The Lincoln County herald., 1868-11-12
Nothing seemed more likely than that
.ho Was doomed to perish iu the noun.

NOtuluR 0SoW0V IuOT0 u4UIy toUu tuo'
.sho Was doomed to perish 10 the noun.
tains.
Jessie loved life, and death seemed ter.
rible to contemplate. Visions Of her
grandparents grief and Of the sorrows Of
. certain Mslcolm Maxwell, who had
broken . .ixpence with her only week
before. arose before her mind. She drew
her half Of the sixpencs from her bosom.
where il hung from . blue ribbon, and
kissed IL fondly.
"Some ither lass maun bc your wife.
Malcolm" she sobbed. an never see
dawn. I'm freezing now" aud then 81
struggled with her fate again. and fought
her way through the snow, now thick and
white. until, unable TO 20 further, she
sank down beneath On overnanviug oak.
Then, knowing al was over she beg an
to pray-not for her life, but for her
soul. g..
Suddenly . hand touched her ON the
shoulder. She looked up with low cry
and saw q woman near her-a tall, pale
woman. with very beautiful face. and
the pecaliarity which black eyes and
golden hair give to . woman's face. She
wore white dress aud q plain kerchief
and on her bosom hung little ruby heart
by . golden chain.
She said no word to Jessie, but ~ she
touched her, the girl felt new strength
Infused into her frame.
Unresistinvly she gave her hand tothc
woman, who strangely enough, was visi.
Bile amid the obscurity Of surrounding
objects, and conscious only Of strange
electric shocks running throush her fin
gers, she was lei over bleak roads. through
narnw passes, and almost perpendicular
declivities, until b low her shone the red
lights Of the farm house, ond she heard
her grandmother voice calling to the
man 10 the barnyard. Then the woman
dropped her hand raised her own as in q
blessing. smiled and was gone-where or
how Jessie never knew
Afcw steps more and home was reached
aud she fell into her grandmother's arms
For some days she was very Ill and
unable to talk much. All that sl.e would
tell was that she had been lost in the
snow and had been very much frightened
but as she grew better, the remembrance
Of her singular guide haunted her.
| Either the cold hand had some strange
effect upon her hands, or those OF the
woman we're not flesh aud blood, but oi
some strange electrical substance ; and
then how could she walk in purc white
and uncovered, through the storm, had
she been an actual woman? At last she
said 10 her grandmother
"Granny, do you ken q woman, moi
much older than I, vi black eyes and
golden hair, and tn, skin like some whit
lily. vi dimple in one check, aud 0,
her mock chain with o red heart?"
The old woman clasped her hands.
"Ye Gamma ken your mither, for she
died when you were born," she said
"but SO she look't, vnd 'eme,uber wher
your father brought her home, seeing he
stand where you stand now, in white
dress, wi the Campbell tartan in he
handkerchief. and y lit,lo heart Tx dro]
Of bluid ut her throat; aud then With
strange solemn terror upou her, Jessi,
knclt at her grandmother's kueo and tolt
all.
] From that day tho little houschol,
always believed that Jessie G'enbu,n'
mother had left heaven to guide he
throuI IN that bitter storm upon that blea|
hillside, aud from that time Jessie tel
sure that those "twa pounds" had save
Jean M'Comb and her bairn.
And at last when years had gone b!
aud pretty Jessie had become matr0
and dwelt with her husband in her ow
home, and long after the good old folk
were at rest forever, one day tall dar
we'll dressed woman, with 4 youth by he
side, stoppe at the farmhouse door, aa
, asked for Mrs. Maxwell. Coming to i
Jessie saw jean once morc-Jean an,
her son almost man. And The two wo
men now wept in each others arms, aut
Jean TO d how ste had bseu blessed, an
how those two pounds had kept her uu
til she had work to do. and how che ha
been for years housckeepsr for two ol
people, who dying, had left her we'll 0
, for life and how. for all this next
:, God. she thanked Jessie, and had taugt
her boy to thank her all bis life. The
when the day Was fast departing she too
her departure, 6rst putting in Jessie
hand little package. =.
Gan ne'er pay the debt" she said
"but let me just gie back the silver" an
Jessie took it, for Jean was rich now, an
she was not.
I And when on opening the package, ST
! found not two pounds, but twenty, Je
sic was not hurt rather pleased; and th
money, as though 1t had been blesse,
sowed the seed for future prosperity
> Malcolm Msxwcll's household.
The Canadian Indians.
II Tho transfer Of the Hudson Bay Con