Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-27

Whatever was to be done she must do it and it must be done in haste. Running through the freighthouse she espied a coil of rope. It suggested something-though at the instant she could not have told what. But she caught 1t up on the instinctive i'm pulse and ran out on the track. The cars, flaming in the distance, were coming down the long grade. A teis- graph pole standing jus: above the station put a wild idea into her head. If she could pass the rope above the burning car, it might help the en- gineer to escape from the top. Try ing her skill as a plainswoman. she ran a moose and cast the rope, lariat- like, at the top of the pole.
 In her nervous haste she failed, again and again, to drop it over the cross-bar. No rope was ever so stiff. clumsy and intractable. and the cars were fast rolling nearer. But re- straining her fears she kept trying. and at last. in spite of everything, she landed the big moose over the pole and bar. Across the track grew hedge of tall>blue-gum trees. To the near est of these Helen ran. and as fast as she could, climbed the tree. the loose end of the rope hung over her neck and shoulder Gaining a branch high enough. and using all her strength, she drew the rope taut With a few half hitches she made it fast around the tree and tried it with her weight.
 The flaming cars. in spite of all that Storm had been able to do. contin- ued to gather speed down the Signal grade. The engineer found himself in a ticklish dilemma For a jump his chances now were no better than if he stuck to the car. aEd he saw nothing for it but to stick. Only h5 hoped nightly for something to turn his way. He was fast approaching the station. From the gum-tree hedgS he saw what seemed a branch waving violently. Then he perceived it was more than that, it was someone try ing to signal him-a woman-and she was climbing hand over hand out on a cable stretched across the track. But he could understand even less than he saw of what she meant to do. Overcome by flame and smoke just before the cars neared the hedge. he sank down on the deck. But Helen would not give up. Clinging as best she could to the cable, she waited for him to pass under her. Enough of consciousness remained to Storm in the fury of the fire to enable him to realize as he came close that it was Helen on the cable trying to save his life. As he swept under her he raised himself. She clutched bIindly at him, and holding on in desperation, managed to drag him from the top of the burning car.
 The agent. returning from the camp with Rhinelander. saw the blazing run away: and. amazed. saw Helen hang ing from her cable and striving with failing strength to hold her heavy burden.
 He ran toward her. snatching a tar tShAAAA AA0-A A EAAt VI NNAAANAAN hASa sA1 he passed them on the platform. and with Rhinelander reached the hedge fin time to break Storms heavy fall into it when Helen let him go. A mo- ment later she. herself. dropped ex- hausted into the canvas.
 Below the station a deafening ex- plOsion shook the solid earth It sartled the two construction camps. A new and sudden flame shot 70 feet up into the air and dense clouds of black smoke billowed above where the powder cars had stood. Seagrue glanced as Spike as they stood to- gether. Over toward the station two men were carrying Storm into the waiting room, and Seagrue. coming Cycc joined them. Inside, he saw benciug over the unconsti ious eD- gineer. stretched on the dcor. a slen- ' der girl dressed in blach She turned I anxiously. in a moment. to ask if a surgeon had been called. As she did so. Seagrue. dumfouEded. looked into the face of Helen Holmes.
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