The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-16


 give to be back in the old dormi- tory again at Byrams, having an argument with Emily Gibbs? If this is the sort of thing one gets from being wealthy Oh, Teddy Teddy"
 Then she cried a little more, and stopped abruptly with gulp. "Oh if only I could find road some where, main road for preference. ;
 But she was afraid to stir. She dared not explore the possible ter TOTS that lay on the further side of this hospitable stile. She felt that the stile was her only safe guard and feared to move away from it. She argued that if COW appeared on one side she could climb over to the other. What to do if COW appeared on both sides she dared not think.
 After she had considered this point in fear and trembling for quarter of an hour, she heard a sudden roaring, rushing whirr of wheels, and a great blaze of lights flew past her on the other side of the stile.
 It was a motor-car going at high 1 speed.
 All the time she had been con- sidering the hopelessness of her po- sition, the road-and a main road, too-was dnly just on the other side of the stile.
 In a moment she was over and speeding down the road in the di- rection the car had taken. When she was out of breath she pulled up.
 You're not going to catch that, my child" she said. Your brains have gone out for walk or some i thing. Better wait for the next one"
 So she followed more soberly, but 1t so happened that she did after all catch the great car which she had seen rushing recklessly through the fog.
 In the stiffness of the country night she heard distant thud and a metallic crash.
 Sounds as If that car has met something" said Jacqueline, and began to run again.
 She was right. When she ar rived breathless on the scene of the accident, she found a man pinned under the car. It had run up a bank and turned completely over.
 The man was in a bad way. The car was lying across his body. He was on his back, his arms outspread and his head rolling from side to side. There was some blood on his face and he was moaning feeb- Fly.
 He was an old man, too, with white hair and short, well-trim- med beard. The wheels of the car were in the air. but the electric headlights were still burning.
 The man was conscious, and in a tremulous tone asked Jacqueline to help him.
 | But how to help him? She caught hold of the edge of the car body with her pathetic little hands and tried to lift it. The result may be guessed.
 l Fortune and her own quick brain favored her.
 Somebody had been cutting fence rails by the roadside, and there was a neat pile of stout poles eight feet long or so. Jacqueline very quickly saw the use of one of these
 She chose 8 pole, put the end under the car and using it as a lever was able by the exertion of all her strength to move it an inch or two.
 Can you crawl out if lift the car off you" she asked.
 "Yes," whispered the old gentle Eman.
 | With the weight of the car on his chest, it was all he could do to speak at all.
 Jacqueline heaved on her lever N The man drew himself clear of the wreck. He did it painfully and slowly, and before he was clear Iacqueline was white and painting with her efforts She let the car , down with a crash immediately he was clear.
 "Oh, if you had been another minute I couldn't have held on ; But I would have done" i She helped the old man to his : feet. He was very lottery ane leaned all his weight on her slirr ] young shoulders, which were mucf i stronger than they looked. | She guided him to the bank. Ther : Ishe fetched a spring cushion which : had been thrown out of the car eland made a comfortable seat fol . Ehlm,
 al No sooner had she got him com. fortable than he tainted. Il Copyright, 1880, Richard Starr) al Jacqueline proves her re- Il sourcefulness tomorrow and is s destined to rejoice at the meet . l fvrU