The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-04-20

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NIGHTS work And Mr.. Langdon says
quick like, What do you mean? So
told him and the doctor, and Mr.. Lang
don was all fer comm wi me. but the
doctor wouldna let him. Diana fash
yerser,' said, when L saw the doctor
was RIGHT. I'll gaze fast, and if there
IA need fer you I'll come RIGHT back.
And the doctor said. You're all worn
out, Philip You've got to have some |
rest. Be sensible So / went back |
alone"
"At what hour did you reach the |
home of Miss Pager"
81 dinna ken the exact hour, but it
were ABBOTT daylight, and cude see
quite q ways ahead Of me"
"Wil you tell us, please, what you
saw when you approached the Page
house?"
Slowly one great hand cltnched itself
into a knotted fist, and the muscles of
his jaw frightened, and across those
who sat between, the gray eyes OF the
Scotchman and the tear-dimmed eyes
of Mrs. Page met in q mute commun-
ion of terrible memories. Then, slowly.
with a new tone Of suppressed excite
ment lending q thrill to his voice he
said:
when 1 got ME enough to see the
hoose, l cude see great black splotch
i'm front Of it. that I made cot to be
men, Then I cude hear shouts: Come
cot, Dan Page, we've summat to say
to your So I didna drive right oor
to the place. 1 stoppit in the road and
crepit through the wood at the back
and, hiding under the hedge, got Oor
| to the rear. Then l wrote on a wee
scrap Of paper, I've news of Mary
| and 1 come to bring help Then ]
tappit on a window, till l saw Mrs.
| Page peerin' oot-and / held up the
paper.
after minute or SO she unlatchit
the back door and 1 slippit in. oh,
Mr.. MACPHERSON says the puir lady
cryin', is my girl safe? And I says,
Safe and sound asleep And she says.
Thank God Then l heerd another
voice sayin', annie, Annie-who is iii
Don't let them get mech, my God,
| don't let them get me! And l saw
that Dan Page was hfdin' behind her,
clingin' to her skirts like a scared
BARN. His face were all drawn and
twistit like, and his mouth was slob-
BERN, and he kept cryin', I was drunk
Il was drunk! You tell them, Annie
You tell themY At that she says like
one speakin' to child, There, there
Dan-you're safer And then there
came an awfu' cry from ootside
Come DOT, Dan Page-or We'll smoke
ye cot like the beast that We are! Al
that Mrs Page began to sob and says
oh. what shall I do? What shall
, do! They will ma talk to- me-and
they'll burn DOR hoose, they'll burn ooI
hoose! Oh, if Philip were only here!
"'Dinna greet 1 said, TIL get him
but he nun ha' time. Let Dan Page
, go upstairs and talk to them from {
window
ooh, Dan,' says the puir lady, Oar
will you do that? Tell them yol
. didn't mean to hurt Mary or-or me.
No, no. he whimpered, Il can't,
can'tr But grabbit him by the arm
h and pulled him to his feet. BE man.
o cried, and l shookit him. BE a NAL
;. and get you upstairs.
}. "'You'd be safe in the cupola. Dan.
!. says Mrs. Page. I'll stay with you
and this kind man will go for Philip.
But he kept sayin', No. no. and
+ could hear the others bangin' at tn
: door and l dared not stay. SO slippi
DOT the way came and went off TO
Il Mr.. Langdon."
- Mrs. Page, whose anxiety to be nea
:, Mary had kept her from returning t
!, the witness room, shuddered at tn
memories that Macpherson was COL
-. Turing up out Of the past. The soft
ness which time has lent the TRACED
- of that chill winter morning wa
:. stripped off, exposing the old horribl
wound, and she could feel again thos
cropping fingers, icy cold, clutching a
~ her as she strove to drag Dan Pag
I'D stairs towards the cupOla.
y She could hear his voice. now THO
q with drink, now athrill with terribl
Il fear-as he pleaded with her to hid
him and to save him. She had bee
> mercifully numb with the horror of
-" then; consumed only with the desir
~ to hold those men at bay long enoug
~ for MACPHERSON to bring help. and
Il was that desire which gave her til
u strength to drag the heavy bulk Of he
Ii husband up the two flights of stail
into the little cupola at the top.
She could feel again the sting Of tn
le cold dawn wind against her face as Sd
stepped out on the platform of roug
=" boards and dropped the inert figure {
"a her husband at her feet.
lie Then with all the eloquence Of be
10 great fear she had pleaded with tt
~ mob below to go away. They ha
y seemed all eyes floating on a great po
~ Of blackness against the snow as ST
It looked down, but later she could Sc
H. the grim mouths below the eyes an
d. knew that her pleas were falling G
tn deaf ears.