Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-19

and thunder, on to the bit of a 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
l saw that poor gal, white, Mortified,
and with her yaller hair clinging round
her, all my old love for her comes back,
and swore big oath I'd save her for
myself or die. rAJt
I 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 stood up, thinking
how could get back, and make ready
to leap.
The flood didn't wait for that though.
In moment there was culver of the
bank, and it went from beneath my feet,
leaving me wrestling with the waters
once more. l don't know how l did it,
only that, after fight, and being half
smothered, found myself crawling up
the side Of the GlIlch, ever so low down,
and dragging Jael into safe place with
her BARN. }uu -
She fell down afore me, Rugged 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 the fierce stream.
The next moment she had seized me
by the arm, and was pynting at him,and
she gave wild kind of shrek. rF
Shes agone coon, my gal," l says.
though she couldn't hear me; and was
gloating over her beautiful white face
and soft, clear neck, as l thought that
now she was mine-aH mine. I'd saved
her out of the flood, and there was no
Hez to stand in our way.
:. Save him save him!'' she Shrek
ed in my ear. B ~ ID h'.
What, Hez? Save Hez to come be-
tween us once more? Save her husband
the man 1 hated. and would gladly
see diei Oh, couldn't do it, and my
looks showed it, and she reading me
like a book the while. No, he might
drown-he was drowned-must be.
No; just then he moved. But, nom
sense! 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. Pynting 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,
Tool 9ss I cha,,tad ;,S ho,- nor
"Saye him-saye Hell" she shrieked.
"Yes, save hint" l groaned to myself.
F" Bring him back to the happiness that
might be mine. But she loves him
she loves him; and must
gaze one look at her-as l thought
my last-and couldn't help it. If she
had asked me dumbly, as she did, to do
ten times as bad, l should
have done it; and with run | got well
up above Hez afore jumped in once
more, to, have the same fight with the
waters TIL Iw:s swept down tothe bush
where he was.
I'd got my knife in my teeth to cut
the bush away and let him free; butt
was swept against II my weight tore 1t
away, and Hez and l went down the
stream together; him so dohe up that
he lay helpless upon the water.
Something seemed to tell me to finish
him off A minute under water would
have done it; but Jael's face was before
me, and at last l got to the other side,
with her climbing along beside us; and
4 it hadn't been for the hand she
stretched down to me, should never
nave crawled out with old Hell was
hat done. -------------------
As l dropped down, painting on the
-ock, Jael came to my side, leaned over
ne and kissed me, and turned away, for