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01 T H' PILLA LIGHT Indeecf. flie pVotecTTon "of "the stout plate plass, so thick and tough that Bea birds on a stormy night dashed themselves to painless death against It, was very welcome. Moreover, though neither of he girls -would admit it, there was .a sense of security here which was strangely absent when they looked Into the abyss beneath the stone gallery. Constance, balancing a tele scope, and nid, peering through the fleldglasses, followed the progress of the Daisy in silence, but Brand's eyes wandered uneasily from the barometer, which had fallen rapidly during the past hour, to the cyclonic nimbus spreading its dark mass beyond the Seven Stones lightship. The sun had vanished seemingly for the day, and the indicator attached to the base of the wind vane overhead pointed now eou'west by west. It would not re quire much further variation to bring about a strong blow from the true southwest, a quarter responsible for most of the fierce gales that sweep the English channel. Nevertheless this quick darting about of the fickle breeze did not usually be token lasting bad weather. At the worst the girls might be compelled to pass the night on the rock. He knew that the tug with the two relief men would make a valiant effort to reach the lighthouse at the earliest possible moment. When the men joined him the girls caulil embark. As it was the affair was spiced with adventure. Were it not for the mishap to the as sistant keepers the young people would have enjoyed themselves throughly. The new airt of the wind. tt?j, would scud the Daisy speedily back to port. Thij in itself justified the course he had taken. On the whole a doubtful situatio was greatly relieved. His face Iv'.gh toned. With a grave humor not altogether artificial he cried: "Now, Constance, I did not take you aboard as a visitor. Between us we ouf.'ht to muster a good appetite. Come with mo to the storeroom. I will get you anything you want and leave you In charge of the kitchen." "And poor me!" chimed in Enid. "Oh, you, miss, are appointed upper housemaid, and, mind you, no follow ers." "Mercy! I nearly lost my situation before I got it." "How?" "Wo met Jack Stanhope and asked him to come with us." "You asked him, you mean," said Constance. "And you met him, I meant," said Enid. "I don't care a pin how you treated Stanhope so long as you didn't bring him," said Brand, "though, indeed, he would have been useful as it turned out" When lunch was ready they summon ed him by the electric bells he had put tip throughout the building. It gave them great joy to discover in the living room a code of signals which covered a variety of messages. They rang him downstairs by the . correct call for "Meal served." It was a hasty repast, as Brand could not remain long away from the glass covered observatory, but they all en joyed it Immensely. He left them, as he said, "to gabble up the remains," but snon he shouted down the stairs to toil them that the Daisy had round ed Carn du. He could not tell them, not knowing it. that at that precise mo ment eld Bon Bollard was frantically slgmiling to Lieutenant Stanhope to change the course of the small steam y,i, J,,, i,ni (.omrinndeered as soon n.-. ..; r. v.r r;.:i I'-.rorga the town that the Gulf Rock was flying the "help wanted" signal. The officials did not know that Brand was fo:vne!Ied by the snowstorm to nse r M-kets. All the information they pusfossed was the message from Land's End and its time of dispatch. Jack Stanhope's easy going face be came very strenuous indeed when he heard the news. The hour statod was precisely the time the Daisy was due at the rock if she made a good trip. Without allow ing for any possible contingency save disaster to the girls and their escort, he rushed to the mooring place of the ten ton steam yacht Lapwing, im pounded a couple of lounging sailors, fired up, stoked and steered the craft himself and was off across the bay in a quarter of the time that the owner of the Lapwing could have achieved the same result. His amazement was complete when he encountered the redoubtable Daisy bowling home before a seven knot breeze. He instantly came round and ranged up to speaking distance. When he learned what had occurred he read ily agreed to return to Penzance in order Jto pick up the relief lighthouse keepers and thus save time in trans ferrins them to the rock. : In a word, aa Enid Trevlllion was fSafe, he was delighted at the prospect of bringing her back that evening, when the real skipper of the Lapwing would probably, have charge of his own boat. There was no hurry at all now. If they left the harbor at 3 o'clock, there would stW.be plenty of light to reach the Gulf Bock.. Ben Pollard, cUac!affOYer blsboeUer th DftUy need toward .Peangace side ty U .with tbajXaoviiue. m not nn of By ... Louis Tracy, 9f Author of "The Wings of the Morning Copyright. 1904. by Edward J. Clode mis. iiut tne arrangement he had sug gested was the best possible one, and he was only an old fisherman who knew the coast, whereas Master Stan hope pinned his faith to the Nautical Almanac and the rules. The people most concerned knew nothing of these proceedings. When Constance and Enid had sol emnly decided on the menu for dinner, when they had inspected the kitchen and commended the cleanliness of the cook, Jackson; when they had washed the dishes and discovered the where abouts of the "tea things," they sud denly determined that it was much nicer aloft in the sky parlor than in these dim little rooms. "I don't see why they don't have decent windows," said Enid. "Of course it blows hard here in a gale, but just look at that tiny ventilator, no bigger than a ship's porthole, with a double storm shutter to secure It if you please, for all the world as if the sea rose so high!" . Constance took thought for awhile. "I suppose the sea never does reach this height," she said. Enid, in order to look out, had to thrust her head and shoulders through an aperture two feet square and three feet in depth. They were in the living room at that moment full seventy feet above the spring tide high water mark. Sixty feet higher the cornice of the gallery was given its graceful outer slope to shoot the climbing wave crests of an Atlantic gale away from the lan tern. The girls could not realize this stupendous fact. Brand had never told them. He wished them to sleep peace fully on stormy nights when he was away from home. They laughed now at the fanciful notion that the sea could ever so much as toss its spray at the window of the living room. They passed into the narrow stair way. Their voices and footsteps sounded hollow. It was to the floor beneath that Bates had fallen. . "I don't think I like living in a light house," cried Enid. "It gives one the creeps." "Surely there are neither ghosts nor ghouls , here," , said Constance. "It is modern, scientific, utilitarian In every atom of its solid granite." u But Enid was silent as they climbed the steep stairs. Once she stopped and peeped into her father's bedroom. "That 13 where they brought me when I first came to the rock," she whispered. "It used to be Mr. Jones' room. I remember dad saying so." Constance, on whose shoulders the reassuring cloak of science hung some what loosely, placed her arm around her sister waisTin a suddeiTaccessdl tenderness. "You have improved in appearanct since then, Enid," she said. "What a wizened little chip I musl have looked. I wonder who I am." "I know who you soon will be if you don't take care." Enid blushed prettily. She glanced at herself in a small mirror on the wall.' Trust a woman to find a mirror In any apartment. "I suppose Jack will ask me to mar ry him," she mused." "And what will you reply?" The girl's Hp parted. Her eyes shone for an instant; then she buried her face against her sister's bosom. "Oh, Connie," she wailed, "I shall ! hate to leave you and dad. Why hasn't ! Jack got a brother as nice as him i self?" j Whereupon Constance laughed loud l and long. The relief was grateful to both. Enid's idea of a happy solution of the domestic difficulty appealed to their easily stirred sense of humor. "Never mind, dear," gasped Con stance at last. "You shall marry your Jack and invite all the nice men to dinner. Good gracious! I will have the pick of the navy. Perhaps the ad miral may be a widower." With flushed faces they reached the region of light. Brand was writing at a small desk In the service room. "Something seems to have amused you." he said. "I have heard weird peals ascending from the depths." "Connie is going to splice the ad miral." explained Enid. "What admiral?" "Any old admiral." "Indeed 1 will not take an old ad miral," protested the elder. "Then you had better take him when he is a lieutenant," said Brand. This offered too gooJ an opening to be resisted. "Enid has already secured the lieu tenant." she murmured, with a swift glance at the other. Brand looked up quizzically. "Dear uie." he cried, "if my con gratulations are not belated" Enid was blushing again. Qfce threw her arms about his neck. "Don't believe her, dad," she said. "She's jealous!" Constance saw a book lying on the table, "Regulations For the Lighthouse Service." She opened it Brand stroked Enid's hair gently and resumed the writing of his daily journal. "The Elder Brethren!" whispered Constance. "Do they wear long white beards 7 "And oarry. wands?" added the re covered 33nid. ..: fijtem ha Tet cloaks R uuojmsi isnoes i " --And" "And say boo to naughty little girls t who won't let nie complete my diary," 'shouted Brand. "Be off, both of you. Keep a lookout for the next ten min utes. If you see any signals from the mainland or catch silit of the Lance lot, call me." . They climbed to the trimming stage of the lantern, which was level witiii the external gallery. Obedient to in structions, they searched the Land's End and the wide reach of Mount's bay beyond Carn du. Save a scudding sail or two beating in from the Lizard and a couple of big steamers hurrying from the east one a traiisatlantic transport liner from London there . was nothing visible. In the far dis tance the sea loolied smooth enough. though they needed no explanation of the reality when they saw the irregular white patches glistening against the hull of a Penzance fishing smack. "Oh, Connie, the reef!" said Enid suddenly in a low voice. They glanced at the turbid retreat of the tide over the submerged rocks. The sea was heavier, the noise louder, now that they listened to it than when they arrived in the Daisy, little more than an hour earlier. Some giant force seemed to be wrestling there, raging against its bonds, striving feverishly to tear, rend, utterly destroy its invisi ble fetteis. Sometimes, after an un usually impetuous surge, a dark shape, trailing witch tresses of weed, showed for an instant in the pit of the cal dron. Then a mad whirl of water would pounce on it with a fearsome spring and the fang of rock would be smothered ten feet deep. For some reason they did not talk. They were fascinated by the power, the grandeur, the untamed energy of the spectacle. The voice of the reef held them spellbound. They listened mutely. Beneath Brand wrote with scholarly ease: "Therefore I decided, that it would best serve the interests of the board if I sent Bates and Jackson to Pen zance in the boat in which my daugh ter" he paused an instant and added an "&" to the word "fortunately hap pened to visit me. As I would be alone on the rock, and the two girls might be helpful until the relief came, I retained them." . . He glanced at the weather glass in front of him and made a note: "Barometer failing. Temperature higher." In another book he entered the exact records. A column headed '.'Wind di rection and force" caused him to look up at the wind vanel He whistled softly. - "S." WV," he wrote, and after-a-sees ond's thought inserted the . figure - 6. The sailor's scale, ye landsman, differs from yours.,: What you tern a gale at sea he joyfully halls as a fresh breeze. No. 6 is a point above this limit when a well conditioned clipper ship can car ry single reefs and topgallant; sails in chase full and by. No. 12 is a duu rlcane. "Bare poles," says the scale. Slowly mounting the Iron ladder, he stood beside the silent watchers. The bay was nearly deserted. No sturdy tugboat was pouring smoke from her funnel and staggering toward the rock. Northwest and west the darkness was spreading and lowering. He did not trouble to examine the reef. Its signs and tokens were too familiar to him. Its definite bellow or muttered threat was part of the pre vailing influence of the hour or day. He had heard its voice too often to find an omen in it now. "This time I must congratulate both of you," he said quietly. "On what?" they cried in unison, shrill with unacknowledged excitement. : "Ladies seldom If ever pass a night on a rock lighthouse. You will have tli at rare privilege." . Enid clapped her hands. "I am delighted," she exclaimed. "Will there be a storm, father?" ask ed Constance. "I think so. At any rate, only a miracle will enable the tug to reach us before tomorrow, and miracles are not frequent occurrences at sea." ' I know of one," was HIJ'3 com ment, with great seriousness for her. He read her thought. "I was younger then," he smiled. "Now I am fifty, and the world has aged." CHAPTER V. HEY descended into the service room. "Let me see," said Enid. "It will be nineteen years on the 22d of next June since you found me floating serenely toward the Gulf Rock in a deserted boat?" "Yes, if you insist on accuracy as to the date. I might cavil at your se renity." "And I was 'estimated' as a year old then? Isn't it a weird thing that a year old baby should be sent adrift on the Atlantic in an open boat and never a word of inquiry made subsequently as to her fate? I fear I could not have been of much account in those days." "My dear child, I have always told you that the boat had been in collision during the fog which had prevailed for several days previously. Those who were caring for you were probably knocked overboard and drowned." "But alone, utterly alone! That is the strangeness of it I must be an American. Americans start out to hus tle for themselves early in life, don't they?" ' "Certainly in that respect you might claim the record." Brand had. not told her all the facts of that memorable June morning. Why should he? They were not pleasant memories, to him. Why cumber ber also with them? For the rest he bad drawn up and read to her long' ago a carefully compiled account 'of her (res cue and the step tafcettToltocorer Iter MtntKy. - . ; :: ,." I g?Bterad on aottee. andmatef career with no such "halo 'of "siory," broke In Constance. "J am just plain English, born in Brighton, of parents not poor, but respectable. Mother died a year after my birth, didn't sho, dad?" "You were thirteen months old when we lost her," he answered, bending over the clockwork attachment of the fog bell to wipe off an invisible speck of dust. Since his first term of service on the rock the light had changed from an occulting to -a fixed one. "She is buried there, isn't she?" the girl went on. "How strange that amid our journeying we have never visited Brighton." "If I were able to take you to her graveside, I would not do it," said Brand. "I do not encourage morbid sentiments even of that perfectly nat ural kind. Your mother to you, Con stance, is like Enid's to her a dear but visionary legend. In a degree it is al ways so between loved ones lost and those who are left. Truth, honor, work these are the highest ideals for ttie individual. They satisfy increasingly. Happy as I am in your companionship, you must not be vexed when I tell you that the most truly joyful moment of my life was conferred when my little friend here first responded accurately to external influences." He laid his hand on an object resting on a table by itself. It looked like an aneroid barometer, but the others knew it was the marine auriscope to which he had devoted so many patient hours. "Is it in working order now?" asked Constance instantly, and Enid came nearer. Together they examined the small dial. It was equipped with an arrow headed pointer and marked with the divisions of the compass, but with out the distinguishing letters. These three understood each other exactly. By inadvertence the conver sation had touched on a topic concern ing which Brand was always either vague or silent. Both girls were quick witted enough to know that Con stance's mother was never willingly alluded ' to either by the lighthouse keeper or by the elderly Mrs. Shep pard, who looked after them in in fancy and was now the housekeeper 6f Laburnum cottage. Constance was annoyed. How could she have been so thoughtless as tc cause her father a moment's suffering by bringing up painful reminiscences! But he helped her, being master oi himself. He adjusted a switch in the instru ment. "J had no difficulty in constructing a diaphragm which wxuld intercept . all sounds," he said. "The struggle cam6 when I wanted an agent which would distinguish and register a particular set of sounds, no matter what addi tional din might be prevalent at th same time. My hopes were wrecked sc often ,that I began to despair, until 1 chanced to read one day how the high tension induction coil could: be tuned to disregard electrical influences other than' those issued at the same pitch. My anxiety, until I had procured and experimented with ,.a v properly con structed coil, was very trying, I assure yout" , "I remember wondering what oe earth it was," volunteered Enid." "U sounded like a mathematical snake." "And I am sorry to say that even yel I am profoundly ignorant as to its true Inwardness," smiled Constance. "Yet you girls delight in ., poets. who bid you hearken to the music of the spheres. I suppose you will admit that the ear of, say, Ben Pollard is not tun ed to such a celestial harmony. How ever, I will explain my auriscope in a sentence. It only listens to and indi cates the direction of fog horns, sirens and ships' bells. A shrill steam whistle excites it, but the breaking of seas aboard ship, the loud flapping of a pro peller, the noise of the engines, of a gale, or all these in combination, leave it unmoved." "I remen.ber once, when we were going from Falmouth to Porthalla in a fog, how dreadfully difficult it was to discover the whereabouts of another steamer we passed en route," said his daughter. "Well, with this little chap on the bridge, the pointer would have told the captain uuerrinsly. I don't suppose it will be thick while you are here, or you would see it pick up the distant blasts of a steamer long before we can hear them and follow her course right round the arc of her passage. It is most interesting to watch its activity when there are several ships using their sirens. I have never had an op portunity of testing it on more than three vessels at once, but as soon as I could deduce a regular sequence in the seemingly erratic movements of the in dicator I marked the approach and passing of each with the utmost ease." "Would that stop collisions at sea?" "Nothing will do that, because some ships' officers refuse at times to exer cise due care, but with my instrument on board two ships, and a time chart attached to the drums, there would be no need for a board of trade inquiry to determine whether or not the proper warning was given. To the vast ma jority of navigators it will prove an ab solute blessing." "You clever old thing!" cried Enid. "I suppose you will make heaps of money out of it." "The inventor is the last man to make money out of his inventions, as a rule," said Brand. "I suppose I differ from the ordinary poor fellow inas much as I ara not dependent for a live lihood on tl'.e success of my discovery." "There's not the least bit of chance of there being a fog tonight?" queried Enid so earnestly that a wave of mer riment rippled through the room. "Not the least In any event you two girls will be In bed and sound asleep at 10 o'clock." ,Petish! the ; thought!" cried .Con stance. "Bed at 10, during our first andmry,nighrtoalItlou8er' 1 "Boa wm ft.trbeea&ber. ITaa cannot Imagine how'tlie clcOk tTi wdles in this circumscribed area. Work alone conquers it Otherwise, men would quit the service after a mouth's experi ence." "Ship ahoy!" screamed Enid. "Here coines the Lapwing round Cam du. Mr. Lawton must have lent her to bring the relief. How kind of him." "The Lapwing cannot approach the rock," said Brand. ' "I will signal 'Landing impossible today.' It will save them a useless journey." He selected the requisite flags from a locker, the piirase he needed being coded. Soon tha strong breeze was trying to tear the bunting from the cordage, and though they could not hear the three whistles with which the little yacht acknowledged the signal, they could easily see the jets of steam through their glasses. Constance happened to overlook the table on which stood the auriscope. "This thing has actually recorded those whistles," she cried in wonder. "What sort of whistle has the Lap wing?" asked Brand. "A loud and deep one, worthy of a leviathan. It was a fad of Mr. Law ton's. They say his siren consumes more steam than his engines." Her father laughed. "Anyhow, he is sticking to his course," he announced. 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