The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-05-06

new up, ana, when day broke the next
morning, the city lay in a mound of
smou1dering ashes, and there was none
living to tell the tale.
CHAPTER III.
woMAN's LOVE.
twenty-five years have elapsed.)
Fansette lay wiping her beautiful
features with her golden hair in the
covernous recesses Of Monegaw
Springs. Two men lay near her.
They were whispering. They were
speaking of her. Chastellard de
Sparkkasse was endeavoring to force
the Baron neutrality-suspicious.
stein to consent to his nuptials with
the lovely Fansette. That beautiful
being recoiled in horror. Her heart
was true to Jem Bloodsuck, of En-
CINE 49. She listened Her heart
sank within her. They were talking
now Of him. O horror what did
she hear? Engine 49 was still on
the road it: would pass the West
Haverford switch at 2:lo on time,
and Jem was driving express freight:
O!blissful moment! Ha what was
that!: They were going to pull up
the rails ind destroy the object Of her
Ilife's devotion. For twenty-five long
years she had been in the deep recess
sea Of the cave as Monegaw. Springs,
and had never seen daylight. For
twenty-five years her father, the Bar
on, had asked her to marry the de-
tested Chastellard, but her heart was
with 49. 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 hellish 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
Haverford, 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. It is twenty
five years since she heard that melody
Of 49, but her heart rises within her.
She waves her spotless kerchief: She
shouts as the fiery monster comes thun-
dering on. 1t is a race for life and
death, She sees that the rails are up;
she sees the forms of the men on the
road,-the forms of the hated Chas.
tellard 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 Fansette as
she madly careers on to death. He
recognizes her loved formin the dark
ness 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 throws a barrel o1
coal oil into the furnace, and then he
throws in the fireman. He sits on
the throttle-valve. Now they are
nearing the crossing. The Baron
and Chastellard behold Fansette.
They howl aloud to her to stop. The
Baron, full Of remorse, throws Chas.
tellard under the train as Jem Blood
suck draws his faithful rifle 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 and one
prayer for Fans sette the brave horse
is on the track, and on the next in
stant he has clc,.r.:> :: :,il left his
tail behind, close u. J-::, Blood
suck has jumped, caught F*nsette in
his arms, and the train has passed
lover, the remains of the Baron Hitim.
Observation-Disclosures and the
hated Chastellard de; .Sparkkase. A
Wild shrek comes from. the sratisn o1
west Hayeford. Two females rush
ont fitantically: IT, is2 the Baroness
| all the way from the Wacht-en.der.
Rhine, who wrape her chee-ild up in
the Star -Bangled Spanner and gives
her to Jem Blooksuck on the spot
The mysterious Frigida cries, "Com@
to my arms" and declares herself te
be the proud mother of Jem; while
/ the goblin page announces himself te
be the cousin Of both and everybody
else: They are all saved but th'
Baron and Chastellard. Geraldine
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