harp of David caused the the music of the morning chase away the hirking devil of memory which sprang upon the lighthouse-keeper with the sight of the vessel. He smiled again, a trifle biiterly, perhaps. Behind him the singer' roar- ed genially "Soon we'll be in London Town, ilng., my lads, yeo ho-o, And WY sef the King in his golden crown, Sing, my lade, veo ho." be aroused from a painful reverie by the fiugle so curiously 4 propos to his thoughts. He tapped his pipe on the iron 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, rested on some object seemingly distant a mile | or less, and drifting slowly nearer with the tide. At this bour a two-knot current swept to the east around and over the treacherous reef whose ' sunken fangs were marked by the lighthouse. In eallm weather, such as prevailed Just then, it was difficult enough 0 effect a landing. at thé base of the rock, but this same smiling water- race becamegan awful, raging, tear ing fury when the waves were lash- ed into a storm He pocketed his pipe and stood with hands clenched on the rail, gazing in tently at a. white-paintied ship's life- boat, with a broken mast and a sail trailing over the stern. its color, with the sun shining on it, no less than the vaporous eddies fading down to the surface of the sea, had prev 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. Even .yet a landsman would have stared insolently in that direction and declared that there was naught els in sight save the steamer, whose all masts and two black funnels were [ now distinctly visible. "But the light house keeper knew he was not uiis taken. Here was a boat adrift, for lorn; deserted. Its contour told him that it was no local craft straying ad venturously from island to ihainland. Its unexpected presence, wafted thus strangely from ocean wilds, the bro ken spar and tumbled canvas, betok ened an accident, perchance a tragedy "Jim!" he cried. His mate, engaged in shrouding 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 handl, a mere shipboard trick of concentrating vision and brain, = for the rising sun was almost behind him "Ship's boat," he answered, latoni cally. "Collision, '1 expect. There'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--" 7 He spoke in a species of verbal shorthand, but his Weaning was cledr enough, even to the sentence left un finished. The craft ®as under no con trol. She would drift steadily into the Bay until the tide turned, wandet In an aimless circle for halt an hour thereafter, and then, when the ebb restored direction and force to the current, voyage' forth again to the fabled reaim of 'Lyonnesse. For a little while they stood togeth: er in silence. Jim suddenly quitted his companion and came back with p glasd. , He poised it with the prect plon of a Bisley marksnian and began to speak again, jerkily: "Stove in forrard, above the wate: | line, 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 wn the gun ed Don't Neglect, Catarr or resort to snuff and vapors--they only ir- ritate the delicate [|i membranes. Modern science proves catarrh a dymplom of poor th. Treat the cause with SCOTT'S EMULSION which contains. pure cod liver oil to enrich the blood and energize the system, hypo- phosphites to ish and up- build the nerves, glycerine to sooth and heal. ® * tarrh in a permanen catarr a + | natural way and it will help you. aio Avoid the alcabolic subutitites & while his face bore a steely expres-|: evil spirit to depart from Saul, so did' The man on the platform seemed to]! first bedroom, in the lower bunk of -| This was duty. opening | doors, forty feet sbove high-water ah < ned a shoal of Penzance fishing-smaeks making the best of the tide eastward--there was Ba a bey aud get hold her? be said. P Jim kept. his eye glued to the tele pcope. : ! "Talnt#worth it, cap"n. The sal fase 'll only be a pound or two, not but'whatalyaxtry suvrin comes in use ful, an' we might tie' her up to the buoy on the off chance until the re- lief comes or we signal a smack. But What's the good o' talkin'? We've got no boat, an' nobody'd be such a fool as to swim to her." "That is what ! had in mind." Jim fowered the glass. -- . ; "Thét's the fust. time I've ever heard you say a d--a silly thing, Ste- bhen Brand." \ There was no wavering judgment in his voice now. He was angry, and slightly alarmed. "Why is it so emphatically silly, Jim?" was the smiling query. ! "How d've know what's aboard of her? What's them fow! after? What's hinder that sali? ~ What's that lyin' crumpled up forrard" Dead men, Inebbe. If they are, she's convoyed by sharks." "Sharks! This is not the Red Sea. I am uot afraid of any odd prowler. A0nce-- Anyhow, I am going to ask Jones." . "Jones won't hear of it." "That is precisely what he will do, within the next minute. 4 Now, don't be vexed, Jim. Stand by and sing out directions if needful when I am in the water, Have no fear. I am more than equal to Leander in a sea. like this." > Jim, who trusted to the Lead -keep- er'd' veto,--awed, too, by the reference to Leander, whom he hazily associat- ed with Captain Webb, --made no re- joinder. He focused the telescope again, Eave a moment's scrutiny to the Steamer, and then re-examined the boat. The stillness of the morning Was solemn. Heyond the lazy splash Of the sea against the Gulf Rock fit- self, and an oceaglonal heavy surge ag the swell revealed and instantly smothered some dark tooth of tlg reef, he heard no sound gave the ring uf Stephen Brand's boots on the-tron stairs as he descended through the ofl-room, the library and office, to the which lay. Mr Jones' keeper and chief, recovering fron a sharp attack of sciatica. ' - During agne 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. alixious 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 oil, driven up from the tanks by weights moghine half 8 ton, must Row cop! 6" DYiES "Shaft of the burner, or the metal might yield to the fervent power of the col-| umn: of flame. | The oceulting hood, too, must be helped when the warning click came, | or it would jam and fail to fall per- lodically, thus changing the character of the light, to"the bewilderment and | grave peril of any unhappy Vessel | striving against the exterior turmoil | of wind and wave. 80 Jones passed four hours 'with his | head and-shoulders in the tempera | ture of a Turkish bath and the lower | part of his body chilled to the bone. | He thought nothing of it at the time. | But at intervals; | throughout the rest of his life, the sci- | atic nerve would remind him of that lonely watéh. This morning he was | convalescent after g painful immobil- | ity of two days. | Watching the 'boat, Jim centered | her in the teloscopic field, and looked anxiously for a sharp arrow-shaped | ripple on the surface of the sea. "The | breeze which had vanquished the fog now kissed the smiling - 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 starboatd side he could see several tins, sych as contain 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 might be a jib-sail fall en there when the mast broke. The birds were busy and excited. He did not like 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 big 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 silence, neither spoke nor look- ed around when his chief joined him, i binoculars in hand. Jones, a man of 'whitewash, polish, and rigid mdherence. to framed rules, found the boat Instantly, .and. reca. pitulated "Jim's inventory, eliciting grunts of agreement as each item was ticked off. Avclang ;of metal beneath caught thelr', ears--the of the stout mark, from which a series of iron rungs, sunk into the granite wall, led torthe rocky base. "Brand's goin' to swim out. It's hardly worth while sign®lfh' to the Land's End," commented Jones. No answer. Jim leaned well over and saw their associate, stripped to his underclothing, with a leather belt supporting =a sheath-knife slung Across his shoulders, climbing down the- ladder. Fy This taciturnity surprised Jones, for Jim was the cheeriest mfurse who ever brought, a eufferer a plate of soup. "It's* nothing for a good swimmer, * it?" was the anxious question. "No. It's no distance to 'speak of" Re be son's like @ mill-pond?" ; Al's smooth suough." # 10 try It? _ mw NATLY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1914. : HE clever house wife, who considers the pleasure and 'welfare of her family, takes particular pride in the coffee she serves. It is usually al Brand Coffee Chase @ Sanborn, Insist on 3 7+» Montreal. Having Pasteurized Milk Be Sure it is in Bottle Phone 845. 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