Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-11

aHsshi" cried the old man nDo you
dare to tell me there is no hope. They SHALL
save Harry" And then turning to the trem-
bling girl beside him, he repeated in cares
sing way: "Never fear, my lass they shall
save my Harry, and he shall have you or what
else he likes. III never thwart him again
But if there's a God above US he'll save my
Harry
This was the burden of his talk, while the
laborers were hard at work digging away the
rubbish and bringing out dead bodies by the
score. Men ground TO pulpy horrors beauti-
full girls with torn limbs and children so I'M
like in this awful death that every one was
claimed and struggled for by twenty mothers.
All day long they dug and lifted iron
weights and masses of stone, but there was
no sign of Harry's body yet. At the bottom
of that awful pile doubt he lay mangled in
to shapelessness. Alice knew it must be so,
but the old man kept saying, still" They
shall save Harry"
Dusk lad come, and they worked by torch
light now. All had been found dead dy-
ing; wounded and manned. They were car
ried to their homes. Yet still the crowd was
| thick about the ruin, waiting for the moment
when what was left of Harry Craymarsh
should be brought into the open air. An
awful silence prevailed, only the click OF
| spade and pickaxe broke it.
Suddenly there is a shout, lifting of those
| hundred voices They had come to the low
er door of the building, and part of it re-
manned entire There was little hope, yet
more than a little for listening they heard a
| faint voice calling to them, so it seemed,
! though the words were inaudible Faster
| nowhere great rafter to lift, and piles OF
| stones and machinery to cast out. But that
noise inspires them. They worked as they
| never worked before, and at last they hear
| the cry again. 1t comes from the part of the
| cellar where the floor remains. And one
/ great man, crouching on his face, forces him
| self down into the darkness and screams
''Who is there ?"
| And the answer is returned from tho awful
cavern-'Harry Graymarsh. Help me if 20.
| can"
| Then the men came out with glorious
! shouts, and set to work like giants; and even
| women came to help as they thought of the
! fair young face buried IN that darkness. He
may be MANNED and wounded, but at least he
| lives. And there is no pause, no respite from
| that toll At another time mary there would
| faint beneath it, but not now, for every lifted
| stone brings them closer TO the buried man,
and gives him firmer lease on life. As the
morning broke the last is heaved aside, and
the bronzed giant who before crept into the
| cavern, leaps down and vanishes in the
| shadow.
Silence, IN which you might hear pm fall
| or a heart beat-silence that froze the blood
and then, breaking upon it woman's
| scream a shrek from the lips of Alice as
| they bring the form of her lover, blood stain
| ed and senseless, to the light. Not dead oh
| no she thanked God for that The great
! beams had protected him. He was bruised
and wounded, but not mortally, and in a little
while his blue eyes opened, and his pale lips
| whispered, Father"
| Then the old factor, kneeling by his child
| as he had knei on his dead wife's grave so
| long ago, took the white hand of Alice in his
| own and placed it in his sons. ''She is yours "
| he said, "take her Harry and be happy
| Wealth isn't as much as love. | should have
| known that all along" remembering Kitty
| Live, Harry only live and III never do
| anything to grieve youn
And Harry did live. Long before the win
ter SHOWS had come, he stood-a little paler
and thinner than before, perhaps, but well,
strong again-before the altar of the
little church, with Alice by his side, and that
night, when the moon was high and no one
watched him but the angels, the old factor
stood beside his kitty's grave, and whispered
words Of yearning love, which told that the
soul of the young lover only slumbered in its
inbound case, and that when death should
set it free it would rise, pure and unsuIlied,
to meet its angel wife i'll heaven