The Newtown bee., 1878-01-10

l could ge, DacK ,anQ made ready 10 leap.
 The flood didn't wait for me though.
 In moment there was quiver of ihe
 bank, and t 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, l found myself crawling up the side of the Clutch, ever so low down and dragging Jael into safe place wi,h her bairn. taa' fIa
 She fell down afore me, hugged my legs and kissed my feet and then she started up and began staring up and down, ending by seeing just aboye us old Hez, clinging there still, with his sound arm rammed into the slush, and his body swept out by the fierce stream.
 The next moment she had seized me by the arm and was pointing at him, and she gave wild kind of a shrfek. 5 s.f
 He's gone coon, my gal" says, though she couldn't hear me, and was gloating over her beautiful white face and soft, clear meek, as thought that now she was mine--all mine. Pd saved her out of the Hood, and there was no Hez to stardin our way. #,~4 as7
 Save hiln--saye him !" she shrieked in my ear. '.'! i-ass
 What, Htz? Save Hez to come be- tween us once more? Save her husband the man hated and would gladly See die! On, couldn't do it, and nay looks showed it, she reading me like a book the whife.''' No, he might drown--he Was drowped--must be. No; just then he moved But nonsense 1 wasn't go- i"g to risk my life for his, and cut my own throat as to the futur'.
 She went down on her knees to me, though, pointing again to where Hez still titoa.ted. , and the old feeling of love for her WAS, stronger aa asg than eyer.
 You're asking me to die for you, JAel P shouted in her ear. ~
 Save him save Hez [" she shrieked
 Yes, save him." groaned to myself. Bring him back to the happiness that might be mine But she loves him--sbe loves him, and I must"
 l gave one look at her-.as thought my last--uEd couldn't help it. If she had asked me dumbly, as she did, to do something ten dmes as wild, should have done ii and with run got well up above llez afore jumped in once. more, to have the same fight with the waters, ill l was swept down to the bush where he was.
 l got-Wy knife in my sheath to cut the bush away, and let him free; but as was swept against it the weight tore it away, and Hez and I went down the stream together, him so done up that he lay helpless on the water.
 Something seemed to tell me to dpfsk him off. A minute under water would have done ii; but Jael's face was before me, and at last l, got to the other side. with her climbing along beside us; and if 1t hadn'tbeen tor the hand she s,letch. ed down 10 me l should never have crawled out with her old uez--I was that dohc. ' -
 As dropped down, panting on the rock, Sasl cAaae to my side, leaned over me and kissed me, and turned away for tsss aext moment she was trying aasrS to bring her husband to, and 1 was begin ming to feel once more that was a fool.
 l ain't much more to tell, only tha, the flood went down most as quick as it had come ap,' and Hez got ssn right again with his broken arm, and did we'll. They mucbly to be friends, but I kep' iway. i-felt as if I'd been fool to save nim, and 1 was kinder 'shsmed like of it, 70 I took off to Frisco, where, after 'humming about, took to going to Pan- .ma and back, and the sea seemed to shit nc like, and there stuck to it. .s
 Aud there seem to stick yet. .I