, 1877-03-16

"Who's =. ' got tllat lanternl" Knew i eohi.ln't
hearer'n te,! miles Il ,iat lime u hi9it. % sUf
gfis down from the machine and rims lip the
road, r9a,!. AL cornes m J eocs q litttc figure In
Wits. wnts H., \ was stil sttneInpf The light, aek
lie was tn Ills nIght.gown+ Just ~ he rot u,.t Of
s'cct ial frozo IN lls ilsre, AMI his nightraw,, n
": se seek vi" t.. es fGss snaR " .peaR 70 x
kep' swingtn' the liEht, hackw ards nuti forwn.,s
slowly across The trick. and !!c sez to ~, II,
queer. fIc was lcatl1ast aslccl Gnazy kctches.
n,e Or I'd Cone over, which t@cro my knoet,
seemed weak like. Then sets down IN tic ssi],'
u s,.sea lsis sts ot ri sssa S t. I'D. ass'" If"
9. thc eats and c6Eie whero we was. ii. It wa WA
slce!in' s;t, n, growth littcs cold. Tho lr,ys
there was stove, ind took oT it, I;its.lotb1 %
md wrapped lin lip in bkaketA nM0 great = :,
There was doctor on tho train, al,d : .,ats.
W. ", KIN KIN ,r.n e. ~" = 9eS r. 1od Wth" e ses
was 70 waket what With IT. i'm; but il ha
the fright, ltkc u. NO. wet M ti,o cold, 'n'
! s'9Ys ,Y l3kes " up' might kilt 'u. 81 the
it,93t,eFea ~ % carry lin to tho house. as'1
N!LttGVs .nr, but couldn't l,ey carried q
Nnp .ilc DUctor he tells 'cm to i'e kccrful
..ut wake I'M, for It was ns mitch as lis life
,tns worth. So Crazy takes i'm. and two Of 'en
l,olds blanket over I'm to keep the slcct OF,
three moro cbUut Will, lantcfns SOS to light tho
way. Wen VIC got to the break IL was Just as
expected. Track, road, cnlvcrt,, everything
gone clean as + cut Sut Will k.ilr ,: Te
ryin' big rocks and hunl1ers TINT bounced and
bumped from side to si.lc and up Into The ar.
clear out Of tho water. II was awful u look nt
ieast tWenty I've % feest IN wide, Dc dons fs know. trss
he'd celne down md lodged crosswaye, and
suppose he mist hcv gone over TINT Wen We
come 10 It we was most afraid to Try u; fort
YOU slipped or the 10y u was all dny with ,y2a.
1tltln't like TO trust tic buys mud scs to Jake:
:. Crazy, y,u w''n't drup .tGc baby, will youF'
lie points down Into tho break, nil1 ses: It La
ssn q i! u, but for your little pard IA aropny
Wclif We got I'm home safc at last. Mary
was asleep whcti no got 70 tue house, and
enough, Ilo never walked tip. Next ,nornin'
they threw n trcstle over the break, and tra'ns
was r.,nnln' agin. Hut tho Doctor stayed With
ho seemed anxious. Seemed as though he took
t. the sd Pert ,, wonder at that neither
Watched by ~ 'i!n r. all that n,Eht a,d , towards
set 'en on tu a tnblo near the led, where llo
could SEQ 'cm tho frat thing. But n fever ca1ne
on i'm, ~ wen hn woke up lio '.as out of his
Partil 1 III "I So ! ldnt M TX Know me. T1at was
Thanksgiving. you know, II sat there by
linn. hOpln's every mln!t as he might como
ruu1tl, 30 coula, give I'm bis things aud VIC
But lie keep gcttin' worse 1roln l,our to l.uur.
lie uas sicls Jest a week a,ti wum!crln' and
Wild from lrst to last. stayed will, I'm all the
time, for hadn't wits enough left to l'nndlg
machine, md tho boys sent word not to botler
siyscifubont business m they scc nc through.
So betwccn 'cln they did uiy duty and No. g
vent up ns,d down III her reg'lar runs Jest as III
about tic water~tank nrar tle house. It didn't
used to be used much, but that week seemed as
though tilere wasn't tr:lh cilf'cr. way, that
didn't git out O. water Just there, and soIne Of
Aud their wives kept scndin' nfe things
and they was MI poor people, too. You sec,
somehow 1t travelled about fast what little Pard
l.a4 done. stoppn' the tFain tl'qt nlEht, ~ ho
uupers, and the President of the load rslnp up
to SEQ tin, u,ld all TINT Hut hc jest went oi,
frun, tay to day, for Death struck lin from! tho
tirst moment Us no Atool there III the winter
ruin.
From hts talking Willie lIo was delirious wo
founl ullt pretty tnlcll ull how It was. reckon
le heard tue storm III h!s sycp and the roarln'
Ut tho run, md that SGT In, to dreaInin'. or
cursu llu knew Il WIS my night, md had 0ften
tull I'm what bad place 1t wns and wl.at to do
II nythtnR huppcnel-Itnycr thinking that hold
70 to loin' of IT hlsself. But hc s.ts up III Ills
nc. ID isc sittin thsrc W wuiciIia oi lin by lis
btsl, ~ he'd bcgn rst, jeut kf.d O. 1nnttcrtn',
aud I'd hear him say, softly like, as Ct ho was
tulkin' ~ hlsseli:
LIN Kit Tiers III time.n
q, 'pcarcd like Twas all gotn' through his mind
ngin, aud be Was dotng over 1est what he did
t'at n!ght. We could tell wsn l's got e ;i thq
l.tt over OIL tl,ut lo4} Ef luu't INV hard will