The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-06-11

ing OF the cycione-a single human
shrek
The girl sprang across the cave.
The heavy door swished up before her
and down again. its lower edge all but
grazing her face. For a moment II
stopped in a vertical position and
hung Quivering, like beast about to
leap upon Its prey. Too excited to
comprehend the danger Of the act, the
girl sprang forward and shot one Of
the thick bars into It's socket.
A fierce gust leaped against the out
er face Of the door and thrust In upon
1t, striving to burst It bodily from its
bearings. The top and the free side
of the bottom bowed In. But the
branches were still green and tough,
the bamboo like whalebone and the
shrunken creepers held the frame to-
gether as though the joints were
dashed with wire rope. Failing to
smash in the elastic structure or to
snap the crossbar II were as II the
blast flung itself alternately against
the top and bottom in fierce attempt
to again whirl the frame about. The
white glare streaming in through the
interstices showed the girl her oppor-
tunity. She grasped another bar and
| shot 1t into its socket as the lower
part of the door gave back with the
shifting of the pressure to the top. II
was then simple matter to slide the
| remaining bars into the deep-sunk
holes. Within half a minute she had
made the door fast from the first bar
| to the sixth.
A heavy spray was beating in upon
her through the chinks of the frame
work. She drew back and sought
shelter in a niche at the side. Mar
row as was the slit above the top OF
the door, 1t let in torrent Of water,
which spouted clear across and
against the far wall Of the cave. 1t
gushed down upon her bed and was
already flooding the cave floor.
She piled higher the cocoanuts
stored in her niche, and perched her
self upon the heap to keep above the
water. But eevn In her sheltered cor
ner the eddying wind showered her
with spray. She waded across for her
skin-covered sunshade, and returned
to huddle beneath It, in the still mis-
cry and terror of hunted animal that
has crept wounded into a hole.
During the first hurricane there hat
been companions to whom she could
look for help and comfort, and she
had been to a degree unaware of the
greatness of the danger. But In thu
few short weeks since she had caugh
more than one glimpse of Primeva
Nature-she of the bloody fang, blind
remorseless, insensate, destroying
ever destroying.
True, this was on solid land, Will
before there had been the peril of tn
sea. But now the girl was alone. Out
side the straining walls of her refuge
the hurricane yelled and shrieked an
roared-a headless, formless monster
furious to burst in upon her, to over
throw her stanch old tree giant, tina
in his fall his shattered trunk Nigh
crush and mangle her. Or at any II
slant thunder-bolt might rend ope
the great tower Of living wood, an
hurl her blackened body into the poe
on the cave floor.
e Once she fancied that she hear
Blake shouting outside the door; bu
l. when she screamed a shrill respons,
v the blast Knocked her with echoin
!. shrieks, and she dared not venture
r free the door. II 1t were Blake,
h did not shout again. After time sh
(. began to think that the sound ha
| ~
IS shifting wind. Yet the thought of hi
d out in the full fury of the cyclor
e served to turn her thoughts from he
{. own danger. She prayed aloud for h
n safety, beseeching God that he |
it spared. She sought to pray esen fl
1t Winthrope. But the vision OF tn;
beastly face rose up before her. an
n. she could not-then.
g Presently she became aware of
Of change In the storm. The terrif
gusts blew with yet greater violenc
the thunder crashed heavier, the ligt
ming filled the air with flame
dazzling white light But the ra
no longer gushed across on the sp
where her bed had been. 1t was e
; tering at a different angle, and
: force was broken by the bend in Il
al thick wall of the entrance. After
40 time the deluge dashed aslant the e
70 trance, gushing down the door in
ST cataract of foam.
ht Another interval, and the drivil
err downpour no longer struck even Il
er edge of the opening. The wind W
4 A
ne Veerihg rapidly as the cyclone cent
he moved past on one side. The area
Is. the hurricane was little more TIL
ne thrice that of tornado, and it W