The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17

door open. You go right in, ma You II
ketch cold,' Jimmy shouted back.
And / guess that's all pail ketch, .
Johnny added. walking backward.
She watched them a moment in the
twilight. trudging on with the wind be-
hind them, scuffing the snow, pushing che
another. tumbling down and rolling over
and up again. and filling the air with their
happy outcry. And she caught a little of
their jollity. as she shut the door and relit
her lamp and went about her tasks.
But the 1ollity presently grew faint.
He certainly d orter be in now. she
said going again and again to the win
dow. where, under her shading hand. the
fakes whirled and SCARED and fell and
slanted by like sparks of fire Il do no.
] declare I'm main frightened ! never
felt jes so shakyl an limp in my life" she
said. 20, Joe, Joe, if you don't come
back
She went to the bedroom presently TO
find the stockings and as she darned Il
small hole she thought of Sis up at st.
Pauis among the green boughs, and felt
little awe as she saw her helping at the
last wreaths about the chancel, with the
old aisles like the aisles of some dim.
sweet wood all green and dark and
spicy. Il guess 1 know how mothers feel
when their sons are priests" she said.
And then suddenly the bell rang out. the
peal on the hull of the gale. Thats my
jimmy she thought. He's jes' maxim
that bell praise God, Ny. 1t jes' takes
me right inter church 18th the henlock
thin there,
And then another bell. one much more
echo. Hts the Old South she ex-
claimed. Il yum, 1 believe them boys
have elm the Old South beifry in spite
o mel N.Y. N.Y. That's the North church
now-no, its the Oldtown-my soul to
gracious. it's both of them, That's my
Johnny. then. And that's Dave. | sup
pose the seXon 5 let 'en. an they've got
some of the other boys along.
Precisely that had happened. For
when the sexton of st. Paul's began to
tell Jimmy what TO do. the other boys
Jimmy gave Johnny a kick, and Johnny
transferred it to Dave. and Dave hit out
all round, and scuffie and scramble fol-
lowed that would have ended in open dis
grace IL the sexton had not ordered them
all out and away without benefit of
clergy.
, And at this. Jimmy. remembering that
there We're other bells in town. had in
stantly organized several rival bell
ringing parties and they started at full
run 10 get into the meeting houses the
best way they could. and make the bel
fies rock and drown out ST. Paul's by all
the superior metal of the bigger bells;
and when one of the lads heard the peal
of the other sound out like the boom of
fire bells. and answered it, with the peal
from his own steeple tossing out upon the
dark, their hearts were almost bursting
with the delight in the clash and clang
anu roar beating out the air about them.
I wisht their father was hearin' of
EN-. the mother said again. pressing her
face against the cold glass. while the
snow drove by something less furiOusiy.
TwOud really tickle him. It's mighty
pretty music. Jes hear the echoes, o.
Joe. where be ye, And as the bells pealed
on she was walking uD and down the
little house. stopping at every turn 10
peer through the pane 10 open the door
and feel the blast more than once 10 cry
ont with voice that the wind pressed
back soundiesS, making her feel her help
lessneSs before the great forces OF ma
t.lre which benumb and destroy shut
ting the door and walking uD and down
again as she wrung her hands. and paus-
ing at every shudder of sash and door 10
listen. 20. what sort of Chris mus eve
Is tnis? she cried. 20. Joe, Joe. Joe,'
But even While the bells were rinr-in.,
ii seemed as If the wind were falling
Jimmy said ii was jest spit" she muir
INJURED p raps he's right. One O. them
quick SQUALLS o snow. But one o them
can founder ship taken unawares. And
.. II must have took aim unexpected or
he be home.'
What = kong, interminable hour it was
before the great glad uproar of the bells
was over, And then presently She was
sure ii was time the boys and Sis were
AZ home and without staying TO imagine
they were pldnSing and slipping and roll
Ing and snowballlnS together on the way
the wind having abated as suddenly as
Al had arisen. she felt that everything
mad come 70 an end. and husband and
children alike were lost TO her and full
OF a wild, unreasOning panic she WAS
crying like one possessed. when the door
burst open and chorus of glad voices
snote her-sWett. . sweeter. clearer than
the peal of all the bells Meanwhile ont
il the bay. Joe had found his travis
much richer than he had expected. and
he was 80 busy in stripping them and i'm
Mating ana setting them again. that ne
gave little heed to the rising of the storm
an its fury was all about him. 'Twon't
last long like this. Them student ones
20 as they come. JeS' keep her head Ia
the wind he said TO himself ..Sha'u
ride ii ont And then the snow was
wrapping him. blind and thick and ali III
once the dark had fallen. Wal" ne nnut-
tered. If one o. them concerned bic coal
steamers don't come rippin' along. III
weather it, It's 4 tussel. But We re good
for it--ef the stick holds-Pleasant' and
me- anu
It was tussel. II took ali his viii and
all Els strength To keep the boat trimmed
In meet the sGuall and riding on the ton
oI' the great seas that came roaring and
Missing on and only Just fell short of
washing over and filing the littie Pleas
ant And wpen the furious hour was
past he would have given all the fare of
fish 10 lie down in the bottom OF the boaf
and get his breath.
The sea was ssil rolling in long swell
succeeding swell. and the snow was fall
ing ia a thick sheet through which nor a
glimmer Of light penetrated-Only wide
faint Gimness seemed TO swim IN graylv
from the great tops and holiows about
him He felt that the boat was drifting
hus he could not tell in what d;rection
he thought PERHAPS the tide was running
in. buG is ne looked about him there WAS
nothing by which he could make sure
The Ipswich light he said ought 10 be
5fsSr out here. the re diving ruby and 4
gold of the light at the shoals ought to
ne on the other hand. Plum island light
ought To be over his shoulder If heicould
but see q spark OF one OF them he would
know how 10 shape his course But there