My hat was gone, my hairpins had taken unto
themselves wings, and my hair, covered with dust, hung about me like
a veil. I was just beginning to be conscious of pain. It was a
shuddering pain, new and cruel, and I winced. The next minute Alicia
was kneeling beside me, and her face had again become quite
colorless.
"Sophy!" her voice sounded shrill and far off. "Sophy, you said you
were all right!--Richard, look at Sophy!"
I felt the doctor's swift, deft hands upon me. And more pain. People
were arriving now. Cars stopped, and excited men and women
surrounded us. One tall figure leaped from the first car and reached
us ahead of all others.
"Geddes!" cried a voice. "Thank God, Geddes! We were told you'd been
killed outright! Alicia all right, too?" Then: "Sophy!" This time it
was a cry of terror. "Never tell me it's Sophy!"
I saw his face bent over me. Then a red mist came, and then
everything went dark.
CHAPTER XIX
DEEP WATERS
Somewhere, far, far off, a faint and feeble little light glimmered,
one small point of light in vast blackness. In the whole universe
there wasn't anything or anybody but just that tiny light, and swift
black water, and drowning me.
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