The Monticellonian., 1918-11-29

stopped to drink. The dog drew the little girl closer to the spot.
 Where has that man gone to? If 1t was man"
 Prince stopped suddenly and whined and then looked around at his mistress, as though to say "See there !''
 Carolyn May tumbled off the sled in hurry. When she did so she slipped on patch of snow-covered ice and fell. But she was not hurt.
 There that's where the water runs across the road. It's all slippery 0h!"
 It was the sleeve of mans rough coat thrust out of the snowbank that brought this last cry to the child's lips.
 ''0h. oh It's q man!" burst from Carolyn Mays trembling lips. How cold he must be"
 She bumped down on her knees and began brushing the snow away. She uncovered his shoulder She took hold of this with her mittened hands and tried to shake the prone figure.
 "Oh, do wake up Please wake up!" she cried digging away the snow as fast as possible
 A shaggy head was revealed, with an old cap pulled down tightly over the ears. The man moved again and grunt- ed something. He half turned over, and there was blood upon the snow. and great frosted cake of it on the side of his face.
 Carolyn May was dreadfully fright ened. The mans head was cut and the blood was smeared over the front of his jacket Now she could see Il pud- dle of 1t, right where he had fallen on the ice-just as she had fallen herself Only, he had struck his head on rock and cut himself
 You poor thingt" murmured Caro- lyn May. "Oh, you mustn't lie here ! You must get up! You'll-you'll be frozen p
 Easy, mate" muttered the mao 'I ain't jest right in my top-hamper. | reckon. Hold hard, matey."
 lie tried to get up. He rose to his knees, but pitched forward again. Carolyn May was not afraid of hin now-only troubled.
 "Fll take you to Miss Amanda's,' cried the little girl, pulling at his coat again. "She's nurse, and she'll know just what to do for you. Come Prince and I will take you"
 Then she guided the half blinded man to the sled, on which he managed to drop himself.
 Prince pulled, and Carolyn May pull ed, and together they got the sled, with the old sailor upon 1t, to the Parlow carpenter shop.
 Mir. Parlow slid back the front door of his shop to stare in wonder at the group.
 For the great land of Jehoshaphat P he croaked. "Car'lyn May! what you got there?"
 "Oh, Mir. Parlow, do come and help us-quiek !' gasped the little girl. My friend has had a dreadful bad fall"
 Your friend?" repeated the carpen~ ter. 'I declare, it's that tramp that went by here just now! P
 MT. Parlow made clucking noise in his throat when he saw the blood.
 Guess you're right, Car'lyn May" he admitted. "Call Mandy. She must see this.'
 Miss Amanda's attention had already been attracted to the strange arrival. She ran out and helped her father raise the injured man from the sled. To- gether they led him into the cottage
 He was not at all bad-looking man, although his clothing was rough and coarse.
 Miss Amanda brought warm water and bathed the wound, removing the congealed blood from his face and neck.
 When the last bandage was adjusted and the injured mans eyes were closed. Mir Parow offered him a wine-glass of homemade cordial. The sailor gulped it down, and the color began to return to his checks
 "Where was you goin'. anyway" de- manded the carpenter.
 ''Lookin' for a job, mate," said the sailor "There's them in town that tells me I'd find work at Adams camp"
 "Ha! didn't tell you twas ten mile away from here, did they?"