The Monticellonian., 1918-12-20
CHAPTER xIll-Continued


 Call the dog, just the same" re peated Amanda Barlow Prince will hear you and bark"
 God bless you! So he will" cried Mir. Stagg. "You've got more sense than any of us, Mandy
 And I'll have the chapel bell rung,' , she said
 Huh what's that for?''
 "'The wind will carry the sound out across the cove. The boy, Chet, will recognize the sound of the bell and it will give hIm ali idea of where home is"
 You do beat all r exclaimed Joseph Stagg. starting to leave the house.
 'Find cap of Chet's, Mrs. Gorm- lev" she commanded. Don't you see MT. Stagg has no hat? He'll catch his death of cold. -
 "Why, I never thought" He turned to speak directly to Miss Amanda, but she had gone back into the room and was putting oh her outer wraps. Mrs. Gormley. red-eyed and weeping, brought the cap.
 Mir. Stagg 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. Stagg put his head in ut the door.
 some of you fellers come out with me on the ice and look for little girl and boy and q dog said Mr. Stagg. 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 chaneed to know Carolyn May.
 And let me tell you, shes one rare little sid," he declared, out of Mir. Stagg'S hearing "HoW she come To he related to that hard-asnails Joe Stagg is a puzzler
 The hardware dealer might deserve this title in ordinary times but this was one occasion when he plainly dis played emotion.
 Hannah's Gar'lyn. the little child he had learned to love. was somewhere on the ice in the driving storm. He would have rushed blndly out on the rotten ice bafehanded and alone. had the others not halted him.
 Joseph Staeg 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 bell rang out Its pitch carried through the storm startlingly clear.
 There Uas q movement out in the cove One field of ice crashed against another. Mir. Stagg stifled a moan and was one of the first to climb des.n to the level of the ice.
 Have care Joe" somebody warned him. "This snow on the ice will mask the holes and Assures some thing seanaalous"
 But Joe Stagg was reckless of his own safety. He started out into the snow, shouting again;
 Prince, Prince, Here, boy! Here, boy :"
 There was no answering bark.
 The changing of the chapel bell was a comforting sound. Joseph Stagg did not know that, unable 10 find the sex ton, Amanda Parlow had forced the church door and was tugging at the rough rope herself.
 Back and forth she rang the iron clapper and il was no uncertain note that changed across the storm driven cove that afternoon. It was not work to which Carolyn Mays pretty lady" was used Her shoulders soon ached and the palms of her hands were raw and bleeding. But she continued to toll the bell without a moments sur cease-on and on, till her brain swan and her breath came chokingy from her lungs
 Joe! Joe - sl1e muttered each time that she bore down on the bell rope, and the iron tongue shouted the word for her. far across the snow-blotted cove.
 Carolyn May was not the first of the trio caught out on the moving ice to be frightened. Perhaps because she had such unbounded faith in the good in- tentions of everybody toward her, the child could not imagine anything real ly hurting her.
 "Oh. isn't this fun !' she crowed. bending her head before the beating of the storm. Do hang on, Princey."
 But Prince could not hang on SC well, now that they faced the wind. He slipped off the sled twice, and that de layed them Under his skates, Chet could feel the ice heave, while the resonant cracks followed each other like q file-fire of musketry.
 Goodness me '" gasped Carolyn May. the ice seems to be going all to pieces, Chet. l hope it won't till we get back to the shore"
 "Fm hopin' that, too,' returned the boy.
 He had quickly realized that they were in peril but he would not let Carolyn May see that he was fright ened-no, indeed
 The boy unstrapped the skates swift ly. He had a very good reason for re- moving them. If the ice was breaking up into Hoes, he might skate right off into the water, being unable to halt quickly enough, if on the steel runners.
 He now plodded on, head down, drag ging the sled and the child. with Prince