The Press., 1893-07-20

E1GQ6F we nave DGCii tlcS lF0O UT JL0 tracks are to be met oL inc opposite margin" said the colonel. II don't in- l. . .o return until ali satisfied. So here goes" He hastily threw off liii coat and vest, but was checked by JoLL laying hand on his shoulder.
 .Better not risk it, chief" he said quietly: ''the suction of the rapids is ter rible."
 Ifancied he was more anxious than he chose to reveal and added my own ex- postulations, but Hood was obdurate. Nothing could restrain him when once his mind was made up, and he had dc termined to find the traces of those deer. :. II will make a detour wide enough to avoid the current" he said and threw off all except shirt and trousers.
 John shook his head, but stood leaning on his gun without offering further pro- test.
 The colonel plunged ina grave mis- take, of which he was only too soon to learn the consequences. l can see him now, striking out with even, powerful, strokes for the opposite shore: turning neither to right nor left, yet warily veer- ing off from the dangerous rapids. But, grasp of their ravenous claws.
 Evol while adlniring lis perfect free dom in the element, l l.otlced that he was being drawn from the line of his course-gently, almost imperceptibly at first, but gaining ill velocity as he neared the treacherous suction, In an instant l realized his peril and slr~ng down the bank with 8 loud cry of warning. He cast nasty glance to where the mist of the seething waters hung on the air like q cloud. then turned ;nd struck out for the open lake. But the. precaution came too late-too latel
 For one moment he held his own against the current, advancing not aI inch, notwithstanding his desperate strokes, and then suddenly, quicker thar eye could follow or pen could describe he was seized in the grasp of gianr hand, resistless in its might, and whirlee away like shaft from the bow.
 Downl down! he went, along the speed ing waters, smooth as glass, into the vor tex of the whirlpool, where they writhe' and hissed and thundered on the jagge' rocks. A single cry escaped him-a CT, that rolled from shore to shore and die' in quavering echoes high among tn mountain gorges Then he ceased t } struggle, and his head fell Imply back a the mist closed round his sinking form.
 May never feel again the agony of i'm potent helplessness I endured that mo , mentl My friend, the schoolmate of m l %ho 1>a1o por,in n m l later years, rushing to a horrible deat ) before my eyes and l unable to stretc r out a helping hand. Was there no escal mo help9
 } An, yes, brave Johni noble heart of cal ) As sit here calmly writing in my stud. . how I long to grasp again that sturd
 hand that may meet mine no more!
 He had seen the colonel's peril as
 gave my warning cry, and in the m
 ment of my confusion had time to gras
 the situation and discern with unerrir
 judgment the only possible mode of re
 cue. A man born and bred to the SUI
 den dangers of the wilderness acts vii
 almost instructive precision, while othe
 stand helplessly by. And so, even as
 watched with anguished heart the stru
 gles of my friend, he had sped from n
 side, casting away his gun as he went. He reached the brink of the rapids a1
 paused. One nasty glance at the colone
 body, borne on the crest of the speedi1
 current-one swift scrutiny of the furio'
 waters that seethed and boiled befo
 him-and then he gathered himself Il
 panther about to spring.
 i watched him, spellbound, fascinat
 by the noble daring of the deed he co
 templated. Full 15 feet from the sho in midstream rose large rock of rugg ld granite, against which the angry wate
 roared in impotent fury, and toward tl
 grim buttress the colonels helpless bo
 was hurrying head foremost. He mt
 reach that rock before the drowning m
 or all was lost.
 A seconds pause, during which the
 objects flashed before me like visie
 and then John made the effort. Like
 panther he had crouched, like pantt
 he sprung, and as his lean body shot c
 over the waters my prayers went wi
 him. Would he make it? Yes, tha
 God! He cleared the rapids and gain
 foothold on the slippery rock, clutt is ing it with both hands as he landed. KS There was not an instant's pau oi With the agility of 8 cat he swung rou ke the crag just as my friend shot iowa Ill him. saw him make a desperate clut to saw a brief struggle in the mist a Gy turmoil-and the next I was awar ns limp form lay upon the rock beside hi oe How human strength could overco us the momentum of that furious eddy ep more than I can realize, but John V no more than human-he was 8 man iron.
 Then bestirred myself. and under si- Indians calm directions we got the cC 'es nel's unconscious form ashore by me; on of ropes, which we always carried W ts' us. John followed next, clinging to Ill., cord had attached to point of TO ne The noble fellow made light of his br' ng deed and seemed only anxious to esc'
 any tokens of gratitude.
 vel We'll, we bore the colonel into caI H. where he lay prostrated for many da lo' But he recovered in time and is n s an we'll and prosperous. And, be sure, 'ne prosperity has benefited the savior !, his life.
 Ihe And John? I have never seen
 
 'an brave fellow since and probably ne re- shall again. But of this am certai len in one corner of my heart shall alw yet hold b;s memory preen.-C. q. Arc ro' in Cincinnati Post.
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