Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-02


 Dark Head in Her Arms. began, mounted on nis mare Aquareue, he was posted near the head of the slope, not twenty yards from the hur- de, to be at hand in any contingency. When Harry's horse bolted. one touch put Aquarelle into motion. Like line Of brown light she dashed at right angles to the runaway-a line drawn to intercept the line of Black Hawks flight, There was silence over the held-one second-two seconds-the lines shot to the angle-then it came the shock they awaited.
 Black Hawk, rushing. saw the other coming and swerved at the last mo- ment-too late The animals collided. not with full force, yet for a moment it looked like nothing but death for riders and mounts Harry Hampton was thrown backward Co the level field; Black Hawk galloped off, frantic and unhurt, across 1t; Aquarelle, one saw, lay on the very edge Of the drop and was scrambling to her feet with hveliness enough to assure her safe ty' of Francois there was no sign In half a minute the breathless still crowd was in an uproar, and hun dred men were jostling one another to reach the scene of the accident
 It was two minutes, perhaps, before CaDerton Bayly, with a negro boy at his heels, with Jack Littleton and Harry Wise and a dozen other lads racing back of him, had plunged over the drop of land where Francois had disappeared. Two minutes are enough sometimes for a large event. In that two minutes Lucy Hampton, without conscious volition, by an instinct as simple and imperative as a blrds in- stinct to shield her young, had slipped from her horse Bluebird and flown across the level and down over the steep bank till she found herself hold ing Francois dark head in her arms and heard her own voice saying words she had never said even to herself.
 q love you, ] love you" she said, and if all the world heard she did not know or care. There was no world for her at that minute but the man lying with his head against her heart dead it might be, but dead or alive, dearest. CT love you-love you-love you" she repeated, as if the soul were rushing out of her in the words.
 With that the luminous great eyes opened. and Francois was looking at her. and she knew that he had heard And then the training Of lifetime. of centuries, flooded back into her, and womanly reticence and maidenly shame and the feelings and attitude which are not .primeval, as she had been primeval for that one mad mo. ment She drew back as she felt him trying to lift himself and left him free and was on her feet, and then with a shock she was aware of another pres ence; turning she looked up into the angry glow of her cousins eyes. He was not looking at her, but at the man who dazed, hurt. was trying painfully to pull himself up Harry Hampton glared at him.
 We will settle this later" he brought out through his teeth. "I hope l can kill you" And Lucy cried out: "Shame!" she cried. He has just saved your lifel"
 Damn himl" said Harry Hampton "I do not want my life at his hands l hate him more for saving me. Damn him."
 And Francois, olutching at a bush things reeling about him unsteadiy looked up, friendly, wistful, at the boy cursing him
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