The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-26
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or, stern, mpfoss Henry simpsoni
acciisad lief Il eatt 81 heihg re-
sponsibie for the loss d tho sinip.
sons alowiy Accumulated Liberty
bonds she Jared up at once.
eoicourse Jim Brown didn't take
theme she st0fmed. 4You ought
TO know him better than that, faith.
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lin knewl:f Kept them in my
desk and that the desk was I'M
loekeds said her father stolidly.
He didn't take them!" she
cried ~ Just know he didn't.
PIease don.t file an affidavit against
Mnt Please don't, tatheri" she
1--WE already filed the Affidavit"
answered her father shortly.
That night Betty wrote an impas.
s.oned letter to Jim-to an address
he had given her before leaving.
urging him 10 come back and prove
his Innocence!
II was about week later that
the cyclone visited the spot where
Betty lived.
Tcyelons weather had been wor.
rying tie country folk for some
hours before the unmtstalaple
signs Of approaching trouble sent
the Simpson family sodrrying into
the Cyclone cellar near the home.
Betty,s father had entered the
cellar first and as Betty pulled the
storm door fiat and looked II sue
saw that her father had lighted q
Antefn aId; was looking quickly
and somewhat fearfully around the
cellar. What vas wrong?
Betty leaped down the remain.
)iing steps of the ladder into the eel.
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what's the matter?" she cried
TO her father, who was holding the
lantern high above his head.
Once more stern Heary Simpson
looked around the small room be-
fore replying. Then hS gazed fear.
fully into Betty's eyes,e
"Fhere's the ibaby7" cried Henry
Simpson,
Panic ciutehed at Retty's heart
at this question. She gaxed arouno
! the room with Wild eyes. The
baby was nnwhs ere In sight.
"fput the baby down here a half
hour ago. She must have climbed
outif 2;
Frantieally Betty rushed to the
side 81 the room and leaped upon a
box which brought her eyes Ii line
With little portfolio, partially
raised above the level OF the earth.
~ which heavy glass formed q look.
Wat. She looked out feartully.
There. half way between the eel.
lar and the house, was the baby
dancing up and down In the gusts
OF Wind which Sheralded the near
APPROACH Of the twister. "A pair OF
the grandfather's old overalls,
which had been blown from the
house we're partially twined about
the baby And only. an appallingly
! short distance away - compared
With the speed at which It was
COMM Twas the cyclone, .
BETTY jumped from the box and
ran toward the ladder, crying swift.
bly, 10 her father as she ran: n
"ThsA baby's out there; Ill get
Just al Betty, reached the foot
of the ladder a surprising thing
happened The solid earthen wall
behind the ladder seemed to stir.
Then Betty. saw that some painted
burlAp sAcking, which In the dim
light had seemed to be earth, was
mosinE. BEHIND this curtain a
new excavation had been made,
And from this excavation stepped
Jim Brown!
'Youdtay hsEe!" cried Jim, push.
ing Betty back. ''1'll get the baby..p
Jim climbed the ladders few
steps hastily. AS he unlocked the
storm door and pushed 1t open 9
fierce Gust Of wind swooped and
hoNlea Its way into the room. Then
HIN lsaped out, dropping the door
ihto place again.
Betty rushed to the lockout. She
saw Him run, STOPPING, to the baby.
She saw him grab up the baby,
oxerallg and an, and rush back to-
wards the cellar. And she saw
trees failing in the path OF the ad.
vancifg cyclone: Would Jim DO
able to make It?
Betty left the lookout and rush.
ed back Ia; the ladder. Her father
was there before her. The door
opened. Jim thrust the baby down.
retty caught her little sister with
thankful heart. And then, to her
vast astonishment, she heard her
ffather speak.
'pon't come down here, you
hieftn criel stern old Henry simp.
on. ''Tou amt fit to associate
s'itli decent folksl"
Betty saw her father trying to
tfsh Jim away from the storm door
md TO close 1T. And in that mo.
ineat all tpfS Betty g tempestuous ma,
!, I lFe burst into storm. She put the
baby On the floor and hurled her.
7 aelf at her father.
"0h, yoti--you-i" she gasped, al.
most discriminatory as she beat
him away with her fists. He's
saved the baby and now"
She turned from her father and
fairly jerked Jim through the door.
.lss she locked The door and breath,
ed d Sigh pf thankfuiness the air
WAS filled iwithSa vast disturbance
The cyclone was roaring above
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