The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-28
Recalled to Life
BY CECILLE LANGDoN

Tragedy deep and direful had spread
settled gloom over the quiet little
village. 1t had come with force and
suddenness of a thunder blast. At
midafternoon a farmer with frenzied
face and horror-haunted eyes had driv-
en- into the town at wild speed, his
horses in lather, his lips parChed and
trembling. He had circled to the
curb where the mashal stood, and had
brought the wagon to a halt and the
horses to their knees with q shock.
Something terrible" me painted
forth. AT the river young Darcy No
BILE! He was driving an automobile.
1t Slid from the roadway across Flat
Rock and plunged into the river man
and all. Oh, it was awful :"
There was an instant uproar and eN-
element. The town officer sprang to
the seat of his motorcycle and made
for the familiar spot described, 9th
ers hurried after him. Soon the slant
ing shore of Elk river was crowded
with an awed, agitated throng,
at was Willis Days new automo-
bile" spoke one of the crowd, 81 no.
ticed Darcy came down the street
with it not fifteen minutes ago. lie
wasn't much used to it, ! reckon, and
made a wrong turn"
The bystander spoke name very
dear to the townspeoplo. Darcy No
bic was general fuyorite-youns,
bright-natured, just beginning a prom
Using business life. Many thought Of
his widowed mother. Some, too,
thought of Airline Drury, for it was
very generally supposed that he was
as good as engaged to her.
BY dusk strong, helpful hands, with
the aid of two stout teams, a diver
and strong chains had dragged the
automobile out of the water, a wreck.
Attached to it was fragment Of cloth
torn from the coat of its unfortunate
driver, apparently as he and the ma
chine went down to destruction. The
body of the young man was not dis
covered, however. II was theOrized
that, stunned, he had noated down.
stream, over the dam. Search was
made for two days after that, but no
trace was found of the victim of the
tragedy.
The widowed mother of Young Noble
was crushed by the unexpected be-
reavement The friends of Darcy, in
Guiding Airline Drury, showed the deep
est grief. Dale, closest friend of
Darcy, seemed most deeply shocked
and stricken.
at was my fault" he almost wept
ooh, that l had never aHoWcd him to
take the machine! | warned him to
be careful, knowing that he was n
mere novice at the wheel. ! shall ncv-
or forgive myself"
In vain. his friends demonstrated
that he was guiitess and taking too
greatly to heart an accident over which
he had no control. Willis Daily became
n changed man. He went about hu
ow-eyed and depressed. His first
action was to visit the mourning moth
er and arrange n lifelong pension for
her. She, too, tried to persuade him
that not in the rem6test way could
she consider any responsibility on his
part in the untimcly death OF her son.
From the first he had evaded Ar.
line Drury. Then. one evening as he
sat In his office, drearily attempting to
interest himself in a book, there was
tap mt the door, and Airline and her
cousin Irma< Merrill, entered.
Their mission was sober. but solac-
ING Frank. outsDollcn. full of keen
human sympathy. Airline appealed to
Dale to come out of his mental gloom.
Her sincerity won his confidence. She
invited him 10 her home. Within q
month she had wolI-nigh won him from
his morbid mood. Then willis Dale
made discovery that aroused new
and distressing complication-dev
~. heart and soul, he loved Airline
Druryl
AhruntIv no roolized tbo obvss into
which bo bod ro,lon IIo wac ehocl,od
crushed. at n concoptlon of the urnat.
ural position IN which he found him.
self II was like sacrllcge TO even
dream Of supplantlup the dead man
In the affections of the supposed chos-
on one Of his love. Airline must never