Arizona republican., 1914-11-03
IV-MANY WATERS.

lf-AlAN1 WATERS.
 Overhead, through rift in the foliage. sky was visible whose ebon darkness called to mind a thunderclOud
 The heat was nearly intolerable: the voice of the fire very loud.
 Two minutes had passed of the ten Something was digging uncomfortably into Alan's right hip. The automatic pistol in his hip pocket, of which Jacob had neglected to relieve him. Then sharp, spiteful cracking brought him suddenly to sitting position, to find that the Indian had thoughtfully touched a match to the pyre before departing. At Alans feet the twigs were blazing merrily.
 It would have been easy enough acting on in. ttinct, to snatch his limbs away, but he did not than to strain his feet as far as their bonds permitted Conscious of scorching heat through his hunting boots he suffered that torture until a tongue of flame licked up, wrapped itself round the thick hempen cord and ate it through.
 Immediately Alan kicked his feet free, lifted to Q knceling position and crawled from the pyre.
 As for his hands-Alans hunting knife was still in it's sheath belted to the small of his back. Tear. ing at the belt with his hampered fingers, he con- trived to shift it round until the sheath knife stuck ct the bet-loop his left hip. Withdrawing cnd conveying the blade to his mouth, he gripped it firmly between his teeth and sawed the cords round his wrists against the razor-sharp blade.
 Before Alan could turn and run he van- guard of flames bridge fifty yards at bound and ctart dead pine blazing like torch. ;
 And then he pelting like madman across the smoke1illed clearing, and in less than two min. utes broke from the forest to the petbly shore of wide-bosomed lake, and within few hundred feet of ouostf ntial dam, through whose spi,lway a heavy volume of wa>5- cascaded with roa- rival ing that of the forest-fre itself.
 Two quick glanceS showed -ilan two things: that his only way of escape via the dam; that there solitary canoe at midlake bearing swiftly to the farther shore Judith Trine and the Indian the latter yielding the paddle.
 In the act of turning toward the dam he saw Jacob drop the paddle. The rext instant bullet from Winchester 80 kicked up epurt of pebbles only few feet in advance O Alan.
 He quickened his pace but the next bullet fell closer while the third actually hit the earth be heath his running feet as he gained the dam.
 Exasperated, he pcled up, whipped out his pistol and fired without aim. At the same time, he noted that the distance between dam and canoe had les sened perceptibly, thanks to the strong current sucking through the pillway.
 His shot flew wide, but almost instinctively his finger closed again upon the trigger. and he saw the paddle snap in twain, its blade falling over. beard. And then the Indian fired again his bullet dronng past Alans ear.
 As he fired in response Jacob started dropped his rife and crumpled up in the bow of the canoe
 Simultaneously earth and heavens rocked with a terrific clap of thunder
 He turned again and swiftly along the dam. toward two heavy timbers that bridged the torrent of the spway.
 Then glance aside brought him up with thrill of horror: the suck of the overflow had drawn tte canoe within hundred yards of the spillway The dead Indian in it's bow the living woman helpless in its stern 1t swept swiftly onward to destruction
 His next few actions were wholly unpremeditated 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 himself down upon the irnermost timber, turned and let his body fall backwards, arms extended at length, and swung, braced by his feet beneath the outer timber
 With swiftness that passed conscious thought he was aware of the canoe hurtlng onward with the speed of wind, it's sharp prov apparently aimed directly for his head. Then hands closed round his wrists like clamps; tremendous weight tore at his arms and with an effort of inconceivabe difficulty he began to lift, to drag the woman up out of the foamng jaws of death.
 Somehow that impossible feat was achieved; somehow the woman contrived to chamber over him to the timbers; and he in turn pulled himself up to safety, and sick with reaction sprawled prone above the screaming abyss.
 Later he became aware that the woman had crawled, to safety an the farther shore and pulling himself together Initiated her example
 In a ghastly twilight in which the flaming forests on the other shore burned with unearthly glare he discovered the wan, wrthng face of Judith T-int close to his and he heard her scream:
 You fool! Why did you save me? tell you have sworn your death!"
 The utter grotesQueness of it all broke mon hi, intelligence like the revelation of some enormous fundamental absurdity in Nature. He ls~Shed l'ttle historically.
 Darkness followed. flash of lightning seemed to flame between them like fiery sword To it's crashing thunder, he lapsed into uncons.ousness
 When he reused 1t was with shiver and a shud der. Rain was falling in torrents from a sky tho hue of slate Across the lake dense volumes oi steam enveloped the fires that tainted beneath the deluge. A great hissing noise filled the world muting even the roar of the spillway
 But in his hand, tattered and bruised by thk downDouf he found-a rose
 .-- scontinqed Next Sunday, ,HH