Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-15
The Devil and the Deep Sea

saved NY NE, ana L lloueit 10 snow
than sorrow. and l was q fool
acaln-fool enough TO think that II I
o4cred 10 make good on the boat you'd
see my sorrow meant something, and
my gratitude. also. And whether It's
bravery or cowardice 10 strike q woman.
NcrhapS the fishermen a tell me that.
10. Let alone not saying you be
Shamed and sorry for that yourself.
However, if you want me to go in the
Sirt 10 YOU I will. since you went to
sen for me. I'm sorry for calling you
= coward and In sorry to God I ever
set eyes on YOU. And now you can got"
They glared at each other like a pair
Of cat-a-mountains for five seconds.
and then he turned and left her. They
stood in q lane to the back OF the farm
at the moment, and he made for a gate
which would offer q short cut up the
vale. He was SO angry as q man we'll
could be by now, and climbed over
into a meadow and strobe off; but then
her senses came back to the furious
girl and she marked what he had done
and called him back.
THE bulls in that field, Ned Bart
lett" she said. Stop and get out
afore he sees YOU"
He was glad of an excus to fire
back at her then.
Bulls! Who's afraid of bulls but
you farm people?" he said. You'd
think every bull was SO dangerous as
a tiger. The only devil about your
old brute is his name. Danger is on
the sea, not the land" he said. And
you shant have no more chances to
call me a coward, anyway"
For Gods love-not mine!" she
cried. TITS what I know, not what
you think. Come back, Ned. I'm not
saying it for fun. He's deadly danger
Gus. Please, Ned, do believe me! o,
Ned!"
But he was stubborn in his turn now
and scorned her and marched of across
the field, a lot too angry to car two
pins. He despised land lubbers a good
bit, and he knew at a pinch he had
a pair of legs that could take him SO
fast as ever he'd wanted to go yet.
Sally cried out to him once more.
Don't be a fool-don't be what I was,
Nedl I've given you best about the
sea: give me best about the bull, for
Gods sake"
But he was fifty yards into the field
by now and another hundred to &c
afore he got across. He'd seen the bull
of course, for you couldn't miss the
great white bulk of him; but Devil
was lying down chewing the cud and
taking the evening air pretty quiet
and for the minute Sally hoped he
wouldn't be at the trouble to rise. Then
suddenly he marked the fisherman and
was up on his feet in a twinkling.
The girl had got in the field herself
now, for the bull knew her, and she
screamed out to Bartlett.
Hes coming for you, Ned"
u-EoV cha co1loI tho ht1l1 tp1111uf
Bully! Bully! Come here. boy! Come
to SALLY"
But Devil" had got his back to her
now and gave no heed. He snorted
very sudden and shrill and made for
Ned, travelling a lot faster than he
looked to be going. So the silly man
suddenly found a ton of angry beef
behind him and the nearmost hedge
a good seventy yards in front. He
took to his heels then. and his anger
was gone, and he knew that if he saved
his skin it was a proper FOOLS skin he
would save.
So there was Sally running for dear
life and screaming so loud as she could
to distract Devil" and the bull well
in his stride now and running by sight
as they do, and Ned getting over the
ground very clever indeed, but not
ll1f1l 14AtlEAls q A1Uy -
amt the best place to show your speed
at any time, nor a pair Of sea boots
the handiest things TO run in.
He'd got a good start. but Of course
even an elderly bull can run faster
than the feetest man, and Devil
was gaining very quick. But Ned
knew nothing about that yet, though
even at that moment he was thinking
what a proper fool he must look in
Sally's eyes, and how true her word
was, that she had known and he had
despised her knowledge. And now the
boot was on the other leg. He heard
her screaming still and then he sud-
denly heard the bull pounding behind
him, and he did one witty thing. for
he got out of his Jacket and flung it
down. hoping it might delay the beast
a second or two.
Sally saw now twas no use shouting,
and she also saw both nan and bull
was closing UP on the hedge, and it
looked as II they'd get there together.
1t was a fair tall earth bank, five feet
high and crowned With thin hazel,
and the girl felt only too certain sure
that, long atore Ned could scale it,
even II he got there first, Devil would
be on him and mangle him to rags
and bones against 10. And then her
nearL SOppeC ana sIe KNEW he was
a doomed man., unless lightning out
Of heaven struck the bull. Twas all
over, Of course, In moments, though
the moment dragged into an eternity
for her: and then she say that Devil
was on Ned and was going to catch
him a yard or two inside the hedge.
Which Is what the bull did by the
will Of God, for IL he'd been a fraction
sooner. OF a thought later, Bartlett
must have died II he'd been run into
at the hedge. he'd have been smashed
against Il, and IL he'd been catched
a yard sooner, he'd never have got
There and been ored in the open, but
what did happen was that bully ran
into him ten feet from the hedge and
put down his head and tossed him
with all the strength Of his huge car
cass behind the drive.
And 1t tossed him the way he was
going. So, before the fisherman knew
his luck, he was on top of the hedge
az IL he'd been shot out Of a gun. He
missed getting Drained, also, and went
through the hazels and crashed head
over tail t'other side; and when Sally,
who'd hid her face a moment, looked
again, there was Devil roaring under
the hedge all alone, and Ned no more
TO be seen. Then she knew what must
have overlook him and rushed for the
hedge herself and scrambled through