Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-13
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speed, for the few people we passed
stopped to stare and call after us I'M
meaningly. l expected every moment
to meet a mounted policeman and held
myself ready to slow down or take a
sudden corner; but hone appeared and
1 turned into the leafy darkness of
Central Park with a sigh or relief. I
was more han a little anxious for the
safety of my passenger within.
l stopped in the deepest shade |
could find, and clambered out. Lady's
face was at the door almost before I
could open it.
Are you all right?' she painted. I
could see only her eyes and the out
line of her face like a white shadow.
Yes; are your"
She laughed n~ervously. I'm as well
as when we started, and Sheila Is bet
ter. She has come to herself now.
a you find some water? 1 have a
flask here"
There are fountains all along these
drives. Well run ahead until we come
to one of them"
AS I spoke there was a thud behind
me, and a quick patter of running feet.
- AA0 Ia A60 AhS 49,
vantage of my forgetfulness to break
for liberty. He was out of sight almost
before L turned. and he had been
thoughtful enough to throw the revol-
Yer away as he jumped.
I'm a clever idiot,"I said, ruefully,
your chauffeur has been trying to
desert all along. and now he's o it."
But you were driving yourself. What
difference does it make?"
II was thinking of what he might
say" said l. But for that matter, I
suppose l have got you into a news
paper scrape anyhow, If nothing worse.
Every policeman on the East Side must
have our number"
"I was just going to ask you about
that" said Lady, with a queer little
crow in her voice. Perhaps we had
better carry this outside now" She
felt abou her feet and handed me a
muddy strip of metal. II took this off
while you were starting the car. And l
put out that red lantern thing, too
For an instant I forgot DR.. Reid and
all the mountain of impossibility that
lay between us. She had always been
more than other women. And now she
was that rarest thing of all, a COM
rade ready In a momen of need. I
reached out my hand, as if she had
been a man.
You're a miracle l said, and I'm
not half good enough to be your lieu
tenant. Good work"
There was a broken whisper from
the darkness within.
The water" said Lady, we're for
getting Sheila."
I replaced our number, lighted the
tail-lamp, and a little farther on found
a drinking fountain and got the water.
Mrs. Carucci was able to speak only
q few words of unsteady thanks; but
that was enough to make me fall
In love with the grooming voice of her.
We pushed on but of town without
n further adventure, and on the
open roads off to the northward were
free to make the most of our speed. i.
The night slowly faded, not as II
any light were coming, but as If the
darkness itself were growing faint and
weak. The roadside trees were still
mysterious bulks against remoter
gloom, but their blackness now gave
a dull hint of green and the yellow
glare of our lamps grew washed out
and ~lifeless. The growing of cocks.
reiterated from place to place, sounded
fictitious and unnatural. The air
chilled a little and here and there we
ran through a momentary blindness
of mist, as If a small cloud had fallen
to drift along the surface of the earth.
/ sat back half drowsily, with relaxed
nerves, and although I had no desire
for sleep, although I never loosened
my hands upon the wheel, nor took nv
eyes for a second from the wavering
end of the ribbon of light that I'M
wound itself continually toward me.
yet l felt somehow unreal and very
peaceful, without will or like
a person in a dream. The car obeyed
me without my being conscious of any
movement, as if I guided it by mere
Volitlon. Slowly the pallor around me
mango from green to gray, the air
freshened as the stars went. out, and
the twitter of birds and the scattered
barking of dogs underran the unvary-
ing, inevitable drumming of the en-
CINE That sound itself dried and
hardened in the keener atmosphere.
And in the pleasure of the perfect
power under me ] let the car out near
ly to the limit of it's speed, Until the
sidelong sway of the body warned me
that was driving too fast for the
road. We passed a milk wagon or
TWO and an occasional early trolley.
Then came the drawn, so swiftly that
1t was full day of sunlight and shadow
before I thought to look for the color
in the east. Somehow it did not seem
like morning, but like coming out of a
curtained hous into the midst of
afternoon.