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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 121, 12 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

help him. In an instant I cleared^ the roof of the people. I was Aloney'S "Montelle never looke^rj£H,2&ii The populace below wen^mSnrag} excited. There he stood^m.lh«|! tenjble abyss, balancing lumselfji with muscles as rigid as stone. Th< colour had left his face, and Stella was as pale as death. Again he backed slowly down the grade. 11; the crowd would only keep stilLj Montelle started up the grade. " 'Hold hard ! ' cried the manager? below. /%*' ''Women arid men turned tfiair heads away, and the rope -fJnW strained every sinew. Montelle had gone back twelve steps. He was coming on rapidly npw. , t '^1 turned away my eyes lest their anxious state should be an Voided annoyance. The men holding the guy - rope that was causfilg^ the trouble were making heroic efforts to keep the cable steady. Twti°Men were at each end. The indefinable murmur that always arises from* an excited crowd,, though its members are silent, seem to come up in waves. -i . « "Tne wheel touched the knot and went safely over, but the strain had been to great The guy-rope broke ! and the next instant Stella was clinging to . the cable with ' both hands, and Montelle was suspended at the handles of his barrow that hung to the cable by the slotted hook in which the wheel turned. " Alcry of horror, that Tf as i more a, moan, came up from the' crowd, and strong men turned their faces away. % ~ „"' -' ■ ■ : "In ari instant my climbing-strap was dangling evenly over the cable near them. Then came the crowning horror. .. '"■■.,-"..';'. " Montelle noticed that Stella wai growing weak. Suspended as he was, lie, placed his left arm about his. daughter's limbs, and she slid intoi' his embrace in a dead fainti He was now holding col to the barrow-handle, with out a single hand, and had besides Stella's weight upon him. There he hung, fifty feet from the building and forty-five from the ground. . - " ' Hold fast, old tellow .l */• I shouted: • I will be with you in a minute. " I saw below me two of the company. They were stalwart tumblers and all round athletes. I called to them. "Haul that waggon under the wire, and you Itfvers and Thompson, get into it ready to take her. I'll, bring h~er down.' • j ' v:-,; "JJhgrjßMn-i'^d. as. direoteoVandX started over on the cable hand over hand until I reached my strap, Ifl could have hung there for the rest of the day. The waggon was directly under me andjAhe athletes in it. One of them hajßns shoes off, sawtp. was " ' Let go w other "guys and pull on this,' I shouted. It -was done, and. brought me ; at least four^feet nearer tl^e. oartti.and a,^ts§^eprpf the.ho^el. ; 'I, placed my arm around Stella .and; B|artedidown the strap. Montelle ,wi^?. a look of gratitude Safely 1 4i4..4pw?x J the strap! l 'Woi(id^ itMbng vrngh^A '. IL < , /AThai* Heayen-r-yM. . I} { ./'Forjos Ineoredthem one ofThe athletes j fa .; .thY; : waggon sprang^ to the Jlshoulders "o f 'the other, and standing straight up rigid as a column^ ; 'of <'■ iron/. too% njy. ib^den from^me while I clung to the strap, and • gently, lowered the insensiblegirl into the arms of his friend. HC sprang to the ,' waggon bed, and J[ ' ; " Iri anotSer minute Montelle was coining down the .'strap hand over hand, and as he dropped into 'the' waggon, a j^hout like the surges gfthe sea rent the air. Men thrfw* up their hats and, shrieked their hTuaasand bravoa. ■ The^yery air was mad with enthusiasm. - '' " One of the athletes carried Stella to her room, where a physician attached to the company soon restored her to herself.' f '. " All hearts were glad. | 4 '"What shall. ; we do about "'Hie wheelbarrow? She's still hongin' up there/ asked the, attendant. . "Mbntelle turned upon him almost fiercely. ' Let it fall and be dashed to atoms. I shall never use it again.' ■ , " And he never did." f. . HOW MARK SATISFIED TTTmT As everyone knows, Mr. Clemens first met Mb wife while on the famous voyage of the " Quaker City," and he pursued his acquaintance ofjtor their return so closely that at lastthf) young lady's papa one day called ihe ardent and devoted Mark into his private study and said after some 'preamble — •■'•"-■ "Mr. Clemens, I have something to say to you which bears upon a subject of grave importance, at least to me and mine, xou have .been coming here for some time, and your manners leave no doubt in my mind as to your object. Now my daughter's welfare is very dear to me, and before I can admit you to her society on the footing of a suitor to her lund I would like to know something more than I do about you, your antecedents, etc. Stop a minute ! ' You must remember that a man may be a good fellow and a pleasant companion on a voyage and all that but when it is a question as grave' as ' this a wise father tries to take every precaution before allowing his daughter's ' affections to become engaged, arid I ask of you, as a gentlerman that you'give me the names ot some your friends- inCalifornia to whom I may write and make such eiiqtiirieg as I deem necessary, that is, if you still desire our friendship;-' : It was'riow Mark' Twain's turn. '■'■*:' Sir/ said he; bowing profoundly as became a young man, who repeats his" hoped for father-in-law, "your sentiments are in every way correct I approve- of them myself, ana" hasten to add that you have not been/ mistaken; in my 'sentiments toward your daughter, 'who, I may tell.you candidly ; Beems to' me to be theTn^oat. perfect 1 of her sexj : and I honouj ybvx* eph'citation ifpr her welfare. I am riot ' only 'witiing" to give you references, but am only to glad to have .ajipjpporhunlgLtoo.jda so, whicj^jny. natiiral modesty wauld have^rflVflnn ted me from offering. Therefore,