Show I Partners or of the th Tide Td 1 ide By B JOSEPH C. C LINCOLN Author of Er En I el I II i. i iTEI ITEI t VIII 1 I I-Col I Continued I I PI Prissy r I peeked under the lie window win win- 11 tutu dow shade hul in Iii the lIme til pallor pailor fur fr as 1 much muchas uch as M live lve minutes u tf U and amid nd 11 h ii a aim and ud she hc was as rl I over 1 0 that thal gate sate and anti 0 away nv a as if IC there wasn't anything el else e In the Lime whole worl world Do Io you rou oLi spose we ought to say ay anything S Sn Say anything sl sighed hll the sister r. r What should we s say Bradleys Bradley's a aman aman aman man now and amid ant you and me mae cant can't put him him to bed lied without his supper any anymore an any more Next day cay calt called on or UI the time Cap Cap- alit tain The Time latter hatter had hac seen oel Cal Caleb h Burgess lur- lur Bur gess and the lie Lizzie could coul be lie bought hought for Ol a very verv reasonable sum Captain was also preparing a n long JonS table of figures showing time the cost fC of what was waH needed to lit it lieu her up They rimey talked for tor over ovet an hour bout hoU but Bradley Brdley was vas not yet ready to decide he would tal take e his full rul wc week k he Stud said Bm Bitt Bu b by th the end o of th the week hi his mind was 35 made up he lie was ready to take the chanco that the time Captain of ot- ot Ho lie told Gus so 80 and ant she Rhe agreed that perhaps he ime was doing right He lie Il told the time old 0 II maids and nHI so knocked knocke Miss ls Tompy's caste castles air Into smithereens In one tremendous ous crash Not that this timis was am an Irretrievable ablo calamity for sue she he immediately began to tu build new ones unes on 01 a different plan it splendid Ih site she exclaimed Now ow hell he'll be hO home all al the time time as n you might aught Fa sat Fay und and we wont won't have hu to worry when It I storms cause causO well we'll know Inow Jest where he ime is And nd rd when he Ime begins to get rich well we'll wel have the time ban barn shingled and ammU maybe the house can bo JH o painted I think a U yellow cream clow with wih dark darl green gleen would be nice that's the way Wixon Is goin oln to tn paint his bis house Anti And ohm oh oh Prissy perhaps now that Bradley and amid he lie are partners latners In busness the time come conic here once Olce In a n while I 1 hope he Ime will wI his a advice alee lee is so 0 at abl able i e. e Tb The e partnership I art articles ides were signed Bradley drew his hi 1 money one rout from om the savings bank and anti the Lizzie changed hands hands The next month was wasa wa a u very busy husy on one for fOl UH they y were at al work on in the time schooner every evely day a refitting and rigging One Omme noon of or the lie fourth week time the Captain came caine down to the time wharf with a Boston paper l' l In his hand I Brad Biad he saul said abruptly they abruptly they they were alone I 1 I I never told lord you ou the time full Cul Inside of oC that thal last lat of oC ours iwas this timis WS way ivay When we got ot into New York tim on the lie Lu ii before the last one Williams Ilams he lie sent nt for COI me and would do u but out I 1 must go goto goto o oto to dinner ii with him I thought queer for foi fO Williams lam aint h din din- lieu nel neis s round roule the way you feed corn eurn to chickens hut but when I saw the time out lay-out that noun noon I knew was ivas up Tall Talk Tal about abou your ohm feeds Why h Brad Ulal there thele was o oysters tel'S and soup an and lobster lobster lobster lob lob- ster a la Ia ul or or like hike le it amid it-amid i and tUII turkey c an and Ice CIE cream m an and amid time the Lord knows what I swan swami I ex expected ex- ex peeLed to see l em ent bring on oum fricasseed ced bird of paradise ami g H I raff ar 9 steak foro loue they got got through And champagne Sa Say I could coull have swilled champagne to float the he Thomas Doane and anti had enough left lef for Cor a bath hath for Cor all al hands un and amid the time cook But Bu I L kind of shortened short holt cited ened ne raIl Kill tal on un the champa champagne n tac tack Lack 1 I wanted ny my 1 he headlights c clear al fur for or what was com comin In Turn Then when was over 1 0 and amid we ire wea a was dollar dolar bills bis In iii the Lime shape of cl cigars al' al your old messmate 1 William I ian he hegi to tl heave over the lie ground bai bait Wasn't I sick of belli bela bell 0 ot an amm undertakers undertaker's cal ca'l cart I Iwas Iwas was capable of or the time fastest erot It bAst t-b t b st man mann thc they ever e hn hind had and so o on Talk about taffy He Ho poured it i on oil UI till tl I thought I Id I'd stick slick to 10 time tho LH Then I 1 was its to have p hl th the new nc master four only n what hat should the they do with wih the Doane He lie sell el her for COI enough to pay the thc agents commission If Jf I she was piled up UI on oum UI th time the beach wh why the time Insurance would would- Well eil you OU see eo the he drift I smelt Ke before time the tJ pumps ha had cl five minutes s. s First FIrM I said al No o hat flat lat lat- mooted j Jest t like hike ia your YOU little tin tn honest hones man That wa was the time first Olt day tiny But Bu that thata was tas wily only the tIme h b I He lIe c I kept ept at It mull all HI the thc time lame There was wa no chance chanc of 10 II a life what whal was done don fifty times a year eal See I. I comin to me mae More money atone Why su sure Ie A And Amid Jl the new nf schooner lest best it In Inthe the time hI busness n Hed He'd always swore store bj hy lute me 11 Ills His Ils brother dead u used e loay to lo say fay would stick slick to too o owners owners' 1 orders If he lie was ws w's told to jump overboard o The They'd d treated me bet belle heler ter than al any skipper thc they over had am and now first time I wa was tas aJl asked ed to lo ILI really do to help the thc firm Orm 1 I wen went back on 01 em eat S Never Novem e mind time rest thc I hot got me to say a that mn maybe be Id I'd Id mb do 10 it it H. And imd I 1 hated myself every minute afterwards But lut you OU see ee Id I'd Ill al a always s 's been u used ed t to i tal II risks 1 liked to I lal take lake e em cam and T I aInt got your our disposition ion m my son somi el Well let It go go a at that This In iii the lie paper Is what that started tart me mc about It today and andI I 1 tell tel you ou honest U want surprise enough h t to give he m me a shock of or pal palsy Bradle Bradley took tonk the lie paper and ni-id saw sair s son 01 on the pa page pago o indicated the words reck on oil time the Long I Island lanc Sand Sant liars Bars The Schooner Thomas Thoma Doane Deane Doane Lo Lost t Al Au J Hands Hancs Saved S ed He lie glanced over ovel the time article which briefly stated slated that the masted ce masted schooner Thomas Doane Doane Burke master had struck suck on on tin tl hue shoals off of LOI Long Island un and would woul be he bei hea a i total Il loss Time The 11 crew ar after l tr trying ln li livain In Iii vain to save san the thee e vest vest-el el haul hall taken to the boats on and amid reached t shore hore thore in iii safety ty fd I dl didn't nt believe e bele they'd hare lare do It Il exclaimed Bradley Wo o 0 know an anIh and Ih they know we ire We low know Wh l tell tIl 1 al asked asked- e the time shortly rt I Not ot me for fOI I 1 was in it tint ns md bud aS aS mS tin the rest ret Not you jou for fOl they know you ou tumid and me were welo flies fes on a molasses es stopper No Xo he Gooc Good Su Susan nl Jane Jamme Jane so IO tnt far ai as a the time theol theold ol old Doane was wa concerned and amid Ive I've Iveleen e 1 been leen it I. I Well Weil el I 1 wasn't waIt at atthe atthe the tIme funeral so o lets let's forgit I it And Ant apparently Capt Captain ln did forget it I a good many nan months were to II pass before Bradley was US again to o h heat hear l' l his friend mention menton that sub sub- Chapter IX IN It I was a May morning oft or off Point The Point Itself was in jn time the maid maid- mil mil- lit llo distance with the tIme lighthouse top shining black blac against t th time the tk sky and amid time the little cluster of oC H shanties show how lug ng brown amid amic the lie white while sand an dunes dune and amid green IW beach ch grass glas The rime saving life ilg station was ivas 1 perched Iche on omi 01 the time highest of he lie dunes unes and its Is cupola was as almost as con conspicuous as time the lighthouse c The thick hick cloud apparently of mosquitoes ho over leveling over o el time the Point was In real real real- I- I t ty y the time flock lock of or mackerel gulls that ate are always hunting for 01 sand eels on he time lint flat Low down across the time horizon miles mies beyond was waN the blue and nd yellow streak that murl marked e the time of or the Capero Cape To ro time the right only a half haIr mile mie away Lut ut through h time the darker daker water aleI that Indicated In- In the ship channel a mast four-mast- ed d schooner was moving swiftly time the sunshine flashing sparks from front her I cabin t windows and marl marking ng highlights high highlights I lights II hl and tuiti shadows on 01 her swelling I canvas taumi lan as head Ahead of hem lu-i 11 against tho thoI I I sky ml ly inn inn- lint was the tIme ship light Ight that marked mark mark- ed Cl time the 11 turning point In iii il the course be behind behind be- be hp- hp hind hinl not quite Iule so far away was tas the theother theother other othel light ship that site she had Just hll passed More lole schooners were in folo following h her r strung out in a lon long bug lne line and amid aul ethers ethes ethe's bound in iii the tw opposite Ile direr irel llon ton were standing Inshore or Oi headIng heading head head- lug ing Ing out oui to 1 sea ca ea 3 as they beat up in tin tim 11 face of oC a brisk wind An Aim occasional steamer or an ocean tug tug with wih a tow low Daunted a dingy ding streamer of or smoke here herc anti and there amid the time graceful seim schooners S Along the thc e edge e of tl e t C channel channel and sprinkled amid the tho blue were patches patch of or light green water where whelo the waves ran mn higher and anti broke occasionally There ThIe were we tho the shoals hoal the back hack the Boneyard and amI the time le rest l If It It I were wore possible and amid fashionable to lo erect tombstones tot for lives lost at nt sea those these hidden hiden sandbars sandbar would bristle with wih them Not ot a a winter month that pa paH passes p but vessels are driven ashore here heie and the lie wicked titles tides anil winds scatter their timbers far arid and wile wide The saving life crew have few Cew restful hours from October to tn May On the ed edge e of oC one of these shoals ho Just over o In lii the tIme deep water a little 1111 11 schooner l In lay hay at anchor rocking anti and plunging Incessantly lice Her leI sails 1 were down and only one man was isas wa aboard Half a mile a away just where th the tail taU of the thc shoal made out into tIms tIm's th channel two dories were moving slowly in iii paral parallel J courses trailing n mu l rope mope between them Time The schooner was th time the 1 Lizzie the lie inan aboard her CL was Barney Small mahl once a stage stas driver drIvel er el but now forced out ou of business by iy bythe bythe the time new railroad back hack again at his old t trade trade ra wrecking Captain Ezra ivi was lo ln rowing roving one dory ami Bradley time the other Th They y were WI anchor dragging ra ln When tIme the 11 gales gales' begin In the time fall Cal Point 1 lying as it I does docs at tin tIm tl edge of th lie fairway Calway l between Boston tOI and und New York Is sometimes a natural bieak breakwater water anti and ant forced anchorage C for forthe ft em th time the coasting vessels Perhaps t lit ru ht rusk sk of a large Jarg three or om foul ma mast four tell t- t ed ell schooner caught Just nt at nl night ht by bya a heavy sea an and a lI rising ln gale alc doc doesn't nt relish the Idea of pR passing ln through h the tw shoals and amid over oyer t the he dangerous Ilp rips beyond He lie determines to lo anchor in iii inthe II the lee of the thc Point and anti wall trait for Cor daylight daylight day day- a light or to 10 ride out the time gale The sandy bottom is ball bail holding ground tom for anchors l By and by the wind awl and tIme the roaring I tide hide get gel t thou their hell grip JIp on the time schooner anti and tho the skipper sees that she he is slowly but hut surely being forced on oil the time shoals Perhaps he tries tiles to mu haul the anchor Inboard a again aln perhaps per per- hups haps line lime is too short to risk In tho the attempt and the tIme chain is lei lel go gu en CI- CI At t an any rate a hi big anchor with fathoms of oC h heavy n chain is left ler fa fact t I I the thc sand and amid the schooner well schooner schooner well I if she is lucky r. r she sho hmo makes an aim offing or 01 fluids finds better hetel holding ground at nt another place DI Big anchors and amid chains an worth mone money and amid 11 it I ma maybe be that tho time HH cr writes to lo a wrecking C company tell telling whore time the tw anchor ma may b be found ami anit what he lie ill A wi Ja pay pai for or the tue recovery Or Oi just jus as aH likely he says ns n's nothing about IL i il and thou then findings s are arc I keepings and amid the time wrecker who ilio dredges up UI the anchor makes whatever he lie can mu cn s-ll s l It I for fOI at Vin Vineyard rd Haven or lo Boston ton Anchor dragging fills In ip time lime between salvage alvas jobs johs and it pa pays Bradley an and anc time the Captain were aim nn- nl- nl chor dragging ragging merely on sp speculation th this is line Ume There haul had hal been ben a dozen wrecks off oc th tIme the Point the previous winter and amI a number of or anchors lost beside They limey had hind already picked up two two one one by the he Boneyard shoal and andone andone one a big big fellow away out on the Ow rips The TIme two dories moved mo slowly down I the edge of oC the time shoal separately by a distance of perhaps a hundred yards The lime line lne between them wel weighted with witha a lead sinker at each end was wa dragging drag drag- drag drag- ging gimma gins along the time bottom lj Fishermans hcrman's tuck luck shouted Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain Ezra from flom his hIM dor dory Queer we Wf aint aln found It yi yit lr Brad Were We're right righton on the tIme range gl Eldredge e gave ave me the me-the methe the pint Pmt Lighthouse H anti and HI the time pole on 01 Blacks Black's shant shanty in iii line lne to lo the noth east eahl ERt and anti the lani olt steeple and Thompson's Thompsons windmill to the noth I suspicion that were we're too loo nigh high Inshore Never er e mind well we'll keep keel on 01 for fOI or a little further ways as The They were dragging for an anchor host lot by the the coasting schooner Mary 0 D. D a month mouth before She had hind been caught by the t tide e and the chain had been let le go 0 with wIh a run Ono One of oC Unhands Un tie hands aboard I Eld red go h by name was an amm Orham man and amid he lie It it was wasI I who into ha had had the thc pic enco of oC mind ti to tl take the time ran ranges et mentioned by 11 tIm the Captain which information he lie hind had hUl sol sold to his fel townsmen fellow town men for tor a five dollar bill 1111 bi Bradley Brdley an and amid time Captain begun rowin rowing row row- in ing un once more They hey had gone but a little way when slowly but surely tin lie tories began to draw nearer lo to each other Bradley looking tire over time the side saw satt that the lie drag line no longer hung straight down but Lightly stretched by whatever was waH holding it iton on the bottom led off |