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Mortihed, and turned his head to look back, and the next instant so-wheel froht, a screath, turned completely over, and lay across a flower-bed, partly on one side

So fro their hands; a h the darkness; people shouted: "Throw sand on it! Get shovels, for God's sake! Lift that tonneau! There's a woman under it"

But they were mistaken, for Leila lay at the foot of the slope, one little bloody hand clutching the dead grass; and Plank knelt beside her, giving his orders quietly to those who ca down the hill from the roadway above, which was now fiercely illuh to quench the fire and ht fro as left of hi Sylvia back

He and she both had put their shoulders to the tonneau along with the others; and now they stood there together in the shifting lantern-light, sickened, shivering under the su crowd around that shapeless lu beside an i forith a little sob of inquiry

"There's the doctor, over there; that man is a doctor; he knows," repeated Plank with studied deliberation, looking down at Leila's deathly face "He says it's all right; he says he'll get a candle, and that he can tell by the flame's effect on the pupils of the eyes what exactly is the h the crohich eddied from the dead man to the stretcher; "no, there is not a bone broken She is stunned, that's all; she fell in the shrubbery We'll have an a his first na back on the ambulance If you'll find somebody to drive my machine, I wish you would take Sylvia back No, I don't want you to drive, Stephen--if you don't mind Get that machinist, please I'm rattled, and I don't want you to drive"

Leila lay on the stretcher, her bloodless face upturned to the stars Beyond, under a blanket, so else lay very still on the lawn

Plank beckoned a policeman, and whispered to hirew on the night air, nearer, nearer