Angels and Women (1924)

206 ANGELS AND WOMENlightning flash that revealed it--a beautifulwoman (her dress a queen’s) with an infantpressed to her snowy bosom, while by thehand she led a child whose strong featuresand powerful limbs too surely betrayed acelestial parentage. Her hair and garmentsstreamed in the wind, which she vainlystrove to breast, and her voice of despairsounded shrill above the roar of the storm--"Save us, 00wadu, save us 1"Alas l far from the reach of her voice, inchains of darkness, was Owadu, awaiting theJudgment of the Last Day lIn another instant all sense and feelingwere absorbed in the jarring shock that weourselves experienced. The floods rushedtogether, sky and ocean mingled, the writhingvapors were torn by a mighty force, thefloodgates of heaven were opened and an inundationfrom the clouds swelled the wildwaters already surging through the valley.The sharp lightning flashes split the heavyvault, the dun air was whirled into a tornado,