The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-11-05
"OH, THAT MANI"
BY DONALD ALLEN.

''"u aioo iihie NsTuou ueClueu al
hour earlier that she ought to drive
Into the village to post letter and
to get paper Of needles and some
elastic tape and sheet Of music and
half dozen other things she could
have gone in her fathers auto or in
her own runabout, but when she had
at last made up her mind both ma
chimes were out.
There was no steamship line be-
tween the Vernon place and the vii
lage, distance Of four miles. There
was no barge canal. There was no
flying machine handy. The only way
to get there just at that time was to
walk.
The letter could have been sent a
month later as well as on that day,
and there wasn't bit OF haste about
the other things, but Miss Lisle start
ed on that long walk. II was hot
and dusty and there were no babbling
brooks or shady dells on the way,
After going half mile the girl de-
cided to turn back. She had turned
when q man came driving up with a
rather smart looking rig, and halted
to say: 1
Miss Vernon, my name Is Fetch
er. / know your father well. II you
have started for town let me give you
a lift. l wouldn't walk the distance,
on such a day for a $40 bill"
Miss Lisle had never heard Of Mr..
Fletcher, but he did not look like a
kidnaper, and she accepted his In
vitation. At the end of mile a.
buggy, with two young men In It.,
and with their horse on a dead run,
came up behind them and started to
pass. Mr.. Fletcher gave them all the
room he could, but the man with the
reins had planned smash and he
| brought 1t about.
There was a row and threats made
| and q week later Mr.. Fletcher was
arrested on warrant charging him
with malicious damage, and Miss
Lisle found herself subpenaed as a
witness for the defense. She had re.
turned home after the officer and her
father had said:
yes, know Fletcher. He is an
old bachelor, and was sued for breach
of-promse about year ago"
But ! didn't know It," protested
the girl.
We'll, you know It now, and you
hadn't better take any more buggy
| Ill % ha u
fellows was brother of the girl, and
! shouldn't wonder II thered be more
trouble"
A week later the trial came on be-
fore a justice of the peace, and there
was large attendance of spectators
and the lawyer for the prosecution
took Miss Lisle in hand for the cross
examination.
He was a young lawyer, and he
wasn't going to spare anybody. After
the usual questions about name, age
and residence, he started out with:
Were you on the highway between
Stone Hill and this village in the fore
noon of the seventh day of las
month";"
81 was in a buggy with Mr., fetch
err"
We'll, what happened?"
Those two young men cems up b.
hind our rig with another horse an
buggy"
They came up quietly, did they?
mo, sir. They came cursing an
shouting. They passed on my side
and the one with the reins deliberate
ly refined the horse in. He looked a
me and grinned as he did 1t. w
were standing still as he did it,
Miss Vernon, you know what pc
jury is, do your"
Eyes. sir. and / know what insu
Is as WE'LL"
"That is all" and Miss Lisle wa
: out Of 1t, except when he came to al
dress the jury he strongly limited thu
= the reason for the collision probabl
lay in the fact that Fletcher wa
3 driving one-handed and could not CO
: troll his horse.
II did not take the jury over te
minutes to find for the defendan
and thus the case was closed. TIL
d is, the main case. Miss Lisle had
s case against young Lawyer Blaisde
Q and though It was never to be trie
a she could say to him:
d Urn follow his trail until am 7
b venged! He knew | was telling Il
y truth, and yet he tried to make me o
q liar! Think OF his limiting tn
a Fletcher had an arm around me!
a ooh, but could see him burned
n the stake!"
% Three months later, as she start
out one day with her runabout, 3
~ was hating yet.
III Golden Hill was a steep, long hi
~ with two turns in 1t, and at its fo
: was a bridge over deep river T
girl was just taking the last turn wi
whizz that would have CARR
al her across the bridge when the m
ne she hated appeared before her wi
In small log in his hands, ana I
ohotruotinn yyaa thrown In such n W