The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31
!. on the railroad track he glanced sad.

D. on the railroad track he glanced sad
ly at the towering hill and stopped.
The girl clucked impatiently and
jerked at the reins. Duke planted his
legs immovably and laid back an car
Miss Boone laid the whip across the
horses broad back alphabetically, with
no result. Then, the gray eyes flashing
and the lips crossed together until they
were a mere scarlet line, she struck
right heartily. Duke never budged
Mowbray, unobserved by the girl,
stood on the hilltop and enjoyed the af-
fair immensely. shes got grit, all
right he observed to his sled AT
first she thought the old boy was tired.
Then 1t occurred to her that he was
a-soldiering How she swings that CAD!
Shucks. Who'd thought her little fist
could grip the CAD that way: And that
Duke villain is just enjoying himself"'
More from sheer veXatiGu than ia
tigue Miss Boone ceased to ply the
whip and looked helplessly about. 1t
did not occur to her to look upward
MOwbray felt that she was on the
verge of tears and was about to reas-
sure her with a CHEEKY cry when a
sharp whistle frOze it in his throat. The
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The girls danger was imminent. At
this point the track, sunk in a deep
cut, described a sharp curve to the left.
4 train for these reasons was not WISH
bic until within a short fifty yards
from the crossing. The cutter. its love
ly freight unconscious of the death
swOoping down, stood sQuarely be
tween the rails. Miss Boone was Il
stranger in the neighborho0d and paid
no heed to the whistle, if, indeed, she
heard it, 50 great was her anger at
Duke.
Meanwhile Tom was thinking frcn-
ziedly. y cry Of warning would not
do. The train was scarcely farther
away than was Mowbray himself Tie
! girl might not understand. Ii She did,
the incumbering robes and blankets in
which she was swathed coIld not be
| torn off III time for Il leap to safety.
| In his agony and horror Mowbray
gripped the sled until his muscles
! crcakcd That gave him an ide&-the
! sled. the sled.
The train had not gone its length so
rapidly did these thoughts flash through
! the young mans mind. Raising the
! coaster, he took two or three quick
steps and flung himself face downward
upon it. Responding to the impetus,
the sleigh rushed madly down the hill.
The flexible runners creaked and
| sprang The wind whstlcd weird
tunes in Mowbray's ears. At the back
of his brain something prayed that he
might be in time, but all his faculties
Were intent Oh keeping the sleigh up
right. Once for Il secondary, an eter-
pity-it rose on a single runner. Again
as they followed sharp angle ii slow
ed the width of the road. But Proyi-
dence rode with Mowbray that morn
ing, and catastrophcs could only threat
| en-
Twenty feet from the cutter he jerk
ed the head Of the coaster suddenly in
to a snow bank. His own momentum
carried Tom straight ahead. Rolling
like a frightened caterpillar, he crashed
into the cutter. Something snapped,
and horrd pain stabbed him, but he
scrambled blindly to his feet. Some
how he snatched the girl from the cut
ter, and they fell to the roadside in
safety as the train Numbered by, hurl-
ing fragments of the wrecked vehicle
high in the air Duke. uninjured, but
thoroughly cured of mis- balkiness, gal
lopsed clumsily up Old Pine.
"Of course" said Tom in telling the
story afterward, Il broke an arm
but" with a proud and tender glance
at the blushing Mrs Mowbray, eff