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Without asking questions, I did so by sprawling full length in a deep wheel-rut, but as I had previously had a mud-bath, a little more or less did not matter. I wriggled myself towards the cover of the barn, when a sharp volley of rifle-fire broke out on my left. Gaining shelter, I asked the soldier the reason of the fusillade. "Uhlan outposts, monsieur," replied the man laconically.
"I ran away because I knew if I stayed I should do it again within two seconds," he replied. A little blue flower was growing in the red clay wheel-rut at her feet, and, stooping, she caressed it gently without plucking it. "It was very foolish," she said in a quiet voice; "but I had forgotten it, and you should have let it rest. Afterward, you did such a brave, splendid thing."
"It began long ago, when we were both little children," he went on, and then going back from her into the lane he stood staring down upon the little blue flower blooming in the wheel-rut. She saw his shadow, stretching across the road, blurred into the pale dusk of the wood, uncertain, somber, gigantic in its outline.
They chattered volubly on many subjects for the first twenty miles; then the road narrowed and commenced to climb steadily, and thereafter Bryce gave all of his attention to the car, for a deviation of a foot from the wheel-rut on the outside of the road would have sent them hurtling over the grade into the deep-timbered canons below.
It is bewitched, that I will swear; and if one remedy does not succeed aha! there lies one licking the sunshine in the wheel-rut; he shall eat no young larks to-day." Saying this, he stopped his horse, hastily put a flint in his gun, loaded it, and dismounted.
With an exclamation of pleasure she turned to take it straight to him, forgetting the fearful thing in the road; seeing it but just in time to avoid stumbling. At her feet was the back of the dead man's head, the face wedged into the wheel-rut, with the beard pushed up between the left cheek and the hardened edge of mud.
He had just crawled into the first wheel-rut when a big, jouncing, yellow Kentucky cart came by and made an end of Longinus Rotundus Caterpillar. Mrs. Cricky said the moral of his end was very plain to her.
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