The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-23

The firing no,r became miscellaneous.
fired his fifth shot. No dust followed
the discharge. and | saw Percy Oar
| row stacger and almost lose his hold.
The men yelled sayagely. but the as
sistant pulled himself together and con
| tinued his crawling
The sun had been shining in our
faces. ] could Imagine its blurring 81.
feet on the sights. Now abruptly it
I was blotted out, and semitwilight
fell We all looked up in spite OF our
selves. An Opaque veil had been
| drawn quite across the heavens.
| through which we could not make out
| even the shape Of the sun. II was like
| a thunder cloud except that its under
surface instead OF being the usual gray
black was q deep earth brown. As We
looked up a deep below stirred the airs
| which had fallen quite still. long forks
of lightning shot horizontally from the
direction Of the islands interior, and
flashes OF dun red We're reflected from
the canopy Of cloud. ..
The men stared with their mouths
open. Undoubtedly the change had
been some time In preparation, but all
had been so absorbed In the affair OF
the doctors assistant that no one had
noticed 1t came to our consciousness
with the suddenness OF theatrical
change. A dull roaring commenced.
grew In volume and then n great ex-
plosion shook the very ground under
our feet
We stared at each other our faces
whitening.
"What kind OF hell has broke looseY'
muttered Pun.
The Niger fell fiat on his face. utter
Ing deep lamentations.
"Voodoo, Voodoo.' he groaned.
A gentle shower Of white flakes be
gan, powdering the surface of every
thing. Far out to sea we could make
out the sun on the water. Gradually
the roaring died down. The lightning
ceased. Comparative peace ensued.
We looked again toward the cliff.
Percy Darrow h0d not for one instant
ceased TO climb. He was just topping
the edge OF the bluff. Handy Solomon
with cry Of rage seized another rifle
and emptied the magazine at him as
fast as the lever could be worked. The
barrow drew himself up TO the sky
line. raised his hat ironically and dis
appeared.
ID his soulv' cried Handy Solo
mon his face livid. He threw his rifle
TO the beach and danced on II in an
ecstacy of rage.
what do we care?" growled Thrac-
klee. lies no good to us. Wat 1
want to know il watts up here any
howr'
did you ever see volcano go of.
you swabT snapped Handy Solomon.
EASY with your names. mate. No,
| never did. We better get out"
"Without the chest?"
"S'pose we go up the gulch and get
II, then" suggested Thrackles.
But at this Handy Solomon drew
back In evident terror
"Up to that hole?" he objected. mot
I. You an pulz CO."
They wrangled over II, Pull Joining.
Perdosa. shaken to the soul, crept In
and made bee line for the rum barrel.
He and the Niger were frankly scared.
They had the nervous jumps at every
little noise or unexpected movement,
and even the natural explanation OF
these phenomena gave them very little
reinsurance. l knew that barrow
would hurry as fast as he could back
10 the valley by way of the upper hills.
! knew that he had there several sport
ing rifles, and l hoped greatly that he
and DR.. Schermerhorn might accom-
plish. something before the men bad