Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1937, Page 24

DAILY SHORT STORY MAN IN NEED By Richard Hill Wilkinson. BY THE time they reached the foot of the cascades Irma had given up hopes. That night she saw Ted and Elinor Putnam etroll away from the fire. An hour later they re- turned, and Irma looked at them and something went dead inside of her. She should have known what to expect the day that Elinor arrived at the lodge. Elinor was A& red-head, g lovely, bewitching and very feminine. She was the type that would appeal to a strong. out- door man like Ted Berkely. Irma should have known, but she hadn't let herself believe BShe had blinded herself to that which was hanging right before her eves. Bitterly, she reproached herself for having permitted her feeling for Ted to go beyond the bounds of a light Summer romance. Yet who can tell what is going to happen when a man tells you he loves you and the sound of his voice is a thrill to hear? How | could ahe have anticipated this thing that had possessed her? And now it was too late. Too late to turn back. She had been a fool, of course, to agree to come when the pack trip was proposed. But that was when she was blinding herself to something she didn’t want to see. They climbed the cascades the next day, leaving their horses with | & wrangler in the meadow where they had camped. A guide named Jim Beebe led the way. Then came Ted | and directly behind hing Elinor. Be- | hind Elinor was Irma, then Abigail ‘Worden and then Floyd Spike, all gay and laughing and thrilled by the spec- tacle of tumbling and spuming water. The trail led steeply upward, some- times hugging the fast stream’s edge, sometimes winding into the thick evergreens s0 that the roar of lhe} cascades was only dimly audible. Frequently they stopped to rest, and it was on one of these occasions that Elinor's hat blew off and lodged on the branch of a hardwood tree that overhung the stream Elinor tquealed in disappointment and Ted, laughing, went to retrieve it. Sight of his face made Irma sick. * ox ok x gHE turned away, and so did not %7 see the catastrophe. She heard | Jim Beebe's hoarse yell and turned around in time to glimpse Ted's twisted figure as he plunged over the | ateep bank and went hurling down- ward. Irma's throat filled and for | a moment she couldn’t move. Then | ehe was recklessly plunging down the trail after Jim Beebe, not knowing that Floyd Spike was:-coming behind her | and that Abizail Worden was scream- | ing hystericallv. When she reached the ledge below the embankment Jim was emerging through the brush with Ted's limp body in his arms. “He's knocked out and his leg's broken,” he said grimly. | | and by the time they struck the high- | removal from the machine. Dr. | does it pain much?” “Lay him here” Irma's voice was calm, demanding. Jim did as she re- quested. She pil- lowed his head in her lap, trying not to look at the gro- tesquely twisted leg. “You and Floyd make a stretcher. Abigail, bring some water from the stream.” Just then Ted opened his eyes and looked up at her and groaned. She saw his eyes go past her, and she turned. Elinor was standing be- hind, wide-eyed, white-faced, para- lyzed. As Irma looked, the other girl slowly erumpled up and lay in a heap on the ground. Ted fainted twice before the stretcher was ready. All the time Irma talked to him soothingly. She bathed his head. When they finally began the precipitous descent, she walked beside the stretcher. Floyd Spike had gone on ahead When they reached the meadow, the wrangler had a second stretcher ready, way in late afternoon a car from the lodge was waiting. L IRMA rode in the car with Ted and held his head. She supervised his French, summoned by telephone, arrived five minutes later. He needed an assistant and Irma volunteered her services. ' When it was over, she sat in a chair by the window. The strain had left her weak and shaken. It was like coming out of & bad dream. Her head | fell forward and she dozed. When | she wakened dawn was stealing in at the windows. | “Hello, there,” Ted said. She went to him swiftly, “Is it— “Not at all. I'll be fit as a fiddle in no time.” He stared at her curiously, | in & way that caused her throat to fill. | She tried to speak, but found she couldn’t The door opened. Elinor came into the room. She had freshened herself up. She looked lovely. Irma walked across the room and stood by the window. ‘Darling.” she heard the other girl | say, “I'm so sorry.” “Schucks! It's nothing."” i Elinor’s voice droned on, comforting, endearing. Irma heard the low rumble of Ted's reply. Then there was a | silence. Irma. her heart stony. turned toward the door without looking at | them. | “Oh, wait!” [ She swung back. Elinor was stand- ing away from the bed staring at Ted with a curious, frustrated look. And | Ted was looking bevond her, towards | Irma. smiling, his hand out- | stretched. 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