Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-14

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air cold and penetrating. Connie
said it was just the day for her to-
collect her thought, and she could do
it best of all in the car. So IL they
would excuse her,-ands they did, OF
course Just as h was getting into
very exceptionally nice time, h
might not come back until after din
:ner. They were not to worry. She
knew the car, she was sure of. her
self, she would come home when she
got ready.
So off she went, taking a naughty
satisfaction, in the good trick she was
playing on that poor boy killing him
self to get back for dinner with her.
T, pettishness, and she drove rapidly
along the narrow, twisting, unfa-
miliar road. finding a wild pleasure
in her reckless speed. She loved this,
she Observation-Disclosures 1t. She cfapped
on aSlittle more gas to show how very
4dearlXashe. did Q it, & i i, ! Y Z I
: After long time. she ifouifdA her
prairie where no houses broke the
bare Zine aofsthe plains for many
miles. IL hid grown bitterly cofass
too, and a. sudden daub Sof gray
splashed rapidly across the whole
bright sky. Connie drew 4 rug about
her and laughed at the wind that cnt
her. face. 1t was glorious-but-she
come a long way. She would Just
run onto the next village and have
some luncheon,-mercy. it was three
O'Clock. Well, as soon as she had
!. something to eat. h would hurry
home and perhaps IL Prince. showed
himself properly. penitentF she would
not go right straight to bed.
tWF. cLA vwnouaHW Hnuyn ON ffhn a NroloFQs
.4tor and the car Sped forward Pres;
emily she looked around. shifting this
air suspiciously. The sky. looked ven3
threatening. She stopped the ca
and Got out. The wind sweeping
doYnsfrom the mountains was q lit;
!, tleSstopIsrggestive Of snow fiakes:sane
brow ,share and %forbidding. She wa!
. not hungry anyhow. She would q
|, home without any luncheon. So sh'
!, ftufhedFthe car and started back.
Here and there at frequent inter
walls interesting roads crossed tn
/ one she was following. She mus
keep to the main road. the heavies
track, she was sure of that. Blu
sometines 1T was hard to recogniz
! ithssheayiest track. Once or twice, j
~thssFsudden d%arkening Of the ground
she had to leap hurfiedly out and ex
anime the tracks closely. Ever the
: she could not always tell surely.
' Then came the snow, stinging bit
of glass leaping gaily on the shout
' Iders of the wind that then
Connie set her testh hard. litti
i hurry that vas all, she was In n
n danger, whoever heard OF a snow
4 storm the first week in October?
But--ah.s this was not the mai
Z track after. Sali-no, IT was dwindlln
4 away She must goaback.a. The roa
was soft here, with deep 8treacherou
v ruts lying under the. surface. Sh
I turned the cal; carefully, her eyestin
tent on the road before her, leanin
!, foyer the wheel to watch. Yes, TIL
4 was riEht-she should have turned I
+ lthk left. How stupid of her. Her
a was the track-she must go taste
= 1T was getting dark. But was this tn
n track after all-if seemed to be fad
"a ing out slthe other had done? Sh
put on the gas and bumped@heavil
into q hidden rut. Quickly she thre
!. the clutch into low, and-more gas
what was that. The wheel Ibid M
grip. the engine would not puIl-tk
"a matchiess Harmer Six was help!es
81 Again and again Connie tried to e
- trfcate herself .slb1fsit was useless. 81
y got out. apdss{Nok her bearings.
was earl&A eYen5ng.s but darkness ",
coming last snow was driftir
= down from the mountains. and Il
roads were nearly obliterated.
q Connie was stuck, Connie was 10!
9 f emer onss :yAs NJ spite en q her imp !,
durability A4ahersaserene ~confidence
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