Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18

as stOut OLD henderson, who never
was known to jump, managed to pull
it open with his hunting crop. See
ing Miss Holiday and her galloping
horse, he had just time ito pull it wide
open as Rocket galloped madly
through, humping the right wheel box
severely on the gaitePost. Satterlev
sat muddled up in a heap holding on
frantically to the cart.
They were now in the midst of the
horsemen and going hard Suddenly
a narrow brook doomed up before
them, and several riders came to
grief, including old Henderson, whose
horse stumbled into it, and who was
dragged out subsequently by a
farmers boy. half full of water and
fully convinced that he was drowned.
II wonder if the cart will get over?"
unused Miss Halliday. apparently to
herself.
Satterlee did not feel that his opin-
ron would matter, seeing that Rocket
was evidently determined to put the
matter to "a test.
Miss Halliday applied be- whip,
which had the effect of increasing
Rockets speed considerably. He
jumped, swish-there was q splash
then q Jar which Sabterlee thought
would smash the cart to atoms-and
they had cleared it.
fiday. encouragingly. Steady, my
boy" as the cart fairly bounced and
swayed over the hard ground
Satterlee had long s.nce aband oned
hope and resigned himself to silence
and his fate. He grpped the side Of
the cart determinedly, a hard, set
look on his pale face. The pace was
getting faster and faster, and many
of the horsemen were dropping be-
hind. Now "a light post and rail
fence doomed up, leading out into the
road. One by one, the horsemen. led
by the huntsman and by Fred Gallo
way, the NJ. F. H., popped lightly over
it.
at looks pretty rotten" said Miss
Halliday cheerfully, and Satterlee
closed his eyes. Smash. bang, Splint-
ers flew in every direction and some
how or other they had gotten through
tt-heaven knows how-and were gall
looping along soft country road.
BY great good luck the hounds, who
were now closing rapidly upon the
fox, had taken the same line and Sat-
terlee breathed shade easier. "Hur-
rah!" cried Miss Halliday, looking
around, I'VE are leading the field"
True enough the hounds had made a
turn which gave them an advantage
over the horsemeu.
Now they were almost with the
hounds. who were running in the field
To- Il
st7ndirg up in the cart and cheer
rig th"n. Rocket. big. slas,hing fell
fo'v that he was, began to show signs
II fatigue, but still kept up a fast
pace.
They're turning" cried Miss Halli-
day. aS she pulled Rocket around
sharply and entered field through
gan in the fence. There he goes
there's the fox. Don't you see him q"
she cried eXcitedly.
Away they went, humping over
tufts of grass, stones, and stumps Of
'rees. Now a hedge with a small ditch
presented itself and was negotiated in
some miraculous way
They were now in the same field
with the hounds and Reynard was only
few yards ahead of them. The
horsemen, who had lost ground by
the turning of the scent, were gain.
ing on them rapidly.
They will kill him in a minute. Go
ON, Rocket, go on" cried Miss Halli.
day, and suddenly they came upon an
other post and rail fence. We'll try
it," she said oomposedly. Satterlee
closed his eyes. There was o shock,
tremendous jar, and he felt himself
flying through space. Then came I'M
consciousness.
When he came to he found himself
lying in the bottom of light wa
being driven back to Halliday Hall.
Where-where is Miss Halliday p"
he asked in a confused way WAS
she very much hurt?'
Not bit of 1T, old man." promptly
replied Tom Withers. a fellow guest
at liza lfiday Hall, who was sitting be-
side the driver. Far from it. She
was given the brush. and is being
driven home by Dick Middleton, not
hit the worse of her adventure"
At Halliday Hall that night an i'm
portant nouncement was made
the engagement of Miss Diana Halli.
day to Dick Middleton. And Percival
Saitterlee was the first to congratulate
the lucky man, and act which he per-
formed, TT may be mentioned. without
the slightest inward pang of jealousy
or regret.-Alfred Stoddart in the Cri.
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