Books › Blue Book v57 n04 [1933-08], 1933 › scan 119
Scan 119
Blue Book v57 n04 [1933-08], 1933
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1lin to her with the other. Then she heard the shot. For one suspended moment Nat's mind revealed itself to her: Pain—a sudden stabbing pain…. And then a name, etched in his brain in utter bewilderment — Doris! Immediately afterward—blankness.
3The blind girl gave a little gasp.
4"Nat!" she moaned. "Nat!"
5A dreadful certainty, then: Nat had been shot!
7From some inner reserve she found strength, controlled her rioting nerves. She raised her head firmly, her face filled with determination. Then, scarcely feeling her way, so powerful was her instinct, she was descending the stairs, the violin and bow still in her hands.
9She collided with the table in the living-room, quickly put her violin down, fumbled ahead of her and made her way to the door. Impatiently she opened it, stumbled into the garden. She stopped for an instant, listening, trying to orient herself, for she had never made the trip from cottage to house without aid.
11Then she began to hurry directly to-
13Halfway down the stairs, Ruth heard the shot. For one moment Nat's mind revealed itself to her: Pain, and then a name—Doris.
15ward the house. Her outstretched fingers touched the bark of a tree. She veered around it without mishap and hastened her steps. She brought up against the edge of one of the stone benches with a little exclamation of pain, a pain which was instantly forgotten for her purpose—to get to Nat as fast as she could.
17Then, oblivious of the bushes which clutched at her filmy negligée, and scratched her flesh, she was hurrying toward the house, toward where, she knew now, Nat lay unconscious—perhaps dead! That blackness which had closed in on his mind terrified her. She began to call his name. Then she was free of the garden, felt the solid lawn under her feet and was running.
19Gordon, unable to scale the balcony behind Tyler, had run around to the
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