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Trying to sift them out and put them in a book would be like sorting out a plateful of spaghetti. And if you succeeded you would have a document the size of the New York City telephone directory. Most of the reports were explained. The Levelland, Texas, sightings were written off as "St. Elmo's Fire."
The prayer, curse, whatever the last words might be, were called forth by a paralyzing flash of lightning that shone over the raging sea like a gigantic calcium-light. The schooner's deck resounded with superstitious howls, which rose to awed cries from the weakest as from trucks and gaff-ends glowed and flickered the blue brush of St. Elmo's fire. "Heave away, heave away!"
Elmo's eyes was never more marvellous than when they rested on the beautiful white face of the woman he loved so well, whose calm, holy eyes shone like those of an angel, as they looked sadly down at his.
"We can sometimes derive moral encouragement and profit from external phenomena. A rainbow in the midst of a storm is a cheering sight. I daresay there is a reasonable basis, too, for certain superstitions. St. Elmo's Fire may, for instance, from natural causes, be a sign of good weather, only there is nothing supernatural about it."
Elmo's hints concerning her MS. were merely based on conjecture. She felt as if she would rather face any other disaster sooner than have him scoffing at her daring project; and more annoyed and puzzled than she chose to confess, she resolutely bent her thoughts upon her work. It was almost dusk before Mrs.
Elmo's voice hardened, and Edna felt his heart throb fiercely against her cheek as he answered: "When you are my wife you will repent your rash words, and blush at the remembrance of having told your husband that he was devoid of honor.
Murray's hand, and turned toward the door. "Edna! My daughter! you have not refused St. Elmo's request?" "My mother! Pity me! I could not grant it." "They have come. I hear Gertrude's birdish voice." The words had scarcely passed Mr. Hammond's lips ere his niece bounded into the room, followed by her husband.
A third recorded that "the lightning struck the mainmast conductor five or six times," and that "the mud-rain which covered the decks was phosphorescent, while the rigging presented the appearance of Saint Elmo's fire."
Elmo's Light," but which, to the conscience-stricken earl, was a heavenly messenger, sent to convert and save him. It was even reported that it was a wax-light, sheltered from the wind by a female form of marvellous radiance and beauty, at whose appearance the tempest lulled, and the ship came safely to land.
"Is there any such thing as a 'death-light' that warns people of coming disaster?" asked Ruth of her father, when the captain had left them. "No, my dear," he answered, "there is not. The St. Elmo's light, or St.
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