The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-21

the Preeoeious kltty or the sea toying Ieyes wide to popping and could 1scarcely breathe for their excitement IThe strongest ran with Beryl and lonly stopped as she called out thei, thames. Then they rested themselves
 on the sand and stood like statues Ion guard
 I With them all stationed behind her Beryl too paused to search tha |water anew with eyes that were
 widened with anxiety. SAgain she Istarted the roll cry. ands again their Twas no answer.
 I Far down the beach she could sec la party of men. She called at the ltop of her voice as she ran toward them, but the distance was too lgreat for them to hear, or if they heard, they thought 1t all 8 part of fthe noise a bunch of kids were making.
 Suddenly piercing cali to her lhalted Beryl. She wheeled and saw that the line of boys was not longer Imotioniess and facing .seaward, but was wildly signaling to her to come back. As the message reached her passed from one shrill' relayer tc lanother, she realized that some thing had been discovered in the Iwater, something they wanted hei Ito know about. But was it Angie IShe could not tell; they were too ex- Icited-the message had got jumbled I As she flew back to the starting place she prayed that Mike. Jeff there, hadn't made mistake and called her back in vain. She must have divers--she couldn't send the
 boys out to do that.
 What is 1t? Have you found him?' she gasped as she ran past I the line. They fell in with her each trying to etll what he thought of Mikes discovery. Byt Berry
 would not stop to listen until she reached Mike.
 There, look! Way out,'' he shrilled. pointing toward an object Ithat Beryl could not discern al first. Mike began to jump up ant down. It's somebody swimming he screamed.
 I Then Beryl made out bit of g head. and saw that an arm flashed lrhythmicaly up and down in thu water, bringing its owner nearer the shore with each rapid stroke. "oh Mike" she walled, "thal isn't Angie"
 T know. Captain Beryi, but he's got somethin' and I think it's Angie Its somethin' he got in the water
 He's sure got somethin' all right" another boy contributed
 Hess he's only got one arm, for that's all he's swimmin' with"
 Beryl too had noticed this fact and hope sprang to life in her terror filled heart. If 1t were Angie they'd have fair chance to revive him. He hadn't been gone so long--it wasn't hopeless. She said this over and over, unconsciously speaking aloud, while she watched and waited for the swimmer to come near enough for them to identify the burden he lsupported. They could see clearly now that he was handicapped with a burden.
 "Fool!'' Beryl exclaimed all at linto a foaming breaker. In flash she had see that the swimmer was ltiring, and there she'd stood, safely waiting for him to do her rescue work. Her expletive referred to her. self. The boys wondered, but re- mained where she had left them. She did not see that 1t was Tommy she was going to help until she got close to him. The next sec- ond She saw Angie, still and white, on his back, his chin over Tommy's arm.
 "Give him to me-" she ordered and swam into position to take the boy.
 aAre you good for it?" Tommy gasped.
 "Yes" Beryl said. Lets go."
 Tommy was glad to be relieved. He'd been swimming fast. But he did not let her get ahead of him. lest she get into trouble and lose her hold on Angie. There was some hard swimming still ahead of them. Before she reached Tommy Beryl had cleared the breakers and now she must swim back through them. with Angie dead weight on one arm.
 Tommy watched her anxiously. She did not try to speed, neither did she lose time unnecessarily | time that might mean life or death for Angie. She simply kept her head and swan as fast as she could with safety. ~ Tommy's strength began to re- turn and when the heaviest break CTS crashed over Beryl and bore her under he was beside her to keep Angles body lighted and |afioat.
 The boys met them in water waist high and helped to carry their unfortunate comrade beyond the waters reach Tommy. spent and Ibreathiess. cast himself full length upon the sand for a few seconds to recover sufficiently to assist in the efforts to revive Angie.
 He found that Beryi had placed the little chap face downward. hIs forehead on one arm, the other stretched out from his side. and that sha was astride AnGie's back. working as skiIlfulIy as she was able to force the water from hIs lungs and set him to breathins
 Tommy put q hard on her shoul. aer. "I'iI do that" he said gruffly. You go for . doctor"
 ueryl didn't need to ask if no knew how, She remembered uny len the beach when they'd practiced nose at the undlanlned perform |anee and made them seIf.consc'ou.. She got up without e word ana Iran to hsF ear. ieearfuily she ai. Tempted i0 start ihe motor. Would |thia Ie one Df fhp times shed have |ia crank iif She hardly dared |hfeafha until if wac NnfeIy NvInn. And iheA WlleA she wet ennHfaiu. |'at'ns h'fs'is en 2 'usAy efsAh