The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-01-11

"Oh, yes. You are standing up 30
straight thought you might be posing
for moving picture show. How long
have you been here?"
sFor hours. miss. and ! expected q
train along any minute"
"A train7 A train2y And the young
lady gIggled and gurgled and finally
laughed merrlly and said:
why this is an old track leading 70
a stone quarry. and has not been used
for seven years. But your position Is
uncomfortable, and I must get you
.oes e. I was passing on the highway
right out here WHOM heard your Calls
rour foot must be pried out"
and you win go for help?"
@ch, no. Ju-t let me find a stout
stick
She wasn't married woman and
she wasnt a frecKled-faced girl en-
aged to some farmers lied man. on
tie contrary, she was about twenty
years old. handsome, and It was easy
Is ese that she was visitor to the
ccun Try. A queer feeling passed over
d.ak.hunter. He tried to lay Il
10 the pain in his foot, but he realized
/. at he was deceiving himself. The
ri came back with stout stick to be
I'd as a pry, and Mr.. Ascot started
ID d,rrct operations.
Il know all about 1t, she interrupt
Il. Il put the pry ii behind your heel
nd bear down. You put your hand
On NV shoulder to Keep your balance.
i got my aunt Martha down out OF an
frple tree the other day after she had
tainted away, and j guess can men
age this case. If had stepped into
freq and been caught fast you would
have talked half an hour about my
earelessness. Now m going to pry."
Mr.. Aecott groaned with the pain I
as the foot was forced out, and the
girl helped him to sit down and then
ran away to be back at the end of five
minutes with flask In her hand.
ITS brandy" she explained. II al
ways carry it for fear I'll run over
COW and get faint. Take few swal- |
ows and then | guess can get you
10 the auto"
"But / don't want to trouble you to
take me to the inn"
aYou are not going there, but home
with me. That is, you are going to
lny Aunt Martha's. I'm up from town
to visit her, you know. am Miss Ger
tie Phillips, and | didn't catch your
name as Jones, did 1? oh, Mr.. A.
colt, Ell? Aunt Martha will be tickled.
She was an Ascot before she was mar
ried. Perhaps you are cousins or
something"
"But you see-"
mo, / don't. We are two poor. lone
women, and haven't seen anybody but
a tin peddler for week. We shall
dote on a cripple In the house. You
fhall have chicken broth the very first
thing"
Mr.. Ascot was assisted to the auto,
and few minutes later Miss Gertie
was explaining to her aunt;
Heard him yelling for help. Stopped
the auto. Found him caught by the
foot In the railroad track. Pried him
loose. He's going to be our invalid
Say. auntie, the country Is the place
for romance, after al"
"But where's the romance, dear%
WHAT You can't see 1t! / hear q
man yen. save his life. ! bring him
here. He's nice. SO am /. You1l be
raotherly to him, and I'll FIJI his pipe
and read to him and tell him stories
md It won't be two weeks before
before"
&C lie Phillipsl"
"But when a nice girl saves nice
young mans life"
Can a man whose life has been
saved by a young lady-who has eaten
Of her chicken broth-who has figured
cut second cousinship with her aunt
who has admitted to himself that his
heart has developed a curious wobble
~can such a man 80 wandering
Ground IN old marshes instead OF walk
Ing out with that girl to gather aeorns
md wintergreen berries and talking
lover