Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1914-03-26
ROUTE TO GLEN ROBIN
BY JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ.

II the cook at THE Elrns" had been
bEibed TO give the route TO Glen Rob
IN she would have said:
When you get out OF he front gate
you turn to the right"
YES"
You go down the road tin you come
to Q creek. You don't wade the creek.
but cross on bridge. Then you 50
along ill you come TO a bis sim tree.
There ycu turn 20 the rizh- and 20
up int3 the woods. The creek starta
there. You have to cross Il on q plank
20 get 20 the glen. There's 4 heap -
rocks there al iumbled together. That's
why they call IL n glen And right in
that glen, reading book or thinking
OF love and romance. you viii find Mss
Louise Harper. ward of Grandma Pat
ridge, who Is the incest old lady In
the world, and is going to die some
day and leave Louise barrel OF mon
ey. That's all, and now you 20 on
and let me get back 10 my Kitchen"
That's what the cook would have
said had young Mr.. Sidney Stanley
come sEooping around to make IN
oulrics. But he didn't come. lie was
no snooper. He had beard Of and
even seen the girl. but he had never
heard of or seen the glen.
What brought the young man TO the
creek ard the bridge that afternoon
was lonesomeness. a desire to get Off
by himself and think thinks.
Reaching the crest OF the hin. tho
glen was discovered There's norh-u-
very rare and novel about q glen. The
sight Of an elephant beats Il lh.-. ID
GIG. Nevertheless. youug Stanley ID
~oo-eT asccrtained that there was
sac OF rocky glen on hand than he
had desire 10 explore It. To do ths
he must cross the plank that b-idead
4 cEasm, and the waters beneath rot
up a respectable roar and tumble.
MY starsi"
Miss Louise had been sitting on q
rock feeding halEtamcd squirrel She
had heard the rustic of the bushes
and knew that an intruder aD-
preached.
Who could it be? had the cook or
the gardener been sent TO call hcr2
No. If they had they would have
halted reds away and whoopcd.
No whoops!
Most girls would have called out.
"Eack, back, brave youth. or youu take
a tumble," but she didn't.
Wish hadn't tried IT," said the in
truder to himself after making about
three feet OF progress along the plank
Mr. Stanley dared not attempt TO
30 back or 20 ahead. lie iust stood
still and shivered. lie could feel tf.e
plank giving beneath his weight and
held his breath. Miss Louise ut last
opened her lips to say something. but
closed them again without uttering z
sound.
There was a way out OF the glen by
the rear, but it was a oiIcu!t one
She took It. however, and was de
scending at the peril Of broken limb
when she heard the breaking OF the
plank and the shout the young man
uttered as ne went down.
Two hundred feet below the glen
the creek emerged on level ground:
Miss Louise was there when q human
body came driving down with not one
chance in ten that there was any life
left in it. She seized II and drew II
ashore, and after regarding it for a
moment, she ran for the house TO
shout to the gardner.
Get out the auto as quick as you
can, while telephone for doctor,"
The doctors report when he had
a IN l4t tirr, b.. a.
en- bad contusicns broken arm: two
ribs broken: knee-cap broken: scalp
wound. Who is he?"
Il don't know" replied Miss
Louise.
But he has had a fall. and is half
drowned beside"
"Yesi"
I'D you pun him ou, of the
creek?"
Yes"
Then he must have fallen in
above?"
Il think-think go"
And he's a perfect stranger to
you?"
"Yes."
Girl" said the doctor, hero Is the
greatest piece of luck that ever came
q girls way! a Foodl0oalag young
man drops from the clouds az your
feet. In dropping he hits the rocks
Instead Of a soft spot Il ought to
have killed him. but It won't. lie roll
ed into the creek, and you we're here
TO pun him out AS he Is a stranger
he must be taken 20 the house. He
VIII be there at least two months. and
you VIII be his nurse. Here are mys-
terry, tragedy, romance, love. mar
riage!"
Tho doctor didn't get thtt all or
while the patient was lying thee.
but at intervals. and when he had
finally finished. Miss Louise looked at
him coldly and replied:
DIR. Gaines. you are about halI-
fool!''
But he wasn't. He undrretood hui
man nature as veil rs medicine. Sid
ney Stanley made Z slow recovery.
Long days before he could Get out
doors Miss Louise said 70 Or. Gaines
one day as he dropped IN:
Doctor want to apologize"
Nonsense" he replied
But / do"
What! For falling in love with a
nice young man % good family, to
whom you have played the angel AFTER
playing the devil! Get out with your
apologies. but be sue 70 give ne an
invitation to the vgdding."
The less important 4 man Is the
more badges he pms on bis coat.
H0~aF raft.