The Tupelo journal., 1912-05-24
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IA sharp sense Of his own delin
lency in having left her to her owr
@sources for SO long. when she had
- few to draw upon. In
leased to a sudden alarm for hel
lfety, when he made out the BLACK
outh of the tunnel and saw that
ere was no light at the farther END
1t. She couldn't have been waiting
! this time, out in the cold; and yet
Is eyes, as he lowered, seeking the
tact spot to alight, certainly made
ut a dark object lying there upon
he snow. His heart felt like lead az
= dropped close beside it, and scram
Jed clear Of his wings.
1t was Jeanne; and for a moment
Se thought she was dead. She
semed as white and cold as the snow
self. And yet she was not dead; not
yen frozen. The hands he chafed sc
antically were inert, but not rigid
ad, as he drew her up in his arms
I'D pressed his head down against
Or breast, he could hear, very family
I'D slowly, the beating Of her heart
He picked her up in his arms and
arried her into the pilot house. The
r here was still warmer than that
Ut Of doors. but It was nc longer ex'
austed and poisonous.
He laid her down for long enough
light the lamp. to throw OF his stin
ather jacket and to get Q little
randy out OF the key. This he mixed
18th q little water and. with the aid
. small ivory spoon, he succeeded
! getting q little Of 1t between her
Pc.
He took OF her heavy seal coat. and
he wooden jacket she wore under 1t.
i'd. rs well as he could, looseneA the
her clothing about her waist. Last
all, he gathered her up in his arms
gain, wrapped the great sheep-skin
ag about them both and, with tho
ANDY and water within arms reach,
titled down to attempt to get some
the warmth and vitality OF his own
.Ddy into hers.
She was not fully unconscious now,
r the next time he offered her
randy she swallowed 1t. Her eyelids
ere ~fluttering a little, too, and pres
ltly she sighed.
He was thrilling all over witch a
emendous sense of power. He felt
) could have brought her back from
le very dead. His arteries seemed to
running With electricity. not blood.
Her lips were moving how, and be
hit close to, catch the whisper that
rely succeeded in passing them.
"Wn'tNbring me back-Philip. It's
so much-easier to go-this way"
His only reply to that was to hold
or q little closer.
She did not resist when he held
Ne drink to her lips again; but, after
ae had taken two or three sips Of it,
ae said: -sss&AxaDMARs-~
II sha'n't need any moro. I'm get
'ng quite beautifully warm again"
He knew it wal true. She NO longer
pit lifeless in his arms. though she
Eli lay there quite relaxed. He
new he could let her 60 now, safely
aouxh. And yet he held her fast.
II thought you were dead when l
aw you lying there on the snow" he
aid at last, not very steadily. III
GU had been, 1t would have been my
wn
She c8htradicted him with q sharp
|ekative gesture.
you left me well enough wrapped
% to have resisted the cold for any
ength of time. Besides, If I'd wanted
0 / could have come back In here.
Iut-but, Philip Oh, 1t seems a
thing to confess, now you
re here with mel didn't want to.
ust lay down on the snow, thinking
could go to sleep and-and that
Fould be the sndSsuch an easy end"
She felt him shudder all over as
he said it, and she clasped his Shout
,ers and he'd them tight. in a desire
O r~eassure and comfort him.
did you mean to do that. . .
Vas that why you asked me to fly
for a while?"
mo! No! 1t was something l saw
While you were gone, something that
certified me Philip, do you remem'
Der how many Of the people of the
Phoenix died of what father called
he ice madness?"
He nodded gravely.
well, what I saw made me thinl
hat / was going that way, too. Philip
was watching the moon go down
and gradually 1t spread out into three
quite far apart, and then they changed
into strange colors, and strange
and began to dance lik'
witches"
He laughed, but the laugh had some
thing very like q sob mixed up in it.
"You poor child! No wonder 4
you. But that's the ortho
dox way for the moon to set in thu
It's part Of the same refrac
ton that plays such strange trick
With the daylight colors. No, YOUR
\ long way from Ice madness, Jean
me-"
"But that wasn't all I saw, Philir
II wasn't the worst. saw q shil
AGAINST the moon, only II seemed to-
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