His Heart's Queen

plane leading from the foot of Main street up the hills to the Zoological Gardens

several young people, whose bright faces and animated manner bespoke how light of heart

out midway upon one side of the c

th a lovely, piquant face, merry blue eyes, and a wealth of curling golde

k apple-blossoms partially encircling it, and fastened on one side with a pretty bow of glossy satin ribbon, also of brown. A dainty pair of bronze boots incased her small feet, and h

beautiful eyes were like limpid pools of water reflecting the azure sky; her lips were

circumstances were just the reverse, although no one could ever look int

t of limb, with a massive head set with a proud poise above a well-shaped

expression somewhat had it not been for the mirthful gleam which now and then leaped into his clear, dark-brown eyes, and which betrayed that, beneath the gravity and di

the nose aquiline, the mouth firm, the chin somewhat massive. It

years of age, though at first his dignified bearing mi

rty, while at his feet, in a basket, lay a plane and saw,

encounter a similar, though wholly respectful glance from his genial and expressive eyes, whereupon the

ts ascent, not one among all its passengers had a thought of the terrible

and it would have rolled safely into the upper

rt; then there began a slow retrograde movement, which rapidly increased, until, with a feeling of terror that is utterly indescrib

or, the doomed victims seeking to force their way out of the car to leap recklessl

locked within their prison; there was no hope of e

e one cry of horror, then seemed to grow suddenly and strangely calm, though a pallor l

earning, which betrayed that he had no thought for himself; that all his fear was for her; that the idea of seeing her, i

ightmare, she almost unconsciously stretched forth her hands t

to his feet, calm

gleam in his eyes which told her that he wou

d hoarsely in her ear, as he ca

th a frantic clutch; her eyes

s framed the words, but n

ity; a moment or two more and all would be

h his strong, sinewy hands the straps wh

ed companion; "stand up, put your arms abo

s face; it seemed as if she had

of anguish, he released his hold upon the straps, sei

he cried, in a

o her, and she clasped him close-clos

e car, seized again the straps above, and swung himself also clear, hoping th

e, and with it one frightful volume of agon

usands of pieces, burying beneat

the plane when it was rumored that the car had lost its grip upon the cabl

ands began the sad work of exhuming th

t one had escaped; that every soul had been hurled

bodies, with the beautiful girl whom he had tried to save clas

as, bending over them, he had tried to di

he now opened his great brown eyes, drawing in a deep, deep breath, as if

n, and he became conscious that he

fferings, being for the girl for whom he had braved so much, while

hands were so tightly locked at the back of hi

removed, and some one tried to ascertain if her he

ely unnerved young carpenter; "d

live? Shall we take you to the hospital,

young man returned, with difficulty, for his sufferin

he poor fellow gasped, an

sister, but they took it for granted that she was, so they

t the house referred to was o

trance was effected, and they deposited him upon a bed in a small room leading from the sitting-room, while the young girl was laid u

n had been one of the victims of the horrible tragedy, a rumor of which had reached her while sh

stranger, who, to all appearance, seemed beyond all human

on of animation. Her heart beats, her pulse is faint, but regul

s how to apply the restoratives he prescribed, and then turned his attention to the son of the ho

of anxiety and suspense, while she strove,

id it happen that you were going up

u now-some other

trove to stifle his groans in his anxiety to learn how it fared wit

is

, and she will do well enough unless the shock to her nerves should

ed the carpenter, and

wo ribs had been fractured and his left arm broken in two places

though weak and exhausted, he was otherwise comparativ

tion once more to the fa

son, with your son and daughter ill at once," he remar

ow who she is," the woman replied, as she bent over

she be, then?" her compan

ind her card or some address; but nothing was found

led scarcely more-only the initials "V. D

ink it best to question her just then, and, after taking one more look at his other patient,

table and sleeping; but the young girl was

Mrs. Richardson. "The care of both patients will be far too much

ately reared. I know that she would have the best of care; still I recoil from the thought of having her moved. Lea

sician went away thinking that wo

ing advertisement appeare

take a music lesson in the city. Fears have been entertained that she might have been one of the victims of the Main street a

wo patients in Hughes street, and instantly his mind reverte

the advertisement. "That is my pretty patient, poor child! and now we will have your friends

ival at the house, and she agreed with him that her lovely

ng with fever, was unconscious of her surroundings, was constant

the bounding pulse, "her fever is increasing. I shall go at on