Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-01-08

mans voice.
Kate set down her basket and began
to climb upward, not making very rap
id progress on account of the Steep
ness and the briers.
She paused to utter an answering
cry.
Where are you?"
For she could not tell which way to
turn, as the voice had not again spok-
en-.
"This way! Make haste::" was the
reply, so near as to surprise the girl
She turned to the right. went down
a little declivity where there was an
opening in the trees and underbrush,
and paused in establishment; and. in
spite of herself. there was good deal
of amusement in her surprise.
Clinging to the lower branches of a
savin. her hat off, her scarlet shawl
swinging from the bough, was wo-
man whose handsome face was flushed
with anger and fear. who seemed
ashamed of her fear, but not enough
ashamed to overcome it.
At the foot of the tree stood a young
COW whose horns just could not reach
the woman.
AS Kate came in sight the COW made
short run at the tree, tossing her
horns wildly and shaking her head
with great apparent fierceness.
ooh dear!" said Julia Caryl-for the
'treed" one was she. cts only wo-
man, after all! You can't do anything
with that brute!"
Kate took long switch from birch
tree and advanced, saying:
81 know the COW. She's playful and
not malicious. You must have run
from her, and your red shawl excited
her."
Playful" cried Julia. in tone as
furious as it could be from her posi-
ton. "She may seem playful to you,
but she doesn't seem that way to me.
You can't do anything with that
switch. You'll have to call man, and
how am going to keep in this posi-
ton while you do it, l don't know"
Kate smiled as she said:
IF you really refuse to be rescued
by woman, I'll call some masculine
aid; but there's not the slightest need
Of a man."
Julia was too much flurried to notice
that the newcomer did not speak like
one of the masses" as she scornfully
called them, and Hates humble dress
deceived her, and Julia was one of
those who never cared particularly to
be polite to those below her set"
Don't talk like fool!" she said. in
response to Hates words, "but drive
the beast away"
1t was not strange that Kate Purcell
was human enough not to feel like hur-
rying when she was addressed in such
an insolently imperious tone.
If she had not been very tender
hearted she would have delayed still
more, as it was, she only paused an
instant. tinge of anger coming to her
cheeks, But she felt that it was COM
temptible for her to care for words
like that, and she made rush with
her stick, at the COW which turned and
scampered down the declivity, kicking
too, were laughing at the tricks she
had served the girl in the tree.
''You see, she was not malicious, If
you had caught up a stick and turned
upon her she would have run from you
as well" said Kate, pleasantly, as she
returned to the tree.
every likely; but 1 don't pretend to
understand cows" was the reply.
Now how in the name of wonder am
to get down from here? I've torn
my hands already
Julia's hands were bleeding where
she chung to the tree.
Let go, and let yourself fall" ad-
vised Kate; cts but a few feet
Inf To
it seems a great way. How in the
world ever got here l don't know
| Kate stood in silence She had no
other advice to offer, and what she had
suggested was easy enough. She was
| looking, in some curiosity and admira.
| ton, at the face above her.
| She decided to herself that the lady
must be visitor at some of the coun.
try houses which the people of Boston
had begun to build not far from there
well, aren't you going to help me?'
GROSSLY cried Julia.
Il can't lift you down. assure you
it's perfectly easy. Just let go, and
you can't help falling on your feet"
Julia muttered something, but he1
common sense told her that she must
do as the girl said, and finally she
made up her mind TO let go her hold
She came down with very little of a
jar; but she was thoroughly out Of
humor now, and, as there was no male
auditor present, she did not try to con
ceal the fact.
cts easy enough to stand and lool
on and see one Jared out of ones
Senses" she said, Grossly; "but it is
not SO easy to the one to be shaken up
feel as if l had displaced ever,
bone in my body"
The tone WIS precisely as if Kate
had been the cause of the whole, an6
Kate herself was conscious that she
felt a desire, as in childhood, to sla1
the girl who talked thus But Kate
Purcell was lady. thorough gentle
woman, and cyercame her vexation i'm
mediately.
81 am very CORY" she said. evil
you allow me 10 bind up that hand
And let the suggest that you battle i
in arnica as soon as you can"
Julia sub:aittcd. and proffered he
handkerchief 10 the deft fingers tina
We're very soothing to their touch
And while Kate bound up the hant