Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-25

moment l heard the terrific screams O
women, saw that the driver was miss
ing from his place, and that the horse.
rwee running away.
In an instant, forgetting everything
else at those cries of distress, l dropped
my pistol and sprang into the road
just for moment the startled horse,
paused, and in that moment l seized
the bits. Then commenced furiou.
battle with the frantic plunging steeds
1 was thrown down, trampled upon,
but L clung to them with desparins
energy. Ten minutes ago, NV only
thought had been to take life, now, my
only desire was to save it. So it was,
chung to the horses and kept them there
! until L felt stronger hands assisting
mine, and then the wild struggle, the
broad fields, and the white road all
faded away, and left nothing but dark
ness and silence. 4
when l awoke-well, boys, Thought
Aladdin's lamp had certainly come
back upon the earth, and somebody had
been using it for my benefit. If 1 had
come back TO live in our own room,
Ranald's and mine, might have con-
cluded that the whole affair had been a
horrible dream, and so said nothing
more about il. But it certainly was
surprising to find myself in a strange
room, on strange bed, with rosy old
gentleman leaning over me ON the one
side, and rosy old lady ON the other,
their faces expressing the most lively
solicitude, while grave medical gem
tleman first felt my pulse, and then
rubbed the palms of his hands together
with great satisfaction. Nor was my
astonishment decreased when the rosy
old gentleman said:
The dear boy has come through.
Allow me to take your hand doctor.
We owe so much to you.'
''Whereupon he shook hands very
heartily with the doctor, and then with
the old lady, and they all seemed ex-
trayagantly glad of my recovery.
1T was astonishing too, in the days
that followed, while L was lying there,
too weak TO move, to see how i was
waited on and made much of by the
whole family. They told me after a
while how | had saved the lives of the
rosy old lady and her daughter, who
were in the carriage that night, and
how | was dragged out from under the
horses fee-, bruised and bleeding, and
with my left arm broken; how l was
brought there, and never recovered con-
sciousness, but went off into a raging
fever, and laid next TO deaths door for
weeks. They told me how had talked
in my delirium-now arraigning Mr..
Laclede for base ingratitude, then
fancying that Ranald was upon my
track wherever | went, and that he was
going TO take me commit murder. Then
was waiting behind the hedge, with
my finger upon the trigger of the pistol
listening to the rattle OF carriage wheels
far away on the road. and the next mo
ment ! was crying that there were wo-
men inside, and that | must save them
and | would strive TO rise and would
fall back exhausted, only to begin all
over again.
do you picture. boys. how had fall
len upon Paradise: After all, there is
a divinity that shapes our ends, rough
hew them as We may They had gath
cred the whole story from my rawlings.
They knew what had been in my heart
that night beside the hedge, and yet
they could be kind and tender. They |
restored strength and manhood in me. |
They made me feel that was worthy |
of being honOred and trusted. When l
was able to work, the old gentleman |
found me a splendid position, and |
continued my law studies in all my lei |
sure moments. Mr.. Lyndray gave me
a most cordial invitation TO make his |
house nv home, and treated me with |
such confidence that | must have made |
myself worthy of it, however ignOble |
b., 90
it was that when Mr.. Laclede came and |
offered me a position as boOk-keeper in |
his establishment, | was enabled TO de-
cline the honor, with the old speech a |
little more proudly uttered: Il am
Kenneth Lane, sir" And so ii was
that every holiday took me back to the
home of my preseryer, where Mr.. and
Mrs. Lyndray treated me like son and |
their fair daughter smiled on me at in
tervals. At last | was admitted to the |
bar, since which | have become-well,
boys you know the rest"
The most promising young lawyer
in the STATE said Fenncr, emphati-
cally.
But what about the daughter,
Judge?" said Graham. You surely |
are not going TO leave US in the lurch,
after we had all concluded that there
was going TO be spice of romance
about it?"
"Oh, yes-the daughter.' said Ken
meth Lane, with a blush. Then the
rising young lawyer drew himself up
with the grace and pride of young
god. MY friends" he said, with un-
sweetness, ''if you will 60
lown to Mr.. Lyndray's on the first day
Of the new year, you will see me united
10 Ethel Lyndray, my queen among
"Hurrah, Three cheers for the Judge
and his bride." springing to his feet
md waving his cap, and the cheers
we're given with vim that brought
back their college days afresh.