The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-05-05

horse yeered suddenly TO one side, AM
then plunged on more nadly than he
fore. Both sho and the doctor were
thrown violently out,
When the doctor picked himself NJ
and looked around in a dazed way, she
was standing erect as ever, vigorously
brushing the mud from her dress.
She had experienced IN accident and
had come out of it, as she had come
out OF everything else, unsoathod'
The party on ahead, alarmed at the
sight OF the runaway horse dashln8
past, despatched Mr., Lumb, who was
on horseback, to investigate. As they
were near town, it was not long be-
fore he had sent a CAB to their assist
ance.
Caroline" said the doctor, as they
drove back in tho twilight, 81 have
always been impressed with the rapid.
ity with which the brain acts. Man
thinks at lightning speed.
''Ihat depends on the man." Miss
Briggs interposed laconically.
"When we went flying through the
air," he went on, without noticing The
Interruption, sit flashed across my
mind that I should find you lying
stunned and insensible-that 1 would
pick you up tenderly in my arms, and
kiss you, as / did long ago-that |
would claim you for my own again.
"Well, " she answered provokingly,
81 suppose the shock of such a fall,
to a man Of your weight, would natu-
rally bring him to his senses.
at was not that" he said, q little
confused and nettled by her cool re-
ply, "but the situation was not as ro-
mantle as I had imagined-as l hoped
it would be"
"You had hoped, then, that I should
be stunned?"
ooh, Caroline" he demonstrated,
sis there never to be anything but
misunderstanding between us? You
must listen to me, for it is fate that
has brought. us across the sea to find
each other at last. | was sure OF it
when [ FIRST met you, although you
seemed SO stolid and Indifferent.
Think OF the time when We were all IN
all TO each other"
81 thought Emily" began Miss
Briggs.
The doctor laughed happily. "No |
No! Emily is not as blind as her aunt,
She has known what L wanted from
the first You have not said no." he
added presently, as they rode on
through the darkness, "and / shall not
let you say it now. You are mine
and thousand times dearer than
when you were the sweetheart of my
He slipped his arm around her, and
'elt her shaking with suppressed sobs.
i'Why, what's the matter?' be asked.
81 dor know" she answered. For
Miss Briggs had met with an expert
snce she could not fathom. The ten
Ter Inducements other nature. frozen
% long that she doubted their exist
noes, melted as in February thRw,
md found vent in tears.
At tho hotel entrance they found
he drunken driver awaiting them, hat
4 hand, "I'm sorry to be troublin'
ez, sorr, but theirs the two shillin'
ixpence for the journey out, and two
hillin' sixpence for the journey back.
N the same shud be more, for it
roke me vehicle an famed me haste"
The doctor smiled down into the
ice beside him, where his fond eyes
lw blooming again the beauty of girl
GOD, and said, "Ihe rascal knows the
ccident was all his own fault, but if
had not been for him, l might never
ave found you as l did, on a iaunting
ar"
He dropped shower of silver pieces
lto the outstretched hand.
"Shure an ye're fit for a prince,
orr" cried the man, delighted at the
nexpeotod generosity, and shrewdly
uesslng its cause. "Good luck to ye
a the swate leddyw
And as they walked on down the
his voice followed them, in [
oking the blessing of all the saints in
is calendar. The Puritan.