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Show f In the I White Water $ By AUSTIN FLEET l, lilt. Waatarn Nawapapar Union.) THE end was come. Andy went down under a hall of blows from the lists of bis opponent. Hed Mulligan. Mulli-gan. It was tougli on Andy. Everyone Every-one sympathised with the boy, but be had f o right to challenge Ited, even if Ited had said that about the girt. It wasn't as If Andy and Mllly were regularly engaged to be married. Ited swung a mighty fist and Andy took the count. He was carried to his bunk. Ited turned away with a sneer. No one sympathized with Ited, the bully of the camp. "You shore put up a good fight, Andy," suld his friend Juke Knowles. "Don't tuke it so hard, Andy." "'Tuln't that. It's what he said about Mm und her. It's a He. I'll tell lilin so again." "Shore it's a He, Andy. All of us knows tliut. No need to tell him." liut Andy brooded over it all that night. He knew Hed had been lying, but the He was poison in him. He knew Mllly was as good as any girl on earth, and that when Red persecuted perse-cuted her she had threatened to go to the uinnuger. That put an end to Ited, who, in his jealousy of Andy, spat out the words at him. Of course it was a lie, but somehow Andy felt that that lie had become a living, slimy, crawling tiling that bad to be killed. Somehow be must make Ited tuke back that lie. The gang was riding the logs next day, marshaling them into the dam. The river was in spate, the boom had broken once that season, and If the flood continued there would be imminent immi-nent danger of a repetition of the catastrophe. catas-trophe. Every hour a fresh accumulation accumu-lation of ice was Jammed up against it The logs must bo started, taking advantage of the flood. The men skipped from log to log with their heavy caulked shoes. There was murder in Andy's heart as be watched Red moving about. One thrust of his peavy, and Red would be swept down to bis death in those icy waters. Suddenly shouts were raised: "My God, site's going! Olt ashore, boys I Git ashore I" Next instant, with a roar like a lliunuerciuy, me uwiu uuu ynneu. The wedged logs were on the verge of a breakup. The men ran for the shore. Andy saw Red In front of bim stumble the next Instant the bully bad gone headlong into the Ice-laden stream. He disappeared under the logs amid shouts of horror from the bank. Andy was the only other man on the logs. He hesitated perhaps a fraction of a second, then dived. Down Into the icy water, roaring and boiling round the logs, down till be found Red, and grasped bim by the hair. Red was no swimmer. He clutched at Andy convulsively, in the way a drowning man will, and Andy felt them both being swept along by the raging current And then began a furious struggle for life. With one hand grasping Red, whose arms were round Andy in a Stranglehold, drawing him down, Andy fought upward toward daylight He reached it, drew in a chestful of air, and saw the raging waves sweeping uie lugs huuui av ti iuvjt wcic sua, end the Ice floes grinding and churning churn-ing up the river surface. One blow-end blow-end he would go down with Red, to be swept down to the cataract below. Near him lie saw that part of the dam that had not broken a projection projec-tion of plies extending from the shore. He was nearlng it fast but he would be swept through the opening over the cataract And with a last effort he flung himself and Red toward It He missed it I Missed) But shouts attracted bim. Men on the bank were flinging a noosed rope. Just as he was being swept past the dam lie managed man-aged to get one arm through. A struggle, strug-gle, a dozen men hauling on the bank against the current and Red and Andy were in still water and being drawn ashore. And Andy fainted. He recovered to find himself in bis blankets in the bunk house. And that form, gnlfllng at bis side was that Red Mulligan? He turned away in weariness. He had remembered the lie. He had forgotten for-gotten that be had nearly given his life for Red. "Andy," Red sniveled, "that thing I told you about Mllly that was a lie. Reckon I was off my head with Jealousy." Jeal-ousy." Andy put out bis band, and he and Red clasped in the beginning of a lasting last-ing friendship. |