The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-25

FIGHT. and crossed it, swinging her lans
tern high in the air. For she had hear,1
faint and far off, the swift rush of tn
incoming train, and knew she was racinS
neck and neck with death.
The storm beat on her uncovered
head. half binding her. Her light sun, :
mer raiment, soaked through and
through, clung about her, hinderino.
Her heart throbbed so that she seen,ase
suffocating. She had ceased to feel her
living feet This running, panting
aching. choking thing that toiled alonSr
SO painfully. swinging its red light With
its numbed arm, could this be Rose
Myrick?
o. if her will should fail, she thouoht
her will which alone seemed to bear
her stiifening body on And at that in
slant she heard the sound for which her
straining ears were set, the whistle fol
..down brakes" The engineer had seen
her signal. Thank God, the train wa
savetli
But its fiery rush could not be stopped.
1t kept the track. indeed but struckthe
tree with force that sent the smaller
branches flying like missiles, that drive a
splinter full against the breast Of the
slender girl. still mechanically struggling
on with her beacon, and hurled her own
the embankInent. She felt no hurt She
was confused, utterly exhausted, Wiling
to lie there forever, 50 she need ever
move again. She was almost sorry fhen
she saw lanterns moving above herand
men climbing down to her. 1t wa the
kind conductor. whom she knew FELL,
who took her gently in his arln9eN-
claiming why, bless my soul is
Miss Myrick! Gentlemen, take oil Nlr
hats This little girl has done 49,
men would have dared 10 do in the-ce
of such storm, and saved three hurTed
lives. Are you hurt, my dear?''
II think not, said Rose, fairly !;
''but please lay me down aT;lin."
..Go, somebody everybody aM see
if there's n doctor on this train.p oAered
conductor Parker. But one passenger
remained behind, and silently, ba very
tenderly, helped the bluff official ocarry
the half-conscious girl back to. til bag-
gage-car, where they laid her oua bed
of coats and wraps eagerly pr,Eered.
Half dozen doctors Were thea in a
moment When they agreed, alta long
consultation. that it was probablys case
of simple exhaustion, and not of iBernal
injuries, the passenger who had ligcred
beside her breathed so feryent thnks-
giving that the conductor beckona him
apart.
you know Miss Myrck,' he asEte,L
The passenger bowed
II don't mean TO be impertinnt
said the fatherly conductor, Il auonly
thinking how 10 bring her back allie,
for. mark my words, it 5 near have.
Would she be glad to see you9N
Il don't know groaned the FSung
fellow. IF | had not been foA she
would have been glad
II see. replied his eonfessor. You
treated her shabbily, aud she lovesyou
all the more. of course. You are the
medicine | want; better than all thdoc-
tors stuff. Go in there and sit cher
( till she rousss up. I'll keep everybody
else out. sympathetic women especially.
We shall run into the station as son As
( the tackle comes to get this coafousied
I tree oil Make the most of your the
/ shall telegraph her father, and heRay
warn you OF the premises.
Whom Rose lifted her heavy eyes hey
I looked straight into the anxious facof
/ VIII Hayes But he forestalled her qes-
tons. ..IIushr' he said; IN tell VA.
1 couldn't bear it any longer, Rose
was coming 70 say 50. when you - IN
afraid to think what might have ben,
/ darling. But if YOU will take the lie
Won have saved. and help me to nike
something out Of it. please God pu
shall never again be ashamed of me-
! There was wedding at DR. Myrie' 5
/ the next summer. Helena was earns2
! more than Rose had earned Alice
the thrifty and energetic bousekecper6
whom her mother had at last been Tr-
suaded to resign the dignity of ole.
! The doctor himself grew daily younsr,
I his children declared As for Rose ad
VIII, it was the opinion OF the fanny
that they agreed too entirely to be inhe
/ least interesting Indeed, they dilienl.
apparently, upon only one subject, hse
| thought that VIII went almost too fain
| advocating the right of women TO wsk,
and to be respected in and for that wgk
and VIII said that Rose was too eoner-
vative in her notions of the proper so
| missiveness of wives TO their husbans-
and would spoil any man less hgh-
minded than himself -H1rpcr's Bar.