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Show TPv SEPTEMBER 22, 1928 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928 "3; 'THC; waii He. ingdr leope ft Ugrecr Coni raw. Ill 17 Wnman.ce or me 'Great jokes' 'arl.w.uexzer lj, jf-Cohtlfiued) Wflol- Big. ' IlaTrj all itiorry tbnt do wns lout. !.nffli.iit Sue give nonooy ,M'mln road after a stout L.nd bent.wltb'a cllmblns U fc) WHOCK9-up iu uie i. innkpd down on the !,.(.. m. the slender tower Iujb'i Eye, on me sqiwi h,.nf sheds nnd house it wast guard tnuon. ror- nnt the fisures of men In .fine Lfcbont .'P to land. & an the wash ,to the light- jurter mile beyond the coast La, Tbe wind wns dying, irlt and onwllllng death. It Itself out tonight And to- (i father probably would lift Xorman' eyes grew bitter moment ; Immediately soft-idr soft-idr pale, kindly blue . rrlte Julie RIchnud that be to Blind Man's Eye. rem three buildings on tbe nservatlon. Tbe light tow-pew tow-pew opward out of rocks, it "the- edge - of- the jjsater--jotted on the house door. Med by t tall, brown-haired m who looked at him with ft n'i my pame," Norman said. ?ed here." I aha Invited him through a short hall. k" the directed, and left ice. )ia tforman entered was the White, glistening, with boards and painted wood-black wood-black stove radiant with mows sparkling, brass lamps At the table, scratching his meditatively with the end of ler, i tidy stuck of notebooks patf "before 'hlm.'snt a small laa with scant curly harr. a i cluster of ripe raspberries. fcond mouth and little round blinked through little round flit addressed Norman. "Who explained of tongue.' with The unusual fat man hr he repeated. "Eh? Well 1 1 good waterproof name. f name Erlckson. Assistant Mt was .mimed Frank Jones. aroch about the name Jones belter. Mine's Stocking. pal Stocking. Cnpt'n Sam'l o Lake Huron." book hands gravely. Jntendent wrote he was send- 4 the keeper commented. f who. Didn't sav when here. sight earlier than Instnie. Id Norman. orocimg m not wait (fa"?'' Trs. HI rXJ) 'is flM(J ? 7 fl'j nyavi oTart gelling "your to wnt this morning, come sun-' sun-' to get married. Too met J. Snsan, ahoy there, Suel" wi voice to a cheery bel- Wwelf I" hlr daughter an- pred Immediately. She wa P Wer .than her father, but I that she gave a quick fPfttSlon. She una .till ..loin. F H I In what the new assistant Fsne stored at him frankly. P". Captain Stocking 'Mhla g f-rlckson. the new ot here In tlmo tnr h.?le h"v,e -sWfer. Steve ""lag un tho hsn.k . J .TU cook It soon as be s unlike her father'a ;,u Womnri'a V'.v. l..m Pent r ""iiuuu HSU I " Julle'f' bt not so ex- Jt WB ... ... - "'-. or nerseif than P entered solhliv in ,kk. CB hi,. . 1 ui'vci 7""",TP,J w'tb a burnt ;ol0Cng setmod rln eyes. seemed glad to see fog "lunlnted Wlh ErIck. Erlekson the new IThnt-.'u, n our nearest hlWehlsslmck' r'Kt along tip," ThcreV It his flsb from boat ' to Mio mtnvn turned, her bands 'ng cr and Bntir J It. dnd?" she BSke(1. d.mced his spec-1 spec-1 f ls little 0089. '1 "I''.V hol;y poky! l't time It '"lutes 'fore f Ighi melted Tor hf ' Ibfl (owrr. u- new "fellow Instructions." They followed a plank valk to the rocks. Captain Stocking, pulling, sput terlng, spitting out odd bits of con versatlon, led the way rapidly Into n dark room and lighted a bracket lump npon the waif. In one corner a stair, unusually steep, arose through ,tlif celling. The keeper lighted the way with n shining brass lantern that ho took from a wall cupboard by the door The angular outline of steps lilted Into the oir. converging toward the top. "Never mind countln'l" Captain Stocking grunted. "Thej's ninety-one," "Ninety-one?" "Steps." lie pushed open a trap door. Norman Nor-man followed him Into a snug white-painted white-painted room with black trim upon doors and' casements, resembling the chart room of a vessel. "The lamp room, when we burnt oil wicks." Stocking explained. "Use it for spare parts now we got the new generating lamp. Them gauges there, Jon got to watch, them keep tbe kerosene kero-sene reservoir filled for the lamp . . . Jiere, I'll show yon now." - On the wall a ship's chronometer ticked ' wlfb melancholy precision: Lockers ranged three sides. In the center a circular Iron staircase wriggled wrig-gled up to a round bole In tbe celling, through which protruded an Iron lad der that vanished perpendicularly above. Captain Stocking climbed ahead up the ladder, talking, kicking out his heels. Above, In the lantern case itself, Norman saw hia owlish little chief open a brass-bound door In the rear of a great lens, aw the flare of a glorified bonfire In the thick reelecting re-electing glass, beard the sputter of vapor, and Blind Man's Eye swallowed up the world In Its glare of light. Norman thought that his duties would be simple. The lamp must be cleaned each day, the tower steps scrubbed, brass shlned, lenses polished, the oil tank filled and charged, a day and night look-out kept for fogs and thick weather; and whenever a mist obscured the horizon the fires must be touched off nnder the boilers In the signal house, to make steam and. set the automatic Jog whistle blowing. Alternate days would be free of responsibility. re-sponsibility. The night ffateh he would divide , with Captain Stocking. At supper Captain Stocking sparred occasionally with his daughter. It developed that she liked to talk. "Where you railed, Erlckson?" Captain Cap-tain Stocking arked the question suddenly, sud-denly, his knife and fork pointing sidawlse like the hands of a weather-vane. weather-vane. Norman saw Susan and Steve Sutton both turn their eyes toward him Inquiringly. "Out of Madrid Cay." he answered, "fished a Uttle with my dad." Madrid Day, eh? Well, there's good sailors out o' that port Madrid Bay fishermen's the best on the lakes." "tfbere do I come In?" Steve Sutton Sut-ton demanded. Norman looked at him appralslngly. Be did not know exactly what to make of this man Sutton. He seemed sulky to Norman. Before her father could answer, ue -spoke. 1 know two or three men from Ma drld." she said, and looked at Nofmarr critically, as If she were comparing him with them. Norman flushed. His feelings still were sore from Ills father's berating Time enough to tell them of the man ner In which he left Madrid Bay. . . -"Where'd you sail." the captain tn Slated, "'sides out of Madrid?" "Nowheres." Norman admitted. He felt that he was not telling the whole truth. His father would have denied that be ever sailed out of Madrid "Nowhere?." he repented. "I flhed In my father's boat. I onl fished few weeks. Don't care for fishing." , , A recollection of Madrid Bay flashed cross1 hls'mlnd. Of a dozen Usher men who listened no doubt to his fa ther's story after he left He kne that before this, to anyone who won!-' heed, Gustaf had accused him o' e lng afraid. Once more across h memory pnssed thnt whole scene thi-morning. thi-morning. It couldn't hnvc been Jus' ; this morniflg when lie drove Ed Bauer from his father's shanty, only to be driven himself o few minutes later Ed Baker . . . the gossip he wished ho had fonglit M this morning. That would have b-n one pleasant memory of. Madrid Kay Sue arose reverely and adjus in. wick of the lamiu The two men h"'"' at Norman. There was surprise In th. expressions of both, not hostility, on.' surprise. He hurt never sailed. My father Is C.ustaf M-ks..n Norman-atlded. "He was n sailor Steve Sutton uhrnwA ' ,' Stocking let a disturbed ' e l. escape -him nt length. Then he , his head as If the matter were m "too deep, for his nrtersuppei mm I unUkrl(U0.wuril tiUi OTtlIuTF6oaT?hTaTred. 'Boat?" Sutton answered. "There's a bad sea still runnln'. Nobody with rase-would" come' pokln' down' here in a boat tonight . . "I can Imagine a few persons with1 sense doing go." Susan Ud promptly. There wns edK0 t0 her ToJce Girls sometimes enjoy having call-ers. call-ers. She went toward the door. Samuel Stocking looked after her suspiciously. "This time o' evenlnT he asked. He yawned., stretched his arms above bis bend and came away from the window, "it's nine o'clock." he said.' "That wasn't no boat Sue was Just bopln' It was." Sutton rose and took the keeper's place at the window. He had become nervous suddenly. guesslt rile Mtji you gotTBT scar, and he i sailed a bit, seen a bit In bis time." c?kt'L turned to Susan. It was you I came to see," "he said, "Didn't tlgger on meeting this tadpole." Norman started to follow the two out of the door. It was Captain Stock Ings short "Hen, youl" thaf halted him. . Steve Sutton arose from his chair "I don't like that dogfish!" be com plained. '..."Doti'i" like 4iluw"- the keeper demanded. de-manded. "What of It T Guess he don't like you. What of that? The lake is full of don't-llkes." He turned on Norman. "What wa' bis meaning about you and your paw?" "Nothing much." Norman wet bis Hps. it was difficult to explain. How stand n tiy more than he hud bis ft-ther? ft-ther? iosperHtely h wet Ids Hps. "I wasn't- Him'.iiK to be a fisherman," be said. "M lather Is stubborn sometimes. some-times. !!e wanted me to fish along With lll:il." : - "And -A an appointment here Instead:"' Norm;: i, shook liU head gloomily. 'Not e;;,t!.v. got It. But I wasn't luteriilji. to laep It." "Not iiiteiKrhg to keep It?" Captain Stocking removed liU spectacles angrily. an-grily. ' A hat kind of monkey shlno was tli.M? You think this lighthouse busline is a game?" ""No. sir. I wanted to-come here. Only I saw I ought to fish. I was all fixed In my mlud to go partnera Today To-day he put me out. There wasn't any mistaking what he meant" The clock ticked twice. "I don't like Ashing Ash-ing . . ." he paused lamely. "Dont like fishing? Why not? Why wasn't you for goin partners? Why your pnw put you out?" Captain Stocking bad taken off his blue uniform coat and stood In his LmLiJmLkeM under- bed: . " ' v ' ' b"'"6 l" . rr- . i'ou .better-take, first watcbr tc night," he bade Norman. "Won't anything any-thing happen. ,-Stir me out at eight bells." ne paused, observing that -Nor-rniin looked puzzled. "Don't 'know the bells? Well, well . . . Steve, what J-Oll think of this? Here's a mim-. H mun ain't sure. f-the hells! .Well, f commit expect much ehxv growin up j on laud. h's all right, I'll teach you.. I Eight - bells- Is midnight.' So's four oclock, uml eight tomorrow morning. Clock rings "out every " half-hour. Twelve-thirty starts It. That's one bell ... every half-hour up to four o'clock, then begiu all over. Well, well, you got lots to learn around bere." He was unfastening his shoes. "Bless my soul, that was a boat!" Voices sounded In the corridor. The door opened. Norman felt a chilliness nt the roots of his hair, felt hot sud- i denly, felt angry, felt beaten and ashamed. Grinning nt him, by the side of Sue Stocking, who looked Just as disturbingly sure of herself as ever, stood Ed Baker, bearer of tales from Madrid Bay. CHAPTER III Coward! Norman stared Incredulously at' Baker's Ba-ker's robustious presence. There was something threatening In his assurance, assur-ance, In his smiling face. Like an emissary out of the past be came to harass Gustaf Erlckson's son .whose 8lnnle desire was to forget tbe past Baker spoke first. "It's you, is It?" He showed no surprise. "You're the new assistant? Sue didn't tell be that I Your old man's kind of broke up, you runnln away from him. . . ." "What's that?" Captain Stocking demanded. "What's that you say? Run away?" he repeated. Baker laughed. "You flgger on holding hold-ing on to this boy?" he asked Captain Stocking. "Aye. Assistant keeper. And what about It?" Baker lighted a cigarette. "This Is Gustaf Erlckson's son," he said. He addressed Captain Stocking. "Gustaf "Gus-taf s a fisherman down at Madrid. His boy run out on him early this morning. The old man nigh bad a stroke. "Gustafs been sick," he explained, ex-plained, "lie asked this deep-dlvln mariner to take him out to the banks today. He needed to lift his nets. The boy wouldn't go. His old man's all broke up tonight Says this. f el low's always been a cargo of trouble. Always been 6cart o' the water. . . ." "Well, well, welll' Captain Stocking Stock-ing murmured. "Baker, you're a liar! And a thief! And a . . ." "Here, here!" Stocking Interrupted. "None, o' such talk goes aboard my light" Baker laughed again. His eyes glowed unpleasantly. Sue Stocking, who had been Itstening In silence, glanced from him to the new assistant assist-ant keeper. Norman's pale blue eyes were filled with anger but she saw no fear In tbem. ' "Let's get this straight." she said. "If this boy's not going to nt weu better know it now. What's this about always being afraid of water?" """Nothing 1" Norman again spoke sharply. "My father ... was unreasonable. un-reasonable. Going out In thnt storm would have killed him today. No one went outl" His voice raised. "You didn't go outl" he challenged Baker "1 didn't have any nets set," the other answered, lightly- "And It's not me that's calling you scared. All I m teliln' these folks Is what your od man says. He ought to know He says you wus no son to him. Says you had the green scares at goin' oui In a bit of breeze. ... "A bit of breeze?" put In Steve Sutton. Sut-ton. "I'll any It was a bitl'' Baker Ignored biro. "You never wns hankering to go afloat was you, Norm?" he asked. "No " Norman answered slowly, "no I never wns. And I'm not now. Most thing I'm hankering for now Is to see how much punishment you caDtale nnd come through alive, . lIe n.X fnra-firil. muni. . Slt down. Erlckson!" Captain Stocking Stock-ing commanded. "Idee o" such talk flnd such goln's-on! Sit down, 1 tell you! I'm master here I" Norman's temper cooled. "I can t can't tell all that's happened, Captain Stocking. My father 3 better 07when I'm not there He cirde mo nwav . meant It I ne; f 1Kht f ? words. His legs and feet i SLiib. He felt the girl's mere ic eyes staring, at me uuc -Lend "He'd have sunk the boat if He'd gone out In that blow this morn- '""You 'wouldn't leave blm sink you, Norman, would you?" asked Bake ?"rm""' - .iip. eh? The hardest .ailln' storm chaser on the lake meb-5$ meb-5$ It ioa are. your old. naj , .dotft His Lips PurteJ Out Like a Fat Public Pub-lic Inquisitor. -siili-t-tiiei'Vfs, id lips pursed out like n fat ii:tin- fniiisltor. Steve Sutton inierii!i!ed "I never did lay stock In that Bak- II don i (natter what you lay stock in. " the keeper answered. "I got more io say to Erlckson. t want to kiow uiint else Baker was aiming at Have ytit got the name of coward down at Madrid? If so, It's best yon quit this service before you start No place for fear. We're old seamen In It mostly, skippers and m tes of the sailing days. Good men!" "I'm not afraid I Tin not here to be preached at I I'm not here to have you or Baker or anybody else yelling down my throat 1 Til thrash Baker this time! 111 .. . "Stead-d-dyP "It'a Baker," declared Sutton. "He's always makln' trouble, always holler-in' holler-in' at somebody. Called me a beachcomber beach-comber tbe other day. I can't come up here no more 'thout seeln him. As long as he hangs around these nipprln's, they's plenty o' other places for me. Good night Captain Saml Good night Erlckson." He stamped - down the steps and across tbe sand. Captain Stocking turned distractedly to Norman. "You've never sailed anywhere?" he asked. Norman shook his bead firmly.' Captain Cap-tain Stocking was shaking his also as he went to the door. He opened It for his daughter and Baker. "Was that the brave boy running? Baker asked. "No? StllL here? - Must have been nice Mr. Sutton leaving us then. What you sweating about Nor man? I don't mind seeing you sweat 1 Sue Stocking took off her scarf, with ber shoulders severely straight, and hung It deliberately In a coat closet 'Ed's set me right about this Erlckson," Er-lckson," the told her father bluntly. She paid no' attention to Norman. From ber detached manner he might not have been In the room. "He's got the name of an unspeakable coward up at Madrid Bay," "Coward? Come, come, Snsan I" Baker was smiling, a grim, self-satisfied self-satisfied smile. He unfastened the strap of bis sou'wester from button on his slicker where It bad bung. "I'd best be going," be decided, "Ifa getting late." 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