The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

1t was bit of fight. Down / went,
and up went, and the water twisted
me like a leaf; but got out of the roar
and thunder, on to the bit of shelf
where Jael knelt; when if the silly thing
didn't begin to hold up to me her child,
and her lips, poor darling, said dumbly
Save it! oh, save it,
In the midst of that rush and roar, as
| saw that poor gal, white, Mortified, and
with her yaller hair clinging round her,
all my old love comes back, and swore
a big oath as I'd save her for myself or
die.
tore her dress into ribbons, for there
warn't moment to lose, and [ bound
that BARN somehow on to my shoulders,
she watching me the while; and then,
with my heart beating madly, / caught
her in my arms, she clinging tightly to
me in her fear, and l stood up, thinking
how l could get back, and making
ready to leap.
The flood didn't wait for that, though.
In moment there was a culver of the
bank, and it went from beneath my feet,
leaving me wrestling with the waters
once more
don't know how | did it, only that,
after fight and being half smothered,
found myself crawling up the side of
the Gulch, ever so low down, and drag
ging Jael into a safe place with her
| BARN.
She fell down afore me, hugging my
legs and kissed my feet: and then
she started UP and began staring up
and down, ending by seeing, just above
us, old Hez clinging there still, with
his sound arm rammed into the bush
and his body swept out by fierce
stream.
The next moment she had seized me
by the arm, and was printing at him, and
she gave wild kind of shrek.
"Save him save him." she shrieked
in my ear.
What, Hez? Save Hez to come be-
tween us once more7 Save her husband
the man | hated, and would gladly see
die? Oh, couldn't do it, and my looks
showed it. she reading me like book the
while No, he might drown-he was
drowned-must be. No; just then he
moved. But, nonsense | wasn't going to
risk my life for his, and cut my own
throat as to the futur'.
She went down on her knees to me,
though, printing again at where Hez still
foated; and the old feeling of love for
her was stronger on me than ever.
You're asking me to die for you,
Jaelf' [ shouted in her ear.
"Save him-save Hep she cried.
Yes, save him!' | groaned to my
self. Bring him back to the happiness
that might be mine. But she loves him
she loves him; and / must"
| gave one glance at her-as / thought
my last-and couldn't help it. If She
had asked me dumbly, as she did, to do
something ten times as wild, should
have done it; and, with a run, got we'll
up above Hez before | jumped in once
more, to have the same fight with the
waters till / was swept down to the bush
where he was.
I'd got my knife in my teeth to cut
the bush away and let him free; but as
| was swept against it my weight tore it
away, and Hez and | went down the
stream together, him SO done up that he
lay helpless on the water.
Something seemed to tell me to finish
him off. A minute under water would
have done it: but JaePs face was before
me, and at last [ got to the other side,
with her climbing along beside us, and
if it hadn't been for the hand she stretch
ed down o me, | should never have
crawled out with old Hell was that
done.
AS l dropped down painting on the
rock, Jael came to my side, leaned over
me and kissed me, and | turned away
for the next moment she was trying hard
and bringing her husband to, and | was
beginning to feel once more that / had
been fool.
| amt much more to tell, only that
the flood went down most as quick as it
had come up, and Hez got all right
again, and did well. They wanted
muchly to be friends, but | KEEP away.
| felt as I'd been fool to save him, and
| was kinder 'shamed like of it, so l took
off TO Frisco, where, after cumming
about, took to going voyages to Pan
anna and back, and the sea seemed to
suit me like, and there | stuck to it.