Part 31 (2/2)

Miss Grant stood by sos interestedly, and anxiously as I thought; but not a word did she utter to show that she had anything but absolute confidence in our ability

Finally, they cast our ropes off, and Jake and I, with our four oars,boat and headed for shore It was hard pulling, but we ran in on the off side of the wharf, directly in line with the rocks at the back of which Miss Grant's bungaloas built,--all without reat help of the piano-truck, Jake and I, strive as we liked, were unable to ed, and pulled, and hoisted, but to no purpose, for the wheels of the truck got set continually between the logs

Once, I went head over heels backward into the water; and once Jake tripped over a cleat and did likewise

”All we need, Jake,” I ree”

Miss Grant heard and jumped out of her boat

”Mr--Mr Bremner,--could I lend you that extra hundred and fifty pounds or so?”

I looked at her She was all willingness and meekness; the latter a e of her, did not altogether believe in

”Sure, miss,” put in Jake ”Cos”

She waited for my word

”I am sure your help would be valuable, Miss Grant,” I said ”It ht just turn the trick in our favour”

She scrambled up the rock and returned in half a loves on her hands She juot our shoulders under the lift

Bravo! It lifted as easily as if it had been a toy All it had required was that little extra aid

We three ran it clear of the raft, down on to the beach, over the pebbles and right under the rocks

I knew, in the ordinary course, that our troubles would only be beginning, but I had figured out that the only possible way to get over this difficulty of the rocks was to erect a block and tackle to the solid branch of a tree which, fortunately, overhung the face of the cliffs

In half an hour, we had all secure and ready for the atte fro, it took our co it in on top of the rocks After that, it was simply ait fro and set safely, without a scratch on it, in a corner of Miss Grant's parlour

Jake and I never could have done it ourselves Both of us knew that

It was Miss Grant's untiring assistance that pulled the matter to a successful conclusion

She thanked us without ostentation, as she would have thanked a piano-mover or the woodman in the city

It nettled me not a little, for, to say truth, I was half dead fronawed over the odour of ho on Miss Grant's kitchen stove All day I had been picturing visions of being invited to re witty re over the photo albuing And I was sour as old cider as I descended the veranda steps, soaking, as I ith brine and perspiration

Jake was perfectly happy, however, and all admiration over Miss Grant's physical demonstration

”Gee! Miss,” he exclaimed, in a sort of Klondike ecstasy, ”but you're soo Guess, if you put on overalls and cut off your hair, you could get a fifty-cents-an-hour job at pretty near any wharf on the Pacific seaboard”