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her, sunk into a chair and closed her eyes She had hardly fallen

asleep when a crash of thunder split the night and woke her As it

rolled angrily away she quickly raised the -curtain

The heavens were frenzied She looked toward the river Electrical

flashes charging froe,

reflected the black face of the river and paled flickering lights and

fla stretches of dike, an arly, lent awe to the spectacle

She could see sines whirled viciously

up into the sweeping night and above her head the wind screaainst the revetangs together

were reinforcing it Where the dike gave under the terrific pounding,

or where swiftly boiling pools sucked under the heavy piling, Glover's

them with stone

At moments laden flat cars were pushed to the brink of the flood, and

men with picks and bars rose spirit-like out of black shadows to

scramble up their sides and du procession wheeled and slung sandbags upon the

reveth into

the rain, and over all played the incessant lightning and the angry

thunder and the flying night