Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-04-02

In right would make me sleep better
nights. And your 'shoulls' and 'woulds'
| IL they would fall into line and keep
step my bliss would bc complete"
1t isn't permitted 10 mortals To he
perfectly h"pny. Priscilla. You know
the anricntS used to pray for some
moderate reverse when things went
100 swimmingly. Let me be- your mod
crate reverse. little lady
You are my immolcraic pcrvcrse.
Dan. You always say Hadn't better
Coz when you know as well as | do
| that you should say Wouldn't | better
Coz"
All Of n sudden 10 their startled VI
sion appeared around turn of the
narrow hill road Il team tearing with
brcakncck speed down the steep way
up which their horses We're climbing
and on which IL was impossible to pass
| them. The driver WAS thrown out as
they rounded the curve and could be
seen struggling up from a pile of rocks
upon which he had been hurled far be-
low in the ravine which skirted the
road.
The carriage was bounding violently
from side Ia side. The two women and
child I'm the back seat were mt the mer-
madly running directly toward Priscil-
In and Dan. Another moment and they
would Lee upon them. At the foot of
the hill was Il rocky ford waiting to en-
gulf the fated occupants of the vehicle
IL they should reach il alive.
faralyzed by fear. Priscilla knew in
a maze of terror that Dan sprang from
his horse. throwing her the bride.
Then she saw him through fear
dimmed haze rush just in time for the
salvation of them all straight in front
Of the maddened hrutcs with arms out
stretched TO stop them. She heard his
masterful command. Whoa. boys;
whoa as lie made dash for their
foaming bits.
He sprang nimbly from side to side
to avoid being trampled under their
hoofs. Again and again it seemed that
their brute strength would overwhelm
him as they plunged forward straining
to get free.
The man and the beasts strove. il
seemed 10 Priscilla eternal ages. until
| ut last. AT last. he was cOnQuering
them. With mouths dripping bloody
| foam, eyes starting from their sockets.
they finally stood trembling. but still.
save for an occasional trampling and
champing of their bits. This. too.
ceased ut Dams command:
| whoa. boys. Steady. boys."
| Their brute instinct responded TO the
master without fear. He stood at
length stroking their names
Even then Priscilla realized in dim.
unworded way a thing that was better
than the subsection of signs and sym
bols Ia rule and law.
She emerged from her crucible of
agony with an aching relief that her
husband was alive. while her own soul.
shrivcled by the refining fire. saw him
with larger vision. deeper under
standing
Proudly she marked his chivalrous
bearing toward the unncrved. fright
ened women. who Landed his exploit in
words of intcnscst gratitude.
She noted with "A swelling heart his
bluff Kindness toward the bruised and
distressed driver. who came limping
up Ia see the extent of the calamity.
bloody and battered from bis terrible
fall.
| He made light of what he had done.
calling II nothing
/ When the trembling animals were
quite pacifie,i. greatly To Priscilla's ap-
prelirnsiun. her husband turned the We
hi,lr around about a thing not done
without much ado ON the narrow shelf
OF roadgot into the carriage and
took the reins with Il firm hand tn drive
the ladies To their home. which was
but a mile or So back" they had told
him. Priscilla led his horse for him
until he could deposit his charges at
their own door.
Your man Is too knocked up to
drive" he tactfully explained as he
saw the ladies tremulous AT the thought
Of being trusted again 10 their unlucky
jehu.
Dan. you are simply great Priscil-
In told him as they rode down the hill
again toward home I'm proud OF
you through and through. But prom
Use me never. never. never again To
take So dreadful a risk. 1t makes me
faint but TO think of it, What il those
awful runaway horses had killed you"
And she shuddered
"Thcn you could. should and would
have been widow. Priscilla
Il neither will nor shall nor could.
should or would he widow. I'll die
when Won do. Dam sobbed Priscilla
Historically.
"Never say die. little girl. We will
be happy. Nothing shall prevent it.
my PRISCILLA
"You are hero. DAN The girl
reached out her hand 10 him. and in
their clasp thrilled between husband
and wife the love that is above and be-
yond all speech and language