Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-11-30
CHAPTER xIIl-continued
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"(40d bless you 80 ne 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 for?''
"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 I" 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
'fWhy, 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,
braught the cap.
Mr. Stagg plunged down the steps
and kept on down the hill to the water
front There was an eating-pIace here
where the waterside characte 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 a little girl
and boy and 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 CHANGED to
know Carolyn May.
and let me tell you, she's one rare
little KID" he declared, out of Mr.
Stages hearing. "How she come to be
related to that hard-as-nails Joe agg
Is puzzler"
The hardware dealer might desel We
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 blindly out on the
rotten ice barehanded and alone. had
the others not halted him.
Joseph Stagg stood on the dock and
shouted at the top of his voice:
"Princel Prince! Princew
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. Its pitch carried
through the storm startlingly clear.
There was a movement out in the
cove. One field of ice crashed against
another. Mr.. Stage sti1od a moan
aud was one of the first to climb dofn
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 scandalous."
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
comforting sound. Joseph Stagg did
not know that unable to find the sex
Ion' Amanda Parlow had forced the
church door and was tugging at the
rough rope herself.
Back and forth she rang the iron
eapper, and it was no uncertain note
Wat changed across the st0rm-drivcn
cove that afternoon. 1T was not work
10 which Carolyn Nays pretty LADY"
was used. Her shoulders soon acheu
"'1 the palms Of her hands were raw
ana bleeding But she continued to
''l the bell without a moments sur
eease-on and on, till her brain swan
oud her breath came chokingly from
her lungs.
zoe! Joe!" she muttered each time
"lat She bore down on the bell rope.
@1A the iron tongue shouted the word
-Oi her, far across the snow-blotted
cove.
Oarolyn May was not the first of the
MO caught out on the moving ice 10 be
'i'-Aiehed. Perhaps because she had
Suea unbounded faith in the good in
'e1lo0s Of everybody toward her, the
L'.d could not imagine anything real
- hurting her.
"oh. isn't this fun" she crowed,
.S11lng her head before the betting Of
''g storm. DO hang on, Princey."
Ddt Prince could not hang on so
veil now that they faced the wind. He
,lhea Off the sled twice. and that de
tae1. Under his skates, Chef
feel tEe ice heave, while the
,g 'aaAt cracks followed each other
hle-fre of musketry.
A, GODDESS met" gasped Carolyn
,S-. the ice seems to be going all to
80 80 Chet. hope it won't till we
'4cd TO the shore.
Ia hoDin' that, too" returned the
1s had quickl realized that they
c- IN peril but he would not let
.''n May see that he was fright
Tho, indeed!
~ boy unstrapped the skates swift
Le had very good reason for re-
'A4E tEgr1 IF +ha foo ,,.r & hra.7 king