We don’t see many people traveling about in horse-drawn carriages in these days. Our streets are crowded with automobiles instead. But this story happened in a big city some years ago. Two young ladies were driving uptown to do some shopping. While one went into the store to buy the groceries, the other, a young girl, stayed in the carriage and held the horse’s reins. Suddenly something frightened the horse and he plunged forward, and in a moment was galloping down the street. The poor girl hung onto the carriage but was in danger of being thrown to the ground. All at once a strong man leaped from the side of the road and grasped the reins and brought the frightened horse to a stand. The girl escaped unhurt. But the brave helper was carried away in an ambulance—bleeding and unconscious,
“Has the young lady come?” he asked faintly, as they laid him on the bed.
Poor fellow! He had been thrown to the ground in stopping the wild horse, and now he was dying, and he wanted to see the girl for whom his life had been given.
“Has the young lady come?” Again and again he cried in his delirium, till the sound died faintly away at the touch of death. SHE NEVER CAME!
HAVE YOU COME?
ML 10/22/1950