News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-10-16
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81 don't think it was here before"
admitted the boy.
Suddenly sound reached their ears
that startled both; it even made Prince
prick up his ears and listen. Then the
dog sat up on his launches and began
to howl.
"Oh, don't Prince" gasped Carolyn
May. "WhO ever told you you could
sing, just because you hear church
bell ringing"
'That,S the chapel bellr" cried Chef
Gormley. "Now Tn sure I'm right.
But we must get around this open
patch in the water"
He set off along the edge of the open
water, which looked black and angry.
The ice groaned and cracked in a
threatening way. he was not sure
whether the foe they were on had COM
pletely broken away from the great
mass of ice in the cove and was ar
ready drifting out into the lake or not.
Haste, however, he knew was i'm
perative. The tOlling Of the chapel
bell coming family down the wind,
Chef drew the sled swiftly along the
edge of the opening, the dog trotting
along beside them, whining. Prince
plainly did not approve of this.
''Here it is 81" shouted the boy in sud-
den joy. "Now Wen be all right,
Car'lyn May"
sob, I'm so glad, Chef" said the lit
tie girl. "For Tn getting real cold, and
this snow makes me oil wet"
"Kcep up your heart, Car'lyn May"
he begged. 81 guess wen get through
all right now"
ooh, I'm not really afraid" the little
girl answered. "0nly I'd really like to
be on shore"
Chef FASTENED on toward the sound
of the tolling bell, sharply on the
watch for other breaks in the ice.
Here was another-a wide-spreading
crevasse filled with black water. Chef
had no idea to which direction he
should turn. And indeed, it seemed to
him as though the opening was grow
lag wider each moment. The ice on
which they stood must be completely
severed from that further up in the in
let
The boy had become frightened.
Carolyn May had little idea Of their
danger. Prince sat up and howled. 1t
seemed to the boy as though they were
in desperate straits, indeed.
'You've got to be brave girl,
Car'lyn May" he said. TIN goin' to
swim across this place and then drag
you over. You stick to the sled and
you won't scarcely get wet even"
"Oh, Chet! don't YOU dare get
-drownd-ed!" begged Carolyn May, ter
rifed now by the situation.
He turned bright face on her as
he struck out for the edge of the other
ice foe. Chet might not have been the
wisest boy who ever lived, but he was
brave, in the very best sense of the
word.
"Den't worry about me, Car'lyn
May" he Chartered.
The desperate chill of the water al
most stopped the boys heart.
Three strokes took him across the
patch of open water.
"We'll be all right in a minute,
Car'lyn May" he called, climbing to
his feet.
And then he discovered something
that almost stunned him. The line he
had loOped around his wrist had slipped
off! He had no way of reaching the
rope attached to the sled save by
crossing back through the water.
Chef felt that he could not do it.
"Oh, Chef! Chetw walled Carolyn
May, you've dropped my rope"
What he should do, poor Chef could
not think. His brain seemed COM
.pletely clouded.
But what was the little girl doing?
He saw her hauling in on the wet rope
and she seemed to be speaking to
Prince. for he stood directly before
her, his ears erect, his tail agitated.
BY and by he barked sharply.
Snow, Prlnceyw Chef heard her cry.
She thrust the end of the rope into
the dogs jaws and waved her mittened
hand towards the open water and the
unhappy Chef beyond it.
Prince sprung dlOulluf 1"N'N 'iN
strait Of black water, shaking the end
of the rope vigorously. Chef saw what
e.. meant and he shrieled to the dog:
a~..-e on. PrinceI Come on, good
do, Here, sir'
f.. nee could not bark his reply with
The rrpe in his jaws, but he sprang
,inro The water and swan sturdily
coward Chef.
He stopped and seized the dogs fore
1pgl v-rcn he came near and hel0od |