The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1863-11-11

loved one amid those aNfal sounds; and ther,
amidst tue ruins OF this mishty factory. stood tn,
old man, calling loudly for help 10 save ha
Harry.
"There IS no hope for him. sir" said one o
the few workmon who remained unhurt. Ht
went down 70 see What was the matter wher
the cod noise frst began, aud never came VI
again
"Hush :" cried the old man. Do you dare
to tell ne that there is 10 hope? They SHALL
save Harry And then turning 10 the trem-
bling giTi beside him. be repeated IL a caressing
way Never fear. uy lass, they shall save ny
Harry, aud be s-al have YOU or what else he
likes. I'll never thwaTt him again. But II
there Is a God above Us hen save nv 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 she
score. Men grourd TO pulpy horrors beautiful
girls With torn limbs and children 30 unlike in
this awful death that every one Was claimed and
struggled for by twenty mothers.
All day lorg they dug and lifted iron weights
and masses Of stone, but there was 10 sign Of
Harry's body vet. At the bottom OF that awful
pile 10 doubt he lay msngled into shapelessuess
Alice knew it must be So but the old man kept
saying, still" They shall save Harry"
Dusk had come, aud they worked by torchlight
now. All had been found dead or diving /;
wounded and manned. They we're carried 10
their homes. Yet the crowd was thick about
the ruin, waiting for the moment when what was
lett OF Harry GTaymarsh should be brought into
the open air An awful silence prevailed, only
the click Of the spade and pickaxe broke it,
Suddenly there is a shout, lifting of those
hundred voices They had come TO the
lower door OF the building, and part OF it re
NAMED entire. There was a little hope, vet
more than little for listening they had heard
a faint voice calling 20 them, so il seemed.
though the words were iuaudible Faster now
there a great raft 10 lift, and piles Of stones
and machinery TO cast out. But that noise in
spires them They worked as they never worked
before, aud at last they hear the cry again II
comes from the part OF the cellar where the
floor remains. And one great man, crouching
Oh his face, forces himself down in the darkness
and screams" Who l. theEe?n
Aud the answer is returned from the awful
cavern" Harry Graymarsh. Help me if YOU
can"
Then the men came out with glorious shouts.
aud set TO work Ike giants; and even women
came 10 help as they thought of the fair Young
face buried in that darkness lie nav be manned
and wounded, but at least he lives And there
Il no pause, no respite from that toll. At an
ether tine many there would faint beneath 10,
but lot now, for every lifted stone brings them
closer to the buried man, and gives him 6rmer
lease on life. As the morning broke, the last is
heaved aside, and the brouZed giant who before
crept into the cavern, leaps down and vanishes
IA b. shadow.
Silence, in which you might hear pin fall
or a heart beat silence that isoze the blood
and then breaking upon it a woman's scream ::
a shrek from the lips Of Alice, as they bring
the form OF her lover blood stained aud seuse-
less to the light. Not dead Oh, nol she
thanked God for that The great beams had
protected him He as bruised aud wounded,
but not mortally, aud in a little while his blue
eyes opened, and his lips whispered, Father"
Then the old factor, kneeling by his child
be had knelt on bis dead wiie's grave so long ago,
took the white hand Of Alice in his own and
placed il in his sons "She is yours" said he,
- take her, Harry, and be happy. Wealth isn't
as much ~ love. ! should have known that
long ago, rene mbering Kitty. Live, Harry
only live, and III never do anything 10 greve
you"
And Harry did live. Long before the winter
SHOWS had come, he stOod-a little paler and
thinner than before, perhaps, but well, strong
agsin-before the altar of the little church, with
Alice by his side, and that night when the moon
was high and 10 one watched him but the an
gels the old factor stood beside nis Kttys grave,
and whispered words Of yearnipg love, which
told that the soul If the young lover only slum-
bered in its iron bound case, ard that when
death should set it free il would rise pure and
uLsullied, 10 meet its angel wife in heaven.