The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-26
>r~MA Cinderella"
>by Harold Bell Wi7Qht

Harold Bell
pretsnded not 70 hear.
The sly grew lighter, The gray
mists thinned, the clouds broke,
Once, for . brief moment, . spot
Of sunshine appeared. Diane az.
ulted. This WAS better, immeasur-
ably better; than being cooped up
indoors with jazz and oil that went
with Il. She smiled and held hen
head high and breathed deeply the
pungent wet-woods air.
The tiny rivulet 1t the foot Of
tho ridge hill wAs today . fair
sized creek Of brown muddy water.
While she was still some distanee
away on the hill above, Diane heard
It tumbling and roaring bolster.
ously down the hollow % Il feelinH
itself Of unusual importance. But
the fording place WAS wide, with
. hard bottom, and the swift
running water was scarcely hub
deep.
Between the Pine Knob store and
Wilderness Station there are Ave
or six such streams. Ordinarily
they are shallow trickles Of bright
water, with scarcely volume enough
to wet moro than the tires Of .
car. Il came 70 DANES mind, @
she crossed the 6rse one, that to-
day they would all b swollen b.
the rain and that some Of them
might even Be impossible. But the
uncertainty Of how far Sho could
20 merely added TO the interest Of
the adventure. At each creek che
told herself that the next would
surely force her to turn back, while
each successful crossing enticed
her TO 20 on.
She had crossed four Of the
creeks and was n3re than halfway
TO the station when she decided
that, o. she would BE- leaving Tor
home IN few more days, che might
~ well 70 on now 10 the station
and telegraph her butler, Wilson,
when to expect her. Also she could
ask about trains and make Pull
man reservations.
The very thought Of making
definite arrangements for her de-
parture pleased her. She would
stop IN her native city only long
enough TO settle finally the ques-
ton Of what 10 do With the old
Carol home, now that Aunt Jes.
sica no longer needed t. Then she
would 60 back % New Yorh-to
her own world, - her apartment
her studio. and her fellow-artists,
She had, on the whole, enjoyed her
visit 70 the Oxarks. She did not
feel that the time had been wasted.
But she promised herself that when
next she went anywhere % paint,
It would not b with . party Of
vacationists.
The last Of the creeks 10 Be-
crossed before reaching Wilderness
Station was the largest o6 them an
and Il eave Diane . momeut's
doubt. The water Vas wsll up 10
the running board. II Il should
rise higher She treasured her.
self with the reflections that the
rain WAS certainly Over; TINT the
water would fall, not rite; and that,
anyway. she would b only . few
minutes at the station, which WAS
now less than . mile away.
A stubby train. consistine AZ q
diminutive old locomotive. three nm
dersixsd box-cars, and ono ancient
combination day coach and bog.
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