Show 61 GO OF THE SEA by CLARISSA MACKIE 1921 by mcclure McClur ft newspaper syndicate tin sorry ben mother other Nl and I 1 are ara ashamed ns of the way daisy has behaved expecting to marry you yon in the winter and now running away with that traveling salesman from boston yes the minister at married them that afternoon anero oon and now as longs married and he Is her husband why weve got to make the best of it hut but wed a hull bull sight rather daisy bad married you what can I 1 say to comfort you ben dont worry about roe me mr brewer lie he said extending a big brown hand its a hard bi blow w it if daisy had only t told me she love me 1 i auld uld have freed her at once but dont nou nod and sira brewer fret about it it will come out nil all rl lit in the end youre a son to be proud of ben the older marl man hoarsely ns as he aut away fi BE i paused with his hand blind on the painter of the lighthouse motorboat the smile had faded and there was only the grimness left on his face the boat was laden alth supplies tor for the lighthouse standing clenn clean and white at the end of the long shoal two miles front the mainland ben was assistant keeper there and lie he and daisy had planned tin an idyllic life in their home but it was not to be therefore the lighthouse look looked ed cold erand er and lonelier than ever as Us his boat dashed across the bay he might have peen jilted enery day of the week for nil all the emotion he showed when he mounted the stairs to tile the cozy living room and tolda his uncle and aunt the news days and months went by anil and ben raymond found that time was a little solace 1 I P expect some day ril ill be darned glad it happened he told himself siT aRely ns as lie he polished the brasses and cleaned the big lenses lensea it was a wild autumn with raging sea and furious winds that shook the i building to its foundation folks ashore arose in the night and looked olt off toward binds light to see it if some giant sen sea had not swept it away but nothing happened until christmas week when a blinding snowstorm held the country in thrall and the friendly benina ot of sands light could scarcely tie be seen that bellowed the keeper alcove ablove the noise of the horn sfa sea gulls faulls poor critters muttered tien hen sounds ds like a cry I the two men lied to a window and looked out at first nothing could be seen but the sm smothering cloud ot of snowflakes there IWI was 19 no sign ot of an unfortunate vessel hearing toward the shoal or the signal fires of the life saving station yes yea there were the fires miles below at beach the life savers were out nut tonight off beach were the black rocks where another light was wag placed but still came that insistent cry that seemed timed to sound wb whenever enever the foghorn paused its on the sheal below maybe someone from the wreck oft off Kitic ut shout shouted ed ben and he pulled on his oll oil chlus be dro drowned I 1 warned his aunt but youve got to go benny for the first time since his broken engagement ben laughed outright he kissed hissed his aunt and made for the lower floor half an hour afterward he brought up one by one four people three women and one man survivors from the wreck of the ship at Kitic ut aiho v ho had bad been put into a small boat ard and had drifted to the friendly shelter of sand shoal they were fill all warmly dressed and after the keeper and his family had worked over them for hours and put them to bed they slept all through the next nest day and in more or less degrees of stiffness came down to supper two of the women were stewardesses on board the wrecked steamer while the third was a passenger a girl ot of twenty with eyes like brown pan hies wet with dew and the most appealing smile ben had bad ever seen she was evidently in moderate circumstances and le if developed that she was wag on her way from boston to another city to find work the only man from tit the wrecked boat was a cook who could speak little english but gave a lusty hand la in helping ben reach tho the ufa life saving station the two women and the cook went away the following day but tha girl who nho had lost all her belongings in the wreck stayed on at aunt Hun naha suggestion 1 I need a light hand to help me with the work said the astute old lady so Ilar jorte lee stayed on and bellied a good deal and they all grew so fond of her that they would not let her go she wai an orphan and she iad had grown to love the sturdy keeper and his sweet wife and as for bert ben he was a ha apro ro in her shy eya eyes s you are my gift from the sea mar borle he told her ber one night when they watched the tha stani together from a window on the narrow staircase this was in tune ant and tho the stars were soft and the breeze was waa very tender velh with lovers no dear conr I 1 give myself to you but tile the sen sea dill did help vf us it a lot it and abe sti mew blew a klas out k 0 o the calm waters in iner onry ot of that snowy night six before that Is the way ilen ben ron a bride find and brought eer to his home and their happiness to outshine sand band shoal light itself |