They drag him along the curb. One horse slips down. The pole cracks
in two. A hundred men are on hand now.

David Lockwin flies to the carriage. He unlocks the door. He gathers
his wife in his arms. Oh! happy day! He carries her into his drug
store. He applies restoratives to the fainting woman. She slowly
revives.

"Please take me home and send for Dr. Tarpion," she says, relapsing
into lethargy.

Men seize David Lockwin, for he is bleeding profusely.

"He terrifies her!" they exclaim. They wash his forehead. He has a
long cut over the brow.

Work fast as he may with court-plaster Esther is carried forth before
the druggist can be in front to aid. People are full of praise for the
heroic man.

"But he won't be no prettier for it," say the gossips of the
neighborhood.




CHAPTER X

ESTHER AS A LIBERAL PATRON