Show I i rc ro iy the C Corners o ri 8 I BY RUTH BELMORE BELMOR ENDICOTT I I i I I f Copyright 1918 1913 by bl Dodd Mead t 4 Company an Ice I i I w u CHAPTER XII I f 12 12 Something Carolyn May Wishes to Know 1 I Carolyn Mays May's heart was filled fined with trouble 1 This was the result of her first talk taU with th the Ule old sailor Not from him hiss nor from front anybody ody else did Carolyn May get any direct Information that the sailor had been aboard the on her fatal voyage But his story awoke In the childs child's breast doubts and longings uncertainties and und desires that I kind had lain dormant for many weeks wees I Uncle Joe and Aunt Aunty Rose loved her herand herand and were were kind to her But that feelIng feelIng feel- feel Ing of f emptiness that had at ut first so troubled Caro Carolyn n May 1 was returning She began to droop Keen eyed Aunty nose lose discovered ered this physical change very quickly just like a droopy en declared the good woman and goodness good good- ness mess knows I have seen enough of them theiu So as a stimulant and anel a u preventive Aunt Aunty Rose prescribed tea plenty of It it Three times n a day Carolyn Ma May was dosed with boneset tea lIo How long the childs child's stomach would have endured under this treatment will never be beJa Ja known own Carolyn May got no better that was sure but one da day something happened Winter Wintel had moved on in Its usual frosty and snowy way Carolyn Ma May had kept up all her interests Interests after after a fashion Benjamin Bar Hardy y had gone to Adams' Adams camp to work It seemed he could use usen hay hay- haying a n peevy or pretty well having hayIng hay hav ing done something besides sailing salling In his day Tim the hackman worked at logging In the winter months too lie He usually went past the Stagg place with witha a team four times each day There was something Carolyn Ma May Mas wished to ask Benjamin Hardy but she did not want anybody else to know what it was was not not even Uncle Joe or Aunty Rose nose Once In the fall and before before before be be- fore the snow came she had ridden as asfar asfar asfar far as Adams' Adams camp with Mr 11 lIe He had gone there for some hickory wood But now to ride on the empty sled going In and on top of ot the load of logs coming out of the forest Carolyn May felt sure would be much be-much much more exciting She mentioned her desire to Uncle Joe on on a Friday evening Well WeH Yell now If Its It's pleasant I dont don't see anything to forb forbid let Do you Aunty Rose Mr Stagg returned I III presume Tim Thu will tal take e the best of care of her the woman said Maybe getting out more In the air all will trill make her look I less ss peaked Joseph Stagg The excitement of preparing to go goto goto goto to the camp the next morning brought the roses Into Carolyn Mays May's cheeks checks and made her eyes sparkle When Tim the hackman went Into town 01 L I. I hU u uI JU urr Un-L wan ue ne was as curt by Aunty Rose that he would have company going back back- Pitcher of George Washington exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed Tim The boys bos will near neal bout boutt t. t take kc a holida holiday There was but one woman In the camp Judy Mason She lived In one of the log Jog huts with Ith her husband lIe He was a saw sawyer er and Ju Judy y did the mens men's washing B Benjamin r Hardy Dardy was pleased Inde Indeed indeed In In- de deed d to see his little friend again You come om with m me please she whispered whispered to the thc old od seaman after din- din tP Y 2 l j i Jve Been So Near Myself That They Thought I II I Was Dead V V I 1 Was Hauled Inboard ncr no- You can smoke You haven't Lat gut to go back to work worl yet et and Tim TimIs Timis Is only Just loading his 61 sled Bled d. d So we ct cun n talk Aye Ac aye ne little miss miss What'll we talk about queried U Benjamin cautious cau cau- for he remembered remember 1 that He lie was teas to be very his conversation con con- with herI herI herI her I want vant you to tell me something tn She he said said I u Sail all ahead matey lie he lie responded responded With j apparent his pipe meanwhile meun Why Wh B Benjamin yon Benjamin you must know ww you know for youve you've been heen to sea seu so much much BenjamIn Benjamin I W want to know If it hurts much to be ed edin Hurts much rasped gasped the old seaman sea sea- man Yes sir Do l people ole that get cd ed feel much pain Is It a suf- suf ferin wa way to die I want to know Benjamin cause my papa and mamma died that wa way continued the child choking clicking a a- little It does seem as though Id I'd just got to know Aye Ac a nyc aye e muttered the man I III Isee Isee see An I kin tell ye c Carlyn CarIn l In May as as anybody kin Ive I've been so near m myself self that the they thou thought ht I was dead when I was hauled Inboard Comity back from drowning Is a whole lof lot worse than beta bein drowned You take It from me Well Yell sighed Carolyn May Im gl glad d to Know that Its It's bothered a n deal It In my y mamma anti and papa had to be dead maybe that was tb the nicest wa way for them to go Since Joseph Stagg had listened to the rambling tale of the sailor regarding regarding regard regard- ing the sinking of the Dunraven he had borne the fate of hl his sister and her lier husband much In mind Ife Ire had come no nearer to deciding what to do with the apartment In NewYork NewYork New NewYork York and Its furnishings After listening to Benjamin Hardys Hardy's story the hardware dealer felt less Inclined Inclined Inclined In In- U than m before to close e up the affairs affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs of Carol Carolyn n Mays May's small estate Not that he for a n moment believed that there was a possibility of Hannah find and her husband and being alive alve Five months had md passed In these flays days or of wireless telegraph and fast sea traffic trade such a athing athing athing thing could not be possible The imagination ImagInation nation lation of the practical hardware merchant mer mer- chant could not visualize It One da day when Carolyn Caroln May lay was vis- vis visiting ting Mrs Gormley Chet diet burst hurst In quite unexpectedly unexpected I for It was was was' not yet mid mid- afternoon Mr 11 Stagg has let me off to take Carolyn May The ice aint goin to be safe In the E cove for long now Springs Spring's In the air lr Both bro brooks broks ks are full Carol Carolyn n May was delighted Although Although Al- Al though hough the sky was overcast and a storm storm torm threatening when whim the they got down on the Ice neither r the boy nor the Uttie litle little lit lit- tie tle le girl gave ga the weather a second thought hought Nor had tad Mr Stagg considered considered considered consid consid- ered the weather when he had allowed Chet to leave the store that afternoon Chet diet strapped on his skates and then hen settled the little girl firmly on her sled led with Prince riding behind The bo boy harnessed himself with thelong thelong the long ong towrope and skated away from the he shore dragging the sled after himat himat him himat at a brisk blIsk pace Oh m my squealed Carolyn May there Isn't an anybody else on the thc Ice We Ye wont won't run Into nobody th then n laughed the boy It was too misty outside the cove to 1 uL u L H see te Ot rue our I it n was were lucre and nd Chet diet knew It well I as ns as anybody Ue le had no intention of taking any risks especially especially with Carol Carolyn n May luy In InIs I his Is charge chane The wind blew out of the cove coye too As Vs the they drew drw awu away from the shelter of the he land they felt Its Us strength Naturally neither the boy oy nor the tle little Ittle girl girl and and surel surely not the dog do- do looked ed back toward the lund laud Otherwise Other- Other wise vise the they would have haye sen se sein n the snow flurry that swept down over the town and nd quickly hid It from the cove Chet was sl skating Ung his Yer very swiftest f. f Carolyn Caroln May was screaming with de- de light Prince barked Joyfully And sudden suddenly 1 in a startling fashion they came to a fissure in the Ice The bo boy darted d to one olle side heeled d don on n his right skate and stopped He had lad Jerked the sled aside too yelling to o Carolyn Caroln May Ia to hold fast But Prince was flung Hung from it and scrambled scrambled scram scram- bled led over o the ice barking loudl loudly Oh dear me I cried Carolyn MayYou MayYou May ay You stopped too quick Chet diet Cormley Corm Gorra- ley Ie ey Goodness Theres There's a hole In the time Ic ice ce 1 And nd I didn't see It till we was wad almost almost almost al al- al- al most in it acknowledged ged Chet Its moren a u hole Why theres there's I a great grent greatfield greatfield field of Ice broke off and sawn out Into the lake lal Oh my gasped the little girl The Thc boy knew at ut once that he must he be e careful In making his way home with the little girl Having seen one onu great fissure In hi the Ice he might come upon another It seemed to him as though hough time the Ice under his feet was In motion notion In time the distance was the sound of a u reverberating crash that could mean nean but Jut one thing The ice In the cove was breaking up The waters waters of the two brooks were pouring louring down Into the thc cove Spring md hud really come and the annual fr Shet was vas likely now now to to force the ice entirely out of the cove and open tI the C wa way for traffic In a few hours hows CHAPTER XII XIII The Chapel Bell I If Joseph Stogy had obeyed the precept precept precept pre pre- of his little niece on this particular lar lal ar afternoon and had been tooling up p Instead of ot having ha In the hl big ledger making snaking out monthly statements statements state state- ments ho he might have Discovered the tho coming storm In season to withdraw his Ills to permission to Chet to take Carolyn Carolyn Caro Caro- lyn May out on tho the Ice lee It was always alwn's dark darI enough in the little back office In winter for the hard- hard fire are dealer to have a lamp Jump burning So Solie he lie did not notice the snow flurry that had taken Sunrise Cove in its arms until he hc chanced to walk wall out to the front of or the store for ne needed ed exercise I declare to man Its It's snowing sno muttered Joseph Stagg Thought wed we'd got bot through with that for this season lIe Ho opened the store door 1001 There was wasa wasn a n chill clammy wind wind- and the snow was damp and packed quickly under foot Hum If that Chet Gormley were here now ho lie might be he of or some use for once thought Mr 11 Stags Stag Suddenly he bethought him of or the crr errand nd that bad taken the bo boy away from the store Hey H Stagg Stag l shouted a n shopkeeper from over the way who had likewise lII come to the door did you ou IH hear ar that Hear what whan asked Joseph Stagg puzzled There she goes again That's ice old man She's breaking up Well We'll have ha spring with us In no time now The reverberating crash that had startled Chet Gormley Gormle had startled Joseph Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph Stagg as well My Iy goodness gasped the hardware hardware hardware hard hard- ware dealer and he hc started Instantly yay a from the store bareheaded as he was without locking the door behind him something him something he had never done before be be- tore fore since he had established himself In business on the main st street et of Sunrise Sunrise Sun Sun- Sunrise rise Cove Just why he ran he could scarcely have explained Of or course the children children children chil chil- dren had no not gone out In this snowstorm snowstorm snowstorm snow snow- storm Mrs little Gormley-little little sense as I iA iI di r Ill Wheres Th That t Plagued Boy he lie believed the seamstress possessed possessed- would not have allowed them to toen ven ven- ture Yet why had Chet not returned lIe He quickened his pace He was running run run- ning slipping ning-slipping slipping and sliding over over the wet snow when snow when l Ife he c turned Into the street sheet on which his store stor b boy and his widowed widowed wid wid- owe owed mother lived JIved Mrs II's Gormley saw saw him hint coming coursing from the windows of the Un tiny front room Mr Stagg plunged plunge into the little HUle ho house sc head hea down U and belligerent erent Wheres that plagued boy he hl demand de de- mand tI Dont tell me hes he's taken Hannahs Hannah's Carlyn out on the cove In Inthis Inthis this tills storm But nut you But you ou told him he could I wailed the widow What If I did lid I didn't know going to snow like this did I 11 But It wasn't when they said Mrs Irs Gormley Gormle plucking up some lume little spirit Im sure It wasn't Chetwood's fault Oh dear Woman groaned Joseph Stagg It t doesn't matter whose fault It is or ls-or or if It its it's an anybody's hod s fault The mischief's done The ice lee is breaking up Its It's drifting out of the Inlet Test Just nt at this moment an unexpected voice brol broke e Into the discussion Are you OU positive they went out on the cove coe to slide Mrs Gormley Oh yes es I be Mandy answered the thc seamstress Chet said sold he lie was gon goin there and what Chet says sas hell he'll do he always doS does Then the tho Ice has hus broken away away and they have haye been carried out Into the lake lalo groaned Mr Stagg h 1 came quickly to the little hall Perhaps not Joseph she said speaking directly to tD the hardware deal deal- er It ma may be bo the storm It snows so last fast they the would easily get turned around be around be unable to ind nd the shore Another reverberating crash echoed from the cove Mrs Gormley wrung her hands Oh my iny Chet r 1 Oh my Chet I 1 she walled ed be drowned lIto I l IHo lIe Ito wont won't be If f hes he's got any sense snapped Mr r. r Sta Stagg Ill get ct some men and well we'll go after them Call the tho dog Joseph Stagg Call the Ule dog advised Miss 1 Amanda Heh Heb Didn't Prince go o with em emi Oh yes he lie did walled wailed Mrs Gorm- Gorm ley TO BE DE CONTINUED I |