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. . . : " : : : By Sidney Snh M
West Wind Drift
By GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
Copyright, itto, by George Barr AlcCutcheon
THIS STAItTB TUB STOIIY
., Triaoer com nandt the
I.MAmer Doraine, whote disappearance,
Mle bound from a Bouth American
ihll
to the Untied State with ISO
IP0'1
mIea world. After the ve leaves
nri Xlflrno yinonw i-erOTixw, an
imerfcaS. broupht 6eor OnpJrttn
rHaaer by the eW engineer as a
,flwowfll'. Tft captain guesfkm him
at to hov he boarded the vcttel and
J. informed that he came aboartl ae o
r?((?d State, "nrf explains that rob
irj Aavo taken all hit money. TAo
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jnf &"t;e 'aPeiJ rom the ihip and
71 suspects a plot to wreck the vestal
Percival is put to work under guard.
vtit morning tfce wireless operator
retort' hi transmitter out of order.
Some earn; around their jewels for
ttlttu and a tanker "Huffed hie belt
to itt capacity with bank note and
etii." while at work Percival it reo
ttnlxed by Ruth Clinton, a debutante
..nthter of a banker. She met Perot-
il at a dance. Bhortly after ho is reo
conlztd a eerica of -explosions occur,
iilllno forty-aix of the crew and pas
lingers and maktng the great ship a
fierrtess derelict. Bhc remain afloat,
kfflsver, and the captain decides to
trust to the fortune of the sea "Out
tithe silent hulk came the voice of the
irtt officer, and other voices repeated
tin commands from various part of
the thlp commands to tho encircling
will o' the totsps."
AND HERE IT CONTINUE8
HE word camo down to tho scores vrhr
Allied tho boats that they were to lie
tf until sunrise, keeping In close con
ict with each other, and at no great
lUtanco from the ship The most thor-
ugh, careful examination of the steamur
ku In progross. If It was rouna mat
he was ln.no danger of foundering
nd the word was most reassuring nil
f them would bo takrn aboard In tho
lomlng Nothing could be done at prcs-
nt. A row nours moro wouiu icu ui
lit.
And then, for the first time sinco tne
ji...t.r tho note or tno croaner
rd. Each and every boat contained
I least one Individual who knew exactly
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hat ougnt to do aono in u
.his. . . .
Mr. tjindover addressed the penumoeu
unresisting occupants of the boat Into
which he had climbed with commend-
Me reluctance as one or tno iasi per
ons to leavo tho ship. y
"Why don't they begin senuins ouv
0 S calls? What's the wireless for.
t not to be usod at a time UKe tins
ilWay you I Veil up thcrp to somo ui
,lhoa damned muddle headed Idiots and
ell them what to do. Tell them that I
say tor tnern io oruu ". v-.. ...r.
Vhafs that? What did you say?"
Th steward In charge of tho boat re-
Meated his remark and Mr. Landover at
Mince said ho wouia report aim io ap'
Sain Trigger. ,
'..ni.. i n.nnf An nnv snnd. COtn
walned the banker despairingly. Cap
Sain Trigger hasn't the backbone of a
uhworm. He'd let you tell him to go to
Miell and nover minK oi jacKing juu uji
X- n Mn wnnrfp nfA'rn In the fix WO re
n now. If he'd had tno sense oi a jeiiy
i.h hM Vinv. Here 1 Sit still I
VI IU 'W i.w.. .- ..--- . ,,
fou'll upset the boat, you fool I What -phat
are you going to do with that oarr
"I'm going to crac you uvci u
1th It It you don't take back what yod
ild about Captain Trigger," eald tho
vll
Bald
t.rrt nmciiUv. "Take It back, do
mt liAAW -rtA?"
ivnnlti vim murder mo for a little
Wfclni lllr.t that?'
Mr, NICKlcsucK arousea uua:i. um
he torpor of despair.
"Take It back, Mr. Landover please
im t h. mi.... vmi liA'ii crat mo Bure.
fe!i bo rtnrlt. nnd I net nothing but the
Heepcst respect for Captain Trigger. Hes
i -ond.rful man. stewanl. Don't make
tny mistake. You hear me eay ho is a
yonaernii mnnr ven
oh. nhiit tin. Nleklestlck." crated Lan-
Wover, crouching down behind Uie gen
tleman adarossea.
The steward sat down, "io uo u in
k minute If It wasn't for the women nnd
children In this boat."
"I Intend to have every officer on that
learner arrested for criminal negligence
he Instant I set foot In Now York.
boomed the banker. "1 call upon everj
bne of you, my fellow passengers, t
eitlfy to the utter lack or precaution
aken by the men In charge of that ship
And whnt efforts are they making to
bring help to us now? Dy gad. If I wa
In command of that vessel I d bo shoot-
ng the wireless calls to every ureai
icon What's mat?"
"That's a rocket," roared the steward
"Great Scott I" gasped th exasperated
iankcr. "Are we having a celebration
tlth fireworks?" , ,,
The dull hapless occupants of the llfe-
Soat watched with fascinated eyea tno
Irst of the giant rockets tnat wnizzea
md roared Its way from tho dock of tho
Md. an endless nrrow of fire piercing
Sho night A loud report, the scattering
if a hundred stars, ana men uenser
lackness than before.
Morning came. Up out of the east
tole a sickly gray. It turned slowly
nto ntnk. and then, suddenly, tho sea
Sfai blue and smiling. In the heart of
he dancing cordon lay the weiraiy cam
uflaged Doralno, Inert, sln'ster. as still
md cold as death. No smoko Issued from
ir stneks to cheer the wretchrd watch-
rs: no foam, no spray leapa rrom nor
wlghty bow She was a great, HMess
ning. waves lappen Benny uBainai -r
ln nno fii aunv oniy to i-ome uiivk
caln In nlavful scorn for the vast object
hnt hnrl rent and baffled them so long
In high fluttered the Stars and Stripes
ray In the presence of death, a sprightly
larblnirer of none flaunting defiance In
he face of despair.
Men. stripped to tne waist, grimy nno
Ihln'ng with tho sweat of hours, moving
bout In knots or mree ana tour m-i-ays
In knots of three or four as If
frald to disintegrate Uaned upon tho
all and watched the approach of the
rowded boats, looked down Into pallid
nngulshed faces with their eager, hun
sry eyes, eyes that devoured the grouos
Rlong the rail. Now and then a glad
bout of Joy went up from one or m
hoats, and a figure In tho huddled mass
vaa transformed Into a responsivo thing
M1 lire.
11 In each of the square, black openings
Vln iha liitll nt Mi hln ntnnri men ..vlth
(opes and ladders. The grent steel doors
lay tiat against tne since, swung wiae
to admit this time i human cargo From
he Interior of the vessoi came the brisk.
.. TP"t ptntt" of hnmmr nira'n't
wood and steel : fr-m tho decks brnke tho
oud, commanding voices of "ien calllni
but directions; from tin glld'ng. slap
ping boats went up the hearty shouts of
understanding unu obedience, tho rat
tling of bnat'liooks. the grinding of oars
In the locks, tho murmur of voices re
vived.
"Women and children first I" wns the
hhrlll, oft-repeated exhortation from one
bf the boats
And up In the center of another sprang
ft nne, imposing ngure, rrom whose llpi
rolled these thrlllmg words:
"By nod they're grent I They're
(treat, after nil I Clod bless. Contain
Trigger und every man-Jack of them 1'
' uet down I" roared bis it'll unuacl
fled critic, tho steward. "You'll fall over.
ooara."
CIIArTEIt III
The Htorm
The gaunt, coatless Mr. Mott com
nanded the nort bI(1h of the vessel Mr
"odge, the purser, the starbflnrd Fight
ing nin In th- hreerh hii letrir'n-s of
the American navy, blackened and ban
aaged stokers sailors unci landsmnn
comprised tho cotley company that stood
ready to drag th" nrcupnnts of tho boats
'in into the dank, nmoke-ecentcd maw
of the ship.
ono by one. In rcgulnr, systcmnt'c
i'rr, tne iiiriiouiH came alongside
TherA Wu nn Vnnfimlnn nn luinirllni.
They bump'a gently nualnst the tower-
Ing
mi employed In the 'gruesome businesi.
,.'nn in minim, uiU lilliiin lltHl liy
ihuii. ,.T.. : . " : ." T ....- - -
air jnotiuuo Kafgocq. hq one lltica up
Lv';;,.t;.fe.v t y. .-tu'M
his vo'ce In relalclnr. for there were
dead and Injured back In tho shadows:
moro were gTier-stricken, anxious men
and women crouchtnir out there In tho
stinBhlno; there were limp, unconscious
vomen ana nair aena cnuaren, ana over
all still hung the ominous cloud of ca
'astropho fat wltli prophecies of perils
yet to come.
They had gone out from n fchlp filled
vlth a monstrous clangor and confusion,
they wero returning to a tomblike hulk,
a lonely mass' In which- echoes would
abound, a thing of sighs and silences,
the corpse of a mammoth that had
throbbed yesterday but never more.
Up In the curving trlanglo Of the for
ward deck' wore two long, canvas-cov
ered rows. Tho dead I Porty-slx tw sU
ed, silent forms lying side bv side, some1
calm In death, others charred and mutil
ated beyond all possibility of Identifica
tion. Isvery man In the cng no room at
he time of the explosion was now a
mangled, unrecognlzablo thing. Engin
eers, electricians, stokers all of them
viped out In tho flash of an eye burnt,
boiled, Bhattored. Half a dozen women,
as many children, lay with tho s.lent
men.
The In lured had been nlaced In state
rooms on the promenade deck, regard-
ess of previous occupancy or subsequent
claim. There 1".. the scoro and a half
if seriously Injured, and thoro tolled the
hip's surgeon and h's volunteer helpers
bailor and merchant, worker and Idler,
scholar and dolt, steerage and first
abln, wealth and poverty shared alike
n the disposition of quarters and atten-
on. Thero was no discrimination. One
'o was as good as another to the doc-
r and his men, the poor man's moan
i full of suffering aa that of the rich
an, tho wall of the stcerago woman as
ilteous as that of her sister above.
Capt. Trigger waa ono of tho Injured
'le sworo a great deal when the u or
ordered him to bed. nibs and a broken
irm? Why the devil should ho be put
'o bed for something a schoolboy would
'augh nt? Mr. Shannon nnd two of
'ho younger officers were killed by the
xploston that wrecked tho br dgo and
"hart house. Chief engineer Gray died
n the engtno room. Cruise was blown
o pieces In the wireless house. His as.'
distant, tho crlpplo with tho charmed
1 fe, was dead.
A few seconds beforo the first explo
sion took place ho blew out his brains
ivlth a big navy revolver. Tho last seen
t Cruise was when ho appeared In the
door of his station, an expression of
mingled rago and alarm on hts face.
Pointing frantically at tho figure of his
nsslstont as It shot down tho steps and
across the deck, he shouted:
"Oct that man 1 Got him I For God's
sake, get hlml"
It oil happened In a few seconds of
time. Tho shrill laugh of the fleeing
nss'stant, tho report of the revolver, an
Instant of stupefaction, and then tho
dull, grinding crash.
It will nover bo known what Cruise
had heard or seen In tho last moments
of his life. No ono on board the Do
ralno, however, doubted for an Instant
that ho had discovered, too late, the
truth about his misshapen ass'stant
They now knew with almost absolute
certainty the Identity of tho odd man
In that devilish trio, tho man whose
footsteps Percival had heard, tho man
who stayed behind to guarantee the
consummation of the hideous plot. Cow
ard In tho end, he shirked the death he
was pledged to accept Ho knew what
was coming. Unlike his braver comi
radeB, he took the simplest way,
Tho count began. Late In the after
noon It was completed. Thero were
forty-six known dead on board the Do
ralno, the majority being members of the
crew. Seventeen persons wero missing,
chiefly from the steerage. Twenty-nine
ser'ously Injured were under the doc
tor's care. Some of them would not re
cover. A. hundred or moro persons suf
fered from, shock, bruises, cuts, and ex
posure, but only a few of them required
or demanded attention. In spite of their
'njurlea they fell to with tho spirit that
makes for true heroism and it voted
themselves to the care of the lets for
tunate, or to the assistance of the sorely
tried officers and men who strove to
bring order out of chaos.
Among the surv vors wero two Amer
ican surgeons and a physician from Rio
Janeiro. They, with the nurses, all of
whom had been Baved, Immediately went
to the relief of the ship's doctor, nnd In
short ordor an Improvised hospital was
establ'shcd. There was a remarkable
unanimity of self-sacrlllce among the
passengers. High and low, they fell to
In a frenzy of comradeship and worked
side by side In whatsoever capacity they
wero needed, whether fitted for It or not.
No man, no woman who was able to lift
n helping hand, failed in this hour of
need.
Mental labor fell to the lot of the
lordly but uncomplaining Landover, to
Ulnck nnd Nlckestick, Jones nnd Snip,
and even to tho precious Slg. Joeppl,
who, forgetting his Carusolike throat
tolled and sweated In the nmnky saloon.
Morris Shine, the motlon-nlcture mag
nate, tho while ho labored umldt tho
wreckage of the after deck, lamented not
tho cheerless task but tho ovll fate that
prevented the making of tho most spec
tacular film the world had ever known.
Mme. Carenl-Amorl, Mmo. Obosky
and her dancers; bejeweled Jewesses
nnd half-clad emigrants; gentlewomen
unused to toll and women who were
born to It: the old and the young all
f them, without exception, rose from the
dentha of dcsnalr and faced tho rigors
if tho day with unflinching courage, gave
out of a limitless store or tenaerness uu
that their renrtth could spare.
After the sun had set and tho deck
were dark and deserted except for the
from the gunners' hoard. Bwl(tly, meth
he (lend were lowered Into the sea,
swathed In canvas and weighted with
thlnes that were made to kill shells
from tho gunners' hoard. Swiftly, meth-
od'cally, one after the other, tney Blid
down to tho black, groedy watoris, sank
o the Kra.o that Is never still, yet nl
ivns silent, to the vast, unexplored wil
derness that stretches around the world.
Tho thin little inlsslonnry from the bnr
rcn plateaus of Patagonia nnd the plump
priest from tho heart of Duonns Aires,
monotonously commended each and
cvi" v one of them to tho mercy of God !
Tho sun camo up again In tho morn-
iik over a minim?, happy sea tnat nckoa
the sides of the Dorrulne with the ten
derness of n dog.
Tho plight of tho haplons Hteamcr
could not be disguised. Kven tho most
'gnorant pnBseuger knew that tho
wrecked cnglnte could not be repaired
or compounded. They knew that the Do-
alne was completely paralyzed. The
owcr to movo at will was rorover lost,
he force thnt had driven her reststlessly
nlong tho chosen path wan still. Tho
inwerful nrnne lers were idle, the hugii
'tern post wrenched bo badly that tho
ii(iu.ci was useless. sno wiib n-rut, neip
lessly adrift. Of what avail ho wheel
tnd a pntched-up rudder to tho mass
lint lay Inert, motionless on t smiling
Hea"
nvery one nn board refined, with
s'nklng heart, that the DoruKe was to
yo on drifting, drifting no i an knew
whither, until flie crossed tl 1 path of
i friendly stronger out th'fe In tho
mighty unstu. No cry of d.stroea no
rail for help could go cracklli Into the
boundless reaches. That was tho plight
f the Dornlno and her people on tho
mocking day that followed tho disaster,
nd unlesn fate Intervened thnt would bo
er plight for days without end.
Mr. Mott, temporarily in command,
addressed tho passengers In the main
saloon, where they had congregated at
his request. Ho did not mince matters.
Ho Btated the situation plainly. It was
eet that they should realize, that they
should understand, that they should
'tow the truth In order that thv might
adapt themselves to tho conditions he
'ainow compelled of necessity t mpose
upon them. They were, so to speak, oc
cupying a derelict. Help might come be
fore nightfall, It might uu come for
days. He hoped for the best but h? In
tended to prepare for tho worst
Without apology ho laid down a rigid
set of rules, nnd from these rules he
made It perfectly clear, th io could be
ro deviation. The available supply of
food was limited. It was his purpose to
conserve It ulth the greatest possible
care, Down In the holds, of course, was
u vast store of consigned foodstuffs, but
h had no authority to draw upon It and
would not do bo unless the ship's own
stock was exhausted. I'nosengers and
crow, therefore, would ho obliged to go
on tshort rntloiiH. Better to eat sparingly
now, ho said, than not to eat at all later
on.. Ho concluded his remarks In this
faehlon:
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Tho Young Lady Across tho Way
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