The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21

high enough, stout enough to crash
her. The cut lay less than 200 yards
ahead-he would try to sweep it, fail
evitably-and fall, carrying down his
rider, right in the track of the swift
ly approaching train.
In flash all this came to the two
women. Mrs. Loudon cold and sick,
Stacked rein, and made as if to leap.
That lost her all chance of saving
herself-even then a rider who did not
know fear might have mastered the
brown. But he had all a vicious
beasts contempt for rider he could
frighten. He shook himself, gave a
louder screaming snort, and swept
straight on. Now he led-all of ten
yards Patricia whistled again and
again. Ruby laid down to the work,
straining after the brown, and gaining
spare gains at each stride.
Almost upon the cuts brink she
came up with him. Mr.. Loudon sat
quite still-even in her fright she had
been too wise to really leap. The reins
swayed loosely within her nervous fin
gers. Patricia called to her: Let go!
Free your foot! 1 shall try to take
you off safe!"
1t was a perilous endeavor. If the
horses collided, fell and rolled all
would go down to death together. II
cutter SWeINSQ Halt ) DTedQIn Cney
must collide. Then there was the
chance that Patricia would be dragged
from saddle by the other woman's SUI
perior weight. Still it was the only
way. With set teeth, tense as a bow
string in every fiber, Patricia leant
from saddle, locked her right arm
about Mrs. Loudon's waist. drew her
clear, and held her clingIag and strug-
Cling while she wheeled Ruby, checked
sped, and drew away from the peril
Gus verge.
Cairgorm proved how perilous With
one mad mighty scrambling leap he
tried to clear the cut He even got
hold for his fore feet upon the brink
opposite, but the crumbling sands gave
under his hoofs. He went rolling and
screaming down, to lie with his neck
broken before the train. 1t slowed
up barely in time to save a wreck
after it had pushed the dead beast ten
yards along the rails.
Mrs. Loudon watched his end with
fascinated eyes You saved me from
mat she SAID, shuddering strongly
then tainted dead away. Before She
came to, the rest of the hunt had come
up. People from the stalled train also
swarmed about her. Anstruther wa
one of them, Anstruther beaming like
cherub. Patricia some little way off
was shamelessly fondling a slight
dark-browed strange% quite ignorins
Rothwell upon her other hand.
I've been playing good fairy" An
struther explained when Mrs. Loudon
was a little recovered. THE lassie Won
DER, nodding toward Patricia. twas
denying true man, indeed all true
men, because ill-tongued folk who
new nothing said her brother that
dark lad had spent money no HE
own. The lad We see suffered for !
ladlt higher up-but since he couIdn't
prove II, he went away to work-under
ahother name. He couldn't deny his IA.
Vor though-I knew him rightly the
heehit | set eyes on the lass. Then
went 10 work, him I'd known mis-
seven years. Things were straightened
uhco easy, that's one good OF filthy Ian.
ere To-day ] went 20 fetch him iit,ie
uieaHnlhg what we should come unon
tisht mere Now the lass has shown ~
ne mettie she's Of. ye must agree
'@ihNell VIII get prize"
prize indeed" Mrs Fovao,-
h9ea, with a break IN her voice ana,
- Hhstfuther many things she ~
"'i care 70 have him know. ''''