Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-11-07

strong, proudly y-csrried figure at her
side. And then scene after scene came
mp before her, always with the two
figures present: the manly, devoted
lover, the self-absorbed girl.
A jar, a shock, u sudden stop, es il
the train had run against a wall of rock,
rnd Margaret started up and drew the
curtain aside instinctively. A fall
through space-what was it, oh. where
was she. Had the train fallen down
an embankment?
After minute she realized that she
had been thrown from her berth across
the car, that other persons lay about,
some groaning, some hastily picking
themselves up. She shut her eyes
there was a sharp pain in her left arm and
n weight upon her side. A falling lamp
had struck her, and from some cause
she could not rise, There was a terri.
bile confusion, much talking, and hal
a dozen people bending over her pity
ingly and asking her questions.
"What has happened? Is anybody
killed." abe asked.
Several persons answered at once.
They had run into q freight. The en-
gineer on their own train was killed
me one else. Many were hurt. Coult
she bear to be moved?
II must" she returned, setting hel
lips, for agonizing pains began K
shoot through her foot, and tn
thought Of being touched was suffer
ing.
Fortunately we are just on the
outskirts of Frithville-there ar
houses near" 1t WAS the conductor
who spoke now, and he at once tool
charge. She was lifted carefully
wrapped in blankets and carried out
Their car had sustained less damage
than any other, being in the rear, ant
there was no difficulty in getting out
'If she could stand it to be takel
over yonder," said some one, pointin!
to house some distance away, "she't
be more comfortable, reckon"
"Where are we?" asked Margaret
bravely suppressing her pain.
Somewhere in southern Indiana
little town called Frithville," mai
answered her.
'If she could stand it to be takel
over to the doctors house"-said tn
persistent first speaker.
81 can stand it." she interposed
'take me there quickly.
They improvised sort of rough lit
ter of mattresses, and carried he
across field in the open country
The dawn was just breaking, and tn
pale moon was slowly fading out O
view before the great coming light
The air was clear, cold, crisp; an
though there had evidently been
! heavy storm during the night, it ha
clea.ed completely, and the first ray O
sunlight glittered upon banks Of froze
snow. The house before which the
stopped was q plain, two-storie
wooden structure, which seeme
at first sight peculiarly barre
! looking. Clean white curtain
hung in straight, scant folds a
the windows. The door had bee
drab in color, but the paint had bee
SO assiduously scrubbed that on
now took its presence on trust. Their
was brass knocker and rush door
mat on which lay large black ca
with bristling white whi-kers.
The door was opened by a sever
swedish girl, whose stirched cap an
a,son suggested careful housekeeping
rs her suspicious countenance sue
gested inhospitslity. She made n
objections to admitting them, how
ever, and Margaret was carefully de
rolited upon Il couch in the sitting
room to wait the coming of the doctor
who, the maid said, had just left tn
house to go to the scene of the wrecs:
"We1l send MIN back to you
ma am, right off" one of the men as
sured her. "You ought to be 'tende
10 first"
''Not if others ere suffering and nee
him more" said Marg .ret family.
The ungenial- locking Swede prove
herself to be not deficient in skill
even though sympathy was in meas
ure lacking. She made her guest q
comfortable rs she could. The sho
was cut from the swolle en- ankle, whicl
was bathed and baniaged, and tn
hurts upon the shoulder and side wer
pronounced to be only bruises whic
Herr doctor would make right.
And then Margaret was left to hersel
while the girl went to make the newt
able coup of tea," which was to Sc
everything straight.
After awhile her eyes began t
wander idly around the room. !
seemed half parlor, half study. Fold
ing doors divided it from the Office a
the back. There was a bookcase, wei
filled; some good engravings on tn
walls; few eesy-chairs covered wit
raw silk OF dull hue, mucI
worn; and writing tabl
between The windows, half covere
with books and magazines. Their
was something agreeable to her tast
in the air of the room. She could i'm
agine it the abode of Il man whose YER
poverty could never become squalid
The great open Franklin stove shon
brightly, and the hearth Was scruiI
lously clean. Upon the mantel were
bronze cfock and pair of fine vases
dainty in tone and finish; they wer
the sole womanly touches about tn
place. Noting these details hal
.,ld1.ferentiy, she lay back again an
closed her eyes.
When she opened them again, the.
happened to glance directly over
corner of the room which had befor
been dim, but was now illuminated b.
shaft of sunlight. A carved bracke
hung there, and on the shelf lay
singular-looking little instrument
shaped like dagger, of Moorish de
vice, the handle inlaid with gold, lei
rough and unpublished. When Margars
saw this small object, she gave Ettl
cry and tried to rise, but finding tha
impossible, she dropped back upon he
pillows as if she had been shot, ne
eyes fixed upon the little instrumer
v-itH a LOOK of recognition that VI.
half pleasure, half alarm. Wa;
strange trick was fate about to pia
her? How could this thing be poss
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