Outing . lights onshore three hundred yards behind night was so thick I made up mymind he could see nothing of thoselights. Then I did the only thing left. Ireached for my gun to fire it. Just be-fore Hy had disappeared, realizing thatthere would be no chance at the raft ofducks, I had slipped the shells from the It had mounted up over the flat stoneand my shells were covered with twofeet of water. My anxiety now shifted from Hy tomyself. In one, two, three hours morethere would be a five-foot square of therock pile out of water. After that therewould be enough for a man to sit on incal
Outing . lights onshore three hundred yards behind night was so thick I made up mymind he could see nothing of thoselights. Then I did the only thing left. Ireached for my gun to fire it. Just be-fore Hy had disappeared, realizing thatthere would be no chance at the raft ofducks, I had slipped the shells from the It had mounted up over the flat stoneand my shells were covered with twofeet of water. My anxiety now shifted from Hy tomyself. In one, two, three hours morethere would be a five-foot square of therock pile out of water. After that therewould be enough for a man to sit on incalm weather. In the heavy wind thatwas now blowing this remaining foot ofstone would be awash with freezingwater. I stood up and shouted till my voicegave out. I was so stiffened with thecold, which had increased tenfold withnightfall, that I could barely wind bit through my heavy coatand woolens. And always in my earswas the sullen swash of the rising tideon the rocks at my feet. Little by little. THE MAJORITY OF THEM PAID NO ATTENTION TO OUR STOOL BUT ALWAYSENOUGH WERE COMING TO KEEP OUR HEARTS POUNDING WITH HOPE the water rose about the tiny island andI crawled back toward the center. Itwas a mighty uncomfortable predica-ment, I can tell you. The houses alongthe shorefront were deserted, and evenif my shouts could have been heard there,it is doubtful if they would have at- tracted any attention to my over my own position andanxiety for Hy combined to make me putin as unpleasant an hour as I can re-member. When I was in the center ofthe rock with six feet on either side ofme above water I saw a faint dart of
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