The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
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CHAPTER XXI.
 And Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

CHAPTER XXI.
 And Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. ~ f@1HEY carried him into the house
 and bore him upstairs and
 laid him. quiet now and al
 most p1lseless, upon the bed: They stood there dumfounded at the bedside until Miss Sarah. re-entering ! fhe room, coolly ordered them from un. derfoot and sent them back down, stairs. And at that their unprotesting ebediencel was of greater assistance than their hands could have been. But when, after one glance at the girls stricken face, she tried the next in ! stahk to dismiss Bar5ara for once Miss [ earah's will alone proved insufficient. Ehe girl refused, point blank, to go.
 &"He half undressed me and put me { to bed.r Barbara flung back in reply 7o the spinster's final objection, land if that did not shock you, surely rSy ' GxnyinG now need not" fYhe refusal itself brought glint Co fho elder woman's eyes and the phras- Z IT thereof a flush to her cheeks, but 6fie wasted no more words in what she knew to be useless argument. And though the girl grew sick and sicker still while Miss Sarah cut away, the 6odacn shirt and started. with com petent skill, ta cleanse the wound, the X Inter let her remain and hold basin Y cf antiseptic and replenish 1t when x necessary.
 1fiss Sarah knew what to do. and Ghe worked with anhurried thorough ness. They had sent fop the doctor. and after ages had paased for the girl, Uaddeningly cool and unrufled, he ar rived. But. his first words, too, were 4 an order that she leave the room. and unable to, combat his professional hleakness, meekly she had to obey. Lit x t1e and wholly hopeless she stole down dtnfxs. N ~ Caleb and her father were confront Ing each other before the fireplace ' when she reached the lower floor, but tks queer note of restraint in their voices meant nothing to her. until she z head her father cry out in sudden anguish. & s
 -Cal,' he cried, -Oal you don't thinlx < { was party to this attempt at mur- 6er?''
 Then, at Csleb's reply. which went hurting back 1t him. the girl was ' crouching. white and still. and clutch ing 1t the, stair rail.
 ssParty: Attempt! Because you dic not pull the trigger are you any the less guiltyr' -
 "Do you believe that I would mur' \ Ger the man my girl lovesT Dexter Allison moaned now.
 Barbara gasped at the deadly anger which crossed Caleb Hunters face Caleb had lifted hand in righteous accusation.
 .You have dealt in crookedness," he thundered. You have thrived on cun- ming. And, helng law unto yourself 1n this country. you have gone unpun- 1shed until now. You aided and abet- 4 ted . vicious and interruptions scoun- drel in his vfllainy, and now you have looked upon the result Of your works Law has never touched you, sir-re pt1sal has passed you by. But by God, sir, warn you that If that boy dles-if he dtes-I shall see that you meet me at thirty paces the nex1
 morning. And shah not miss-I shal
 be your lawr'
 They had been friends for close tt forty years, yet they were worse thar strangers now. Dexter Allison could not answer. He could not speak aloud Caleb's finger had swung toward thu deor in . gesture unmistakable. Ali
 son turned, and. ghastly of face, me X the eyes of his daughtef. 'Hsr "Barbara," he appealed to her fran
 1ical1y. Baby
 But she shrank, huddled heap O,
 misery, away from him.
 "You-tooT she whispered. "Youv
 And then, duly: "And you're my ia therr'
 The shoulders beneath the garisl
 plaid rose and fell pitifully. This
 then, was the moment which he fear
 a. He gulped aloud and hung hil head and turned his fset-toward home
 Barbara rose after he had gone and
 crept into chair.
 One after another they tried to per q 0O800 tu0 81kl " kvols lQlElAA CAkI'
 and talked to- her, and Caleb, ant even Miss Sarah p-ssing through th'
 room stopped to urge her again to q
 to bed. But she met them all with tht same wordless refusal. She was wait \ ing for him when the doctor, descend ing in the morning, tried to combine diplomatically, praise for what she hat done with disapproval of her obsti macy.
 My dear child, this insubordinatior
 will help no one" he said, "and it ma, fnd in your collapse at just the momen whom you are needed most"
 "Will he. liveT was all she woult 5 nay. "Wfl he nve?"
 And before such hopelessness thu doctor could not lie.
 He is hard hit and very, very weak. he had to admit. The shock is grea and the tissue damage X It is far worse than expected, but h 3 e stfll alive. and most men would hav besn already dead. And his vitality . marvel, even to me"
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