Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-09-20

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on which his store boy and his Wild
owed mother lived,
Mrs Gomley saw him coming from
the windows Of the tiny front room.
Mr. StOgg plunged into the little
house, head down. and belllgerent,
"Wheres that plagued boy2' he de.
manded, "Don't tell me he's taken
HOnn0h's Car'lyn out on the cove In
this Storm
"But-you told him he could |"
walled the widow.
"What If did? | didn't know twas
going to snow like this, did II"
"But II wasn't snown when they
went" said Mrs, Gormley plucklng up
some little spirit. "Im sure 1t wasn't
Chetwood's fault. Oh, DEAR
"WOman," groaned Joseph Stagg, ut
doesn't matter whose fault It ls-or If
It's anybody's fault, The mischlefs
done, The ice is breaking up. It's
drifting out of the inlet"
Just at this moment an unexpected
voice broke into the discussion.
"Are you positive they went out on
the cove to slide, Mrs GormleyY
"Oh, yes, I be, Mandy" answered
the seamstress. "Chet said he was
goIn' there, and what Chet says he'll
do, he always does"
"Then the ice has broken away and
they have been carried out into the
lake." groaned Mr. Stagg,
Mandy Parlow came quickly to the
little hall.
"Perhaps not, Joseph" she said,
speaking directly to the hardware deal
er. at may be the storm. 1t SHOWS so
fast they would easily get turned
around-be unable TO Ind the shore"
Another reverbcrating crash echoed
from the cove, Mrs, Gormey wrung
her hands,
"oh, my Chef! oh, my Chef" she
walled. Hell be drowned"
"lIe won't be, If he's got any sense"
snapped Mr., Stagg. "Tll get some men
and Wen go after them"
"Call the dog, Joseph Stagg. Call the
dog" advised Miss Amanda.
"Heh? Didn't Prince go with 'em?"
"Oh, yes, he did" walled Mrs. CORN
ley.
"Call the dog, just the same" re-
peated Amanda Parlow. "Prince will
hear you and bark"
God bless you, SO he WILL" cried
Mr.. Stage. You've got more sense
than any of us, Mandy"
"And I'll have the chapel bell rung,"
she said.
"Huh what's that forT'
"The wind will carry the sound out
across the cove. The boy, Chef, will
recognize the sound Of the bell and it
will give HIM an idea of where home
Is"
"You do beat all !" exclaimed Joseph
Stage, starting to leave the house.
"Find a cap of Chefs, Mrs. CORN
ley" she commanded. "Don't you see
Mr.. Stage has no hat? He'll catch his
death Of cold"
"Why, never thought" He turned
to speak directly to Miss Amanda, but
she had gone back into the room and
was putting on her outer wraps. Mrs.
Gormley, red-eyed and weeping,
brought the cap.
Mr.. Stage plunged down the steps
and kept on down the hill to the water
front. There was an eating place here
where the waterside characters congre-
gated. and Mr.. Stage put his head In
at the door.
"Some of you fellers come out with
me on the Ice and look for little girl
and boy and dog" said Mr.. Stage.
"Like enough, they're lost in this storm.
And the Ice is going out"
They all rushed out Of the eating
house and down to the nearest dock.
Even the cook went, for he CHANGED to
know Carolyn May.
"And let me tell you, she's one rare
little kid" he declared, out of Mr..
Stages hearing. Glow she come to be
related to that hard-as-nalls Joe Stage
is puzzler"
The hardware dealer might deserve
this title In ordinary times, but this
was one occasion when he plainly dis
played emotion.
Hannah's Car'lyn, the little child he
had learned to love, was somewhere on
the ice in the driving storm. He
would have rushed bllndly out on the
rotten ice, barehanded and alone, had
the others not halted him.
Joseph Stage stood on the dock and
shouted at the top Of his voice:
"Prince! Prince! Prince"
The wind must have carried his
voice long way out across the cove,
but there was no reply.
Then suddenly, the clear silver tone
Of a bell rang out. It's pitch carried
through the storm startlingy clear.
There was a movement out in the
cove. One field Of ice crashed against
another. Mr.. Stage stlaed a moan
and was one Of the first to climb down
to the level of the ice.
"Have care, joe" somebody
warned him. "This snow on the Ice
will mask the holes and assures some
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