The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-08-24

flight. and crossed it, swinging ner lam
tern high in the air. For she had heard, |
faint and far off, the swift rush of the
incoming train, and knew she was racing |
neck and neck with death.
The storm beat on her uncovered
head, half blindingher. Her light sum- |
mer raiment. soaked through and |
through, chung about her, hindering.
Her heart throbbed so that she seemed |
s~uffocating. She had ceased to feel her
flying feet. This running, painting; |
aching, choking thing that toiled along |
so painfully, swinging its red light with
its numbed ARM, could this be Rose
Myrickp.
o, if her will should fail, she thought
her will which alone seemed to bear
her stiffening body on! And ~at-tfat in
slant she heard the sound for which her
straining ears were set, the whistle fol
.sdown brakes" The n had seen
her signal. Thank God, the train wa
saved!
But it's fiery rush could not be stopped.
1t kept the track, indeed, but struck the
tree with a force that sent the smaller
branches flying like missiles, that drove a
| splinter full against the breast of the
| slender girl, still mechanically Struggling
on with her beacon, and hurled her down
the embankment, She felt no hurt. She
was confused, utterly exhausted willing
to lie there forever, so she need
move again. She was almost sorry when
she saw lanterns moving above her, and
men climbing down to her. 1t was the
kind conductor, whom she knew well,
who took her gently in his arms, TX
claiming "Why, bless my soul it is
Miss Myrick! Gentlemen, takesef your
hats. This little girl has done what few
men would have dared to do inthe face
of such a storm. and saved three hundred
lives. Are you hurt, my dearg'
II think not,'' said Rose, family I;
'.but please lay me down again"
go, neutrality-suspicious. sec
if there's a doctor on this train" ordered
conductor Parker. But one passenger
remained behind, and silently. but very
tenderly, helped the bluff official to carry
the ha~lf-conscious girl back to the bag
gage-car, where they laid her on a bed
of coats and wraps eagerly proffered.
Half a dozen doctors were there in a
moment. When they agreed, after long
consultation, that it was probably a case
of simple exhaustion, and not of internal
injuries, the passenger who had fingered
beside her breathed so fervent a thanks
giving that the conductor beckoned him
apart.
"Youk know Miss Myrick," he asserted.
The passenger bowed.
81 don't mean to be impertinent."
said the fatherly conductor, II am only
thinking how to bring her back to life,
for, mark my words, it's a near shave.
Would she be glad to see you?"
81 don't know" groaned the young
fellow. elf 1 had not been a fool, she
would have been glad"
81 see," replied his confessor. "You
treated her shabbily, and she loves you
all the more, of course. You are the
medicine l want; better than all the doc.
tors stuff. Go in there and sit by hel
till she rouses up. I'll keep everybody
else out, sympathetic women especially.
We shall run into the station as soon a.
the tackle comes to get this COMPOUNDED
T tree off. Make the most of your time.
L shall telegraph her father, and he may
warn you off the premises"
= When Rose lifted her heavy eyes they
looked straight into the anxious face O
: Will Hayes. But he forestalled her ques
| tions. s.Hushr' he said; s.Tll tell you
1 couldn't bear it any longer, Rose.
5 was coming to say so, when out Tn
: afraid to think what might have been
: darling. But if you will take the lif'
, you have saved, and help me to maxi
something out of it, please God you
: shall never again be ashamed of me-"
S Thee was a wedding at DIR. Myrick'i
the net summer. Helena wa earnin!
4 more than Rose had earned. Alice wa
e the thrifty and energetic housekeeper t.
whom her mother had at last been per
e suaded to resign the dignity Of office
The doctor himself grew daily younger
$ his children declared. AS for Rose an,
r Will, it was the opinion of the family
v that they agreed too entirely to be in tn
S least interesting. Indeed, they differed
s apparently, upon only N subject. Ros
thought that Will went almost too far il
advocating the right of women to work
o and to be respected in and for that work
S and Will said that Rose was too conser
e vative in her notions of the proper sub
~missiveness of wives to their husbands
and would spoil any man less high
" minded than himself.-Harper's Baza1