Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-02

GH4Ao &Aes0 Wi ee@e<4 s>@s< 1885,
he held glimmered little way over q
madly-rushing torrent freighted with
unlawful booty, all manner q wreck
age from ruined homesteads up the
valley.
Every moment the food rose higher,
and Kent hurried to Mrs. Wayne and
urged her to leave her house while she
could. Had she done SO this story
would have remained untold, but she
refused to go, nor could Beulah's en-
treaties avail to change her purpose.
Beulah looked with beseeching eyes
at Kent, who was years older than her
self. her schoolmate and friend.
Get ready now" he urged. 'If we
stay here an hour longer we shall be
drowned. / will look at the river once
more, and if it is foot higher" He
was gone only to reappear breath1ess
with running.
Make haste!" he cried, and catching
Mrs Mayne from her chair, he snatched
from Beulahs hand the cloak and hood
she held, and tied them on the old lady
quickly.
What else?" he asked, darting
quick glance around.
These" said Beulah, taking a roll of
blankets. eve shall need them for
grandma"
But Kent Topped the rope that he had
bought around them, and swung them
over his shoulders knap-sick fashion.
Beulah, whose trim little figure was
already cloaked and hooded, stepped to
her grandmother's side; Kent threw
some light wood on the fire, an they
passed out into the darkness.
With rain binding them and soak
ing their garments, with poor Mrs.
Mayne dazed and almost helpless, their
progress was slow. The run on their
left, which was usually silver ribbon
in it's willow fringe, now roared along
with velocity that defied man or
horse to stem its current.
'No hope from that quarter" said
Kent, ''but if we can reach the hills"
He halted suddenly as splashed into
water above his shoes. Drawing his
companions back a few feet, he left
them while he ran forward TO investi-
gate. Their way had led along strip
ri1 crn 1f lo- hi~h +
the ground to the right, and up this de-
preston the overfull river had poured
its waters till they united with the run.
They were thus cut off from the hills
in front, to the right and the left; there
seemed no escape for them.
The boys anxiety was not for him
self; he knew that he could readily
swim across the backwater and gain
safe footing, but Beulah and her grand
mother! AS soon as the water became
too deep for her, he felt certain that
the latter would cling to him with both
hands and draw him under, but the
thought of leaving them never entered
his mind. With painful misgivings he
returned to his companions.
"You were not gone long" said Beu-
lah, but the water has risen to our
feet
"Do you know" he asked in low
tone, chow far we have come from the
house?"
only to the elm tree in the wheat
field it is just behind u.s.
The elm tree! He ran to it, circled
it twice, and calculated the height of
the lowest branch from the ground.
Bring your grandmother here" he
called to Beulah cheerily, while he
threw the blankets from his shoulders,
loosened the rope, and tying a stone
to one end sent it over the lower
branch, while he held the rope with
his left hand
'Beuiah," he explained hurredly,
when she had joined him, "the water
is all around us, and we must get your
grandmother up into this tree"
ooh, Kent, she can never clamb it,
Hal PEuT- Nsr0~a