Show I 1 TH A AT GIRL of af JOHNSONS U U S 3 by v JE ceaf A V AL A 1 rV V 2 DVM L ata A ta at a C carls if vy et el entered ad A Arr irline d tat tact to of t arra in ia th the year Y 1890 by st street t A smith IL la in I 1 abo h 41 6 of f ih iha ijar or 1 CC t WahiDe toa D C CHAPTER X I 1 I 1 I 1 4 the rescue the arms of the men were brawny and strong groin green was light in weight and althe as at a tiger the rope ran out and steadily Blea dlly SIM out and down over the shar pedge of the chasm shere ft here the grasses grass were long and hid tho the sharp cut into emptiness making a treacherous foothold suddenly the TOPO tope stopped running grew slack and greens voice came up in a shout thus silence reigned again adalu save tor for the rain and wind moments passed to the girl standing back MoLl onless tho the moments seemed like hours her eyes did not move irom from the edge where tho the rope ran oscr green called again and they began to pull the rope dolores eyes widened as she sha watched them her lips were apart a flush on her cheeks checks the mist grew more thick and dense stealing ealine sl up and up until it reached the edge ol of the chasm ft t stole about the men at work at the rope slid arid enveloped them silently through its gray folds they looked like specters at work lor for all eternity etero ity with set races faces pulling the rope in and in the rope came up steadily and slow and sure then from just lelow below the surface stop some of you give mo me a hand band here bere careful ile he Is insensible they obeyed him without a word A terror was on dolores face fa co she did not move her fingers evere we ce tm twisted isted I 1 tightly together her lipa ligat were vere compressed in a straight esq red jine line themen the men were acre slow and ana careful eire tul it was no do light thing thine to loan lean over the edge of the chasm the treacherous edge hidden in sedge might give way may at any moment but the hands of the men were slow and steady they obeyed greens commands as though they wore mere powerless of 0 self thought they had bad johnson up tip on firm ground and green ater after him they laid the insensible man on the granad with coats tor for pillows they forced some elder cider between his teeth and chafed chafee Us his brawny hands tenderly as a woman would two of them cut down a couple of saplings and lopped off on the branches making the body smooth these they bound together with mith two ross cross pieces they clogged the rope in a network back and forth no words wera were uttered they worked in silence with mith a grimness that was almost terrible to the watching girl the rala rain was tailing falling steadily now and dripped through the branches falling on joanson Johnson Job a s face ilia his hands moved gropingly a moment he be opened his eyes and looked v vacantly about film they were hollow eyes and bokn hungry y tle he recognized no ahe one dolores doleres came up shyly offering no word of sympathy and with a moan johnson closed his big eyes again we must got get him home as soon as pop possible sible gre green n said gravely his caps yea on the face of the girl gari stand standing ing silently beside lier her father he has been without food since the day belore before yesterday lie ile lost his way and tell fell in the flight when helas trying to find his way back after hunting bunting the ow cow ile he has been lying there on that ever since onto too ton weak to make maho ever since onto too ton weak to make maho ledge 01 any effort to save himself thereby doubtless saving his life for the ledge would stand little motion 1 ile he did not dot add that johnson had broken both of hla his legs in the fall and doubtless received internal injuries that must prove serious it not jatal fatal dolores no lorea eyes were on his and he be could not tell the whole of 0 what might come when they had placed johnson on the litter as comfortably as possible lodie jodie offered his cost coat to dolores in a short word or two and no change of lace but the girl shook her head without speaking though she gave win urn one of her rare smiles and walked steadily down the path tangled in the treacherous bushes halt half hidden bidden I 1 I 1 I 1 W I 1 N I 1 AN I 1 11 alta lt A I 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 laid la hirn him on the ground in mist and rain with green at her ber side burled buried in thought though hla his hand was ready to reach out tor for her assistance whenever it was needed was almost sweet sweat with a and lit his face new touch upon it IL 0 0 0 0 0 bores dolores stood chood listlessly at one of the ka kitchen lichen windows she was looking out it t the storm but she did not see strained to catch tho the were it her ears sound of voices in her fathers room they were and full all ot of voices aarre earnest at a meaning me 1 l ing she ehe could not catch deserted the men the road was to johnsons s house had bad straggled up I 1 when grat first he w was brought home but messenger sent by the as as soon brought the doctors from the green thov ordered perfect quiet aim and thov ordered aim ton they sent away without being the men were turned allowed to enter they away in elloyce aad nd w went D t down the road to the tavern with ith its it 9 welcome elder cider and cointa comrades com radea des fire are its tg the women were forc forced oil to remain gOssip pd w with ith their they bei at t home daughters or their kinslo kinsfolk ik around the V y I 1 I 1 1 great hearth fires dreg their needles were busy their spinning iii wheels heels hummed their lives were narrow but there was work to bedone be done as well as tood food for gossip only dolores was idle she stood at window staring with unseeing eyes fit at the storm outside straining her cars in vain to catch tb the hum of 0 voices in her fathers tal hers room young green was mas there and two doctors and a noman moman they said was a nurse what need was mas there ot of a nurse she asked herself she could nurse her father and what were the doctors doing there it if her father was only exhausted from exposure and lack of food why ully should ili lie need two doctors men had been lost on abe mountain before they never needed nurses when they were brought home their own women cared for them she could care tor for her father when he was well enough they would send for him at the town they 11 X I 1 4 I 1 I 1 1 fl 4 Z ti I 1 I 1 I 1 if I 1 P I 1 I 1 1 I 1 70 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 ii I 1 I 1 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 T I 1 1 vie lifted her eyes to his face acre only making mailing for him to pr prove ve boon their suspicions the case had been adjourned it was a pretty clear case of malice folks said but they mere ere waiting for her father to prove it the door of the bedroom opened and the nurse came out she was an elderly woman moman with a grave face she shel brought several parcels from the I 1 town young loung green sent her a note nole a by the man w m ho he v m ent to fetch the doctors and she knew what to bring one or two of those these she op opened and prepared beet beef and broth she spoke quietly and pleasantly to dolores but she found her own way about the house bouse and seemed to fit into everything A sudden fear took possession of dolores it was sharp and appalling an and d the straightened up under it as though she had received a blow it was no exhaustion ehaust lon from want of food and shelter that ailed her father so something me more than that brought tilts this woman and the doctors caused this hush ot of voice and footsteps shut her from her fathers presence she spoke and her voice was low the woman turned quietly toward the me girl gin you spoke miss johnson tinson Jo what ails my father he mill be better by and by we could not dot expect him to recover at once do not be alarmed dolores repeated her question inthe in the same low yet perfectly distinct voice her eyes looked steadily at the woman moman what alls ails my father the nurse was annoyed she did not like to bo be questioned so pointedly she had studied to keep her own counsel and u use se few words your father had a heavy tall fall miss johnson only the ledge saved him ills his right leg was mas broken above the knee the doctors have set that now it m will ill be better soon like young green she would not tell the full truth how could she tell loll the girl the extent of the injuries and the possible end that one of his legs would have to bo be amputated that his whole system was so shattered it would be a miracle it if he lived and though be should live he be would be a cripple always she dared not bay this she dared not look at the girl at first presently dolores spoke again and her voice was perfectly even an and 4 slow how long before he bo will be well impossible to tell the woman replied gravely such cases are uncertain but be will get well why not we will take good care cara ot of him 1 do you think thick dolores eyes grow grew dark as night eight do you think they will send lor for him before ho he can go they are waiting for or him to go to the town for or him to go to prove 1 I know the woman said quietly with perfect control over the muscles of 0 her face ace 1 I have heard no they will not send rend for or him until be can go you must not worry miss bliss johnson Job doloren dolorea turned back bach to the window with no urther further remark and silence ellenda fell ell over the room save for or the wom ans soft movements and a hushed bushed sound from rom the bedroom now and then CHAPTER XI the nurses story the doctors remained in that hushed bushed room the whole of 0 the long night through the nurse nuree said that they would go presently but they did not As darkness settled down heavily one of 0 them came out and spoke to the nurse then the nurse went into the bedroom with the doctors and the door was shut shul was once or twice young green came caine out to speak peak a pleasant word to her of encouragement or a message as to her fathers condition lie he waa more quiet now the doctors had given him a narcotic later be was sleeping Elee plug quietly sleep was what ne be needed i it Is too bad it Is so stormy he be I 1 said and there was an all indescribable kindness in ili hla his voice as he stood betide s her fit at the window while the dirk dark ness we was ee enveloping loping the world 1 I would so like to ace the stars from your min windows nindo dows wB dolores can you yon sec venus venua above the mountains when I 1 it t I 1 Is s clear and the moon set in tile the young moons arms armei she lifted isted her true eyes to his face and a flush was coming into the tl tio pure I 1 palo face there are few I 1 can place la fit tho the heavens she said slowly but those I 1 know are like friends to me I 1 have no do friends you know and my mother Is fg near me when the stars are in the sky my mother Is dead you knew my mother Is dead I 1 yes he made answer smiling Bo illing into the lifted face so near his big own 1 I would so like yau you to see sea my mother doloes Do loies you could not tall fall to lovo love her the gh gill I 1 shook her head bead there was no deepening of the soft coloring of her face no tremor of the proudly curved red lips no drooping of the 81 silken I 1 ken lashes over the dark eyes 1 I linow know nothing about love she said quietly 1 I hao hac only my father and a nd my mothers books ilia alg eyes darke darkened ped suddenly Y a strange tenderness came over the fat fair r kindly face after all alj there is a sadness about love perhaps it Is as well dolores lie ile turned swiftly from her and crossing the room if lighted bled only by tb the e flickering fire his figure defined I 1 lu A grotesque shapes upon the walls he entered the loom beyond leaving her motionless at the darkened window her eyes following him presently she left the window also and crossing to a shelf at the other end took town down the last book he had brought her and opened it to her favorite reading of the tables fables of th the e stars her eyes bent over the pages were mere luminous her checks flushed softly she jhb was out of her nar narrowed romed life with mith the infinite range of the hemens heavens spread before her the millions and millions of miles of space carried her mind with the thoughts tar far tar far above tho the shut in ln life of her mountain home and the stolid settlement that had no life but the tavern and the gossip As young green entered the bedroom the nurse was setting things to rights tor for the night she smiled at him as he entered the two doctors were mere talking together in an undertone take good care of her mrs allen alien he be said earnestly and see that she sleeps she Is completely worn out AN with fill this strain I 1 leave it with you to see that she Is interested in things outside of this room I 1 will stop at the tavern tonight and be up early in up the morning everything a all I 1 right t harry i arry to be continued |