The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-06

LOulSc! ne spoke low anu IdSC.
In the confusion nobody paid the
slightest attention to them they could
not have been more alone had they
stood in the middle Of the gray desert
far back on the Santa Fe line or on
one Of the lonely mountain peaks long
since passed.
The situation had become instantly
primeval. There was but a man, q
woman and the warning elements of
the air.
Louise" he said, "be honest with
me nOw-it can't matter much one way
or the other-frOm the looks Of things
there aren't many more minutes left
for either of us-but tell me- dear, hon
| estly-dOn't you really care for met
| Didn't you intend to tell me yes finally
after you had humbled me suffl-
ciently?" .......~--.
AS this was most accurate guess
at Miss Mackay's Intention, though she
had never admitted 1t even to herself,
| she turned instantly. angry at being
| discovered. For second she forgot
the cyclone and her eyes flashed as
she wrenched away her hands.
"YOu are conceited and-and imper-
| tinent! !" she gasped, keeping her bal
ance with difficulty in the swaying car.
"How dare you assume love your"
II don't assumed flashed back Mr..
Murray sternly. II know it But you
are too proud 70 give in! And now
and now you'll never have the
chance!" -
With start the girl looked out at
the rear door again, recalled to their
danger, and the sight she saw sent
her blindly cropping for shelter, her SUI
perb nerve at last shattered.
As Murray put both arms around her
and shut her eyes against his shoul-
der, there was both desperation and
victory in his expression .
For the ugly roar Of the, thing pur.
suing them was drowning out all other
sounds; the whole world outside the
rocking. throbbing train had grown
dim and black. ..
"Tell me-" he whispered to her
cOmmandlngly. .c-.
Her trembling hand crept round his
neck. ..-..-.. H.
"Oh, yes,s yes!" she sobbed. II was
ENTHUSIASTICALLY didn't I tell you be-
fore? And now"
Don't look!" Murray cried sharply
as she raised her head.
He shut his own eyes and waited
the bare instant for the end of all
things. There was the sudden 81.
lence of utter terror In the Keeling car
full of doomed human beings.
But nothing happened, absolutely
nothing. When Murray opened his eyes
again, wonderingly, the whirling cloud
was gone
At rise in the track 1t had leapad,
swerved, and taken a sharp tangent,
abandoning the prey just in its clutch
and roaring its way south across the
open country.
The engine stopped the next minute
at the little station of Honey Greek,
and the crew and passengers staggered
out into the open air with dazed, white
faces. ez q. 5
Murray and Louise Mackay stood
watching the disappearance OF the cy-
clone in the distance. Then he looked
at her, and as he remembered and
marveled at her happiness, she turned
towards him a face on which there
was a mingiing Of tremulous thank.
fulness, evaporation, and helpless sur
render. ----.-
II believe" she said, half laughing.
half crying, as their hands met. II
believe, Robert, the whole affair was
sham you arranged on purpose, and
pressed a button or something when
you were done with 1t |"
"Of cOurse!" agreed the irrepress-
ible Mr.. Murray.