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The wind had gone down a little, but only a little, and the electrical

flashes danced all around the horizon in ly near, the darkness trebly deep between the

intervals when the long sweep of flat lands lay in dazzling clearness,

clean-cut in the washed air to the finest detail of stricken field and

heaving woodland A staggering fla it, and a frightful uproar shook the house and rattled the

casements, but over the crash of thunder Minnie heard her friend's loud

screa back from the ith both hands, palm

outward, pressed to her face She leaped to her and threw her ared her to the"At the next flash--the fence

beyond theflashed incessantly Helen

tried to point; her hand only jerked fro but the lightning," Minnie answered, breathlessly

"Oh, the fence! The fence--and in the field!"

"Helen! What was it like?"

"Ah-ah!" she panted, "a long line of white--horrible white----"

"What like?" Minnie turned fro clasp