New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-10-28

II SHALLOW narDOr WneT0 RODE at moor.
|ings considerable number of small
craft pleasure vessels assorted about
equally with fishing boats. And barely
an eighth of mile on, long-legged
| wharves stood knee-deep in the water,
like tentacles flung out from the sleepy
little fishing village that dotted the
rising ground "a community Of per-
hape two hundred dwellings.
Nor was this all-even as Alan hove
; In view Of the village he heard series
of staccato snorts, the harsh tolling Of
a brazen bell, the rumble Of a train
| pulling out from, station. And then
/ he saw it's jewel-ssring of lights flash
athwart the landscape and vanish az
Its noise died away dnhinuendo.
Where one train ran another must.
He need only now secure something
to revive Rose, help her somehow up
the beach, and in another hour or two.
of a certainty, they would be speed
Ing nQrthwards, up the cape, toward
Boston and the land of law and order.
Such thoughts as these, at least,
/
outcome proved them somewhat too
presumptuous. He logged down a
quiet village street and into the rail
road station just as the agent was clos.
! ing up for the night.
A surly citizen, this agent, ill-pleased
, to have his plans disordered by chance
flung strangers. He greeted Alan's
GREATNESS query with q grunt of in
grained churlishness.
"Nah," he averred, they amt no
more trains till mornin'. Can't " see
/, I'm shuttin' up?''
But surely there must be a tele-
graph station"
| "You bet your life they is-right
here in this depot. An I'm shuttin' it
up, too"
HAS the operator gone for the
night?"
Hes going. I'm the OPERATOR. No
business transacted after Office hours.
Call raound at eight o'clock tomor-
row mornin'. Now if you'll Jest step
out of that door, I'll say g'd-night to
T, you."
dBut must send telegram" Alan
protested. Il tell you, must. It'9
q matter of life and DEATH"
"Sure, young Teller It always is
after business hours"
| Won't you open up again"
Il tell you, mol"
In desperation Alan rammed hand
{ into his trousers pocket. "Will dol.
lar influence your better judgment2"
he suggested shrewdly.
Lets see your dollar" the other re.
turned with no less craft-open in
credulity informing his countenance.
And, surely enough, Alan brought
forth an empty hand.
/ .'sMake light he said sharply my
moneys in a belt round my waist.
Open your office. You'll get your dol
lar, all right" a.; .ss
/! "All right" he grumbled, reopening
the door of the telegraph booth and
making second light inside. There's
blanks and pencil. Write your mes
sage. 1t amt often do this-but Ill
make an exception for YOU
| Alan delayed long enough only to
make few inquiries, drawing out
/; the information that, for one who had
not patience to wait the morning
train northbound, the quickest way
! to any city of Importance was by boat
across Buzzard's bay to New Bedford.
| Boats, it was implied, were plenti-
full, readily to be chartered.
| A timetable supplied all other need
full advice Alan wrote his message
swiftly
Addressed to Digby, his man Of
business in New York, it required that
gentleman to arrange for motor-cor
(; to be held in waiting on the water
! front of New Bedford from $500 a. m.
until called for in the name of Mr..
Law, as well as for special train at
Providence, on similar provisions. :.
But now, though he was all uncon.
scious of the fact, he went no more
/ alone.
His shadow in the moonlight kept
MIN company upon the sands; and
above, on the edge of the bluffs. an.
other shadow moved on parallel
course and at a pace sedulously pat.
| termed after his.
He found his sweetheart and his
friend much as he had left them, with
this difference Mr.. Barcus now
lay fiat on his back and snoring
Justify.
He was wakened quickly enough,
however, by Alan's news.
But when it was the turn of Rose
they faltered. She lay so STILL be,
trayed her exhaustion so patiently in
every line of her unconscious posture.
as we'll as in the sharp pallor of her
lace upturned to the moon, that it
seemed scarcely less than downright
inhumanity to disturb her.
/ None the less, it had to be done.
Alan hardened his heart with the re-
hinder of their urgent necessity. and
eventually. brought ner to with the
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