Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-11-23

JSN NiAOHs AOI you We been to sea so
much-Benjamin, l want to know if it
hurts much to be drownd-ed?"
Hurts much| gasped the old sea-
man.
Yes, sir. DO people that get
drownd-ed feel much pain? Is it a suf-
term way to die? | want to know.
benjamin, cause my papa and mamma
dIed mat way continued the child.
choking a little. at does seem as
though I'd just got to know"
AYE, aye" muttered the man. 81
see. An / kin tell We, Car'lyn May, as
cIos't as anybody kin. I've been SO
near drownin' myself that they thought
was dead when was hauled inboard.
Comm back from drowning is a
whole lot worse than beln' drowned.
You take it from me-"
well, sighed Carolyn May, I'm
glad to know that. It's bothered me a
good deal. If my mamma and papa
had to be dead, maybe that was the
incest way for them to go"
Since Joseph Stage had listened to
the rambling tale of the sailor regard.
ing the sinking of the Dunraven, he
mad borne the fate of his sister and
her husband much in mind.
lie had come no nearer to deciding
what to do with the apartment in New
York and its furnishings.
After listening to benjamin Hardy's
story, the hardware dealer felt less in
clined than before to close up the af-
fairs of Carolyn Mays small estate"
Not that he for a moment believed that
there was a possibility of Hannah and
her husband being alive Five months
had passed In these days of wireless
telegraph and fast sea traffic such
thing could not be possible. The imagi-
nation Of the practical hardware mer-
chant could not visualize it.
One day when Carolyn May was Wis
ting Mrs. GOrmley Chef burst in quite
Unexpectedly, for it was not yet mid
afternoon.
Mr.. Stagg has let me- off to take
Carolyn May slidin'. The ice amt
soin' to be safe in the cove for long
now. Springs il the air oready. Both
brooks are runnin' full
Carolyn May was delighted. Al
though the sky was overcast and a
storm threatening when tney COT down
on the ice neither the boy nor the lit
tie girl gave the weather a second
thought Nor had Mr.. Stage coIsid-
cred the weather when he had allowed
Chet to leave the store that afternoon.
Chef strapped on his skates, and
then settled the little girl firmly on her
Sled, with Prince riding behind.
The boy harnessed himself with the
long toWrope ard skated away from
the shore, dragging the sled after him
at a brisk pace.
oh my" squealed Carolyn May,
there isn't anybody else or the ice"
1--WE won't run into nobody, then"
laughed the boy.
1t was too misty outside the cove to
see the open water; but it was there,
and Chef knew it as well as ANYBODY.
He had no intention Of taking any
rsks-especially with Carolyn May in
his charge,
The wind ble'e out of the cove, too.
As they drew away from the shelter OF
the land they felt It's strength.
Naturally. neither the BOY nor the
little girl-and surely not the dog
looked back toward the land. Other
wise. they would have seen the snow
furry that swept down over the town
and quickly hid it from the cove.
Chef was skating his very swifteSt.
Carolyn May was screaming with de-
light. Prince barked joyfully. And,
suddenly. in a startling fashion, they
came to a assure in the ice
The boy darted to one side, heeled
on his right skate, and stopped. He
had ierked the sled aside, too, yelling
to Carolyn May to hold fast. - But
Prince was flung from it, and scram-
bled over the ice barking loudly.
ooh. dear me" cried Carolyn May
you stopped too quick, Chef CORN
lev. Goodness There's hole in the
ice"
and | didn't see it till we was al
most in it," acknowledged Chet. ITS
moren hole. Why there's great
field of ice broke off aud sailin' out
into the lake.
"Oh, my :" gasped the little girl.
The boy knew at once that he must
be careful in making his way nome
with the little girl Having seen one
great fissure in the ice, he might come
upon another. II seemed To him as
though the ice under his feet was In
motion. In the distance was the sound
of q reverberatng crash that could
mean but one thing The ice in the
cove was breaking up
The waters OF the two brooks were
pouring down uru the cove. Spring
had really come and the annual lreShet
was likely nov to force the ice entirely
ont Of the cove and open the way for
traffic in few hours.
CHAPTER XIII.
The Chapel Bell.
IF Toseph Stagg Rad obeyed the pre-