The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-06-17
of the Holy Mother, and family vhis.

OF the Holy Mother, and family whis.
pered to the weeping daughter that
she must care for and protect her
brother, she ceased to breathe.
1.-THE girl must be older than she
looks" said Mr. Leslie, deeply inter-
ested in the romantic history.
!" Yes, she is sixteen, and still re-
sides with the old people up the glen.
But, as she is getting strong enough to
work, / presume she will soon have to
go ont to service, though her foster
parents viii be 10th to give her up.
They look upon her as their own, and
the kind people Of the village help
them to clothe the poor little things"
The heart of the master echoed the
sigh of the landlady, and that night
his dreams were all of the little dark
face in which was blended tenderness
and defiant anger. But at last he was
awakened by a confusion of sounds,
and became aware that the predicted
thaw had come, and sent thousand
little rivulets down the mountain side
to burst the icy letters and swell Glen
Elder Creek to a mighty and turbu-
lent flood.
Hastily dressing and geing out of
doors he found the village flooded and
the house he called home in danger of
being swept away.
ITO the hillsl' came shout, and
the answering echoes took it up and
repeated again and again "To the
hills!'
With the cry the halfdressed and
afrighted inhabitants rushed fighting
their way out of the roaring waters,
some upon RATS, some in boats. And
presently Leslie saw a beacon light
flash out upon the hill side where the
school house stood in safety. Toward
it the alarmed people directed their
steps, dragging with them whatever
of food or comforts they had managed
to secure.
After assisting Mrs. Lane and her
family in their flight and securing his
own valuables the young master
turned his attention to his own safety,
but only to find that the flood had
wldened and shut out all of the valley
leading to the beacon of safety-that
the only way to gain it was along
dangerous cliff, and which, after
toilsome journey, would bring him to
the sch Dol house from the other side
of the mountain, ..,., ~.
The morning was just dawning as
he had accomplished the most danger
GUS part of his task, and he paused to
rest and glance back upon the scene of
awful destruction. Everywhere ran
little muddy rills from snowy heights
to join the madly rushing torrent of
water which tore through the narrow
gorge and bearing on its foaming
bosom all that opposed its way. Huge
boulders, logs and uprooted trees all
went down together in the boiling
vortex until it reached the broader
valley and there became a lake of
seeth1ng foam as it engulfed the little
village.
AS he stood thus in the chill gray
morning, both awed and fascinated by
the scene, his ears were startled by
peculiar, prolonged cry like that of
some suffering bird. tcame from the
other side of jutting cliff, where lay
his path, and swelied out even above
the roaring of the waters below. Then
and almost instantly it changed to the
warbl1ng notes of blue birds song
then again to that of the wood thrush
and the cat bird, and ended in the
low, plaintive cry of the whippoorwill.
Amazed, he stood and questioned.
Could some poor, storm-beaten, es-
capped hooking bird be stranded in an
evergreen thicket and thus utter its
plant?
With the thought he fastened
around the point and beheld to his in
finite surprise Lola Danforth clinging
to tree that swayed in dangerous
proximity above a yawnIng precipice.
A faded scarlet hooded mantle hung
loosely upon her shoulders, her thick
raven hair was dishevelled and the
sport of the wind.
At the instant again the birds song
was repeated in wonderful variety,
and could come only from the scarlet
lips of the young girl. Lola" he
exclaimed, reaching out and snatch
ing her back from her dangerous posi-
sion, what is the matter? Do you
not know that all who can have
sought shelter in the school house?
Come with NE. Every step is danger
Gus, and you will only be safe there"
"My brotherv" gasped she, strug-
Cling away impetuously. "They told
me he had gone to the school house,
but he is not there, and came back