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PAGE SIX ' CONTRABAND. (Continued (10m Tage Two.) pyes Hp() ~~~ to compr " but dayl "Barrln* an accident. When do you n,|cij ?iU! expect to make thai port, sir?" . . "St. John's? Well, we're a bit off our course now. I'm afraid we may be * . another night afloat." nt He stood motionless, one hand shad- n* , owing his eyes, as he gazed out over oose, an the port rail. * n,ia,n 1 "1 was a' thlnkln' o' them poor cusses ,UKa out there in the boats, sir." he said i I/*fre.St ^ finally. "I'm hettln' that most o' them ow ? wish they wus hack on this deck by ' aa* U| now." la| "No doubt; but there's no way we , can help them, and we've cot our own ' ^ ^-v work to do. You and Olson go below." | ?^* T watched the two disappear through *a,',e', ^ S<. the companion, spoke a word to Dugan. j 1 ?' s posting him where ne could hear me | nulte so call if necessary, and then went aft to j -v the wheel. T had not realized the full I soa' weight of the gale until 1 reached the I top of the ladder, and stood erect with- i ' ? l any protection from the cabin. For | ?n instant I had to grasp the side rail, "n( ' ' so shading my eyes with an arm; then 1 11111 a S1 struggled forward, until my hands uns gripped the wheel. ! enierP<>l1 "Why didn't you call for help?" 1 l)aust 1 a , i ........ , - the cabin asked. " I his was too much for any , ? woman. 1 never realized forward how ; , ' .. ., , ? forecastle it was blowing. .. . f , ? . . I the main She swayed ugnlnst me. clinging to KU irs my sleeve. I , J l gered uni "It?it does kick some," she panted recovered "and I was almost afraid I might let me ron,,w gw. I?I ain glad you came. I couldn't hold to the course, but?but that doesn't matter, does It?" j "Not at all; we are In no shape to Huge, Cr? fight the stmtn, with only one man In the stokehole. You will have to creep to the ladder." loosened "You?you wish me to go below?" ! * r e "I order you to." demonlu.n .... . ^ human vol "And you are going to remuin at the . rtl. wheel-alone?" j ?r ? "Dugan is forward, within easy call. ' ijPts I have sent the two mates below for , an hour's rest. There is nothing for us 8 K? to do now, but hold on until the storm ^ , SR| abates. I'll simply lash the wheel, and 8 ^ t stand by. You are absolutely exhaust- ^ here ed, and must get below?you will go?" "Hnngii "Yes If?If you think it best. I am waltin" foi , so tired?the strain of It; the fear I > "Then c (could not hold out?" : with, the "I know." I bent and kissed her. nnd We wen she clung to me. "Rut do not think of every bur that any longer; you must go to your against tli room at once and lie down." grimly. I "Rut you will stuy on deck all upon the 1 night?" when Olsc ; "Not unless the storm Increases. In I bawling ir an hour or so I'll call the others, and "Ret nv lie * -wo myself. Come, dear, vou be- been at tli Jong in the watch below." Howeve That certainly seemed a lonely deck wind driv after sire had disappeared down the the fontri ladder. 1 bad served many a quiet my weigh watch at sea, many a memorable oue, loosened : but that hour taught me the reul los- had the *v son of loneliness. We were driving like n rat forward recklessly into u wall of dark- inch as he uess, utterly impenetrable to the eye. have had What horror might be lulling just the grip o ahead of the plunging bow, no imagina- battle, am tion could picture. From where 1 the mnlnt stood, clutching the spokes of the throbbed wheel, I could not even truce the yards against tl of the mainmust, nor could 1 perceive my streng on either side the water throiich ivlileli mv nrm we drove. Yet It was uot this which leaping of pulled so at my nerve. I had stood at sensation the wheel often before guiding a great Inc. when ship through impenetrable blackness, pounding and amid the Immensity 6f the ocean. _ right, elln But then I was one of a crew, alert and Into the s ready, merely performing my part of a 1 "Look, given task. But now I could not drive yonder; I from me the consciousness that I stood ond?ther there alone; that on all that space of _ I had deck forward only one solitary man black spe crouched In the hluckness; that below ing spray In the engineroom, and stokehole, only what It w two more; already worn and weary "Are y< with toll, stuck grimly to their work ; questionei that under my control this great to me. V freighter, loaded almost to the deck boat beams, was flying before the storm, hoisted; I plunging through the wild waters of rldln' to n the mld-Atlantlc, with death hovering Aye j ( above in the shriek of the storm. Yet the cockl I clung to it grimly, no longer making on the cn any attempt to hold any settled course, en|n}? to hut merely choosing the easier way In blgh ?p a which to meet the force of the storm, appear ui It was two o'clock when, too thor- boat musl onghly wearied to stand the strain no living < longer, I sent Pugnn below to call the very fact mates. Leayord was the heavier man, evidence < and the more experienced sailor, so, at Re|f to mj my suggestion, he took the wheel, while j0 a stay, Olson went forward. I can recall my voice creeping down the ladder, and stag- ?jfr. L? gertnf down the stairs, but nothing "Aye. a more. I must have been asleep even "There hafnr* T rauphail Karth In ?>? ??n . ? ? quarter, r tain's stateroom. ha wha aSia THE LI lii*?* i j~~ [ shook me, and I opened my "A ship's r an instant I was too dazed too far awa; phend. The port was closed. Can you let ight streamed through the "Not witl *s illuminating the stateroom, wheel; It ta cognized Olson bending over ber ns she is "Jump do to call you, sir," he explained we must get "The main royal has broke help those f it'll take all hands ter stow "Aye, aye, n this wind; besides that fel- He scraml n he's gin out entirely, an' and I were in irr ue iiiiumer nunu seni noie, reacnii the stokehole." enough to hi >, already thoroughly awake. the eabln al time is It?" enough to e an half after four, sir." ed to Vera, [ thought I had Just dropped room door, f increase In the weight of the "You have m?" Indignantly, r; I don't think the wind Is "Oh, hut 1 heavy, and It's gettln' more I must have >, but there's considerable down fully < what might tell that the way the ship there were n die's taking water forward." "No. not o' it; the damned hooker is the cahed f that; hut tin deep she's more like a whari afloat 1 ip." ! a wild scene enough when 1 ho rati from the companion and shipwrecked moment in the protection of "It would to view the deck forward, to he one of 'sted wuves hurst over the hauled." heads, cuscnding down onto "But how deck, and sweeping aft to the "The wim amidships. The vessel stag- xvltli o ler the repeating blows, yet wheel, we w with a buoyancy which gave run before ii ed courage, plunging forward we are back meet the next assault. The of sea whei s boom as they struck against Come up o i, the mad flapping of the shortly." , | Columbia, one-half mi taxes amout cording to Carlton W. _j|SBk. m j oral. Mr. S sated Waves Buret Over the county Forecastle Head. j thelr a5stra canvas uloft, the ceaseless transmitted of the cordage, made a pan- the charKe, of noise which rendered the treas ice almost useless. 1 put my ^ ^ The son's ear. j e three of us pass those gas- loW I Abbeville. t to be done, sir, unless we II go; but It's goln' to be no . ? Anderson . . , s Dugan?" jRamberg... i* there to the shrouds, a' ,1arnwe^. r U8.? j Beaufort... ome on; the sooner It's over Berkeley better." Calhoun . . it up the ratlines like snails, Charleston. st of wind driving us flat Cherokee.. le ropes, where we hung on Chester j>ug?n was first to lay out rhesterfleld ootropes. and I felt no regret >n slipped past me In the top, ' ,:,r,'n(l?n i my ear: ' olleton . . p go next, sir, you haven't ''aldington. is sort o' Job lately." Dillon. . . . r, 1 made it in my turn, the Dorehester. Ing me flat against the spar, Hdgefleld . . ipe dancing madly beneath Fairfield t. the flapping canvas of the pjorPnce tail as stiff as Iron. Dugan ,, . a .? ? . v. i .v. Ceorgetown orst of It, but he clung there . stubbornly fighting Inch by ' roen\ille. . drew In the cloth, lie must Greenwood. the strength of a giant, and Hampton . . f a vise. It was a ten-minute Horry. . . . 1 when I got safely back Into jaapor. op every muscle of my body j<erHhaw with pain, and I sank down ic mast, struggling to regain ' in(as or :th. I had my head buried In Gaurens. . . conscious only of the wild ' the mast, and the sickening Lexington. . caused by its constant sway- McCormick . Dugnn's shout sent the blood Marlon. . to my heart. He stood up- Marlboro trio, to .i .toy, Marin* forth Nowb// mother off the port bow. sir! There's a boat! See, ?conee uA'il * r ? Oranorehiiro mr ii ivp llic ?rill 1U BW " ej? ^ Pickens.. . n glimpse of something?? Richland. . ck in the midst of the break- Saluda. . . . ?but could not be sure of Spartanburg a!(' I Sumter. ... ou certain It la a boat?" I . d. "The thing had no shape ' ' ' /hat do you say. Olaon?" { Wllllamabui , sir; there was a slip o' sail Yor't t's my notion she's hoved to, t drag. There she Is aguln." Total. . . not a fair view that time, as e-shell was thrown high up A ?st of the wave. It was sick- ?*OlHI*ICl see that black object hurled gainst the sky, and then dlsfterly Into the hollow. The Qre4 t be hove to; there would be Exterm otherwise in that sen, and the t , that It remained afloat was Don't take i )t sailors aboard. I drew my- [?y,ni,Q r feet, clinging with one hand ^nd ^oUevcs 1 hollowing the other to make absorptior reach the deck below. Asthma and B myord 1" n a spoon and ye, sir." the Is a small boat off the port Idlng to a drag." ?*?|vS INCASTER NEWS, LAI boat off the port quarter? y to tell what's aboard her. her head fall off u point?" ^ lout another hand at the $ kes all my strength to hold ^ 5." A iwn, Dugnn, and lay aft; ^ that boat to leeward, if we ^ ellows in this sea." ^ sir." ?*l iled over the top, but Olson content to use the lubber's t ig the deck later, and glad ! e there alive. I dived Into Jl Tter a glass, stopping long A xplaln what we had sight- X who appeared In her state- V ully dressed. Jl not been In bed?" I asked, have; Indeed I hnve. Why 4 slept four hours, but I lay V tressed. I?I didn't know V happen. Could you see If A uen in the bout?" % to distinguish them with V ye; the glass will reveal ? boat must be occupied to A n this sea." t V they be. do you suppose? sailors?" ^ be my guess It will prove V* our own bouts we've over! ;? could we?" a A 1 changed after midnight, ^ nly the one hand at the y ere obliged to pay ofT. and A t. It Is not Impossible that in almost the same section ^ re we left those fellows, y n deck, and we'll know A A In for a wrap, but joined J nmiedlntely. I must have V* mtes locating the boat, yet A it It fairly on the crest of ^ k-en at that distance two J aces leaped Instantly Into V vision?Liverpool and Me- A i A Be Continued.) V A S DUE STATE 16,922.76 IN TAXES deceived From County f By Comptroller (Jen- ^ ernl Sawyer. Y Jan. 3.?The eight and ^ lis assessment for State its to $2,716,922.76. ac- V & a statement issued by " Sawyer, comptroller gen- ! awyer has received from : auditors of the State ,; C? cts of the duplicate and ,, > to the State treasurer 0 A s against the various ; > urers on account of 1917 figures by counties folT $ 40,713.92 99,483.19 i 122.643.19 28,121.66 ^ 54,208.84 | t 30,705.00 34,066.56 V o o 1 on o 4 ! ^ 248,331,33 | 53,509.49 !? 66,393.011 37.537.7O|Y 35,453.54 V 35,592.39 V 57,258.76 |4? 34,011.87 I 4^> 28.574.66 A, 32.089.29 47,199.16 X 77,219.10 V 34,738.7 4 V 152,849.34 > 64,765.93 X 28,775.99 ^ 27,192.44 1 23,645.16 X 44,141.73 V 35,593.86 64,340.72 ? 30.382.54 & 52,347.20 X 20.882.04 32,960.98 jF 43,799.29 62,941.95 Y 43,429.22 79,485.20 h> 38,607.19 & 201,887.66 T 22,346.05 jT 177.596.71 Y 69,833.34 Y 60,101.12 ? g 41,623.62 A 77,466 58 X $2,716,922.76 Y -Catarrh k and Bronchitis 7 ?tlf Relieved by tiie New ? el Vapor Tr eatracnt. nternnl medicine* or habit Y > for tlioso (roubicH. V. k ? 4B Salve i* applied erteiuaM JL JJ inhalation ue a VupOX an. Y ? through the thin. F 49 ay Fover, melt a little Vick' 2 1 inhale the vapore, ? 1im> rub Y rpinal column t-> r< 1 < > 4n n 25c, 60c, or W!.' ?. rwo^SAM I KCASTER, S. C. " ? : ^/VvV V V VWWW! Anr A C PRES E1 Jam / The News will g< Friday morning, begi may reach all its sub* / will necessitate a "liu ting their "copy" in 1 "Copy for ads in later than 10 O'CLOt Friday edition not lat ING. In order to co it will be net ^ We believe the at in Press Hours will w them to advertise "Sj i > JLANO ^ w ' ' v f ^ 1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918 ????? ?. louncing | 'hangeln | n iiAvmn ? 5 HUUKo | ffective | % Vjary 1st j I ) to press early Tuesday morning and earlj *f nning JANUARY 1, in order that the paper ^ 3cribers on the day published. 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