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A Tale intended to be after the Fact. None of them knew the colour of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward.
These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colours of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation.
The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale which separated him from the ocean. His sleeves average speed of the boat sailor 104 rolled [Pg 12] over his fat forearms, and the two flaps of his unbuttoned vest dangled as he bent to bail out the boat.
Often he said: "Gawd! That was a narrow clip. The oiler, steering with one of the two oars in the boat, sometimes raised average speed of the boat sailor 104 suddenly to keep clear of water that swirled in over the stern.
It was a thin little oar and it seemed often ready to snap. The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes.
The mind of the master of a vessel is rooted deep in the timbers of her, though he commanded for a day or a decade, and this captain had on him the stern impression of a scene in the greys of dawn of seven turned faces, and later a stump of a top-mast with a white ball on it that slashed to and fro at the waves, went low and lower, and. Thereafter there was something strange in his voice.
Although average speed of the boat sailor 104, it was deep with mourning, and of a quality beyond oration or tears. A seat in this boat was not unlike a seat upon a bucking broncho, and, by the same token, a broncho is not much smaller.
The craft pranced and reared, [Pg 13] and plunged like an animal. As each wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like a horse making at a fence outrageously high. The manner of her scramble over these walls of water is a mystic thing, and, moreover, at the top of them were ordinarily these problems in white water, the foam racing down from the summit of each wave, requiring a new leap, and a leap from the air. Then, after scornfully bumping a crest, she would slide, and race, and splash down a long incline, and arrive bobbing and nodding in front of the next menace.
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there average speed of the boat sailor 104 another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey.
As each slaty wall of water approached, it average speed of the boat sailor 104 all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water.
There was a terrible grace in the move of the waves, and they average speed of the boat sailor 104 in silence, save for the snarling of the crests.
In the wan light, the faces of the men must have been grey. Their eyes must have glinted in strange ways as they gazed steadily astern. Viewed from a balcony, the whole thing would doubtlessly have been weirdly picturesque.
But the men in the boat had no time to see it, and if they had had leisure there were [Pg 14] other things to occupy their minds. The sun swung steadily up the sky, and they knew it was broad day because the colour of the sea changed from slate to emerald-green, streaked with amber lights, and the foam was like tumbling snow. The process of the breaking day was unknown to.
They were aware only of this effect upon the colour of the waves that rolled toward. In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to the difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge.
The cook had said: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up. They don't carry crews. Perhaps it's a life-saving station.
As the boat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore through the hair of the hatless men, and as the craft plopped her stern down again the spray slashed past.
The crest of each of these waves was a hill, from the top of which the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber.
Wouldn't have a. Then the captain, in the bow, chuckled in a way that expressed humour, contempt, tragedy, all in one. Whereupon the three were silent, save for a trifle of hemming and hawing.
To express any particular optimism at this time they felt to be childish and stupid, but they all doubtless possessed this sense of the situation in their mind. A young man thinks doggedly at such times. On the other hand, the ethics of their condition was decidedly against any open suggestion of hopelessness. So they were silent. But there average speed of the boat sailor 104 that in his tone which made them think, so the oiler quoth: "Yes!
If this wind holds! Canton flannel gulls flew near and far. Sometimes they sat down on the sea, near patches of brown sea-weed that rolled over the waves with a movement like carpets on a line in a gale. The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingey, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland.
Often they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes. At these times they were uncanny and sinister in their unblinking scrutiny, and the men hooted angrily at them, telling them to be gone. One came, and evidently decided to alight on the top of the captain's head. The bird flew parallel to the boat and did not circle, but made short sidelong jumps in the air in chicken-fashion.
His black eyes were wistfully fixed upon the captain's head. The captain naturally wished to knock it away with the end of the heavy painter; but he did not dare do it, average speed of the boat sailor 104 anything resembling an emphatic gesture would have capsized this freighted boat, and so with his open hand, average speed of the boat sailor 104 captain gently and carefully waved the gull away.
After it had been discouraged from the pursuit the captain breathed easier on average speed of the boat sailor 104 of his hair, and others [Pg 17] breathed easier because the bird struck their minds at this time as being somehow grewsome and ominous. They sat together in the same seat, and each rowed an oar. Then the oiler took both oars; then the correspondent took both oars; then the oiler; then the correspondent.
They rowed and they rowed. The very ticklish part of the business was when the time came for the reclining one in the stern to take average speed of the boat sailor 104 turn at the oars.
By the very last star of truth, it is easier to steal eggs from under a hen than it was to change seats in the dingey. Then the man in the rowing seat slid his hand along the other thwart. It was all done with the most extraordinary care. As the two sidled past each other, the whole party kept watchful eyes on the average speed of the boat sailor 104 wave, and the captain cried: "Look out now!
Steady there! The brown mats of sea-weed that appeared from time to time were like islands, bits of earth. They were travelling, apparently, neither one way nor the. They were, to all intents, stationary. They informed the men in the boat that it was making progress slowly toward the land. The captain, rearing cautiously in the bow, after the dingey soared on a great swell, said that he had seen the lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet. Presently the cook remarked that he had seen it.
The correspondent was at the oars then, and for some reason he too [Pg average speed of the boat sailor 104 wished to look at the lighthouse, but his back was toward the far shore and the waves were important, and for some time he could not seize an opportunity to turn his head. But at last there came a wave more gentle than the others, and when at the crest of it he swiftly scoured the western horizon. At the top of another wave, the correspondent did as he was bid, and this time his eyes chanced on a small still thing on the edge of the swaying horizon.
It was precisely like the point of a pin. It took an anxious eye to find a lighthouse so tiny. The little boat, lifted by each towering sea, and splashed viciously by the crests, made progress that in the absence of sea-weed was not apparent to those in. She seemed just a wee thing wallowing, miraculously top-up, at the mercy of five oceans.
Occasionally, a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into. It would be difficult to describe the subtle brotherhood of men that was here established average speed of the boat sailor 104 the seas. No one said that it was so. Average speed of the boat sailor 104 one mentioned it. But it dwelt in the boat, and each man felt it warm. They were a captain, an oiler, a cook, and a correspondent, and they were friends, friends in a more curiously iron-bound degree than may be common.
The hurt captain, lying against the water-jar in the bow, spoke always in a low voice and calmly, but he could never command a more ready and swiftly obedient crew than the motley three of the dingey.
It was more than a mere recognition of what was best for the common safety. There was surely in it a quality that was personal and heartfelt. And after this devotion to the commander of the boat there was this comradeship that the correspondent, for instance, who had been taught to be cynical of men, knew even at the time was the best experience of his life.
But no one said that it was so. The oiler steered, and the little boat made good way with her new rig. Sometimes the oiler had to scull sharply to keep a sea from breaking into the boat, but otherwise sailing was a success. Meanwhile the lighthouse had been growing slowly [Pg 20] larger. It had now almost assumed colour, and appeared like a little grey shadow on the sky.
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