The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-09-04
HE DAILY
81 4ORTSTORY
But Of the Night a Thrush
By A. W. PEACH
fright. 1920, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate

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mellow lights Of his lamp
thrust back dust with insist,
~ golden fingers as Warner sen t
n powerful car sliding along Lne
iyof toward his country place: 5!1s
mind was at peace with the WoLlS
q knew that his houseKeepSE n59
''9iting for him pleasant .t tan
he was leaving bellnd inc ON at
confugion in which he spent
city business days.
ound curve the great car
ept and the golden tights swung
Sblt aside.
with a sudden start and sn9SR 6
Varner saw something, wnlte rise
I'D fall like q ghost IN the stue
the road. 1t looked IKE soRn uo
thing human and at the same LING
1lore like a ghost. Indecision was
fatal, for the car did not WaYer
WITH its masters hesitation.
sFtting the urakeo with quick
NisIilse. Warner felt tho car slide
an locked wheels along the damp
road, He looked back, but dusk
md silence was behind him.
ne hesttated. There's some
thing spooky hero or I'm nut my:
self, / didn't hit any one, but /
~ something in white lall-or
S dreaming" he muttered to
t took the flash!ight from it's
and walked back Glong the
He had gone farther than
4ntende5, but his eye caught a
glimpse OF something white. A
chillNshock going through him, he
hurried on, the flashlight point.
Inc. ahead. The light picked up and
held in its bright gaze the figure
Rfsa girl.
took the force Of astounded
BIRDS. "a girl-Gand in her night
obel"
Controlling hlmself with an eff
II, he turned her head. The dark
pound hair rolled down. She was
enBctous. Her arms were bare.
esDjghtgown was torn and mud
"Great heavens! what is she do.
Ing here" he muttered to him.
self; and then, gathering his daZ-
ed faculties, he ran back to tho
Itar and came back with robe. He
athered the warm soft form into
gthe robe. and taking the slim bur.
den in his arms, went swiftly to
the car. Placing her in the deep
cushion OF the front seat and SUP.
porting her, he sent tho fast car
Whispering down the road.
Her head my warm and frag-
9rant against his own. Never IN
iii his uneventful days had a fair
head been us near his; but the
Irht was q moments thought.
or death---both might be in
trnhni0R
Down the road, up the long Slope
mat taxed many car, his went
without pal1se. FIe swung up the
roadway to his house; and the
{ horn srarled steadily with mean
ing into the night. At the entrance
8R light CLEANED Some one had
Guessed something was. wrong.
The white, waVy hair OF his
housekeeper showed in the light. In
-9isswer to her anxious query, he
Witty, Tive girl here-may
t her-see what you can
her!"
her, and then tore to the
h none: and soon the wire was
ringing back the cool voice of his
sona1 physician saying he would
here as fast as gas could bring
rner rushed upstairs to find
motherly hands working with
mad done their duty. The
girl lay still and white in the bed,
sher brown hair gathered over her
thin but beautiful face-uncon-
gcious still.
Suddenly as the housekeeper
bathed her white brow the girls
eyes opened, dark and luminous.
Fear came into them-sharp and
shining. Let me go-don't keep
mel I'm afraid"
Warner pressed her back. "You
/. are safe and in kind hands"
Her eyes followed his, and she
sank back under his quiet tones.
She watched his unwinkingly as he