The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-23
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"Yep're . BIT OF . poet. soa."
i've never written . line In NJ
|ife."
.'TAs real poets never a. !.
~, vel. anyway = not
'I:n clad OF that. Reosuse I'm
planning to walk until the sun
rises" He shifted the night wine.
Il feel . InArvelous sunrise ahead.
can see the sun making up In the
wings. His entrance in the morn
ing viii b . spectacle"
Well b In the front row, ce1-
ter"
They passed . house. Bit Of
q cottage sitting hack away fyom
the road. Lights shone from the
upper windows.
Bravo thought:
"A nest. Full Of folks. They
can see the sunrise from their win.
dows. They're not restless, like I
am. I wonder what I'm looking for;
Perhaps they have 1t, tn
that house. There must be tidy
garden in the rear. Chickens. pigs,
babies"
Barbara thought:
"A home. What fools. IT'S q
cell, but they don't know It.
They're prisoners. One day IL q
year to them because every day
is like the last. Folks ought not
to anchor. They ought to sail
They think that, by lying perpetual.
" ct anchor they can avoid ship.
wreck. And 20 they perish Of dry
rot"
She Put tie question to Bravo:
which b. better, dry rot or ship
wreck?" :.
/. i"shipwreek;:" he said promptly.
'Of course
Il must stay q boy" said Bar.
i,ara to herself. "What makes ne
80 fond of this vagrant? Some
day he'll wander away, and 11F b
alone again: Then what! How ca
Their road dipped to- cross /
railroad track. Down the track
showed the wood web Of 4 treStle
1t carried q single track. They
decided to cross the trsSt1S. g
IRIS probably . shortcut" said
barbara. ~ ~
"But we're not going anywhere
Bravo. @s no ers.+E
7 know :; But . short cut ~
they started'across. They picked
their way cautiously over the tim.
bers,. In the dark there was no
way of knowing whether the trestls
was yards or miles long. Below
their feet they detected = far white
CLEAN. ~
Water" said Bravo.
What wAter!" she asked.
Dent know" he said. "But
watch your step. II you skid
there1l be a shipwreck sure"
Perhaps we'd better 60 bach
and follow the road" she sug.
gested.
NO. Never turn back" he said
Good advice. They went on.
She was shivering. No. the
structure on which she stood wal
shivering.
do you feel 1t, too" she asked
in small voice.
"A trains coming"
Which direction IL It cominJ1
FROM" ~
From the rear"
The vibrations grew stronger.
We'll have to watch out" SALT
Bravo. a note Of concern changing
his voice. "A trestle is no place
on which to argue With a train.
don't think we're going to max.
the other side"
Then what!' wondered Bar
bara.
The trestle groaned and mut
tered as il to- warn them. She wa.
frightened now. but would Bit
through her tongue rather than prc
claim her fear. They heard {:
hOarse sinister whistle and locke:
back. A CLEAN Of light cut til,
black In half.
ITS going to beat u.s." BRAY,
stopped dead.
He unnecessarily yelled into he
ear: why did you ever join u.
with me?" Then she knew tina
the thing which neared was death.
BY the time he spoke again tn,
noise had become 50 terrible tina
he was tnaudfble. She believe
that she r6ad on his lips the word
Jump"
II he had said "Fly!" she woul,
have spre4d her arms to try. Sh
crouched on the end Of a tic
Moved BY On unreAsoned impuls'
she dug Alley out OF her pocke
and tossed him into the void. Sh
closed her eyes and toppled.
She was caught in a hammocl
which Bravo. swinging by one han,
from the wooden cro1S!piece, mad
Of his arm. She reached for an,
fiercely- chung to the neighborin
tie. The train rolled BY abov
them. The cosmos had d. It's.
They jigged like dead felons o.
gibbet.
Bravo howled IN her ear:
Lets get back up again an
hop the rods"
Il cant" she .srpaned, sh
knew. IT WAS all over. "Tm gofft
to fall"
For Gods sake. kid. hold ONT"
He swung his free legs abou
hers and shouted again. but sh
could not catch the word. IS
Her aching fingers relaxed IN
she wrapped her arms about him.
Bravo spoke in strange, strar
gled voice:
Can you swim. kid?"
"A little" She was calm nov
It'll be able to get ashore a,
right" u;
He looked down At her, .sh
sinited up. a4
j. She knew be knew. y
you cant hold on with me 4
q burden" she called "a ar.