The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-10

leigh's sudden movement, fen to the bot
tom of the steep incline, and Scadleigh
rolled down with 1t.
As the express rolled by, passengers idly
looking through the windows of the cars
saw on the verge of the precpce above
them a terrified girl staring wildly down
upon them; by her a young man appar-
emily paralyzed for the moment;
half way down the embarrassment,
another young man who by
his gestures, was trying TO communi-
cate with some one on The level of tho
track. Conductors and trainmen leaned
over the platform guards and looked in
tently along the rail on the inside There
was a bump and a rush of steam; the air
brakes were being applied.
When half a dozen train hands some
minutes later reached the spot. running
from where the brakes had at last brought
the trains speed down TO safe jumping
of rate they found Mcknight and Joe
Benton stopping over Scadleigh who lay
IN the drain that separated the road bed
from the face of the cutting.
rs ne dead?" one of them asked
No, he's only tainted" Joe answered
well, serve him right"
And the Disguised officials pulling out
their watches turned and hurried back to
catch their train. thinking only of the
Time lost through this absurd approach
to fatality,
His ankle is sprained." Joe shouted
up 20 Elise. you go on to The slope over
the tunnel, and we'll get him up all right
II was not very severe sprain, in
truth, but poor Ben Scadleigh had gone
through the most terrible experience of
his life while he slid down-as it seemed
10 him-at full speed TO catch the driv-
ing wheels of the great monster that
rushed at him from out of The tunnel
In that little moment he had not remem-
bered that the drain would be sure TO
catch him. He awoke to consciousness.
after what seemed a long and terrible
dream of clanking wheels laundering over
him, in the shallow, muddy channel The
other Two men dashed some handfuls of
water in his face, and then he recovered
sufficiently to ask, Us my hair gray?"
The laugh that greeted this question
was welcome sound 20 him. Mcknight
and Benton were wandering along the
drain, trying, if possible to find some old
pieces Of timber that might serve to make
an eStempore litter on which to carry
away their wounded comrade, but nothing
light enough for the purpose was to be
found
A. for Elise Cabel she was thoroughly
subdued by Che mbshap. for which she
felt herself mainly responsible When
Scadleigh had been slowly helped up to
I
mel she found an outlet for her penitent
feelings in bathing his face with her
handkerchief dipped at sphng close
by. Mcknight and Benton watched this
treatment. ana one at least of them was
hoping that the girl would put off yet a
Little longer the choice she must sooner
or later make between the three This
accident had certainly given Ben Scad-
leigh ON unfair advantage.
Joe" said Mcknight, to his lanlxy
rival a few days later, as they both left
| Elise at her gate after escorting her
home from her evening Visit to the en-
viabe invalid, Scadeigh, II guess Ben
] has beaten both our times. We might as
wcll quiz. What do you say?"
/ "Oh, Z DONE know about that" said
\ Joe. I'VE might wait little longer"
''You and l ought TO come to some I'M
derstanding about this thing Joe. How
! long do you propose to wait?'
| That's right, old man. like 10 hear