The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-06-18

toward the ladder, crying swiftly to her
father as she ran:
"The babys out there! I'll go get
herr
Just as Betty reached the foot of the
ladder a surprising thing happened
The solid earthen wall behind the lad,
der seemed to stir. Then Betty saw
that some painted burlap sacking,
which in the dim light had seemed to
be earth, was moving. Behind this
curtain Il new excavation had been
made. And from this excavation
stepped-.Jim Brown!
You stay here" cried Jim pushing
Betty back. iii get the baby"
Jim climbed the ladders few steps
hastily. As he unlocked the storm
door and pushed it open fierce gust
of wind swOoped and howled its way
into the room. Then Jim leaped out
dropping the door into place again.
Betty rushed TO the lookout, She
She saw him grab up the baby, over
alIs and all, and rush back toward
the cellar And she saw trees falling
in the path of the advancing cyclone
Would Jim be able to make it?
Betty left the lookout and rushed
! back to the ladder. Her father was
! there before her. The door opened
| jim thrust the baby down. Betty
caught her little sister with a thank
| full heart. And then, to her vast
establishment, she heard her father
| speak.
Don't come down here, you thief
cried stern old Henry Simpson. you
amt fit to associate with decent
| folks"
Betty saw her father trying to push
Jim away from the storm door and
| to close it. And in that moment all
! of Betty's tempestuOus nature burst
into storm. She put the baby on the
floor and hurled herself at her father.
"Oh you-you-" she gasped,
almost inarticulately, as she beat him
/ uN dy WITH lIcl HSlS. I1C thC
! baby and now"
She turned from her father and
fairly jerked Jim through the door.
! AS she locked the door and breathed
a sigh of thankfulness the air was
| filled with Il vast disturbance. The
| cyclone was roaring above them.
When the wind had quoted some
what so that Jim could make himself
heard he drew Betty and her father
close together.
81 thought your nephew, John Simp-
son, had taken the bonds" said jim
81 trailed him to Chicago. But he
hasn't got them. l don't know who's
got them. And when l got back here
l heard of that affidavit for my arrest
so l hid in here"
"Jim didn't take them!" cried
Betty shortly. Father, you've just got
to say you're sorry for what-anC
after Jim saving the baby"
Henry Simpson looked first at Jim
then at the baby held tightly now IL
Be:ty's arms. As he looked at thC
baby his stern face sOftened.
81 must've been out of my head,
he mumbled. $50 much trouble ant
then this storm. II don't believe
you took 'em, JIM"
He held out his hand to jim. jim
claSped it tightly.
1t was about an hour later whel
the damage caused by the storm hat
been inventOried that Betty chancet
to look at the old Overalls which wer
still partly draped about the baby
And as she looked she gasped. In tn
right hip pocket were the missing
bonds!
Old Grandfather Simpson grimes
at her foOlishly as she looked at then
in amazement.
Thought l better put 'em In a SAT
place." said her grandfather. II swal
clean forgot all about EN-"
ooh, you old dear!" cried Bett
suddenly and tempestuously, as SIN
flung herself at her grandfather an
kissed him.
And who, under the circumstances
could blame her for doing so?