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Darkness and Dawn
BY HARRY IRVING GREENE
Copyright 190C by Joseph B Bowles
i In the fullness of their lives there
conies to many an hour a day or a
week when the dead weight of black
despair crushes the last hope and the
thought of earthly existence fills them
with a weariness unutterable Then
it Is that certain natures walk to the
Brink and half fascinated by its aw
ful mystery stand staring into the
silent depths while the Icy sweat
gathers on their brows and their limbs
shake like wind thrummed reeds
So it came about that Kent stood
looking from the black doorway of
the warehouse Into the early night
It was a long time since Kent had
been happy so long in fact that ho
sometimes doubted that he ever had
been Still his experience was but
the story of a man bitterer than
most mens possibly yet common
place enough to make the details un
necessary telling Suffice to say he
had looked from sunset until dawn
into the muzzle of his own gun and
now was telling himself that he had
seen enough of this thing called Life
and that he would have no more of
it It was not worth its suffering
He turned up his collar and looked
from the doorway again Coming
down the empty street that led to the
wharves he saw a woman who leaned
far forward as she forced her slender
form against the burly strength of
the wind
I You are going to a boat he in
quired
She looked at his face for the first
time and answered him rapidly Yes
the Senator It sails at nine and I
must hurry She stepped to the
pavement and Kent stood watching
her fighting against the wind A wild
impulso surged within him
1 What better way to end it all than
a plunge from the deck A brief
struggle with the waves a dream of
fields and music and then the last
great unconsciousness No one would
ever know what had become of him
Gossiping tongues could say no more
than that he had disappeared
I am jroing to the Senator also
jhe shouted hunying to her side
Take my arm and hang on hard
i She stopped short shot him a quick
iiipward glance and then he felt her
fingers close upon his sleeve Flushed
and breathing heavily they crossed
Ithe gangway and stood before the
office of the purser
Yes the ship is going to sail to
inight said that official in a matter
of fact toie The cargo has got to
jgo gale or no gale But all our pas
sengers have canceled their berths
and you two will have the salon to
yourselves Of course you under
stand it is going to be pretty rough
outside
She nodded and both made their
iway to the salon
I From out of the great northeast
there swept that night a gale that
hvhipped itself into a hurricane
Huger and more huge rose the steep
ihills before the laboring Senator
Jblack solid battering her front with
herculean blows twisting her steel
Iframe like a giant wrestler
From the depths of his big chair in
the salon Kent watched the girl as
she sat nsarly opposite him She had
lisuessiy mrown asiae uer nut anu
mnder the lights of the cabin the
dark masses of her hair shone with
the luster of polished ebony
Then suddenly she arose and glanc
ing neither to right or left went with
in a stateroom while the man sinking
lower in the chair let his eyelids fall
f Endlessly the huge rollers came
thundering over the wallowing Sen
ator burying her beneath their
jblack weight crushing her down into
the depths but each time she arose
Qike some half drowned thing and
Ishudderingly shook herself free
s For an hour Kents eyes swept the
length of the dim cabin listlessly
then suddenly he leaned forward
From her stateroom the girl came
creeping and with one hand against
the wall to steady her she slowly
made her way towards where he sat
The man caught his breath and drew
further into the shadow as she passed
him in the half darkness A moment
later her fingers closed upon the knob
of the door leading to the deck as
she twisted and tugged at it vainly
5 Oh oh she cried as she turned
away and covered her face with her
hands A sudden lurch of the ship
threw her towards him and springing
to his feet Kent caught her by the
arm
Kent knew that one motive only
could have actuated her to seek that
surge swept deck and her motive had
been his motive of -the hour before
But for a woman like her He grew
cold at the thought
Go back to your stateroom he
began sternly then caught her a sec
ond time for her knees had grown
limp and she was slipping to the floor
Then as he looked about the deck rose
heneath his feet in a mighty upheaval
and the dull crash of rent wood and
iron filled his ears Rendered awk
ward by his burden Kents feet
tripped upon a threshold and he fell
heavily forward dimly conscious that
something had struck him violently
upon the head And the next roll of
the ship banging the door shut left
him and the one he had borne motion
less upon the floor of the smoking
room
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Capt Peterson went about the deck
giving tiis orders with cool precision
The lashings of the life boats were
cut the falls manned and out of the
bowels of the ship the half drowned
stokers came swarming
Down to stateroom number 12 where
the only woman passenger should
have been the purser ran and threw
open the door Her hat and wraps
lay upon the bed but the girl was not
there Number 17 the stateroom as
signed to the gentleman was also va
cant
They must have got out of the
cabin somehow and been swept over-
board said the captain as last man
of all he took his place in the stern
sheets of a life boat Anyway we
have got to get out of this He gave
the order to lower away and the small
boats vanished into the night
Twenty miles east of Point On I
tonoggin the lake shoals to a depth of
50 feet and it so happened that it
was at this point that the Senator
made her linal plunge There she lay
with her head upon the bottom and
stern afloat submerged to the waist
and with the seas broaching over her
An hour passed and the girl awoke
Half bewildered and merely seeking
to get out of the dark den in which
she found herself she got upon hands
and knees and crawled across the
floor that planted almost like a roof
A moment later she came across the
prostrate form of a man and after
her first instinctive recoil approached
him again and found that he breathed
Then she searched his vest pocket
found matches and struck one into aj
flame She saw that his head was
bleeding and without hesitation took
it in her lap and strove to staunch
the red flow with her handkerchief
The gray dawn filtered through the
windows and Kent opened his eyes
and stared blankly at her until re
turning memory told him who dhet
was Next he smiled a bit and got
upon his feet witlr a good deal of
trouble The girl was sitting with
hands clasped and face averted and
without addressing her he scrambled
into the vestibule and from that out
to the slant deck
The wind had dropped to half a gale
and the seas although still plentyj
high enough ran smoothly and no
longer broke over the floating stern
He called to her telling her to get a
rug and when she had dore that he
half dragged her up the steep incline
wrapped the rug about her and to j
gether they sat upon the deck in thei
lee of the cabin with their backs
braced against it
Silently they watched the gray roll
ers race into the west and the low
flights of the scurrying storm clouds
each knowing what the other thought
We have stood hand in hand upon
the Brink and gazed as deep as
Caught Her a Second Time
tals can into eternity he said grave
ly Are you glad we got no further
She turned her face towards his own
looking steadily into his eyes
Yes she replied I am glad
Then after a moments pause
Have you too changed your mind
He looked across the waste Yes
he said at length When I saw you
trying to gain that deck and realized
why you wished to gain it well I
forgot about myself I only wanted
to reason you back to sanity
And except for that
Except for that I should have
found a way to the deck He drew
his coat closely about him huddling
in it to escape the chill
The planks beneath them heaved
and sunk the spume fell about them
in spatters and above their heads the
gulls wheeled and cried
A hoarse roar came across the
waters and Kent springing to his feet
scrambled to the rail and waved his
arms frantically A quarter of a mile
away the smoke whipping from her
funnels in black streamers a lake
liner was wallowing
They are lowering a surf boat
they -are coming said he with a
laugh as he turned upon the girl
Together we have walked to the
mouth of the Pit and together wo
go back to new life new work new
hope yes perhaps even to a new
love
He helped her to her feet and hand
in hand they stood upon the deck
watching the life boat as it came
steadily towards them over the crests
of the heaving seas
FILLING UP THE CANADIAN WEST
The American Settler Is Welcomed
to Canada
A number of the leading newspa
pers on this side of the line have been
noticing the growth of the Canadian
West in recent years and draw atten
tion to the fact that there seems to be
no abatement of the influx of settlers
to that great grain growing country
The Buffalo Express thus refers to the
subject
Canada West continues to grow
There were 4174 homesteads entries
there in July of this year as against
3571 in July 1905 Canada plumes
herself over this fact with becoming
pride But what appears to make our
neighbors happiest is the statement
that of these 4174 homesteaders
1212 were from this side of the line
Little is said about the 97 Canadians
who recrossed the border to take up
homes in Canada West or of the 808
from Great Britain or of the 1236
from non British countries It ap
pears that the item in this July report
that makes Canada rejoice most is
this of the 1212 American farmers
who decided to try their fortunes in
Canada West
The compliment is deserved The
1212 were mostly from Dakota and
other farming states and go Into
Canada fitted better than any other
class of immigrants for developing the
new country They take capital with
them too say Canadian papers proud
ly In every way they are welcome
over there
As the Express well says the
American is welcomed to Canada and
the reasons given are sufficient to in
vite the welcome The Amerlacn
farmer knows thoroughly the farming
conditions that prevail In the Cana
dian prairie provinces and is aware
of every phase of agricultural devel
opment in recent years
In practical knowledge of what is
wanted to get the largest return for
labor and investment he is by long
odds superior to any European set
tler He knews what is required to
bring success and he is ablo and will
ing to do it and his future causes no
apprehension to the successful Cana
dian farmer The agent of the Cana
dian Government whose address ap
pears elsewhere says that the differ
ence between the manners and cus
toms of the farmer from Dakota Ore
gon or Minnesota and the farmer from
Manitoba Saskatchewan or Alberta
is not nearly so marked as that be
tween the farmer of the Maritime
provinces and the Ontario tiller of the
soil Hence the welcome to the free
homesteads of the Canadian West
and there are hundreds of thousands
of them left that is extended to the
settler from the Western States
Tea on the Down Grade
Tea drinkers are finding scant en
couragement in a report recently
made by a large tea exporting house
in Yokohama to its American cus
tomers Incidentally it indicates that
the United States is not alone in fac
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costs more and in consequence cul
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generous and extensive than formerly
and less care and skill are expended
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the average quality of the teas now
offered for sale is below that of sea
sons prior to the war and for the
same reasons we are not likely in the
future to see any reversion to the
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