The Archive · 1925

Along the Road

"With my foot on the accelerator, I forced the ear along to evade them—fortunately I know a little about Griving—but I could pot dislodge his feet from the foot levers, 0 1 did the best I could under the eircumstances.

"The ear ound the corner all right, T don't know how, I did not know the road. T screamed all the time T was driving, but I coald not attract any one's. attention. Cars Passed us but: they did not stop. T could not stop the car I was driving.

"When I got off the road—T thought T was still on the road—T felt the bumps in the field (Not these uneven spots in the field appear to be very deep trenches or furrows possibly 18 inches deep, the N. C.'D. N, car could not g> over them' an hour later) 1 let go the wheel and braced my feet, holding his body with one band and other hand on the doors Then heard the splash as the front wheels dropped into the water. (Nota; the ravine is at least six feet deep.)

"How T got out of the ear and up on the level T do not know. Then 1 saw lights and went to a house near the American Country Club. 11 hammered on the door with my bloody hands, but no one came. I thought the house was Chinese, so took my dress and wiped the blood from the door, that they would not be afraid. "At last a boy came to the door. "When I asked for master or missee' a man in volunteer form came. I said "I am shot, my friend is shot, come." He got hi rifle and searched for the ear— could not find it but at last he got to the place, We could not remove the body. At last the police came, and Mr. Master, who brought me here to the Hospital

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