Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-03-17

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gn lie turned upon her llfeless eyes.
sh "Gone." he echoed
Of "Oh. Allx-my darllngl My own b
I'd sister," Cherry sobbed falling to he
W knees and passionately kissing III
Al peaceful face. "Oh, AK. dearest !"
p The women about broke into tear
d Peter pressed his hand close agains
k his aching eyeballs. wishing that h
IS might cry.
{, "She drove here" he heard a man
e voice saying In the silence, "and sh
v must have lost controi Of her car 70
a minute. Then-do you see?-th
!, wheel slipped on the bank. Once 4
7 got this far, no power in God,
earth"
! mo power In Gods earth ~ another
mans voice said In solemn confrma-
tlon.
peter" Cherry said will you come
TO me as soon as you can? | shall
need you"
"As soon as I can" he answered
absently.
The car drove away, and he heard
Martin moan again as IL moved.
Joyce said a mans kind voice
| close beside him. He recognized the
voice rather than the distressed face
Of an old friend and neighbor. Joyce,
my dear fellow" he urged afrectionate-
ly, tell us what we may do and we'll
see to II. Pull yourself together, my
dear chap. Now. shall telephone for
an-an ambulance? You must help us
just little here and then wen spare
you everything else"
"Thank you, Fred" Peter answered
after moment. "ThanK you. VIII
you help me my-wire-home?"
you wish 1t that way?" the other
man said anxIousy.
Please" Peter answered simply.
And Instantly there was moving and
clearing in the crowd u murmurlng
of whispered directions.
After while they were at the noun
tain cabin, and Kow, with tears run
ming down his yellow face, was helping
them. Then they went into the old liv- |
Ing room, and Allx was lying there.
splendid. sweet, untouched, with her
brave, brown forehead Swallowed soft
ly by her brown hair, and her lashes
resting upon her cheeks, and her fin
gers clasped about the stems of three
great creamy roses.
There were other flowers all about
ana there were women IN the room.
White draperies fell with sweeping
lines from the merclful yelling of the
crushed figure. and Alix might have
been only asleep, and dreaming some
heroic dream that lent that secret
pride and JOY to her mouth and filed
those closed eyes with triumph they
had never known In life.
Peter stood and looked down at her.
and the men and women drew back.
But although the muscles of his mouth
twitched, he did not weep. He looked
long ut her. while an utter silence
filled the room and white twilight
ieepened into dark over the cabin and
over the mountain above II.
$50 that was your way out. Alix?"
Peter said in the depth Of his soul.
That was your solution for us all?
You would 20 out Of life, away from
he sunshine and the trees and the
nils that you loved. so that Cherry
md should be saved? | was blind
lot to see It. have been blind from
he very beginning"
Silence. The room was filling with |
hadows. On the mantei was n deem | I
owl Of roses that he remembered
catching her cut-wns il yesterday or )
entnres ago7 =
Il was wrong" he snid. "But h
hink you would be sorry to have me
aee-wnat ! am facing now. You
'ere always so forgiving. Alix: YOU
'ould be the first TO be sorry"
He put his hand over the tigerish 4
ain that was beginning TO reach his \
cart His throat felt thick ana \
hoked, and sim he did not cry. n
IAN hour ago" he said, III IL had
pen that the least thought or what 4,
rs meant 20 you might have reached a
IL an hour ago. IL would aof have y
cen too late. Alix one look into your \.
'es an honr ago might have saved nj
ail frrd Peter said aloud Win I,
bitter groan. clinching tght die All
lnds u tbe old friend who had erepf \,
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