Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-12-27
my every bone.

my every bone.
s'Splendidi Perfect! Bravor' shout
ed Tom from the back seat. "Your
start was a picture: and that run into
the drift and barking the pear tree don't
count, rs the bend hid them from Uncle
Bob
1 thought madly l heard gurgling
sound OF female laughter. was wrong,
though. for that second she said to me:
you do drive splendidly, indeed
Aud how good of you to rest Toms
armsl Poor Toni why, how the reins
have cut your hands"
my arm is stiff as poker, Bet.
All, baby, that's delsciousl'
Had boon driving the horses of the
Sun, with the pit of Acheron gaping be-
fore me. must have turned at that
exclamation. There was misery in my
spine and torture in my legs. bat 1 did
turn little. Tom had pulled off his
gauntlet. and she-yes, she was chatting
his purple, ugly hand between two be
witching FUR glovesi
''See what a good cousin / amp The
black eyes danced before me, and once
more the musical laugh trilled out beau
tiful and birdlike With agony in nv
back and bitterness in my soul tried
to echo it, but the hollow mockery
ended in q CHASTITY groan as the brutes
gave an extra plunge that nearly carried
me over tho dashor
The next twenty minutes were q
-n5ghtmere. 1 hold in memory vague
| tumble Of binding sunlight on the snow:
| q vhirliny rush Of trees and houses o.
! the hill sides; a racking and torment III
/ back, knees and arms; n whizzing WHO'D
| Of wind in my half frozen ears Twice
/ essayed 70 look around at the couple
1 behind me, but the c0mmandante in
don Juan" was not more rigid than
those strained feathers Eeld me, while the
molten fire rushing down my spine re
fused to let me bend my neck. I fell
my hands must soon come off-my ell
bows ana shoulder blades pull clear
from thcic cockets; but still / held on
madly, wildly, in sort of dread
full trance. for those twenty minutes
Then remembrance vaguely PARTS
roadside inn q collection Of sleighs ans
men running into the road and wavinI
their hands then crash, a cutter fyin,
wildly aside and man in somersault
Last came grinding jar, and 1 awok
from my nightmare, half lying betwecl
Tom and his cousin on the back seat
the horses neck deep in snow drift AM
rough coated men running for thei
heads.
s'Splendid, by jingor yelled Tom {
me as, hastily extricating himself from
the buffalo. he ran TO a man hounderin
J in the read. You're not hurt, l hope
I'm deuced sorry for the foul but youn
horses-hard mouths-couldn't help il
Beasts all right, see Come in an
: have something to drink
; drew long, deep, gasping breath.
tried TO spring. but could only craw
over the scrapcr, and helped Miss Betti
into the road. We were as tho "Ball'
}, Eye tavern, five good miles from Pix
: toni
: awkward fellow that" said vcr
!. cheerily, all Things considered. ] W;
: hugely elated at being once moro Q
& terra firma, notwithstanding strong rr'
e clivitics displayed by my legs for sim
{ ting mp like jackknives. AMI coul
e scarcely resist pulling on the little whi
: hal j in mine, as though Miss Bott
v were the gray awkward fcllowl ST
:. gular he conldn't take caro- O. his tr.
u when he saw me coming. But como pc
pie never viii learn to drive"
2 '.Never." meelly responded th0 lit
p lady; but tho eyes that mot rline for
single second literally played in flash
\ Of luminous merriment. What cou
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