The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-13

hauling the lovers within mile o.
Roaring creek. But while pun suer ant
pursued pushed on at their utmost
pace, another factor was coming will
hundred times greater speed to take
hand in the game.
The dry bed of Roaring creek was
just before them, beyond that tiny
rise, then an arroyo, and beyond that
again, the roof of the Justices house
just in sight CAS- Bob and May
clattered over the creek bed and
scrambled up onto the rise beyond,
/ both looked back and their ponies
stopped, tossing their heads, pricline
their ears and snorting at q curious
humming sound that suddenly seemed
to fill all the air about.
furry up, darling" cried Bob,
throwing out hand to catch Mays;
Its big storm coming from above. -
But before they could descend the
slope to cross the dry arroyo in front it
was running from bank to bank and
brimming over with sudden flood of
red, muddy water.
And even above the noise of the flood
before them they heard sound hike
the angry shouting of furious multi
tudes. Looking backward and up the
creek whence the sounds came they
saw a great, tumbling, shuddering
wall-pnshing before it and bearing
upon its crest all imaginable sorts Of
debris advancing down the dry creek
bed with such thunderous onslaught
that the little mound on which they
stood shook and seemed fairly to lower
under their feet.
They looked about them. The
arroyo ran into the creek below.
Above, both it and the creek had
flooded out until they joined. Their
little mound was an island, momen-
tarily growing smaller, surrounded on
every side by raging torrents, in which
were driven and whirled whole raes,
full grown cattle, with sometimes a
fence post whose trailing wires had
caught in their barbs all manner of
CHASTITY wreckage
Up came the water about them; down
fell the big hail.
IT'S a cloud burst above, darling"
said Bob. 1T won't last long-the wa
ter won't cover this rise
'I'm not afraid, Bob, /" said May, with
very white lips; I'm glad came, any
how. If we've got to die we'll die to-
gether; and the way I've felt for the
last three weeks I'm sure that's heap
better than living apart
Bob jumped off his pony and lifted !
May from hers. The hail was coming |
bigger and beat cruelty upon them. de |
wrapped his slicl1cr about her, pushed
the ponies close together and sheltered |
her with them and his own body as
best he could.
.'We won't die" he said; "but, poor
little girl, what an awful storm I've
dragged you out intop'
just then, from the farther bank Of
the creek, above the awful bowling of
5he storm, came this intelligent com
nand il Old Man Loves ear-splitting
Jones:
''May Love! You come here to me
his minuter' And May laughed hys-
well, he can't get at us, anyway
put the hail can. o, look at your poor
lands o, Bob. 1 can't bear it-put the
ticker back on''
why, honey" said Bob, as the tears
anne in earnest now, "I'd get pounded
ust the same anyhow; and you must
ct me have the comfort OF keeping
ONE of it off you-it amt patchin'
IN the way your pa would do me if he !
ould get me right now. !
While the storm ragged and the water :
ose nearly to their feet, Hank Pearsall
ad the almost exclusive benefit of Old (
Ian Loves remarks. since only his !
ELDEST shriess reached the young +
ouple, who were too much absorbed in +
lch other to heed either him or the
form very much.
These remarks disagreed with Mr..
earsall, who was VIGOROUSLY man of N
and observation.
whats the matter with that young
,ller?' he queried, angrily; watch 4
i'm a standin' to the north'ard NV his q
al, a-1eepin' the hail often her! He r,
mt no chunp If he keeps that lick o
p right through he'll make better s
lsband n what you ever did" +,
About this time, the hail ceasing, the !,
spectant justice came down to the ~
lrther bank of the arroyo. The water II
as going down visibly, but its roar -
as still considerable. y,
"Ho BobP' yelled the justice above 81
sound, got your license?" =,
Bob took it out and waved it above 81
S head. -
Old Man Love could not from where -
stood hear a word, but he surmised ~,
hat had been said, and the sight of ~
c document was like a red rag to the ~
IL. W
81 dare We to marry em," he 70
reamed. 81 dare ye to do it!'' And ~
an ecstasy Of rage and anxiety he -, r
reed his pony down into the foaniay -,
eek among the whirling drift, whel go
was promptly pitched off by the ~ ~
'rifed creature, which instantly re- tb n,