The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-05

had passed, but gradually on of
complete consciousness grew up
the sense OF q wretched throb-
bling. | thought it was my head. |
opened my eyes and found ! was look
ing straight into the sky. | lay staring
at it. 1t was wonderfully soft and
blue. Presently the wind swayed ii
green branch into my line of vision.
At sight of that the query of where |
was came into my mind.
moved my head and felt the crackle
of twigs at my cheek. ! was lying in IL
mass of IVY and lemon verbena bushes.
and at one side of me rose the great
face of q wall. The memory of what
had happened returned. | scrambled
to a sitting posture. My head was so
dizzy that | had to catch at the bushes
to hold myself upright. and my body
felt sore aud shaken. but the impulse
TO get away from the house, whose
windows overlooking the convent wall
still spied upon me, carried me to my
feet.
Through the shrubbery | peered at
the garden beyond. There was a level.
green lawn. with sedate paths march
ing around it, but no black hooded fig
ures were moving there in ones or
twos or i'm solemn file, as ! had been
wont to see them. | walked rather
uncertainty forward across the grass.
across the dank ard messy paths and
into the shadowy length of the corri-
dor. This. too. was empty, and at one
end of it n little door with n grill
across 1t seemed as etfectually TO bar
me out as the Spanish woman's house
had shut me in. In my daZed state the
only thing | could think of doing TO
call the attention of the place to my
presence was To seize the grill in both
hands and shake il with all my weak
ened strength. Ii made quite n rat
and presently the small. startled face
Of a nun peered through the grating.
II want to see the mother superior"
l said in n trembling voice.
She looked Mt me sharply and.
thought. a little as if she were fright
ened. Why didn't you ring the belly"
she asked.
The bell? What belle" | stammer-
ed. for the only bell | could call to
mind was the bell the Spanish woman
had rung. Then, as the sister appear
ed TO be about TO draw back. "Oh.
please. please" | cried. take me to
the mother superior. | am in great
trouble
There was a pause. then a little rus
Ting. then Il whispering of voices be-
hind the grating. and another face.
rounder and larger than the first. peer
ed out, and Il more sympathetic voice
said: Poor little creature. And her
hat is all on one side"
Then. after some further deliberation
in which m of the voices seemed to
be protesting that it was afraid of
something, the nun who had come first
disappeared-I could hear the sound of
her feet Fastening away-and the sec
ond opened the grating and drew me
in. She led me down n narrow. musty
smelling hall and into a dull little room.
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my hat straight and smoothed my hair
very kindly. but rather clumsily. with
hands like white pincushions. At last.
with the timid nun following furtively
at her heels. the mother superior came.
She was a thin woman in flowing robes.
her delicate face. and she looked at me
very kindly and benevolently while |
stammered out the essentials OF my
.story-how the Spanish had
tried TO keep me in her house. and how
| got put of the window and through a
garden. When | came to this point in
my tale. But those windows are clos
cd up" cried one of the nuns. And
the wall is eight feet" cried the other.
land there is no hole in it, 1t would
be impossible"
The mother superior shook her head
ut them and said to me. Can you tell
me where you live, my child:''
! thought it odd that there should be
any doubt in her mind as to that. but
| eagerly gave her the number and the
street. And if you will only send for
IA carriage | said. because | am
afraid | am too tired TO walk. | should
like L 20 home"
1T will be best to notify your par
ents." she said in Il soothing voice.
land they will fetch you away"
But there is III II there now. eX-
cept Abby. and she is lame and very
old. Father is not in town. He will
not be back until night. and | "a per-
fectly well 90 home alone!'
She smiled and said. We'll. we will
see, Give me your fathers name.
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