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_______Z__!ZZ!_!_~i~!an ~ManM>HyM ©wen "-Tsssr laker of Wf Smart Suits. . :-|h^.^ TTHE man that . ™\ order elsewhere \) tioes himself an ]£_§§_il&_IT injustice, for not ■ i_PW|^_k It hr o w money (Ska/ Wxp but lie misses isaj I Hie choice of thc $t|f/ |_jj|j New Goods ever res/ jjJHB Smart Suits from 3 to r> Guineas.! as they rushed down tho rocky road lending to the old ford. He stopped almost on the edgo of tho dry bed of the creek, with tho embankment to their left. .Miss Harding leapt to tho ground, and stood dazed for an instant. .Smith stumbled as ho jumped, biit was on his feet liko a flash. The arch of tho culvert was only a few feet away, but had they not been protected by tho embankment they would havo been beaten down anel killed ere they reached its shelter. Gravel and pebbles from tho roadway above wero dashed into their faces by tho advance blast of tho tornado. Grasping her by the arm ho drag-red or carried her, he knew not which, to the yawning but welconio opening of the old stono archway so fortunately near. They were tossed back and forth in this tunnel, ..a resistless suction pulling, thqm. first toward ono entrance and then toward the, other, only to bo hurled .back by buffeting blows. A trco was dashed across the west opening, one. twisted limb projecting weirinto the culvert. They could not distinguish the crashes' of thunder from those of tho hurtling trees, cr from the. demoniac roar of the tornado. They cannot say how long this last-ed,-but there oamo a moment of appalling silence. Tho tornado had passed. With this strango calm the darkness lifted slightly and they knew that the crisis was over. They were in tho centre of tho tunnel, tho rapidly rising water swirling at their feet. Ho became aware that he) was supporting her with his arm, and that her head was resting on his shoulder. Though tho toruado Had Enssed, the storm still raged liercely, ut its din seemed .silence compared with what had preceded it. "Are—are you hurt?" she faltered, gently trying to release herself. "Aro we going to bo drowned?" T don't know —1 elon't think so," ho faltered, bracing himself against tho rising waters and clasping her closer, as if in fear the flood and "tempest would drag her from him. ''It would be just my luck, for I want to tell you something. I——" A crash of thunder reverberated through the wa-lls of their prison. •'I want to tell you that i love yon !" he declared ere its echoes had ilictl away. 'T Jove you, I love you, and unless I tell you now I may never get another chance. I have be en trying to tell you this for more than a nionth, and if we never,get out of here I want you to know that I love you ! Do you love mc, darling?" "I —I don't know—l think I do," she replied hesitatingly, a slight suspicion of laughter to her voice. "But, Jack, tho water is awfully deep and wet. Is there any danger?" "Not the least!" he declared joyfully. "Do you. think I would Jet you. die in this olel culvert? lam the happ'tvst man in the world! It is growing lighter. Here's a ledge on which you can stand.'' A few yards away was a narrow shelf two feet or more above the bed of the creek, and he helped her to obtain a footing on it. although at one time she clipped beneath the -water and was ail but carried away by its force. '•We can stand another foot and a half rise," he said. "Are you all right up there, darling?" Even as ho spoke the water rose several inches in one wave, and he surmised what had happened. The water was checked by a dam which had formed below. In hiss than a minute it had risen a foot and was at her shoetops. "We're drowned out!'' he exclaimed. •'Now. be steady, and we'll be out of here in a jiffy." f Ho lifted her to his shoulder and with his free right arm braced himself against the wall of the tunnel. The muddy water reached to his waist and itruggicd fiercely against him, but her skirte were clear of it. A fall would have been serious. Once he slipped, but lie safely reached the opening aud struggled up the bank. The rain had-almost- ceased, but they did not notice that. They stood spellbound gazing on a scene of unspeakable devastation. To the north, west, and north-west the wood lay prune, like a field of windswept corn. Huge oaks and pines were tosseel in grotesque wind-rows, their gnarled root* projecting above tho pr«»trate -foliage. The once proud trees