Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-04-29
CHAPTER xIII-continued.

OOu DitSS you DO ne VIII CIiei
Mr.. Stage. You've got more sens,
than any OF us, Mandy"
"And III have the chapel bell rung,
she said
Huh what's that for?''
"rhe wind will carry the sound out
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 !" exclaimed Joseph
Stagg. starting to leave the house.
''irind "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"
"Why, l 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 eatlng-place here
where the waterside characters congre-
gated, and Mr.. Stagg put his head in
at the door.
"Some of you fellers come out with
me on the ice and look for little girl
and boy and a 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-nalls Joe Stage
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 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:
Prince Prince Princel"
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. It's pitch carried
through the storm startllngly clear.
There was movement out In the
cove. One field of ice crashed against
another. Mr.. Stagg stihed 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
thing scandalous."
But Joe Stage was reckless of his
own safety. He started out into the
snow, shouting again:
Prince! Princel Here, boy Here,
boyp
There was no answering bark.
The changing of the chapel bell was
a 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 il was no uncertain note
that. changed across the storm-driven
cove that afternoon. 1t was not work
10 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 n moments sur
cease-on and on. till her brain swan
and her breath came chokingly from
her lungs.
Joel joel" she muttered each time
that she bore down on the bell rome
amt 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 1
frightened. Perhaps because she had (
such unbounded faith in the good in
tentions Of everybody toward her. the |
child could not imagine anything real /
~ hurting her
"Oh, isn't this fun - she crowed.
bending her head before the beating of
he storm. do hang on. Princey."
But Prince could not hang on so
vell, now that they faced the wind. He
slipped OFF the sled twice. and that de-
aged them. Under his skates. Chef
'ould feel the ice heave, while the
'esonant cracks followed each other
Ike iiie-lire of musketry.
Goodness mew gasped Carolyn
Nay. "the ice seems to be going all 10
'ieces, Chef. / hope it won't till we
ret back to the shore"
I'm hopin' that, too" returned the
10Y
He had quickly realized that they
we're in peril. but he would not let
larolyn May see that he was fright
ned-nO, indeed
The boy unstrapped the skates swift
y. lie had very good reason for re-
loving them. If the ice was breaking
p INTO foes, he might skate right of ,
aio Tie water, being unable to halt
uietl9 enough, If on the steel runners. 7