The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-23

"IVhat are Uou doing, Dcnnctt3" he cried.
ways thinks OF him first" Aloud he
said: "Wc're non of us going to freeze
If car help it. Sit where you are until
l unhitch your horse. We might rs
well give him Il chance for his life"
When he began to do this, however,
Hiram aroused himself.
"What are YOU doing, Dcnnctt?" he
cried. IF you let the horse loose, we're
lost!' He seized the whip and tried to
reach Phil with it. The horse began to
plunge.
Phil sprang forward and caught the
whip from the others hand. keep
quiet" he said stcrnly, 'or I'll warm
you with this lash myself"
Hiram fell back me sworc. Myrtle
shrank away from him, but Phil did
not see her. He had turned his attcn-
ton to the FESTIVE horse again and soon
had him free.
I'm afraid" he said gravely, that
we cannot get out of here til, it stops
showing. ! am going to unhitch Black
Bob, and we will all come back into
my sleigh"
I'm going to stay here" growlcd
Hiram.
wen do whatever you say, Phil"
declared Myrtle.
Phil looscned Black Rob from the
shafts, and the two horses plunged
away into the storm. Then, after vast
labor, he partially cleared away q snow
bank II turned the huge, old fashion
ed highback over. 1t would have shell
tered half a dozen quite comfortably.
Come back here now" he shouted
to the couple half buried in the smaller
sleigh.
The girl struggled out, but Hiram re-
fused to move. Stay there, then, and
be n derncd fool" Phil exclaimed
w%rathfully, and he half carried Myrtle
to the ~ovcrhanging sleigh and placed
her among the warm robes.
you will not let him stay there to
freeze to DEATH" she whispered plead
ingly. Make him come"
"All right" responded Phil bitterly
and went back and drove Hiram out Of
he cutter, secured all the robes and
made him join Myrtle under the high
back. Then the brave fellow crawlcd
In himself and let the box sleigh settle
down about them. In n few minutes
they were buried by the driving snow.
I'VE must get Myrtle between u.s.
said Phil. "She will be warmer there.
If this old blizzard doesn't last too
long, somebody will be along to dig us
out tomorrow"
Ball yielded the warmer position to
the girl with a very i'll grace. The
common metal underneath the gilt was
showing very plainly. Myrtle turned
her back upon him completely. She
and Phil spoke together only in whis-
pers.
Dear Phil" she said. eve should
have died had o not come"
"Humph! The old highback is good
for something ut n pinch" remarked
Phil, with pardonablc righteousness.
And old friends prove the most
faithful in the end" whispered the doc.
tors daughter.
Phil simply gruntcd. But when, a
moment later, ne found she was softly
crying, with her nose buried in the
collar of his bearskin coat, he threw
injured pride to the winds and lust
put his arms around her. What he
said and what she said after that was
none of Hiram Balls business, nor is
1t any of yours. inquisitivc reader.
In the morning, when the storm had
ceased. n searching party discovered
the horses in n little grove off the trail,
where they had taken shelter, md soon
afterward found the overturned sleigh
anu the three caSta ways all warm and
secure. Hiram Ball left his useless
cutter where 1t lay, but Phil dug out
tho old highback and drove Myrtle
home In It,, and when the slcighine
was good the next winter he brought
the doctors daughter to singing school
as his wife.