The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-12-08

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lessened perceptibly, thanks to the
strong current sucking through ths
spillway
His shot flew wide, but almost In
stinctively his finger closed again
upon the trigger, and he saw the pad
die snap in twain, it's blade falling
overheard. And then the Indian fired
again, his bullet droning past Alan's
ear
AS he fired in response Jacob START
ed, dropped his rifle and crumpled up
in the bow of the canoe.
simultaneously earth and heavens
rocked with terrific clap of thun-
der.
He turned again and ran swiftly
along the dam, toward two heavy tim
bers that bridged the torrent Of the
spillway.
Then a glance aside brought him up
with thrill of horror; the suck Of
| the overflow had drawn the canoe
within hundred yards of the spill
way The dead Indian in it's bow, the
living woman helpless in it's STERN
| it swept swiftly onward to destruc-
ton
His next few actions were wholly
unprecedented He was conscious
only of her white, staring face, her
strange likeness to the woman that he
| loved.
| He ran out upon the bridge, threw
~ inn OF
Der, turned, and let his body fall back
ward, arms extended at length, and
swung, braced by his feet beneath
| the outer timber.
With swiftness that passed con-
scious thought, he was aware of the
| canoe hurting onward with the speed
of wind, it's sharp prov apparently
aimed directly for his head Then
| hands closed round his wrists like
| clamps; a tremendous weight tore at
| his arms, and with an effort of incon-
| ceivable difficulty he began to lifty
| to drag the woman up out Of the foam
ing jaws of death.
Somehow that impossible feat was
achieved; somehow the woman gained
hold upon his body shifted it to his
belt, contrived inexplicably to Chamber
over him to the timbers; and some
how he in turn pulled himself up to-
safety, and sick with reaction sprawled
prone, lengthwise upon that foot-wide
bridge, above the screaming abyss.
| Later he became aware that the
woman mad crawled to safety on the
farther shore, and pulling himself to-
gether, initiated her example. Solid
earth underfoot, he rose and stood
swaying, beset by great weakness.
Through the gathering darkness
CHASTITY twilight in which the flaming
! forests on the other shore burned with
an unearthly glare-he discovered the
wan, writhen face of Judith Urine
| close to his and he heard her voice, a.
scream barely audible above the COM
mingled voices of the conflagration
and the cascades:
"You fool! Why did you save me?
1 tell you, I have sworn your DEATH"
The utter grotesqueness of it all
/ broke upon his intelligence like the
revelation of some enormous funda-
mental absurdity in Nature. He
| laughed a little Historically.
| Darkness followed. A flash of light
ming seemed to fame between them
| like a fiery sword To it's crashing
thunder, he lapsed into unconscious
ness.
When he reused, it was with shiv-
er and a shudder. Rain was falling
| in torrents from sky the hue Of
slate. Across the lake dense volumes
of steam enveloped the fires that
tainted beneath the deluge. A great
| kissing noise filled the world, muting
even the roar of the spillway.
He was alone.
But in his hand, tattered and bruised
by the downpour, he found-a rose.