The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-01
CContinued.)

But Dick was only a mortal horse.
The fierce run and the double burden
began to tell, and shortly his head
came up Warburton stopped him.
The girl Slid to the ground, and in a
moment he was at her side. And lust
In time. The reaction was too much
for her. Dazedly she brushed her
hair from her eyes, stared wildly at
Warburton and tainted He did MOI
catch her with that graceful precision
which on the stage is so familiar to us.
No. He was lucky to snatch one of
her arms, thus preventing her head
from striking the road He dragged
her to the side of the highway and
rested her head on his shaking knees.
Things grew dark for a time. To tell
the truth, he himself was very close
to that feminine weakness which the
old fellows, in their rough and ready
plays, used to call "vapours." But he
forced his heart to steady itself.
And what do you suppose the rascal
did-with nobody but Dick to watch
him? Why, he did what any healthy |
young man in love would have done: |
pressed his lips to the girls hair.
his eyes. filling and half sob in his
parched throat. He dolefully pictured
himself a modern Antiochus, dying of
love and never confessing it. Then he
kissed her hair again. only her hair
for somehow he felt that her lips were
as yet inviolable to his touch.
Painting is but transitory; by and
by she opened her eyes and stared
vaguely into the face above her. l do
not know what she saw there; what
ever it was caused her to struggle to |
her feet. There was color enough
in her cheeks now; and there was a
question. too, in her eyes. OF War
burton 1t asked, What did you do
when I lay there uncQnscious" I'm |
afraid there was color In his face, too.
Her gaze Immediately roved up the
Dad. There was no Pirate, only a
la2e OF dust Doubtless he was still
;oing it, delighted over the trouble he
lad managed to bring about Warbur- f,
on knelt at the girls side and brushed "
he dust from her skirt. She eyed u
i'm curiously. l shan't say that she W
miled; | don't know, for wasn't 81
here. fl
Meanwhile she made several futile Il
ttempts to put up her hair, and as d hi
nality she braided 1t and let it hang al
own her back, Suddenly and unac- 1t
ountahly she grew angry-angry at ST.
erseit' Ct James at the rascallp horse ne
lat had brought her to this pass. HI
'arburton saw something Of this emo ev
on in her eyes, and to avoid the storm so
walked over to Dick, picked up the AL
inns, and led him back
IF you viii Mount Dick, Miss he sn
I'D, "Tll lead him home. It's about tn
We miles, should say" M
The futility and absurdity of her
lger aroused her sense of the ridicu- pc
us; and smile, warm and merry, We
ashed over her stained face. 1t sur to
Used her groom. a.
sThank you, James. YOU were fu
ght. I ought not to have ridden sti
irate | am punished for my conceit.
I've miles? 1t will be long walk" Sc
II shan't mind it in the least" re-
led James, Unfortunately happy; and mt
. helped her to the saddle and adj &c
sted the left stirrup. 70
So the journey home began.
.rangely enough, neither seemed to la
ire particularly what had or might
ecome of Pirate. He disappeared, az
entally and physically. One thing
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