! LIGHT "i . two supernumeraries are tnere," be announced, "but I cannot see Law- ton. Indeed, so far as I can make out, she is commanded by Stanhope, dress ed in Ben Pollard's oilskins." "He bas left Lady Margaret!" cried Constance. "He never went home!" essayed Enid. "Poor chap! He was going to take us for a drive tomorrow," said Con stance. "To llorvah," explained Enid, with a syllabic emphasis meant for one pair of ears. "It is very nice of him to struggle on and have a look at us," said Brand, "lie can come close enough to see us, but that is all. Our small megaphone will be useless." Indeed the Lapwing dared not ap proach nearer than the Trinity moor-, ing buoy. By that time the three, pro tected from the biting wind by oilskin coats, were standing on the gallery. The reef was bellowing up at them with a continuous roar. A couple of acres of its surface consisted of noth ing more tangible than white foam and driving spray. Stanhope, resigning the wheel to a sailor, braced himself firmly against ' the little vessel's foremast and began to strike a series of extraordinary at . titudes with bis arms and head. "Yhy is he behaving in that idiotic manner?" screamed Enid. "Capital idea semaphore clever fel low, Jack," shouted Brand. Abashed, Enid held her peace. The lighthouse keeper,' signaling in turn that he was receiving the mes sage, spelled out the following: "Is all well?" "Yes," he answered. "Bates and Jackson reached hospital. Bates compound fracture. If weather moderates will be with you next tide." "All right," waved Brand. The distant figure starte again: "L-o-v-e t-o E-n-i-d" Enid indulged in an extraordinary arm flourish. . "A-n-d C-o-n-s-t-a-n-c-e." "That spoils it," she screamed. "It ought to be only kind regards to you, Connie. I believe you are a serpent, a" "Do stop your chatter," shouted Brand, and he continued the message: "Weather looks very bad. Little hope for tonight. Lancelot due at 6. Will see personally that no chance is lost. Goodby." "Goodhy," was the response. The Lapwing fell away astern from the vicinity of the buoy. "Why is he doing that?" asked Con stance, close to her father's ear. "He is too good a sailor to risk turn ing her in that broken water. A little farther out there is greater depth and more regular seas." They watched the yacht in silence. At last her head swung round toward the coast. When broadside on a wave hit her, and the spray leaped over her masts. "That gave them a wetting," cried Brand, and his calm tone stilled their ready fear. Indeed, there was greater danger than he wanted them to know, but the Lapwing reappeared, shaking herself and still turning. "Good little boat!" said Brand. The crisis had passed. She was headed, at full speed, for the bay. And not too soon. Ere she reached the comparative shelter of Clement's island she was swept three times by green water. j Inside the lantern, their faces ruddy with the exposure, their eyes dancing vrltli e.ci;?:ror.t. the rirls vrere voluble with delight. Could anything be more thrilling than their experiences that day! "That semaphore dodge Is too pre o;ot:s to be lost," cried Enid. "Connie, you and I must learn th alphabet. You shall teach us this very evening, dad. Fancy me signaling you the whole length of the promenade: 'Just look at Mrs. Wilson's bonnet,' or 'Here come the Taylor-Smiths. Scoot!' Oh, it's fine!" She whirled her arms In stiff jointed rigidity and mimicked Stanhope's fan tastic posing. "Why should you scoot when you meet the Taylor-Smiths?" askedBrand. ! "Because Mrs. T.-S. hauls us off to tea and gives us a gallon of gossip with every cup." "I thought your sex regarded gossip as the cream?" "Sex, indeed! Old Smith Is worse than his wife. He doesn't say much, but he winks. One of his winks, at the end of a story, turns an episode into a three volume novel." "It seems to me I must teach you the code in my own self defense," he replied. "And now for tea. Let us have it served here." I hPT T-Afwl Tnla n n nfimirflnlA nnrmn The girls enlivened the meal by relat ing to him the doings and sayings of current Interest ashore during tie past two months. By aftreer coincidence, ,muvu xxv utu uvii uicuuvu, ma icu was again due within a week, just as on the occasion of Enid's first appear ance on the rock. The fact struck him as singular. In all probability he would not return to duty. He bad completed twenty-one years of active service. Now he would retire, and when the commercial arrangements for the aurlscope were completed be wjsnJdJtakeWs jfrngbtwen.fc 3ac I i mmm By Louis Tracy, Author of "The Wings of the Morning" Copyright. 1904. by Edward J. Clode promised continental "tour ' unless, in deed, matters progressed between Stanhope and Enid to the point of an early marriage. He had foreseen that Stanhope would probably ask Enid to be his wife. He knew the youngster well and liked him. For the opposition that Lady Margaret might offer he cared not a jot. He smiled inwardly as the con venient phrase has it when he re viewed the certain outcome of any dispute between himself and her lady ship. He would surprise her. Brand the lighthouse keeper and Brand urging the claims of his adopted daughter would be two very different persons. Of course all Penzance knew that he was a gentleman, a scientist in a small way and a man of means. Otherwise Constance and Enid would not have oc cupied the position they held in locaso ciety. Those unacquainted with Eng lish ways ofttimes make the mistake of rating a man's social status by the means he possesses or the manner of his life in Loncon. No greater error could be committed. The small, exclu sive county town, the community which registers the family connections of many generations, is the only jre- liable Index. Here to be of gentle birth and breeding not bad credentials even in the court of King Demos con fers Brahmanical rank, no matter what the personal' fortunes of ,the individual. Brand, it is true, did not belong to a Cornish county family, but there were those who conned him shrewdly. They regarded him-as a well meaning crank, yet the edict went forth that his daugh ters were to be "received," and received they were, with pleasure and admira tion, by all save such startled elderly mammas as Lady Margaret Stanhope, who expected her good looking son to contract a marriage which would re store the failing fortunes of the house. All unconscious of the thoughts flit ting through his brain, for Brand was busy trimming a spare lamp, the two girls amused themselves by learning the semaphore alphabet from a little handbook which he found for them. When the night fell, dark and lower ing, the lamp was lighted. They had never before seen an eight wicked con centric burner in use. The shore light houses with which they were acquaint ed were illuminated by electricity or on the catoptric principle, wherein a large number of small Argand lamps, with reflectors, are grouped together. To interest them, to keep their eyes and ears away from the low water orgy of the reef, he explained to them the capillary action of the oiL Al though they had learned these things In school, they had not realized the ex actness of the statement thasil does not burn, but must first be converted into gas by the application of heat. On the Gulf Rock there were nearly 3,000 gallons of colza oil stored in the tanks beneath, colza being used in preference to paraffin because It was safer, and there was no storage accom modation apart from the lighthouse. Requiring much greater heat than mineral oil to produce inflammable gas, the colza had to be forced by heavy pressure in the cistern right up to the edge of the wicks and made to flow evenly over the rims of the burner, else the fierce flame would eat the met al disks as well. He read them a little lecture on the rival claims of gas and electricity and They were cheerful as cTlgs over it. demonstrated how dazzlingly brilliant the latter could be on a dark, clear night by showing them the fine light on the Lizard. "But in hazy weather the oil wins," he said, with the proper pride of every man in his own engine. "Fishermen sailing into Penzance along a course equidistant from the two points tell me that if they can see anything at all on a foggy night they invariably catch a dull yellow radiance from the rock, while the Lizard is invisible. The oil has more penetrative power. Its chem ical combination is nearer the mean of nature's resources." At the proper time he banished them to the kitchen to prepare dinner, a feast diverted' from x the bom? of noon by tlcttencesof tbeday. He-adopted every expedient to keep them bnac& to rentier "tnetn Bo exnansxea mat tney would sleep in blissful calm through the ordeal to come. . As he could not leave the .lamp, and they refused to eat apart from him, the dinner, in three courses, was a breathless affair. Going up and down Sv? C'srM of strirs with soup, "joint and pv.'l&'.wz. yrhile one carried the tray and tre other swung a hand lan tern la front, required time and exer tion. They were cheerful as grigs over it. Enid, whose turn it was to bring up the platers cf tnpioer.. pleaded guilty tc a slight pensaticu of nervousness. "I cor.!J not help reraenibermg," she said, fwhat an awfr.l let of dark iron steps there were boneath me. I felt as if S3ra?t!il" were creeping up quickly behind to grab me by tha ankles." "You should go up and down three times in the dark." was Brand's recipe. "When you quitted the door level for the third ascent you would cease to worry about impossible grabs." Constance looked at her watch. "Only 8 o'clock! What a long day it has been!" she commented. "You must go to bed early. Sleep In my room. You will soon forget where you are. Each of the bunks is com fortable. Now I will leave you in charge of the lamp while I go and lock up." They laughed. It sounded so home like. "Any fear of burglars?" cried Enid. "Yes; most expert cracksmen wind and rain and sleet," he added quietly. "I must fasten all the storm shutters and make everything snug. Don't stir until I wake you in the morning." "Poor old dad!" sighed Constance. "What a vigil!" He was making new entries In the weather report when she remarked thoughtfully: "It is high water about half past 1, I think?" " He nodded, pretending to treat the question as of no special import. "From all appearances there will be a heavy sea," she went on. "Just an ordinary bad night," he said coolly. . . "Do the waves reach far up the light house in a gale?" she persisted. Then Brand grasped the situation firmly. "So that your slumbers may',' be peaceful," he said, "I will call your kind attention to the fact that 'the Gulf Rock light has appeared every night during, the past., .twenty-five years, or ,slnce a date, some four years before you were born, Constance. . It contains 4,000 tons of granite ahdT is practically, monolithic, as if it were carved out of a quarry. Indeedj'r;l think Its builder went one better than nature. Here are no cracks or fissures or undetected flaws. The Io,west course is bolted to the rock with wrpiight iron clamps. Every stone is . jtovfe: tailed to its neighbors and clasped to them with Iron, above, below and at the sides. If you understand conic sec tions I could make clearer the scien tific aspect of the structure, but you can take it from me you are far safer here than on a natural rock many times the dimensions of this column." "That sounds very . satisfactory," murmured Enid, sleepily. "I am overwhelmed," said Constance, who grasped the essential fact that he had not answered her question. Soon after 0 o'clock he kissed them good night. They promised not to sit up talking. As a guarantee of good be hayior, Enid said she would ring the electric bell just before she climbed Into her bunk. The signal came soon and he was glad. He trusted to the fatigue, the fresh air, the confidence of the knowl edge' that he was on guard, to lull them into the security of unconscious ness. The behavior of the mercury puzzled him. In the barometer it fell, in the thermometer it rose. Increasing tem perature combined with low pressure was not a healthy weather combina tion In January. Looking back through the records of several years, he dis covered a similar set of conditions one day in March, 1891. He was stationed tlica on the northeast coast auJ -fjUI to remember any remarkable circum stance connected with the date, so he consulted the lighthouse diary for that year. Ah! Here was a possible ex planation. The chief keeper, a stran ger to him, was something of a meteor ologist. He had written: "At 4:15. p. m. the barometer stood at 27.16 degrees and the thermometer at 45.80 degrees. There was a heavy sea and a No. 7 gale blowing from the S. S.-W. About 5 o'clock the wind Increased to a hurri cane and the sea became more violent than I have seen it during five years experience of this station. Judging solely by the clouds and the flight of birds, I should Imagine that the cy clonic center passed over the Scilly isles and the Land's End." -Then next day: "A steady northeast wind stilled the sea most effectually. Within twenty four hours of the first signs of the hur ricane the channel was practicable for small craft. A fisherman reports that the coast is strewn with wreckage." Brand mused over the entries for awhile. With his night glasses he peered long into the teeth of the grow ing storm to see if he could find the double flash of the magnificent light on the Bishop Rock, one of the Atlantic breakwaters of the Scilly isles. It was fully thirty-five miles distant, but it flung Its radiance over the waters from a height of 143 feet, and the Gulf Rock lamp stood 130 feet, above high water, mark. A landsman would not have dls-j tingulshed even the nearer revolutions, of the St Agnes light, especiallyduithe prevalent gloom, and .wispaofspindrIft were already stxlkih'tbe lantern-and blurring the glass. - " - KerertbeteBS i caught tfc- Quick; fiaflMs rtfttfeft from cfcad low, put or THe mcCnling nae Dnugmg Dexter weather, and he bent again over the record of the equinoctial gale in 1S31. Soon he abandoned this hope. The growing thunder of the reef as the tide advanced gave the first unmistakable warning of what was to come. As a mere matter of noise the reef roared its loudest at half tide. He understood now that a gale had swept across the Atlantic in an irregular track. How soever the winds may rage the tides remain steadfast, and the great waves now rushing up from the west .were actually harbingers of the fierce blast which had created them. Of course the threatened turmoil in nowise disconcerted him. It might be that the rock would remain inaccessi ble during many days. In that event the girls wo-i!d take the watch after the lamp was extinguished, and they must learn to endure the monotony and discomforts of existence in a storm bound lighthouse. They would be nerv ous unquestionably perhaps he had forgotten how nervous but Brand was a philosopher, and at present he was most taken up with wonderment at the curious blend of circumstances which resulted in their presence on the rock that night. Ha! A tremor shook the great pillar. He heard without the frenzied shriek of the first repulsed roller which flung itself on the sleek and rounded wall. Would the girls sleep through the next few hours? Possibly, if awake, they would attribute the vibration of the column to the wind. He trusted It might be so. Shut in as they were, they could not distinguish sounds. Ev erything to them would be a confused hum, with an occasional shiver as the granite braced its mighty heart to re sist the enemy. - But what'new note was this In the outer chaos? An ordinary gale shud dered and Tvhistled and chanted Its way past the lantern in varying tones. It sang, it piped, it bellowed, it play ed oh giant reeds and crashed with cymbals. Now he lookejf at the clock, after midnight there was a sustained screech in the voice of the tempest which he did not remember having heard before. At last the explanation dawned on him. The hurricane was there, a few feet away, shut off from him by mere sheets of glass. The lighthouse thrust its tall shaft into this merciless tornado with grim stead fastness, and around its smooth con tours poured a volume of unearthly melody which seemed to surge up from tjie broad base and was flung off into the darkness by the outer sweep of the cornice. - The wind was traveling seventy, eighty, mayhap a hundred miles an hour. Not during all his service nor in earlier travels through distant lands had he ever witnessed a storm of such fury. He thought he heard something Crack overhead. He looked aloft, but all seemed well.' Not until next day did be discover that the wind vane had been carried away, a wrought iron shank nearly two inches thick having snapped like a piece of worsted at the place where the tempest had found a fault. He tried to look out into the heart of the gale. The air was full of fly ing foam, but the sea was beaten flat. If the growling monster beneath tried to fling a defiant crest at the tornado the whole mass of water, many tons in weight, was instantly torn from the surface and flung into nothingness. Some of these adventurers, forced up by the reef, hit the lighthouse with greater force than many a cannon ball fired in battles which have made his tory. Time after time the splendid structure winced beneath the blow. If Stephen Brand were ever fated to know fear he was face to face with -the ugly phantom then. The granite col umn would not yield, but it was quite within the bounds of possibility that the eiitiro lantern might be carried away and he with it. He thoi:2ht, with a catching of his breath, of the two girls in the tiny room beneath. For one fleeting instant his mortal eyes gazed into the unseen. But the call of duty restored him. The excessive draft affected the lamp. Its arior must be cheeked. With a steady hand he readjusted the little brass screws they were so superbly indifferent to all this pandemonium just little brass screws, doing their work and heeding naught beside. Sud denly there came to him the trium phant knowledge that the pure white beam of the light was hewing its path through the savage assailant without as calmly and fearlessly as it lit up the ocean wilds on a midsummer night of moonlight and soft zephyrs. "Thank God for that!" he murmured aloud. "How can a man die better than at his post?" The ring of Iron beneath caught his ears. He turned from the lamp. Con stance appeared, pale, with shining eyes. She carried the lantern. Behind her crept Enid, who had been crying. She strove now to check her tears. "Is this sort of thing normal, or a special performance arranged for our benefit?" said his daughter, with a fine attempt at a smile. "Oh, dad, I am so frightened!" cried Enid. "Why does it howi so?" CHAPTER YI. T says a good deal for Stephen Brand's courage that he was able to laugh just then, but It is a fine thing for a man in a moment of supremest danger to be called on to comfort a weeping woman. The next minute might be their last. Of that he was fully conscious. Even before the girls reached his side be felt a curious lifting movement of the whole frame of the lantern. Steel and glass alike were yielding to the sus tained violence of the wind pressure. Well were they molded, by men whose conscience need harbor no reproach of dishonest craftsmanship. They were being tested new almost beyond en ;LU durance. Some natures would have found relief in' prayer. Gladly would Constance and Enid have sunk on their knees and besought the Master of the winds to spare them and those at sea. But Brand, believing that a catastrophe was imminent, decided that in order to save the girls' lives he must neither alarm them nor lose an unnece S ;-y Instant. ; To desert the light that was impos sible personally. If given the least warning he would spring toward the iron rail that curved by the side of the stairs to the service room and take his chance; otherwise he would go with the lamp. There was no other alterna tive; the Kr!s must leave him at once. The laugh with which ha greeted their' appearance gave him time to scheme. "I ought to scold you, but I won't," he cried. "Are you plucky enough to tlescend to the kitchen and make three Dice cups of cocoa?" Just think what it cost him to speak In this bantering way, careless of words, though each additional syllable might mean death to all three. His request had the exact effect he calculated. For once Constance was deceived and looked her surprise. Enid, more volatile, smiled through her tears. 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