The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-02-20

peated Amanda Parlow. "Prince will
hear you and bark"
"GOd bless you So he WILL" cried
mr.. Stage. You've got more sense
than any Of us. Mandy"
"And III have the chapel bell rung,"
she said.
Huh what's that forY-
"The wind will carry the sound ont
across the cove. The boy. Chef, will
recognize the sound Of the bell and IL
VIII give HIM an idea Of where home
is."
"You do beat all II exclaimed Joseph
6tagg, starting to leave the house.
@Find a cap Of Chefs, Mrs. CORN
ley" she commanded. Don't you see
MFR. Stagg has no hati He'll catch his
death OF cold.
-Ehy I never fhengh. Z. Ha turned
60 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.. Stage plunged down the steps
and kept on down the hill to the water
front. There was an e~ating-place here
where the wnterside 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 a little girl
-snd a boy and a dog" said Mr.. Stagg.
rIike enough. they're lost In this storm.
And the Ice Ia going out"
They all rushed out of the eating
house and down to the nearest dock.
Even the cook went, for be CHANGED TO
know Carolyn May.
"And let me tell you, she's n rare
little hid = he d.e.arad ont Of Mr..
Stages hearing. "How she come to be
related to that hard-as-nails Joe Stage
Is q puzzler."
The hardware dealer might deserve
this title In ordinary times, but this
was one occasion when ne 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 b.indly CO. or the
rotten Ice. barehanded and alone had
the others not halted him.
Joseph Stagg stood ON the dock and
shouted Mt the top Of his voice:
"Princei Princei Princer"
The wind must have carried his
voice a long way out across the cove
but there wal no reply.
Then, suddenly. the clear silver tome
OF a bell rang out. Its pitch carried
through the storm startlipgly clear.
There was a movement out In the
Cove. One field of Ice crashed against
another. Mr.. Stage stihed a moan
and was u Of the first TO climb dnpn
10 the Level Of the Ice.
"Have 10 rare. joe" somebody
warned him. This snow on the Ice
will mask the holes and assures IN
thing scandalous."
Bat Joe Stage was reckless OF his
own safety. He started out into the
SNOW, shouting again:
@Princei Princei Here, boyl Here,
beyi"
There was 10 answering bark.
The Changing of the chapel bell was
n comforting sound. Joseph Stagg did
mot know that. unable to find the sex
ten, Amanda Parlow had forced the
church doc and was Juggling at the
rough rope herself.
Back and forth she rang the iron
aapper, and II wGs no uncertain ote
that Changed across the storm-driven
GOV that afternoon. Ii was not work
10 which Curoiyn Mays pretty lady"
was used. Her shoulders soon ached
nnd the palms or her hands were raw
and bleeding. But she continued to
ton the belt without a moments sur
i-xease--on and on, till her brain swan
and her breath came chokingIy from
her lungs.
sJoei joe" she muttered each time
fhat she bore down on the bell rope.
xno the iron tongue shouted the word
for her, far across the s~now-blotted
core.
Carolyn May was not the FIRST Of the
t1o caught out On the moving Ice to be
frightened Perhaps because she had
such unbounded faith In the good In
t32tLluuS VI cNciDoOy WWhIU ucFs Nn<
chj,d could not imagine anything real
" hurting her.
"Oh. isn't this fun" she crowed
bcndIng her head before the beating OF
the storm DO hang on, P~r1ncey."
But Prince could o hang on &c
well. now that they faced the wind He
slipped on the sled twice. and that de
layed them. Under his skates. Che,
could feel the ice heave. while the
resonant cracks followed each Other
Nike q nle-are Of musketry.
s-0oodpess me~ gasped Carolyr
MAJ. "the ice seems % Be- going ail Il
pfeces. Chef. / hope Il wont till w
ut back TO the shore
I'm hopin' that. too" returned ths
IN.
ne hsd quickly realized that they
xure m peril. but hs would not lei
unrolyn Nay = that he ~ fright
R0d-sno. indeedl
Ihe bog unstrapped he skater swift
He hn0 4 very GOOD u for ~
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