Saved by a Telephone

by Ella Higginson

AUTHOR OF “IN THE TULES,” “AHEAD O’ TIME,” ETC.

“Is the proprietor in?”

I turned with a start, for I had heard no step nor rustle, and had supposed myself to be alone. It was about five o’clock of a dull October afternoon and already dusk—for night comes early in the Grand Ronde Valley. And, in that dim uncertain light, I could only discern that the speaker was a woman, tall, slight, and, I fancied, young.

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