Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-09-08

tha. If the poor girl were found in tho
schrub life would be there no more.
Dense-impenetrabl almost-the fcrut
extended mile after mile, TO an indefinite
distance. presenting ever the same features
so that, Il the poor girl had been alarmed
by the seyages and hurried for safety intc
tie Wilderness, guide there was none; and,
like many others, she mig ht toll on, till she
fell exhausted ID perish of inanition Tou
d s eller IN England tho idea of being LOST
in the bush seems absurd; but out IN the
great Aus.ralian wilds where everything is
on 50 grnnd-so apparently illimitable-a
scale, strcng and ardent men have been
before now known to wander from the
beatean track TO where pathway thero was
none through the uutrodden Wild, and TO
wander on and on til death put an end to
their sufiorings.
But had Mary wandered away in dread,
fleeing for safety through the thorny waste?
They could not answer the question; and,
in spite of making ar overwhelming circle
to try and discover the trail, all seemed
vain. Samson would have pushed off by
the track taken by the savGges, but for the
persuasion OF Anderson; and though so far
disappointment had attended his efforts.
Teddy seemed pleased at the trust reposed
in him, aud often, down upon hands and
knees, he examined every blade of glass
and leaf.
The traces left by the marauding party
extended found tie hut, and for some dis.
tance back into the wild IN every direction
and il was beyond that circle that the prin-
cipel ehof.s OF the seekers were directed
out days wore On without any success, the
difficulty growing greater each hour, in a
land where vegetation is rapid and grass
would soon spring mp where the foot had
pressed, SIS was very apparent; for on the
! eighth morning, when they again started
upon their apparently hopeless task. the
tracks of iae savages were IN many places
hardly to 30 seen. All dread of their ene-
mics seemed lost in this great trouble, and
| they wandered on, hour after hour, needless
of danger, TIL on this last DAY they were at a
spot MANY miles from home, where was an
opening intbe oenss scrub-the rough head
ofrock and huge boulder being thrust here
and there through the sod TO form a desc
late Wilderness, Ear as the eye could reach
mile after mile of rugged stony undulation
upon which the sun beat down with heat
that was al but unbearable.
| For days past Teddy had been taciturn
and moody. hunting on still, and apparent
ly examining every inch of ground; but he
hardly answered when spoken TO, appar-
emily under the impression that Samson
and Andoson were disappointed in his
track.
Evening was fast approaching, when it
seemed 10 Anderson that the black had
made some discovery, for he was pressing
| on in one particular direction, though when
shouted to. he took no heed. Tired ana
worn, however, and sick at heart with
many ppcintments, father and lover
sat down to rest, when at the end Of about
an hour they heard the well-known "cooey"
of the black, reiterated again and again.
| So, Responding, they rose and proceeded
in the direction of the sound, to meet the
black at last looking eager and yet start
led-apparently afraid to communicate his
intelligence TO Samson--and turc ing in his
track to rosrace his steps for couple of
| miles, when, just as night was falling, he
halted, stepped aside, and pointed on.
wards to where there was little eminence
| visible in front of the father.
"For Heavens sake push on" cried An
derson huskily; but Samson grasped at his
arm, and would have stayed him had he
not thrust hiRi aside aud dashed forward,
10 be out CT sight III few moments
amongst the bushes which here grow
thickly.
Five minutes passed and he did not re.
turn, when staggering like drunken man,
Samson followed in his steps, with eyes
bent upon the ground, and brain apparent
y stunned feeling that some dread horror
was about TO be revealed to him, but only
In numb, helpless way. The black came
close behind. watching him intently, TILL,
parting the bushes, he came in sight of
| Anderson, kneeiing by the figure they had
SO long sought: jor lying, as ii peacefully
sleeping, beneath the scanty shade of a
stunted bush, through whose thin sharp
leaves the evening breeze sighed mourn
fully, WAS the sleeping girl, whose torn
garments, lacerated feet, and arm bent be-
meath her head. showed that she had in
deed fled from the approach of the savages
and wandered on and on hopelessly till
she had laid down. as she imagined, to
sleep her last, long sleep. The hand which
Anderson grasped was tightly ciutched but
| in spite of It's coldness, the thir, blue lips,
sunken ewes. and the unnatural pallor of
the face, it was evident that she lived. The
father, though, knew it not, neither did
Anderson; for, weeping ike children, they
knelt on either side, dreading to move
her. for she seemed now doubly sacred in
| theireyes.
"Better than that we should never have
found her, said Samson in broken voice
"reddy sure find her some day. Now
fetch water, aud give her drink" ex-
claimed the black; and taking up what
neither of the others had no;iced-the
milking pail that the poor girl must have
carried from DAY 10 day in her many
wanderings-he went off and soon returned
with water
u koo a. II Az
as the black pushed up Mary's head, and
scooping up some water in the hollow oi
his hand, LIE made as il to pour it over the
reclining form.
s.No dead" exclaimed Teddy; "give hel
drink. Dahl he CALCULATED; for at thai
moment Anderson gave cry OF Joy un see
lug O slight quivering in one eyelid, while
!, the thin blue lips parted to emit sigh
, ,aiut as that OF the wind above their heads
They had reached the poor girl il
time; but near had she been to her las
/ breath that weeks elapsed, during which
i she ley almost insensible upon the border
: ofthat unknown land to which she had *
I nearly travelled before she could be said t,
, beout Of danger.
e Hers was a simple story-one that sh,
: often told in after years to Anderson's 8 chill
J, drep. as, a happy wife, she sat beneath bi
prosperous roof "a story OF how she had fin
ished milking COW, and was carrying he
pail to the next, when the gliding form of
black in his war paint attracted her atten
+ ton. Her first idea was to flee to the hut
r but that she soon saw was utterly impossi
4 BILE, for figure after figure appeared be
n tween her and safety, and all she coul
I. do was to go back quietly into the scru
}. and then, with the pail she carried catch
a ing in the bushes, so that the white mil
}. | splashed out from time to time, she f1e
,e on hastily-always with the impressio
% that she was being tracked.
How it was she clung to the pail, seen
10 ed to her mystery; but it was her salv
i. ton, for, utterly worn out at last, she ha
,e fallen on her knees in the dense wood [
b. darkness came on. dreading to move, an
L. now for the first time she remembered Il
s. milk, and drank eagerly of the rerainir
"a but sadly diminished supply. Tho ne
of day she wandered on and on, helpless
re lost, ever changing her course, and feeii
mr. in dread from the blacks she felt assure