The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-05-26
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.~.- CHAPTER VIC Continued.)
She was lost--lost out hunting, in
a part OF the worldswhere every step
was strange. For The shrst few mo.
ments she laughed az her predicament,
for Ursula was not girl to lose cour-
age for trihe, byySantKs means. She
picked up her habit,yan she straight
ened her hat to the5bestE of her ability.
1t was still unduly collapsed, with a
dent in the crown, ,abut}itha mattered
the less that she was happily ignorant
of it, She made aSperfectly futile at
tempt to brush OF some of the super
f1uous red clay. andszshe bravely set
out to trudge overMths plowed field
next her, and SO fndher way back to
the road Ms7.s*f ...,>'
But when she arrived there she did
not find herself -greA1ly. better: 1t was
not highroad, as had fancied, and
there were no signnpsts. She was be-
ginning to feel the fatigue of some five
hours in the saddle,With this shaking
on top of it; she haHhurt her. foot as
she fell, and she loaspirit little as
her tramp seemed talead to nothing.
A highroad must estound, or a cot
tage where. one couIdsask ones way:
that much seemed Near She began
to have, In. spite aaherself, faint and
yearning visions of ea=by hot fire
of an arm chair andMss canning bath
Vain dreams-let hefSnot dwell on
them; a dozen m1lqfrom anywhere,
and with the short Winter day closing
in.: What. a distresslnglyS ill-populated
;country!. No need taeplore the over
populated. state ofsthJ United Mngdam
when one could :wandsr along as she
had done and not sfndSp hurna ehabita,
ltion beyond one i cSii1 i1{hNng cottage
ruin. beside q stakna II: 8?
ND noX'I l'I 3. shs ~ 3
hdns
had sped her. tllrough the seopse and
the gate to- reachsit, AS if: it spelt=' res:
cue to, her tired d=eyes: "A *highroad, hut
apparently so familiar to the local wan.
derer or so neglected, of its parish
council that it offered no signboard to
he reager glance. She stood glancing
around her, first. on one~side and then
on the other, uncertain which way
would lead her farther. away from her
goal.
All at once she started, for on her
eager ear had fallen a welcome and a
joyful sound. It was the regular beat
of a horses hoofs, rythm that had a
melody In it such as she hailed with
the shipwrecked mariner. Round the
corner where she had fixed her antic-
ipating eyes there came in sight SOL
itary horseman, in a somewhat be-
splashed black coat and cords. He was
riding .leisurely, the rein loose on the
neck Of the steanring horse, and a
freshly-lighted cigarette between his
contented lips
Ursula recognized him as having
been. of the field that day. She had
seen him speak to one; OF her cousins
.at the meet, and had marked him again
when he cleared big ditch and land
cd light as a bird on the other side:
She had not the remotest notion who
be was-enough that he was a man,
fellow rider to hounds, some one TO
accost in her distress. She stepped out
+ into the road to him, but he had seen
her at the same instant and checked
his horse. Her hat, her habit, her tso-
lation, all proclaimed aloud her need.
"1:beg your pardon! Have you lost
your horse?' :" = -...-.'
,, Unfortunately I have and / don't
know my way, either VIII you pe
good enough to-tell me if i am any
where in the neighborhood of Shepcon
Priors or :Bassingbourne??". -.
He had dismounted,- and he now
stood by his horses head, his hand OH
.1ts neck, and his face more on a level
with her own From this latitude she
observed that he was a young man,
somewhere about eight or nine. and
twenty, With g good looking well:
Drowned face, and: a brown mustache
with a: dash Of red gold in It, to match
the: closely cropped hair under. his silk sills
hat. His; dark blue eyes met hers with
"a frank const ternation and commlsera:
ton as he repeated her words. "sShep.
ton 1Priors! rs that: the village a few
miles out OF Winlborne? ?, Because, i
80, I'm afraid It's pretty v Tar on from
here +: .s5 /, = & #5 # 's. # +
f.: s. .aI was afraid II must be- 4 Thought
we must. have come i across. country
straight away from i. All day How q,
earth, / wonde IS, am Is1 to set back g
Her glance roamed around the horizon
as. II she were cherishIng he= forloorn
hope Of a balloon Or q mot car that
might convey. her ssback II
He TOD; locke d :.ponp plussed 4. .7s5''I i
long since you lost your, horse (?
About an hour ago3 Or more,
should / ina gine Ish haVen.t got & on 3
ywat she tore .onft IA quit anothe,
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