Nevada County picayune., 1889-07-10

q. like this. Perhaps s'--with a little sob in her voice--''perhaps he'll come round by-and-by. He does sometimes. Aunt Eliza has most 1 influence with him, and she she s our friend, you know"
 They were standing near the rivers bank, and Maude was still engaged in vigorously dusting. with her embroidered pocket-handker- chief. the back of her insulted lover. when a whlff of wind took the light 1 straw hat from her head. and drifted it to the edge of the bank.
 Augustus instantly hastened to the rescue, but he had not taken into consideration the stcepness and slip periness of the incline: wherefore he unexpectedly found himself plunging with splash, into the muddy water, six feet below.
 Maude shrieked as she beheld him disappear beneath q pad of water lilies. and the sound reached her aunt, Miss Eliza Pilkins, as she walked in the garden between the grove and the villa.
 Augustus head, adorned with algea and dropping weeds, soon re- appeared above the surface of the water, and with hands and feet he commenced d desperate but futile attempt to surmount the slippery clay bank.
 Seeing this, Maudc knelt down on its edge and extended both hands, which he imprudently grasped-but, alas, with a contrary effect to what was intended.
 In moment she was in the water, and with difficulty supported in the hands of her lover, whose feet, with this additional burden. stuck fast in the miry bottom.
 It was in this situation, struggling waist deep in water, that they were discovered by Mss PIl>ins, when, summoned by Maude's shricks, she hurried to the spot.
 "Gracions heavens Mir. Tomlin- son-Maude, How did this happen: Why don't you save yourselves:" she cried, eXcitedly.
 We can't" gasped Maude, fran tically clinging to her lover. 'I-I fell in, and-we'll drown if you don't help us,"
 "Give me your shawl" promptly responded practical Miss Pilkins; and don't get excited. You cant drown if you keep still, and I'll have you up in three minutes, "
 Hooking up the shawl with q crooked stick, she tied it to her own, and attaching one end to sapling on the bank, twisted the two into a sort of rope.
 By means of this the par were enabled, after much scrambling and eXertion, to reach firm ground, where they stood dripping and shivering,
 Here you are, safe," said Miss Pilkins; and now should like to know what's the next thing to be done.
 "W-warm ba-ath for Maude '" chattered MT. Tomlinson, all of a tremble, while the water dripping from the ends of his dropping nous tachc and limp fingers. "l-I'll go h-homc,"
 "Go home in that fix? and catch your death of cold by the way Come along to the house, both of you, as fast as you can, Brother has gone to a political meeting, with supper afterward, and won't be back till midnight, You two come through the garden, while go ahead and unlock the back door"
 Once in the house, Maude, who despite her fright, had not suffered nearly so much as her lover, hurried to her room, while Miss Pilkins di- rected the housemaid to show Mir. Tomlnson at once to the east cham Der
 "pleasc m," said the sympathetic Betty, "there ain't been fire Tn the east room this fall, and the bed ain't fixed nor the sheets aired. There s fire in masters room, and every thing warm and comfortable, and l can fix It all right before master comes home
 To Mir, iiogan's own bedroom, accordingly paIlid and shivering, Tominson was conducted, while sam, ,hc stable boy, was dispatched ,..... l., .,;,,,,, f,,. {, ,l,on,r. nf