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> ' i-'\ v* '. ' v- / g^fe?\??S. k iLI JOHN WIN' %C':~ ~v$, JEAN I ICOPYr.lCHT, KOBEET BOJ CHATTER II. (Continued.) . i. they will not l>o so hard 4 opoii you. llnrold! They know your reputr..':?. 'Ihiy will be lenient. | When thy know Unit you give up ' everything to them?" "But that any one would ilo, Alecia." , be Interrupted her again, irritably. lie was losing his genial nature under this trial "It is what any man should do. But even so. I aiu heavily in debt, and the heaviest creditor is an implacable man. He would not yield an iuch. I would not ask him." "Then you shall not ask him, Harold. As scon as possible we will leave these troubles. Surely your wife will not i be the one to deepen your troubles. If I cannot help you." (she was thinking iwiftly how she might help him) "at least I will not hinder you. The West Is broad. There are too many people In New York, any way. One hasn't room to retrieve one's self should there be need. Every inch is crowded. It is Uke an ant-hill?with not a grain for one newcomer or hope for one slipped down. AVe will go away." She said nothing of what she must give up to yield to this wish of his. She was not the woman to force her griefs upon another. She smiled, and her voice was careless, her husband thought bitterly. Nevertheless he knew that there was sadness behind It, and it only increased his irritability. as he felt aggrieved that she should not be aggrieved. She could not?in spite of his effort to explain? she could not quite comprehend their situation, he thought. From luxury to labor?for he was very despairing in thought?from palace to cottage; strangers in a 6trange land! CHAPTER III. BREAKERS. Tiie cloud lying so low at sunset rose as twilight deepened to night, and gathering to itself the lower vapors, came along the nearer heavens until It was a mass of midnight swallowing ! up the stars, the moon, the heavens, i There was fire in its midst, and thum | der that rolled in vaster volumes, rumbling like Vulcan's hammer-echoes. I Destruction rode riotously in its heart, j It was flood tide at midnight, and as , the waters beat higher and hielier nn I the sands and throbbed like some great k heart against the pier, the anchored boats lifting and falling and tossing like diving things upon it, the black vapors overhead, overcharged, broke r upon the world beneath in a torrent of ' wind and rain, shot through and , . through with lightning tongues. Most of the guests at the Surf Hotel 1 were awakened by the storm, and ' many of them made hasty toilets and 1 gathered in the parlor for companionchip. Alccia Graham had not fallen asleep, and, at the first sound of thunder, rose very softly not to rouse her husband, .and donning a loose wrapper of pale silk, she seated herself at the window to watch the breaking of the storm. The clouds had not yet swallowed the moitfi. which was riding the heavens lik "some witch at strike with the elements of an infernal world, the hnr rying scuds blown from the greater mass of cloud whirling across her face and fleeing away, tearing at her, flaunting beside her, yet ever growing larger and more dense as the warship of the 1 storm advanced up the sea of heaven. ; On the sands below, just visible now and then beyond the sand-hills, as the moon conquered the scuds, the white surf gleamed ghostily, rank upon rank. ' The woman at the window, in her trailing silken gown, sat fascinated, with her hands clasped upon the ledge 1 before her. her face luminatcd or darkened by the shining or dimming of the 1 inoou. There was no fear in her heart, ' only deep awe and a namely something j like the touch of a heavenly spirit. She i 1 was unconscious that her husband had J wakened ai. J was watching her under 1 his half-closed lids. She was uncon-v *scious that she was au inspiration to ; him. or that the bitterness of his soul 1 was touched by the sweetness of her ' presence. Like the true woman she was, sat' v.*as uim&iag 01 iiilu, iiui ut herself. She loveil lihn, and knew that '' he suffered intensely because of the trouble fallen upon him. He was so * proud and loved luxury so thoroughly < that failure was worse than death. But she knew, also, that he was too ' } noble and too manly to seek death for 1 relief, as many might. .' Presently, in a lull in the thunder, he 1 addressed her: ( "Alec-la!" lte said, quietly. 1 "She turned to him at ouce. Even in ' -the darkness he knew that she was ' smiling upon him. ? "You are awake. Harold? What a I terrible storm this is!" "Yes." he replied, waiting until an- ' other thunder-peal died away, leaving 1 the world strangely still, save for the roar of the surf. "Terrible, Alccia, especially lor any vessel unfortunate W iK r THROP'S DEFEAT. 51 Jfostl. CATE LUDLCJM., KXER's Soxg. 183J.J t'lioiT^u to bo upon the vrator unprepared." Once more she turned to the window, looking across the black sand-hills to "I had not thought of that," she said, an anxious no;?in her voice. "You need not worry about it, dear." he said, gently, catching this troubled tone. "The coast-guard are able fellows." A distant report of firearms interrupted him, aud brought Alecia to her feet. He also started up and began hastily dressing. "Some "boat In distress," lie said hurriedly. "A pleasure or fishing-boat, probably, for that was a rifle-shot. A steamship would fire heavy guns and send up rockets." ' "What are you going to do, Harold?" "Come," he said." we will go down stairs, Alecia, and learn if there is danger. It may bo nothing. I have frightened you, dearest!" He held the door open for her to pass through, and reached out his hand to her as she crossed the rcom from the window. "It may only be some signal from the Government ffousr,* ne said, smiling to reassure her. Sho nlnrorl hor hnnd tnistindv In his and they passed out together, but the hand was a hand of Ice and her heart was beating In terror. Her sensitive spirit was stirred by the probability of danger to others. It was such a fearful night. They came upon excited group3 In the hall and parlor, the ladies gathering at once around Alecia, as though there were some sublte strength and magetism in her presence. Harold passed out upon the piazza with a few of the men to learn what was possible of the threatened danger. "A ticklish thing!" 6houted George Priestly, turning aside from the burst of shrieking wind that struck across the pier, holding his hat on with one hand and grasping the lapels of his coat with the other, that it should not be torn from him. "A ticklish thing, now, I tell you, fellows, if it's a small bdat out there! Those shots didn't come from the coast side; they're oT to leeward, and the coast-guard will have a hard time trying to save them. Pretty rocky, you know, out farther. Mighty little hope, I say. What is it, TtnnL-a V? "A yacht," replied one of the hotel hands, hurrying past theni across the piazza for lanterns. Every one "teas alert, for a wreck was a terrible thing In such a storm. "She's down by the point. Been letting off rockets. Too far gone for that, though, now. Hardly a bit of her left whole. They'll do what they can to save 'etn, but there ain't much hope." "Let's go down!" shouted narold. "Perhaps we may be of service. They'll need all of that they can get, God help them!" "But wo cannot go down there," protested Charlie Brown, decidedly. We'll blow across to Europe if we try." "Well, I don't object to a free pass --x __x_ 1 TT 1.1 . age across; rcioritu iiaiuiu, auumj. He was off ere he finished speaking, struggling, with his companions, with the sheets of rain and hail beating upon them. The sea had lifted itself In the might of the storm and was lashing close up under the plank walks ilong the sand, washing over their feet now and then as they fought their way. Alecia, with her friends in the parlor of the Surf Hotel, would indeed have been proud of her husband could she have known of his errand. But she did not know, and Ninette was clinging to her for courage, and a group surrounded her discussing the danger of a vessel upon the sea. and trembling under the terrible shocks of thunder roaring around them. Foor Bess Catherwood was as white us a ghost, and had long ago forgiven Leland.' and would not allow him to stir from her side for a moment even to learn what was passing outside, but flung to him with her small hands, her terrified eyes now lifted to his. now close shut under their lids to keep out the lightning flashes. "Oh, it's just dreadful?dreadfuldreadful!" she would say, as a thun der-burst reverberated around and iround the building, snatching her hands from his arm to cover her ears and cower still further down among the cushions of the great chair at the farthest end of tte room from the windows. Why must we have thundershowers. Mr. Leland? Why can't we have quiet and rains instead? They're bad enough, indeed, but this makes me tvretched! One might as well be at the mouth of a canr.on and expect to be shot into pieces. I tell you it's horrid. and I won't let you go outside that rloor! You just keep right on telling me over and over that it will not last long, or I shall die, I tell you!" So what sopltl he do but repaln Tvltli hor and comfort her. and think. | in snite of her cowardice, thai: she was i the sweetest and dearest of al women, ! and bo absolutely happy knowing that she eared to detain hint there, although it was his wish to go with his friends and do what he might, should there be need. H'i* ctm.'Mer :is thev would in the parlor, made brilliant with lights to deaden tin? lightning, huddled in groups, fearful of the thunder and lighiuing and sea, they did not dream of a drama enacted upon the wild beach with the clouds and lightning for a background and only lanterns for , footlights. Had Alecia known, would her hands have been so steady or her | voice so soft with Its comforting'.' Would she have said that all was well even in that storm? Far dt wn on the beach the guests, the liotel-hands and the coast-guard ' were doing their best for a steam- I i yacli: beating herself to pieces among J the breakers and rocks just beyond, i 'The yacht contained a pleasure party | upon a fishing excursion caught in the ' ! storm and unable to keep off the coast. I the fury of the storm having strained their machinery and broken the shaft. So there she was beating upon the focks beyond the beach. Her bow was scarcely above the waves. Her i stern wa? under water, and her passengers were crowded forward and ! clinging with the one Instinct of life to 1 t>ana Tb/v ornoll Kaot xt*oa me lUOb uupc. xuc oiuan uvuit uu vr*. no use in that water, and If the coastguard could not save them there could come no hope. The rockets had ceased; tthe shots also. In the terrible storm it was difficult to work, but the men on shore fought like heroe3 to render help to those clinging to the beating wreck. The first rocket attached to the life-line i went astray, beaten aside by the fu! rious rain and wind, but the second, | well aimed, struck the bow and the ; rope was caught. The work of rescue ! was under way, though but a few moI ments at most were left ere the boat , must go down. One man was saved, scarcely breathing, from the fierce struggle through 1 the breakers, but still alive; another ! and another in the same condition. Hope was reviving, though still death i leaped to grasp them on all sides. For a time it: was difficult to determine whether life or death would conquer | In the struggle. But them men on the j ! beach worked like madmen to save the : men mad with fear lu the midst of that , boiling water. And then, the last man I was fighting his way, buoyed up by his i life-preserver, grasping the life-line as : he rose and sank and rose again in the I heart of the water. Harold Gfaham among the men on the beach was like a giant in his efforts to render assistance. He dashed, unmindful of himself, Into the boiling breakers to drag the men to land as ' they struggled in. His companions scarcely recognized him, for the lover I of luxury, the pet of fortune and society had never before been tried. 1 That his own life might pay for his reckless bravery he never thought. He had no fear. He lacked the knowledge of the beach which the coast-guard j 'possessed, but he was equal with them in courage and bravery. The last man was fighting his way to life through that sea of death. He was evidently greatly exhausted, for his efforts were feeble as he drew nearer into the light of the lanterns and the almost constant glare of the lightning. They shouted to cheer him, and were oa the alert at the rope. But as he came in almost to the beach the receding breakers beat him back, j ; And then it was that the mills of the gods ground very slowly and exceed'"-1" /?ocHn?r ir>tr? the halance the iUBlJ **??? v?>uue i good ifrr ill of Harold Graham's life. For with his reckless disregard of self, pushing aside detaining hands ere any other could pass him, he dashed into the water and let the breakers lift and bear him out toward the man beyond, and struggled to grasp him that he i might guide him to shore. And then, with an exclamation of horror, he let him go, drifting past him and farther out upon the black night of waters. jFor In the glare of lightning, with earth and heaven rent by thunder, and death beating about him, Graham reei oguized his heaviest creditor. ' CHAPTER IV. THROUGH BREAKERS. To let him die! This man, who of I ali those against him on the morrow would be the hardest! He need not , Dush him under, move his hands to j harm him. and-what* could save mm for his undoing. He would not be his I murderer. M?.a could not look upon him and whisper that his hands were i stained with blood. They would have I sufficiently hard words against him, j truly, but this they would not knot}*, t The breakers had washed him back, senseless, from his reach; he struggled ?how he had struggled!?and yet he I only saved him?dead! They would i still call him hero; still cry of his bravery I Xo man would know?not i one! One instant out of time! One second out of miilicns of seconds! The space ; of a hair on illimitable space! Bat so j grind the mills of the gods, very tine, i rrovinc.the cliag frQO) the grtin. One instant. The men huddled upon the bcaeh, waiting for the rescue, watching by the light of their lanterns and the lightning liare, called him a hero, battling there to have the last man from the wreck. The yacht was . gone out of sight and the unconscious | man in the black water had let go the j life-line. though the life-preserver still buoyed him up, with his pallid face i lifting and falling in the shouting ; waves and seething foam. Tlicy held their lanterns aloft and shouted, and watched with the red lightning and the flashing of the light-house lamp in J its revolutions. They could see the j men at intervals, never for longer than a swift glance, but tlie man risking his i life for the other was bravely fighting to save him. They could see that 1 A half-dozen men dashed in the water to drag the two in as a huge break- ( er lifted them high to fling them to the beach; for a blow, such as that, f would poss?bly mean death- to both, and this man was proved too heroic ; to be dashed to death unaided. For the a.tgel had conquered the demon in Harold Graham's soul, and the one instant of struggle had intensified and ( ennobled liim. As they dragged the two on the ( higher beach, out of reach of the breakers, the rescuer was scarcely more conscious than the rescued. It had been a terrible battle. He was drenched through and through, and his pallid face, with the black hair clinging to it, looked haggard under the shifting lights. ,4 "Let's take 'em to one cf the cottages here," suggested one of the men, "till the storm Is over. It'll never do to try to get 'em to the hotel as they are!" t. _... ' (To be continued.) ' NEWSY CLEANINGS. Kansas lames havt $87,000,003 en deposit. lteveuue collections during- March amounted to $21,227,383. The shipyards of the Pacific Coast are af work on scores of vessels. me ruinppiue lsiauus win ue represented at the St. Louis fair. The strike of iloek laborers at ports iu Denmark now includes SOOU men. The English Tobacco Trust has planned a vigorous campaign in the South. Germany has invited America t> send three army officers to the maneuvers next fall. Secretary Root lias arranged to mainlain a light in the Statue of Liberty, in Mew York Harbor. Archdeacon Wilberforee is holding "smoking church services" in Westminster Abbey, London. A number of Japanese officers accused of looting duriug the operations in China are to be tried by courtmartial. Fifty pounds' worth of games, including football, cricket, and ping-pong sets, have been dispatched to Ceylon, from Loudon, for the Boer prisoners. The warden of the State Prison at Kansas has written to a New York City tirin asking it to forward a hangman's rope to be used at an early execution. The Holland Submarine Boat Coin- ' pany lias been notified by the British Admiralty that one ol its submarine torpedo boats lias been accepted by : the British Navy. The Municipal Council of Havana. Cuba, has decided to issue a new loan of $'JS,U00,0U0 for the purpose of redeeming the lirst and second-mortgage bonds of the city, to laKe up the floating debt and to provide money for the payment of the city sewer and paving contracts. A Phenomenal Honeymoon. A newly married couple were on their way from Antwerp to Paris when I one oJ their l'ellow passengers cut his I throat with a razor in the railway car- 1 riage in which they were traveling. Another shock awaited them in Paris. A visitor in the hotel in which they were staying was killed in the I lift in their presence. * On Sunday they called on a friend living in Paris, who had invited them to lunch at his house. When extending the invitation the friend observed, ( laughing, "You will not find any corpses with me;" but. when they arrived at the house their host greeted them with a request to have the lunch put off, as his servant had died that morning in a bath from heart disease. This was too much for the bride. J who fainted and then went into hys- 1 terics. i The couple subsequently took the first train back to Antwerp.?London Globe. I Our fee returned it we fail. Ai.y on any invention will promptly receive our ability of same. 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