The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-27

/ DaoSn1O Ii Liz HOO0Ss " IAC1A az
Murtrie or any of his men wante
Dan, which WAS perhaps four time
in summer, it took a peck @
salt, and lurings and chasings
lariats and lassos indescr liable, t
WOO him and to win him. AN
now this child-for Janet was still
not woman grown-only calle'
Dan two or three times, and dow
through the underbrush came tn
great huiking creature, glowerinl
at her; and as shep slowly walked
up to him with handful of rasp
berries, he did not turn away; anC
there he stood and she stood-sh,
on a rough bowlder, he nibblIng a
the fruit; she rubbing his heaC
between the ears, he cwhinRyins
with satisfaction that he had com
pany. And at last when Janet
thought the entente cordtGle was
attained she cooily put her little
green scarf through his mouth,
behind his great teeth, and, before
he knew it, she had flung herself
on his back, and was away. They
were not long making the six
miles to the village. AS she came
in by the saw-miIl, she met DR..
Kittredge. She told him her story;
and in three minutes he and four
| or five other men were in a lumber
wagon on their way to the rescue.
Klttredge told me this himself.
They asked the girl if she would
not go with them; but Janet said
no; somebody must take Dan
back to the pasture, and SO she
went ahead of the party. Poor
Trevor was released in less than
two hours from the time he fell.
But you want to know how
Wildair first met her. It is John
Wildair, remember-not Taylor;
Taylor is in Australia. John is
Taylor's brother. That is just
the way with you young people.
All you care about is the love-
making and the wedding. Now, 1
might entertain you for an hour
with pleasant accounts of how the
Trevors came into the Piscataquis
valley, and how Icame to be there,
and of, the origin of the Trevor
family; and you would skip it all
to see how the story turned out,
and who married them. Only
Helen, of all of you, would read
about the early history of Corn
wall; and she would do it, not be-
cause she wanted to know, but
from love of me.
Well, John WilGair first saw
Janet on board a Kennebec steam
er-literally on board, if you will
rightly consider the derivation of
that term. John Wildair was sit
ting on the deck, at Bath, watch
ing as the passengers came on
board. And two men brought an
old lady, in chair, down the
wharf and upon the deck; and
Janet came with her, and wrapped
her up warm, and coddled her,
and made her feel quite at home.
Then the old lady wished she had
some of the oranges which a Ger
man woman was selling on the
wharf; and Janet ran ashore to
buy them. While the German
fiddled about the change, the boat
cast of, the captains bell struck,
and they had fairly pulled the
gangway in. when Janet came
running back with her fruit.
Did she stop! Not shei
please run it on again" she
said; and the wharf hands obeyed
her-just as Dan obeYed her in the
pasture. And the little bird, as
called her before, ran right over
the board-the boat moving the
end along steadily as she did So
and sprang upon the deck, as per-
fectly unconscious as if she had
been walking the floor. Years
after John Wildair tried to make
her remember it; but she did not
remember it all; said, indeed,
there was nothing to remember
She said there was no danger, con
sequently no courage; that the
plank would remain on the boat
fully five seconds, and the slowest
woman in Christendom could have
crossed in two. Still John Wild.
air wondered when he saw her dc
it; and, as believe, admired hel
then and there, that she did not
spend ten seconds first in inquiries
of the wharf-men whether or nc
it wonld be safe TO cross the gang
way.
| But John was destined TO SCI
her again far, far away.
/ Tom Trevor went to the war il
the Forty-seventh Maine Rifles
Tom was the wild cat, black hair
ed brother that dared everything
and went everywhere. And afte
that horrid carnage at Bells Ford
when the lists of the Forty-seventl
| we're printed, Toms name wa
tamong the missing. Dead per
hapsi Janet said, ''No, not dead.
She was sure he was not dead
If he had been. shot, some maj
would have seen him fall, anC
would have told of it; for they al
liked Tom. No; Janet with al
her own clear-sightedness, which i
what Mr.. Billings and ] call 'sCon
ndence," pronounced that he. wa
in a rebel prison. The next thin,
for her to do was to GO and fin,
him. Her father would not hea
to it, for, as ! have said, he woi
shipped Janet. But, because pee
tple are fain to obey those WHOM
, they worship, he had to do as Jane
T bade him before he knew it; an,
in fewer days than it has taken m
to tell this story, as We say whel
. We write in the Dime Series, Jane
! was in Washington, besiegin
Il Knapp at the Sanitary, and Star
I ton in his den, and Gen. Townsen
in his, for some sort of pass this
) would carry her across the line.
/ Little good did she get of tha
{ Of course there was no pass {
ANY sort or kind; and they ali toll
her, with great tenderness, that sh
, would have done mach better t
: stay at home.
3 But janet did not go home, f.
3 all that. By this time they knew
] and she knew, that Tom Treyc
J. was in Richmond, in hospital n,
Q 81, where were our wounded priI
4 oners. Whether he was there b
0 cause he was sick, or because
j was wounded, she did not knol
: nor could anybody learn, but b
r was there. What Janet did Wa
y 20 go mp TO Harper Ferry. The
etehe turned npas Stanton and Lei
= 9ngeeny and oas ane da8 appeel