The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-04-02
ROUTE TO GLEN ROBIN
BY JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ.

you turn to the right"
YES"
You go down the road till you come
to a creek. You don't wade the creek,
but cross on a bridge. Then you go
along till you come to a big elm tree.
There you turn to the right and go
up into the woods. The creek starts
there. You have to cross it on a plank
to get to the glen. There's a heap Of
rocks there all jumbled together. That's
why they call 1t a glen . And right in
of love and romance, you will find Miss
Louise Harper, ward of Grandma Pat
ridge, who is the incest old lady in
the world, and is going to die some
day n leave Louise a barrel Of mon,
ey. That's all, and now you go on
and let me get back to my kitchen"
That's what the cook would have
said had young Mr.. Sidney Stanley
come shopping around to make in
quiries. But he didn't come. He was
no snooper. He had heard of and
even seen the girl, but he had never
heard of OF seen the glen.
What brought the young mar to the
creek and the bridge that afternoon
was lonesomeness, a desire to get off
by himself and think thinks.
Reaching the crest of the hill, the
glen was discovered. There's nothing
very rare and novel about a glen. The
sight of an elephant beats it three to
one. Nevertheless, young Stanley no
sooner a~scertained that there was a
case of rocky glen on hand than he
had a desire to explore it. To do this
he must cross the plank that bridged
a chasm, and the waters beneath got
up a respectable roar and tumble.
MY stars!"
Miss Louise had been sitting on a
rock feeding a half-tamed squirrel. She
had heard the rustic of the bushes
and knew that an intruder ap.
preached.
Who could it be? Had the cook or
the gardener been sent to call her?
No. If they had they would have
halted rods away and whooped.
No whoops!
Most girls would have called out,
Back, back, brave youth, or you'll 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
go back or go ahead. He just stood
still and shivered. He could feel the
plank giving beneath his weight and
held his breath. Miss Louise at last
opened her lips to say something, but
closed them again without uttering a
sound.
There was a way out Of the glen by
the rear, but it was a difficult one.
She took it, however. and was de-
scending at the peril of a broken limb,
when she heard the breaking of the
plank and the shout the young man
uttered as he went down.
Two hundred feet below the glen
the creek emerged on level ground;
Miss Louise was there when a human
body came driving down with not one
chance in ten that there was any life
left in it. She seized it and drew it
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 a d%octor!"
The doctors report when he had
made an examination was Half a doz.
en- bad Commissions. broken arm; two
ribs broken; knee-cap broken; scalp
wound. Who is he?"
II don't know" replied Miss
Louise.
But he has had a fall, and is half.
drowned beside"
"Yes!"
Did you pull him out of the
creek?"
Yes"
"Then he must have fallen in
above?"
Il think-think So"
And he's a perfect stranger to
you?"
Eyes"
Girl" said the doctor, here is the
greatest piece of luck that ever came
a girls way! A g%ood-looking young
man drops from the clouds at your
feet. In dropping he hits the rocks
instead of a soft spot. 1t ought to
have killed him, but it won't. He roll
ed into the creek, and you we're here
to pull him out. AS he is a stranger
he must be taken to the house. He
will be there at least two months, and
you will be his nurse. Here are mys
terry, tragedy. romance, love, mar
riage!"
The doctor didn't get thtt all of
while the patient was lying there
but at intervals, and when he had
finally finished, Miss Louise looked al
him coldly and replied:
"Dr. Gaines, you are about half
fool"
But he wasn't. He understood hu
man nature. as well as medicine. Sid
ney Stanley made a slow recovery
Long days before he could get GU,
doors Miss Louise said to DR.. Gaines
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