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Other lines were shot out after the first one and other rescue apparatus set up. From the position of her lights it could be seen that the Huronic was listing farther to the leeward all the time. The life savers worked untiringly and the throng of rescued grew apace.
"Are you badly hurt?" asked Hinpoha anxiously. The man rose to his feet and limped resolutely on his way toward the station, but his progress was very slow. "Of all times to go lame!" he exclaimed in bitter vexation. "There's the Huronic out there on the reef with two hundred passengers on board and there's not a minute to lose!" "We'll take the word to the station!" said the Captain promptly.
Too bad Hinpoha isn't here, she's a regular signal light." "Get in yourself," retorted the Monkey. "Your nose is as red as my hair." Far out over the lake they could see the black trail of smoke made by an approaching steamer. "Here comes the Huronic," said Gladys. "Let's stay out here until she goes past, and wave at the people," said Katherine.
"Now wave!" commanded Katherine, when the Huronic was almost opposite them, and the towels fluttered frantically over the edge of the little balcony. Dozens of handkerchiefs were waved in answer from the deck of the big liner. "They think we're just waving at them for fun," said Katherine, when nothing took place that looked like an effort at rescue.
Making trumpets of their hands they all shrieked in unison, "Help!" But the wind was toward them and carried the sound back. The stately Huronic proceeded serenely on her way without a pause. "They aren't going to stop!" said Gladys. "Oh, let them go on then," said Katherine crossly.
Out in the channel they passed the lighthouse where the Hares had put their heads into the noose, and there was much laughter as they recounted the story for Nyoda's benefit. Still farther on was the reef where the Huronic had met her fate; the salvage crews were still at work on her.
The wrecking of a passenger vessel was a much more serious matter than the destruction of a freighter, where there would only be the crew to bring ashore. The Huronic carried two hundred passengers and as it was impossible for any boat to get alongside of her to take them off, they all had to be taken ashore in the breeches-buoy or the life car.
Then she told how Sherry had been instructed to go to Chicago when they were up in Duluth and they had chosen to come down by water, and were having a most delightful trip on the Huronic when it was so rudely ended by the storm.
Then she added, "I suppose it was kind of foolish to expect a big boat like that to stop and pick up a bunch of folks that didn't know any better than to climb into an old lighthouse and let their boats float away." "Isn't she a beauty, though?" said Gladys, looking after the ship in admiration. The sun shining on the broad, white side of the Huronic as she turned toward St.
"What a terrible, wicked wind that was," said Gladys, looking from the wreck of the magnificent Huronic to the uprooted trees lying everywhere along the edge of the woods. "But it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good," said Hinpoha, as she embraced Nyoda for the hundred and nineteenth time.
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