The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-02-16

my way across inc broau 10 DaTtoi
Staih right enough. And here am
do believe at the end of this blessed,
long. dark river at last Yes. that
white thing ashore must be the lee
house AT. my dear fellow, this is
hard work. and no mistake"
You might certainly have thought
the self-addressed words came from
mustached lips, the more If you noted
the long, powerful stroke of the SOULS
md perfect form OF the rover. but it
was she" fcliow-not a he at all,
and very pretty one, too, dressed in
white and red boating "togs"-as she
would have said. A tall. slight girl Of
nineteen or twenty; muscular lissome,
bubbling over with healthy vigor and
high spirits.
The wind shriclcd and poured over
the great drearily dark expanse in al
most hurricane. SO wild were its
gusts. as the rover got fairly out into
the Broad by slow degrees, the water
quite roughened into white ponies
il not white horses" as she mentally
pnt il. when the sea-built boat shot
ana danced over the foam-cappcd wave
lets.
Boat a-hoy."
suddenly on the roar of the gale
came that Gala mans voice. f1ll and
melow. from somewhere away on her
port bow
,A-hoy, there she called back at
cace. and altered her course immcii-
stely for the direction Of the voice
some one in distress. Of course. she
thought She knew that She was not
far from one of the great beds Of rushes
that abound. and the next moment "A
simmer Of sheet lightning that illum-
ined the whole scene wildly for a sec
ona showed her that she was right She
caugh, glimpse. too. of what seemed
10 be a boat with something white in
1t by the PUSHES
Some fellows lost his oar. perhaps
and got stranded in the reeds helpless"
muttercd All pulling away with the
wind now on the starboard quarter
Easy to reach him; but to get off the
lee-shore again won't be jokc-thcre
he is
For she could just discern a tall fig
ure in white dress standing up-of
NDIlNtt III ~ Oodt AOT AdHu kntIt WIS
none. All headed straight for that
white flanncled figure. and in three
minutes had shipped her SOULS aud
let the wind send her boat alongside
the strangers 5; and now at close quar-
tiers she could distinguish that he was
young man, perhaps some seven years
her senior-handsome. and a gentle
man
III had dreamed it was girl whose
oars plash l heard he said. barring
his curly head as he bowed, evidently
utterly vexcd with himself, II would
have called for the world am SO
sorry so vexcd."
'On my account, You mean. said ALI,
laughing. rs frank and fearless as o
boy, not an atom of feminine self-con-
sconsncss; don't bother yourself at
all. then: were all brethren in sports.
You'd help me out Of a Tx. and you.
50 what's the natter"
lie began TO laugh; he couldn't help
II, and did not try To. either. She was
such a delicious cure" and So pretty;
he saw at once the sort of girl he was,
ana took her on ncr own free and easy,
boy-like ground
It's too good OF you 10 come 20 the
rescue, and such gale, too; but the
truth is that am hors de combat My
Jeff wrist has had an ugly wrench this
evening that has strained. ii not
sprained it,
Poor fellow--so that you can't row.
How did you do ii?''
Well, was pulling about here Il
only arrived at Barton today when
somehow disturbed big, fierce. black
swan
That brute?" exclaimed All. 1T
ought To be shot; it's SO savage and
has attacked several people"
Has il? It's an old enemy, then?"
said the young man in sarprise.
TO Ike sure. Step over into my boat
and sit down in the stern. That's it,"
as he obeyed. nothing loth-what man
would have been?
so that creature went for you?"
Rather" said he. II beat him of
caught my wrist in his beak and gave il
wrench that made 1t desperate pain
% get along rs far as opposite this
Two hours ago that was-thcn the wind
veered and stffcned suddenly and l
mad to give up and let the gale drive
me INTO these reeds and wait the slen-
ger chance of help from some passing
ooa'' else spend the night out here
Cold, starved and in pain; poor fell
.ow' said All. with true womar's pity.
that would have been too horrid. and
awfully glad did stop so long up
,hc Ant There hasn't been boat
ont mine out for hours-too galley; so
souli have TO be my passenger"
hoading brightly. in spite Of your
masculine pride and chivalry."
No no; it's too shamefully madden
ing exclaimed the young man, We
hemently. II can't do II. sit at
vase and leta girl pull with tho extra
weight, or try 70. against such hurri-
uSneY Impossible! Ill stop here
No. you won't stree" interrupted