American Agriculturist, January 19, 1924 
The Broad Highway 
{Continued from 'page 58) 
eyed, full-lipped. The eyes were dark 
and swiftly changeful, and there was a 
subtle witchery in the slanting shadow of 
their lashes. 
‘“Twenty-five!” she repeated, “can it 
really be?” 
“Why not, madam?” 
“So very young?” 
“Why—” I began, greatly taken 
aback. “Indeed, I—that is—” 
But here she laughed and then she 
sighed, and shook her head. 
“Poor boy!” said she, “poor boy!” 
And, when I would have retorted, she 
stopped me with the sponge. 
“Your mouth is cut,” said she, after a 
while, “and there is a great gash in your 
brow.” 
“But the water feels delicious!” said I. 
“And your throat is all scratched and 
swollen!” 
“But your hands are very gentle and 
soothing!” 
“I don’t hurt you, then?” 
“On the contrary, the—the pain is 
very trifling, thank you.” 
“Yet you fainted a little while ago.” 
“Then it was very foolish of me.” 
“Poor!” she hesitated, and looking up 
at her through the trickling water, I saw 
that she was smiling. 
“—fellow!” said she. And her lips 
were very sweet, and her eyes very soft 
and tender. 
And, when she had washed the blood 
from my face, she went to fetch clean 
water from where I kept it in a bucket in 
ihe corner. 
YTOW, at my elbow, upon the table, 
■ ’ lay the knife, a heavy, clumsy con¬ 
trivance, and I now, mechanically, 
picked it up. As I did so the light 
gleamed evilly upon its long blade. 
“Put it down!” she commanded; “put 
it away—it is a hateful thing!” 
“For a woman’s hand,” I added, “so 
hideously unfeminine!” 
“Some men are so hideously mascu¬ 
line!” she retorted, her lip curling. “I 
expected—him—and you are terribly 
like him.” 
“As to that,” said I, “I may have the 
same colored eyes and hair, and be some¬ 
thing of the same build—” 
“Yes,” she nodded, “it was your build, 
and the color of your eyes and hair that- 
startled me.” 
“But, after all,” said I, “the similarity 
is only skin-deep, aild goes no farther.” 
“No,” she answered, kneeling beside 
me again, “no, you are—only twenty- 
five!” And, as she said this, her eyes 
were hidden by her lashes. 
“Why do you smile?” said I, more 
sharply than before. 
“The water is all dripping from your 
nose and chin!—stoop lower over the 
basin.” 
“And yet,” said I, as well as I could on 
account of the trickling water, “you must 
be years younger than I.” 
“But then, some women always feel 
older than a man—more especially if he 
is hurt.” 
“Thank you,” said I, “thank you; with 
the exception of a scratch, or so, I-am 
very well!” But, as I moved I caught 
my thumb clumsily against the table- 
edge, and winced with the sudden pain of 
it. 
“What is it—your hand?” 
“My thumb.” 
“Let me see?” Obediently 1 stretched 
out my hand to her. “Is it broken?” 
“Dislocated, I think.” 
“It is greatly swollen!” 
“Yes, said I, and taking firm hold of it 
with my left hand, I gave it a sudden 
pull which started the sweat upon my 
temples, but sent it back into joint. 
“Poor—” 
“Well?” said I, as she hesitated. 
said she, and touched the 
her 
61 
—man: 
swollen 
fingers. 
hand very tenderly with 
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