The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

grees colder. Barry's lips closed hard.
and his teeth set against each 0ther'
and he measured his every stroke 70
make it tell. Then his turn came to
trv q ..back swim and rest" and be.
tUU-sai(f.s.f ean~eeotAo~sA 0Fo and& he
CITY, but can't get q glimpse OF Slime.
There! isn't that his head?-that bl44ks
thing? Guess it is; it's moving Yes,
it's himr'
It was. indeed, the back of Shines
head, but the boy under it was saying
to himself: The shores as far away
as it ever was I'd no idea we had
padded out such distance. Reach it?
/ ,cM reach it. Never swan so Tar in
NV life, but must reach it -. !. y
Still it was getting to be weary work,
and before him lay what seemed an m
! terminable reach of glittering nipples.
He was breathing hard. his arms and
legs were moving with less force than
mt first, and his progies thpQugh the
water was slower and sl0wer si'l
"Can / do it? It's got to be done.
I'll tread water q moment for q change.
can't see Barry. Hurrah! it's the
shallowsn' ss.s.gssi ri,s-
As he dropped his feet they came
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i end of the lake was gentle slope from
the beach. The water was up to his
neck, but the bottom was there. and
Shines heart bounded with great throb
| of relief.
BARRY? must wade in fast now.
No boat when get there; no help.
It was q forlorn outlook, and Slime
even thought for moment of all his
clothing away out there in the sklff
Then he thought of Barry Gilmore and
/ hardly auv thing else. until the increas-
ing shallowness of the water enabled
him to wade faster, and then to break
into what was almost q ruu.' 1t was
great splash at all events, and Slime
was quickly shouting to some one on
the beach a half breathless account of
Barrs's danger. e-go- - H. ~.
..Why didn't ye wait for the oars? l
was a-comin' down with 'em. Wanted
a swim myself, and thought I'd fool ye
a little. What! Barry a-swimmin' after
the skiff? There's Jim Burr's boat
Quick! jump inp'
..It's locked" .-.sg.,
"Locked? Well, I'll jest unlock it,
The KEY Purdy used was of limestone,
and it may have weighed twenty
pounds. It ..opened Jim Burr's pad
lock for good and all" while Slime was
getting in; and then how Pardy did
row!
"We'n be too late.''
'sShut up. Sine. Don't talk to me.
IT. Jest awful" -,.., -.
4; 1t came very near it. for, Barry Gil
more's brave. earnest face was getting
white when he at last discovered that he
was really drawing nearer the runaway
boat. +'~t -
1.-The wind is rising. I'm almost
gone. Couldn't swim two rods further"
Yes, the wind was, indeed, blowing
harder, but the direction of it had been
for some time changing, as it is apt to
do before q summer storm. The hrst
"surface current of air had lost its
breath, and the stronger blast which
} was really to bring the cloud and rain
was coming from the other way. So
was the skiff it caught and carried
, along, and Barry hardly understood it.
"Pm swimming pretty fast yet, in
: spite IF everything. Wish I knew
: about Sine. Just little further
, Oh. how difficult were those last few
: strokes! When Barry family rested
one land upon the gunwale of che skif.
it required great effort to lift the other
beside it.
81 can't climb in, now I've got here.
What shall do?''
OF course he could not have climbed
in, if he had been obliged to lift him
self all the way up, but every ounce Of
weight he put upon the side Of the boat
brought it down further and further,
until it was hardly twoinches above the
roughening water.
ssNow for itr' All the strength he
had lett went into that last effort, and
then Barry was lying on the bottom Of
. the boat, with his wet head on the shin
, ing front of Slime Hopkins shirt
, bosom.
He did not try to guess how long he
:, Law there. Even after he could have
moved, he had no heart to lift his head
and look toward the shore. At last,
, Just after he had covered his eyes with
both hands, there came upon his ears
the sound of oars, as il some very zeal
Gus rover were pulling for prize in
some regatta, and behind that sound
was another. as if some fellow had sud-
denlv burst out CRYING.
Q A heavy .'bump'' against the side Of
the skiff.
s.Here he is, Oh, Barryr'
"Sime, is that you? Don't say a
word, Sime-I can't"
It was some little time before either
!. of them. could say much; but they had
both learned just about how far they
), could swim; and old Purdy sat there in
i, his stolen boat, his rough face all one
4 redness and radiance. All even he
could find TO say was: a~z.l=..-s-
= "Ain't glad! Jim Burr won't MIND
" my Dustin of his lock mite; but III
q git him another. "-Hdrpers Young
q People. ;,.f. ,.. 'I
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