Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-10-05
SandOw the Dream Tree

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BY the time be reached her, runnln.
and shouting Ike 3 mad man she haf
finished tying her shoe, ard loekee
up. Her thought, perhaps, was that she
had been caught trespassinR and was
being ordered of. Indeed. she dis
tinguished the words.
Get cut of therel" But the youna
man wlu rushed upon her looked rath-
er frignsened than angry and she was
p02zled
The next moment she was ssi1 more
puzzled Tbs young man seized her
hand In his and. turning, started 10
run down Tire hill with Incredible speed.
II Il had not been FOR the dragging
upon her hand she could not have keeps
pace with him. She was like q penmant
which, having no natural pace Of its
own. still keeps up with the swiktest
ship because it Is attached TO the mast
The pair Of them resembled Tenniel's
drawing Ia which the Red Queen, hold
ing Alice by the hand, races off and
Alice streams out behind.
The young man caught hts toe under
q root and fell flat on his face. The
girl fell fiat on top Of him. at the
same moment all the dynamite explod-
ed and Sandow, the dream tree, to
gether with q lot Of other things, rose
into the air. Twigs, dust, and pebbles
and acorns came shOwering down. The
girl sat up and burst out laughing.
$50 that was It'll" She had been
standing on the young mans blast. And
what had seemed extraordinary and
unaccountable behavior had heen an
act OF the most chivalrous herolsm. he
had risked his life to save hers. Wen,
the danger was now all over. The
young man wriggled his head around
and was smiling at her. She smiled
at him.
And Just then a lump of wood, light
fortunately because it was rotten,
which had been blown higher into the
air than anything else and was conse-
quently the last to fall, same squarely
down upon the top Of her head. The
smile frOze on her face. Her eyes be-
came CLASSY and, like those of slap (
stick comedian in the movies, seemed {
to be looking In different directions.
Then she kneeled over on her side
like q dead thing.
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mile to the cabin and there was no
other shelter within q mile and q half.
He couldn't very well leave her on the
ground while he vent for doctor
and it seemed best to pick her up In his
arms and carry her to the cabin.
She was easily lifted and he Judged
hat she weighed about 8 hundred and
sixteen pounds. He had always rather
.ancied himself as guesser Of weights
But she was an awkward package to
AIRY because she had gone completely
imp and to have supported her proper
y at the necessary points would have
equtred either two men or one man
With four arms. u
His intuition had diagnosed her
rouble. correctly. She had been knock
d out. But there are many degrees
{ being knocked out and he was afraid
hat her skull had been cracked and
hat she might die before he could get
lelp. The thought that this eventual
~ would be exceedingly awkward for
i'm and would require q lot Of explain
ag did not occur to him until ali dan
er Of it had passed.
He laid her on his cot, bathed her
ace and wrists with cold water, and
pplied cold compress to the lump
q the top Of her head This lump re-
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He had a vague idea that when a
oman tainted or lost consciousness for
ny cause that the first act Of the Good
amaritan was to unloosen something
I other, c0rsets or some such ar
But to lift the girl and
lrry her was to know that she did not
ear anything Of the kind. And he
'mpromised by taking off her shoes.
e had also the notion that when q
srson isn't just right they must be
spt warm, so he covered her with his
70 blankets, changed the compress on
II head noted with satisfaction that
e lump had already begun to go
,wn, and was about to leave her and
i've into town for doctor when her
elids tWitched and presently opened
1e girl moaned and once more the
elids met together over the fine
own eyes. Or were they blaek2
BE stood irreSolutely. Ought he to
Ave herr Ought he not? Perhaps II
Sponged her face again she would
ally come to and be able to answer
e question for herself. So he spong-
the handsome, clear cut, brown face
d then lowered about in uncertainty.
BE noted that she was handsome or
rhaps beautiful rather than pretty.
n nose was straight and strong Her
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4 chin, cleft 10 the middle, and the
es Of her Jaw suggested resolution.
T hair was straight and Indian black.
the act Of sponging her face he had
shed the hair back so that her ears
owed. They were small, thin, and
lpely and set very close TO her head.
other hallmark Of courage.
1t this point in his lowering obser-
ions and uncertainty she CAME to
suddenly as she had gone out. Her
s at the moment we're scattered far
1 wide. But by an effort Of viii she
ked up the fragments and very
clrly put them together again. And
lnnie Brinkley drew q heartfelt
BtEI Of relief.
What hit me21 she asked.
A lump Of rotten wood
disclosing a shapely brown arm, bare
The shoulder, she felt the top OF her
q in a QiueeFfv WaV Johnnie noted