The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-09-21
ROUTE TO GLEN ROBIN
sy JOHN pH,L,e ORTIZ.

II
When you get out OF the front gate
you turn to the right"
Eyes"
You go down the road till you come
10 q creek. You don't wade the creek.
but cross on q bridge. Then you 20
along till you come to a big elm tree.
There you turn TO the right and 10
up into the woods. The creek starts
there. You have to cross II on a plank
TO get to the glen. There's q heap Of
rocks there all jumbled together That's
why they call 1t glen And right in
that glen. reading a book or thinking
OF love and romance, you will find Miss
Louise Harper. ward Of Grandma Pat.
ridge. who is the incest old lady in
the world. and is going to die some
DAY and leave Louise barrel of mon.
ey. That's all. and now you go on
and let me get back to my kitchen"
That's what the cook would have
said had young Mr.. Sidney Stanle-
come shopping around to make in.
quiries. But he didn't come. He was
do snooper. He had heard of and
even seen the girl. but he had never
vi UT seen t0e Klen.
What brought the young man to the
creek and the bridge that afternoon
was lonesomeness, a desire to get OF
BY himself and think thinks.
Reaching the crest OF the hill. the
glen was discovered. There's nothing
very rare and novel about a glen. The
sight OF an elephant beats II three to
one. Nevertheless. young Stanley no
sooner ascertained that there was a
case of rocky glen on hand than he
had desire to explore 1t. To do this
ne must cross the plank that bridged
chasm. and the waters beneath 20,
up respectable roar and tumble.
my stars"
Miss Louise had been sitting on a
rock feeding half-tamed squirrel. She
had heard the rustic Of the bushes
and knew that an intruder ap-
preached.
Who could 1t be? Had the cook or
the gardener" been sent to call her?
No. II they had they would have
halted rods away and whooped.
No whoops!
Most girls would have called out,
Back, back, brave youth, or you'll take
tumble!" but she didn't.
wish hadn't tried IT," said the in
truder to himself after making about
three feet Of progress along the plank
Mr.. Stanley dared not attempt to
90 back or go ahead. He Just stood
still and shivered. He could feel the
plank giving beneath his weight and
held his breath. Miss Louise at last
opened her lips to say something. bui
closed them again without uttering q
sound.
There was q way out Of the glen by
the rear, but It was a difficult one.
She took It, however. and was de.
scending at the peril Of a broken limb
when she heard the breaking of the
plank and the shout the young man
uttered as he went down.
Two hundred feet below the glen
the creek emerged on level ground;
Miss Louise was there when a human
body came driving down with not one
chance In ten that there was any life
left In 1t. She seized 1t and drew 1t
ashore. and after regarding II for
moment. she ran for the house to
shout to the gardner. .....
Get out the auto as quick as you
can. while l telephone for a doctor!"
The doctors report when he had
made an examination was Half doz.
en- bad Commissions. broken arm; two
ribs broken; knee-cap broken; scalp
wound. Who is he?"
IL don't know" replied Miss
Louise.
But he has had fall. and is half.
drowned beside"
"Yes!" -
Did you pull him out of the
creek?" I
Yes"
-Then he must have fallen in
abovey" ~. 81
Il think-think SOL
And he's . perfect stranger to
you? rssr
yes" .- s....
Girl" said the doctor. here is the
greatest piece Of luck that ever came
girls way! A good-looking young
man drops from the clouds. at your
feet. In dropping he hits the rocks
instead Of soft spot It ought to
have killed him, but 1t won't. He roll.
ed into the creek, and you were here
to pull him out. As he is stranger
he must be taken to the house He
will be there at least two months, and
you will be his nurse. Here, are mys-
terry. tragedy. romance. love. mar
riage!"
The doctor didn't get thtt all OF
while the patient was lying the-es
but at intervals. and when he had
finally finished. Miss Louise looked at
him coldly and replied:
DR.. Gaines, you are about half.
foo1!"
But he wasn't. He understood hui
man nature ~ well as medicine. Sid
ney Stanley made a slow recovery.
Long days before he could get out
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