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Less than a quarter of an hour after Ann Russel‘} had set out to see why her father was late to dinner she had found him lying helpless among the snowâ€"capped rocks not far from the motor boat he had been repairing. He had started home when the snowâ€" storm began, and while stepping from bouwlder to boulder had slipped and fallen viclently. _ Mis left leg had snapped just below the knee. In that plight he had lain exposed to the storm for some time, and his blue Hos and weak voice showed that he «hi K he al «} of @no The darkness of a declining winter afternoon was deepened by the storm; snow blasts hid the lights of the town. Ann had only the vaguest idea of her course until a sudden louder churning of tossing waters reached her cars. The next moment the dory was among the beach boulders of Little Wood Island, and the starboard oar was wrenched from her hand. Its butt gave her a stinging upperâ€"cut under the chin. C Clutching the other oar, she rose to leap, and as the boat careened toward a flat rock she half jumped, half fell, out upon it. A higher rock lay close by, and, aided by strands of leathery seaweed, she pulled herâ€" self up on it. _ L h . ¢# ed sw In: not wb th: the 'h(‘ bog burstn; througzh awni did She was on the very edge of the island. Two big waves burst beneath her and flled tgc boat, and when the spent wash of the last was sucked "SALADA®" Tea is Pure Tea, Fragrant and of Delicious Flavor, stimulating vibrate yank â€" the oa back she sprgn:.down and ran for the erown of the beach. She reached it before the pursuing water could do more than clutch at her rubber boots. before the pursuing water coulid do more than clutch at her rubber boots. Without a moment of doh{ she stnrthed ::d cross }t.h; island. blc was un .nhabi and. ha a en except for a bflgri:j’ yh‘chfiva{: enterprise had tridd to run a summer camp there, which ticks and mosquiâ€" toes and badâ€"water hu{rhn up. Many of the buildings been reâ€" moved, hbut the mess kail still stood furing tho town, less than a mile and refreshing. ‘"Watch for the Name" on every genuine sealed packet. M W "SALADA" me ANN‘S ADVENTURE 214 Years in Public Service. t , but it always pulled ig each time from the ; more and more heavily, owned creature fighting \ll was a chaos of sound d leaping water. Ann whether or not the dory Her sturdy young arms fully to the t?’ust and seas at the Dliades of D snowaritts. t seemed to A Id turn turtle but it always x each time fr more and more wned creature â€" Ug king in the 1er Eddie‘s ipon it and By FISHER AMES, JR Aj Y 0W ave m hreate 1or: sne monme V Tsing vc, now it driftâ€" ay Was own‘ in NC H th ay, 1°n c ne nt # ly | _ When at last she dared to move, a few careful efforts convinced her that | she could never pull herseif up to the 'mok’. Neither could she quite reach | the bell rope, which bad lodged across | a piece of loose roofing paper that Itbe wind had jammed against the cage. As she cast a desperate look lround her, she noticed a big iron | staple in one of the boards ncar at | hand, and, peering down the wall, she | made out a little shef or platform \ She remembered having seen a | flagpole at that end of the mess hall. | Evidently it had passed up through | the staple and a slot visible in the | projecting peak; its butt had rested | on the small shelf. Unquestionably | the pole must have weighed much \ more than she did; therefore the | shelf would sustain her if she could | gain it. Once her feet were on it she | could reach the bell rope, and when |that was in her hand she could sumâ€" \ mon help for her fatherâ€"and herself. \If she failed to land on the shelfâ€" | but she must not fail. Blinded and buffeted byâ€" a snowâ€" laden wind, she found it no easy task to crawl up that steep roof. But at last she managed to gain the ridgeâ€" pole, and to her joy she found that the bell was still there, swinging in a cage at the very peak. A section of its rope hung down against the end wall, thrashing it like a whiplash. Lying close to the edge of the roof, she tried to seize the agile rope. It eluded her fingers a dozen times, and in her earnestness she forgot how precarious her position was and leanâ€" ed too far out. A violent gust of wind destroyed her balance, and a flying sheet of heavy paper struck her like a runaway kite. The blow was i violent one, and Ann was swept The sound of something thrashing about the peak of the building imâ€" mediately attracted her attention, With aâ€"sudden rush of hope she remâ€" embered that a big bell had hung there. Probably it was there yet, and the whipping bell rope was what she neard. The contractor had been demolishâ€" ing the mess hall when the coming of cold weather had put a stop to the work. Among the piles of boards near by he had left two ladders. Ann took the lighter of the two and, placâ€" ing it against the eaves, soon climbed to the roof, There her difficulties began, for though the eaves were low the ridgepole was high,. The slope was sharp, and the heavy roofing paper was slippery with sleet. But a sudden jar stopped her downâ€" ward plunge at its very outset; Ann found herself? suspended upright in midâ€"a‘r forty feet above the frozen ground. Her tough oilskins had proviâ€" dentisliy caught on a projecting nail. away, and in front of it stretched the idle pier. Ann had not expected to find a boat there; nevertheless, she was disappointed when her search came to naught. Baffied, though not conquered, she retreated to the small spot of bare ground in the lee of the mess hall to think it over. Ann immediately leaned out to the right and seized the bell rope. A moâ€" ment later the strong clanging of the bell sounded. Surely the sound would reach the mainland, over the narrow channel. If it were heard, some one would come,. Ann did not question that. The town knew too well the mysteries and the tragedies of the sea ever to ignore any signal that seemed to come from it, especially in a storm. Though she soon grew very tired, she did not dare stop ringng for more than a minute at a time. Her legs became even more tired than her With the knife in her left hand she reached up and began to cut away at the stiff jacket; she worked carefully, though somewhat blindly, for she had to keen her eyes on the iron staple, which her right hand gripped. At the fourth eut there was a quick sag and a ripping sound. She dropped the knife instantly, and, just as the cloth gave way, her left hand joined her right in a grip upon the st:’gle. Her body dropped downward, and her feet struck the shelf. arms, and the only way she could ease them was by alternatively shiftâ€" ing her weight from one to the other. The strain was becoming unendurâ€" able, when it occurred to her that sha'e might ma‘ke use of the_‘bel‘l_ rope. Leaving a long, loose end, she tied the rope to the staple, anuu-ing the free end round her y just under the arms, she knotted it again to the atarle. The loop supported her fairly well, and she found great relief porary. Her arm moved more and more mechanically. Gradually she let theblg::dthmohhmd her weig The brazen clamor of %:e“b:i“ came to h‘: :.rl vlh‘l:uu- & a times was not conni:; of any sounds from belil in leaning back against it. Forty feet below was the bare ground, frozen as hWard as marble. Again and again she painfully shock off the leaden lethargy. Her 1de out a& LVE SNHCH e foet or less below it She remembered hav gpole at that end of t ridently it had passed e staple and a slot v ojecting peak; its butt the small shelf. Un leaning back against it. The relief, however, was only temâ€" to In the evening the seamstress came again to finish up a party dress for Marcia and sat in the sewing room with mother and grandmother and the two girls. Later a neighbor from across the way came in and there was small talk of varying nature, and beâ€" fore they knew it the seamstress was again telling things about friends of them allâ€"people for whom she sewed â€"little intimate things which were not meant to be cast broads:de for every one to know. The neighbor sat quietly listening, glancing up now and then from the hem she was carefully basting and when the girl had stopped talking she asked quietly, "Does Mrs. Brown wish you to tell this?" The seamstress looked up quickly, as did the others in the room, and answered defiantly, "Well, she didn‘t tell me not "And so you tell things you hear in confidence unless you are warned not to repeat them?" the neighbor asked evenly, but the girl did not reply, imâ€" mediately starting the sewing maâ€" chine very fast. But when she had finished the seam the neighbor again took up the subject. "If you put money in a bank, you wouldn‘t wish that bank to cry oqt to every one who came in, ‘Anme Jones just drew out all she has,‘ would you?" e The storm was weakening when Ann, her quest ended at last, got back to the little cottafi. Eddie had fallen asleep on the lounge. _ Her father was awake and in some pain from his broken leg, but Dr. Maynard soon had that scientifically set. The doctor !tl?d until morning, and, thanks to his care, no complications set in. In the course of time his paâ€" tient was able to get about again as freely as usual. s (The End.) "They wouldn‘t dare!" the seamâ€" stress cried out and hung her head when the neighbor replied, "Why not ? You didn‘t tell them not to tell, did It must have been very soon afterâ€" wards that the piercing note of a boat siren brought her back to conâ€" sciousness. In a daze, not fully grasping the significance of the sound, she tugged frantically at the bell. In answer the whistle shrieked, full of power and encouragement, "Whoever you are and whatever‘s the matter with you, I‘m coming," it scemed to saY. â€" ... 1. ..3 A big voice was lifted in a sea hail. Being sailors, Capt. Grummer and his two men brought Ann to the ground with difficulty. A few minâ€" utes afterwards she was in the hot engine room of the fast tug Gloria B., which had turned her stern to the wind and was racing back to the mainland to get a doctor for Mr. Russell. inÂ¥ o "We‘re like banks ourselves," the kind voice explained. "We should be safeâ€"deposit boxes for all that we hear, take great care who gets a peek in or knows just what lies stored away. If our friends so honor us as to give us their precious confidence to keep we should guard them most carefully and see that none of them are carelessly left where others can steal them. None should take them The last thing she remembered was wrapping the slack of the rope round her arm as a further precaution against falling. . M Mother had tried to stop herâ€"tried to interrupt with the sewing machine, but the seamstress had talked on and at the end of the day there was a chaos of gossip bits in the older woâ€" man‘s mind that it was hard to drive out. Every now and then she found herself wondering, as she recalled cerâ€" tain statements and when the family mentioned names at dinner, she was doubting people who had lived as her neighbors for yearsâ€"doubting old friendsâ€"wondering if this and that which she had heard was true. you . pulls at the bell rope became more spasmodic. At intervals she roused hersel{ and made the bell peal lustily, but her efforts grew steadily fewer. The bow light flashed suddenly into the range of Ann‘s vision, and the boat came swinging and swashing up to the pier. What comfortable noises its spitting engine made! Two lights presently detached t_he!nselvels from The sewing machine would run busily for several moments, and then the seamstress, her hands full of basting and pins in her mouth, would turn to mother with ancther bit of gossip. "Jenniie Dodson said thatâ€"‘" "I heard that Sarah Brownâ€"." "Did you know that John Humphries had overdrawn his account at the bank?" 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