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"I got a drink from the water tank, but now I can't shut off the handle, and the water's comin' out as fast as anything!" "Oh, my!" cried the girl, jumping up with a laugh, "I must shut it off before we have a flood here!" "Freddie! what made you do it?" asked Bert. "I couldn't help being thirsty, could I?" asked the little boy. "And it wasn't my fault the handle got stuck!
He reached the edge of the precipice and looked down. Below him was the canoe and Jeanne. She was fighting futilely against the resistless flood; he saw her paddle wrenched suddenly from her hands, and as it went swirling beyond her reach she cried out his name again. Philip shouted, and the girl's white face was turned up to him. Fifty yards ahead of her were the first of the rocks.
An ancient historian, gathering up the traditions of his primitive fore-fathers, records the legend of the Flood, in which it is told that "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart Was only evil continually."
Further streams of it ran in from fissures; and Vane's face grew grave as he plodded through the flood with a lamp in his hand. He spent an hour in the workings, asking Salter a question now and then, and afterward went back with him to one of the iron-roofed sheds, where he put on dry clothes and sat down to a meal.
After the battle of Ladysmith and the retreat of the British, the Boers in their deliberate but effective fashion set about the investment of the town, while the British commander accepted the same as inevitable, content if he could stem and hold back from the colony the threatened flood of invasion.
"Why, it's an old boat!" cried Tom. "That it is, my lad." "But how did it come there?" cried Dick, gazing wonderingly at the black timber of the ancient craft. "Who can tell, Dick? Perhaps it floated out of the river at some time when there was a flood, and it was too big to move back again, and the people in the days when it was used did not care to dig a canal from here to the river."
Such was the oracle that Pelias heard, that a hateful doom awaited him to be slain at the prompting of the man whom he should see coming forth from the people with but one sandal. And no long time after, in accordance with that true report, Jason crossed the stream of wintry Anaurus on foot, and saved one sandal from the mire, but the other he left in the depths held back by the flood.
Even to a country already familiar with broad and striking catastrophe, the flood was a phenomenal one.
A great pity for the bride came over him, and then a flood of yearning tenderness for the other girl, greater than he had ever known. In his awe and wonder at what was going on all his own rebellion and unhappiness were gone.
As we watched the light escaping to higher and higher planes from the encroaching flood of shadow filling the valley we heard footsteps, and in another moment were joined by Richard Benning. "I saw you from the road," he said carelessly; "so I came up." Being a fool, I neglected to take him by the throat and pitch him into the treetops below, but muttered some polite lie instead.
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