The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-12-09
RAYENNA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1858.
"call out to him. lad /" exclaimed Master

"Call out toh him, lad !" exclaimed Master
Joss. , @. .... .s..
A bretthless pause.
II hear nothing stirring" said Albert,
"nor can see any thing from this. I'll
climb over the rose" --s sa ESQ.
bravely did he surmount the perilous pro.
lection and after few moments Of intense
anxiety, he reappeared at the trap.door.
"Thers certainly is figure standing on
the rose, but 'tisn't Gabriel--'tis q ghost %
ga ghost you dreaming dunderhead. >"
shouted Arnold. "Let me up" And he
began to climb with the agility of cat.
Presently he called out : "Come on, come |
ot' Os for as you can. have him, thank
God !! But quick time is precious"
Speedily and deftIy they gave him aid
and at length, half-unco ms cious figure, still
wrapped in tho banner; was brought down
in safety.
They T5re him into the "Adam and Eve,'
laid him In q warm bed, and poured by de.
grees little wine down his throat. Under
this treatment, he soon recoverd his con.
sciousness, and began 10 thank his deliver.
ets. Suddenly his eye fell on mirror
hanging on the wall opposite the bed, and
he exclaimed:
"Wipe the hoar-fross Off my hairi ana that
yellow dust off my cheeks I"
n fruih HE LA looLa ,,,aSS ss,lHo.
rosy cheeks yellow and wrinkled, and his
bright eyes dim and sunken; but neither
dust nor hoat frost was there to wipe away
that one night of horror had added forty
years to bis age!
In the cotirse of that day, numbers who
had heard of Gabriel's adventure crowded to
the inn and sought to see him, but none
we're admitted save The three who sat con.
tiuually BY his bedsde-his weeping young
sister, the brave Arnold, and Master Joss,
the most unhappy Of all for his conscience
ceased not to say, In voice that ,boald be
heard :"You alone are the cause of all this
By way of little sell. comfort; the sacrstar
used to exclaim at intervals "1r once hat
hold of that Lawrence If once had thai
Otkar by the throat! % But both worthless
kept carefully out OF sight nor were they
ever again seen in the fair city Of Vienna.
"Ah !" said Gabriel towards evening
} "'tis all over between me and Annie. Shs
would shudder at the sight of an old, wrink
led, gray-haired fellow like me-"
No one answered. His sister hid her fact
on the pillow, while her bright ringlets ther
mingled with his poor gray locks /; and Ar
nold's handsome face grew very sad as h
thought-"The poor fellow is right ther
are few things that young girls dislike NOR
n than gray hairs and yellow wrinkles"
II have one request to make of you al
> dear friends" said Gabriel, painfully raisiu
q himself on his couch-"do not let Ami
know word of this. Write to her that
am dead, and she'll mind it less, think
j. then I'll 60 into the forest, and then let th
!. wolves eat me If they will. | want to saw
her from pain"
. ga fine way, indeed, to sate' AHDle fro'
T. pain !" cried a well-known voice, while
- light figure rushed towards the bed, ar
10 clasped the poor sufferer in close and lor
embrace. "My own true love you we
- never more beautiful in my eyes ttan nov
10 And pretend that you were dead A like
story, while every child in Vienna is taIkil
" of nothing but my poor boys adventure
i And let yourself be eaten by wolves N
no, Gubriel; you wouldn't treat your po
=. Annie so cruelty as that ~
81 A regular hal.storm Of kisses followed
u and it is said-how truly know moth
~ somehow in the general melee Arndld's Ii
came into wonderfully close contact with I
.. rosy ones OF Gabriel's little sister. Certai
" ly he was heard the next day to whisper il
% his friends ear: "A fair exchange is no re
y berry, my boys think if you take MY sist
VI. the least you can do is to give me yours" !"
~ 1t does not appear that any objection
made In any quarter. Love and hope prov
wonderful physicians; for although Gabrie
r hair to the end of his life remained as VIII
:. as snow, his cheeks and eyes, ere the W
~ - ding.day arrived, had resumed their form
u, tint and brightness. A happy man was NJ
ter Joss on the day that he gave his bless
:, to the two young couples-the day when
briel's sore-tried love found it's reward in
hand Of his Annie.