The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-02-19
ROUTE TO GLEN ROBIN
BY JOHN PHiLle ORTIZ.

hribed TO give the route 10 Glen Rob
In she would have said:
When you get out Of the front gate
you turn to the right"
Yes"
You 60 down the road till you come
70 creek. You don't wade the creek,
but cross on a bridge. Then you go
along till you come 10 big elm tree
There you turn to the right and 90
up into the woods. The creek starts
there. You have TO cross II on a plank
TO get 10 the glen. There's a heap of
rocks there all sumbled together. That's
Why they call il a glen And right in
that glen, reading book or thinking
Of love and romance, you viii 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 and 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 snooping around 10 make in
quiries. But he didn't cone. He was
no snooper. He had heard OF and
even seen the girl. but he had never
heard of or seen the glen.
What brought the young man TO the
creek and the bridge that afternoon
was lonesomoness, desire to get OF
b. himself and think thinks.
Reaching the crest OF the hill, the
o. a
very rare and novel about glen. The
sight Of an elephant beats it three TO
one Nevertheless. young Stanley no
sooner ascertained 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 respectable roar and tumble.
MY stars,'
Miss Louise had been sitting on
rock feeding half-tamed squirrel. She
had heard the rustic Of the bushes
and knew that an intruder ap-
preached
Who could It be7 Had the cook or
the gardener been sent to call her?
No II they had they would have
halted rods away and whooped.
No whoopsl
Most girls would have called out,
Back, back, brave youth. or you'll take
a tumbe!'' 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. lie just stood
still and shivereG 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 way out of the glen by
the rear, but It was a difficult one
She took It, however, and was de-
scendng at the peril OF 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 human
body came driving down with not one
chance In ten that there was any life
left in it. She seized IL 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 doetorl"
The doctors report when he had
made an examination was Half doz-
en- bad contusions broken arm two
ribs broken; knee-eap broken: scalp
wound Who is hep"
Il don't know replied Miss
Louise.
But he has had a fall and is half
4 drowned beside"
"Yesl"
did you pun him out of the
I creek2"
Yes"
Then he must have fallen IN
above"
Il think-think so"
And he's perfect stranger to
you?9
YES"
"Girlu' said the doctor, here is the
greatest piece OF luck that ever came
q girls way, A good-looking young
man drops from the clouds at your
feet In dropping he hits the rocks
instead Of a soft spot II ought to
have killed him. but it won't He roll
"a into the creek. and you were here
to pull him out AS he is q stranger
he must be taken to the house. lie
I viii be there at least two months, and
you win be his nurse. Here are mys-
I terry tragedy romance, love, mar
riase,"
Tho doctor didn't get thtt all off
whita tho patient was lying there,
but at intervals. and when he had
finally finished. Miss Louise looked at
him coldly and replied:
DIR Gaines, you are about half
fool7
But he wasn't. He understood hu.
man nature as well as medicine. Sid
meg Stanley made a slow recovery
Long DAYS before he could get out
doors Miss Louisa said 10 DIR Gaines