The Red Cloud chief., 1918-12-19
CHAPTER xIIi--contInued.

CHAPTEH NtiI--ContInued.
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"Call the dog. Just the same." re-
peated Amanda Parlow. "Prince will
hear you and bark"
God bless you so he will" cried
Mr.. Stagg. You've got more sense
than any Of MS, Mandy"
"And I'll have the chapel bell rung,
she said.
'Huhi what's that forr'
''The wind will carry tho sound out
across the cove. The boy. Chet, will
recognize the sound Of the bell and II
will give him an idea Of where home
is."
"You do beat all I" exclaimed Joseph
Stage, starting to leave the house.
Find q cap Of Chefs. Mrs. CORN
iey." she commanded. "Don't you see
Mr.. Stagg has no hatf 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.. 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.. Stage put his head In
ut the door.
"Some Of you fellers come out with
me on the ice and look for little girl
and a 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 chanced 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 Stagg
u puzxler."
The hardware dealer might deserve
this title in ordinary times, but this
was one occasion when he plainly dis
played emotion.
Hannah's Car1yn, 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:
"Princei Princei PrinceI"
The wind must have carried his
voice a 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 was q movement out In the
rove. One field Of ice crashed against
Snother. Mr.. Stagg stlfied q 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.
hing scandalous."
But Joe Stagg was reckless Of his
swn safety. He started out into the
snow. shouting again:
"Princel Prlncel Here, boyi Here,
boyw
There was no answering bark.
The changing OF the chapel bell was
D comforting sound. Joseph Stagg did
not know that, unable to 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 II was no uncertain note
that changed across the storm-driven
cove that afternoon. 1t 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 chokingly from
her lungs.
"Joei joel" she muttered each time
that abe bore down on the bell rope,
anu 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 funr" she crowed
bending her head before the beating OF
the storm. do hang on, Princey."
But Prince could not hang on &c
well. now that they faced the wind. He
slipped on the sled twice. and that de
nayed them. Under his skates. Che,
could feel the ice heave. while tn,
resonant cracks followed each othel
IKE Q nle-flrs Of musketry.
Goodness mel" gasped Carolyr
Nay. "ths ics seems to be going all I,
pasces, Chet. hope Il won't till W,
est back to the shore"
TN hopin' that. too" returned tn
boy.
He had quickly realized that the.