Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 August 1885 — Page 2

JPHE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TJ5RRK HAUTE, AUG. 22. 1865.

SOME DAY OF DA Y8.

Some day, some day of days, threading tbe street

•With Idle, heedless Unlooking for such grace?" 1 shall behold your face!

Borne day, some day of days, thus we may meet.

Perchance tbe sun may shine from skies of May, Or Wlntei'aicychlU -'fc

Touch whitely vale and hill. What matter? I shall thrill.v

Tbrocgh every vein with Mummer on that day. One more life's perfect youth will all come back, ..

And for a moment there I shall stand frttth and fair, And drop tho garment care

Once more my perfect youth will nothing lack. 1 ?ihut my eyes now, thinking how twill be—

How face to face each soul Will slip its long control, Forget the dismal dole

O a a a a a in a

And glance to glance, and hand to hand in greeting, -v The past with all It* fears,

Its silence and its tears, Its lonely, yearning years,

Shall vanish In the moment of that meeting.

[James T. McKay In Soribners.]

A Story With a. Hero.

Hale sat in his upper room busily writing. It was late afternoon, and growing dusk in tbe street, though light enough up (here. Tbe door opened, and be looked up and saw his friend little Bantry coming in.

hat was usually pushed back, bis coat sagging off one shoulder, one glove half on, with the lingers sticking awry in

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quickly discovered that he was no sim pleton, but a handy, serviceable, selfcontained fellow. Now be looked more awry than ever before.

Bantry's father had been a successful

Bantry baa lately come to care more for one thing than for mechanics, and that was a friend of Hale's named Ethel Starr. He bad made her more iutimate acquaintance during a long recent absence of Hale's, and since bis return Biintry bad not found It nearly as pleasant as before and bad not grown fonder of Hale. The relation of firmly rooted regard and confidence which he observed between Ethel and Hale stopped the How of a certain eccentric humor which had pleased Ethel In blm, and turned him serious when with her, which naturally did not advauce him in her favor and thereupon he beoauie still more serious. In fact, when be looked back at this time afterward, he seemed to himself to hsve been a little out of his head.

He bad been brooding now over an idea until be had worked himself up to a dangerous pitch of excitement that gave htm a drunken look as he came In upon Hale. Hale glanced up at him curiously, but only said "Ob, you, Bantry Sit down a minute."

He went on with his work, and Bantry stood opposite, across tbe table, till he looked up and met his stare with an incoherent tirade, intened to convey the information that be was in deep water about some one whom it was unnecessary to nam» that be had kept bis footing very well as long as Hale .staid away that Hale's long-standing friendship gave him an assured position which, in addition to his natural superiority of gifts, put Bantry at an unfair disadvantage tbat is was life-and-deatb matter with him, and could not possible be of equal importance to Hale, or be would nave long ago dfdded it, one way or tbe other ana, in short, that he wanted Hale to stand aside awhile and give him a fair cbano*.

When Bantry bad made an end of his muddled exposition of that modest demand, Hale sat staring a moment, then put down his head and laughed. At that Bantry became thoroughly desperate. He turned ghastly white his tseth rattled in his bead he supported himself with one hand on tbe table, drew out a pistol, and said, as well as bis violent trembling would let him, that if Hale laughed at him again he would kill him, and that be muH have his promise before he went out of there. Hale saw tbat it was no laughing matter, but he answered, calmly:

Bantrv, you don't know what you're about. What would you do If a man came up to your place and make such a proposition to you f"

And Bantry looked at him fixedly a minute or two, then replied: "I'd tell blm to shoot." "Well," Hale said, and sat still.

Bantry faced him awhile, leaning side-

Bantry regarded Mm s«adl!y. •I'llai| .'r-rei• aw-v lii:u mat

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of eternity. It goes down into tbe roots of ray life, and it is one of tbe principle things that make me believe in immortality I can't feel that that can ever change or cease. It make9 me very patient I think I could wait a thousand years. But ali tbe same I want no odds and will take no advantage I will keep my side of tbe road and you can keep years. I know sbe likes you I have heard her speak of you very pleasantly."

He spoke like one talking in his sleep, as if bis eyes were tamed inward and his words expressed rather a habit of determined conscientiousness and remembered thoughts than bis teal present feeling, whicb was one of intense distaste. lie bad not liked those pleasant words about Bantry, and his hot feeling toward them came back now but at the same time another self bad contemned that aversion as a brutish instinct, and now again bis pride trod it under foot. "Let us shake band* on it, Bantry," be said, as he stood up. "You ana I have got a rough piece of country to cross together let's try to do it like gentlemen, and not like jockeys. I know you're an honest fellow, and I believe you've found me well-meaning. Don" let ns easily let go of that settled con viction for a momentary and passionate prejudice."

He rested bis hand ou the little fel low's shoulder as they went down the stairs together, and shook his band bard at parting, a twinge of pity combating with a sterner feeling in him and adding vigor to his grip.

That nigbt, and more nights and days, Hale spent in an inward battle without result. He had never so longed to be witb Ethel, yet he found he coold not go. Without thinking it, Bantry bad had made his point, in spite of himself and his apparent discomfiture. Into tbe refuge of calin and pure light where Hale had hitherto found recourse from the tumult and obscurity of the world was suddenly thrown an element of darknesss and disturbance more vexing than the world's. He had silenced Bantry indeed, and put him to confession, but in that very fact lay concealed the force of Ban try's argument, of which Bantry had himself lost track. Hale had tbe advantage of bimrtnentally and physically he was tbe better man. It was far from vanity with whicb he acknowledged it and now again witb a

...ji .uflash of rage he wished that Bantry was

brief, he bad the air of being a general big and strong, so that he might defy rnl.Ht. But you perceived that one rea- and disregard him. Paradoxically, in •on for this was that he did not trouble Hale's thought Bantry came thus to him**** much about his clothes, and you have the advantage by being at a disad

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inventor, and hsd made a fortune, to that was only recommencing the origiwhlcb Bantry was heir. He inherited nal process, an (1\ ^J*"" ,, also a passion for mechanics, of which he made a regular pursuit. I liked to hear bim talk about his hobby, went sometimes to see him in his private workshop, and admired his experiments and inventions. And Bantry found so little intelligent appreciation of his work, outside of cut-and-dried machinists, tbat be valued Hale's interest extremely. Beyond tbat, be admired Hale's cleverness in other things, and showed a real fondness for him, which Hale returned in his own lighter way. They hsd been iu tbe navy together toward tbe end of the war, Bale as assistant surgeon and Bantry as engineer, in the same ship.

Soon afterward Hale's friend, Lieutenant Lansing, made bis appearance in town one day. He was a great, hoarty fellow, looking down upon tail Hale, and broad in proportion, which Hale was not. He was under orders for the Arctic In the Viking, whicb was fitting out at this port. Hale found himself extremelv glad to see his burly shipmate, and his jovial sea-talk dissipated a morbidness tbat Hale now saw had crept over him. Lansing was a distant connection of Ethel's, as It happened, and a family party, of them made a day of it, and near the end of the lieutenant's time, down to Surf Beach. Lansing took Hale with him and in his hearty friend's and other good company, Hale boke through the vapors tbat bad settled about him and was like his bright self again. But in the afternoon, as he was giving and taking his share of tbe gay banter, be caught nigbt suddenly, thiongh the circling throng, of a face that made him feel as If he had found himself lanhlng at a funeral. He broke away and ran In pcrsuit, missed him, lost him again, and came on blm uuex pecUdly face to face. "Halle loo, toy fancy, whitbet wilt thou lie laughed out, catching him iu its arms as lie nearly ran over bim.

I'm racing all over after you, Bantr

joantry iacea mm iwuuo, ivautngNuv wise on the table then be threw down come op here and see Lansing he was the pistol, dropped into* chair, covered asking about you yesterday.

his face, and sat doubled up In a ridlculous attitude, that was so much more force into tbe midst of the company, than ridiculous that Hale presently rose, and set Lansing to telling how neither locked the revolver iu a drawer, came he nor Hale would probably have been round and eat down near him. It was a of this or any other party that day but good while before Bantry looked up into Hale's as grave if not eo disturbed as hi* i*u.

even control."you 1 jthesame bef That seems a singular reason for -|n*r-

V- w' ^i think of it aud it f* tr a to me to bear

ta.k of my fe io* tbe a hrl my:h-.ng to oflfe I bav« uken my for* now, as yon say working for,"

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w» tor Bantry"* bravery one perilous time on shipboard. Lansing put tbe little

U,K as ui* U. fellow to confession by printing out the See here, Bantry." Hale said, his dry. marks of \ho scalding he had got but voice ing effort at w!f- Bautn- **U»?r ungraciously, a ... Ik*# I-... .-v.» 1*1 w- AMI ifAftA tttife wltnAMt

that* -Id t' have done les* without risk of ng disgraced and cashiered, •x.'J, 1 Wurtt did not add to tbe general

Thatev.: Landing called on Hale! In a iw»r( an-.i aftor tmtxiA random i.i t*l«i hi:tt aNmt a young lady, he ex ted to marry so day. •*Ti:, makes it a fittk ngh to gooffi up th.M.V* I" said. "I believe iron haven't arv ragr "f

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vantage and perceiving this, Hale was tempted to give the paradox another turn and take to himself the benefit of being at the disadvantage but he could not keep bis clear brain from seeing that

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ately take one more turn of itself, like the loaded toys that always come the same side up again when you take off your hand. Honor, he found, was a bond which tbe thought of Ethel onlj riveted more securely.

He had been very well content hitherto witb tbe relation of intimate confidence which bad grown up between them, and whicb was none tbe less assured for its air of being lightly held and he had worked away ana bided his time, happy in the present aud taking little counsel of the future.

He wondered now at his preoccupied blindness, and wished vehemently that he had made sure. He saw too clearly tbat that stage of the journey was behind for good and all be knew that this great eagerness to be with ber tbat fame over bim made an end for the present of all lightness in bis relation to her. He felt that the tenderness which set him quivering at the thought of her could not be kept from sbowiug through any pretense he might put on yet to Bbow her tbat now, before he bad intended, would be to take advantage of Bantry's weakness to be before him witt her, and to do tbat would be an odious meanness not to be entertained. He could neither go forward nor backward at times a sudden fury overcame bim to break through the metaphysical web that held him as sharply as a net-work of wires.

He could oome to no other decision than the negative on9 of staying away, until fate decided for him by making it Impossible to stay longer without equal misconstruction then they went without having arrived at any consistent theory of conduct, and acted inconsistent by logical consequence, iu a way that puzzled Ethel and vexed himself. He met Biintry there sometimes and treated him with somewhat excessive cordiality, coming away laughingly, and leaving him there when lie could, and when be could not, foiling Bantry's attempts to reciprocate by insisting on walking bome with bim, chaffing as tbey went with a joviality which was not forced on his part, but was not enjoyed by either.

kind, Hale.**]

.Then '»u- .* !:•)d .a ity. Hate, 1 wtal w*»-• ®!ng with as! I

Dr. C*«ft hum Ui*ged on account of wife's sickness, and I can getyoahtof tv rth i' voo say the word."

Hale ild not answer, but walked down1care to the

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come and bid him good-bye on board. Then, instead of going home, he strolled out into the country, full of troubled thoughts, past tbe Starr place and came back by another road and across lane which skirted the grounds about tbe Starr homestead.

It was late, but bright moonlight. The place was very quiet tbrongb the trees he saw a light in an upper room, and stood a little, fsncying ber there. As he passed along slowly afterward, he suddenly turned bis head and saw Ethel standing in a walk a little way off, where the moon shone full upon her, with ber band resting on the bead of a large black dog. They stood quite motionless, both looking toward him. All was so still the white sbeen, illumining ber face, her light hair and dress, gave her such 'a spectral look tbat Hale did not move till she softlv spoke bis uame. Then be crossed the low fense and came and stood beside her. "It is so beautiful," she said, "tbat I could not stay indoors. I was thinking

nst now that tbe peace and purity of must be something like this.'* As sbe looked up at him gently, he thought ber not an unfit type of tbe denizens of that better country. Her calm, sweet tones were like balm to bis sore brain. A strong impulse to tell ber then ail he thought and felt for her swayed blm to the verge of self-control, but a hateful under-current of consciousness restrained him, and he strove to answer lightly. "I was thinking something like thst myself, as I looked In here from without. It was so still and seemed such a very possible paradise—all but Niger, here—tbat I doubted if it was real till you spoke. I hardly suppose you believe good dogs go there

He spoke softly, and, though he saailed, his humor was very slight. "I don't know," she answered thoughtfully, and looked down at the fine crea ture, that gazed up fondly at ber. "Good boy good boy!" Hale said.

He patted the dog's head, and his hand touched Ethel's lying there. An overpowering wave of passion flowed over bim. He was silent, looking down at her, till she looked up slowly to his face. Entire self-restraint then became an impossible thing. He laid his hand upon hers. "Ethel," he said, "suppose you had come to heavens gate and lookeid in, and yet knew tbat if you gained entrance there another at your side must be shut out, could you ask admittance

Sbe looked at him earnestly be felt ber band tremble, and she answered un steadily: a. "No, I don't see now 1 could." \i

He stood perfectly still, ber answer filled him with so much to say her answer set a seal upon his speech. He could not move lip or foot. He heard across the world the billows break and thunder round some lonely isle of palms felt tbe sick-hearted longing of the castaway. Then a whip-poor-will began to call and call among tbe bills, filling the nigbt with its piercing-sweet complaint. They stood and listened, till it ceased and left them quivering.

Still neither spoke. Slowly tbey moved along, the great dog pacing noiselessly between them. At a point where the walk diverged toward tne gate and the house, they stopped and stood a little while. Hale turned sway, turned back, made as if to speak, but only gave a look and twist of tbe lips, bent down and pressed his face on the dog's head where lay ber hand, rose up, and went away. From the gate he looked back, and saw b6r standing spbctral in the moonlight, as at first then be plunged into the shadow of the trees along the road. Leaning at her window a few mluutes afterward, Ethel heard loud aqd roitous laughter that jarred harshly dn her humor and made her wonder at the hardened reveler tbat could profane tbe peace and beauty of so sweet a world.

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Hale came down the road he caught sight of some one prowling in the shadows and thinking no one would be lurking there for any good at that hour, he lay in wait and then confronted the prowler, so suddenly that tbey laid hold of one another. The stranger was a small man he struggled violently, called Hale by name, aud excitedly bade him let bim go. "Bantry, by Time Hale exclaimed.

And Bantry cursed him and commanded bim to take his hauds off. But Hale held him still a minute by main force, looked dt at him fixedly, then broke out into riotous laughter, flung bim off suddenly and ran, laughing loud and harshly, down tbe road.

He did not go home afterward he could not remember just where he wandered tbe rest of the night but in the early morning be came dowu to the river, and as soon as he could got himself rowed off to the Viking and into the presence of tbe lieutenant. "Lansicg," he said. "I'll come with you if vouMl get the place."

Tbe viking sailed very soon after, and passed two winters in tbe ice. Late in tbe third season she got into open water, loBt her masts, and had her engines damaged in a storm. She was driven into a land-locked harbor and got fast in the ice again. Efforts to set ber clear were again and again defeated and when tbey were at last successful, tbe patched up machinery broke down worse than before. Tbe men who could have repaited the damage were dead or disabled. In spite of the greatest exertions, tbe ship was caught in tbe ice once more. An attempt was then msde to escape southward by the boats, bnt it quickly became evident tbat it was too late, ana thst the only hope lay in returning and standing by tbe ship. So they turned back with what heart they could muster. Tbe officers put on a brave face, but a shadow of a third arctic nigbt lay heavy upon all their hearts. Their numbers were already reduced and the sicklist was alarmingly large. But they went to work like brave men to make a good fight.

Lieutenant Lansing bad set a worthy example all through tbe cruise. Every man knew that be asked no one to go where he would not go himself and now be did double duty in the preparations for the ordeal ahead. But one day be took sick and went below. Then Hale felt that the ground was going from under them is tbe lieutenant dropped out, he said to himself, be could not feel much assurance for tbe future. Hale bad held an even steadfast coarse, friendly with nearly every one, bnt keeping his own rewSrvoa and he had the confidence of all. He did what was needed for tbe lieutenant, and before leaving him at night spoke to bim very plainly. "There is nothing in particular tbe matter with yon you're tired, ardthat's about ali this little trouble will be all right to-morrow. Lieutenant Landing, the fate of this ship depends upon you you c*n't go from under It a mere matter of will you can get np ia the! morning, and yon must." "Ob, that's ail very fine, Hale," the lieuieiiant broke out petulantly. "Don't preach to me to-nlgbt let me be weak once in a way, can't you Hang H, 1 am tired—I'm tired of carrying this abip on my back and pretending to enjoy It. Rale. It's no joke to die like a rat here in this dashed! bole. Yon don't se«m to

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and life and death seem all one |o JOB.

I don't think yon know what it means to us common fellows may be it's because you haven't the same ties to life. See here, Hale, there is a girl down there in Pennsylvania tbat I was to marry when I got back." And he turned away his face.

Now, they all bad long known about the lieutenant's Pennsylvania affair. Hale sat so still, tben, that after a while the lieutenant turned back and eyed bim curiously. Hale lifted his head and took a worn, sealed letter from his pocket, and showed the address to bis friend, who took it and read: "Miss Ethel Starr, Care of Lieutenant Henry Lansing." ••I bad it ready to give to you," Hale said, "in case of separation, when you thought of trying it in two parties."

Lansing lay and looked at tbe letter and then at him. Finally he asked:: "Are you engaged "No, I only know how it is on one side." "Yon came away without asking? I o»n't understand tbat." "Tbat is why I came I couldn't help asking if I staid."

He forgot Lansing then for a while, and the horrible waste of ice about their prison-house turned in his thought to a mooniit garden under whispering trees, where all sweetness breathed, and from the hills a whip-poor-will sang piercingsweet.

But Lansing persisted, "Hale, what do yon mean T" "There was another fellow," Hale replied. "Tbat was a rather strange reason, wasn't it Lansing asked presently. "He was a little fellow, and my friend.

Lansiiig lay looking at him, and after awhile Hale continued: "I was out on tbe ice alone yesterday, and you know it's a pretty miserable look-out there, but it occurred to me tbat if a certain person were going to spend the winter here, and there wasn't another soul in the arctic zone, Ishouldn't caro to go south." "O my God, Hale, you make me ashamed Lansing cried out. "I'll get up right away."

But Hale ordered him to go to sleep and lie still till he should see bim in the morning. The next day Lieutenant Lansing came on deck quite gayly and put new heart into the whole ship's company, although he was not very steady on his legs for a day or two, as tbey saw by his taking any opportunity to lean on his friend tho doctor, laying his arm across his shoulders as tbey walked the deck togetber.

Most of the party found it quite lonely enough at tbe ship, but Hale bad always felt the need of getting away by himself for an hour when he could and nowpven, when the solitude took on a new dread that drew them all closer to one another, be would steal away witb bis guq and take a turn of a mile or so upon the ice. One day he was out, and had gone further than usual in pursuit of some game. He turned at last, and a moment afterward heard quite .distinctly the report of a gun iu the opposite direction from the ship. Nothing more startling could have come to him thau a shot from that quarter, and it Set him trembling as if tbe cold had suddenly struck through bim. Then he began to doubt bis hearing and fired himself. In a moment the distant report came again unmistakably. It took bis breath. He fired again, and again came tbe replying shot. He pushed on toward it, and by and by discovered a dog-team and sledge coming up from tbe southweat.

He advanced to meet it, and presently made out tbat iliere was only one man with the sledge. It came olose and then stopped. The driver was a small man, and though bis outlandish dress wa9 a pre:ty thorough disguise, nothing could conceal that peculiar shouldering carriage, the signt of whicb filled Hale's throat and blinded iiis eyes. It was Bantry. Hale gave a shout and took him in his arms, and the two men clung to one another and cried, alone there iu the midst of that awful desolation. A locked-up store of homesick longing broke out in Hale, and mingled with a great unmixed tenderness toward the little fellow, as apiece of that home for which he yearned. And when be could ak, Hale cried out:

O Bantry, wbatareyon doing here?" And Bantry answered, "I've come to bring you back.'

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was learned that an expedi­

tion had been fitted out, largely at Bantry'a Instigation and expense, to go in search of tbe Viking that Bantry bad volunteered as engineer in tbe Relief that they had found no trace of the milsing ship until late in tbe t-eison, when an explorlug party came upon a record which described the position of the Viking when abandoned and the plans of ber people in returning to ber. But tbe officers of tbe Belief concluded from tbe sudden closing of tbe season tbat it was hopeless to pursue the search tben, and tbat it was their duty to get tbe Belief out of ber dangerous position while it was yet possible. Tben Bantry bad taken tbe risk and started northward alone. He well understood that his soltary journey of a hundred and fifty miles, with the chance of finding the ship gone if he succeeded in reaching tbe spot, was a desperate venture likely to have a most miserable ending, and be deliberately took tbe chance.

Hale knew nothing of all this then. He looked nearcbingly in Bantry's face and continued to question bim. "Where did you come from ?". "From home." '•But how did you get here "I followed the directions you leflT at Point Kane." "You came from Point Kane alone

Yes, with the dogs." "And suppose you bad missed us? Don't you know it was a hundred to one tbat you'd starve or be frozen "Tbat wouldn't have mattered much if I hadn't found you. I couldn't go back without you."

They fell apart a little, and Hale wheeled naif round and back. Tben be grasped Bantry firmly and commanded: "Bantry, tell me now I can't wait."

Bantry jaw fell and shut again, and be swayed in Hale's strong bold. "Oh, sbe la all right," be broke oof. "I was a fool I aaw it as soon as I heard vou were gone. I went and spoke to her about it, and she asked me if I knew you were going, and told her no bnt sbe looked through and through me, and I bad to tell ber tbe whole truth. Tben she turned ber back on tne, and afterward, though ahe tried to be kind, I seemed always to see her face turned away." He stopped and coughed bard. "Finally I couldn't bear it any longer, and there was only one thing to do so I came tc bring yon back, that's all."

Hale saw that be coold not have gone mocb farther tben. He packed him on tbe sledge and got bim to the ship, where bis arrival caused naturally no little sen sit

Ion. When he bad done all be coold for blm and left him asleep. Hale satisfied the curiosity of bis wondering comrades in a general way bat Lieutenant Lansing called him aside and asked him what it all meant. And Hale replied simply:

Bantry's the other fellow." Tbe lieutenant asked no more, questions, but looked down on Bale a minute or two and then oonynented:

"Well, it's my opinion that we onght to pull out of this yet." And he walked with Hale awhile, with his arm across his shoulders as before, though Hale did not look the stronger fellow then.

Rest and Hale's constant care soon set Bantry on his feet again. Then Hale said to him: "I'm afraid you've made a mistake, Bantry, and only got yourself into the same trap with the rest of ns." "No, 1 haven't made any mistake this time," he replied. "If you're in a trap, that's where I belong. But it's about time for me to see after your machinery."

So be went below, found out the trouble, and had all the help they could give him to clear away aud get to work on the damaged pai ts. The first nigbt be reported a fair prospect of success. Tbe following morning a heavy gale was blowiug, and by evening Lieutenant Lansing sent for Bantry and asked him how long it would probably take him, saying there were appearances that if the gale held long enough there might be a break-up of tbe ice. Bantry called for fresh lights below and certain men to be detailed to aid him and he went to work again after a very brief rest and kept at it nearly all night.

They were in great danger from the grinding of the ice in the days following, and for some time were in constant expectation that tbe ship would be crushed by the pressure and destroyed, but Bantxy paid no heed. There was another bare possibility for which it was his business to prepare and with tbe briefest intervals of rest, he worked away at his repairs as beet ne could.

Sure enough, the contingency for which Bantry was preparing came to pass. One night to their great joy the ice near them broke up and began moving with the wind. And when, with much difficulty, the officers and crew at last succeeded in getting the ship afloat, Bantry had got up steam, ana he hat started the engines. Tben with un peakable thankfulness they saw their llsmantled n^eesel get under motion, answer to heir helm, and go thrusting her way slowly among the floes.

They had many delays and disheartenings, were cut off and caught fast more than once, but always succeeded in getting free again. Tne repaired engines worked .-teadily under Bantry's watchful supervision and to be brief, tbey Anally got clear of tbe Ice just in time and pushed southward through open water, with that gratitude to tbe queer little engineer may be imagined. Every man in tbe ship felt as if Bantry had brought tbem out of the vory grave, for without his they knew well thst their present escape would have been impossible, and tbey were ill prepared to face another winter and the chances of a succeeding summer

The homeward voyage was along one, the weakened engines being unable to carry much pressure and the coal soon giving out but as long as it lasted such was Bsntry's eagerness that Hale had to ask Lieutenant Lansing to compel bim to take necessary rest and have some regard to bis health. Hale kept a sharp watch upon him, did everything be could for his welfare, and Bantry manifested more than ever of his old dog.llke attachment for Hale, seeming never to like to have bim out of his sight. Hale was more than willing to humor him in tbis and spent as much of bis*time as be could in Bantry's company, talking with him Interminably of all sorts of home subjects except tbe one of which both thought most. Of tbat they never spoke.

Finally the voyage came to an end, as tbe longest voyages must, and the battered Viking anchored at last in tbe nearest bome port.

On the morning after their arrival the papers blazoned over tbe land the return of the Arctic steamer Viking, which bad almost been given up for lost displayed ber adveutures, peril**, deaths, discover ies, and ecientific results, her disasters and final rescue by the unexampled and romantic eelt-devotion of Engineer Bantry of the Relief. Every officer in the ship had been Interviewed, and all bad the same story to tell of admiration and reat friendliness toward Ibeir deliverer rom death, as tbey all declared Bantry to be in various ways. Bantry was the name at the begiuniug, middle, and end of all the staring, head-lined reports. It was added that a perfect ovation had been tendered bim on board by the whole sbip'sjeompany, but tbat he had with characteristic modesty withdrawn as soon as possible and made haste to hide blm«el from tbe gaze of an applauding world, in company with the muchloved comrade for whose sake be bad outdone the far-famed deeds of friendship which bad come down the ages from the pristine valor of the ancient world. And the only one who neither read nor care for all tbis was tbe hero of it all.

The fact was simply that be bad. gone ashore with Hale as quickly as be could get him sway, and with bim be bad taken an early traiu going south. Hale said nothing, but let Bantry have bis own way witb him and they made only necessary stoppages until they got down togetber at Ethel's gate.

Tbey bad hardly spoken all the journey. Bantry took the lead as by right, went ahead everywhere eager and sharp, attended to the tickets and checks, sat up straight and sleepless in tbe cars, hurried where they made connections though no time was gained by it, fretted at every delay. Hale lounged in bis corner seemingly asleep much of the .time, sufk in one long waking dream in which remembrance and vague forecast mingled witb a thousand imaginings tbat shifted and swam into one another unceasingly. And now tbey were at last arrived at tbeir common goal.

Bantry opened the gate and led the way still but as be started up he walk be gasped and bis feet wandered, and he caught hold of Hale's arm to steady himself, but then went on again. They climbed the steps, rang, and were shown in. Tben thev stood apart in tbe familiar room and waited and then the* beard on the stairs tbe steps which bat listened for. Ethel paused at tbe door an Instant, tben sbe came in. Sbe was flushed and tremulous sbe glanced from one to another, and caught her breath in visible agitation.

News bad been received from tbe Relief a month before of ber failure to rescue the Viking's party, and of Bantry's desperate attempt to Join tbem and upon this girl bad fallen the burden of being tbe only person in tbe country to understand what the world either lauded as a simple set of sublime courage, or condemned ae reck loss bravado, but agreed in regarding as almost certainly fatal. So tbe news of ibeir unexpected return, and now their quickiv saopeeding appearance before ber, affected ber almost as if tbey bad been raised from tbe dead, from a death to wbicb both had consigned themselves on her ac-

^But*after^lhe first quick glance she took no more notice of Hale. Bantry stood forth, haggard and gha»t!y, wrought op beyond measure. He swung forward and back as if bin feet were fast, tried to speak, hot only made a spasmodic movement of tbe head and ware of tbe arm which held bis hat. For month* be had been straining towards this meeting a thousand timeabe

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