The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-11-23

fancy m obeying your mandates on the
contrary, would esteem it q lpvilsge@
honor to be the subject, aye the dave n
30 beautiful and enchanting . soereign.
Mercy what noise is that n crisd Miss
Geldamo, springing from. her seat, ut the
same instant that Mr.. Allsound thrs@ hiin-
self upon his knees at her feet sThers
it is again, she said, with bated brssh ~
a wild, unesrthly shrek rent the .utsE
air. The next moment the doog was
thrown open, and Mary Marmane, the
house maid, appeared, trembling in every
limb, her face horror stricken and blaicAsd
with fright.
''What has happened, Mary @eak
quickly!' said Vida, going towards hes
with rapid steps
''Oh Miss Vida Z" was all the yiri
could say, and turning, she ran quickly
into the yard again, whittier the other,
followed her almost as rapidly, only toses
the girl clapping hands, and utterng I
desp~iring cry.
MARY, what is the matter e cried Vida,
as she grasped the girl tightly by the arm.
| The tower the tower Il replied the
girl, and looking towards the campanile,
they saw man clinging to The caves,
which projected over the heavy moulded
cornlce, the mans body swaying about
three feet from the wall of the tower, aud
fully sixty feet from the tagged walk be-
low, upon which he MAS inevitably des-
tined to be dashed, as soon as the weight
Of his body Oyercame the muscles of his
arms
Vida looked moment in terror and
N fu.
then, turning to Mr. AllsOund, she said, in
burst from her eyes
1T is Paul cant yon sars hin. r
But she might AS well have addressed q
post, as MIR. AllsuUnd Mas incapable Of
movement knees knocked together,
his teeth chartered, and his whole frame
shivered like an aspen leaf. She turned
from him in scorn, toward Mary, but Mary
had disappeared. Suddenly, "a man emerged
from the roof of the campanile Vida
clapped her little hands exultimgly, and
cried, i'll childish glee
He is safe he is safe -
TIE man looked around. but moved not
Why does he hesitate why don't he
save HIM - Vida cries to him, but he
shah cs his head and disappears
Tie ruuI Is too steep; he cannot reach
him it would be sure death to attemp it.
great blank falls upon ' ida soul, and
her huttering heart grew still, and then
began to expand, rs if 1t would hurst her
bosom. The man strength was fast ebb-
ing he would soon fall. At this instant,
Mary came running from behind the man
sion, closely followed by young Arbyght.
A. ~. Ks ~ H.
Frightened slightly she advanced towards
him, extending both her hands, and said,
with look and voice beseechingly i'm
ploring, that he never forgot, either the
look, the act, on the tone.
d" foU tCW sUn HIM N
Miss, | will try, he answered quickly,
then giving one glance at the suspended
man, he cried, As loud AS H. could, hold
on two minutes lorger and you are safe =
turning hurrledly, he seized the girl almost
rudely, and rushing with her toward the
house, he said hercely, load on On to
the tower, to the tower"
The girl needed not a repetition Of the
command she sped On before him, like
a frayed gazelle, bounding up the broad
steps, on through aIcades and Vestlbules,
past anita columns of brocatalle marble in
lone style, up the wide staircase with mas
sive rail and balusters, on TIN GU h other ar
cIdes, vestibules, past other Ionic colum as,
up other stairs, until the first chamber in
the c;lnpanlle, was reached la this room
was a large arched window, fronting the
square formed by the angles of the main
building and wing, and directly under the
suspended man the lower sash Of the win
dow Arbyght threw up with sharp Jerk,
and then stepped out upon the projecting
sill Of stone Putting his large, thick felt
hat upon the doubled list of the left hand,
he drove it clear through the glass of both
sashes, which he grasped with firm grip,
planted his feet solidly upon the stone
SILL while his body swayed out from the
wall forty-tve feet from the ground he
was not a second too soon, for Just then
the mans hold, which had been slowly
loOsening for the last two minutes, suddel-
ly gave way, and, with "A half suppressed
cry, he dropped like ball Of mctal-the
strong, sinewy arm of the workman shot
out, grasped the falling man around the
waist the sash bent outward, creakrd, but
did not break, Arbyght's arm dropped
slightly and quiyered with the weight and
momentum Of the descending man, but the
rest of his frame remained as firm and i'm
movable rs a pillar Of iron
Saved = came up from the depth be
low, but SO faint that it seemed the echo Of
q sigh.
''Saved ~ came from a room behind him,
in louder but not less tremulous accents
''Saved - came from the man on his
arm, in a husky, broken voice Saved -
he re-echoed himself, rs he deruaited the
man ON a settee in the room.
TO BE CONTINUED.