Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-02-06
CHAPTER VI.

were standing upon the veranda; that the
former stretched out her hand to help him
and the elder woman released a cutting
remark. Then a servant brought a chair,
and pillows of nausea surged over him.
Just as his consciousness waned, and he
was launching, chair and all, into space,
Lara's voice reached him again.
Then he was in the hallway, through
some miracle, and insisting most uncom-
monty that he was not to be taken into
the library, but into the music room, be-
cause the windows there commanded the
mountain.
He awoke to the interesting discovery
that Miss Stansbury was tanning him.
Presently she re-chilled a towel in the
iced basin and folded it upon his fore
head, now deliciously cool.
ITS mighty sweet of you to take care
of me this way" he muttered gratefully.
"How is Pelee? How long have 1 been
here? The last / remember. / was lost
in the hall, and you found me-"
you've been here about three hours.
Mr.. Constable. Pelee Is quiet again, but
the whole world is white outside per
feet blizzard of ash has fallen They
say terrible thing has happened at the
extreme northern end of the city. The
River Branch oyerhowed her banks, and
ran with boiling mud from the volcano.
Thirty people are reported killed and the
Usine Guerin destroyed"
She thought he was considering the
disaster in the silence which followed. but
in reality he was battling with the old
problem.
Miss Stansbury," he said finally, sis
there anything a man possessed Of full
faculties could do, say or bring about that
would induce your mother TO spend the
night off-shore2"
She shook her head.
'You know that the Madame could be
brought IN for the mails tomorrow morn
ing"
~ have taken the liberty 10 suggest
that TO mother" Lara replied. 'She says
that tomorrow will be time enough"
Miss Stansbury, won't you put your
self in the care Of Captain Negley to-
night2 ] hope I'm wrong but the Guerin
disaster may be only a preliminary dem
onstration-like the operator experiment
ing 10 find IL il is dark enough 10 start
the main fireworks You know. J would
stay ashore, and Negley is o good old man
OF the sea-
Don't you understand Mr.. C0nsta-
blef' she said. la real distress Tor deny
ing him 80 repeatedly. Don't you See
that such a thing would bring down q
miserable scene upon our headsf Besides
am not thinking Of my Own safety az
such a paramount thing. j don't want 70
be one Of Jobs lone survivors. Mother
and Uncle Joey aud you must go when
j do"
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