Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-26
the barn together. schwarz was talk

ing violently:
IF / find oud who done id / Keel
heem, zo!' and he brought down HIS
great hoof, grinding the heel into the
path with a crunching sound
Hilda shuddered as she went about
self under that heel. Yet she was not
sorry h had done what she had.
The air was tense and electric. At
times it seemed to Hhlda as Il she
could not breathe. Then she would
remember that she had saved the
young mans life and q thrill Of glad
ness would lift her out Of her h6r-
ror for a moment. But how had the
miracle been performed? Had they,
found a way in. that short time to re-
move the danger without giving ANY
outward sign?t Or had some natural
cause interviewed to make the peril
ineffective? There, came no, answer
to her questions and the hot sunl-
mer afternoon dragged on. The men
were at work IN the iga-den, each one
bending to his task as II utterly In
away. Yet 10Y and then o r an
other would lift his head and give q
swift. anxious glance at the land
sscane and thenIgo onsswiths his task.
Schwarz went back and forth from
garden to house. from house to barn,
from BAN to the little red brick
house. which Hnda,, when she
der-house,A.s,By and ny Schwarz had
two men bring wheelbarrow loadsssof
bricks and carry them into this little
house. They stayed in there a ld4S
time. as If they were pilihg them sup
in a particular way. When they
came out they gathered q lot Of tools
and took them in the little house.
<Nh y, III ar, y n1L4I <Lr a~NnS -tAax3
some. bean poles up in. front Of it;;sSas
if the door we're not often open.
Presently Hilda heard a; sound un-
der the window and, glancfng out,
saw that Heinrich was wheeling
loads of earth to the spot directly On
der her bedroom window and spread.
ing it smoothly over the little irons1id'
1t over about six inches deep and
then went away and came back With
2 load of cabbage plants which he eset
out carefully at equal distances sail,
over the new ground. watering thAm
and taking. as much pains as he did
with those down IN the other garden.
.One. of the other men brought the
farm implements and placed themSin
front of the barn door and later. q
big reaper was also drawn up in the
group, SO that It looked as though
that door was seldom used HE.
About four o'clock In the afternoon
la hand q With several workmen
came up the track and approached
the bridge at a good speed as many
another hand al had done; in The
days since Hilda had come to the
truck farm The car slowed dq&n
almost in front OF the farm, and Me
slid of and drove In al Few
spikes, their great hammers ringing
scheerily with va wholesome: SQUAD.
They stopped three times. before they
came to the bridge and drove B
spikes. and then went on smoothly
over the bridge and disappeared. Ten
minutes later the afternoonsSexpEess
came DOWN through the opening
where the hand car had disappeared.
moving at its usual brisk pace, and
Srumbled pleasantly over the bridge.
down the track, past the station and
out OF sight. Nothing happensd!
Thezmen relaxed from their energetic
farming as soon Is its last echo died
away and looked at one another
overwhelmingly again. There was sgahto
question but that they were puzEtsd.
An hour later the up train passed.
and still all was we'll with rho bridge.
Continued in tomorrow h
ii 4s Evenings Herald. x