The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-21

are adequate. They would establish
young Meade's innocence in any court
In the land. Where is he? have done
him an injustice. am ready to make
amends" continued the colonel.
"And while you are talking" said
Helen IllIngworth, who had been stand
ing in the doorway too absorbed by the
dramatic recital to interrupt it, "he's
dying"
dying! WhereT
He was battered to pieces by the
last dynamite explosion. We brought
him here"
"Were you there2"
eve saw it from the top of the mesa
Oh, don't talk any longer"
"Severence." said Illingworth. with
prompt decision, "you haven't forgot
ten all your old medical skill. This is
your job. One of you jump on the en-
gine and bring physician up and"
I'm going" said Rodney. "Whos
the best doctor In town?'
Doctor Fraser He's a young man,
but very skillful," answered one of the
local bridge men.
Bring our own Doctor Bailey up
here from our hospital with him, and
tell that engine driver to get down
to the town and back just as quickly
as he can go. Cheer up, Helen" said
the colonel. 81 know that q man Is
not going to rehabilitate himself by
such an action and have the evidence
of his innocence brought out at such
a moment just to die"
"Will you give me those papers, colo
nelT' said Rodney. You'll want this
written up and"
Take them," said the colonel.
"Will you come along with me, Mr..
Shurtlilf? After l see the doctors I'll
want your affidavit"
Eyes, sir, anything" said ShurtIiff.
1T was fine of you," said Winters,
''to try to shield your employer and
the man you loved, but thank God, you
spoke out before it was too late. I'm
sorry pulled that gun on you; you're
q man, all right, even if you don't look
it." he added to himself us Shurtlitf
bowed and followed Rodney.
Winters stood ut the door of the pas
sageway leading to the staterOOm while
Helen IllingwOrth and Severence, who
had been educated as physician, and
the old colonel, who knew a great deal
about wounds and accidents from his
war experience, entered the staterOOm.
A new spirit had come into the rela-
tions between father and daughter and
both were glad. There was no Ques-
ton now about the future. There
should be no opposition from Colonel
Illingworth. Within an hour the pa
pers would have the story of how one
man had saved great dam, the via
duct, the town, and it's people, and
they would have ut the same time the
story Of who was responsible for the
fall of the International bridge. They
would have the story of the attempted
self-sacritice of the son to save the
father. They would have the story of
the old mans splendid and magnanim-
Gus avowal of RESP pvnsibility before he
died. The United States, the world,
would ring with the dramatic tale.
1t was as much to tell that story In
his own way as to summon medical
aid that Rodney had gone for the doc
tor. And so the father held the daugh-
ter clasped to his side while both bent
over the still unconscious man, whom
Doctor Severence quickly and careful
ly and with wonderful skill, consider
ing his long withdrawal from practice,
examined.
"What is it2" asked the colonel MS
the vice president looked up presently.
MY daughter is engaged to be married
to him"-and he was rewarded by the
thrill and Quiver that shot through his
daughters being which he felt as he
pressed her to his side-'we can't let
him die now."
HES in Gods hands," answered
Severence grayely. "He's been terribly
pounded everywhere. His breastbone