Show n THE GARLAND ®c Marke 4 Romance of the Great Lakes By KARL W DETZER Op7‘nh TNUSh bf Th MmU CHAPTER XIII— It snapped directly over Norman’s head uncoiled In the wind arhlpped down He caught It loosely under hla arm Norman took s full brenth and with the line still under his arm set one f Cm Continued —14— Norman dragged McCarthy past the threatening flywheel and stowed him brne-- ' under the tow forward lug hint down with eta and a cork belt the At item he lifted the trap and taggered out again into the eighties Immensities of the night It was hideous this time A mo Norman faltered ment Then he slammed down the trap “ eS ' Shipped his" face The tiller foot at Its lines under yanking lie re banged against his left ankle tensed the lines and gripped- the oak heels b' The boat bur between (lie push of Its progladly answered Norman clinging to the hand peller rail felt the water os It swept over him tearing the sou’wester from his cblng hpntL When ther's raft was rising high on the The horizon top of another roller lay black on all Sides Wlmt did that What could It meant mean? tine Fogl thing one only a bit of thick went her?' Wbot "Wlmt’ be asked himself groggily a bit of thick weather to an Krlck Abrtiii onr The It had become bitterly cold Ilnw many Bight was far along hours had he worked on that blasted or perhaps" Two Biotort anyway Hut three Duyllght must be near IVns the how far had he drifted? or ten mlies? ahead shore a mil' Was It snnd or reefs? Eht What wus that? He beard a sound down the squall fai lag wind an Intlnltesltnal sou ml No not wind It came way Wlndf a distant and hulls tluct too steadily Blind Battle As fog signal? snore Blau’s Eye? No too long a note for He heurd It either of them A what It was ! That’s A vessel one unbroken vessel 'ong suppliant blast told hlrrmelf “Distress I” Norman be 8untted low against the cabin In "Vessel Continuous distress aaln bias" the His tired eyes picked through It The night laughed darkness slapped s million new winds booted A winds down upou hint toweled faint luminance shone above the port The liolzon ran It wus day bow at two hundred halted backward yards and held fast s Ttmn blew past Five minutes broke ouf of blur of dark solidity He could make the watery walls It moment a for of mulling Shape ft a bulky less Immensity high slow even motion Then moved with from one side an Iren propeller took oiape It was the stern of s freighter as she came nearer her Craduully bow heaved Into view low !o the wa ter with breakers smashing across the pilot house flooding the observation she proved to be of An ore carrier old build and eight or ten hntches sinking sinking by the bow The storm pushed her towurd NorThe misty man His eyes strnined forms of five men clung- to the raTT rail Forward of the coal bunkers hanging to a line he made oat others He saw empty davits swinging like supplicating arms above the deckhouses Their lifeboats had Empty smashed on beet lost then doubt Little smoke showed from the fun vessel iiel of the Fires Norman were evidently dyln strained his eyes for the name of the wreck Ad He mudu It out at lust Th ndru! Burkett of Duluth She wul Norman pitied her lowed like a toy water there In that malignant Ills own bout Tas getting nowhere South or east which waa he headed? NorOnce more the fog purled He did man squinted his eyes not believe whut he saw at flrst Straight aheud the not three iiIIps loomed dunes bf the Michigan coast At the same time through the murky a of early morning real red glow burst forth upon the bench A Coston slgnnl coast guardsmen They had heard the Admiral Burkett's distress call The nen od the- freighter waved their arms The flare was a warning to their captain It told him that be was near shore- -It might TueuB rocks ft head and the loss of his vessel or perhaps might mean sate rescue wet death With his profiler high above the water and boiler Ores out be was helpless Six men clawing along a lifeline on the vrkett's deck teetered through seasVo the flooded chain locket under the texus They tumbled from sight and Immediately afterward a bow anchor dropped It slipped low er and lower Into the water dragging Its chain down through the of the Burkett had let to keep from drngglna found bottom Inin Would she hold? Norman brought his boat lab- the he wind for the third time Again It hud been remembered the doctor hours since he had heard a sound from be him might McCarthy Ty- captain the anchor The ashore go dead His own plight hud become a thin His own life and imri front him Gusto Ts boot were Insignificant - he was acareJl Beared? Who wouldn't be? (Is remembered wlmt Delong hud said Those men on the were they scared too? Of freighter course they were The ore currier snapped at her anchor Fighting against It she bucked shoreward Now she held She thumped down ou the rocky ledge and stood flriu a moment Tlieu a lumpy roller lifted her and thrashed hei mercilessly The men on the deck threw up their bunds Korniun f uncled that he heard them cry out all together They slid scrambled sllppeil The freighter poised for one brave uioinenLTUen wlttra’slow weary gesture she rolled upon tier port side wuve smacked mer her and the funnel still carrying a wisp of gumke tumbled sud pitched Into tbs froth of waters Norman kicked over the tiller He’d better wutch Ills own going If he wanted ever to see bonis again HtinicJ He Justed the word bitterly — tthat— we"4tl To whom was he going home? To old Gustat? A chilly grief spread No heart lie choked It through away There was no time for regrets Again he dodged the reef No chance of crossing It Must go around As lie slid into a trougo mounted the next wave and glanced shore ward he cried out and gripped tight cabin the against Illlnd Man's Eye! Stilt unyielding unmindful of wind and water it puked op It head half a mile to the southwest atony the coast At the aame Iriwtarit a crumble pressed out ward Two short against the wind one long two short Norman's feet steadied on the tiller The husky voice of Blind Man's Eye called to him It wel uproariously coined lilin home Between the wash and the tower like grasshoppers on the sand a coast crew made ready tlielr gun guard So It was one of Parish's men who burned the Coston They would send a shot line across the wreck of the Admiral Burkett haul out the hawser breeches the buoy and take carrying la her men Relief like a soft warm breeze limited through Norman’s spirit Re lief They were safe those sailors Now he need only get his own boat hf ashore chill wave slapped down upon Shoot a line? Shoot a line out Mud’s Teeth? They emildn’t He turned cold sick Cap tain Parish had said so himself Well Urey were trying It anyhow On shore the brass gun exploded Its projectile broke through the mist The shot line uncoiled spun Into the A second Too short air after IL and a thlr time the line sagged Into the water Short Too much wind him to Blind do Unit Too TIMES GARLAND UTAH much weather Minutes half hours were passing NorAshore the surfmen stood Idly man guessed that they were debating themselves debating whether among ne their bonL dnred launch they thought w!h a quickening heart of foot on the wet coaming alongside the cabin Cautiously gripping the bund rail doused deep under mountainous waves he crawled to tba bow of bis boot He mad the line fust to the post “Come on!” he bowled and the wind ate up his voice Fresh blasts ripped out of the north The fish boat drew away from the freighter until the thin line snupedA tight Norman glanced overside dark shape was rolling toward him A man? on the crest of a gray wave He No a dog The ship's dog One moment reached out hla arm be drew - back his hand Again ‘he leaned out strained toward the animal It was a big dog a good Ilia fingers gripped the balr (hen a strong metal collar "Jump" be cried "Jump P A wave leaped high over thq coaming and flung the wet dog groveling at He looked up quickly at hla feet the deck above bowled “Come on men burry I” he — —— ”1" againA pair of boot protruded over the higher rail They slid Jerking along the life line from the eteumer deck Norman body followed bulky to bis kneee the fellow drugged opened the forward batch und flung In the seaman He threw the dog In too Were be slapped eliul the A second pair of boots kicked cover out ol the fog Aguln the hatch This opened aud shut with a bang time water poured Into the cabin Norman thought of the wiring of the Its best engine doing Without the engine If the wiring came wet that thin little lne would Without the engine part In a second there was no hope A third man gilded the rope hand The a fifth over band a fourth peered mist slit open and Norman up through wet lashes with aching Five more heads tormented eyes Farther eft anbobbed Into sight other paying him no attention stood Immovably by the rail watching this rescue tnk'ng no part In It hazardous Thai Six more to make the trip that was the cap last one a cap tain It flashed over Norman tain loath to leave hie command What difference to the captain If she were only a tramp vessel what difference If her very heart were torn out already? ills own hie own comIlls Normuu remembered mand! ther who swam alone from the wreck shoal of his schooner on Mustache It would be hard to bring the captain a seventh A sixth man slid down The eighth the ninth ere the rest?" Nornmn “Where screamed “Four washed overboard In the dark launch the lifeboats" the trying to tenth sailor answered His great voice “The old was hoarse and blustery don’t think man's there yet He Jabbed a glove to he'll come" ore carrier ward the broken The captain hnd raised one foot toward the rail Norman saw tils Old lie face for a troubled second A sen with red whiskers appeared It Before broke across the deck came the officer had drawn back his coolly as a man Deliberately foot at hla own fireside ha braced his body while he fumbled In fils pocket opened a clasp knife and slashed the Fie watched the fish boat ride rope He waved once and safely away behind the rail Such was He was not seen again his code - CHAPTER XIV Home lln shut the Norman slapped NorAshore men were running trap and man drove the bow deliberately against Die high spitting desperately lie wa wash of the beach rlk!ng But why his father’s boat Whose boat was she now OiistaTs grout little boat She was or his? Brave De wasn’t she? Well built wlmt Handle her properly pendnhle What do? hadn't she wouldn't she Ah done for Gustaf? For Outf? She but she wns his son's boat now would do at much for him Ten ull mRors and Doctor ors McCarthy depet ded on him lie drove the boat cruelly he mended A boat could Forty yards from the bench Nor out the forms of men man made line Into the surf a with running that togetliei his eye He screwed ad heeti were blue as his father’s He watched Captain Stocking tils fat con red face twlsteo Into astounding tours his moutb like a cavern bare Delong He watched Janie headed hauling with the surfmen He watched Bue Blocking thrash la to the waves with the men sud Jutle in wuter Ulchaud up to her kiee flats to her cheeks Immovable as the light tower itself staring straight at hhn In an ecstscy of terror go Julie had come? Come to pay Sunday visit If spite of what Cap hid said? lie would lain Stocking this 'Ime Make her stay convince The fishing bout flung atop the last It scraped agnlasi of the breakers bottom with an Impact that threat head from hi ened to tear Nornmn end hie heart from hi shoulders chest Trap to the cahln shipped off The from tie Admiral Buiketf tailors tumbled np to the de k In agonized attitudes of horror hurt and dismay Th d"X leaped ul Aral among theia overboard and started He plunged Parish swimming to shorexJut staggered through the tide of a tlpy nt? wsr1 Ht It What Heard Again A Vessel It WasI A Vessel That’i the only other time that Parish's boat had put out since he catue to the a poor figure He had made point And that night remaining ashore Joirtghtr home lujrCat-e- letter seized him Afraid? A madness He'd never reoliy jjeart? Coward? If Parish’s crew tested hlirself wouldn't attempt this why shoiildn he do It for them? Why not? be But must Hr could try It hurry Hours the vessel had wsllowed He piloted tiustafa boat toward the whiteheaded Breakers steamer like gluata Incredibly whltebearded powerful pom old aud unbelievably But the motor ineled the aide Norman's feet chugged unexcltedly He worked nimbly along the tiller glanced shoreward once The surfmen In light group stmui close togefher undoubtedly They They sow him were staying ashore while he tried It out No power bout could make the wind against surf (hut through It wa up to him I’urlbh had fulled Woiild he full too? bow closer under He sorked hi the lee of fhe wreck Twenty yards A sailor away the deck tipped now til arm crawled on colled a with oie tv the full He flung down the rope hr wave Thy captain flung the line from Ids shoulders It landed with a thud on the deck A sailor grabbed It and made It fnst to deal “Wads Lai" Norman shouted to McCarthy Norman watching hint go felt the boat tip under foot An unsuspected roller struck him from behind and wrenching loose bla grip swept him overboard The wel line streaked above him He grasped it tugged swallowed sand and water beard an enormous roarlug as of Innumerable field pieces breathed air once more and was dragged to land to It was Julie who was talking bla ear saying sweet silly things Why waa he so tired? Why was Julie here? He opened hla eyes Why was James Delong toting blm on bis back? Th cy"'?cached the lighthouse “I’ll call you Julie" Delong said want to rub “Just a minute him down" “Here’s a sailor ht baa broken arm" that was Sue’s voloa “And father Normnn brought In ten men I" “And s dog" Captain 8tocking added “A dog?" Sue cried A dog? What NOrman relaxed of it? “Whose "Ship’s v' swered dog?" 8ue demanded dog" Samuel Stocking w an- Norman ihook bis head "That ship's he contradicted broken up It's my dog now" felt like Iron Delong’s Augers the flesh on his back pinching “That's enough" the lawyer cried "have you In bed In minute Here warm you some of this take "No" complained " somebody McGoogan to’ lusn?ctof McGoogan?” Captain Stocksnapped hla fingers “That snoop alligator I I've writ him I" "About me?" esked Norman Sue Stocking broke In quickly "Did you have letter from a Norman and hot tell us?" ing In' Norman Captain nodded Stocking gulped Well I had one too Erickson And I answered It ‘Conduct unbecomln' the eervlcel Joslah Parish will write McGoogan now 1 guess and Doc McCarthy Don’t you need Ue mopped to worry none I" his face “You young ‘nns have took all the tucker out of me this day for sure Too many things at odcsI" He looked accusingly at hie daughter ' “Why couldn't you of welted? 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"Ye Sweeter i PHILLIPS C up" It was It burned his throat whatever Languidly he closed bla eyes the wind hooted Norman Outside It rocked beard It peacefully Wind? And fellow to eleep that wind he used to fear It? No he couldn’t have feared wind Be loved It Just as his father did “I'm coming In!" Her eager warm litJulie’s voice He Norman sat up feebly tle voice at last remembered Today was SunThe keeper bad the equinoxlal day not wanted visitors “Julie" he whispered "Julie come bere a minute" But why She cume with a rush What waa there to wns she crying? cry about? Or was that Just Julle’a why she would Cry way? cry or laugh one of the two every ten minutes or else she'd die That he Wasn't half was all right He patted her Frenchle hluiself? hand “Give me my best suit" he bade "In that closet a husky whisper My uniform That’s IL Thank want And Julie when I come out to tell you something" (Ie fumbled Into bis clothes No In on bed Sunday with time to be Julie Itlchaud visiting the light He Into (be kitchen walked nnsteadUy sat by the stove Doctor McCarthy Ills fat face “1 can't thank ycu all at once In there Erickson" "That’s nothing" grinned “Here's coffee Norman" Julie said "Thanks" he answered Tears again wet her eyes "No call' for crying" be said awkNorman wardly ‘‘Npt cry for gladness?"-"Le- t her cry I” boomed McCarthy her hand and Norman squeezed with exploring feet sought the kitchen He must get outside 'or s min door wind the must feel again tel It ute Most of all he must clear his head see the radiant white tower of Blind Man's Eye lie walked slowly around the house Midway to the deeply breathing his daughter tower Samuel Stocking and James Delong were tramping toThe men lifted their reel ward him Sue walked heavily Hke pack horses between them with her chin high Her that she Queer face was happy Queer? Why should look ao happy he happy himself? He Wasu'l not But not a a was returned to land He had not fled the tea fugitive Land and gray sea he loved both of It waa s He feared neither them dream that he ever had feared a with the soft Insipid dream melting ses both were and laud gray tog beneficent to him The floor waa wet the carpel aog Captain Storking gy In the parlor cIihIt and hie rocking sunk Into Julie out his short legs stretched the kitchen from door opened the In composedly She came “Good riddance I" the captatu said a "Good rid d u nceb gulping guiieeT" "itiddani-e?Normnn asked friend Baker" Delong ao “Youi swered Sue broke In gravely “He refused to rescue you" “He backed out I” Captain Blocking “I’arl It got bit eye opened shouted Run him across the dunes soon a you Uoln' to drown him was all ashore Such language and ten fathom deep at' bit ege My oh my I” with Inattention listened Norman whut the keeper euld but He heard to Julies round Bitted his gaze Her flushed face eyes were Ue regarded nearer purple bow them with a growing sense of peace In Ed Baker Interested He was not but he wu Dot Strange any more seemed much more Mauy other thing important to him “My host?" he akeL “High and dry lad high and dry Id little We drug Skinned up nil heavin’ together An old worry Norman swallowed came hack t disturb hi present ease “I've s summons” he confessed Milk of Magnesia No Choice Ganns— Men art fools to marry Wstaks— Yea but what else la there for women to marry?— Pathfinder She Would Cry or Laugh of tho Two Every Ten Minutes er Else She’d Die One and I have to go back Inland to live Just when do When? Why Jimmy we go back?" James Delong gripped her hand affectionately "Tomorrow or the next day at latest As soon at we til get dried out and can bring the mlasloner down here to be married We're going Erickson In the lighthouse by a mlasloner "Well?" Sue asked In th alienee “Aren’t you congratthat followed ulating ns?” Norman glanced at Julie RIchaud Her black eyes were large and full of light her checks flaming onder She eat very composher wel hair as If parlor edly In the lighthouse Sue arose she had lived there always briskly “Come Jimmy these people need don’t know what something to eat Norman they'll do after I'm gout How tsn't much ol a housekeeper How will you manage you end dad? will you ever keep shipshape T‘ Sue" Normaa said "Never mind Julie can tend to IbaL" “Julie?" Captain Stocking awung around “Yet" she agreed looking straight A great contentment nt Normun Her own glowed shone on his face she nud responded to IL "Tee agreed "I’ll keep it shipshape" "My oh ray 1“ the keeper puffed out of"Tlie room Norman lined Julie blindly from the clmlr She allowed her banda to remnln la hla They were trembling a little "Juller "Ye Norman "You'll be happy at the lighthouse?” "Didn’t you hear me tell them? or What matter the light Norman the farm or wuter or anything so It's your long a we are together? sea Land and Hnd mine Isn't It? Yours and mine Blind Doth of them Man's Eye will be our home" Bninuel Stock The door burst open It stared lug halted halfway through eut again lie exclaimed popped Into the kitchen saw the blundered couple there and escaped I second ime “My oh my I" be met Ductor ‘‘Lydia E Pinkham’g Veg© table Compound is a wonderful medicine at the Change of Life I would get blue spelU and just walk the floor I was nervous could not sleep at night and was not able to do my work I know if it had not been for your medicine I would have been in bed most of this time and had a big doctor's bilL If women would only take your medicine they would be bet ter”— Mrs Anna Weaver R F D No 3 Rose Hilt Iowa irmpi Mii Tha “What shall test?" “Something Prop Thing tor my filmy ot course" I wear screen r iSr 51c "Such s day! Earthy In the hall And they ain't s tot on Such a day he reservation a fool old man can go where be ain't re without jellin'-foqulred" The doctor glanced at the two closed doors “A flue girl Sue’ he remarked And ye snd e Hus boy i goL ehes line too tnj other girl Julie gn smoke wus you to esk me Id the signal Ooctor Tbey'e s bench house My oh my I" lie stamiied down the hall Th two short booted signal fog It died out needing one long uteuta Normnn heard It undisturbed Never mlud the keeper would tend He touched Juliet this time LiL2 DR CALDWELL’S THREE RULES A fragrant blnck love the hair water Julie" whl he pered -- Nottiln else Norman?" the water and Leaning down he wiped rittv After all she wus girt THE ESDI Thanks her tor the Chang —Women make make luiuge you fool men eye Hi only ot men ol fools e F Dr Caldwell watched th results of eonstipstios for 47 years and believed that no matter how careful people are consf their health diet wad exercise stipation will occur from time to time Ol next importance then U how to treat It when it comes Dr Caldwell always close to nature was in favor of getting S possible bene hi remedy for constiIt pation is a mild vegetable compound dcliaate can not harm the most system end it not habit forming The Doctor never did approve of drasdid not believe He tic phytic snd they were good for human being to put Into their system Ue Pyrup Pepsin for ol the family in yourself snd member snd ernmpv constipation biliousnena sour stomach bed brenth no appetite headaches and to break up fever nd colds Get a bottle today at any drugstore sad observe the three rules of health: Keep the head cool the feet wmm the bowel opes For s Ires trial bottle just writs “Svrup Pepsin” Dept BB Monti cello ' |