Arizona republican., 1909-07-10

fell into frank silence All eyes turned tall white-cad negro who had just emerged from the cook house clear a significant square yard onvthe suppl table, then rereaed like Prologue in ncientsplays In camper who had arrived only two hours before and who sat a stump with her skirt wos1nd tght. about her ankles forgot the surrounding ants.and spider long enough to whisper apprehensivey:
 What is it, Cousin Caroline? What Twill happer
 Cousin Caroline was forty-seven her strong blacl hair grsying, her commonsense boots and antique denim skirt showed that she had outgrown the foble of youth, vet there thrill of genuine excitement in her answer she turned to the girl and said:
 |" It may be waffes"
 "S'pose you think VT all turned intp swine Miss Prentiss. drawled lazy voice Jus wait till you've been here weeks The speaker the least moved person there-a heavy-mbed young with big. calm eyes and air of large contemplation that suggested Buddha Miss Prentiss The campers called him the
 1.-Two weeks?" A daddy-long-legs came whirng up her skirt and she knocked him of with suppressed shudder Oh, Lam here only for week." she de- "ons week. Oh nererl No one ever stays less'n three"
 His lazy cordiality very pleasant. A glance at the other young women in the party in ex- pained it. she had already noted fact in natural history that girls who went camping apt to be plain.
 q was invited for two weeks "-she was beginning dubiously when toad her feet gave sudden leap. Her heart performed exactly the same action. But may, not stay even one she added Il might as well confess to you-
 She was interrupted by the reappearance of Prologue carrying an enormous white enamelled tray high before him No stirred until he set down the central supply-tabe; then murmured WdfIes!" relaxed the
 The Congregationast minister and little girl of six got there first retreang with heaped plates and air of bland satisfaction that gave them momentary re- semblance to each other The crush that followed sug gested bargain counter.
 Reduced to nnety-eght cents, as advertised" com mented the Lizard, dragging himself to his feet I'll rush the center for you this time $ against rules, but you're newcomer" He lounged away in the wake of the rest and left alone she turned her back on the waies to feast the still beauty of the lake just be- low. and the warm fragrance of the pines, lifting their black bars against the of the sunset.
 She had been miserably afraid to come; the word camp filled her with apprehensions ot peris by night and day of strange animals and drownngs and snakes in long grass; of being lost desoate mountains; of having pass through herds of bulls and to drive be- hind half-broken horses But she beginning be glad of Cousin Carones brisk nsistence Surely these sweet-smeling woods and the flushed mirror of the lake could not have very dire peril in store for her She could manage to keep out of the excursions; and this calm young really very nice He had already been explained to her young lawyer of markable promse-the promise seemingly resting the fact that his father the chief justice had the sleepy manner and clipped utterance.
 He brought her back what looked to her appalling pile -& of waffies. her easing himself down to a seat beside her stump "F'r instance, oned dream of starting after waffes till they fairly down table-not even Theodors" And he indicated the little girl of six who had got there first and who even now digging for remains of sirup on an otherwise empty plate.
 
 fess'n something. What it?
 You would soon find out if did not It is only"
 wild shriek split the air just under their feet then quenched with an awful suddenness Theodore had been moved to wash her sirupy hands the lake and heavy with waties had topped head first into the deep pool just beneath All the terrors of earth seemed to be eptomzed in the cry, and Miss Prentiss eaped up in blind effort at escape But she reckessy near the edge of the overhanging bank There was crum- bling Of earth under her feet and in another instant voiceless with horror she had followed straight down into the depths that seething with Theodora-
 Some remnant of sanity kept her mouth closed against the flood and drove her few wild swimming strokes as her head emerged The denim dress of the small girl passed her fingers and she cutched at 1t ady, drown ingly managing to get fierce hold on little fighting just a voice sang out cheeringly at her side: All right, Miss Prentiss, got her, all safe! Bully for youl" 'tc , Other voices echoed the Lizards "Buy for youl" as she was drawn out Hearty hands were extended to shake hers, she kissed, stranger though she was, Cousin Caroline led her through the excited crowd. Theodora's mother gathered the dripping cuer into fervent embrace.
 "Of course, would have saved her, anyway; but 1t was the way you flung yourself in, without an in stants hesitation she wep And they all agreed that the way she did it the thing. "Speak'n of dead game sportsl" murmured the Lizard, laying sweater over her shoulders as they stopped of to the tent for dry clothes Why didn't know that you had much spunk, Polly" Cousin Caroline said heartily The implied re- fecon did not reach Polly. She went very subduedy into her tent and darkness had closed about the camp fire when she emerged.
 Polly Prentss knew exactly what simple honor demanded of her. l O understand how she could hesi tate to follow it, must appreciate the force of this sudden temptation She the youngest of three timd sisters, born of timd mother and cautious father, All her young days had been hedged with warnings the big dog might bite Polly; the might hook her; the pony might throw her of. In consequence, the whole world Of nature had become to her conspiracy of danger wherein Polly might get hurt and where she had never dreamed of bravng anything that might be avoided. Applause for heroism. therefore, had her in her carefully protected life She had been admired for her prettnesss for her social talents for her intelligent and we-stored mind and her good dspositloH. But in all her days had said Bully for you '! and the phrase brought wholly new temptation. She knew that she ought publicly to dis claim the glory of heroism; but the campers were de ferring to her, suggesting pleasures for her. and the Lizard staring at her with tranquil satisfaction and she said to herself, What harm it do just this once? >And so the suppressed Bully for youl" still lurked in their voices when the fire died down and they separated to their tents
 After breakfast green canoe. slim as blade came sttng the gassy blue of the lake under the bank where she stood in the center of the overhowngy friendly campers Two girls in white canvas jumpers, with blue