The Washington times., 1938-01-04

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the upstairs window to serve as a
beacon for her, in her trek to
neighbors, for she was strange and
new here, and didn't know where
the neighborS we're.
ITO bring in wood, so hard to
dig out from the snow bank; to
fix the fire so that it would burn
as long as possible. To go out,
wrapped up in his coat, his fur
lined cap, his scarves, and two
pairs of mittens, into the bowling
blizzard.
"She sank into it waist deep,
and struggling to recover, sank
in deeper, and after fighting it
for 10 minutes more thought that
the only thing to do was to re-
turn, and wait until it had
hardened, and she could walk on
lit. But she went back only a few
steps.
She was sure that unless she
could get help. he would die. He
was too precious to her to die. He
was too good, too necessary to the
world. And so she went on.
NUMBING COLD
THE wind slashed at her face
like infinitely fine knives. The cold
bit into her body and numbed 1t.
She put one foot forward a few
inches, and it sank down down,
and struggling to recover her bal
|, ance, the other foot went down
deeper still.
THE road was gone, the outlines
of fields were gone. The world was
shut in within white, moving walls
thta seemed constantly to move
closer, crushingly. Her heart
pounded and protested the strain
Her head swan. She wanted to
lie down and sleep. to slip off into
Inconsistencies. She began call
ing out, into the white. But the
!. dead wall of the blizzard crammed
her voice nito her throoat again
She turned and looked yearn
ingly for the beacon light she hac
: left in the window. But it was
gone, swallowed up in snow.
"a man with snow plough
{ found her, seven hours later. His
. horses pulled up short, while he
, laShed at them, and he had to get
off the plough to see what it was
they had taken fright at.
1T was a black bundle, a small
, thing. 1t was the top of her head
He dug her out of the snow and
found she was small, slight, easy
to carry.
But she was i'll. She was in a
, delirium, and kept on saying
prayers, asking for help, and then
stopping and praying for help to be
brave in the pain. She wa1 in
pain Of some sort. She'd been
hurt.
) BY the time he got her back
to the farmhouse he knew she was
: very i'll indeed. She cried because
. she couldn't find church steeple.
, If she could find church steeple
she said, she'd find people there,
:. and people would send help.
5 when she regained conscious.
} ness, she was lying on a strange
, bed, and strange faces were look
/ ing at her. A man spoke to he1
and told her he was the doctor.
: She stared at him unbelievingly
She could see him only dinly, and
' something was hurting her, ter
ribly. She looked past him. at the
: lamps. There we're a lot of lamps
S in the room. Lamps! Lights!
t Lights stood for deliverance!
ASKS AID
1T came sweeping back to her
}, my husband she said. Help him
, Save him! He is all alone in the
! Townsend farnhouse-his leg is
= badly broken-the doctor must &C
to him!"
J. "A woman put a cool hand or
>: her fevered forehead. We know
' all about it, she said. You've beer
: telling us about it for hours. The
9 men went off to fetch him as
! soon as my husband started fol
the doctor for you
o They'll be bringing him in an!
= minute now. Your husband will b.
all right. It's you we're concerned
:. about. Try to help the doctor
q You're sick! Try to do what tn
v doctor tells you'
h "A lovely miniStering hand tn
woman had. Johnny's mothe,
=, reached out for it and held it a
Ii she broke into tears.
v She was sorry to cry, she said
S she couldn't help herself. Tn
a woman wiped gently at her tears.
IS 1T was the night Johnny wa
10 born" Kenny added, "a sever
h months child"
And presently he continued
And so I told him I thought h
was doing right-going off to Ar
e zona with her. standing by her
n now she'd come on hardship again
e I told him if I were he, I'd lie
d Honey go to the devil"
t But Johnny'S mother worrieC
Z about Honey, and when they go
d to Arizona she figured out thu
least they could live on, and sen
n her hundred dollars.
d Honey had found some one, b.
IS then, to pay her hotel bill, and 81
o she spent the hundred dollars OF
}. a cute dinner ring she had beel
o trying and trying to get some on,
/ to buy for her unsucceSsfully.
g was set all round with chip dis
d monds.
d. THE END