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Show If ' I S I When the Tide Turned' I . - O V 5 v J; By George Harvey ;; (Coiiyrldlit, liy Hliortntory Tub. Co,) SH The following tory Is tine in nil B Hh details, rent numes alone bring B omitted for obvious reasons. Henry Bradford left lit h Old Colony B liomu on n bright summer day to Book B lil h fortune In Now York. lie lud tho best wishes of every- B body, fur ho wnH n decent boy, nnd nil who know li 1 tn liked Ills manly wnys. Hut tic found Hie metropolis n tough proposition. The florco, pushing, tight- B for-IIfc workucekorH Jostled anil B crowded him beyond nil IiIh previous conceptions, nnil ho, not having tho faculty of retnllntlng In kind, found B hlniKclt pushed to tho wnll. Ho got employment, It In true, but lie could not hold It for nny length of time, owing largely to bin luck of B Knowledge or urbnn condltlunH, nnd B also to much bnd luck. So, after four years' Btrugglo, ho B gave It up nnd acknowledged himself neaten. The Btrugglo bnd been con-tlnuous con-tlnuous and altogether one-sided, nnd B ah he rut upon the strlngpleco of nn East river pier, It was borne In upon him Hint ho hnd inn do nH good n fight B as ho knew how. And lost! And now, wliou Failure hnd com plctely unvelopcd him In her somber clonk, he felt thero was nothing oIro to do but to return to tho old town. B There, at leant, ho could ltvo, nnd ho B among Hioho who know him and would sympathize- with him. Of the two dol- B larn which ho possessed, ouu dollar would pay IiIh fare to I'rovidence, nnd B It would ho a small matter for him to B walk the Intervening mllCH to his old This plan tin carried Into effect, nnd ' tho evening or nn early October day B found him In I'lymouth, which adjoined B bin home town. Ho wan tired, fool sore fl and discouraged. I'lymolTtli nlwnsl B hold a fiiBclnatlon for him, nnd ho bo-1 took himself to the init ial hill nnd ; B there, on a lonely bench, ho looked j B down upon Hie lights of Market B square, to the rldlng-llghts or a few B craft lying at anchor in tho harbor. B and further, to Hint grent light on B tlie Gurnet whoso effulgent rays guided nnd warned local and const-B const-B wIro mariners. Long ho sat nnd B brooded. One by one the lights were B extinguished, nnd ns the town went fl to sleep he felt the necessity of doing B likewise. He Btumbled down tho nnr- B row pnth to Market stiunre, across tho B mnln street nnd,.ns tlinugh drawn by Bl Rome magnet, to the water's edge. Tlioro the gray canopy with Its Iron B gate, which shields I'lymouth Itock B from tho vnndul nnd the relic hunter, B renred Its head. Everything was fa- B miliar to Henry, yet his eye dwelt B longingly on each object. Here was n B short strip of pebbly beach, nnd drawn B high up on It was a fisherman's dory. B Tho boat contained a pair of oars, n B rprlt-sall nnd mast, n coiled seine, nnd, In the stem, n small breaker of fresh water. Without hesitation ho stopped B aboard, and, adjusting tho thwarts nnd ours and arranging the sail so that It fl would act ns n cover for him, ho lay B down nnd In two minutes was sound B Henry Ilrndford was a sound sleep- fl or. n very sound slcopcr, else this fl stroy might never have been written. B lie know naught of the stealthy rise of B tho tide nor of the lift of tho dory ns Rho became wnter borne, nor did ho BBJ know that In his earlier nrrangnmcnts ho had loosened tho noosed painter B from tho bowlder over which It hnd B been sllppcdf. Ho did not fcol tho B Impact of tho gentle southwest wind B which wafted tho dory slowly but sure- fl ly to tho point or tho bench. B Tl'ai outgoing tldo in I'lymouth bar- B bor Is much like a mlll-rnco ns it hur- B ries to tho greater waters or Burn- buy. Henry Bradford awoke, with chat-t4lng chat-t4lng teeth nnd staring eyes, to find B his boat being lifted again by tho B mighty hand of his dream. His rndel) Bj aroused sensos apprised lilm of tho , B Kltuntlon. Ho know himself to bo In j B tho dory, nnd ho also realized that tho B dory was afloat aiid contending with ' a phnso or ocean disturbance with B which ho was not familiar. Tho next B uplift was of much loss volume than its predecessor, and after tbreo or B four minor lluctuatlons ho felt that B his biv.t wns rising nnd fqlllng to tho fl normal Atlantic swell. Tho ulr was B heavy, damp nnl clammy, and was tilled with many odors dlfllcult of de-tcrlptlon, de-tcrlptlon, but nil of tho briny sea. Ho B cautiously ralsod himself to a stand- B lug position nnd surveyed the horizon. BBH The nrc of son and sky before him was utterly blank. As ho slowly swung BB his body to comploto his view of tho H a horizon, he saw on his starboard quar- B tor, and well astern of him, the well-! B known gleam of Haco point light. At , HI tho snmo moment there burst on his B ear n thunderous, reverberating roar, ' BBB ituch u sound ns might bo caused ' B by a mighty wlud devastating u groat I forest, or by tho discharge of a thou-! sand Held pieces in a mighty cuveru. B Tonse and strained, Henry snnseil I everything which camu to ear, eye or ' B nostril. Ho realized that there had been a mighty upheaval of tho ocean. I ""1- That thundorous Bound wns undoubt- edly tho Impact .of u tidal wave upon B a diBtant shore, that strange, clammy : Btnell, tho tung of which was still In his nostrllB, was no doubt caused by 1 BBB tho depths of ocean being hurled to! Fj-" tho surface by this marine cataclysm. It was vory dark, tho clouds ob Bcurcd the sky nnd u light wind came from the northeast. Henry had now got his benrings. His dory had shipped but little wntor during tho awrul tu-mult. tu-mult. Ho was in the net or stepping the mnst, when n new sound broke upon his ear. It wns tho slatting of a vessel's sails, and In his Immediate proximity. His strained cyos din corned a blotch upon the blackness or tho night, slightly on his port bow and becoming momentarily plainer tc his vision. A moment Inter ho wnt able to make out n schooner, with nil snli sot, riding deeply In tho wntet nnd nearly hovo-to. Henry dropped tho mast nnd shipped tho oars, a row strokes or which brought him on hoi wenthor qunrter, whence ho lustily hailed: "Schooner, nhoy!" which, bo Ing repented nnd varied with "Aboard tho schooner," bringing htm no roply ho again neb.ed his oars nnd brought the dory alongside. Ho leaped light!) on bonrd, painter In hand. He trallec his boat astern and secured tho paint or firmly. Tho schooner wns on the starboard tnck with all sail set. Including Includ-ing fore and mnln gnff topsails, fore-topmast fore-topmast staysail, Jib and Hying Jib. About 110 foot or hor midship bulwark wor torn away and hor decks wore wet and slippery from recent inundations. A busty Inspection of tho cabin berths and Its slnglo stntoroom disclosed dis-closed no sign of life. An Inspection of tho deck forecastle produced similar rlrii A r A Hurried Examination of the Papers. results, and Henry Ilrndford ronllzcd that he wns the only living being aboard that Ill-fated schooner. His mind wns now Intensely nlert and ho wns on familiar ground. As fast ns halyards could bo handled, he clewed up both gaff topsails, nnd bnuled down nnd furled tho flying Jib, Jib and forotopmnst staysail. Then, after stoppering both gnff topsails, ho returned to tho deck and In a few minutes min-utes hnd the schooner upon tho proper courso for Boston light. Daylight hnd comu nnd tho wind had freshened slightly. A hurried examination ex-amination of the palters In tho captain's cap-tain's stntoroom disclosed tho vessel's manifest, which gave tho Information that tho schooner Clara Dates, 450 tons roglstor, owned by Hates & Joyce of Boston, commanded by Capt. Kzra I'orry of Salem, and n crow of flvo men, was carrying 530 tons of conl consigned to tho owners or tho vessel In Boston. A small sum or monoy In tho captain's desk nnd tho usual Instruments In-struments or navigation wcro the things or most value which caught llradrord's eyo during his hurried ox-amlnatlMi. ox-amlnatlMi. Tho demands or tho Inner man woro satisfied with a substantial breakfast, consisting of ham, fried potatoes po-tatoes nnd hot coffee. Tho wind held truo, nnd Hradford's mlud had already worked out n plan or operations. Ho led bis Jib down-haul down-haul nnd Jib halyards secured by a slip noose art, nnd, once In smooth wntor, ho made ready his shoot anchor, secured by n cat-stopper only, nnd overhauled a row rnthoms or chain. At four o'clock that afternoon, ho brought tho Clnra Hates Into tho wind on South Boston Hats, hauled down his Jib and, as tho vessel lost way, slipped his cat-stopper and anchored! Tho rest Is nioro detail. It was In tho fall of tho great coal strlko, nnd coal was coal. Henry sent word to Hates & Joyco by tho harbor mastor's tug, and nn hour later tho corpulent I uud genial Mr. Joyco was on board I and had heard Henry's wonderful j story. At 11 o'clock tho next day I Henry Bradford signed a release and accepted u lump sum of r.000 in Hen or all services rendered nnd salvage expected. There In ono more happy detail. Tho 20 feet of bulwark that was torn away from the side of tho Clnra Bates uctod as a life raft for tho members of hor company, who woro swept overboard at the snmo time. They wero picked up a few hours later by nn ocean going tug with a tow or coal barges and bound for Salem. At tho earnest request of Henry Bradford, his name was suppressed from tho newspnper accounts of tho solving of tho Clara Hates, and his appearance among his townspeople a few days Inter was received as tho home-coming or a man who had gono out, dono lmttlo with tho great world uud returned successful. |