The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-11
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BY the time he reached her, running
and shouting like q mad man she had
finished tying her shoe, and looked
up. Her thought. perhaps, wa that she
being ordered off. Indeed, she dis
tinguished the words.
Get out Of there!" But the young
who rushed upon her looked rath-
er frightened than angry and she was
puzzled.
The next moment she was still mor
puzzled. The young man seized her
hand in his and, turning, started to
run down the hill with incredible speed.
If it had not been for the dragging
upon her hand she could not nave kept
pace with him. She was like a pennant
which, having no natural pace Of its
own. still keeps up with the swiftest
ship because 1t Is attached to the mast.
The pair of them resembled Tennie!s
drawing in which the Red Queen, hold.
ing Alice by the hand, races off and
Alice streams Out behind.
The young man caught his toe under
a root and fell flat on his face: The
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same moment all the dynamite explod-
ed and Sandow, the dream tree, to-
gether with a 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 a been an
act of the most chivalrous heroism. He
had risked his life to save hers. Well,
the danger was o all over. Inc
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 wa 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 a slap
stick comedian in the movies, seemed
to be looking in different directions.
Then she kneeled over on her side
like a dead thing.
It was no more than a quarter OF a
mile to the cabin and there was no
other shelter within a mile and a haf.
he COulQIl u very we'll lCdHC iiSA "a IAfN
ground while he went for a 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
that she weighed about a hundred and
sixteen pounds He had always rather
fancied himself as a guesser of weights.
But she was an awkward package to
carry because she had gone completely
limp and to have supported her proper
ly at the necessary points would nave
required either two men or n mar
with four arms.
His intuition had diagnosed her
trouble. correctly. She had been
ed out. But there are many degrees
of being knocked out and he was afraid
that her skull had been cracked and
that she might die before he could get
help. The thought that this eventual
ity would be exceedingly awkward for
him and would require a lot of explain
ing did not occur to him until all dan
ger of it had passed.
He laid her on his cot, bathed her
face and wrists with cold water, and
applied a cold compress to the lump
on the top of her head. This lump re-
sembled the half of a hens egg.
He had a vague idea that when a
woman tainted or lost consciousness Tor
any cause that the first act of the Good
Samaritan was to unloosen something
or other, corsets or some such ar
rangement. But to lift the girl and
carry her was to know that she did not
wear anything of the kind. And he
compromised by taking off her shoes
He had also the notion that when a
person isn't just right they must be
kept warm, so he covered her with his
two blankets, changed the compress on
her head, noted with satisfaction that
the lump had already begun to go
down, and was about to leave her and
drive into town for a doctor when her
The girl moaned and once more the
eyelids met together over the fine
brown eyes. Or were they black?
He stood irresolutely. Ought he to
leave her? Ought he not? Perhaps II
he sponged her face again she would
really come to and be able to answer
the question for herself. So he spong-
ed the handsome, clear cut, brown face
and then lowered about in uncertainty
He noted that she was handsome OF
perhaps beautiful rather than pretty,
Her most was straight and strong. Her
brows we're level, her eyes wide apart
Her chin, cleft in the middle, and the
lines of her jaw suggested resolution
Her hair was straight and Indian black
In the act of sponging her face he had
pushed the hair back so that her ears
showed. They were small, thin, and
shapely and set very close to her head
Another hallmark of courage.
At this point in his lowering obser-
vations and uncertainty she came to
as suddenly as she had gone out. He1
wits at the moment were scattered fa1
and wide. But by an effort of will she
picked up the fragments and very
quickly put them together again. Ano
Johnnie Brinkley drew a heartfelt
breath of relief.
what hit me?" she asked.
"A lump Of rotten wood"
Disclosing a shapely brown arm, bare
to the shoulder, she felt the top of he
head in a gingerly way. Johnnie noted
that the underside of her arm where
the sun had not touched it was mag
nolia white.
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