Judsonia weekly advance., 1919-10-30

 unconscious. Cats eyes. Full gallop through the dark; side-hils. mountain streams up and down; breakneck. l We'll here we are" The doctor breathed deeply, as though this last fact was one to occasion some won- | derment Your brother tells me you have an injured man here. Accident. | Stranger. believe? Well, shall we go | in ?~
 l Brother But why should she explain? Dave hadn't bothered. Why hadn't he7 He had told about the stranger. Why had he not told about both strangers? Why had he ignored her altogether? This time came another flush, born of that keen womanly intuition which un- derstands.
 With commonplace she led the doc tor into the house and to the bedside of her father. When the operation was completed the girl turned her at tention to the kitchen, where she found Dave, sweating in vicarious suf- fering. He had helped to draw the limb into place and it had been his first close contact with human pain. It was different from branding calves and he had slipped out of the room us soon as possible. The morning sun was now pouring through the window and the distraught look on the boys face touched her even more than the frankness of the words spoken in the darkness. She suddenly remembered that he had been up all night-for her. She would not deceive herself with the thought that it was for her fathers sake Dave had galloped to town, found doctor. secured fresh team and driven back along the lttle-used foot hill trails. No doubt Dave would have done 1t all for her father, had her fa- ther been there alone. but as things were she had deep conviction that he had done it for her. And it was with greater effort than seemed req sonable that she laid her fingers on his arm and said:
 "Thank you Dave."
 "What for?" he asked, and she could not doubt the genuineness of his ques- ton.
 "Why. for bringing the doctor, and all that 1 am sure I cant-father won't be able tc-"
 "Oh, shucks !" he interrupted, with a manner which, on the previous after noon, she would have called rudeness. "That's nothn'. But. say. brought home some grub The chuck here was pretty tame. Guess you found that out last night" He looked about the room and she knew that he was taking note of her house-cleaning, but he made no remark on the subject.
 'Well, let's get breakfast" she said, after Ii moments pause and for lack of other conversation. You must be hungry"
 Dave's purchases had been liberal. They included fresh meat and yegeta. bles, canned goods, coffee, rice and raisins. He laid the last three items on the table with a great dissembling of indifference, for he was Immensely proud of them. They were unwonted items on the Elden bill of fare; he had bought them especially for her. But she busied herself at the breakfast without thought of the epoch-mark- ing nature of these purchases.
 The doctor, who had been resting in the room with his patient, entered the Kitchen. During the setting of the limb he had gradually become aware of the position of Irene in the household but had that not been so, one glance at the boy and girl as they now stood In the bright morning sunshine, he with his big, wiry frame, his brown face, his dark eyes, his black hair. she. round and knit and smooth. with the plnk shining through her fair skin and the light of youth dancing in her gray eyes and the light of day glancing on her brown hair, must have told him they had sprung from widely separat- ed stock. For one perilous moment he was about to apologize for the mistake made in the darkness, but some wise instinct closed his lips. But he won- dered why she had not corrected him.
 They were seated at breakfast when the senior Elden made his appearance He had slept off his debauch and was as sober as a man in the throes of al- coholic appetite may be. Seeing the strangers. he hesitated in his lurch to- ward the water pail, steadled himself on widespread feet, very flat on the floor, and waved his right hand slowly in the air. Whether this was to be un- derstood as form of salutation or a gesture of defiance was matter of in- depreciation.
 "Vishitors," said the old man, at length "Alwaysh welcome, m sure. Sh-scuSh me-" He made his uncertain Len. l.c.., all. 4c,lx 4at