The Southern herald., 1913-04-18

Young Mr. McLain was not cad
He had simply got even with a snippy
girl, and had been very quiet about it.
Ten days later, on Saturday aft
ernoon, Miss Adams started for the
postofice, seven or eight blocks away.
At the third corner she encountered
Mr.. McLain. He wasn't lying in wait
for her, but simply strolling. She
glared and elevated her chin, but he
raised his hat and said:
They have the sewer open at the
next corner, and you'd better turn
| down and take the next street"
"Sir!" she answered, as she con-
tinued on and the snippiness she put
into that short word would have wilted |
a whole garden of cabbage heads.
Yes they had opened the sewer and
put down a narrow plank from bank
to bank. No woman, and but few men
had dared attempt the feat Miss
Adams shivered as she came to halt,
but sure that Mr.. McLain was watch
ing her, and anxious to let him see
that his advice had been piece Of i'm
pudence, she boldly started out on the
plank.
go back! Go back, you!" called
one of the diggers. and hoodlum of
a boy added:
,, It'll be as good as a fire to see you
kerhop"
The "kerfop' came, of course.
Things began to whirl round and
round, and with wild shrek the girl
=, left the plank to bring up in the mud
and water twelve feet below. Natur-
ally, she was hauled out by means Of
g rope. Naturally, she was all mussed
= up Naturally a crowd was drawn by
e the accident, and naturally or unnat'
" urally, that same hoodlum of a boy
: had to shout out:
Il BE keerful and don't let the old ga
&c come up feet first!"
b 81 could kill that young man.
5 could kill him!" said Miss Adams
'r day or two later, when the mud hat
'e been scraped of and her bruises at
81 tended to.
VI And yet Mr.. McLain had turne,
down another street and knew moth
30 ing of the accident.
u During the next three weeks moth
n ing happened. Both the young ma
IT, and the snippy girl lived on and at
TO their three square meals day. The
III fate interfered again. One sprin
morning Mr. McLain rugged up hi
ne tackle and went fishing in the rive
'Ie On her part Miss Adams took he
moter boat out. She had never gor
3D. out alone before, and her eKperient
III with the engine was limited, but 81
ne went ahead. She hadn't reached tt
at point of rashness, however, when M
no McLain called to her from a dock:
cn Il think there is something wro1
IAN with your engine!"
IL Up went Miss Snippy's chin.
: 81 think it's going to stop on you
yer Up went Miss Snippy's nose.
"If it does you'll drift down over t
as DAM"
nat "Sir!"
"If you'll run your boat ashore
10 overhaul it."
ne No real lady ever tells a man to
a to Oconomawock in SO many wor
They tell him in looks and shrugs. /
or McLain was told, and two minu
nt- later the motor boats engines b
ked STONED and the craft was drifti
u a There was not another launch out, a
led. +ha or1,, thing available was a pI
ne of a skiff with one oar aboard l
pro- Young man piled into this and be@
to paddle after.
the Half dozen people were droWl
all every year by being carried over t
10 a great dam. Miss Adams had read
but case after case, and she wasn't Il
and in realizing her danger. The batter
might have been fixed by compel
cred hand in a minute, but she couldn't
res it. Perhaps she did the best thing
ana der the circumstances by not try
did to do anything. She was within t
'rest ty feet Of the dam when the 8
the made the rescue, and 1t was
the minute struggle with the current
her fore safety was assured.
ut was certainly a narrow escaI
mole gasped the rescuer.
it," Sir" replied the girl and 1t
wen 6ftean seconds before she added.
Miss 81 shall be pleased to have you
out +bis evening"
nded The courtship is coming along
, and right; and the snippiness has
may. left out of it.
nd to Downright, 1913 by the Mcclure N
s not paper syndicate9
'nfus- Knew his FI'enus'
The Rev. Father Luke Evers O.
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