CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1898-05-05

Anyway. thought could. hut maybe
it was Iay own. knew when they done
that p crowd had seen tie man on The
roof -.;a i,e hH'rtet, ar , T-cnrrized
him. for all the people In the lawn knew
the kind of a ftl,ow he WAS. 4; the
same time the crowd got still something
came to rue telling me to nerve myself,
for the crazy man would cut 1he rope
and drop me and my load in the street.
10 he crushed irto shapeless mass. and
I came near letting go and dropping be-
fore / was dropped. couldn't see what
4~as going on behird me, and ali the lit
lie woman knew she was whispering to
me TO go ahead. because we were safe If
orly kept my path. l didu', know
Fhefher she thought about the man
xith the haicbet or not Likely she
I'D wasn't her II mention il. though.
under them circumstances
while was thinking bout him cut
ting the rope | was getting along 1T
toward the safe end as fast as could.
the little woman hanging on till she
nearly choked Inc. but it didn't hurt.
and | was standing it beautiful. It's
funny how n maa will fiHd pleasure in
life when there's so much in sight that
afn't, and nearly forgot the man with
the hatchet thinking about the little
woman's arms holding onto my neck as
the one hope Of her life. But 4; was
only for \ sssand: then / felt Jar on
The rope and | choked and braced r1y-
self, for ! was sure that The crazy man
was beginning TO cut. and I knew that
three or four licks would be enough. /
waited for the second jar. but ii didn't
come, and in its place come a spring to
the rope. as IL a weight had been taken
cff of it, followed by swishing sound
and a dull thud on the sidewalk so feet
below us. .At the same time the crowd
sent up groan as II every person in IL
was hurt. didn't know for sure what
bad happened, but guessed that that
crazy man, like most any crazy person
or a mad deg. only had room IN his mind
fer one thing AZ q time, and when that
was the-e there wasn't space for any
more. He wanted TO KIN his wife, and
fhe only way he knew how 10 do 1t was
with the hatchet by cutting her 10
pieces. II did not strike him that he
could kill her by cutting the rope aud
letting her drop 10 the ground. That
was too much for him. lie knew az
easier way. and. as she was on, there
on the rope no; 40 feet from him. he
would go out there and kin her. C-azy
People have such crazy way q doing
things. dent they? He did, ard when
he took his second step out on the ropc
he went over ard down to his death.
That's what had made the rope spring
back. ruess the litt,e wcrusi mus;
have felt iha, something swfnl hnd hap
pcned. THOUGH she never said word.
because whea ! at last steure;l safe on
10 the roof I'd the crowd weed q hun
ired times louder than the did before
they knew what they were yelling
about. the li;;,e woman le; src her hold
around my neck and dropped at my feet
IN a dead fart; ard didn'; blame her,
either; IL was time to- somebody to
faint, and IL she haaa't done il wonld.
sure pop. Her doiur It rave me some
thing else to think about. and got
her downstairs as quick rs l could,
where the women took charge cf her
and soon brouFh, her on; all right.
n guess that's al there IS TO it."
smiled the signor niciSinr IN his bal
auciug pcle aud pointing 10 a date line
aud some initials on it. 'This is the one
that steadied us over. ard the uttie
woman had them nut on there when she
became the h,ustirr bride of Sirnor
salviatoria," and the signor bowed with
a sweep that would have entraneed an
audience OF millious.-N. Y. Sun.