Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-21
CENPT EE ~.

Nothing could have been added 70 make
lst morning more beautiful aS the punt
v-asuoored in the swift water below the Neir
towards which Bee forced it easily and well,
handling the p-L:-pole as she stood up IN
he front with prscticed hands, Fred watch
m, her the while aud thinking how hand
>ame and graceful she looked bat only TO
heck himse.. directly, 70, he had hal
gifts res'.
impossible" he muttered; 1T would not
%. She's a brave, true,hcsrtei woman,
hut she's always doing something | could
rot stand Bah Absurd!
4 similar fl had attacked Bee Banks.
Tor days past sac had been warming to
wards Fred his conduct during the tersT
having softened her towards him; hut this
PARTICULAR morning, as if from sheer temI,
rice wilru ues-, sha did everything she could
link of 20 mske herself dstastetll 20 her
f.,l,r's rues., and the warmth Of the p'eVi'
,.s evening" vss replaced By a triEid a1sr'
10 The, grew more chilly IS toe day wore
sway.
And xh-. :y,den day VS. that: the ever
,..,ir- ~s.-r mu7mured deLlcicusIy at the
.-,r and hubAlsd and tosmed a)oU; the
"a. the lock house looked lovely against
lie BACKGROUND OF trees. The lock-keepers
,l,R PLAYED On the bank and gathered the
marsh nlarigolds and rosy Perslcarias,. or
tits Of waving scdgT grass. SIoH.moyIng
rarres cane DOM the river or mp the river
rarsed through the loCk, ant were gone.
Here and there he sleepy cattle cropped
tie rich grass 10 the m'adoTS, or came
p ,-,vD 90 stare leisu!rlr al tho paut; and, as
200 water toswel and 'iGslej IN the sun, o.
las am and m.rro--Eae beneath tue over
i-r.,iro trees in ,Lat golden afternoon, the
l.b ii. and we're caughl TIL in very weari-
- Of tie eiut. fred laid down has rod and
v;.LsJ Thai the doctor would come, SO ttat
l,ri,,gt have s9ue one TO wuOn II" cOJd
.w,aA.
sac d,sgusts ne, h" said to h!rn'eii. Il
declare hate her. Ii2" eau woman
t.ea. 6 wo.m like that?
Il did not occur to thu Young man that
10 had impaled a good many wig-I.ng
v.rrm. thai day upon his hook; be could
rrlv ,h;nk Of Baa Doing the same with her
y Liie fingers. Then. too. twice over, she
hal shipped up graf LOB worms with pair
Of scissors, in pieces an inch long, to serve
p ground bait; and at this Fred had shud,
dered and she had seen it, and made u
mOckipz grimsce a. she continued her oc-
cupa,ion. 80 that he might not miss the
sGEh.est portion OF her repulsiye task.
Ifthe doctor would out come, thought
FREQ, Tor the tenth time; but he came not,
end Bee fshed and the lock-keeper's child
playCd upon The bank, and the sun shoae
warm and the Young man thought he should
Ike 10 smoke; and then he began to feel
droUsv, and then be- started hack to WAKE
filresS as he heard cry from towards the
lock, some thirty yards sway. At the same
moment there was splash, and an eIscuIs,
ton from Bee.
1t Was oil momeutary; and than tcHd
Uesslpby sat spell bound as he saw Bee rise
up in the boat and plsuge right into the
boiling stream to rise and swim easily to
wards where the lock-keepers child had
fallen from the bank. and was being Sveps
away.
Great Heayensw calculated Fred and,
stripping OFF his white flannel Jacket ne. too,
took header into the stream, and began
swimming after Bee.
The Lincoln Tress runs swiftly By Boil
ford Bridge and the low weir, and Fret
HesslebY soon found that he had all his
work to do to keep from being swept round
by the water back towards the weir; and
that. If he wished to reach the child that
the doctors daughter was trying to save, he
mus, swim strongly and we'll. In fact, 1t
was a hard fight; and in few minutes they
were all three tar below the boat and lock
house. Bee mnch nearer to the child but
losing her first quiet, methodical stroke for
one that was hasty aud Iaborcd-sigus that