The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
THE WAYS OF
FATE
By NJ. QUAD
Copyright. 1915. by tho Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.

Miss Dorothy Campbell knew that II
had rained and frozen during the night
She opened the door and stepped out
TO find that the top stone step was still
glare. Miss Dorothy was falling and
screaming when male pedestrian
who happened TO be passing at that
moment, rushed part way up the steps
and received her In his arms, The
shock landed both OF them on the walk,
but on their feet and they suffered no
Injury
"You will excuse me, miss" said the
man as he raised his hat.
"Not only excuse, but thank you"
was the reply.
And you were going out without
rubbersI 2" he queried.
II never wear them"
"You run a terrible risk such a day
as today"
"Oh, / am pretty surefooted," she
laughed as she noticed that he had
provided himself with a pair Thanks
again"
AS Miss Dorothy was moving away
she noticed that her rescuer was a
man OF perhaps twenty-five, with a
professional look about him. He had
dark hair and eyes and smile that
was good nature itself. He was still
standing, and she realized that he
would watch her until she had crossed
the street, and, though there was ice
under her feet she stepped out boldly.
She saw two or three pedestrians slip
ping and falling, but she would take
no warning. BY sheer good luck she
reached the destination she had set out
for and In time she started TO make
her way home She had made half the
distance when rough neck OF a man
In passing her seemed to give her his
elbow with intent TO make her fall,
and fan she did But Miss Dorothy
didn't go right down amid the slush.
A pair OF strong arms prevented her,
and as she was lifted on her feet again
she turned to find the man who had
saved her before.
"Why-you-you"-
Yes" he smiled. ~ was not follow.
ing you to act the part of a guardian.
but / had to come back this way and
had only just seen you when the big
loafer brought about the collision. |
was near enough TO save you from a
fall"
And l owe you my thanks again."
she said.
Ii was about the middle of the next !
May, and there were early roses In
stead OF slush and ice that Miss Doro- /
by Campbell arrived at little coun- I
ry railroad station twenty miles out Of
he big city She had come down to
,ay her sister brief visit. and they
we're to meet her at the station with
IN auto. The auto had not arrived yet,
md the girl was standing on the plat
orm, waiting.
Look out Look out" shouted
ozen voices in chorus, and then there
vas a mad scramble among those on
he platform. One of the freight cars
eing pushed along by the locomotive
ad partly left the rail and broken
BOSE from the train, and it would be
lmost sure to bump into the platform
Miss Dorothy was about the only one
d the crowd who did not see the dan
er. Most OF them had got away, and
he was still standing and wondering,
hen an arm went around her waist
nd she was lifted up and half car
ed and half dragged to the far end of
he platform and thence half way
cross a street She turned to find
that man" He lifted his hat and ]
llmly explained;
II have come down here to visit my {
rother who Is to meet me here. I
as on the car with you, but you did I
OF see me. | am glad to have been Of
,rvice to you. Three or four people I
ave been hurt and will require the
ID of a surgeon. You, doubtless | L
ave friends coming to meet you. VIII 7
III excuse me while I go and see what I
can do for those who have been in J
red? am physician, you know"
Just then her sister came up in the 0
ITO and called to her. So she and =
e young man had met once more. 4
ough she had never expected to see o
m again.
After she recovered her composure !
Id had been asked a dozen times u
er for the particulars of the Incl q
mt. she related her whole story from L
e beginning.
A week passed away. If DR.. Roy
,odsend took any measures TO dis
yer where the young lady was stop m
ng, no one but his brother knew. II W
iss Dorothy Campbell was rather II,
xious to find where the doctor was W
,ated she kept 1t to herself. but Fate
lved the problem. In walking about
r sisters gardens Miss Dorothy
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