The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-16
A Case of
w S Action
Under Difficulty
BY EUNlcE BLAKE

Why are people lnNhrihp's e""f
ing the sexes? They are NOT u "
compared. The man usually mas an
advantage In his Held. woman III
hers. And yet these fields are cont'n'
uaIly overlapping, or. rather. there are
many exceptions. For instance. u wo
4 man will at times show "A man urnN
cry. The unexpected il more liable 70
happen with woman than man. usuh'is
woman is more resonrcefui than
man The following story illustrates
some of the points above noted. the
one most particularly illustrated being
that one can never know what wo'
man will do in an emergency;
one afternoon two friends. James
wakefield and Henry Smythe, while
waiting to take out their best girls In
an automobile, engaged In dialogue
as 10 womans courage. Wakefield was
engaged TO Lucy Trowbridge. while
Smythe's nancee was Helen ormsby.
| This Is what the men said:
Henry Your girl has one thing about
her that like She Is fearless
.Iim-How do you know that!
Henry-Oh. I've seen her out at sea
In rough weather. She was very piucky.
Jim--You can't tell much about wo.
mems pluck because they're stupid
about appreclating real danger. don't
expect bravery In woman, and i
wouldn't value Lucy any higher IL
knew she were capable Of standing up
/ in the face of volley OF musketry.
Henry-If Helen should show lack
of nerve would despise her as much
as would a cowardly man.
JIM should consider her all the
more womnnly and the more to be
| loved.
The quartet started on their motor
| trip about 4 o'clock In the afternoon.
Henry had the wheel, and Jim sat be-
side him. the two girls occupying the
rear seat. They lived in a large city
| and started out on one of those boule-
! Yards only to be found in large places.
Having gone some twenty miles. they
turned. reaching the city limits just
/ about dusk. Henry stopped the car
and got out to light the lamps.
He was Just outside the city limits.
where the police were not plentiful.
and in a lonely place I'm the road flank
ed by woods on either hand He was
lighting the lamps when he heard a
voice shout. Hold IN your hands,.
and a man from either side advanced.
covering the party with cooked revolv-
ers
Henry stood with lighted match In
his hand regarding the robbers with an
expression Of antagonism on his face
and did not raise his hands till lie bad
been ordered TO do so Il second time
and been told that If he didn't obey n
bullet would be put In his brain. Jfln's
hands went up on the first order.
Helen was not able to obey. because
she tainted dead away. Lucy was
somewhat tardy 10 holding hand
aloft but did not require second com
mand. Henry was ordered to resume
his seat at the wheel.
All being in position 10 be plucked.
n third man mounted the footboard
valuables Henry Smythe. though dis
g,isted at being tnken at such a disad-
vantage had the good sense to permit
himself to be robbed rather than risk
being killed. Jim made no pretense
OF resisting. or even desired to. handing
out his watch and chain and Sa4 in
bills, besides change In his vest pocket.
OF his own accord.
When the plunderer came TO Helen
he seemed to be conscience stricken at
robbing a woman who was lying IN
conscious. AT any rate. he passed her.
Lucys right hand was still pointing to
the sky. 1t was unGoved. and the rob-
Der. seeing that there were no rings on
1t. jumped off the foott5ard with two
gold watches and chains and some $50
that he had taken from the men. Then
the robbers all disappeared in the
woods
Henry turned and saw Helen in
dead faint. Lucy was sitting up
straight enough. but seemed to have
lost her tongue she had neither
screamed nor spoken since the episode
commenced. The expression on Henry's
face MS he looked from one to the other
was peculiar
Lucy" be said. what have you
lostY''
Lucy made throat sounds without
opening her mouth aud frowned.
Are you struck dumb?' asked Jim.
Lucy. gIancing aside to make sure
that the robbers were gone. dropped
from her mouth into her hand three
rings. including twin diamond valued
Mt 5000.
"Oh. that's the reason you didn't
speak" said Henry. You're good
pluck. Look at Helen"
At this Helen opened her eyes. and.
strange TO say. they shone with dan
gerous light on her lance.
you should know something about
what YOU comment on before doing
so. she said to him coldly. 1T is all
right for you 90 admire Lucy's pluck.
but there was no real pluck shown by
any one OF MS IL wasn't a ease for pluck.
IL was a case for strataEem. Lucy won
~ one ruse. ! by another Instructive
ly relied on mans-even a bad mans
dislike TO iniure a defenscless wo-
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