At this juncture, Tommy rushed from the old shop with a red-hot iron. Quickly this was applied to the torn and bleeding member.
There was a sickening odor of burning flesh, a sound from Juliet, neither a cry nor moan, something worse, and then she staggered and would have fallen but for the straps that bound her.
The same scene was enacted with Romeo, whose agony, if possible, seemed greater.
They were both sick for some days, and it was thought at one time that Romeo would die, the fever and inflammation ran so high.
There was a storm when the doctors came home and Bobby told her story.
Dr. Fred told his son that he must take his belongings and leave, but the latter refused, saying he had taken the farm for a year; and Cleo intimated that she considered herself as mistress then.
This proved too much for the elder Wallaces, and Chet was obliged to hire rooms elsewhere, though he continued to manage the farm.
Cleo seemed to imagine herself quite an aristocrat when riding out behind the poor, mutilated creatures, who had added to their torture the over-draw check rein.
We used all to pity them so when we saw them harnessed.
Heads drawn back until every muscle was strained, unable to see the way over which they must travel, and a prey to flies and gnats!