The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-01-18

In moment there was a culver Of the
bank, and Il went from beneath my feet,
leaving me wrestling with the waters
once more. don't know how l did IL,
only that, after a fight, and being half
smothered, found myself crawling up
the side Of the Gulch, ever so low down,
and dragging Jael into safe pace 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 by seeing just above MS,
old Iiez 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 a wild kind of shrek.
"He's gone coon, my gal, says,
though she couldn't hear me and was
gloating over her beautiful white face
and soft, clear neck, rs thought that
now she was mine--all mine. I'd saved
her out Of the flood, and there was no
Hez to stand in our way.
= Save him!--save hint" she Shrek
ed in my ear.
What, Hep Save Hez to come be-
tween us once morep Save her husband
the man I hated, and would gladly
see die! Oh, couldn't do it, and my
looks showed it, and she reading me
like book the while. No, he might
drown-he was drowned-must be
No; Just then he moved. But, non
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 tioated; 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 Hez! she shrieked.
q Yes, save him." groaned TO myself.
s. Bring him back to the happiness that
might be mine. But she loves him
she loves him; and must"
l gave one look 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 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 bush. away and let him free; but
was swept against it my weight tore it
away, and Hez and l went down the
stream together; him so done up that
he lay helpless upon the water.
Something seemed 10 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
if it hadn't been for the hand she
stretched down to me, should never
have crawled out with old Hell 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 l 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
il come up, and Hez got all right again
with his broken arm and did we'll. They
wanted muchly to be friends, but KEEP
away. | felt as if I'D been fool to save
him, and was kinder 'shamed like Of il,
so took off To Frisco, where, after
about, took to going vow
ages to Panama and back, and the sea
seemed to suit me like, and there | stuck
to it,