Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-09-05


caught sight Of a white but deter
mined face through the haze of dust.
That was simply one peril avoided.
Further up the road others must be
encountered. She threw aside her
sketching and mounted her pony and
set off in chase. Half a mile away
the auto had plowed its way into a
bank and was at rest.
Young Inlay had been thrown out
by the collision and suffered broken
leg. He was unconscious until some
time after doctor had looked him
over at the manor house. No one
knew who he was until his pockets
had been searched, and then the
father was telephoned to. BY the
time he arrived the son had gathered
up the threads of the case and was
ready to say to the jury:
''No use talking, governor, I've got
it bad!"
Anything beside the leg?"
"My heart"
'Why-why, I don't understand
that the fall had affected your heart"
"But it has. It's a case of love at
first sight, and the first sight didn't
last more'n half second"
"And where is the girl?"
Right here in the house. 1t was
she who found me in the road and
bossed the job of getting me here.
Say, governor, she's girl of sense!
hn Cot, Co.
yet, but l know from her voice that
she's good-looking. I'd have smashed
up five COWS as we'll as myself, and
the machine if it hadn't been for the
girl"
1--WE must now get you home," said
the father in very sober tones.
Cant be done, governor. Here
stay till the leg mends and I've got
the promise of that girl to be my
wife"
Young man, this seems to have af-
fected your BRAIN"
at has affected me all over. Say,
governor, I'm lawyer, am | not?'
"A very young and tender one
'But l know what breach-of-prom-
ise suit is, and l don't propose to
stand in the dock"
"IIarold Inlay, what can you
mean?"
Governor, when I saw those COWS
blocking the narrow highway and
realized what butcher shop it would
be if the girl didn't move them on,
vowed to marry her if she did the
right thing She did 1t, and III keep
my word"
"Um. I'm! | think I can arrange
for you to be cared for here for few
days, but my boy, don't get any fool
notions In your head. Remember that
you are just entering upon your
career as lawyer"
1t was three days later before the
patient caught sight of Miss Irene.
The doctor had said that 1t would be
better If the young man could remain
there for few days, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Galbraith had readily consented.
A professional nurse had taken charge
and the family was not to be put out
10 any extent. When the young man
expressed his thanks in appropriate
words he asked Of the girl:
How many COWS were there?"
Five"
"And how fast was I going?"
ut looked like two or three hundred
miles a minute to me-"
"And if I'd struck that bunch Of
beef at that gait?"
"Why-why-"
"My father would have had a dead
son to bury, wouldn't he? l just
want him to look at the case on its
merits, you know. AS lawyer, he is
naturally biased. If there had been
only one COW, now, and she In poor
condition, but there were five, and all
fit for beef Father must see that
that"
Miss Irene thought the young mans
mind was wandering and called the
nurse. His mind was all there, how.
ever, though 1t was six long weeks
and he was crutching around before
he finished the sentence by saying:
"Yes, you must see that having
saved my life-and having been both.
cred with me here SO long-and as
this leg will be weak for some time to
come-and as | have fallen In love
with you-and as your father is in the
library-and as I'm going to crutch in
there and ask him"
That marriage won't take place un'
til next Christmas day.