Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
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Humphrey Van Weyden, critic and dilet-
tante, finds himself aboard the sealing
schooner Ghost, Captain Wolf Laisen,
bound to Japan waters. The captain
makes him cabin boy "for the good of his
soul." Wolf hazes a seaman and makes
It the basis for a philosophic discussion
with Hump. Hump's intimacy with Wolf
increases. A carnival of brutality breaks
loose In the ship. Wolf proves himself
Uie master brute. Hump is made male
on the hell-ship and proves that he has
learned "to stand on his own legs." Two
men desert the vessel in one of the small
boats. A younj? woman and four men,
survivors of a steamer wreck, are res-
cued from a small boat. The deserters
are sighted, but Wolf stands away and
leaves them to drown. Maude Brewster,
the rescued girl, sees the cook towed over-
ride to give him a bath and his foot
bitten off by a shark as he Is hauled
aboard. She begins to realize her danger
at the hands of Wolf. Van Weyden real-
izes that he loveB Maude. Wolf's brother,
Death Larsen, comes on the sealing
grounds In the steam sealer Macedonia,
"hogs" the sea, and Wolf captures sev-
eral of his boats. The Ghost runs away
in a fog. Wolf furnishes liquor to the
prisoners. He attacks Maude. Van Wey-
den attempts to kill him and fails. Wolf
suddenly striclveii helpless by the return
of a blinding head trouble, and with all
hands drunk and asleep Van Weyden and
Mauuu escape in a small boai togtaher.
CHAPTER XXIV—Continued.
I had had no sleep for forty-eight
hnurs T was wot and chilled to the
marrow, till I felt more dead than
alive. My body was stiff from exer-
tion as well as from cold, and my
aching muscles gave me the sever-
est torture whenever I tmed them,
and 1 uacd them continually. And ail
the time wo were being driven oft
Into the northwest, directly away
from Japan toward bleak Boring sea.
Maud's condition was pitiable. She
sat crouched In the hottom of the
beat, her lips blue, her facc jrsy and
plainly showing the pain she suffered.
But ever her <=yoa looked bravely at
me, and ever lier lips uttered brave
wordB.
The worst ot the storm must hare
blown that night, though little I no-
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moment It fell into the trough; and,
besides, the sail, lashed to the spare
oars, dragged In the sea ahead ot in,
as a sea-anchor.
Instinctively we drew closer to-
gether in the bottom of the boat. I
felt her mittened hand come out to
mine. And thus, without speech, we
waited the end. We were not tar olt
the line the wiud made with the west-
ern edge of the promontory, and I
watched In the hope that some set ot
the current or send of the sea would
drift us past before we reached the
surf.
"We shall go clear," I said, with a ^ ^
confidence which I knew deceived.
neither of us. «'hlbdred
"By God, we will go clear!" I cried,
five minuteB later.
The oath left my lips In my excite-
ment—the first, I do believe, in my
life, unless "trouble It," an expletive
of my youth, be accounted an oath.
"I bes: your pardon," 1 said.
"You have convinced me ot your
sincerity," she said, with a faint smile.
"I do know, now, that we shall go
clear."
I 1md seen a distant headland past
the extreme edge of the promontory,
and as we looked we could see grow
the intervening coastline of what was-
evidently a deep cove. At ihb tuiiuu
time there broke upon dot ears a con-
tinuous and mighty bellowing. It par
took of the magnitude and volume of
distant thunder, and il uasiu U;'lU
directly from leeward, rising above
tilt* crash of the surf ana traveling di-
rectly in the teeth of the storm. As
we passed the poini, the whole cove
burst upon our view, a half-modn ot
white sandy beach upon which broke
a huge surf, and whi:h was covered
with myriads of seals. It was froi
them that the great bellowing wen
up.
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So next day the Hunting began, i
did not know how to shoot, but I pro-
ceeded to learn. And when 1 had ex-
pended some thirty shells for three
seals, I decided that tho ammunition
would be exhausted before I acquired
the necessary knowledge.
"We must club the seals," I an-
nounced, when convinced of my poor
marksmanship. "I have heard the
sealers talk about dubbins them."
"They are so pretty," site objected.
"I cannot bear to think of it being
done. It is so directly brutal, you
know; so different from shooting
them."
"That roof must go on," I answered
grimly. "Winter is almost here. It
is our lives against theirs. It is un-
fortunate wo haven't plenty of am-
munition, but I think, anyway, that
they Buffer less from being clubbed
than from being all shot up. Besides,
I shall do the clubbing."
The upshot of the affair was that
she accompanied me next morning.
I rowed into the adjoining cove and
up to the edge of the beach. There
were seals all about us in the water,
and the bellowing thousands on the
beach compelled us to shout at each
other to make ourselves heard.
"I know men club them," I said,
trying to reassure myself and gazing
doubtfully at a large bull, not thirty
feet away, upreared on his fore-flip-
pere and regarding me intently. "Hut
the question is, How do they club
them?" »
"It fust comes to me," she said,
"that Captain Larsen was telling me
how the men raided the rookeries.
Th'cy drive the seals, in small herds,
a Short distance inland before they
kill them."
"I don't care to undertake the herd-
ing of one ot those harems," 1 ob-
jected.
"But there are tho holluschickie,"
she said. "The nolluschickie haul out
by themselves, and Doctor Jordan
says that paths are left between the
harems, and that us long -as the hol-
luschickie keep strictly tn the path
tb«y are unmolested by the masters
of the harem."
- "There's one now," 1 said, pointing
to & young bull in the water. "Let's
watch him, and follow him if he hauls
out."
He swam fNrertlv t.o the beach and
clambered out into a small opening
between two harems, the masters of
which made warning noises but did
hot attack him. We watched him
ivel slowly inward, threading about
the h&rema along what must
To drive u tank, handle the guns, and
sweep over the enemy trenches, luketf
strong nerves, good rich blood, u good
stomach, liver and kidneys. When the
time comes, the man with red blood In
his veins "Is up and at It." He has iron
nerves for hardships—nn Interest in his
work grips him. That's the way you
feel when yon have taken a blood and
nerve tonic, made up of Blood root,
Golden Seal root. Stone root, Cherry
bark, and rolled Into a sugar-coated
tablet nnd sold In sixty-cent vials by al-
most all druggists for past fifty years
ns Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
ery. This tonic, in liquid or tablet form.
Is just what you need this spring to
givo you vim, vigor and vitality. At tho
fag end of a hard winter, no wonder
you feel "run-down," blue, out of sorts.
Try this "Medical Discovery" of Dr.
Pierce's. Don't wait! To-day is the
day to begin! A little "pep," and you
laugh and live.
Tho best means to oil the machinery
of the body, put tone into the liver,
kidneys nnd circulatory system, Is to
first practice a good house-cleaning.
I know of nothing better as a laxative
than a vegetable pill made up of May-
apple, leaves of aloe and. jalap. This
i is commonly sold by all druggists as
| Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and
| should be taken at least once a ween to
I clear the twenty-flve feet of intestines.
You will thus clean the system—expel
the poisons and keep well. % Now is
the time to-clenn house. Give yourself
a spring house cleaning.—Adv.
Alcohol, when pure, is greenish In
color, while water is distinctly blue in
shade.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seal u£ uie diotmoo.
Catarrh is ft local disease, greatly influ-
bv "oTietltntlnnal conditions. HALL'S
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh.
It is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Afu»:ous Surfaces of tho
System. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE
is composed of some of the best tonics
known, combined with some of the best
blood purifiers. The pertvei combination
of the ingrredlents In HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE is what produces Biich won-
derful results in catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free. ^
P. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
Venezuela has made the use of the
metric system compulsory in its Coufta
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the sea dying" down and the sun ehln
ing upon us. Oh, the blessed sun!
How wo bathed our poor bodies in its
delicious warmth, reviving like bugs
and crawling things after a storm.
We smiled again, said amusing things
and waxed optimistic over our situa-
tion. Yet it was, if anything, worse
than ever.
* Came days of storm, days and
nights of storm, when the ocean men-
aced us with its roaring whiteness,
and the wind smote our struggling
boat with a Titan's buffets. It was in
such a storm, and the worst we had
experienced, that what I saw I could
not at first believe. Days and nights
of sleeplessness and anxiety had
doubtless turned my head. I looked
back at Maud, to identify myself, as
it were, in time and space. Again I
turned my face to leeward, and again
I saw tho jutting promontory, black
and high and naked, the raging surf
that broke about its base and beat its
front high up with spouting fountains,
the black and forbidding coast line
running toward the southeast and
fringed with a tremendous scarf of
white.
"Maud," I said. "Maud."
Sho turned her head and beheld the
sight.
"It cannot bo Alaska!" she cried.
"Alas, no," I answered, and asked,
"Can you swim?"
She shook her head.
"Neither can I," I said. "So we
must get ashore without swimming
In some opening between the rocks
through which we can drive the boat
and clamber out. But. wo must be
quick—and sure."
I spoke with a confidence she knew
I did not feel, for she looked at mn
with that unfaltering gaze of hers
and Baid: • - -
"I have not thanked you yet for all
you have done for me, but—"
She hesitated, as If In doubt how
best to word her gratitude.
"Well?" I said, brutally, for I was
not quite pleased with her thanking
me.
"You might help mo," she smiled.
"To acknowledge your obligations
before you die? Not at all. We are
not going to die. We Bhall land on
that island, and we shall be snug and
sheltered before the day Is done."
I spoke stoutly, but 1 did not be-
lieve a word. Nor was I prompted to
lie through fear. I felt no fear, though
I was sure of death in that boiling
surge amongs the rocks which was
rapidly growing nearer. It was Im-
possible to claw off that shore. The
wind would Instantly capsize the
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upon the beach, I said,_ ______
not so bad. And now, if the gods
truly kind, we shall drift by that i
headland and come upon a pei
sheltered beach, where we may land
without wetting our feet."
And the gods were kind. The flfat
and second headlands were directly
in line with the southwest wind; but
once around the second—and we went
perilously near—we picked up the
third headland, still In line with the
wind and with the other two. But
the cove that intervened! It pene-
trated deep into the land, and the tide,
setting in, drifted us under the shel-
ter of the point. Here the sea was
calm, save for a heavy but Bmooth
groundswell, and I took in the sea*
anchor and began to row.
Here were no seals whatever. The
boat's stem touched the hard shingle.
I sprang out, extending my hand to
Maud. The next moment she was be-
side me. As my fingers released hers,
she clutched for my. arm hastily. At
the same moment I swayed, as about'
to fall to the sand. This was the
startling effect of the cessation of mo-
tion. We had been so long upon the
moving, rocking sea that the stable
land was a shock to us. We expected
the beach to lift up this way and that,
Rnd the rocky walls to swing back and
forth like the sides of a ship; and
when we braced ourselves, automati-
cally, for these various expected
movements, their non-occurrence quite
overcame our equilibrium.
"I really must sit down," Maud said,
with a nervous laugh and a dizzy ges-
ture, and forthwith she sat down on
tho sand.
I attended to making the boat se-
cure and joined her, Thus we landed
on Endeavor island, as we came to it,
landslck from long custom ot the sea.
CHAPTER XXV.
I boiled the water, but it was M&ud
who made the coffee. And how irood
it was! My .contribution was canned
beef fried with crumbled sea biscuit
and water. The breakfast was a suc-
cess, and we sat about the fire much
longer than enterprising explorers
should have done, sipping the hot
black coffee and talking over our situ-
ation.
I was confident that we should find
a station in some one of the coves, VOf
I knew that the rookeries of Bering
sea were thus guarded; but Maud ad-
vanced the theory—to prepare me tin
disappointment, I do believe, if dis-
appointment were to come—that we
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when-, at# would fifliht
to the ranks ot the bene-
_ ln» now went smoothly. I
■seemed to know just what to do and
how to do it. Shouting, making
threatening gestures with my club,
and even prodding tho lazy ones, I
quickly cut out a score of the young
bachelors from their companions.
Whenever one made an attempt to
break back toward the water, I head-
ed it off. Maud took an active part
to the drive, and with her cries and
ilourishings of the broken oar was of
considerable assistance. I noticed,
though, that whenever one looked
tirocl and lagged, she let it slip past.
But «I noticed, also, whenever one
with a show of fight, tried to break
past, that her eyes glinted and showed
bright, and she rapped it smartly with
her club.
"My, it's exciting!" sho cried, paus-
ing from sheer weakness. "I thiuk
I'll sit down."
I drove the littla herd (a dozen
strong, now, what of the escapes she
had permitted) a hundred yards far-
ther on; and by the time she Joined
me I had finished the slaughter and
was beginning to skin. An hour later
we went proudly back along the path
between the harems. And twice again
we came down the path burdened
with skins, till I thought we had
enough to roof the hut. I set the sail,
laid one tack out of the cove, and oj
4he other tack made our own little In-
ner cove.
"It's Just like home-coming." Maud
Said, as I ran the boat ashore.
I heard her words with a responsive
thrill, it was all so dearly Intimate
and natural, and 1 said:
"It seems as though I have lived
tnis life always. Th<5 world of books
and tyooklsh folk is very vague, more
like .a'dream memory than an actual-
ity. I surely have hunted and forayed
and fought all the days of my life.
Anil you, too, seem a part of it. You
are-—" I was on tho verge of saying,
"my woman, my mate," but glibly
changed it to—"standing tho hardship
well."
But her ear had caught the flaw.
She recognized a flight that midmost
broke. She gave me a quick look.
"Not that, You were saying—?"
"That the American Mrs. Meynell
was living the life of a savage and
living it q'uito successfully," I said
easily.
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we can get them and keep them.—
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