The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-23

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Iosing sight 81 nv III tie n'o,ag mon I'VE
winged stra I'll. q "a thro"5" ,;ng
t pee cutt,rg III A te1d, leap'n5
tfess' as,,,,,on .c,t4v End stree .
orer rocks ard '1-s rrth re ff.,' -.
= noint wEe~e tha rist naFro"s Tbare
icon tvo walls ond ran dfen.y ! ~ ~
W. .sen me heavens orered and w
Goods car al bert into the o,' {
nav Of that vast creyice ana nileu :
In an instant. ..a down
As the delrge came roafIns '0 ana
hearing onward the swfep,Hs' onaht
sconrings Of tie Mountains 40 .at teoa
a,;n,,sa If her white desperate laeo
s;s;ng falling row disappearing, nov
coming into view again, IN the .o" ~
n,idst ~ the torrent He ran 70 W
o,i@ hank and throwing aside MS s"A
~ scrambled down the wall to g..
tain shelf of tie rock over "llen H. H.,
rising water tr3Ee thinly' oru'na-' a -,
a. vac twenty feet above the Green
M pracing himself against jazz
nroiection he waited Pfaylhs.
canon was here SO narrow that ~
could have laancd to the othef sAoe
~ ve, il was too narrow for nm ~
reach her if the water c'a ~ Al" J.,
her toward his feet It was ~ d,ae -
.acond Fortunately rfolecIo,s -
tho other side threw the force q ttsS
torrent toward Him ard with u cam
the woman. 80
She was almost spent she ~
h..n struck bv a log urheayed ~
some mighty wave. her names w.
moving feebly her eyes were Closed
she was drowning, dying, but lhoonii''
ob,v battling on. lie STORED down
and as a surge lifted her, ne 'h'eN
his arm around her waist and theh 10
hraced himself against the rock "
sn.tain the full. thrust OF the mighty
Aood. AS he seized her she gave way
suddenly as if after having dohe az
that she could there was now notiiiHs
left but to trust herself to MS manu-
and Gods. She hung dead welgn'
on his arm in the ravenng water
which dragged and tore at her nlaaiy'
!, He was a man Of giant strens' u
but the struggle babe fair TO oe ~.
much even for him. It seemed as II
:, tho mountain behind him vas giving
way He set his teeth, he tired oes
: peratelv to hold on, he thrust ol'l mn
right hand holding her with We olh
or one and clawed at the drIn'll'
rock in vain In a moment we 'of
rent mastered him and WhrN Y did $
j. II seized him With fury and threw mn
like a stone from sling mo ~
s4athing vortex Of tie mid-streaH
But in AL THIS he did not, or Woul
:, not release her.
! Such was The swiftness Of the nj
!. ton with which they were sWel
- downward that he had little need !
~ swim his only effort was to keep ~
head above water and to keep lrol
being dashed against the logs thi
-, tumbled end over end or Whlrie
~ sideways, or were damned into Gu
tiers only to burst out on every han
- He struggled siously to keep hlr
% self from beiug overwhelmed in Il
seething madness, and what ";
- harder, to keep the liIeless woman
his arms from being stricken
wrenched away. He knew that belo
~. the narrows where the canon widen'
eii the water would subside, the aWt
~ fury of the rain would presently ceaS
cu' If he could steer clear of the rocks
ne the broad he might win to land wi
- her.
'' The chances against him were thu
w. sands to nothing But what a
g" chances in the eyes of God, The m
~ in his solitude had not forgotten
'no pray, his habits stood him In go
as stead now. He petitioned short
zee,
uP DTUktIlN, III VI IEl hllNtthtu "blho
ay. he battled through the long draggi
1t seconds,
ure Fighting, clinging struggling pr
n. ing, he was swept on. Heavier q
he'd heavier the woman dragged In an
ing, conscious heap. 1t would have b.
1er, easier for him If he had let her
It she would never know and he co
i'm; then escape. The idea never once
nan Cured to him He had indeed W
men drawn from his kind but when
lem depended upon him all the old apr
hen of weak humanity awoke quick
luc- Spouse in the bosom of the sire
in He would die with the stranger II
that err than yield her to the torrent
be admit himself beaten and give up
had fight. So the conscious and the
HIM conscious struggled through the
! to row of the canon.
I'M Presently with the rush and huT
the bullet from the mouth of a
time they found themselves in a sha
bout lake through which the waters
evil rushed nightly, breaking over ro
ough digging away shallow-rooted Il
leaping, biting, snarling, tearing at
her big walls spread away on either
lept, He had husbanded some of
The strength for this final effort, this
great chance of escape Below them al
rev. other end of this open the walls {
than together again. There the des
ance was sharper than before and the
ehod {or roo IN tho opa,in1 ,,,+l -