Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

cavernous recesses of Monegaw
Springs. Two men lay near her.
They were whispering. They were
speaking of her. Chastellard de
Sparkkasse was endevoring to force
the Baron acknowledgements
brickstein to consent to his nuptials
with the lovely Fansette. That
beautiful being recoIled 10 horror.
Her heart was true TO Jem Blood
suck, of engine 40. She listened.
Her heart sank within her. They
we're talking now of him. 0 horrorl
what did she hear? Engine 40 was
still on the road; it would pass the
West Haverford switch at 2:10 on
time, and Jem was driving express
freight. O, blissful momentl Ha,
what was that? They were going to
pull up the rails and destroy the
object of her life's devotion. For
twenty-five long years she had been
in the deep recesses of the cave at
Monogaw Springs, and had never
seen daylight. For twenty-five years
her father, the Baron, had asked her
to marry the detested Chasstellard,
but her heart was with 40. Twenty
five years had made no change in
her. There was no change of any
kind about her. In an hour the
men would leave to carry their hell
ish intentions into effect. They left.
Now was the supreme moment of
her fate. She saddled the Baron's
favorite quarter-horse and dashed
forth. 1t was 10 miles to West Hav-
erford, and only twenty minutes to
do it in. Now HE thee gallant gray
on thy mission of love She is
nearing the station. She hears the
scream of the whistle. 1t is twenty
five years since she heard that melo-
dy of 40, but her heart rises within
her. She waves her spotless kerr
chief She shouts as the fiery mon
stcr comes laundering on. 1t is a
race for life and death. She sees the
rails are up; she sees the forms OF the
men upon the road,-the forms of
the hated Chastellard and the Baron.
Still, still the gallant steed rushes on.
Jem is at his post. He rings the
bell; he looks out at the flying Fan
settle as she madly careers on to
death. He recognizes her loved
form in the darkness after twenty
five years He calls aloud: my own
Fansette." She waves to him to
stop. His only chance to save her
is to reach the crossing first. He
furnace, and then be throws in the fire.
man. He sits on the throttle-vale.
Now they are nearing the crossing.
Tie Baron and Chastellard behold
Fansette They howl aloud to her
TO stop. The Baron, full of remorse,
throws ChasteIard under the train
as Jem Bloodsuck draws his faithful
rife and plugs the Baron in the fifth
vest button, who falls by the side of
Chastellard In another moment
the crash will come. One prayer
for Jem ard one prayer for Fansette;
the brave horse is on the track, and
the next instant he has cleared it
and left his tail behind, close up.
Jem bloodsuck has jumped, caught
Fansette in his arms, and the train
has passed over the remains of the
Baron Observation-Disclosures
stein and the hated Chastellard de
Spark asse A wild shrek comes
from the station of West Haverford.
Two females rush out frantically.
1t is the Baroness, all the way from
the Wacht-on-der- Rhine, who wraps
her chee-ld up in the tar-Bangled-
Spanner and gives her to Jem Blood
suck on the spot. The mysterious
Frigida cries, "Come to my arms"
and declares herself to be the proud
mother of ] lem; while the goblin page
announces himself to be the cousin
of both and every body else. They
were all saved but the Baron and
Chastelard. Geraldine Alexandrov-
ma de neutrality-suspicious.
falls into the arms of the Count Sha-
mus Won BIondersucke and the
goblin page calls out, Bully. st.
Louis Republican.