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Louis Tracy,
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Author of
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Copyright, 1004, by
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CIIAPTEH I. J
LL night long the grent boll of
the llulithuii.se, slung to a stout
beam projecting seaward bo-,
notith the outer i ilat form, had ,
tolled its warning through the fog.
The monotonous ticking of the clock- J
work attachment that governed It, the '
sharp and livelier click of the occult- j
lng hood's tuiichlncry, were the only ,
sounds which alternated with Its deep
boom. The tremendous clang sent a '
thrill through the giant column Itself
and pealed away Into the murky void
with a tremolo of profound diinlnu-1
tlous.
Overhead the magnificent lantern, its
eight ringed circle of flume burning at
full pressure, Illumined the drifting
vapor with an Intensity that seemed ro
be born of the sturdy granite pillar of
-which It was the fitting diadem. Hard
jmd strong externally as the everlast-
lug rock on which it stood, replete
within with burnished stool nnd polish-'
'd brass, great cylinders and powerful
pumps, the lighthouse thrust its glow- j
lug torch beyond the reach of the most
:aring wave, coin, ciour, ueunnc ic
looked. Yet Its superhuman eye
thought to pierce the very heart of the
fog, and the furnace white glare, con
centrated ten thousand fold by the en
girding hive of the dioptric lens, flung
far Into the gloom u silvery cloak of
mooDlikc majesty.
At last an Irresistible ally sprang to
the usslstance of the unconquerable
light. About the close of the middle
watch a gentle breeze from the Atlan
tic followed the tide nnd swept the
shivering wraith landward to the north
feast, while the first beams of a June
.sun completed the destruction of the
routed specter.
x So once more, as on the dawn of the
third day, the waters under the heaven
were gathered Into one place and the
dry land appeared, and, behold, It was
good.
On the horizon the turquoise rim of
the sea lay with the sheen of folded
iKilk against the softer canopy of the
csky. Toward the west a group of is
'binds, to which drifting banks of mist
-clung in melting despair, were etched
In shadows of dreamy purple. Over
the nearer sea floor the quickly dying
-vapor spread a hazy pall of opal tints.
Across the face of the waters glisten
ling bands of emerald green uud serene
lliluo quivered In fairy lights. The
.slanting rays of the sun threw broad
cast a golden mirage and glided all
tthings with the dumb gladness of an
English summer's day.
A man, pacing the narrow gallery be
iiieath the lantern, halted for a mo
ment to flood his soul afresh with a
beauty made entrancing by the knowl
edge that a few brief minutes Avould
(resolve It Into maturcr and more fa
imillar charms.
Ho was engaged, It Is true. In the
,unromantlc ajJon of filling his pipe,
a slmplo thing, beloved alike of poets
-and navvies, yet his eyes drank In the
,uiute glory of the scene, and, captive
to the spell of the hour, he murmured
aloud:
"Flouting on waves of music nnd of light,
Uehold the clmrlot of tho fairy nuccn!
Celestial coursers paw the unyielding air:
Their lllmy pennons at her word they furl
-And stop obedient to the reins of light."
The smnll door beneath tho glass
fane was open. The worker within,
busily cleaning nn eight inch burner,
sensed for nn Instant and popped his
licad out.
"Did you hall me?" he Inquired.
The matter of fact words awoke tho
dreamer. Ho turned with a pleasant
smile.
"To be exact, Jim, I dldJiall some
body, but It was Aurora, Spirit of tho
Dawn, not a hard bitten sallorman
like you."
"Oh, that's all right, cap'u! I thought
I heard you slnglu' out for a light."
Tho other man bent his head to shield
a match from a puff of wind, thus con
coaling from his companion tho gleam
of nmusement In his eyes. Ills mate
sniffed the fragraut odor of the tobacco
longingly, but the Elder Brethren of
the Trinity maintain strict discipline,
and ho vanished to his task without
a thought of broken rules.
Ho left a piece of good advice be
hind him.
"If I was you, cap'n," ho snld, "I'd
'turmln. Jones Is feelln' Al this morn
In'. Ho conies on nt 8. You ought to
be dead beat after your double spell
of the last two days. I'll keep break
fust back until three bells (0:110 n. m.),
.an' there's fresh eggs nn hnddlck."
"Just a couple of whiffs, Jim. Then
311 go below."
Both men wore the uniform of assist
ant keepers, yet It needed not their
manner of speech to reveal that one
was n gentleman born nnd bred and
Jtho other a bluff, good natured, horny
'.handed A. B to whom new lujd eggs
nnd recently "cured" fish appealed far
more potently than Shelley and a sum
mer dawn at sea.
lie who had Involuntarily qtwted
"Queen Mab" turned his gaze seaward
again. Each moment the scene was be
coming more brilliant, yet nearer to
earth. The faroff islands sent splashes
of gray, brown and green through the
purple. The rose Hush on the horizon
was assuming a yellower tinge, and the
blue of sky and water was deepening.
Twenty miles away to the southwest
tiie smoke of n steamer heralded the
advent of an Atlantic liner, and tho last
shreds of white mist were curling for- J
lornly above the waves. I
The presence of the steamship, a tiny I
dull spot on the glowing picture, peo- j
pied the void with life and banished
poetry with the thinly sheeted ghosts '
..! ,1... ... f. .t ltl ntnril tltfltl .1,1 I
Ul llll" l"H' " " llll"- UIIMU HHIl .III
hour she would be abreast of the Gulf
Hock light. The watcher believed-was
almost certain. In fact that she was
tho Princess Royal, homeward bound
from New York to Southampton. From
her saloon deck those enthusiasts who
had risen early enough to catch a first
glimpse 'of the English coast were al-,
ready scanning the trimly rugged out
lines of the Scllly isles and searching
with their glasses for the Land's End
and the Lizard.
In u few hours they would be In
Southampton; that afternoon In Lon
donLondon, 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 straining ns if
she were beginning, not ending, her
ocean race of :i,000 miles, was carrying
eager hundreds to the pleasures and
follies of the great city. Yet he, the
man smoking and silently staring at
the growing bank of smoke a young
man, too; handsome, erect, with the
clean, smooth profile of the aristocrat
hud turned his back on It all and
sought and found peace here in the
gaunt pillar on a lonely rock.
Strange how differently men are con
stituted. And women! Hah! A hard
look came into his eyes. Ills mouth set
In a stern contempt. For a little while
his face bore a steely expression which
woi.-ld have amazed the man within the
lantern, now singing lustily as he
worked.
But, as the harp of David caused the
evil spirit to depart from Saul, so did
the music of the morning chase away
the' lurking devil of memory which
sprang upon the lighthouse keeper with
the sight of the vessel.
He smiled again, a trifle bitterly per
haps. Behind him the singer roured
genially:
"Soon we'll be In London Town,
Sing, my lads, yeo ho-o!
And see the king In his golden crown,
Sing, my lads, yeo ho!"
The man on the platform seemed to
be aroused from a painful reverie by
the jingle so 'curiously apropos to his
thoughts. He tapped his pipe on the
iroi; railing and was about to enter the
lantern and so to the region of sleep
beneath when suddenly his glance,
trained to an aouteness not dreamed of
by folk ashore, rested on some object
seemingly distant a mile or less uud
drifting slowly nearer with tho tide.
At this hour a two knot current
swept to tho east around nnd over the
treacherous reef whose sunken fangs
were marked by the lighthouse. In
culm weather, such ns prevailed Just
then, It wus dlfllculL enough to effect a
landing at the base of the rock, but
this same smiling water race became
nn awful, rugiug, tearing fury when
tho waves were lashed Into a storm.
He pocketed his pipe and stood witli
bauds clinched on the rail, gazing In
tently at a white painted 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 tho
surface of the sea, had prevented him
from seeing It earlier. Perhnps he
would not have noticed It at all were
It not for the flashing wings of several
sea birds which accompanied the craft
in aerial escort.
Even yet a landsman would hnve
stared Insolently In that direction and
declared that there was naught else
In sight save the steamer, whoso tall
masts and two black funnels were now
distinctly visible, but the lighthouse
keeper knew ho was not mistaken.
Hero wus a boat adrift, forlorn, de
serted. Its contour told him that it
was no local craft straying ndven
turously from Island or mainland. Its
unexpected presence, wafted thus
strangely from ocenn wilds, the broken
spar and tumbled canvas, betokened
nn accident, porchanco a trogedy.
"Jim!" he cried.
Ills mate, engaged In shrouding the
gleaming lenses .from Uie sun's rays,
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came nt the call. He was lame, tho
result of a wound received In the
Egyptian campaign; nevertheless, ho
was quick on his feet.
"What do you make of that?"
The sailor required no more than n
gesture. lie shaded his eyes with his
right hand, a mere shipboard trick of
concentrating vision and brain, for
the rising sun1 was almost behind him.
"Ship's boat," ho answered laconical
ly. "Collision, I expect. There's bin
no blow to speak of for days. Hut
they're gone. Knocked overboard when
she Avas took aback by u squall. Un
less them birds"
Ut spoke In a species of verbal short
hand, but his meaning was clear
enough, even to the sentence left un
finished. Tho craft was under no con
trol. She would drift steadily Into tho
bay until the tide turned, wander In
nn aimless circle for half an hour
thereafter, and then, when tho ebb re
stored direction nnd force to the cur
rent, voyage forth again to tho fublcd
realm of Lyonnesse.
For a little while they stood together
In silence. Jim suddenly quitted his
companion and came back with a glass.
He poised It with the precision of a
Illsley marksman and began to speak
again Jerkily:
"Stovo In forrard, nbove tho water
line. Wouldn't live two minutes In a
sea. Soincthln' lyln' In the bows.
Can't mnke It out. And there's a
couple of cormorants perched on the
gunwnle. But she'll pass within 200
yards on her present course, an' the
tlde'll hold long enough for that."
The other man looked around. From
that elevated perch, I'M feet above
high water mark, ho could survey a
vast area of sea. Excepting the ap
proaching steamer which would flit
past a mile away to tho south and a
few distant brown specks which be
tokened a shoal of Penzance fishing
smacks making tho best of the tide
eastward there was not n sail In
sight.
"I think we should try to get hold
of her," ho snld.
Jim kept his eye glued to the tele
scope. "'Tnln't worth It, cap'n. The sal
vage Ml only bo a pound or two, not
but what an -'extry suvrln comes in
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to swim to her."
"That Is what 1 had In mind."
.lim lowered the lsik,s.
"That's the fust time I've ever bean
you say such a silly thing. Stephen
Brand."
There was no wavering Judgment It,
his voU:e now. lie .was angry and
slightly alarniod.
"Why Is It so emphatically silly.
Jim?" was the snillllig query.
"How d'ye know what's aboard of
her? What's them fowl after? What's
under that sail? What's that lyln'
crumpled up forrard? Dead men,
mebbe. If they are, she's convoyed by
sharks."
"Sharks! Tills it not the Bed sea. I
am not afraid of any odd prowler.
Once Anyhow! I am going to ask
Jones."
"Jones won't hear of It."
"That Is precisely what he will do,
within the next minute. 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 moro than
equal to Leander in a sea like tills."
Jim, who trusted to the head keep
er's veto awed, too, by the reference
to Leander, whom he hazily associated
with Captain Webb made no rejoinder.
He focused the telescope again, gave
a moment's scrutiny to the steamer
and then ro-exainlned the boat. Tho
stillness of the morning wus solemn.
Beyond tho lazy splash of the sea
against the Gulf Hock Itself and an oc
casional heavy surge as the swell re
vealed and Instantly smothered some
dark tooth of the reef ho heard no
sound save the ring of Stephen Brand's
boots on tho Iron stairs as ho descend
ed through the oil room, the library and
office to the first bedroom, in the low
er bunk of which lay Mr. Jones, keeper
and chief, recovering from a sharp at
tack 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 de
ranged the occulting machinery, Jones
experienced an nnxlous wntch. Not for
nn Instant could ho forego attendance
on tho lamp. Owing to the sleet It was
necessary to keep the light at full pres
sure. Tho surplus oil, driven up from
tho tanks by weights weighing half a
ton, must flow copiously over the brass
shaft of the burner or the metal might
yield to the fervent power of the col
umn of flame.
The occulting hood, too, must be help
ed when the warning click camo or It
would Jnm nnd full to fall periodically,
thus changing tho character of tho
light, to tho bewilderment and grave
peril of any unhappy vessel striving
against tho exterior turmoil of wind
nnd wave.
So Jones passed four hours with his
head and shoulders In tho temperature
of a Turkish bath and tho lower part
of his body chilled to the bone.
IIo thought nothing of it at the time.
This was duty. But at Intervals
throughout tho rest of his llfo the sci
atic nerve would remind him of that
lonely watch. This morning ho waH
convalescent after a painful Immobility
of two days.
Watching the boat, Jim centered her
In tho telescopic field and looked jinx
lously for n sharp arrow shaped rlpplo
on the surface of the sea. The breczo
which had vanquished the fog now
kissed the smiling water Into dimples,
nnd his keen sight was perplexed by
tho myriad wavelets.
Each minute the condition of affairs
on board became moro defined. Be
neath some oars ranged along tho star
board side he could see several tins,
such ns contain biscuits nnd compress
ed Iwef. The shapeless mass In tho
bows puzzled him. It was partly cov
ered with broken planks from the dam
aged portion of the upper works, and
It might be a Jib sail fallen there when
the mast broke. The birds were busy
and excited. IIo did not like that.
Nearly half an hour passed. Tho
rrlnccss Hoyul, n lino vessel of yacht
like proportions, sprinting for the aft
ernoon train, was about eight miles
nwny, sou'west by west. According to
present Indications, steamer and dere
lict would bo abreast of the Gulf Bock
light simultaneously, but the big ship,
of course, would gtvo a wide berth to
a rock Btrown shoal.
At last tho lighthouse keeper heard
ascending footsteps. Tills was not
Stephen Brand, but Jones. Jim, whoso
raro Irritated moods found safety In
stolid silence, neither spoke nor looked
around when his chief joined htm, bin
oculars In hand. (
Jones, a man of whitewash, polish
nnd rigid adherence to framed rules,
found the boat Instantly nnd recapitu
lated Jim's Inventory, eliciting grunts
of agreement as each Item was ticked
off.
A clang of metal beneath caught their
ears the opening of the stout doors,
forty feet above high water mark, from
which n series of Iron rungs sunk in
tho grnnlte wall led to the rocky base.
"Brand's goin' to swim out. It's
hardly worth while slgfiallu' to tho
Land's End," commented Jones.
No answer. Jim leaned well over
and saw their associate, stripped to
his underclothing, with a leather bolt
supporting a sheath knife slung across
his shoulders, climbing down the lad
der. Tills taciturnity surprised Jones, for
Jim was tho cheeriest nurse who ever
brought a sufferer a plate of soup.
"It's nothing for a good swimmer, la
It?" was the anxious question.
"No. It's no distance to speak of.".
"An' the sea's like a mill pond?"
"Aye, It's smooth enough."
"Don't you think he ought to try it?
Every fine mornln ho has a dip off tho
rock."
"Well, If It's all right for him an'
you it's all right for me."
Jim had urged his plea to the man
whom It chiefly concerned. He wus
for too sporting a character to obtain
tho Interference of ' authority, and
Jones, whose maritime experiences
were confined to the hauling In or pay
ing out of a lightship's cable, had not
tho slightest suspicion of lurking dan
ger In the bluodepths.
(To ho Continued )
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