The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-09

child, and her lips, poor darling, said,
Cumbly, "Save it! oh, save itl''
In the midst Of that rush and roar, as
| saw that poor ga white, horrihen,
and with her WALLER hair Clinging round
her, all my old love for her comes back,
and I swore big oath I'd save her for
myself or die.
| tore her dress into ribbons, Tor
there warn't moment to lose, ana L
bound that BARN somehow on TO my
shoulders, she watching me the while:
and then, with my heart beating madiy,
| caught her in my arms, she clingln9
tightly to me In her fear, and | stood
M, thinking how | could get back, and
make ready to leap.
The flood hadn't waited for that
though. In moment there was
culver Of the bank, and it went from be-
meath my feet, leaving me wrestling
with the waters once more. ! don /
know how | did It., only that, after o
| fight, and being half smothered, found
mvanlf crawling up the side OF the
guIch, ever 80 low down, and dragging
j ael into a safe place with her BARN.
She fell down afOre me, Rugged my
legs and kissed my feet; and then she
started up and began staring up and
down, ending Ivy seeing just above us,
|
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 pointing at him,
and she gave @ wild kind Of shrek.
| Hes a gone coon, my gal, | says,
| though she couldn't hear me: and | was
gloating over her beautiful white face
and soft, clear neck, as ! thought that
now she was mine all mine. I'd saved
| her out Of the flood, and there was no
| Hez to stand Ia our way.
''Save him save himl" she shrieked
| in my ear.
What. He2? Save Hez, to come be-
tween us once more? Save her husband
the man hated, and would gladly see
! diet Oh, / couldn't do il. and my looks
showed 1t, and she reading me like a
| book the while. No, he might drown
he was drowned must be. No; just
! then he moved But, NONSENSE ! wasn't
going to risk ny 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 tloated; and the old feeling Of love
for her was stronger on me than ever.
"You're asking me to die for you,
Jael % [ shouted in her ear.
Save him-save He'll" she shTieked.
| yes, save himl" | grUaned to myself
Bring him back to the happiness that
might be mine. But she loves him
she loves him, and ! must"
gave one look at her az ] thought
my last-and | couldn't help it. If she
had asked me dumbIy, as she did, to do
something ten times as bad, | 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 till | was swept down to the bush
| where he was.
I'd got my knife In my teeth to cut
the brush away and let him free. but ]
was swept against it and my weight
tore it away. and Hez and [ went down
the stream together-him 80 done up
that he lay helpless upon the water.
Something seems 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 ! got to the other side.
with her climbing along beside Us; and
if it hadn't been for the hand she
stretched down to me, I should never
have Crawled cut with old He2-I was
that done.
As ] 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
once more beginning to feel that | had
been fool.
amt much more to tell. only that
the flood went down most as quick as
it come up, and Hez got all right again
with his broken arm and did well,
| They wanted much to be friends, but
KEEP away. I felt as if I'd been q fool
to save him, and | was kinder 'shamed
like of it. so | took off to Frisco. where
after cumming about, [ took to going
voyages to Panama and back, and the
sea seemed to suit me like, and there
stuck to it.
And there | seemed to stick yet