The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1904-05-05

waves. Iney are large when tuey
come III. and they are large when they
go out. They come in on top. They
go out underneath. They make a
great fuss coming in. but e but lit
tie to say when they sneak uack again.
But then is the time when they are
prepared to do the mischief.
The people near the shore laughed
and danced in this sudden advent Of
fierce breakers. They thought Of moth
ing but of their own excitement. The
life saver glanced anxiously from time
to time up and down and out to sea.
Suddenly something happened. The
crowd did not see 1t. The man only
did, and that man was the life saver.
He saw that the girl who had ventured
into deep water had attempted to swim
back to shore. He saw that she had
made no progress. Some unseen force
beneath her was steadily drawing her
out to sea. He saw that, with the ef-
fort she was making, her life, human
life and nothing less, was going out
with the fatal undertow.
He rose to his feet and, shading his
mouth with his hand, roader to her in
stentorian voice that he was coming.
This was essential, for encouragement
was everything. Then he plunged into
the surf and rapidly swan out. 1t was
easy going out. He knew 1t would be-
But coming back-that would be an
other thing. Finally he reached the
girl. She was well nigh exhausted,
but had the foresight to float upon her
back.
I'm here!' he called in CHEEKY
voice as he reached her.
why, Manning, Manning she ex-
claimed, where did you come from?''
The man laughed. 'I'm one Of the
coast PATROL" he answered. "Just now
I'm a life saver by profession
The man was Manning Jasper of the
class of oughty-four, earning money
for his next years course. He caught
her by the arm.
"Come, we must go back he said.
Heaven send we get them safely!
It's rough trip, and no mistake" II
was a rough trip, and the girl knew it
But some thirty-three minutes later
Manning Jasper staggered up out OF
the surf with precious burden in his
had saved from certain death. Jasper
too, was quite certain of one thing. and
| that was that but for certain fact he
/ might never have been able to get hel
back. That fact lent new vigor to his
arm, and that fact was simply this
that the girl, just as she was losing
consciousness, had lifted up her lips
and kissed him and had called him by
his name. 1t was that that brOugh
them safe to shore.
A day later Manning Jasper stood
within the presence Of Willoughby. tl'
trolley magnate. "Mr. Jasper" sait
this man. "what you ask Is most pre-
posterous This Is not the age of he
roics and of romance. The fact tina
you have saved my daughter Is moth
ing. II you had not done 1t some othe
man would. Why, there are men OF
the shore who are paid. actually paid
to do that sort Of work"
| LAdCtly, ItpIleu JuSpei, anu az
ono Of them-a fact you did not know
He leaned over and touched the ricl
man on the arm. "Mr. Willoughby,
he continued, ''that Is not the point
For some months past. judged ,.
standards other than of this world
Miss Marion was mine. Under ordi
nary circumstances never would hav
claimed her, even though she love-
me. am poor and she is rich. Nov
we stand upon equal terms and hav
right to It. That life she gives t
me-with the love that she has born
me for SO long. ask no favor OF yot
sir. l claim right-a right that Is n
ones but my own. l have earned you
daughter and she belongs to me-"
The next day Jasper returned to hi
post to earn more money. He had q
ready earned the girl.