Evening star., 1924-07-06

unused. risky misunderstanding to
get across"
But Luella's eyes were hinty. He
fought the bonds" she argued, hold
ing her child tight. "They beat EN-
the Susongs. They've done 1t twice
Fred amt bad" argued Rumly
gently. Hes just wrong-headed.
You got to be patient"
Tragedy darkened her face. i've
been patient" she famed. 1--WE been
patient-and patience is no use! Oh,
| doctor quick he's choking again
He can't get his breath"
An hour later Fred stumbled back
into the room.
II tried It," he gasped. shamed and
! trembling. II went on my hands and
knees-and couldn't make it."
"You ought not to have tried it,"
remarked Luella bitterly. why
didn't you send me?"
Fred sank on the foot OF the bed
"Oh, I tried" Fred cried. II tried till
| it made me sick" They saw his
hands then. pared to the quick In
spots, bleeding. "Is he worse, Doc?'
Rumly pursed his long lips. Il
wish he was better-but he amt. If
had two shots of antitoxin he'd I'M
prove in a little while. Maybe bet
| ter go to town. can get across that
| bridge, I reckon. High places don't
make me dizzy like they do you, Fred
If Nahum Brent has got mule that's
shod I could get to town."
But Luella raised cry. "No-you
sha'n't leave him-you sha'n't. Sup
pose he chokes again-he is Oh,
Fred-quick--" ,....
1t was his father who lifted the
| boy this time. 1t was his father who
| tilted back the little head with its
scottish curl of blond hair, which was
the only Susong feature the child
| inherited. 1t was Fred Susong who
| said in a. tone amazingly gentle,
| open her up, Sonny-open her up,
man.
d UMLY, working swiftly with cot
IN ton and iodine, bent his brow
anxiously. He saw Luella's hand in
Fred's under the corner of the blan-
ket. He saw Luella's working face
pressed against her husbands arm
He stood up.
There amt no other way but that
7 got to wrap him up good and get
| him to town in some way" he de-
clared Hes got to have treatment
and he's got to have it quick. II we
wait for the ice to get off the bridge
or for somebody to go and come back
again. ! amt saying what might hap
pen. I'll get across the bridge with
him some way-and I'll get him tc
town some way. Ella Joe can tenc
! him-and you can come in as soon as
Milo can get the ferry across.
"You can't carry him across thai
bridge. You've got to go on your
hands and knees"
| LuelIa's tense face had frightened
Fred, you got a calf across once
last spring, you remenfber-on the
| WIRE"
You can't send sick baby across
river on ferry wire"'
| Hes got to go, Fred-don't you see
he's got to. It's the only. way. You
put the calf in a cotton basket and
dashed it with trace chains"
Slowly. Iaboriously, Enos Rumly
crept across the ice-coated railroad
bridge He had taken off his shoes
| and resined the soleS of his socks
| and the palms of his mittens, and he
made his way along the cross ties
like a staggering old simian, his coal
trailing over the ice, his ridiculous
old hat sticking precariously to his
head. At length he climbed down or
the far side, unslung his shoes from
| h; &c
his damp, sticky socks, and picked
his way to the ferry. On the opposite
shore stood a tense, waiting group
He saw Luella's red shawl and Fred:
| yellow, uncovered head. They were
very close together, and with them
stood old Milo Flowers, and they
were watching the strange journey.
ing Of Sonny as he travelled across
| Thunderbolt in a deep, strong baske,
| lashed fast to the wire with trace
chains.
Rumly moved cautiously down thu
icy bank, where the pulley creaked
and waited. Sonny was lying still
and the deep basket moved slowl,
and safely as old Milo wound in tn,
wire. Near the shore it dipped bit
and Rumly waded it over his shoe
| tops and dragged it out The bo!
held up his arms out of his mufflint
Of furs and blankets. Luella hat
pulled a thick captover his head ant
tied a scarf over that, but his eye!
blinked from beneath-soft- fringet
eyes like Luella's. The old docto
shouldered the boy and waved an arm
across the river. He saw. Luella'.
hand waving, saw Fred holding her
Look here, Sonny" he said. Let.
you and me go to town and buy US {
sack of peanuts and an alltday sucke
and a red balloon-what dy' say?"