The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-03-05

for the wind rose and whirled the
snow fercely..r II 979Hs ,h~a7 "a.
Il had showed two hours when Rus
sell alighted at the station in Mon
trsal. Il WAS already dark. save
that the gloom Was mitigsted by .
full moon, 81 g0g. .T6l2 .e-a.ga
He WAS half 5enunbsd by cold and
sitting % long, bat he could not
wait. Reason told him that he Was
. day early, and might easily stay
in the, city until tomorrow; but some
feyerish,, morbid haste urged him on
Ii was impossible for him to rest
quiet q moment. .,us a,ssY .sssir.
3 He stood a, few moments by the
bright fire in the waiting room.-
Then he decided to 90 to the house
occupied BY Alico's parents 81 th'
; Arrived at the house he learned
with dismay that Alice had Left two
or three hours previous. 3 Oppressed
with fearful forebodings he hurried
on, taking the road which his servant
supposed her driver had selected
As he emerged into the open country
the runners Of the cutter sank deep
into the snow. The horses struggled
desperately through the drifts, while
khe binding storm and benumbing
cold almost overpowered him. To
arouse himself from the lethargy
which he felt was the precursor Of
death, he stepped out of the sleigh
and plodded on beside it. For, hours
it seemed to him, he travelled, al
ternately walking and riding. the
.animals he drove being almost ex-
hausted. ..... .......-.-
Suddenly with snort Of surprise
or alarm, his horses stopped and
threw up their heads, their eyes
starting in their sockets at some
thing indistinct in the gloom ahead.
a There is something injecting in
the alarm of an animal, and Russell
felt his checks pale as be moved
slowly forward, leaving the horses
standing there. .,. :. o..
A shudder like the first chill Of an
impending doom, shook the young
man as he came upon a cutter over
turned in the snow. o. He was close
to it before be could make out what
it was. There was no horses at
tached-that be saw at a glance
but the tuggs. cut short Of, were
fastened there. The snow had blown
away from one side Of the sleigh
while the other, side was deeply i'm
bedded. He leaped upon the runner,
and hurriedly pulled the buffalo
robes away; q fear came upon him
such as no had never know before.
At last, 10 seemed to him so long,
though it was hardly q moment-in
that snowy moonshine be saw the
pallid face Of a woman lying notion
less among her furs. 4 .y Fyf.s
With suppressed cry he lifted
that beautiful form to his shoulder,
and sat down on tho cutter bending
bis lips to the cold ones that could
not respond to his caress. And yet
she Was not dead-a faint breath
just sighed across bis cheek. <f,e,r
r Was It thus he thought to greet
bis promised wife? He could not
think-he knew nothing but that he
had found Alice-and his whole be-
ing rose to the resolve that he would
save her--that neither snow. ice, or
cold should tako hcr from him. She
Vas his, and he claimed her despite
everything. aj" zasr 1Usah
. Bn. ho could not linger thcre; he
must be moving on. though ever 50
slowly. He bore his burden to his
own cutter. taking with him the furs
that could not save her after that
fearful sleep had begun. His horses
walked on again-they needed no
guiding-they could find their way
better than man could direct. sa
rb Anything but intense love would
have despaired in that tempest Of
snow, with that pitless wind froeEing
across tho earth. rising no glow on
the blue white face agains. his own,
He roughly chafed with snow her
hands and face; but he soon saw
that severer measures must be tried;
that the lethargy Was too deep. She
dimly felt the fierce friction, for she
noaned and seemed to shrink from
it-a wordless request to be left
alone. O. -
Russell has forgotten the cold for
himself; the snow swept by him un-
needed. Again he lifted her in his
arms and stepped out into the snow,
letting her stand beside him, then
trying to make her fight her way on,
knowing that if she could once be
reused she was saved. IN =as. az
At first she fell down helplessly,
sank inanimately with no wish to
stir. But in moment his ceaseless
efforts had some effect, and he could
compel her to use muscles slightly,
though her head dropped in an un-
knowing stup0r. se,i - ssBgaga d
Russell felt that he had never suf-
Tered before, He thought the pain
and sorrows Of all his life were