" Eve rose from table, went to a side-board and returned, when she gracefully placed before the master of the Montauk a rich and beautifully chased punch-bowl, in silver.

"The happiest hour I ever knew was that in which I discharged the pilot, the first time out, as a ship-master; the next great event of my life, in the way of happiness, was the moment I found myself on the deck of the Montauk, after we had given those greasy Arabs a him that their room was better than their company; and I really think this very instant must be set down as the third.

" "Captain Truck is the gentleman who commands the Montauk?" said Mr. Howel, glancing at Eve, as much as to say, "am I right?

"You know, my dear Mrs. Bloomfield, that he was our fellow-passenger in the Montauk, and that he was of infinite service to us, in escaping from the Arabs.

The generous desire to make suitable expiation, urged him to seize the first occasion of coming to America that offered; and when ordered to chase the Montauk, by a telegraphic communication from London, he was hourly expecting to sail for our seas, where he wished to come, expressly that we might meet.

This is the miniature I lost in the Montauk, and which I had given up as booty to the Arabs.

" "Pardon me, sir, it is the picture of my mother, and no other; the very picture lost in the Montauk.

"The chap belongs to the Hole," rejoined the master of the schooner, "and all them Vineyard fellows fancy themselves better blue-jackets than the rest of mankind: I suppose it must be because their island lies further out to sea than anything we have here inside of Montauk.

The light on Montauk, for hours, was the sole beacon for these bold mariners, who rounded it about midnight, fairly meeting the long, rolling swell of the broad Atlantic.

As the wind still stood at south-west, the schooner was brought upon an easy bowline, as soon as she had Montauk light dead to windward.

"There is a reason for it, as you say; but, I can find no other than the fact that she has come so much out of her way, in order to fall in with us; knowing that we were to come round Montauk at a particular time.

We are a hundred miles south-east of Montauk, and if I run the craft into any place, it shall be into Charleston, or some of the islands along that coast.

They had been unusually successful in getting through the calm latitudes; and forty-six days from Montauk, they spoke a Sag Harbour whaler, homeward bound, that had come out from Rio only the preceding week, where she had been to dispose of her oil.

The difference in longitude between the group and Montauk was so trifling that the hour might be almost called identical.

" The Lusitania was rounding Montauk Point when the wireless brought her to half-speed with a curt message: "Isabel Thorne and Pietro Petrozinni aboard Lusitania wanted on warrants charging conspiracy.

Tug-boat will take them off, intercepting you beyond Montauk Point.

The prince and I left the steamer at Montauk Point, on a tug-boat.

He says his remote ancestry were from Long Island (Metoacs), and that Montauk means great sea island.

"Keep the ship away, for Montauk, sir," exclaimed the mate"keep her away for Montauk, and let that chap follow us if he dare!

We had been obliged to luff a little, in order to clear a reef that even Marble admitted lay off Montauk, while the Leander had kept quite as much away, with a view to close.

Fortunately, we now opened Montauk fort, and the option was offered us of doubling that point, and entering the sound, or of standing oh towards Block Island, and putting the result on our heels.

R59596, 14Mar50, Mme veuve Pierre Decourcelle, née Louise Edmée About (W) AUTUMN CHANTS, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (In the Yale review, Oct. 1922) © 15Sep22, B547480. R58450, 7Feb50, Edna St. Vincent Millay (A) AUTUMN, MONTAUK POINT

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Suppose you place two hundred dollars under the signpost at the Montauk crossroads to-night.